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Month: May 2025

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Deep Sea Diver at the Current Happy Hours (May 29, 2025)

Matt May 31, 2025

The Current kicked off its Happy Hour series for 2025 at Nine Mile Brewing Company in Bloomington. Jill Riley, morning DJ on the Current, played host and laid down some sweet tunes to an appreciative crowd from 4:00 to 6:00. The rain may have scattered folks for a bit, but it cleared in plenty of time for the crowd to reassemble in anticipation of Deep Sea Diver’s performance. How lucky are those of us that live in the Twin Cities that we get to see an artist of the caliber of Jessica Dobson in a small setting like this?

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RIP Dan Storper (Putumayo) and Peter David (The Incredible Hulk)

vusleeper May 27, 2025

We have just heard that Dan Storper the founder, creator, and president of Putumayo World Music, has died. In non-music death news, American comic book writer Peter David has recently died at the age of 68. Anyone who have followed comic books, will not be that surprised by his passing.

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Kool and the Gang at Jacksonville Jazz Festival (May 23, 2025)

vusleeper May 24, 2025

One of the biggest free Jazz festivals in the country, the Jacksonville Jazz Festival, in Jacksonville, Florida, is currently underway this Memorial Day Weekend. Officially, the event kicked off on Thursday (May 22), with a Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition at The Florida Theatre. The winners got a cash reward, as well as the opportunity to play on Saturday (today) to an audience, estimated to reach about twenty-five thousand attendees (keep in mind that the majority of people will show up much later in the day).

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Friko at Fine Line (05-22-2025)

dave@weheartmusic.com May 23, 2025

Downtown was quiet with no ravenous sports fans or torrential rain filling the streets. In fact, it was a perfect night to stroll to a venue. Even better was the casual scene at the velvet rope as the person in front of me and a Fine Line staffer shared a bonding moment for the patron wore a baseball cap with Snoopy donning headphones and the staffer sported a Snoopy flying ace tattoo on his left arm.

Snoopy has found much love with the Gen Z generation and it was a young crowd that waited for one of the hottest bands out of Chicago (Friko) to take the stage.

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Devo at Mosswood Meltdown, Oakland (July 19-20, 2025)

Best of the Fests: Mosswood Meltdown and Portola Music Festival

Robin Lapid May 21, 2025

Get ready for those tasty East Bay summer vibes: For my tastes, nothing says Hella Oakland more than the annual Mosswood Meltdown. This year’s weekend music fest takes place July 19-20 at Mosswood Park, natch, and, per usual, features the inimitable filmmaker and indie tastemaker John Waters as your cheeky host. This year, many of the acts are making their only Bay Area appearance at the fest, including DEVO, Osees, The Exploding Hearts, Shannon & the Clams. Also appearing are ‘90s riot grrrl band Bratmobile and Kreayshawn, who’s doing her first show in over a decade. You might be baking under that East Bay sun, but you’ll for sure be doing it in style.

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GWAR at Milwaukee Metal Fest (May 18, 2025)

Milwaukee Metal Fest 2025

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Here is a report of Milwaukee Metal Fest. The event took place over the weekend, May 16 to May 18 (with a pre-party kickoff on Thursday night) at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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