Minneapolis: This Week (06/26/2022)

Doors Open
7PM,
Show Starts
8PM ($17/$20)



The Unlikely Candidates

with White Line Darko

at Turf Club

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Texas-based Alt-Rock band The Unlikely Candidates is touring in support of their new album Panther Island.

Lead singer Kyle Morris described the album, “The record is a kaleidoscopic landscape of genre and style that changes from song to song, a greatest hits of the sonic worlds the band has inhabited over the years. Thematically it’s just as varied, shifting from songs about the chaos on the streets and loneliness behind the phone screens of America during the pandemic, to humorous tales of twenty-something malaise and the many ways the heart breaks; when love or loved ones are lost. At the heart of this album is the ethos of taking a bad situation and making something of it. It was written during the pandemic while the world was shut down, by a band who has hit enough roadblocks to delay a debut album nine years.”

White Line Darko to open. The new Minneapolis psychedelic rock outfit recently had a double single release show for “Turning Out!” at the Driftwood Char Bar in Minneapolis last June 10.

Tour Dates:

8pm ($40
/
Balcony Seating $30)




Meghan Murphy

with Monica West
at The Woman’s Club

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The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis is proud to present Meghan Murphy in the long-awaited Twin Cities debut of her performance of “The Big Red Show” on Thursday, June 23.

Murphy’s one-woman show, The Big Red Show, has left audiences laughing, crying, and rising to their feet at every performance. The Chicago Sun Times calls her, “A sparkling redhead with a dynamite voice.”

Opening for Meghan will be Monica West.

Ticketing information:

Doors 7:30PM,
Show Starts
8:30PM
($13/$15)



Eyelids

with Muun Bato
at 7th St Entry

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Portland band Eyelids is touring for their new album The Accidental Falls. The group recently added a new member, Victor Krummenacher (of Monks of Doom, Camper Van Beethoven).

Their secret origin of The Accidental Falls was when former Tim Buckley collaborator Larry Beckett first offered Chris Slusarenko and John Moen of Eyelids to write new lyrics for their next record, the band wasn’t sure how it would fit their brand of guitar-driven rock. But they trust it to work and as a result, the fourth album was created with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, as record producer. How they got involved with R.E.M. is another story altogether… but let’s just say that the group is a big fan of R.E.M’s music, and it’s an honor for them to work with Peter Buck.

Muun Bato to open.

Tour dates:

UPDATE: Now with VOWWS as support act.




Billy Howerdel of ‘A Perfect Circle’

at Fine Line
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A Perfect Circle’s guitarist Billy Howerdel is headlining the Fine Line Music Café this June 24… just weeks shy of Maynard James Keenan’s Puscifer show on July 3, 2022.

Howerdel’s debut solo album What Normal Was, is set for release June 10 via Alchemy Recordings, Rise Records, and BMG.

Tour Dates:

Doors Open
6:30PM /
Show Starts
8PM
($45)




Violent Femmes

with The Breeders
at Palace Theatre

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What a dream lineup! It’s Cult-favorite band Violent Femmes with The Breeders 2022 tour.

Violent Femmes’ recently celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Why Do Birds Sing? with a deluxe 2-CD reissue. The album was remastered with previous unreleased material (including alternative takes and outtakes), and a complete concert from 1991 (captured at the Boathouse in Norfolk, VA).

We last saw VF in Oct 2017 and wrote, “It basically boils down to the fact that fans probably haven’t seen VF for 16 years. That’s a long time, but, based on hearing almost every song sung back, word for word, these same fans clearly haven’t forgotten about the Violent Femmes. They saved two of their biggest singalong classics ‘Kiss Off’ and ‘Add It Up’ for the encore.”

Tour dates: