What’s happening this week.

06/04/2024 Tuesday
Camera Obscura
with Photo Ops
at Fine Line
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U.S. fans of Scottish pop rejoice! We’ve sorely missed the ‘60s girl-group stylings of Camera Obscura on our shores, but the five-piece twee pop band from Glasgow are finally gracing us with a stateside tour this spring, in support of their new album, Look to the East, Look to the West, out on May 3rd. The band last toured the U.S. in 2014, but they’ve weathered a lot since then, including the tragic loss of founding keyboardist Carey Lander, who passed away in 2015 from bone cancer. They took some time off to mourn and regroup, but kept in touch, and played the Boaty Weekender, Belle and Sebastian’s seaside cruise festival, in 2019. But this year marks a full-fledged return to new and live music, which so far includes a UK tour, some festival dates in Mexico City, and hopefully more to come.

We’re happy to have the Scottish band back in Minneapolis, having last seen the group in July 2014: “Tracyanne Campbell was in good spirit. Apparently, they don’t have “Pedal Pubs” in Scotland, as Campbell quipped, “Yeah, that thing wouldn’t last two minutes in Glasgow!” Camera Obscura’s set was basically the same set they’ve been playing throughout the country. Half of the songs were taken from Desire Lines and My Maudlin Career, both albums available via 4AD Records.”

Photo Ops will be support for this upcoming Camera Obscura USA tour.

May 29 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
May 30 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
May 31 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmont
Jun. 1 – Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall
Jun. 3 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Jun. 4 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
Jun. 7 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
Jun. 8 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
Jun. 10 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
Jun. 11 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
Jun. 12 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
Jun. 14 – Dallas, TX @ Studio at the Factory
Jun. 15 – Austin, TX @ Scoot Inn
Jun. 17 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety
Jun. 18 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
Jun. 19 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Jun. 20 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Jun. 22 – Mon. Jun. 24 – Mexico City, MX @ Foro Indie Rocks!
Aug. 2 – Sat. Aug. 3 – Glasgow, UK @ The Glasgow Weekender
Aug. 29 – Sun. Sept. 1 – Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
Aug. 30 – Cardiff, UK @ Tramshed

06/05/2024 Wednesday
Ghostly Kisses
with Kroy
at 7th St Entry
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Canada’s Ghostly Kisses (Margaux Sauvé and Louis-Étienne Santais), are touring in support of Darkroom… stopping by the 7th Street Entry, in Minneapolis, on June 5, 2024.

Kroy to open.

Tour Dates:

May 23 – Montreal, QC @ Church of the Gesu
May 24 – Ottawa, ON @ Club SAW
May 25 – Quebec City, QC @ Imperial Bell
May 29 – Boston, MA @ Cafe 939
May 30 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
May 31 – Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust
June 01 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
June 04 – Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village
June 05 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
June 07 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall
June 08 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
June 11 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza
June 12 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
June 14 – San Francisco, CA @ Brick & Mortar
June 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo

06/07/2024 Friday
Kim Gordon
at Fine Line
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You guys know we love Sonic Youth… so we’re really excited to see that Kim Gordon is touring in support of her second solo album The Collective. The album is described as “daring beats and improvised guitar are marks of a lifelong radical still at the peak of her powers” as well as “vicious and brilliant..a maelstrom of mundane thoughts and funny asides and flashes of pure rage whipped into a heavy, unnerving fog”.

Experience all that and more at this upcoming show at the Fine Line, in Minneapolis, on June 7, 2024.

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