What’s happening this week.

05/14/2024 Tuesday
Bridget Kearney
with Deerlady
at Icehouse
icehousempls.com

Bridget Kearney, from Lake Street Dive, is headlining the Icehouse, in Minneapolis, on May 14, 2024, in support of her solo album Comeback Kid – available now on Keeled Scales.

Deerlady to open.

Note: the venue, Icehouse, has been in the news recently. According to Star Tribune, “Icehouse — a bar, restaurant and music venue on Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis — is facing eviction from its Eat Street location with its landlord suing for more than $85,000 in unpaid rent.”

Tour dates:

May 9 South Burlington, VT, US Higher Ground
May 10 Fairfield, CT, US FTC StageOne
May 11 Asbury Park, NJ, US Wonder Bar
May 12 Brooklyn, NY, US Baby’s All Right
May 14 Minneapolis, MN, US Icehouse
May 15 Chicago, IL, US Judson & Moore
May 19 Davenport, IA, US Raccoon Motel
Jun 1 Marlboro, NY, US The Falcon

05/15/2024 Wednesday
Red Rum Club
with Loon Booster
at Turf Club
first-avenue.com

Liverpool’s Red Rum Club is touring in support of their new album Western Approaches. The English band will be headlining the Turf Club, in St Paul, on May 15, 2024.

The group was previously in town as support act for The Wombats in Sept 2023, but this time they are headlining.

Minneapolis-based Loon Booster (aka Benjamin Peterson) to open.

Tour dates:

5/10 – Sonia – Boston, MA
5/11 – Elsewhere – Brooklyn, NY
5/12 – Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA
5/14 – Beat Kitchen – Chicago, IL
5/15 – Turf Club – Minneapolis, MN
5/18 – Globe Hall – Denver, CO
5/20 – Kilby Court – Salt Lake City, UT
5/22 – Bottom of The Hill – San Francisco, CA
5/23 – Peppermint Club – Los Angeles, CA

05/17/2024 Friday
Ghost-Note
at Dakota Jazz Club
dakotacooks.com

Groove titans Ghost-Note is currently touring in support of their album Mustard n’Onions , featuring the single “Grandma’s Curtains (ft. Eric Gales).” The album is the group’s first new LP in six years.

The band is led by Snarky Puppy’s multi-GRAMMY®-winning duo of drummer-keyboardist Robert Sput Searight and percussionist Nate Werth.

The tour will stop by the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis on Friday, May 17th. Please note that there are two shows: an early show (6:30pm) and a late show (9pm). Show up early and grab yourself a delicious dinner before the show.

Tour dates:

May 10 – Thunderbird – Pittsburgh, PA
May 11 – Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH
May 12 – Rochester Lilac Festival – Rochester, NY
May 14 – El Club – Detroit, MI
May 15 – Bell’s – Kalamazoo, MI
May 16 – Chop Shop – Chicago, IL
May 17 – Dakota – Minneapolis, MN
June 15 – Juneteenth Celebration – Ft. Worth, TX
June 28 – Winstons – San Diego, CA
June 29 – Pappy + Harriet’s – Pioneertown, CA
June 30 – Lodge Room – Los Angeles, CA
July 4 – Moe’s Alley – Santa Cruz, CA
July 6-7 – High Sierra Music Festival – Quincy, CA
July 9 – Cornerstone – Berkeley, CA
July 11 – Neptune Theater – Seattle, WA
July 12 – The Get Down – Portland, OR
July 13 – Oregon Country Fair – Veneta, OR
July 26 – Fuji Rock Festival – Niigata, Japan
August 2 – The Egg – Albany, NY
August 3 – Newport Jazz Festival – Newport, RI
August 5-7 – Blue Note – New York, NY
August 24 – Mountain Sol Festival – Santa Cruz, CA
August 25 – Blue Note Summer Sessions – Napa, CA
September 1 – Detroit Jazz Festival – Detroit, MI

05/18/2024 Saturday
Chicano Batman
with Lido Pimienta
at Uptown Theater
uptowntheatermn.com

Acclaimed psych-soul band and Los Angeles institution Chicano Batman is touring in support of their album Notebook Fantasy (ATO Records). The tour will stop in at the Uptown Theater, in Minneapolis, on May 18, 2024.

Lido Pimienta to open.

Tour dates:

5/3 Nashville, TN Brooklyn Bowl*
5/4 Atlanta, GA Shaky Knees Festival
5/7 Richmond, VA The National*
5/8 Washington, DC 9:30 Club*
5/9 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel*
5/10 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club*
5/11 North Adams, MA Hunter Center Mass Moca
5/12 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer*
5/15 Columbus, OH The Bluestone*
5/16 Indianapolis, IN The Vogue*
5/17 Chicago, IL Salt Shed*
5/18 Minneapolis, MN Uptown Theater*
6/20 Seattle, WA Moore Theatre*
6/21 Portland, OR Roseland Theater*
6/22 Boise, ID Knitting Factory*
6/24 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot*
6/25 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre*
6/26 Taos, NM Taos Mesa Brewing Mothership*
6/28 San Diego, CA Cal Coast Credit Union*
6/29 Los Angeles, CA The Kia Forum*^
6/30 San Francisco, CA TBA
8/29 Amsterdam, NL Tolhuistuin
8/31 Manchester, UK Manchester Psych Fest
9/3 London, UK Lafayette
9/4 Paris, FR La Maroquinerie
9/26 Guadalajara, MX C3 Stage
9/27 Queretaro, MX Foro Indie Rocks!
9/28 Mexico City, MX Auditorio BB
Openers:
* Lido Pimienta
^ The Red Pears

05/19/2024 Sunday
The Decemberists
with Ratboys
at Palace Theatre
first-avenue.com

Portland’s beloved The Decemberists is returning with a new album As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, available June 14th via YABB Records (Thirty Tigers). I’m assuming we can hear a preview of the upcoming album at the Palace Theatre, in St Paul, on May 19th, 2024. The show is sold out.

Certainly we are going to hear their new single, “All I Want Is You”, a true love song, as singer Colin Meloy explains, “An unapologetic, wear-it-on-its-sleeve love song. I don’t write a ton of those, at least not in this vein. The song grew out of the finger picking pattern — “Don’t want pretty poses…” — and I just followed that lead. In the end, it just kind of wrote itself. It’s so bare bones, it lived for a long time in my songwriting notebook, kind of in hiding, before I got up the courage to put it out there. It shares a title and hook with many songs that have come before it, but I like to think I’m merely adding my own take to that tradition.”

Decemberists (24 Mar 2015)

We last saw the band in Mar 2015 and wrote, “The encore was first teased with the ready for springtime song, ‘June Hymn’, then was a direct hit to the gullet, with their other folky mega-epic, the bouncy ‘The Mariner’s Revenge Song’ which stretched some twenty minutes. People were prompted to scream at a certain part ¾ of the way into the song, and the reaction was not unwarranted as a large cut-out profile of a whale ambled on stage to slowly eat each of the band members in a row, to the crowd’s shrieking delight.”

Ratboys to open. The Chicago band previously was in town in October 2023.

Tour dates:

May 3: Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount Theatre
May 6: Toronto, ON – Exhibition Place – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
May 7: Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
May 8: Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia
May 10: Washington DC – The Anthem
May 11: Durham, NC – Durham Performing Arts Center
May 12: Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
May 14: Dallas, TX – Majestic Theater
May 15: Austin, TX – Bass Concert Hall
May 17: St Louis, MO – The Pageant
May 18: Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater
May 19: St Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
May 21: Chicago, IL – Salt Shed
May 22: Detroit, MI – Royal Oak Music Theater
May 24: Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
July 12: Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater^
July 13: Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
July 14: Los Angeles, CA – The Bellwether
July 15: Los Angeles, CA – The Bellwether
July 18: San Diego, CA – Humphreys
July 19: Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theater
July 20: Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
July 22: Santa Fe, NM – The Bridge
July 23: Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom
July 24: Sandy, UT – Sandy Amphitheater
July 26: Missoula, MT – Kettlehouse Amphitheater
July 27: Spokane, WA – Spokane Pavilion
July 29: Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
July 31: Seattle, WA – Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheatre*
July 31: Seattle, WA – Woodland Park Zoo Amphitheatre*
August 2: Bellingham, WA – Mount Baker Theatre
August 3: Troutdale, OR – McMenamins Edgefield*
August 25: London, UK – All Points East

05/19/2024 Sunday
Church of Cash
at Le Musique Room
lemusiqueroom.com

Minnesota’s favorite Johnny Cash tribute band Church of Cash is playing a two-night show at the Le Musique Room in St. Michael, Minnesota, on May 19 (at 3pm) and May 20 (at 1pm).

We are actually very interested in checking out this venue, as it’s a converted cinema megaplex.

According to the venue’s website, “The St. Michael Cinema megaplex in St. Michael, Minnesota, has become the area’s latest live music venue, thanks to some ingenious thinking on the part of the new owners. Le Musique Room at the St. Michael Cinema (French for The Music Room) — was originally built as one of the 15 theaters inside the 96,000 sq. foot movie house that now features 13 state-of-the-art movie screens. The new showcase destination is built into theater 15 of the megaplex located at 4300 O’Day Avenue NE, St. Michael, Minnesota. Music fans can expect incredible sound, lighting and video accouterments in the 199-seat theater and concert space, complete with Parisian design elements that highlight the entire complex. Intimate Seating with Stadium-Quality Sound and Video Production.”

Tour dates: