16 Oct 2024 Wednesday
Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: In Concert
at The Fitzgerald Theater
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Experience Jim Henson’s Labyrinth like never before with Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: In Concert!. How this works is that you’re going to be watching the full movie, but with a full live orchestra band performing in sync to the movie. It’s probably not going to be bonkers like seeing a live version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it’s the same idea.

Please note that there will be two showing: an early (2:30pm) and a late show (6:30pm).

Tour dates:

September 24th, 2024 Morgantown, WV Metropolitan Theatre
September 25th, 2024 Reading, PA Santander Performing Arts Center
September 26th, 2024 Glenside, PA Keswick Theatre
September 27th, 2024 York, PA Pullo Family Performing Arts Center
September 28th, 2024 Concord, NH Capitol Center for the Arts
September 29th, 2024 Mississauga, ON Living Arts Centre
October 1st, 2024 Rutland, VT Paramount Theatre, VT
October 2nd, 2024 Medford, MA Chevalier Theatre
October 3rd, 2024 Patchogue, NY Patchogue Theatre
October 4th, 2024 Cranston, RI Park Theatre
October 5th, 2024 Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Music Hall
October 7th, 2024 Cleveland, OH Agora Theater
October 8th, 2024 Louisville, KY The Louisville Palace
October 9th, 2024 Columbus, OH KEMBA Live!
October 10th, 2024 Lexington, KY Lexington Opera House
October 11th, 2024 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre
October 12th, 2024 Detroit, MI Masonic Temple Theatre
October 13th, 2024 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater
October 13th, 2024 Milwaukee, WI Pabst Theater
October 14th, 2024 Cincinnati, OH Taft Theatre
October 16th, 2024 St Paul, MN The Fitzgerald Theater
October 17th, 2024 Waukegan, IL Genesee Theatre
October 18th, 2024 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
October 19th, 2024 Omaha, NE Holland Performing Arts Center
October 21st, 2024 Dallas, TX Majestic Theatre
October 22nd, 2024 New Orleans, LA Orpheum Theater
October 23rd, 2024 Atlanta, GA The Eastern
October 24th, 2024 Jacksonville, FL Florida Theatre
October 25th, 2024 Orlando, FL The Plaza Live
October 26th, 2024 Clearwater, FL Ruth Eckerd Hall
October 27th, 2024 Ft Lauderdale, FL Lillian S. Wells Hall at The Parker

16 Oct 2024 Wednesday
Superchunk
with Quivers
at First Avenue
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Superchunk is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Foolish. This important album was the fourth album from Superchunk, previously known as Chunk, when Laura Ballance & Mac McCaughan formed Merge Records in the summer of 1989. If you love that album, here’s your chance to hear it played live.

Of the tour, Mac McCaughan said:

We’re excited to play a bunch of songs from Foolish (and as usual lots of other stuff) in the places where we made the record (Minneapolis and Chicago), some favorite towns we haven’t played in many years (Omaha, Lawrence, New Orleans), and one state where we’ve never played at all—this tour features our first show ever in South Dakota.”

Jason Narducy at the Cedar Cultural Center (28 Oct 2023)

We previously caught Superchunk’s live bassist Jason Narducy (who replaced Balance when she had to stop touring) in Oct 2023 and said, “Despite being around for four decades, he confessed he’s never played the Cedar Cultural Center. It’s not surprising, because the Cedar don’t normally book rock or punk bands, their focus is on World Music and the NPR audience. One of the stories he told early in his set was how his daughter was really into Destroy Boys. So, being the rock dad, he took his kids to Riot Fest and ultimately got the band (particularly guitarist Violet) to meet his daughter. She was crying “tears of joy”, and it was a moment she’ll probably never forget. What was the point to the story? Narducy ended, “The point is buy Destroy Boys records!””

Melbourne’s Quivers to open. We previously mentioned their Golden Doubt album in June 2021, and it looks like they have a new album Oyster Cuts, which just came out on Merge Records on August 9.

Tour dates:

Oct 14 Columbus, OH – Skully’s Music Diner
Oct 15 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
Oct 16 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
Oct 17 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
Oct 18 Sioux Falls, SD – Icon
Oct 19 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater
Oct 21 Austin, TX – Radio / East
Oct 22 Houston, TX – The White Oak
Oct 23 New Orleans, LA – Toulouse Theatre
Oct 25 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse *
Oct 26 Gainesville, FL – The Fest
* w/ Ted Leo & the Pharmacists

16 Oct 2024 Wednesday
Pokey LaFarge
with The Tailspins
at Fine Line
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American musician and singer-songwriter Pokey LaFarge is touring in support of Rhumba Country, available on New West Records.

The Tailspins to open.

Tour dates:

Sep 12, 2024 The Charleston Pour House Charleston, SC
Sep 13, 2024 Colonial Oak Music Park St. Augustine, FL
Sep 14, 2024 The Social Orlando, FL
Sep 15, 2024 Key West Theater Key West, FL
Sep 21, 2024 – Sep 22, 2024 Tidelands Music Festival Bremen, ME
Oct 16, 2024 Fine Line Minneapolis, MN
Oct 17, 2024 Lincoln Hall Chicago, IL
Oct 18, 2024 The Stache Grand Rapids, MI
Oct 19, 2024 Longboat Hall Toronto, ON
Oct 20, 2024 The Daca Community Center Dacre, ON
Oct 22, 2024 Crystal Ballroom Boston, MA
Oct 23, 2024 Infinity Music Hall Hartford, CT
Oct 25, 2024 Racket New York, NY
Oct 26, 2024 World Cafe Live Philadelphia, PA
Oct 27, 2024 The Atlantis Washington, DC
Oct 29, 2024 Motorco Music Hall Durham, NC
Oct 30, 2024 Terminal West Atlanta, GA
Nov 1, 2024 Saturn Birmingham, AL
Nov 2, 2024 Chelsea’s Live Baton Rouge, LA
Nov 4, 2024 The Heights Theater Houston, TX
Nov 5, 2024 Antone’s Nightclub Austin, TX
Nov 6, 2024 The Kessler Theater Dallas, TX
Nov 7, 2024 George’s Majestic Lounge Fayetteville, AR
Nov 8, 2024 Knuckleheads Saloon Kansas City, MO
Nov 9, 2024 Delmar Hall St. Louis, MO

16 Oct 2024 Wednesday
French Cassettes
at Studio B (Skyway Theatre)
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French Cassettes is headlining Studio B (inside the Skyway Theatre), in support of their new album Benzene.

Benzene was recorded by French Cassettes, engineered by guitarist Mackenzie Bunch and mixed by Nick Krill (War On Drugs, Generationals). The album title, a twist on songwriter Lorenzo Scott Huerta’s family nickname, ‘Benz’.

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