Water From Your Eyes and Her New Knife at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis (30 Sep 2025)

Water From Your Eyes at 7th St Entry (Sep 30, 2025)

Water From Your Eyes Setlist

For Mankind
Born 2
Structure
Barley
Out There
Life Signs
Nights in Armor
Buy My Product
You Don’t Believe in God?
True Life
“Quotations”
It’s a Beautiful Place
Blood on the Dollar
Playing Classics
— Encore —
Track Five

Her New Knife Setlist

dancer in
kittyriff
v estige
vitamin beauty
skinny/baby
purepurepure
(Untitled song)
(Untitled song)
(Untitled song)
vesselera
(Untitled song)
12r

Tour Dates

09/22 – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA #
09/23 – The Atlantis – Washington, DC #
09/24 – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC #
09/26 – The Earl – Atlanta, GA #
09/27 – The Blue Room – Nashville, TN #
09/28 – Old Rock House – St. Louis, MO #
09/30 – 7th St Entry – Minneapolis, MN #
10/01 – High Noon Saloon – Madison, WI #
10/02 – Sleeping Village – Chicago, IL #
10/03 – El Club – Detroit, MI #
10/06 – Bar Le Ritz PDB – Montreal, QC #
10/07 – The Drake – Amherst, MA #
10/08 – The Sinclair – Cambridge, MA #
10/10 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY #
# – w/ Her New Knife

Good news everyone! After nearly twenty years in the Twin Cities and scores of concerts, I’ve finally seen a show at 7^th Street Entry. There is now before 30 SEP 2025 and after 30 Sep 2025, the day I finally started living.

I got a good parking spot on 7^th just west of Hennepin so the evening was setting up real nice. No line, I walked right in, after showing an email and some walkie-talkie action, they found me on the list and I got my photo pass. I walked in, got my bearings and Her New Knife took to the stage. The time was 7:32. Pro tip for all of you aspiring music reviewers/photographers. Digital cameras require charged batteries to take pictures. iPhone pictures it is. HNK has been touring in support of their latest EP Chrome Is Lullaby (Julia’s War Recordings 2024). I’m going to give you my impression of the show as I experienced it, letting things unfold for you as they did for me. They are loud, my ear plugs are not fitting quite right, which always makes the vocals challenging to hear. In addition, I think the vocal mic is on the quieter side so while I can hear Edgar’s voice (that’s Edgar Atencio – lead singer and guitarist) I can’t really hear the words. That’s ok for me, though, because most of the time the words don’t matter too much to me anyway. HNK is a group of young talented musicians who play tight. I enjoyed their between-song tuning sessions, which most of the time included some drumming by Elijah Ford, and, I think happened between every song. I feel like they really leaned into those; it was cool. Until the penultimate song, there was pretty much zero interaction between or among the band members. Lead guitarist, Ben Kachler, spent the vast majority of every song staring at the wall to the left of the stage with his back to Edgar and bassist, Caroline Schooley (see pictures). I’m not sure what happened but something caused Ben and Edgar to laugh and talk to one another before the penultimate song. That seemed to really open things up because Edgar before the last song said in a deadpan, “We’re Her New Knife. Thank you for coming. We’re on tour with Water From Your Eyes. They’re up next. This is a new one. This is our last song”. I sensed an increased energy from the band for their last song, 12R. At 8:15 they were done with their set.

Her New Knife

Water From Your Eyes took to the stage at 8:34. Within 45 seconds, lead singer, Rachel Brown, had surpassed the number of words spoken by HNK – no judgement, just an observation. They expressed their admiration for Minneapolis and its music scene, which the crowd appreciated. This set was a completely different vibe, lots of kinetic energy with Rachel moving about stage and guitarist Al Nardo vigorously dancing to the beat. She kind of reminded me of a fun enthusiastic human metronome; I sincerely enjoyed it. When I asked her about it after the show, she said that moving helps her keep her mind clear and able to focus on the music without getting too analytical about it. Nice. This is WFYE’s first headlining tour, which is in support of their recently released album It’s a Beautiful Place (Matador 2025). The show was sold out and you could feel the energy from the crowd along with the heat. The AC does not work in The Entry like it does at First Ave. There was a lot of sweating going on.

After the show, I was able to talk to Elijah and Caroline from HNK. I commented on their playing style, which was musically tight, but very individual on stage with no interaction. They, I think, found my observation amusing or they were just humoring the old man. They replied that Ben tends to look really angry as he is playing but is a jokester goofball off stage. As one who tends to look angry, but is in reality a goofball, I can appreciate that. In general, they enjoy the tour but wish they could spend more time in some of the cities. They were in Hannibal, MO the day before and got to see Mark Twain’s home. They went to the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis and said that they always bring their fishing poles with them. I did not expect that. After talking to them, I had a lovely conversation with Al, you know, the guitarist from WFYE, as she womaned the merch table. She was finally going to be able to play the Bowery Ballroom and was excited to do it. That’s one of those interesting quirks of tours. What’s The Entry’s capacity? Who knows and there’s obviously no one way to find out, but I would guess 200 or less. Compare that to the Ballroom, which holds…what?! 600? I would’ve guessed, a thousand. Oh well, so maybe that’s not such a massive difference, but I would expect that WFYE would get Turf Club or even Fine Line the next time they come through. Hopefully it won’t be too long, they put on a real fine show. I tried to capture Al’s kinetic energy but didn’t succeed. You can tell, though, from these pictures that she’s moving around.