Minneapolis: This Week (03/26/2023)

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03/20/2023 Monday

Update: Remember that The Beths show on Feb 22? Well, no thanks to that blizzard of a century that passed through Minneapolis, the Australian band had to postponed the show until March 20, 2023… at the end of their American tour. We are still covering this upcoming show… hopefully no more snow on this date.

Sidney Gish to open.

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New Zealand-based quartet The Beths is back on tour in support of their album Expert In A Dying Field (Carpark Records).

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03/22/2023 Wednesday
Betty Who
with Shea Couleé
at First Avenue
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Pop sensation Betty Who recently covered Kate Bush’s iconic “Running Up That Hill”; the song had a renaissance last year when it was featured prominently in an episode of Netflix’s Stranger Things.

In other Who news, Betty Who was also been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Music Artist category for her acclaimed album BIG! (BMG). The GLAAD Media Award is an accolade bestowed by GLAAD, the world’s largest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, to recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.

Shea Couleé to open.

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03/23/2023 Thursday
Masego
with Ogi
at First Avenue
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Jazz/R&B/multi-instrumentalist Masego is currently on his “You Never Visit Me Tour”. Masego’s self-titled album is available now on EQT Recordings/Capitol Records.

“I’m very thankful of the journey. This went from a hobby to a job,” says Masego. “I was getting all the things that they say that you’re supposed to be fulfilled by and I wasn’t fulfilled by it. I had to do a re-evaluation of a lot of things. I said, ‘I can’t make this what I imagined it to be. So I cannot remain here. I need to move.’”

Ogi to open.

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03/23/2023 Thursday
The Church
with DJ Jake Rudh
at Fine Line
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Australia’s progressive, psych band The Church is touring in support of their forthcoming album The Hypnogogue (Communicating Vessels). The group will stop by the Fine Line in Minneapolis on March 23rd.

We saw the band in Oct 2018 and wrote, “Australia’s longtime 80s band The Church recently played the sold-out Turf Club show in St Paul, as part of their 30th Anniversary of Starfish tour. Undoubtable, this is the Sydney band’s most well-known album, at least to an international audience, thanks to their top 40 hit single, “Under the Milky Way”. ”

DJ Jake Rudh to DJ before the band.

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03/24/2023 Friday

J.I.D and Smino are on a co-headlining Luv is 4ever tour… they are stopping by the Fillmore in Minneapolis on March 24th, 2023.

Atlanta rapper J.I.D’s latest is The Forever Story, which topped many “Best of 2022” lists, including Rolling Stone and Pitchfork.

St. Louis rapper Smino’s third album Luv 4 Rent was his debut project with Motown Records, in partnership with Zero Fatigue.

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03/25/2023 Saturday
Inhaler
with Sun Room
at First Avenue
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Irish band Inhaler will be headlining First Avenue on March 25, in support of their second album Cuts & Bruises (Geffen Records).

“If You’re Gonna Break My Heart” is the new single fromCuts & Bruises, which the band described, “Whilst on tour in America last year we were listening to a lot of music by some of the great American writers such as Bob Dylan, The Band, Bruce Springsteen etc. Listening to these artists while travelling on big open highways resonated with us and helped shape this song into making us sound more like a live band than we had before.”

Cuts & Bruises is the follow-up to Inhaler’s debut album It Won’t Always Be Like This which debuted at no.1 in both the UK & Irish Official Charts. Released in July 2021,It Won’t Always Be Like This became the fastest-selling debut album on vinyl by any band this century and saw Inhaler become the first Irish group to top the Album Charts with a debut in 13 years.

Southern California’s Sun Room to open. The rock four-piece features Luke Asgian (lead vocals & guitar), Ashton Minnich (guitar), Max Pinamonti (bass), and Gibby Anderson (drums). Their latest EP Outta Their Minds is out now.

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03/25/2023 Saturday
Ingrid Andress
with Madeline Edwards
at Fine Line
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3x GRAMMY-nominee Ingrid Andress is on a headlining “The Good Person Tour”.

Andress reached the top of the Country Aircheck chart with her Platinum-certified hit “Wishful Drinking (with Sam Hunt),” as seen on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, taken from her celebrated sophomore album, Good Person.

Madeline Edwards to open.

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03/26/2023 Sunday

Hoboken rock trio Yo La Tengo (“I have it”) is touring in support of their sixteenth studio album This Stupid World (Matador Records). For the first time, Yo La Tengo put together this album entirely on their own, including doing their own mixes.

The tour kicks off March 9th in North Carolina and they’ll end the USA tour at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Then the band will play the UK starting in April 2023.

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03/26/2023 Sunday
The Scarlet Goodbye
with Willie Wisely
at Icehouse
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Minneapolis’ The Scarlet Goodbye has an album release party for Hope’s Eternal (InGrooves/Universal Records) at the Icehouse in Minneapolis.

The band features Daniel Murphy (from Soul Asylum) and Jeff Arundel. The two met randomly at a café, after Murphy already quit music and sold all his gears. Murphy regrets his decision, as after meeting Arundel, when they decided to form a new band, the Scarlet Goodbye.

“In 2012 I sold all the guitars and amps” said Murphy, “Now I’m busy buying them all back!”

Arundel adds, “Dan and I have been playing and writing for the same decades, we just never ran into each other. And obviously, we were walking different ends of the musical street… but we met, and I became intrigued when he told me that after being out of it for 10 years, maybe he missed it. So I invited him to the studio, and it was pretty instantly magical—a mutual collision of suggesting things to each other that the other wouldn’t have normally done”.

Willie Wisely to open.

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