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Mallrat at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (07 August 2019)

Mallrat at 7th Street Entry Mallrat Setlist Tokyo Drift For Real Sunglasses Texas Inside Voices Make Time bellyache (Billie Eilish cover) UFO Bunny Island (Oh Boy cover) Groceries Nobody's Home Uninvited Read More Mallrat Show up early to check out 19 year old Australian Mallrat. Mallrat’s sophomore EP In the Sky is out now on Nettwerk Records. … Denny Detroit duo Jr Jr (Josh Epstein and Daniel Zott) - formerly known as Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Minneapolis trio Denny (Alex, Jack, and Sully). …

Australian singer Mallrat just headlined the sold-out 7th Street Entry show in Minneapolis on August 7th.

Opening up the show was Minneapolis-based Denny (stylized as DENNY), featuring Alexander Rollins, Randon Nelson, and Sully. The trio ended their very brief 30-min with their 2016 hit single “Bloom”.

DJ Denim came on stage shortly after 8pm, and warmed up the crowd with a medley mix of some popular songs (such as Princess Nokia’s “Tomboy”).

Singer/rapper Mallrat (aka Grace Shaw) came on stage to unveil her brand new crazy pink folded top (which resembles a flower of some sort). Shaw would later confess that the shirt is too big and she can’t properly move her arms… describing that she felt like a Tyrannosaurs Rex.

Starting out her set with “Tokyo Drift”, she would move back and forth and smiling brightly as she sings, “and we're never on time, laughing at the wrong time”.

Shaw quickly mentioned this was only her second time in Minneapolis (first as headliner). She previously appeared with Maggie Rogers in October 2018… which we saw and mentioned, “Mallrat is easily likeable. After starting her set with “Make Time”, she quickly got our hopes up when she said, “that was our slowest song, so from here onward, it’s all bouncy dance songs.” Sure enough, she’s out dancing and being the self-described “Hannah Montana of the rap game”.”

Since we already mentioned that Mallrat is relatively new to the scene, having only released two EPs: Uninvited and In the Sky , she basically played everything that she wrote and throwing in a few cover songs.

The last part of her set were basically all hits, “UFO”, “Groceries” and set closer “Uninvited”.

Hopefully, with an upcoming tour, and by the time Driving Music is released (set for September 2019), we may hear more music from Mallrat.

Remaining Tour Dates

09/18 Chicago, IL Subterranean
09/19 Pontiac, MI The Pike Room
09/20 Toronto, ON Velvet Underground
09/22 TBA
09/24 Philadelphia, PA Voltage Lounge
09/26 Washington, DC DC9
09/27 Cambridge, MA Middle East Upstairs
09/26 DC9 Washington, DC
09/28 Brooklyn, NY Baby’s All Right
10/03 Vancouver, BC Fox Cabaret
10/04 Seattle, WA Barboza
10/05 Portland, OR Holocene
10/08 Santa Ana, CA Constellation Room
10/09 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
10/11 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop
10/13 Austin, TX Austin City Limits Music Festival

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Mallrat at 7th St Entry, Minneapolis (07 August 2019)

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Maggie Rogers at First Avenue, Minneapolis (29 Oct 2018)

Maggie Rogers at First Ave Maggie Rogers Setlist             Intro: ABBA's "Dancing Queen" Give a Little Split Stones Burning Better Overnight Say It The Knife Retrograde On + Off Light On Dog Years Back in My Body Fallingwater -- Encore --            Color Song Angel From Montgomery (John Prine cover) Alaska Mallrat Setlist Make Time Inside Voices Sunglasses Tokyo Drift Better Texas UFO For Real Bunny Island (Oh Boy cover) Groceries Uninvited Read More Maggie Rogers Maggie Rogers will be playing First Avenue on Monday, October 29th. The show is sold out. Look for Rogers’ Capitol Records debut album, Heard It In A Past Life, on January 18, 2019. …

Acclaimed producer/songwriter/performer Maggie Rogers sold out her First Avenue’s appearance on Monday, October 29; touring in support of her forthcoming debut album Heard It In A Past Life (Capitol Records).

19-year-old Australian Mallrat (aka Grace Shaw) opened the show. She’s joined on stage with DJ Denim, who provided all the music to Mallrat’s songs.

Mallrat is easily likeable. After starting her set with “Make Time”, she quickly got our hopes up when she said, “that was our slowest song, so from here onward, it’s all bouncy dance songs.”

Sure enough, she’s out dancing and being the self-described “Hannah Montana of the rap game”. Midway in her set, she explained that she wrote all these songs, including the EP In the Sky (Nettwerk Records), when she was 16 years old. “So if you like them, awesome. If you don’t like them... I was 16!”

Since this is their first U.S. tour, for the introduction to her song “Texas”, the young singer was so excited to announce that they just played Texas last week. It’s really charming.

Possibly their biggest hit of the night was “For Real” and set closer “Uninvited”, which were bit hits with celebrities (Perez Hilton, Chloe Grace Moretz, Brooklyn Beckham, Lorde).

Coming on stage to ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” (which incidentally the Vaccines also used recently), Maggie Rogers danced wildly to her set starter “Give a Little”.

Rogers explained that, “We don’t have a ton of songs out in the world, so we’re just going to play the new record.”

She’s referring to her debut album Heard It In A Past Life, which isn’t going to be out until January 18, 2019 via Capitol Records. She basically played the entire album, and throwing in some songs from her EP and a John Prine cover of “Angel From Montgomery” on the encore.

Talking in the middle of her set, Maggie Rogers said that after years of touring (she just stopped by Minneapolis in April 2017), she decided to take a break and reflect on her life. The break was good for her, as she seemed more energetic and eager to meet and sing to her fans - and it shows from one look at her constant smiling face on stage.

Remaining Maggie Rogers tour dates:

11/1 Toronto, ON Phoenix
11/2 Montreal, QC MTELUS
11/3 Portland, ME State Theatre
11/5 Boston, MA Royale
11/6 Boston, MA Royale
12/7 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
12/9 Boston, MA TD Garden
12/10 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
12/14 Washington, DC Capital One Arena
12/17 Toronto, ON Scotiabank Arena

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Maggie Rogers at First Avenue, Minneapolis (29 Oct 2018)

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Rocktober: October 27 to October 29, 2018

Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from October 27 to October 29, 2018.

Read more: Minneapolis Music Guide.

Tank and the Bangas/Big Freedia at First Ave Read More Tank and the Bangas Over at the Leinie Lodge Bandshell, we saw New Orleans-based funk-soul musical group Tank and the Bangas. The group is fronted by Tarriona Ball (aka Tank), and was the winner of NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest this year for their song ‘Quick’.… Big Freedia Boyfriend is opening for Big Freedia. Big Freedia is a rapper that knows how to get a crowd going. Frederick Ross (AKA Big Freedia) is not a newcomer to the hip-hop scene by any means…

TANK AND THE BANGAS / BIG FREEDIA
+ Naughty Professor
First Avenue
Sun 10/28/2018 (7pm/$25)
first-avenue.com

The co-headlining tour of Tank and the Bangas and Big Freedia show is taking place at First Avenue on October 28th.

We saw Tank and the Bangas in Sep 2017 and said that they were the highlight at the Minnesota State Fair.

As for Big Freedia, she is one of the most famous Bounce music pioneer, as well as a reality TV star. We saw her in Nov 2015 and said, “Big Freedia left me speechless the last time I saw her at P.O.S's The F***ng Best Show Ever festival over the summer. She did it again... only last Wednesday at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis, I was a bit more prepared for what was going to happen... or at least I thought I was. That's when I realized... you are never ready for a Big Freedia show and that's part of the charm.”


Naughty Professor to open.

Tour dates:

10/20: Philadelphia, PA at Theatre of Living Arts
10/21: Brooklyn, NY at Brooklyn Steel
10/23: Boston, MA at Royale
10/25: Toronto, ONT at Danforth Music Hall
10/26: Chicago, IL at Concord Music Hall
10/28: Minneapolis, MN at First Avenue
10/30: Maquoketa, IA at Codfish Hollow
10/31: Kansas City, MO at The Truman
11/2: Denver, CO at The Ogden
11/3: Salt Lake City, UT at The Depot
11/5: Vancouver, BC at The Commodore
11/6: Seattle, WA at The Neptune
11/7: Portland, OR at Roseland
11/9: Berkeley, CA at UC Theatre

Other shows in the area:

Mothers 2018 Tour Melodime 2018 Tour Joep Beving at Cedar Maggie Rogers at First Ave Ian Sweet at 7th Street Entry Read More Mega Bog Mega Bog (aka Erin Birgy) opened up the show. I wasn’t sure if this was her last night on tour, but for sure, she confessed that it was the last night that she would play with her live band: James … Maggie Rogers With Maggie Rogers’ ‘Alaska’ song hitting Spotify’s Viral 50 in 40 countries and hit #1 in 23 countries (including the U.S.), it’s not hard to see why this 22-year-old multi-instrumentalist sold out her appearance at the upcoming …

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Turf Club
Sat 10/27/2018 (8pm/$12)
turfclub.net

Athens’ Mothers (aka Kristine Leschper) is headlining the Turf Club on Saturday, October 27th, in support of her latest   Render Another Ugly Method.

Show up early to check out local Sleeping Jesus and Mega Bog (aka Erin Birgy). We’ve seen Mega Bog a few times, the last with Destroyer in January 2018 and said, “The band played a lot of new songs from their album Happy Together (Nicey Music), which, when played live, sounds a bit like an offbeat jazz album. Vocally, I have described Erin Birgy’s singing voice as a bit like Kate Bush, or now, perhaps Nico.”

Tour dates:

10/21: Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO
10/22: Downtown Artery - Fort Collins, CO
10/23: Slowdown - Omaha, NE
10/24: recordBar - Kansas City, MO
10/25: Vaudeville Mews - Des Moines, IA
10/26: Schubas - Chicago, IL
10/27: Turf Club - Minneapolis, MN
10/29: The Bishop - Bloomington, IN
10/30: Ace of Cups - Columbus, OH
10/31: MOTR Pub - Cincinnati, OH

MELODIME / THE BREVET
Studio B
Sun 10/28/2018 (7pm/$12)
skywaytheatre.com

Melodime is co-headlining with SoCal-based band The Brevet on this tour. They are stopping by Studio B at the Skyway Theatre this Sunday, October 28. The Brevet was last seen in Minneapolis on May 1, 2018 but since then, their new album Legs just came out on Oct 12 via Pretend City Records.

Tour dates:

10/23/2018 Soiled Dove Underground Denver, CO
10/24/2018 Knuckleheads Kansas City, MO
10/25/2018 The Mill Iowa City, IA
10/26/2018 Blueberry Hill St. Louis, MO
10/27/2018 Martyrs' Chicago, IL
10/28/2018 Studio B Minneapolis, MN
10/30/2018 Seven Steps Up Spring Lake, MI

JOEP BEVING
+ Iceblink
Cedar Cultural Center
Mon 10/29/2018 (7pm/$22)
thecedar.org

900 ft tall Dutch pianist Joep Beving (just kidding he’s only nearly 7 feet tall), is bringing his music to the Cedar Cultural Center on October 29th on a tiny North American tour. Beving’s forthcoming album Conatus is available October 23rd via Deutsche Grammophon ... but I’m assuming you can preview the new record (or perhaps pick up the album before it’s made available to the public).

Local Iceblink to open.

Tour dates:

10/23—Los Angeles, CA—Lodge Room
10/25—Portland, OR—The Old Church
10/26—Seattle, WA—Nordstrom Recital Hall
10/27—Vancouver, Canada—Biltmore Cabaret
10/29—Minneapolis, MN—The Cedar Cultural Center
10/30—Chicago, IL—Constellation

MAGGIE ROGERS
+ Mallrat
First Avenue
Mon 10/29/2018 (7pm/$29.50/Sold Out)
first-avenue.com

Was a warmup to opening for Mumford & Sons on their North American arena tour in December, acclaimed producer/songwriter/performer Maggie Rogers will be playing First Avenue on Monday, October 29th. The show is sold out.

Look for Rogers’ Capitol Records debut album, Heard It In A Past Life, on January 18, 2019.

Show up early to check out 19 year old Australian Mallrat. Mallrat’s sophomore EP In the Sky is out now on Nettwerk Records.

Maggie Rogers –2018 Tour Dates

10/21 Phoenix, AZ Van Buren
10/23 Austin, TX Stubb’s
10/24 Dallas, TX House of Blues
10/26 Kansas City, MO Truman
10/27 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom
10/29 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
10/30 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre
11/1 Toronto, ON Phoenix
11/2 Montreal, QC MTELUS
11/3 Portland, ME State Theatre

IAN SWEET
+ Young Jesus
7th Street Entry
Mon 10/29/2018 (7:30pm/$12)
first-avenue.com

Los Angeles’ Ian Sweet (aka Jilian Medford) will be stopping by the 7th Street Entry in support of her new album Crush Crusher (available October 26th on Hardly Art). She’s bringing Young Jesus with her on this tour.

Tour dates:

10/20 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
10/22 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
10/24 - Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
10/25 - Boise, ID @ The Olympic
10/26 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
10/27 - Denver, CO @ Hi Dive
10/28 - Omaha, NE @ O'Leavers
10/29 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
10/30 - Chicago @ Subterranean
11/1 - Toronto, ON @ The Monarch
11/2 - Buffalo @ Mohawk Place
11/3 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott

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