Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from May 29 to May 31, 2018.



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Matt Costa: Santa Rosa Fangs



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Matt Costa

I absolutely loved Matt Costa’s 2013 self-titled album. The album was recorded and produced by Belle & Sebastian fame Tony Doogan, and you can hear hints of pop rock sound in the record.
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Elizabeth & The Catapult

Paste and Rolling Stone loves Brooklyn-based Elizabeth & The Catapult, calling them “fresh confidence against punchy drums and jazzy guitar riffs” and “jazzy chamber-pop sound”, respectively.



MATT COSTA

+ Elizabeth And The Catapult

Turf Club

Wed 05/30/2018 (7pm/$15)


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One of my favorite record of 2013 is the self-titled album by Matt Costa. The SoCal singer/songwriter is back on tour in support of his forthcoming album Santa Rosa Fangs (due out May 18th on Dangerbird Records).



With the new album, Costa said, “I’ve interwoven my own stories into a fictional idea of what Santa Rosa Fangs is, from my own time spent living in Northern and Southern California and years driving up and down the coast, seeing the landscape and where life can pull you within one state. It’s the characters’ story and my story, too, contemporary but still tortured by the past. It’s a window into a time period but spoken as if it’s the present. The beauty of love and loss doesn’t have a date on it; it’s timeless.”



Opening up the show will be Elizabeth & The Catapult – who released one of my favorite albums of 2009, Taller Children, thanks to Elizabeth Ziman’s wonderful jazz/chamber-pop vocals.



Tour dates:


05/19 Philadelphia, PA Boot & Saddle*

05/21 Vienna, VA Jammin’ Java*

05/22 Brooklyn, NY Rough Trade*

05/23 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair*

05/25 Toronto, ON Longboat at Great Hall*

05/26 Ann Arbor, MI The Blind Pig*

05/27 Chicago, IL Schuba’s*

05/28 Milwaukee, WI Shank Hall*

05/30 St. Paul, MN The Turf Club*

06/05 Los Angeles, CA The Troubadour†

06/07 Carmel, CA Live in the Vines

07/07 San Francisco, CA Café du Nord†

07/09 Bellingham, WA Wild Buffalo†

07/10 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern†

07/11 Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret†

07/12 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge†

08/16 Dana Point, CA Bluff Park at Salt Creek Beach




* with Elizabeth & the Catapult


† with Katie Toupin (ex-Houndmouth)







Maps & Atlases: Lightlessness Is Nothing New



Head and the Heart 2018 Tour



The Lighthouse and the Whaler 2018 Tour




Parquet Courts: Wide Awake!



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Maps & Atlases

Maps & Atlases, which I did catch the majority of their set… unlike missing them entirely at the 80-35 last year.
I’m not sure if new songs from their forthcoming album Perch Patchwork …
Lighthouse and the Whaler

Ohio-based The Lighthouse and the Whaler took the stage, opening as they did on Pond’s previous outing, with a feel-good blend of indie folk-pop, in support of their self-released latest, This is an Adventure. …
The Head And The Heart

Seattle’s The Head and the Heart just stopped by First Avenue, in Minneapolis, as part of their national tour in support of Let’s Be Still. The album was released last week, October 15th …
Parquet Courts

The loud punk-ish rock band Parquet Courts is currently on tour for their debut album, Light Up Gold, out now on What’s Your Rupture? Records. The band has received a lot of praises from …

Other shows in the area:





MAPS & ATLASES

+ Yana

7th Street Entry

Tue 05/29/2018 (8pm/$15)


first-avenue.com



Chicago’s Maps & Atlases will be headlining the 7th Street Entry on Tuesday, in support of their third full-length Lightlessness Is Nothing New (due out June 1 on Barsuk Records).



Tour dates:




5/29: 7th Street Entry – Minneapolis, MN

6/01: Upstream Music Festival – Seattle, WA

6/02: Volume Music Festival – Spokane, WA

6/03: Holocene – Portland, OR

6/06: Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA

6/07: Lodge Room – Los Angeles, CA

6/08: Casbah – San Diego, CA

6/09: Rebel Lounge – Phoenix, AZ

6/10: Sister Bar – Albuquerque, NM

6/12: Club Dada – Dallas, TX

6/13: Scoot Inn – Austin, TX






THE HEAD AND THE HEART

+ Grouplove

Armory

Wed 05/30/2018 (6:30pm/$33)


armorymn.com



The Head And The Heart is returning to the Twin Cities at the newly minted Armory in Minneapolis on Wednesday. We previously saw the band on Oct 2014 and wrote, “After an almost two hour delay, the crowd was released back outside and crowded the main stage (where extended applause took place for the stagehand that removed the protective plastic from the high stagelights) for Seattle favorites, The Head and the Heart, who had maybe the biggest overall sound of the festival acts. Led by co-vocalists Josiah Johnson, Charity Rose Thielen, and Jonathan Russell, the band’s 50 min. set leaned heavily on last year’s Let’s Be Still (Sub Pop Records) and the damp crowd showed why Minneapolis is one of the band’s best markets.”



Grouplove will open.



Tour dates:


5/22/18 – CCCU Open Air Theatre – San Diego, CA

5/23/18 – The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA

5/24/18 – Fox Theater Pomona – Pomona, CA

5/26/18 – BottleRock Napa Valley Festival – Napa, CA

5/29/18 – Starlight Theater – Kansas City, MO

5/30/18 – The Armory – Minneapolis, MN

5/31/18 – Northerly Island Amphitheatre – Chicago, IL


6/2/18 – Artpark – Lewiston, NY

6/3/18 – Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica – Cleveland, OH

6/5/18 – Ommegang Brewery – Cooperstown, NY






LIGHTHOUSE AND THE WHALER

+ Vita and the Woolf, Guytano

7th Street Entry

Wed 05/30/2018 (7:30pm/$12)


first-avenue.com



Cleveland’s The Lighthouse And The Whaler is touring with Philadelphia’s Vita And The Woolf this year. They’ll stop by the 7th Street Entry on Wednesday, May 30th.



Tour dates:


05/15 – Austin, TX @ Stubbs Jr.

05/17 – Phoenix, AZ @ The The Rebel Lounge

05/18 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Moroccan Lounge

05/19 – Costa Mesa, CA @ Wayfarer

05/20 – San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar

05/22 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Velvet Jones

05/23 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill

05/25 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court

05/26 – Denver, CO @ Lost Lake Lounge

05/27 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown

05/29 – Davenport, IA @ The Raccoon Motel

05/30 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry

05/31 – Milwaukee, WI @ Shank Hall

06/01 – Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen

06/02 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom






PARQUET COURTS

+ Goat Girl

Fine Line Music Cafe

Thu 05/31/2018 (8pm/$18)


finelinemusic.com



Parquet Courts will be headlining the Fine Line Music Café in support of their forthcoming album Wide Awake! (May 18th on Rough Trade).


Tour dates:

05/23 – Boston, MA @ Royale

05/24 – Providence, RI @ Fete Ballroom

05/25 – Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall

05/26 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount

05/27 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Theatre

05/28 – Detroit, MI @ El Club

05/30 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre

05/31 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line

06/1 – Lawrence, KS @ The Granada

06/2 – St Louis, MO @ Ready Room

06/3 – Nashville, TN @ Basement East

06/5 – Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel

06/6 – Carborro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle

06/7 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club





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