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Minneapolis: May 16 to May 18, 2018

Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from May 16 to May 18, 2018.

Read more: Minneapolis Music Guide.

David Byrne 2018 Poster Read More David Byrne While fans will know David Byrne from his music from Talking Heads in the 80s and his solo work, people rarely know that Byrne is a huge bicycle enthusiast. Byrne's bicycle is his main mode …

DAVID BYRNE
+ Benjamin Clementine
Orpheum Theatre
Thu 05/17/2018 (7pm/$61.50)
Fri 05/18/2018 (7pm/$61.50)
hennepintheatretrust.org

David Byrne, the singer/guitarist of iconic American rock band Talking Heads, will be playing Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis on Thursday. Thanks to popular demand, Byrne added a second show.

Byrne’s new solo record American Utopia is out now on Todomundo/Nonesuch Records.... his highest charting album ever (entering at No. 1 on the Top Current Album Chart and No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 and topping both Rock and Alternative Album Charts).

Benjamin Clementine to open.

2018 Tour Dates

05/12 - Washington, DC - The Anthem *
05/13 - Pittsburgh, PA - Benedum Center *
05/15 - Milwaukee WI - Riverside Theater *
05/16 - Madison, WI - Orpheum Theater *
05/17 - Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theater *
05/18 - Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theater *
05/20 - Edmonton, ALB - N Alberta Jubilee *
05/21 - Calgary, ALB - S Alberta Jubilee *
05/23 - Vancouver, BC - Queen Elizabeth Theater *
05/24 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theater *
05/25 - George, WA - Sasquatch Festival
05/27 - Portland, OR - Keller Auditorium *
05/28 - Eugene, OR - Hult Center *
05/30 - Salt Lake City, UT - Capitol Theatre *
06/06 - Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theater *
06/2 - Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theater *
06/3 - Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theater *
06/5 - Des Moines, IA - Des Moines Civic Center *
06/7 - Kansas City, MO - Kauffman Center *
06/8 - St. Louis, MO - Peabody Opera House *
06/9 - Indianapolis, IN - Farmers BureauAmph*
06/14 - Oxford, England - New Theatre **
06/15 - Glasgow, Scotland - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall **
06/17 - Birmingham, England - Birmingham Symphony Hall**
06/18 - Manchester, England - Manchester Apollo **
06/19 - London, England - Hammersmith Apollo **
06/20 - London, England - Hammersmith Apollo **
06/23 - Prague, Czech Republic - Metronome Festival
06/25 - Zagreb, Croatia - INmusic Festival
06/26 - Wien, Austria - Museumsquartier
06/27 - Berlin, Germany - Tempodrom
06/30 - Ewijk, Netherlands - Down The Rabbit Hole

# w/ Lisandro Aristimuño
% w/ Juana Molina
$ w/ Karina Zeviani
@ - w/ Mexico Institute of Sound
^ w/ Perfume Genius
** w/ Laura Mvula

Hinds at 7th Street Entry Poster Hall & Oates & Train 2018 Poster Marian Hill at Palace Theatre Poster Anderson East 2018 Poster Lake Street Drive at Palace Poster Read More Hall & Oates You know we absolutely love Hall & Oates, so I was fooled into clicking a news link on Facebook about “Hall and Oates got into a bloody confrontation that ended with Hall getting bit in the face and Oates landing in jail … Train Remember Train? The San Francisco band blew up with hit singles like "Meet Virginia" and "Hey, Soul Sister"? Well the band was on tour for most of 2012 with Mat Kearney for their sixth studio …

Other shows in the area:

HINDS
+ Goodbye Honolulu, Tights
7th Street Entry
Wed 05/16/2018 (7pm/$15)
first-avenue.com

Madrid-based garage all-girls rockers Hinds is touring in support of their sophomore album I Don’t Run (Mom + Pop), their first record in two years, since their debut Leave Me Alone. Why so long? The group has been constantly doing sold-out world tours, and they’ve learned a thing or two when they recorded their second album.

Tour Dates:

5/11 - Washington DC @ U Street Music Hall
5/13 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
5/14 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
5/15 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
5/16 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
5/18 - Denver, CO @ Globe Hall
5/19 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
5/21 - Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore Cabaret
5/22 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
5/23- Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
5/25 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
5/26 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
5/27 - Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
5/28 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom

HALL & OATES/TRAIN
+ Kandace Springs
Xcel Energy Center
Wed 05/16/2018 (6pm/$52.50)
xcelenergycenter.com

What a weird super team-up: Train and Daryl Hall & John Oates will be co-headlining at the Xcel Energy Center in St Paul on Wednesday.

The two groups have also released their single, “Philly Forget Me Not”. The song is also significant, in that it marked the first brand new song that Hall & Oates have written and played together in over 15 years (since “Do It For Love” in 2002).

Tour dates:

Sat May 12 Wed May 16 Fri May 18 Sun May 20 Tue May 22 Thu May 24 Sat May 26 Tue Jun 05 Thu Jun 07 Sat Jun 09 Mon Jun 11 Thu Jun 14 Mon Jun 18 Wed Jun 20 Fri Jun 22 Sun Jun 24 Tue Jun 26 Thu Jun 28 Sat Jun 30 Fri Jul 13 Sun Jul 15 Wed Jul 18 Fri Jul 20 Sun Jul 22 Tue Jul 24 Thu Jul 26 Sat Jul 28 Tue Jul 31 Sat Aug 04 Tue Aug 07 Thu Aug 09 Sat Aug 11

St. Louis, MO St. Paul, MN Chicago, IL Detroit, MI Cleveland, OH Columbus, OH Philadelphia, PA Toronto, ON Boston, MA Pittsburgh, PA Washington, DC New York, NY Charlotte, NC Duluth, GA Tampa, FL Ft. Lauderdale, FL Orlando, FL New Orleans, LA Nashville, TN Montreal, QC Grand Rapids, MI Omaha, NE Kansas City, MO Oklahoma City, OK Dallas, TX Houston, TX Austin, TX Los Angeles, CA San Diego, CA Oakland, CA Portland, OR Seattle, WA

Scottrade Center Xcel Energy Center United Center Little Caesars Arena Quicken Loans Arena Nationwide Arena HoagieNation Festival Air Canada Centre Xfinity Center PPG Paints Arena Capital One Arena Madison Square Garden Spectrum Center Infinite Energy Center Amalie Arena BB&T Center Amway Center Smoothie King Center Bridgestone Arena Bell Centre Van Andel Arena CenturyLink Center Sprint Center Chesapeake Arena American Airlines Ctr Toyota Center Frank Erwin Center The Forum Viejas Arena Oracle Arena Moda Center KeyArena

MARIAN HILL
+ Michl
Palace Theatre
Wed 05/16/2018 (6pm/$31.50)
palacestpaul.com

Platinum-certified duo Marian Hill is headlining the Palace Theatre in support of their sophomore album Unusual.

Tour dates:

May 11 Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn Steel
May 12 Boston, Massachusetts Royale
May 13 Toronto, Ontario The Mod Club
May 15 Chicago, Illinois Metro
May 16 St. Paul, Minnesota Palace Theatre

ANDERSON EAST
+ J.S. Ondara
First Avenue
Wed 05/16/2018 (7:30pm/$17)
first-avenue.com

Originally this Anderson East show was booked at the Fine Line Music Café, but thanks to terrific presales, the show has been upgraded to the much larger First Avenue mainroom.

Show up early to see local musician J.S. Ondara open. Ondara actually was Anderson East’s support act earlier this year.

LAKE STREET DIVE
+ Liz Vice
Palace Theatre
Thu 05/17/2018 (7pm/$34.25)
palacestpaul.com

Lake Street Dive is returning to the Twin Cities area this Thursday at the Palace Theatre in St Paul. Their latest album Free Yourself Up is available now on Nonesuch Records.

Tour dates:

May 12 - Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore
May 13 - Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls
May 15 - Chicago, IL Thalia Hall
May 17 - St. Paul, MN Palace Theater
May 18 - Des Moines, IA Simon Estes
May 19 - St. Louis, MO The Pageant
May 21 - Albuquerque, NM Kimo Theater
May 23 - Los Angeles, CA Ford Theater
May 24 - Anaheim, CA House of Blues
May 25 - San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
May 27 - Napa Valley, CA Bottle Rock Festival
May 29 - Vancouver, BC Commodore
May 30 - Seattle, WA Showbox at the Market

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More music blogs: The Same Mistakes

A couple of years ago I wrote an article about other music blogs on the VOX platform.  Since VOX is no more, this article will be more general.

When I have written articles here, sometimes I go beyond the press releases, biographies, and other information I am given directly, and explore what is being said elsewhere, including articles at other music blogs.  Sometimes this research is about the artist or group, and sometimes it's concerning the genre of music.  I found The Same Mistakes, however, just wandering around YouTube.  It covers post-punk, new wave, and minimal synth, which is quite to my taste.

Be forewarned: this blog is at Blogger/Blogspot.  We don't favor that platform as the look is just awful.  If you haven't noticed, I will say look is important to Vu (he favors the Vimeo player over YouTube).  I have to give him credit for that because he's made a lot of my articles look much better than I could have ever done alone with some slick HTML coding and careful formatting, which I just can't do.  But I have to break ranks and say that I think content is king.  There's no doubt that content in a good package is more appealing, just like good frosting compliments a cake or beautiful wrapping makes a gift more exciting.  But I doubt anyone wants just wrapping or to eat straight frosting, and if the cake or the gift is already really bad, even the best covers or toppings won't hide that.  (The cake analogy will make even more sense in a moment.)

Read More David Byrne Reading David Byrne’s latest release, I have to ask, “What hasn’t this man done?” Currently, the co-founder of The Talking Heads is working with Fat Boy Slim, creating a musical collaboration on the life of Imelda Marcos. He recently completed a commission to design artistic bicycle racks for New York City. He also took some time to publish his fifth book, Bicycle Diaries, a passing view on two wheels.

So I came to this blog to an article about David Byrne's involvement with the B-52's, which resulted in the EP Mesopotamia.  It explains that most fans didn't receive the recording well, and that should explain why I got my cassette copy in the bargain bin.  What really grabbed my attention, however, was the explanation of the sound of that EP.  I almost decided to go into musicology when I was a music student, and I really like that sort of analysis about where a certain sort of music comes from and where it's going.

The B-52's are usually described as a party band, but I think "Crash The Driver" (the article's author) is correct in placing their beginnings with the New Wave movement of the late 1970's.  Although New Wave is closely associated with punk, this was not the harsh, pounding sound of music labeled as punk (Sex Pistols, Ramones, etc.)  It certainly shared the do-it-yourself ethic of its progenitor, but was more characterized by a kitschy, twitchy, danceable pop sound.  Consider R.E.M., which came out of Athens, Georgia, as the B-52's did, and note their beginnings in the punk circuit; perhaps you'll see what I mean. But the new decade of the '80s brought another response to punk, simply called "post-punk".  Although most media associates the beginning of MTV with New Wave acts, I'd say that these music videos are better identified with post-punk, which was in some ways an antithesis to the harsh, aggro sound of punk.  Think Visage, David Bowie, Siouxsie and the Banshees; and devotion to Art Deco and pop and performance art (not to mention Andy Warhol appearing on MTV, as well).  More on point, the B-52's hired David Byrne to help them explore a post-punk sound, and Crash suggests it was with the hope that Byrne would bring them the same sort of success Brian Eno had brought to the Talking Heads.

But it was not to be.  "It was adventurous, challenging music," Crash writes, "but perhaps more reflective of Byrne's private preoccupations of the time than the interests of the band or its record company."  The recording sessions were abandoned, but six of the most fully formed tracks became Mesopotamia to recoup costs.  All were remixed eventually to remove Byrne's influence, but some initial copies survived on the Island Records label in the UK and Europe.  I grabbed these tracks to listen for myself.

I think Crash put it kindly.  I could see why the group was dissatisfied and I certainly did not agree that Byrne's mixes of "Cake" and "Throw That Beat In The Garbage Can" were superior, as the article suggested.  Generally, I thought the Byrne versions wandered like jam sessions reminscient of '60s acid rock.  I could hear a few seams in the edits, which in Byrne's defense, would probably have been fixed had he been allowed to stay on.  But the cartoony sound effects of "Throw That Beat" were just too much.  If I were a producer, I think these mixes might have been okay for 12" and other singles releases, where longer dance mixes and edits are usually placed anyways.

Obviously, the B-52's did go on to mainstream success with Nile Rodgers (of Chic) and Don Was (Was Not Was), who produced Cosmic Thing and Good Stuff.  And of course, I'll note they are still going strong today.  Last Christmas, I picked up an offering on Amazon from Fred Schneider's side group The Superions, which was an amusing song about fruitcake.

Anyways, if you can forgive and overlook the jarring look of Blogger/Blogspot, The Same Mistakes is a fun, thoughtful, and retrospective look at a genre of music close to my heart.

jaklumen () ♥ samemistakesmusic.blogspot.com

DAVID BYRNE'S BICYCLE DIARIES

Bicyle Diaries

“… as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometime random wandering as having a plot.”

 

Reading David Byrne’s latest release, I have to ask, “What hasn’t this man done?”  Currently, the co-founder of The Talking Heads is working with Fat Boy Slim, creating a musical collaboration on the life of Imelda Marcos.  He recently completed a commission to design artistic bicycle racks for New York City.  He also took some time to publish his fifth book, Bicycle Diaries, a passing view on two wheels.

Byrne first took to the bicycle not as an eco-statement or as health kick but as a way to get around his neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.  He quickly enjoyed the freedom and decided to bring a folding bike on his many journeys.  And through his travels, Byrne muses on why his favorite mode transportation isn’t as popular in other parts of world, like Istanbul where biking might imply being poor to Buenas Aires where no one bikes because no one has ever biked before.  He also comments how the bicycle lanes are fully integrated in Berlin’s transportation grid and cycling in Manila is anything goes. 

The best part of this book is Byrne’s thoughts and opinions as bicycles through the major cosmopolitan centers of the world, reflecting on land reparation in Palestine, Tibet and South Dakota and comparing Third World Markets to American malls in how uniformly similar they are from suburb to suburb, country to country, “… a kind of self-reflecting architecture.”

Byrne also provides unusual facts that don’t make it into the usual travelogue.  Like did you know the founder of Kodak, George Eastman, committed suicide, leaving a matter-of-fact note, stating, “My work is done.  Why wait?’  Byrne also writes about a museum in Berlin dedicated to the now-defunct East German secret police, showcasing the absurd (a birdhouse/camera) to the telling (the modest office furnishings of the head of the Stasi).

Like a bike ride, this is a breezy read.  Neither bed rocked in a firm notion nor adhering to a solid belief, Byrne’s Bicycle Diaries are like the artist, himself, open, refreshing and in motion. 

 

Dave

http://davidbyrne.com

http://penguin.com

News: Books, Diaries, Journals, and Paragraphs

Here are some news from news.weheartmusic.com for this week.

BICYCLE DIARIES
davidbyrne.com ♥ penguingroup.com

Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime

While fans will know David Byrne from his music from Talking Heads in the 80s and his solo work, people rarely know that Byrne is a huge bicycle enthusiast. Byrne's bicycle is his main mode of transportation around his home in New York and when he's out on his world tour (throughout Sydney, Manila, San Francisco, etc). He kept a diary and Penguin Books is publishing his book, Bicycle Diaries, on sale September 21, 2009.

Fan will take note that Byrne is recording and reading his own book for the audio book version, although from his journal, it did not go too well the first week:

Did my second audiobook reading of the Bicycle Diaries NY chapter today. My first attempt, last week, was marred by maybe a combination of nerves and a wonky lower lip, as the braces had just gone in and were scraping the inside of my mouth. (I smashed a guitar into my bottom teeth about a week before the tour ended.) There’s less of that slurring and slushing going on now, and perhaps I am more confident and relaxed as well.

What will make this audio book a treat is that Byrne, always the experimentalist, will be incorporating sound recording he's made from the streets and noise in the book.

Look for Bicycle Diaries in September (preorder information), and you can find out more about Byrne's auctioning of his folding Montague bike for the London Cycling Campaign at Byrne's Journal.

ARTIST MUSIC JOURNALS
soundscreendesign.com

Speaking of books, Soundscreen Designs is releasing the third installment of its ongoing Arist Music Journals series, featuring musician/artist Daniel Higgs, former singer of the post-hardcore Lungfish.

About the series:

Artist Music Journals are an ongoing, monthly, limited edition small book series. Each month, a visual artist or musician is asked to create a 24-page book of artworks, drawing inspiration from their connection to music. The different ways in which each artist chooses to represent their connection to music is what makes this ongoing series unique, intriguing and diverse.

Each book is limited to 1,000 copies, printed on thick stock, offset, box-scored and saddle stitched, and comes packaged in a 10" jacket. The jackets for each edition will be identical, keeping the collection's overall outward design aesthetic consistent. However, there is a distinct letterpressed sticker wrapping the opening of the jacket for each installment featuring a replication of the artist's signature, the volume, installment number, and edition.

Information on how to purchase the book is located here ($17). Special thanks to AAM for sending this in.

PARAGRAPHS
myspace.com/paragraphsband ♥ twitter.com

Paragraphs, or vowels-hating "prgrphs", is very excited to play the 7^th Street show this Friday, August 28^th, with Ice Palace and Wheat (hopefully, we will get that much-delayed Wheat review up soon).

Paragraphs describes themselves as "a Minneapolis trio that plays music featuring a lot of delay pedal, toy Casios", followed by "drummer with a goofy smile".

They have a few other shows coming up, including one with Austin's The Calm Blue Sea.

08/28/09 7th Street Entry Minneapolis, MN
09/03/09 Big V’s St. Paul, MN
09/19/09 Applefest - Abnet Field La Crescent, MN
10/03/09 Augsburg College Minneapolis, MN

 08/26/2009 18:27:44 ♥ vu () ♥weheartmusic.com♥twitter.com/weheartmusic♥news.weheartmusic.com