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Chastity Belt at Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis (24 June 2015)

Read More Chastity Belt One of Seattle's most talked-about bands Chastity Belt will be in Minneapolis at the Cedar Cultural Center next Wednesday, June 24, in support of their sophomore album Time to Go Home, out now on Hardly Art. … Whatever Forever Local band Whatever Forever opened up the show. The band is a bit of a supergroup, with Howard W. Hamilton III (of Red Pens), Clara Salyer (of Prissy Clerks), Dave Gatchell (of Selby Tigers... which …

Last night, Seattle’s Chastity Belt and local openers The Velveteens and Whatever Forever treated a packed Triple Rock Social Club to a night of inside jokes and catchy earworms.

The Velveteens photo by Amy

Minneapolis trio The Velveteens were up first, running through a setlist of songs that, like their name suggests, reminded me alot of the Velvet Underground. Lead singer / percussionist Kiera Coonan stood in the middle of the stage providing a barebones beat with a floor tom, snare and cymbal as bandmates Jonny Holupchinski strummed dreamy chords and Jillian Schroeder  dotted nimbly on her bass. Coonan’s voice really struck me; it was strong and soaring, often lingering on notes. Check out the Velveteens’ EP for sale over on Bandcamp.

Whatever Forever photo by Amy

The show really picked up when Whatever Forever took to the stage and unleashed a vibrant punk sound that got people dancing and jumping around. This band is seriously a who’s who of the Twin Cities scene’s best bands: Clara Salyer, who plays guitar and sings, is from the Prissy Clerks, guitarist/vocalist Howard Hamilton hails from the late, great Red Pens, drummer Dave Gatchell played with the Selby Tigers and I just saw bassist Jordan Bleau rock/charm the socks off of folks with Frankie Teardrop at the recent Electric Six gig. Whatever Forever’s garage-y effervescence is something I’ll return for again and again.

Chastity Belt were cool as hell on stage

The four friends of Chastity Belt (guitarist Lydia Lund, vocalist/guitarist Julia Shapiro, bassist Annie Truscott, drummer Gretchen Grimm) were cool as hell on stage, bowling over fans with their intricate, melodic noise-rock like it was no big deal. The setlist featured cuts from their newest record Time to go Home which was released in March on Hardly Art. Songs like “Drone” and “IDC” showcased some sophisticated guitar work as well as some snarky lyrical commentary. They were also often endearingly introduced by Truscott who would look over at Shapiro and Lund, grinning, and say something like, “This is a song about sluts. Cool sluts.” The band ended the set with “Joke” and Shapiro and Truscott played so intensely at the other that they sort of fell into each other and then on the ground, laughing the whole time. The sole encore was “Seattle Party” (“This is a song about a party. A Seattle party.”) from the band’s 2013 debut No Regerts.

Earlier in the night, Clara Salyer from Whatever Forever declared Chastity Belt her favorite band. “Where the hell were you guys last year?” she asked the crowd, half joking. Consider me educated and on the Chastity Belt bandwagon! I will definitely not miss their next show.

Chastity Belt at Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis (24 June 2015) photo by Amy

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Minneapolis: June 24, 2015

Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area on June 24, 2015.

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Read More Trails and Ways Trails and Ways recently covered Frank Ocean's "Lost", but as a bossa nova version... and in Portuguese. The song is available for download at Soundcloud. …

TRAILS AND WAYS
at Turf Club
Wednesday, 06/24/15, 7:30pm ($8)
Details: turfclub.net

Oakland's Trails and Ways is currently on tour in support of their debut full length Pathology, which saw release earlier this June 2nd via our favorite label Barsuk Records.

See Trails & Ways live in St Paul's Turf Club next week, Wednesday, June 24th.

Five-piece Waterstrider (Scott Brown, Walker Johnson, Brijean Murphy, Nate Salman, and Drew Brown) will be opening the show.

Tour dates:

06/18/15 New York, NY The Mercury Lounge
06/19/15 Boston, MA Red Room
06/20/15 Brooklyn, NY Palisades
06/22/15 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern
06/23/15 Chicago, IL Schubas Tavern
06/24/15 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club
06/26/15 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
06/27/15 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
07/09/15 Portland, OR Bunk Bar
07/10/15 Seattle, WA Sunset Tavern
07/11/15 Vancouver, BC Media Club
07/16/15 Santa Ana, CA Constellation Room
07/17/15 San Diego, CA The Hideout
07/18/15 Fresno, CA Peeve's Public House
07/25/15 San Jose, CA San Pedro Square Market

Read More Caitlin Canty Searingly good Americana. Favourite tracks are Get Up, My Love For You Will Not Fade, The Brightest Day, Enough About Hard Times, Southern Man, I Never, Unknown Legend. Really, it's all stellar stuff. Great songwriting … Romantica I've seen Romantica a few times, but this time, they had help from Black Audience's singer Jayanthi Kyle. They played an Americana/heartland type music, and singer Ben Kyle mentioned that these songs they were playing …

CAITLIN CANTY
at Icehouse
Wednesday, 06/24/15, 8:30pm ($12)
Details: icehousempls.com

American singer/songwriter Caitlin Canty will be in town in Minneapolis' Icehouse next Wednesday, June 24th, in support of her latest Reckless Skyline album, which came out earlier this year, January 20, 2015.

Joining her on tour will be a full backing back, consisting of Billy Conway (Morphine) on drums, Jeremy Moses Curtis (Booker T) on bass, Foucault on guitars and backing vocals, Eric Heywood (Ray LaMontagne's Pariah Dogs, Tift Merritt, The Pretenders) on pedal steel and electric guitars, and Matt Lorenz (Rusty Belle, Chris Smither) on pump organ, banjo, piano and fiddle.

Romantica's singer Ben Kyle set to open the show.

Caitlin Canty Tour Dates:

06/19 – Telluride Bluegrass Festival
06/20 – Telluride Bluegrass Festival
06/21 – Telluride Bluegrass Festival
06/23 – Chicago, IL – Music Means Family Series
06/24 – Minneapolis, MN – Icehouse*
06/25 – Fort Atkinson, WI – Café Carpe
06/26 – Oconomowoc, WI – Three Brothers Farm
06/27 – Lancaster, WI – Three Springs Barn
07/08 – Middlebury On The Green Festival
07/09 – Cambridge, MA – Club Passim
07/10 – Northampton, MA – Iron Horse
07/30 – Hillsdale, NY – Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
08/01 – Hillsdale, NY – Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
08/02 – Waitsfield, VT – Tweed River Music
08/05 – New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall
08/06 – WBJB Songwriters on the Beach
08/09 – Milford, PA – Milford Music in the Park
08/27 – Ketchum, ID – Town Square Tunes
09/02 – Boise, ID – The Modern
09/05 – Kuna, ID – Hermit Music Festival
09/06 – Stanley, ID – Redfish Lake Lodge

# - w/ Eilen Jewell
* - w/ Hayard Williams

Read More Chastity Belt I first heard "Black Sail", the opening track of this wonderful abum, on NPR's All Songs Considered. The show's hosts had a short discussion about the band's semi-infamous publicity photo (look it up), which clued me … Whatever Forever Local band Whatever Forever opened up the show. The band is a bit of a supergroup, with Howard W. Hamilton III (of Red Pens), Clara Salyer (of Prissy Clerks), Dave Gatchell (of Selby Tigers... which …

CHASTITY BELT
at Triple Rock Social Club
Wednesday, 06/24/15, 7pm ($10)
Details: triplerocksocialclub.com

One of Seattle's most talked-about bands Chastity Belt will be in Minneapolis at the Cedar Cultural Center next Wednesday, June 24, in support of their sophomore album Time to Go Home, out now on Hardly Art.

The all-girls band was previously in town with Pony Time in Rocktober 2013.

Opening up next Wednesday will be two locals The Velveteens and Whatever Forever (former members of Red Pens and Prissy Clerks).

Tour Dates:

06/18/15 Ottawa, ON Various Venues
06/19/15 NXNE Festival
06/19/15 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern
06/19/15 Toronto, ON Smiling Buddha Bar
06/20/15 Lakewood, OH Mahall's 20 Lanes
06/21/15 Detroit, MI UFO Factory
06/24/15 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock Social Club
06/28/15 Boise, ID Neurolux
07/14/15 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
07/24/15 Seattle, WA Capitol Hill Block Party
07/26/15 Capitol Hill Block Party
10/15/15 London The Victoria, Dalston
10/16/15 London The Lexington
10/17/15 Brighton Hope & Ruin
10/18/15 Sheffield The Harley
10/19/15 Newcastle upon Tyne Think Tank
10/20/15 Glasgow Broadcast
10/22/15 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
11/02/15 Berlin, Germany Monarch

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