Minneapolis: January 1 to January 8, 2020

Read more: Minneapolis Music Guide.

YACHT
+ Juiceboxxx
7th St Entry
Tue 01/07/2020 (7pm/$30)

We love Yacht (stylized as YACHT, for Young Americans Challenging High Technology). Currently the group features Claire L Evans and longtime founder Jona Bechtolt. The band’s seventh album Chain Tripping (DFA Records) features several new collaborators, like Ross Goodwin, Mario Klingemann, programmer and poet Allison Parrish,and the New Zealand-based visual artist Tom White.

We first saw Yacht opening for Vampire Weekend in April 2008 and noted that his music was very different from the popular band he was opening up for: “… one-man-band, Jona Bechtolt, or better known by his stage name Yacht. His music and style, it didn’t mesh well with Vampire Weekend’s pseudo caribbean/reggae inspired rock and roll.”

Show up early to check out Juiceboxxx, who is touring for his new album
It’s Easy To Feel Like A Nobody When You’re Living In The City (available February 28th on Dangerbird Records).
We’ve noted that the Milwaukee’s rapper Juiceboxxx was last seen in Sept 2017.

Tour dates:

Other shows in the area:

NEW YEARS DAY
Wed 01/01/2020

It’s the start of the new year.

COYOTE KID / LONGFALL
+ Inland Coastal
7th St Entry
Thu 01/02/2020 (7pm/$10)
first-avenue.com

It’s Longfall album release show for What We Found. The show is co-headlined with Coyote Kid, and features Inland Coastal as opener.

Longfall writes:

WRESTLEPALOOZA XVI
First Avenue
Fri 01/03/2020 (7pm/$27/Sold Out)
Sat 01/04/2020 (7pm/$27/Sold Out)
first-avenue.com

F1RST Wrestling’s annual Wrestlepalooza is this Friday and Saturday. Both events are sold out.

Music details:

Featured wrestlers:

RACHAEL KILGOUR
+ Laura Hugo
Turf Club
Sat 01/04/2020 (8pm/$15)
turfclub.net

Rachael Kilgour is back in town at the Turf Club this Saturday, January 4th. She last headlined the Turf Club in April 2019.

Laura Hugo to open.

Rachael Kilgour upcoming shows:

CHARLIE PARR
+ Surprise Guest
Turf Club
Sun 01/05/2020 (7:30pm/$12/Sold Out)
turfclub.net

Charlie Parr’s Turf Club Residency starts January 5th. The show is sold out.

Residency:

THE CACTUS BLOSSOMS
+ Dusty Heart
Turf Club
Mon 01/06/2020 (8pm/$22)
turfclub.net

Local favorite country/western band The Cactus Blossoms will be playing at the Turf Club every Monday night in January.

Before David Lynch hand-picked them for music in his new Twin Peaks show, we caught the band in April 2013 and wrote, “
Opening up were Jack Torrey and Page Burkum of The Cactus Blossoms, their fifth show working for Rodriguez. They did The Cactus Blossoms songs, but stripped down to double acoustics… lending their music to sound overtly very country and western.
Highlight of their set was a cover of Roger Miller’s “The Moon Is High”, containing the very funny word-play lyrics of “but come the dawn and it will dawn on me you’re gone”.”

Residency:

COLD PEPPERS 2
+ buxaplenty., Kandor, Will Robinson
+ Harlz, Hedawn, Axel Foley, Trip B
7th Street Entry
Wed 01/08/2020 (8pm/$10)
first-avenue.com

Cold Peppers Collective’s upcoming show feature:

Cold Peppers Collective writes: