Minneapolis This Week (June 8, 2025)

What’s happening this week.

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June 3, 2025 Tuesday
Dutch Interior
at Zhora Darling 
zhoradarling.com

Los Angeles’s Dutch Interior will be playing Zhora Darling on June 3, 2025, in support of
Moneyball.

Poor Image and Harlow are listed to open.

 

We saw Harlow in July 2021 and said, “Starting off this Radio K sponsored show, was local band Harlow. The five-piece is really new, only releasing their single “Yesterday Is Gone” in July 2021… which the band happily played near the end of their set. Other songs on their set included, “Too Many Sides (of the Same Coin)” and a song about something like “Rainbow Trout” (a “fake country song”).”

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03 Jun 2025 Tuesday
Peelander-Z
at Turf Club
first-avenue.com

Our favorite Japanese Peelander-Z band is back on tour, stopping by the Turf Club, in St Paul, on June 3rd. They have a new guitarist, which we are calling Peelander-Leopard.

 

We last saw the band play at a Noodle shop in Sep 2024 and wrote, “Peelander-Z’s set time was advertised as 3pm, but the reality is that they didn’t even do soundcheck until 4pm. After testing out the mics and audio, Yellow’s running gag is “Bye, bye! Thank you for coming” and leaves, as if their whole show was only 5 minutes. We’ve seen it done before, it’s always funny. The show didn’t actually start until 4:25pm, and by this time, some fans had to leave due to other commitments. We’ve seen Peelander-Z numerous times (eight times by my count), so we know what we’re talking about when we say this is one of the best live bands.”

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06 Jun 2025 Friday
Samia
with Raffaella
at First Avenue
first-avenue.com

Minneapolis-based singer and songwriter Samia is playing a hometown gig at First Avenue on June 6, in support of her third album Bloodless (Grand Jury).

There is a strict 6 ticket limit. Any attempt to exceed the ticket limit of 6 per customer or household, or to game the system in any way, will result in cancellation of orders without notice. There is a transfer delay for all tickets up to ONE MONTH prior to show.

 

We last saw the band in Feb 2023 and wrote, “…the band did the right thing and changed their name to Preoccupations, stating “Samia took no time engaging the crowd as she led off with “Kill Her Freak Out” from her sophomore album, Honey. The audience responded a standing ovation of screams and howls to other decisions gone wrong like “Triptych.” But it wasn’t all a downward spiral. There was the lively and danceable “Sea Lions.” There was the required “Minnesota” from her debut album The Baby. Also, the producer of her latest album, Caleb Wright, joined her on the stage to sing along with “Honey,” a song they co-wrote together. “I’m all out of sorts,” gushed Samia after the song. For a singer known for her sad songs, it was not hard to detect that she was having a good time as she shared the love by inviting Papa Mbye to sing “Mad at Me” then Tommy LeFroy with “Dream Song” and finally “Shaking the Can” with Raffaella. ”

 

Raffaella to open. We last saw the singer in Sep 2024 and noted, “It’s nice to see Raffaella with new songs and new look. I first saw her in Sep 2019, and it’s a nice-and-day difference. It was her first time in Minneapolis: “New York’s Raffaella (with live backing band bassist Charlie and drummer Alonso) opened up the show with a very brief 30-min set. This was the singer/songwriter’s first time in Minneapolis, and she started her set with her first single, “Bruce Willis” (which she jokingly called it “yippee ki-yay motherf***er”). Although she’s still very new to the music scene (with only one EP called Ballerina released in August 2019 via Mom+Pop), you can tell that she’s been performing for a while now. It probably won’t be long until she’s back in town, and with a strong audience support, given that she’s won over quite a few fans in the audience.””

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06 Jun 2025 Friday
Ally Venable 
at 7th St Entry
first-avenue.com

Blues-rocker Ally Venable will be headlining the 7th Street Entry, in Minneapolis, on June 6, 2025, in support of her latest album Money & Power (Ruf Records).

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07 Jun 2025 Saturday
Annie DiRusso
with Daffo
at Fine Line
first-avenue.com

Nashville’s Annie DiRusso is touring in support of her debut album Super Pedestrian… stopping by the Fine Line, in Minneapolis, on June 7th, 2025.

We last saw Annie DiRusso in Mar 2025 and wrote, “With just one debut album, “Super Pedestrian” (via her own Summer Soup Songs [ADA]) under her belt, singer-songwriter Annie DiRusso charged ahead on the first show of her “Back in Town Tour” with a generous and fun eighty-five minute performance, that might be hard to top, as the tour rolls on. The record was produced by Caleb Wright (Hippocampus, Samia, so there’s the connection with the opener) and follows 2023’s breakthrough EP, “God, I Hate This Place”, and two years on the road, headlining and opening for Haim and beabadoobee.”

Show up early to check out Daffo, the moniker of Brooklyn-based artist Gabi Gamberg. Gamberg’s new single “Quick Fix” is described as, “about the temporary ways in which I comfort myself, habits that ultimately lead to more suffering.” Gamberg continues, “I started the song before I went on my first tour. The first verse, about eating junk and smoking, I squeezed out during a very intense writer’s block. On tour, I quit smoking for my voice. When I came back from tour I still couldn’t write, until one day I started smoking again. That day I was able to finish the song, my slight regression became fuel for the rest of the words.”

Note: There is a strict 4 ticket limit. Any attempt to exceed the ticket limit of 4 per customer or household, or to game the system in any way, will result in cancellation of orders without notice. There is a transfer delay for all tickets up to ONE MONTH prior to show.

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If your band is coming to the Minneapolis/St Paul area, please email details to vu@weheartmusic.com with a good lead time. Thank you.