Rocktober: October 14, 2014

COMMUNION CLUB NIGHTS
at Varsity Theater
Tuesday 10/14/14, 7pm 

The October Communion Club Night is next Tuesday, October 14th. This is a great value for the dollar, and if you’re a student or MPR member, you can grab tickets for only $5. You must have a valid ID card.

Also, I’m not sure what’s going on with the club, but next month, in November, it’s moved to the Turf Club, in St Paul. Next month’s Communion show will feature:
Mikhael Paskalev, Count This Penny, Peter Miller of We Are The Willows.

Anyway, the October 14th show at the Varsity will feature:

• The Whigs: Paste Magazine called this Athens-based band, “the last true rock and roll bands.” The Whigs are currently touring in support of their new album Modern Creation.

• Field Report: With Communion expanding to Wisconsin, it’s only natural that they’ve also signed on new artists like Milwaukee-based Field Report. Their sophomore record, Marigolden, is out now.

• Water Liars: This Mississippi-based trio is currently signed to Big Legal Mess/Fat Possum Records with a current self-titled album.

• American Scarecrows: With these Communion shows, there is the staple Minneapolis-based band, and for this show, it’s American Scarecrow. They are an Americana/folk band.

GLENN TILBROOK
with Jefferson Grizzard
at Turf Club
Tuesday 10/14/14, 7pm 

As half of the songwriting team for Squeeze, Glenn Tilbrook is back in the US to play tracks from his acoustic solo album Happy Ending. The record is described as “bits of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits”. The tour started late September and continues to New York at the end of October…. and stopping by St Paul’s Turf Club next Tuesday, October 14th.

Opening up for Tilbrook will be Jefferson Grizzard, singer/songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. His latest album Learning How to Lie is out now on Back Porch Syndicate Records.

Tour dates:

10/12/14 Denver, CO Soiled Dove Underground

10/13/14 Kansas City, MO The Record Bar

10/14/14 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club

10/15/14 Chicago, IL City Winery Chicago

10/16/14 Evanston, IL SPACE

10/17/14 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom

10/19/14 Pittsburgh, PA Hard Rock Cafe

10/20/14 Asbury Park, NJ Wonder Bar

10/23/14 Riverhead, NY Suffolk Theater

10/24/14 Highland Lakes, NJ Highland Lakes

10/25/14 New York, NY Iridium Jazz Club

11/02/14 Cambridge Cambridge Corn Exchange

11/07/14 London Union Chapel

11/13/14 Newcastle Mill Volvo Tyne

While Communion is affordable, this show is not… even though it is being held at a university auditorium.

English singer/songwriter David Gray is currently on an intimate “Evening With”-type tour in support of his latest Mutineers (Good Soldier Songs).

Listed as opener for this Minneapolis show is another “David”: David Kitt, an Irish musician with already six studio albums under his belt.

Tour dates:

10/11/14 Columbus, OH Palace Theatre

10/12/14 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theatre

10/14/14 Minneapolis, MN Northrop Auditorium

10/15/14 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater

10/17/14 St. Louis, MO Blanche M. Touhill PAC

10/23/14 London Union Chapel

12/01/14 Liverpool Liverpool Philharmonic

12/02/14 Cambridge Cambridge Corn Exchange

12/03/14 Llandudno Venue Cymru

12/05/14 Cork, Ireland Cork Opera House

12/06/14 Killarney, Ireland INEC

12/07/14 Dublin, Ireland Bord Gáis Energy Theatre