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Mazzy Star: Seasons Of Your Day Tour

Read More Mazzy Star Mazzy Star's upcoming album is called Seasons Of Your Day, and it's coming out September 24th, 2013 via Rhymes Of An Hour Records… Seventeen years since…

MAZZY STAR
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We've been following Mazzy Star for a while now, particularly since they've reformed and announced a new record (nevermind that it's been 17 years!)

The new fourth studio album Seasons Of Your Day was released in September, co-written by Hope Sandoval and David Roback, and was recorded in California and Norway. All the original band members came on board for recording, plus surprise guest Colm O’Ciosoig (My Bloody Valentine) and the late, Bert Jansch (who passed away October 5, 2011).

Mazzy Star's tour kicks off tonight (November 3rd):

11/03 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
11/04 Seattle, WA - Neptune
11/06 San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre
11/07 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
11/10 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
11/12 Minneapolis, MN - Mill City Nights
11/13 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
11/15 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
11/16 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music
11/17 Montreal, Quebec - Club Soda
11/19 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
11/20 New York, NY - Terminal 5
11/22 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
11/23 Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore

If you miss them on this tour, I would say to you, "I think it's strange you never knew…"

Read More The Entrance Band The Entrance Band, or as Guy Blakeslee introduced himself, "I am Entrance," opened up the show. I've concluded that he normally has a full band, but with last night's…

THE ENTRANCE BAND
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Opening up for Mazzy Star will be divided in West Coast and East Coast. For the West Coast leg, The Entrance Band will be supporting.

You may recall that we caught The Entrance Band (at least singer Guy Blakeslee) when he opened up for Cat Power. This time around, he will actually have a full backing band of Paz Lenchantin on bass and Derek James on drums.

Look for their new album Face The Sun on November 19th via Beyond Beyond is Beyond.

More tour dates will be announced later, in the meantime these are confirmed:

Nov 03 - Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR *
Nov 04 - Neptune Theater - Seattle, WA *
Nov 06 - Warfield Theater - San Francisco, CA *
Nov 07 - Wiltern Theater - Los Angeles, CA *
Nov 10 - Ogden Theater - Denver, CO *
Nov 22 - Fernwood Resort - Big Sur, CA
Nov 23 - The Chapel - San Francisco, CA
Nov 24 - Dilletante - Los Angeles, CA
Dec 11 - Webster Hall - New York, NY

* w/ Mazzy Star

PSYCHIC ILLS
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The New York-based Psychic Ills will be taking over the rest of the Mazzy Star support starting November 12th, in Minneapolis' Mill City Nights.

The band first came together with their debut Dins in 2006, and since then released four albums, their latest is One Track Mind, out now on Sacred Bones. SPIN called the new album "another serpentine set of psychedelic rumble," so it should be interesting to see and hear the contrast of psych rock vs shoegazing dreampop.

All dates with Mazzy Star:

11.12.13 - Mill City Nights - Minneapolis, MN
11.13.13 - Vic Theatre - Chicago, IL
11.15.13 - Majestic Theatre - Detroit, MI
11.16.13 - Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, ON
11.17.13 - Club Soda - Montreal, QC
11.19.13 - Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA
11.20.13 - Terminal 5 - New York, NY
11.22.13 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
11.23.13 - Fillmore Silver Spring - Silver Spring, MD

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Cat Power at Mill City Nights, Minneapolis (10/30/12)

W♥M160: Cat Power (10 mins) Tour Dates 11/02/12 Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre 11/03/12 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo 11/04/12 Portland, OR - McMenamins Crystal 11/06/12 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater 11/08/12 Hollywood, CA - Palladium 11/26/12 Amsterdam - Paradiso 11/28/12 Cologne - E-Werk 11/29/12 Berlin - Huxleys Neue Welt 12/01/12 Hamburg - Grosse Freiheit 36 12/02/12 Munich, Germany - Theatre Fabrik 12/03/12 Milan, Italy - Alcatraz 12/04/12 Bologna, Italy - Estragon 12/06/12 Zurich - Volkshaus 12/10/12 Paris - Trianon 12/12/12 London - Roundhouse 12/14/12 Brussels, Belgium - AB Club Read More Cat Power Just a reminder that Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, is coming to Minneapolis at the Mill City Nights tomorrow, October 30th. I will be there, will you? ...

Cat Power stopped by Mill City Nights in Minneapolis, last night, October 30th. This show was co-sponsored by The Current 83.9 FM and the 400 Bar.

THE ENTRANCE BAND

The Entrance Band, or as Guy Blakeslee introduced himself, "I am Entrance," opened up the show. I've concluded that he normally has a full band, but with last night's (Milwaukee) last minute replacement for Xray Eyeballs, it was just solo Entrance. I thought I read that his music was "psychedelic rock," but looking at the black attire and dark lyrics ("I want to die without no fear" on "Prayer of Death") it sounds more like depressing goth music to me?

I've seen Cat Power before, many, many years ago at the 400 Bar. Back then, it was just Chan Marshall with her grand piano. She spent most of the time looking down and closing her eyes as she sang her songs. This is fine for the type of slow-moving, introspective music she was playing, but last night was a different story. She had a full band, a movie projection (that synced to the songs they were playing), and was presented as a full "rock" show. I don't know if this worked for Cat Power, I would've been happy if it was just one instrument to accompany her beautiful smoky voice.

Cat Power photo by Audrey

It started off well enough, with Bob Dylan's "If You See Her, Tell Her Hello" song to introduce Cat Power, but as they played their second song, "Sun," you can clearly see Marshall is distracted by something. She kept pointing to someone in the audience with a "cut it out" gesture. This went on for a minute before she stopped the song and had a one way conversation with a photographer.

"There ain't no press passes," Marshall muttered, "I'm here for you [referring to the audience], not them [pointing to the photographers]."

There must have been a miscommunication; no one said anything about "no photo policy" for this show. I was on the other side of the stage and didn't see what was going on, but the story I was told later by another photographer was that securities came and had photographers leave their gear behind the front desk or were asked to leave to show.

Cat Power Setlist

Outside of photo drama and someone passing out/had a seizure during "Nothing But Time," the rest of the show went on without any problems. I believe the setlist is the same everynight because of the projected movies. Speaking of which, the Mill City Nights' projection is one the best I've seen from all the venues in Minneapolis, image was crisp and bright.

Marshall performed all the songs from the recent Sun album, with the exception of "Real Life." You know how I feel about bands performing new material, it's tough because they want to play the new stuff but fans wants to hear the old stuff. It felt unbalance with 80% of the set were all new songs. Even classics like "The Greatest" had a different take, which you probably you wouldn't have recognized it from the LP version.

The band ended the show with the new single, "Ruin," with no encore.

Cat Power is currently on tour in support of Sun, out now via Matador Records. She recently announced on Instagram that she may cancel her European tour due to bankruptcy and health struggles due to Angioedema. We have nothing but well wishes for her and hope she makes a full recovery.

Please listen to our wrap-up for the post show for Cat Power with Emily and Dan. Free download of "Ruined" available at Matador Records, which is song of the show for W♥M#160.

Cat Power at Mill City Nights, Minneapolis (10/30/12)

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Cat Fantastic

Read More Cat Power I love Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power). I saw her about six or seven years ago for her "Greatest" tour, but she seemed to have disappeared...

CAT POWER
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Just a reminder that Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, is coming to Minneapolis at the Mill City Nights tomorrow, October 30th. I will be there, will you?

I don't know who the opening band* is for tomorrow night, previously Brooklyn's Xray Eyeballs was on tour with Cat Power, but they seem to have dropped off last night.

Anyway, I'm thrilled to hear her new Sun album live. I also hope to hear "Cross Bones Style," which she didn't sing the last time I saw her.

* UPDATE: I am told The Entrance Band will open up. They previously supported Cat Power in 2010 at the 400 Bar. From Facebook: "Guy Blakeslee from The Entrance Band is doing two last minute shows supporting Cat Power Sun !!! Oct 29 in Milwaukee and Oct 30 in Minneapolis... leaving on a jet plane at the crack of dawn!! and will have bootlegs of old-school "ENTRANCE" recordings for sale!"

10/29/12 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
10/30/12 Minneapolis, MN - Mill City Nights
11/02/12 Vancouver, BC - The Vogue Theatre
11/03/12 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
11/04/12 Portland, OR - McMenamins Crystal
11/06/12 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
11/08/12 Hollywood, CA - Hollywood Palladium
11/26/12 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
11/28/12 Cologne, Germany - E-Werk
11/29/12 Berlin, Germany - Huxleys Neue Welt
12/01/12 Hamburg, Germany - Grosse Freiheit 36
12/02/12 Munich, Germany - Theatre Fabrik
12/03/12 Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
12/04/12 Bologna, Italy - Estragon
12/06/12 Zurich, Switzerland - Volkshaus
12/10/12 Paris, France - Trianon
12/12/12 London, United Kingdom - Roundhouse
12/14/12 Brussels, Belgium - AB Club

KITTEN
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Spin said that Kitten's 17-year-old singer Chloe Chaidez had "raw power and believability as a performer."

The Los Angeles indieband recently premiered "Japanese Eyes" on Nylon Magazine, which Nylon noted: "In the music video for the synth-heavy 'Japanese Eyes,' Chaidez dances in a disco-ready dress like Ronald Reagan was still the president."

You can get two free songs ("Cut it Out" & "Sugar") on their website, by signing up for their email list.

Look "Japanese Eyes" as "one of the 'rockiest' songs off the EP" on their Cut It Out release, which is out now on Atlantic Records.

KAT EDMONSON
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Kat Edmonson is currently on tour with Gary Clark Jr., in support of her sophomore album Way Down Low, out now via Spinnerette Records. You may remember this Texan with her 2009's Take To The Sky hitting the top 20 on Billboard's jazz charts. Certainly legends Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett took noticed of her and had her open up their shows. Lovett even asked her to do a duet with him, covering the Christmas classic, "Baby, It's Cold Outside."

All dates below are with Guy Clark Jr.

11/02 The Sinclair Cambridge, MA
11/03 The Sinclair Cambridge, MA
11/07 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
11/09 9:30 Club Washington, DC
11/10 Theater of the Living Arts Philadelphia, PA

UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY
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I got a T-Shirt from these guys, Unlawful Assembly. Their design and mascot seems to be a kitten with a gas mask.

I thought they were a band, but it was odd that they didn't send any music, just some stickers and a shirt. I am assuming if you are in a band, you can probably commission a design from them.

Anyway, checking on their Facebook page, they are doing some Beatles design.

1000S OF CATS
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It's impossible for me to understand/figure out their website, I was just looking for a biography that isn't listed anywhere.

According to a friend, they are a Japanese band, but currently in Minneapolis. Look for an Indiegogo-funding to record new materials this November 19th.

In the meantime, they are playing a few shows:

11/09 Austin, TX
11/19 Recording at The Old Blackberry Way
11/28 Minneapolis, MN

1000s of Cats' album 子宮 Envy is out now.

ZOMBIE CAT
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I actually had this item for my Halloween music article, but I just realized this has nothing to do with music. This is a book called "Zombie Cat: The Tale of a Decomposing Kitty." The book is written by Isabel Atherton and illustrated by Bethany Straker.

Reading the description, it is about Tiddles, a normal cat that turned into a zombie cat by a radioactive field mouse. Now he craves human brains. Shouldn't he crave cat brains?

This children book was released earlier this month (October 1, 2012), via Skyhorse Publishing. It is available in print and also Kindle Edition, but you know how I feel about digital books.

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