W♥M223: Rocktober to Snowvember
Vu and John recaps Rocktober 2014, plus news/rumors, and November show previews.
News
- Macaulay Culkin is not dead. He’s in a cover band The Pizza Underground (a Velvet Underground cover band… but the subject matter are all replaced by pizzas). The Pizza Underground was recently in Minneapolis, playing a show with Har Mar Superstar… currently in Texas.
- Rumor: Could Liam and Noel be getting back together? With Beady Eye‘s break up, via twitter.com/liamgallagher, the rumors are coming fast and furious. Noel, on the other hand has a new Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds coming out early 2015 called Chasing Yesterday (Sour Mash Records).
- Robert Plant apparently kiboshed a Led Zeppelin reunion guaranteeing $800 mil. from Richard Branson. 35 dates in 3 cities (London, Berlin, NJ).
- Artists and digital music sites: U2 uploading new album Songs of Innocence to all iTunes users, Morrissey‘s music is not online, Taylor Swift pulls hers from Spotify, Garth Brooks self-distributing…
Rocktober 2014
- Pre-Rocktober: Lykke Li and La Roux
- Rocktober Highlights: Lily Allen, Paloma Faith, Vintage Trouble, Placebo, Pixies, Augustines, and Slowdive.
- Honorable mentions: of Montreal, Kooks, and Agnes Obel
Here is a list of all the shows we covered in October:
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10/01 Lily Allen at Skyway
10/01 Phantogram at Myth 10/02 Paloma Faith at Triple Rock 10/02 Agent Orange at 7th St 10/04 Kooks at First Ave 10/05 Vintage Trouble at Varsity 10/06 of Montreal at Cedar 10/07 Lucius at Electric Fetus 10/07 Tennis at Fine Line 10/07 Belle & Sebastian at Theatre 10/08 Screaming Females at Triple R 10/08 Banks at First Ave 10/09 We Are Scientists at Turf Club 10/09 Allen Stone at Terminal 5 10/10 Sloan at Turf Club |
10/11 Augustines at Turf Club
10/11 Pixies at State Theatre
10/14 Communion Clubnight
10/15 Kina Grannis at Varsity
10/16 Kat Edmonson at Dakota Jazz
10/17 Placebo at Mill City Nights
10/17 Iggy Azalea at TCF Stadium
10/18 Angus & Julia Stone at Cedar
10/22 Dum Dum Girls at Fine Line
10/24 Minus the Bear at Triple Rock
10/27 Ray LaMontagne at Saenger
10/29 Bear’s Den at Fine Line
10/30 Agnes Obel at Dakota Jazz
10/30 Kimbra at Fine Line
10/31 Slowdive at Fine Line
10/31 Alt-J at Myth
10/11 Pixies at State Theatre
10/14 Communion Clubnight
10/15 Kina Grannis at Varsity
10/16 Kat Edmonson at Dakota Jazz
10/17 Placebo at Mill City Nights
10/17 Iggy Azalea at TCF Stadium
10/18 Angus & Julia Stone at Cedar
10/22 Dum Dum Girls at Fine Line
10/24 Minus the Bear at Triple Rock
10/27 Ray LaMontagne at Saenger
10/29 Bear’s Den at Fine Line
10/30 Agnes Obel at Dakota Jazz
10/30 Kimbra at Fine Line
10/31 Slowdive at Fine Line
10/31 Alt-J at Myth
November Shows Highlight
- FKA Twigs at Fine Line (11/14)
- Interpol and Hundred Waters at First Avenue (11/14)
- Peter Hook and the Light at Fine Line (11/15)
- Amanda Palmer at Cedar (11/16)
- Suzanne Vega at the Dakota Jazz Club (11/18-11/19)
- Stars at Minneapolis (11/19)
- Better than Ezra at the Varsity (11/20)
- Death from Above 1979 at First Avenue (11/24)
Bonus:
- Song of the show is Morrissey‘s “November Spawned a Monster”.
- Synthpop Lovelife (previously Viva Brother) and their relationship to Morrissey.
- Joe Perry and Steven Tyler (both from Aerosmith) and their rivalry.
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