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Rocktober: October 19, 2014

Read More Smallpools Indie pop band, Smallpools, hasn't been around very long, forming earlier this year, but they are already making big waves. The band opened with one of their singles, Mason Jar, before going on to play .... Magic Man Coming off from touring with Walk the Moon, Boston band Magic Man plays three shows for this year’s CMJ Music Marathon: October 17 .…

Here are shows taking place in Minneapolis/St Paul on October 19, 2014.

SMALLPOOLS, MAGIC MAN with Waters
at Varsity Theater
Sunday 10/19/14, 7pm
$15/$17: varsitytheater.org

Los Angeles' Smallpools will be on their Live Nation “Ones To Watch” tour, which kicks off at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis this Sunday (October 19).

The other headliner, Magic Man was a clear favorite from Justina, who saw them at CMJ 2013.

San Francisco's Waters are last band on the bill, they have a new record It All Might Be OK, which recently came out October 14th.

Tour dates:

10/16 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
10/19 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater *
10/21 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall *
10/22 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall *
10/24 – Toronto, ON @ The Opera House *
10/25 – Montreal, QC @ Cabaret Mile-End *
10/26 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club *
10/28 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
10/29 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts *
10/30 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza *
10/31 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club *
11/02 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West *
11/04 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In *
11/06 – Chicago, IL @ HOB Chicago *
11/07 – Louisville, KY @ Mercury Lounge *
11/08 – Indianapolis, IN @ Deluxe *
11/10 – Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre *
11/12 – Houston, TX @ HOB ^
11/13 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s ^
11/14 – Dallas, TX @ HOB Dallas ^
11/16 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom ^
11/17 – Anaheim, CA @ HOB Anaheim ^
11/18 – San Diego, CA @ HOB San Diego ^
11/19 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre ^
11/20 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent ^
11/23 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom ^
11/24 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre ^
11/25 – Vancouver, BC @ Venue ^

* w/ Magic Man and Waters
^ w/ Magic Man and Panama Wedding

Read More The Airborne Toxic Event The Airborne Toxic Event are a bit of an enigma. Blasting out of the gate to national attention in late 2007/early 2008 with the breakout single ‘Sometime Around Midnight’ .…

AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT w/ In the Valley Below
at First Avenue
Sunday 10/19/14, 7pm
$19/$22: first-avenue.com

The Airborne Toxic Event is back in Minneapolis this Sunday... along with Los Angeles synth-pop band In the Valley Below, who will be playing tracks from their album The Belt. Personally, I think In the Valley Below should tour with Death From Above 1979 (who is stopping by Minneapolis on November 24).

As for Airborne Toxic Event, apparently members from that group and The Duke Spirit also have a project called The Bulls - their debut single "Come Unwound" is out now.

Tour dates:

Oct 15 Liberty Hall Lawrence, KS*
Oct 17 Eagles Ballroom Milwaukee, WI*
Oct 18 The Vic Chicago, IL*
Oct 19 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN*
Oct 24 Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, BC*
Oct 25 Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR*
Oct 26 Showbox at the Market Seattle, WA*
Oct 28 Ace of Spades Sacramento, CA*
Nov 03 The Depot Salt Lake City, UT*
Nov 05 Belly Up Aspen, CO*
Nov 06 Ogden Theatre Denver, CO*

*with In The Valley Below

Read More Pearl Jam Like Dave Matthews, Pearl Jam decides to create their own music festival, in celebration of their twenty years together as a band. The line up consists of Eddie Vedder's hand-picked artists, including The Strokes .…

PEARL JAM
at Xcel Energy
Sunday 10/19/14, 7:30pm
$69.50: xcelenergycenter.com

Here's a band that needs no press or introduction - Pearl Jam. It's been a very long time since they were in town, but since they were already headlining Austin City Limits, they decided to add 10 additional shows to their schedule in October.

And yes, the show is sold out.

Fans who can't attend, the consolation prize is PJ are usually good about making their live shows available on CD.

Tour dates:

10/16/14 Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
10/17/14 Moline, IL I Wireless Center
10/19/14 Saint Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
10/20/14 Milwaukee, WI BMO Harris Bradley Center
10/22/14 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
10/25/14 Bridge School Benefit
0/26/14 Bridge School Benefit

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The Airborne Toxic Event w/ Kodaline - First Avenue, Minneapolis (04/23/13) live review

Setlist Tour Dates 04/27/13 Frisco, TX FC Dallas Stadium 04/28/13 Austin, TX Emo's 04/29/13 Houston, TX House Of Blues 05/01/13 Saint Petersburg, FL State Theatre 05/02/13 Orlando, FL The Beacham 05/04/13 West Palm Beach, FL Downtown 05/05/13 Atlanta, GA Buckhead Theatre 05/06/13 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle 05/08/13 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 05/09/13 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 05/10/13 Boston, MA House Of Blues Boston 05/11/13 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground 05/12/13 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank 05/14/13 Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall 05/15/13 Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre 05/16/13 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall 05/19/13 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amph 06/01/13 Visalia, CA Visalia Fox Theatre 06/09/13 Saint Petersburg, FL State Theatre 06/12/13 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues 06/13/13 Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall 06/14/13 Indianapolis, IN The Vogue 06/20/13 Clifton Park, NY Upstate Concert Hall Read More The Airborne Toxic Event Coming on the heels of their digital EP, The Secret, LA-based The Airborne Toxic Event is out on the road soon, in support of their upcoming 3rd full-length, Such Hot Blood, due April 16 on Island Records...…

The Airborne Toxic Event are a bit of an enigma. Blasting out of the gate to national attention in late 2007/early 2008 with the breakout single ‘Sometime Around Midnight’, the Los Angeles-based group never fully held our extended attention, but have recently and ably bounced back into the spotlight with their latest effort, Such Hot Blood (Island Records) and the singles ‘Timeless’ and ‘The Storm’. Their stadium-ready sound has always toed the line between inspired / influenced and indie / mainstream, perhaps making it difficult to embrace one type of audience or the other. But, playing to their largest to-date crowd in the Twin Cities Tuesday night, any comeback effort is being more than well received.

KODALINE

Dublin foursome Kodaline opened the show, promoting their self-titled ep (B-Unique/RCA), completely won the crowd over with their melancholy anthems and soaring choruses (think folk U2/early Coldplay). It didn’t hurt that many thought the Irish lads were also handsome and that they wrote a song specifically for Minneapolis for them to gain fans in a room that prior to their performance, very few had any familiarity with. ‘High Hopes’ and ‘All I Want’ were highlights from a band already playing a bigger sound than the venues they’re currently playing – with the right airplay and a little more stage charisma and maybe bombast, they could become the next The Script as far as popularity in the U.S.—a band to watch.

The Airborne Toxic Event then came out to a set decorated with two gnarled trees framing each side of the back on the stage, similar to the look of their first album cover. Lighting the fire, the band broke into ‘Gasoline’, an energy-filled opener from its debut album that got the crowd moving immediately. Following with ‘Happiness is Overrated’, lead singer Mikel Jollett was up in the balcony singing soon after, while Anna Bulbrook (viola, keyboards) rode on bassist Noah Harmon’s shoulders, tambourine in hand. While musically tight, the overall performance also echo’d a bit of familiarity and calculation about it – from Bulbrook performing on top of a piano to Harmon and guitarist Steven Chen dueling guitar sounds back and forth, the performance seemed more pre-planned than spontaneous, which may have to be the case when staging a 90 min. performance on a large club room tour.

Jollett freely admits being obsessed with death (the band’s name takes from a section of Don DeLillo’s White Noise), but mentioned his view changed recently after several close to him passed away in his pre-song intro to ‘Timeless’, which he dedicated to those lost. Following that with their biggest single, ‘Sometime Around Midnight’ which predictably got the night’s biggest response, Jollett also mentioned his memories of their first trip into the venue, opening for The Fratellis, then desperately selling t-shirts and CDs after.

AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

The band ended the main set appropriately with ‘All I Ever Wanted’, which was the title track of their live album, as well as on their 2nd studio album, All At Once. Returning for the encore with the somewhat inexplicable song choices of a cover of The Magnetic Fields’ ‘Book of Love’; the somber lyrics of ‘The Graveyard Near The House’; and ‘Missy’, segued with an All-American medley of 'Ring of Fire / American Girl / Born In The USA'. While energetic, it left some scratching their heads as to whether the band was just trying to interpret some of their favorite songs, celebrate American music, or make the statement that they belonged in that company.

Despite their sometimes inconsistent studio output and without any clearer definition of their identity (maybe for the best at this point), The Airborne Toxic Event does continue to impress live, with their tight hooks and arena-sized sound stretching the boundaries of the smaller places they are playing.

The Airborne Toxic Event at First Avenue, Minneapolis (04/23/13)

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What we do is Secret

Read More Brass Bed I am assuming most of Brass Bed's new live material will be off of their new record, Melt White, out now on Park The Van Records. …

BRASS BED
brassbedisbrassbed.com

Brass Bed's third album, The Secret Will Keep You, is coming out April 23rd, 2013, on Crossbill Records / Off The Air Recordings. We are longtime supporter of the band, so I am glad to hear that they'll be in Minneapolis on May 6th at the 7th Street with Generationals.

Check out "I"ll Be There With Bells On":



Tour Dates:

04.06.13 - New Orleans, LA @ Prytania
04.25.13 - Lafayette, LA @ Festival International
04.28.13 - Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar*
04.30.13 - Winooski, VT @ Monkey House*
05.01.13 - Montreal, QC @ Casa del Popolo*
05.02.13 - Toronto, ON @ The Garrison*
05.03.13 - Cleveland, OH @ The Grog Shop*
05.04.13 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall*
05.05.13 - Milwaukee, WI @ Hotel Foster*
05.06.13 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry*
05.08.13 - Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Muse*
05.09.13 - St. Louis, MO @ Old Rock House*
05.10.13 - Nashvile, TB @ The High Watt*
05.11.13 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl*

*with Generationals

AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
theairbornetoxicevent.com

         Coming on the heels of their digital EP, The Secret, LA-based The Airborne Toxic Event is out on the road soon, in support of their upcoming 3rd full-length, Such Hot Blood, due April 16 on Island Records.

         Helming the boards for TATE's latest is Jacquire King, the three-time Grammy winning producer (Of Monsters and Men, Cold War Kids, Tom Waits, Norah Jones), with the first single ‘Timeless’ already in regular radio rotation everywhere.

         Named via Don DeLillo's 1985 novel White Noise, The Airborne Toxic Event [Mikel Jollett (vocals, guitar, keys), Steven Chen (guitar, keys), Anna Bulbrook (viola, keys, backing vocals), Noah Harmon (bass, backing vocals), Daren Taylor (drums)], have become a touring force, playing almost constantly since the release of their breakout single, "Sometime Around Midnight" in early 2008.

         The band is playing First Avenue’s Mainroom, right after their dual-weekend shows at Coachella, with Dublin quartet Kodaline in tow as openers, so any expectations of a spirited evening of performances, are completely realistic.

Upcoming Tour Dates:

04/01/13 Tempe, AZ Marquee 04/03/13 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre 04/04/13 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre 04/05/13 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot 04/07/13 Portland, OR McMenamins Crystal 04/08/13 Seattle, WA Showbox At The Market 04/09/13 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre 04/11/13 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre 04/14/13 Indio, CA Empire Polo Club 04/21/13 Indio, CA Empire Polo Club 04/23/13 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue 04/24/13 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall 04/25/13 St. Louis, MO The Pageant 04/27/13 Frisco, TX FC Dallas Stadium

04/28/13 Austin, TX Emo's 04/29/13 Houston, TX House Of Blues 05/01/13 Saint Petersburg, FL State Theatre 05/02/13 Orlando, FL Beacham 05/05/13 Atlanta, GA Buckhead Theatre 05/06/13 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle 05/08/13 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 05/09/13 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 05/10/13 Boston, MA House Of Blues Boston 05/11/13 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground 05/12/13 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center 05/14/13 Toronto, ON The Danforth Music Hall 05/15/13 Detroit, MI The Majestic Theatre 05/16/13 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall 06/01/13 Visalia, CA Visalia Fox Theatre

THE SECRET SISTERS
secretsistersband.com

Alabama's The Secret Sisters are about to hit the road with Iron & Wine (in May) and She & Him (in June). The duo are enjoying being featured on a recent episode of ABC's Nashville (aired March 27th).

The Secret Sisters are currently in the studio working on a sophomore album with producer T Bone Burnette. In the meantime, if you search on iTunes, you'll find a new single called "Let There Be Lonely".

Confirmed dates below:

04/27 Huntsville, AL Panoply Festival
05/12 Napa, CA Bottle Rock Festival
05/13 Pittsburgh, PA Carnagie Music*
05/14 New York, NY Beacon Theater*
05/15 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer*
05/16 Richmond, VA Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens*
05/17 Boston, MA Berkelee Performance Center*
05/18 Portland, ME State Theater*
05/19 Port Chester, NY Capitol Theater*
06/13 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium**
06/15 Grand Prairie, TX Verizon Theatre @ Grand Prairie**
06/16 Austin, TX ACL Live at the Moody Theatre**
06/18 Phoenix, AZ Comerica Theatre**

*w/ Iron & Wine
**w/ She & Him

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