Minneapolis: June 18 to June 20, 2024

06/18/2024 Tuesday

Billy Allen (not to be confused with Lily Allen) has teamed up with The Pollies to release the debut album Black Noise from Billy Allen + the Pollies. The album won’t be out until next year, but in the meantime, you can enjoy their new single “Lady Luck”.

Burning Blue Rain to open.

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06/19/2024 Wednesday
Queef Jerky
with Godly the Ruler
at 7th St Entry
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Rap group Queef Jerky featuring Dev Lemons and YouTuber nickisnotgreen will be headlining the 7th Street Entry as part of their “The Queef Jerky Countrywide World Tour”.

Dev Lemons was previously in town at the 7th Street Entry last October 2023 with Jordana.

Godly the Ruler to open. We previously saw the rapper in Oct 2023 and wrote, “He jokingly asked what city he was in, and feign ignorance in what day it was. The truth is that this was his first tour, at least that’s what he tells us, and I’m assuming he was really excited to be playing in Minneapolis at the sold out Fine Line.”

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06/20/2024 Thursday
Pixies and Modest Mouse
with Cat Power
at Surly Brewing Festival Field
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It’s really the perfect line up for this outdoor venue at the Surly Brewing Festival Field. We got two heavy-hitters of Pixies and Modest Mouse and Cat Power … all crowd favorites.

We’ve seen all these bands before, with Pixies in Oct 2014 and said, “Of course, I was excited to hear that the Pixies reformed in 2004. I tried to get a ticket to their first gig was at Minneapolis’ Fine Line Café for April 13, but it immediately sold out. Ten years later, the Pixies triumphantly returned to Minneapolis to another sold out show at the State Theatre.”

We last saw Modest Mouse in Jun 2023 and wrote, “Modest Mouse has managed to carry…err, Float On, despite the devastating death of their drummer Jeremiah Green at the end of last year (we caught the band last Sept w/Green and in December without), with the sun emerging from cloudy skies, just as the band took to the stage. Latest LP is still 2021’s The Golden Casket, with a supposed 9-track follow-up EP, due soon and their hour-long set would wrap with 2004’s “The World At Large “and singer Isaac Brock crooning, “My thoughts were so loud.””

Cat Power to open. She does allow photos, so there’s some vuart for you. We saw her at the Fitzgerald in March 2024 and noted, “The idea of this concert came from Cat Power’s love for Bob Dylan and her obsession of Bob Dylan’s “Royal Albert Hall Concert” in 1966 (which is actually a mislabeled bootleg for the Dylan’s Manchester Free Trade Hall in May 1966). The famed original performance saw Dylan playing a traditional acoustic and harmonica set… but then, midway in his show, he switched to electric – and that drew a lot of outrage from the purists in the crowd, who did not want their rock ‘n’ roll in their folk.”

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