Minneapolis

Pert Near Sandstone is headlining First Avenue on December 5, 2025. They promised a new album soon.

Willie Wisely hits The High Hat with the Tommy Barbarella Organ Combo, featuring Tommy (Prince, Greazy Meal) on B3, Jeff Bailey (Craig Taborn, James Carter) electric bass, Geoff LeCrone (Dr. Mambo’s Combo) on guitar and Dave Anania (Blue Man Group, Greazy Meal) on drums. It’s a 60’s soul jazz vibe, applied to an evening of Wisely originals and hand-picked covers and obscurities of the era. Come see the fireworks up close.

90s band The Lemonheads are back with a brand-new album in almost two decades, Love Chant (Fire Records). To promote the new album, they’re heading out on tour, stopping by the Fine Line, in Minneapolis, on December 6, 2025.

Based on the best-selling book series by Dav Pilkey, Dog Man: The Musical touring musical is coming to the Pantages Theatre, in Minneapolis, on December 6 and 7. For Kansas City fans, it will be playing at the Folly Theater on October 25-26, 2025.

CPKC Holiday Train (Dec 9-14, 2025) December 9-14, 2025 CPKC Holiday Train feat. American Authors,...

London-based alt-pop trio Autoheart will be headlining the Fine Line, in Minneapolis, now on December 10, in support of their album Heartlands (out now).

West Coast deathgrind band Cattle Decapitation will be headlining First Avenue, on December 10, 2025.

Caroline Smith, under her stagename Your Smith, will be headlining First Avenue, in Minneapolis, to promote her The Rub album. The album came out in September, via Nettwerk. She had a tour and a listening party at her Howard’s Bar in September.

Billie Marten at Fine Line (Dec 11, 2025) December 11, 2025 Thursday Billie Marten with...

Minnesota’s favorite The Jayhawks is doing a double night residency at the Fitzgerald Theater, in St Paul, on December 12 and 13, 2025.

Drummer Nate Smith (not to be confused with American country music singer Nate Smith) will be bringing his Prince-ly synthetic funk, Afrobeat's deft rhythmic feel, the smoothly psychedelic explorations of jazz fusion music to the Fine Line, in Minneapolis, on December 13, 2025.

Aimee Mann & Ted Leo Christmas Show at Fitzgerald Theater (Dec 14, 2025) December 14,...