Minneapolis: June 11 to June 13, 2024

06/11/2024 Tuesday

Indie singer/songwriter Zach Seabaugh is headlining the 7th Street Entry this June 11, 2024. When he was 16, he appeared on The Voice to play “Take Your Time” on national television.

We previously wrote in Oct 2023: “Zach Seabaugh is a rising star in the Nashville indie-pop scene, with recent track “Maybe We Do.” Co-written by Seabaugh, Melissa Fuller, and Brett Truitt, the song explores the uncertainty and excitement of a new relationship.”

Tour Dates:

06/12/2024 Wednesday
Arkansauce 
at Turf Club
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Newgrass Arkansauce (featuring Tom Andersen on bass, guitarist Zac Archuleta, Ethan Bush on mandolin, and Adams Collins on banjo) will be headlining the Turf Club in St Paul. Each member sings lead and harmony parts as well as contributes to the lyrics.

Tour dates:

06/12/2024 Wednesday
Free Throw with Slow Joy
with Heart To Gold
at Green Room
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Nashville’s Free Throw is out touring with Dallas based, New Mexican born Chicano artist Slow Joy (solo project of Esteban Flores) as support. The two bands will stop in Minneapolis at the Green Room… a new Uptown venue that opened up on January 28, 2023.

Slow Joy’s upcoming EP Mi Amigo Slow Joy is due June 7, 2024, via Mick Music.

Local band Heart To Gold to open. We saw the group at their sold-out show in Dec 2022 and wrote, “Now, on to the stars of the show, Heart to Gold. I’ve been wanting to see a local band pull off a mosh pit with ease. A sold-out show at the 7th Street Entry with rabid/die-hard fans causing quite the scene and crowd participation. They even had a ring leader of the mosh that would climb on the pipes on the ceiling and surf back into the crowd. Fans would climb on stage and jump right in for crowd surfing, including the bandmates from Gramma on the encore.”

Slow Joy Confirmed Tour Dates:

06/13/2024 Thursday
Shannon and the Clams
at Fine Line
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Shannon and the Clams will be headlining the Fine Line, in Minneapolis, on June 13, 2024. The group have been enjoy newfound popularity, thanks to endorsements from The Black Keys.

We last saw the band in Oct 2015 and wrote, “The trio (Shannon, Cody, and Nate) came on stage a little after 11pm with Cody wearing what looked like a gold cape. He actually had a little trouble putting it on the right way, so their set was a little delayed. Most of their set included brand new songs from their latest Gone By The Dawn (Hardly Art Records), including “The Bog” and “It’s Too Late”.”

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06/13/2024 Thursday
Puppeteers For Fears presents – Cthulhu the Musical!
with Blunderbusst
at Turf Club
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Oregon’s premier rock’n’roll puppet troupe Puppeteers for Fears is bringing their Cthulhu the Musical! to the Turf Club, in St Paul.

The feature-length musical comedy adaptation H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror classic, “The Call of Cthulhu”, will be done entirely with puppets, backed with a live band.

The show is written by Josh Gross, and directed by Katy Curtis. Starring Forest Gilpin, Alex Giorgi, Hunter Prutch, Alyssa Mathews, and Owen Webb. The show will also feature special musical guest, Blunderbusst.

NOTE: Attendees should be aware that though this is a puppet show, it is NOT a children’s show. The material is R-rated, and children should be brought only at parent’s discretion.

The last time we saw a full puppet show was at the Kid Koala’s “Nufonia Must Fall” show in 2016, and I can tell you it is a very unique and captivating experience.

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