Continuing with our Road to Rocktober series, we are spotlight some upcoming October dates. • Grandaddy at First Avenue (Oct 8, 2025) • Miki Berenyi Trio at Turf Club (Oct 18, 2025) • Phantogram at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall (Oct 20, 2025)

• Grandaddy at First Avenue (Oct 8, 2025)

Oct 8, 2025 Wednesday
Grandaddy
with Greg Freeman
at First Avenue
first-avenue.com

You guys already know what a big fan I am of Grandaddy, and they’re on their 25th Anniversary of ‘Sophtware Slump’ tour… stopping by First Avenue, in Minneapolis, on October 8, 2025.

Grandaddy at First Avenue (May 9, 2001)

I saw the group on the original Sophtware Slump tour (as well as ealier) in May 2001 and noted, “A year later, as you can see from my ticketstub for their headlining First Avenue show on May 9, 2001, the band had sold out the 1,500-capacity venue. Virgil Shaw opened the show. I wish, back then, I would’ve paid more attention to taking notes or other mementos to help remember the shows.”

Greg Freeman to open.

Tour dates

9/11/2025: San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park #
9/12/2025: Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre #
9/13/2025: Pomona, CA @ The Glass House #
9/14/2025: Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriet’s #
9/16/2025: San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom #
9/18/2025: Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
9/20/2025: Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall #
9/21: Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall # (Newly added)
10/7: Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall * (Newly Added)
10/8/2025: Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue *
10/9/2025: Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall *
10/10/2025: Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall *
10/11/2025: Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall *
10/13/2025: Montreal, QC @ Le Studio TD *
10/14/2025: Boston, MA @ Royale *
10/15/2025: Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel *
10/17/2025: Washington, DC @ The Howard Theatre
10/18/2025: Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
# = w/ Pedro The Lion
* = w/ Greg Freeman

• Miki Berenyi Trio at Turf Club (Oct 18, 2025)

Oct 18, 2025 Thursday
Miki Berenyi Trio
with Gina Birch and The Unreasonables and DJ Jake Rudh
at Turf Club
first-avenue.com

The Miki Berenyi Trio (led by Miki Berenyi of Lush fame) is finally playing in Minnesota, with a stop at St Paul’s Turf Club on October 18, 2025.

Miki Berenyi Trio at Great American Music Hall, San Francisco (Jun 1, 2024)

We last saw the Miki in June 2024 and wrote, “The audience who attended the Miki Berenyi Trio’s sold-out show at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall seemed to love the sass. But even more, they cheered a setlist full of songs from Lush and Piroshka, Berenyi’s previous bands. Mixed in with the walls of guitar and airy vocals, Berenyi dutifully delivered the hits that any legacy band knows to deliver to the fans, including Lush’s 1996 single, “Ladykillers,” part of an encore where they just pretended to leave the stage but really just stayed put, doing away with the pretense. (Although the audience did do the traditional “Please play some more!” cheering and foot-stomping, for which Berenyi was suitably amused.) But this version they offered was less “britpop” and more venomous, leaning towards a gothic-industrial mood. The whole night had a spooky vibe, a haunted mansion of atmospheric guitar and vocals trying both to summon and wake the dead.”

Gina Birch and The Unreasonables to open, with DJ Jake Rudh on the turntables.

Tour dates:

10/10: Washington DC @ Pearl Street Warehouse
10/11: Brooklyn NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
10/12: Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
10/13: Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB
10/15: Toronto, ON @ The Great Hall
10/16: Ferndale, MI @ The Magic Bag
10/17: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
10/18: St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
10/20: Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
10/21: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
10/23: Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
10/24: Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
10/25: Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
10/27: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
10/28: West Hollywood, CA @ The Roxy Theatre

• Phantogram at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall (Oct 20, 2025)

Oct 20, 2025 Monday
Phantogram
with Los Eclipses
at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
pvconcerthall.com

Alternative duo Phantogram will be headlining the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall (in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida) on October 20, 2025.

Phantogram at Palace Theatre (Mar 12, 2017)

We last saw the band in Mar 2017 and noted, “How high did electro-pop band Phantogram take the sold-out crowd in St. Paul? How about “palatially high”— The band, on a brief six-date US tour that also served as a warm up for next month’s Coachella weekends, returned to one of the markets that first embraced them, as the first national touring act to play the newly re-opened Palace Theatre in downtown St. Paul. ”

Los Eclipses to open.

Tour dates