Minneapolis: This Week (08/07/2022)

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Local Natives

with Jordana

at First Avenue

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It’s been over twenty years since we saw Local Natives, in fact, we saw them open for Suckers in May 2010. Funny how things turned out for Suckers and the 400 Bar… but Local Natives are still going strong in 2022.

Opening for LN will be Jordana… who we just saw last month at the 7th Street Entry. Yes, it’s only a month ago that Jordana was in Minneapolis for the first time… let’s see how she deals with being back in the city a second time. Except to see her “favorite aunt” on tour with her.

Expect her to play tracks from her TV Girl collaboration EP Summer’s Over, as well as tracks from her latest album
Face The Wall (Grand Jury).

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Eivør

with Emily Jane White

at The Cedar Cultural Center

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Originally scheduled in Jan 2022, the show was moved to August 2nd.

Faroese folk electronica artist Eivør will be stopping by the Cedar Cultural Center. Her latest album Segl, which was produced by Lana Del Rey collaborator Dan Heath, is out now.

Segl got a lot of buzz, thanks to featuring appearances from Ásgeir (who we saw in Sept 2017) and Einar Selvik of Wardruna.

Emily Jane White will open.

IAN SWEET

with Bnny

at 7th St Entry

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Originally scheduled in Feb 2022, the show was moved to August 6th.

Jilian Medford, aka Ian Sweet (no relations to Matthew Sweet), is returning to the 7th Street Entry this August 6th, with support from Chicago quartet Bnny.

Ian Sweet’s 2021 album is called Show Me How You Disappear. The album was praised far and wide, with Pitchfork writing that it’s “bigger, brighter, cleaner, [and] more ambitious than anything she’s done…The album scales heights and punches the air upon reaching them, and the best songs swell in your chest like prime-era Broken Social Scene.”

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Hoodie Allen

with Belaganas
at Fine Line

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Hoodie Allen is currently on his With or Without You 2022 summer tour. The tour mark the 10-year anniversary of his first commercially released album All American. We caught the rapper during the tour for that album in Sept 2013 and wrote, “NYC indie rapper Hoodie Allen got the festivities started with an energetic 40 min. set, playing to a crowd that was clearly his fanbase. Starting with ‘Fame’, a recent collaboration with Chiddy Bang, the 25 year-old rapper got everyone moving immediately concentrating mostly on tracks from his most recent self-released full-length, All American, mashing up songs and keeping the set momentum moving (even U mascot Goldy Gopher jumped on stage to join in).”

Although not officially on the venue’s website, we are told that Phoenix’s Belaganas will open the show. The trio (vocalist Shanker, vocalist Joey J, and guitarist/drummer Nick Wille) formed in 2018 when they were teenagers.

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