she’s green at Fine Line, Minneapolis (August 15, 2025)

Bugsy Setlist recluse hard to breathe oh well wind inchworm Lego soup

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she’s green

she’s green is a Minneapolis-based dream-inducing five-piece creating dreamscapes that transport the listener to scenes of soft summer rain and fields of swaying wheat, the group excels at infusing raw emotional intensity into their music.

Mother Soki

Carving her way through adolescence with a high artistic drive, Minneapolis resident Mother Soki discovered her passion to create music while in college in Chicago.

 

bugsy

Lana Leone

Based out of Minneapolis, Lana Leone combines heavy distorted guitars and ethereal vocals to create shoegaze soundscapes reminiscent of dark starry nights.

A very full house for a very full night of local shoegaze, dreamy alt playing at Fine Line was headlined by rising stars she’s green, who were releasing a new EP, Chrysalis.

Lana Leone kicked the night off. Started by vocalist & guitarist Alana Christen, the quartet (vocals/guitar, guitar, bass, and drums) have released a 2025 full length album, Spirea. Their first song highlighted the duality of their set: dreamy pop sounding lyrics but with the distorted heavy thrum of guitars. Heavy reverb opening the next number somehow still painted a low-key opening that gave way to a punishing middle section of guitars. Christen’s vocals were the calm at the center of that storm and held their own well. Guitarist Josh Frenier was the energetic one, jumping quite a bit before then easily taking backing vocals.

Playing a song off the new album was a slower one, carried along by bassist Brandon Burmeister’s strong work, and he had consistent high energy the entire set. An extremely happy Christen stated it was the band’s first time at Fine Line, getting some very supportive cheers from the audience. Going into a pair of new songs, Lana Leone continued to run their pedal boards (I’m impressed how compact some of these have gotten) for maximum guitar effects. An instrumental heavy close to a song allowed drummer Brandon Tang an opportunity to shine as the guitarists flowed across the stage. Ending their set on Ashes, Lana Leone had their most alt pop sound before coming back to their shoegaze close.

The quartet bugsy was next to the stage. The band has a pair of EPs, most recently 2023’s Now I Spend All of My Time Alone. Getting going with recluse, singer Emily Schoonover’s vocals were rock solid. This was upbeat alt rock and the quartet (vocals/guitar, guitar, bass/backing vocals, and drums) were flying from the jump. Backing vocalist and bassist Shannon Maroney’s harmonies were a great addition musically. The second song already had Schoonover on the stage floor in classic rock pose with Maroney towering overhead. oh well had the front three members jumping and this was a great alt rock number. Personally, having seen bugsy back in early 2023 at Turf Club, it was fun to see how far they have progressed as a band.

Between the dual vocals and clear ringing guitars, this was an extremely enjoyable set. A slightly slower song, inchworm, had some compelling guitar work from Griffen Desai, before returning to the faster paced feel. Giving a shout out to staff and fellow performers, a grateful bugsy rolled into their final song, soup. This was a good choice for a sendoff with the dual vocals, and several held moments where the guitars and drums crashed in on Schoonover’s singing. A wildly efficient and fun thirty minutes had blown by and bugsy packed up just as quickly.

Following up was the last opener, Mother Soki (aka Annie Tammearu). Mother Soki arrived as a quintet (vocals, guitar, guitar, bass, and drums). The band was somewhere between Lana Leone’s straight shoegaze and bugsy’s alt rock, with Tammerau’s singing style more towards the lush, dreamy side, but not nearly the fully distorted sound on the guitars.

That first song, Slither, had just been released yesterday, and Mother Soki was pretty pleased. I had a bad angle on it, but it looked to me like Brandon Tang from Lana Leone was back on the drums. The end of an early number had Mother Soki throw one of the bunch of roses they had brought on stage with them. It led to a bit of a silly (planned?) interaction with an audience member before going back to the music.

It was very bass work from the quietest member of the backing band (who was nearly hiding on the far end), and it was really key for a slower and more sultry vocal number. “You may know this number, maybe?” was the lead in to Rivet Gun, the song that has catapulted Mother Soki on the musical scene. The final song had the vocals started by the lead guitarist before coming back around. With more roses handed out to the crowd, Mother Soki finally had the guitars all go into distorted mode, and the high heel shoes were lost for the remainder of the number. One crowd surf later, Mother Soki thanked the audience and had finished the set.

Finally, headliner she’s green made it to the stage. A true favorite of We♥Music, we have seen them multiple times, most recently in June, 2025 in Jacksonville.

They are dreamy shoegaze at its very best and the crowd was clearly excited as the band got set up. The quintet (vocals, guitar/backing vocals, guitar, bass, and drums) started with some video of a sunny lake or similar body of water and was a mood setter. That was continued as the four instrumentalists got going with some music. Breaking into their first song, Graze, the reverb was set to stun, and Zofia Smith’s clear vocals overlaid a nice contrast. Setting the tambourine down for Purple, we also got bassist Teddy Nordvold with a great bass line and owning it through the song.

Smith mentioned it was their first ever official headlining show, which was a real surprise to me and by the sound of it, most of the audience. Going into Silhouette was perhaps the best vocals in the early going. Lil Birds was a quieter and sweeter sounding number with softer guitar lines that threatened to break out at several points, but remained somewhat restrained, even in the final instrument-heavy close. Another anecdote was that their first basement show was played with Lana Leone, and you could see the long-standing relationships between all of these bands.

As she’s green moved into the back half of their set, they continued to lay down that luscious sound, building up and crescendoing either to a strong vocal or musical finish. Asking the crowd to sing along, the band went into smile again with the guitars taking over at several points and Smith rising along with it.

A list of shout outs to those who helped make the EP happen, Figurines was initially bright before some underlying thrumming guitar work was layered in and a long close to finish the main set. The encore started with a brand-new song, but ended with the only song it could, Mandy, which was simply stellar. she’s green had been given a huge, sold audience and had rewarded them with an outstanding performance.