What’s happening this week.

07/15/2024 Monday
Redd Kross
with Dale Crover (DJ set)
at Turf Club
first-avenue.com

Can you believe that Redd Kross is back? And with a new eponymous double-album, set for a June 28, 2024, via In the Red Records. This group started in 1979 between a 15 year old named Jeff McDonald and his 11 year old brother Steven. As I previously mentioned, when I was a DJ at KFSR 90.7 FM, we used to play their music in the early 90s… so these guys are old (in the best way).

We recently saw Redd Kross at Mosswood Meltdown on July 6, 2024 and wrote, “I’ve always loved the fuzzy rock ‘n roll fantasies of Redd Kross. An L.A. band with a New York heart, they’re all about heavy guitar distortion overlaid with supremely catchy hooks. A bit glam, a bit punk, all fun. Even with the sound problems that riddled their set, I couldn’t not bop my head to “Jimmy’s Fantasy,” with its loud-quiet-loudness and singalong vibe: “Cast the hex with your echo-plex/ You don’t ever wanna have… sex.” No wonder with the rock they bring, that Thurston Moore called them one of the most important bands of the last 30-40 years.”

Dale Crover to open with a DJ set.

Tour Dates

July 12 Salt Lake City, UT Metro Music Hall
July 13 Denver, CO Marquis Theatre
July 15 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club
July 16 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
July 17 Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom
July 19 Columbus, OH Ace of Cups
July 20 Pittsburgh, PA Spirit Hall
July 22 Washington, DC The Atlantis
July 24 Carrboro, NC Merge 35th Anniversary Festival
July 25 Jersey City, NJ White Eagle Hall
July 26 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
July 27 Allston, MA Brighton Music Hall
July 29 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace
July 30 Detroit, MI El Club
July 31 Louisville, KY Zanzabar
Aug 02 Nashville, TN The Blue Room
Aug 03 Birmingham, AL Saturn
Aug 04 Atlanta, GA The Earl Restaurant
Aug 06 Houston, TX White Oak Music Hall
Aug 07 Austin, TX Parish
Aug 08 Dallas, TX Cambridge Room
Aug 10 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad
Aug 11 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar
Aug 13 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room Highland Park

07/18/2024 Thursday
Jessica Pratt
with June McDoom
at Fine Line
first-avenue.com

Jessica Pratt is touring (with her full band) in support of her her fourth album, Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer).

We saw Pratt in Oct 2022 and noted, “Jessica Pratt came out decked in a black suit wearing dark shades, her blonde hair shaggy around her face as she clutched her acoustic guitar. I had never heard her music before this festival, and after giving her latest album Quiet Signs a solid listen I was beyond thrilled to find this lady. She’s a 70’s folk dream, a lullaby and a haunting figure as she strummed her guitar and mesmerized the crowd with her breathy tunes. Accompanied by Matthew McDermott on piano, the set was slow and soft, a nice sigh of air as festival goers sipped on their coconut waters and beers. Ya gotta stay hydrated in the desert, people.”

June McDoom to open.

Tour Dates:

June 25 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret %
June 26 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos %
June 27 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom %
June 29 – Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu %
July 18 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line ^
July 19 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre ^
July 21 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
July 22 – Cleveland, OH @ The Roxy ^
July 24 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom ^
July 25 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom #
July 26 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live #
July 27 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair #
July 29 – Washington, DC @ The Howard Theatre #
July 30 – Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom #
Aug. 1 – Asheville, NC @ AVL Fest
Aug. 2 – Nashville, TN @ Basement East #
Aug. 3 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West #
Sept. 14 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups &
Sept. 15 – Detroit, MI @ El Club &
Sept. 17 – Toronto, ON @ The Great Hall &
Sept. 18 – Montréal, QC @ Les Foufounes Électriques &
Sept. 20 – Sun. Sept. 22 – Philadelphia, PA @ Making Time ∞
Sept. 21 – Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall &
Sept. 21 – Sun. Sept. 22 – Accord, NY @ Woodsist Festival
Oct. 3 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco
* = with Joanna Sternberg
~ = with Astrid Sonne
% = with Tony Molina
^ = with June McDoom
# = with @
& = with Otto Benson

07/19/2024 Friday
07/20/2024 Saturday
Minnesota Yacht Club Festival
at Harriet Island Regional Park
minnesotayachtclubfestival.com

We’ve previously mentioned the inaugural Minnesota Yacht Club Festival in January, but at that time, nothing was really known about it.

Now that we’ve gotten closer to the date, they’ve announced the full lineup. The two major headliners are Alanis Morissette for Friday and Red Hot Chili Peppers for Saturday’s show. It also looks like there’ll be two stages per day. The reasons for this is because the music can keep going (it might take up to 30 minutes to setup the stage for the next band). Unfortunately, if you want to get a good spot, you might have to pick one stage and camp out there, instead of running back and forth between the two stages.

Anyway, if you show up early, these are the bands that we love and have seen in the past.

We first saw Nico Vega in Oct 2007 and wrote, “So I went to see a few bands played last night. Two were from Sweden, but the best (performance-wise), I thought was Nico Vega, from Los Angeles, California. They’re a three-piece band that sounds kind of like a thrash/rap/hard rock band, but what really impressed me was Aja’s bold leotard outfit. You can’t tell from the photo, but she’s also barefoot.”

Oklahoma band Wilderado is touring in support of their new LP Talker via Bright Antenna Records. The album comes out September 20, 2024.

We caught the band in June 2023 and said, “From Tulsa, Oklahoma, the band is comprised of Max Rainer and Tyler Wimpee on vocals and guitar, Justin Kila on drums and David Arthur Timson on bass. Rainer and Wimpee formed the group in 2015 when they met in college and decided to start writing songs by their fifth year when they noticed all their friends had moved on. Their music resides in that aura of transition. Rainer told the Atwood Magazine that it took them five years as a group to all get on the same page. And right now they seemed to have found the right gear with Billboard Magazine describing their sound like a fine whiskey: “Wilderado just goes down easy.””

The Head And The Heart is playing on Friday night. We recently saw them in Jun 2023 and wrote, “We’ve been longtime fans of the band, seeing them on their initial national tour (and an accompanying in-store live set at Electric Fetus in Minneapolis) and several times since, most recently last October in Minnesota. Hopes were dashed that original co-vocalist Josiah Johnson might feel ready enough to join the band on stage for a few dates, including the previous night at Colorado’s Red Rocks, but the band carried on as they always have, impressing veteran followers and making many new ones.”

Lineup:

JULY 19

• Alanis Morrissette
• Black Crowes
• Gwen Stefani
• Head & the Heart
• Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
• Durry
• Morgan Wade
• Michigander
• Gully Boys
• Harbor and Home

JULY 20

• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Gary Clark Jr
• Offspring
• Hold Steady
• Hippo Campus
• Trombone Shorty
• Soul Asylum
• Wilderado
• Bugsy
• Nico Vega

07/21/2024 Sunday
Crumb
at Varsity Theater
livenation.com

New York City’s Crumb is touring in support of AMAMA via Crumb Records.

We saw Crumb in Oct 2022 and noted, “The group Crumb from New York was a super rad show to see as the sun started to finally give relief over the campgrounds. I believe they mostly played songs from their album Jinx, the song M.R. seeming to be the biggest hit in the crowd. Lila Ramani is hypnotic and a definite stunner, and their music is melodic and super synth-heavy thanks to Brian Aronow. These guys definitely seem to be on the rise and they had just ended a several month tour prior to the festival.”

Tour Dates:

7/18 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s
7/19 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
7/21 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
8/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl *
8/21 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring *
8/23 – Richmond, Virginia @ The National *
8/24 – Charlotte, NC @ The Underground *
8/25 – Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre *
8/27 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl *
8/28 – Indianapolis, IN @ Deluxe *
8/30 – Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew’s Hall *
8/31 – Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall *
9/01 – Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Beanfield *
9/04 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount *
9/05 – New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place *
9/06 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner *
10/03 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst ^
10/04 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater ^
10/05 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades ^
10/07 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot ^
10/09 – Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom ^
10/11 – Dallas, TX @ Ferris Wheelers ^
10/12 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall ^
10/13 – San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theatre ^
10/15 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s ^
10/17 – Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey Theater ^
10/18 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace ^
10/21 – Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory OC ^
10/22 – San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park ^
10/23 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern ^
* with L’Rain and Discovery Zone
^ with Vagabon

07/21/2024 Sunday
Thirty Seconds to Mars
with Jagwar Twin
at The Ledge Amphitheater
theledgeamp.com

Popular rock band Thirty Seconds To Mars is headlining the Ledge Amphitheater in Waite Park (near St Cloud)… it looks like it’s going to be the closest city to Minneapolis on their tour.

Show up early to check out alt-pop sensation Jagwar Twin. His upcoming single “tomorrow [ANGLE OF ETERNITY]” (with lovelytheband) and his current single “Bad Feeling (Oompa Loompa)” which has over 200 million streams and spent 12 weeks at Top 40 radio.

Jagwar Twin at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (28 April 2023)

As you recall, we saw Jagwar Twin in April 2023 and was really impressed with his vocals: “Opening the show was Jagwar Twin (Roy English). Joining English on stage was his drummer, Luke V on guitars, and a video person (who was perhaps live broadcasting the entire show). They had a fog machine that was constantly running and they seemed excited to play tracks from 33 (Big Loud Rock). From what I’ve heard, they sounded really good. Great vocals. It’s amped up, but you can tell that English can really, really sing. Songs like “Loser” had “L” hand signs, while “I Like to Party” was pure dancing/going wild.”

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