TICKET ON-SALES
--Friday, Oct 5, 2012—
10:00 AM
*Aaron Lewis (Staind)- Mill City Nights/ Nov 24/ $29.50-32/ 18+
11:00 AM
*Andrew Bird- State/ Dec 17/ $32.50-40/ AA
*Tim Sparks- Guthrie/ Dec 12/ $28/ AA
*Reefer Madness Musical- New Century Theatre/ Feb 1-24, 2013/ $24-30/ AA
*Sunset Boulevard Musical- New Century Theatre/ May 31 thru June 23, 2013/ $24-30/ AA
12:00 NOON
*Kathy Griffin- State/ Dec 1, 7:00 and 10:00/ $53.50-63.50/ AA
--Saturday, Oct 6, 2012—
10:00 PM
*America (Band)- Medina Entertainment Ctr/ Jan 11, 2013/ $33-52/ 21+
!!UPCOMING SHOWS ON SALE NOW!!
*The 4OnTheFloor- First Ave/ Oct 12/ $12-15/ 18+
*Nick Moss & The Fliptops- Famous Dave’s/ Oct 12/ $5/ AA
*Robyn Hitchcock- Dakota/ Oct 12/ $40/ AA
*Cassandra Wilson- Dakota/ Oct 14,15/ $40-60/ AA
*Psychedelic Furs w/ The Lemonheads- First Ave/ Oct 14/ $25/ 18+
*Calexico- Fine Line/ Oct 16/ $20/ 18+
*Shemekia Copeland- Dakota/ Oct 16/ $25/ AA
*Old 97’s- First Ave/ Oct 18/ $22/ 18+
*Sing It Loud- Mill City Nights/ Oct 6/ $15-18/ AA
*All-American Rejects- Mill City Nights/ Oct 19/ $25-27/ 16+
*Commander Cody- Famous Dave’s/ Oct 20/ $10-15/ AA
*Leftover Salmon- First Ave/ Oct 20/ $23-25/ 18+
*Atlantis Quartet- MN Zoo Indoor Theatre/ Oct 18/ $25/ 18+
*Heartless Bastards- First Ave/ Oct 21/ $17/ 18+
*Joe Ely- The Cedar/ Oct 23/ $25-27/ AA
*Alison Scott- MN Zoo Indoor Theatre/ Oct 25/ $25/ 18+
*Joshua Radin & A Fine Frenzy- Mill City Nights/ Oct 25/ $26-30/ 18+
*The English Beat- Mill City Nights/ Oct 27/ $22/ 18+
*Krewe’s Masquerade Ball w/ Malone Brothers- Turtle’s, Shakopee/ Oct 27/ $30/ 21+
*Kaki King- The Cedar/ Oct 30/ $15-18/ AA
*Allen Stone/ Fine Line/ Nov 2/ $15.50-17.50/ 18+
*Jeremy Messersmith- MN Zoo Indoor Theatre/ Nov 7/ $25/ 18+
LIVE SHOWS
--Thursday, Sept 27, 2012
Joss Stone w/ Vintage Trouble [Great Soul-Rock Double-Bill!!]
O’ Shaughnessy, St. Paul/ 8:00/ $54-57/ AA
--Stone, soul singer and songwriter extraordinaire, hasn’t missed a beat since her 2003 debut, “The Soul Sessions”, went multi-platinum. Her 2004 sophomore release, “Mind, Body & Soul”, also sold millions and garnered her three Grammy nominations including Best New Artist. This year she released a follow-up to her debut , “The Soul Sessions 2”, and she will be doing songs from throughout her career on this tour. Some of you may have seen Vintage Trouble rock the house opening for The Cranberries at Brick this past spring. I can not urge you strong enough to get in on time to see their fresh take on revved-up Southern Soul, kind of like The Black Crowes backing James Brown!!
Lucy Michelle; Minnesota Zoo’s New “Live On Stage” Acoustic Series
MN Zoo’s Target Learning Ctr/ Enter at 6:00 for Exhibits, 7:30 show/ $25 / 18+
--You’ll get a lot of bang for your $25. Doors open at 6:00 and you can stroll the Tropics Trail, check out the Tropical Reef exhibit and there is beer, wine, and light fare available for purchase. The show, in the new intimate Target Learning Center theater, begins with a 15 minute on-stage version of the Zoo’s famous Bird Encounter show and then, after all that, you still have a full show by one our better local folk-rock singer/songwriters Lucy Michelle.
Midnight River Choir [Rootsy Texas Band w/ Great Harmonies]
Lee’s Liquor Lounge/ 9:30/ $10 / 21+
Owl City [Top Forty Sugary Synth-Pop]
First Ave/ 7:30/ $25 / AA
--Owatonna’s Adam Young exploded on to the scene nationwide in 2009 with his debut album, Ocean Eyes, and its monster hit “Fireflies”. He scored again this summer with the very fun pop hit “Good Time”, his duet with Carly Rae Jepson of “Call Me Maybe” fame.
Dan Israel [Solo Acousitc, Top Local Singwriter/Songwriter/Rocker]
Wayzata Bar and Grill/ 8:00/ FREE/ AA
The Butanes [Vintage Soul and R&B, Every Thursday]
Shaw’s, NE Mpls/ 8:30/ FREE/ 21+
--Great 60’s and 70’s soul music with some tasty blues and rock covers mixed in. Highly Danceable!
--Friday, Oct 5, 2012—
Dark Dark Dark CD Release w/ Mountain Man and Emily Wells
The Cedar/ 7:30/ $13/ AA
--A real strong triple-bill headlined by local chamber folk act DDD. The all-girl indie folk group, Mountain Man, features beautiful and haunting three-part harmonies, often with little to no instrumentation, and they just finished up a tour singing with Canadian star Feist. Opener Wells is a interesting one-woman folk-rock artist who plays acoustic guitar and violin while also utilizing synthesizers to create in-the-moment loops to build a fuller sound.
Matt Wertz [Singer/Songwriter/Rocker]
Varsity/ 8:00/ $16-18/ 18+
--Nashville-based singer and songwriter who has toured with Jason Mraz, Gavin DeGraw and Matt Nathanson.
Nordeast Oktoberfest at The Gasthof [Every Fri & Sat thru Oct 13]
Gasthof Zur Gemutlichkeit, NE Mpls/ 5:00-11:00/ FREE/ 21+ Unless w/ parent
--Beer, Full Bar, Live Polka Bands, Dancing and Great Food outside under the big tent at best German restaurant in Minneapolis!
The Babatunde Lea Quartet [Top-Shelf Local Jazz Band]
Artist’s Quarter, St Paul/ 9:00/ $15/ 18+
--Very accessible and well-crafted jazz with funky African rhythms.
Jo Koy & Anjelah Johnson [Top Stand-Up Comedians]
Orpheum/ 9:00/ $33.50/ AA
--Johnson does wonderful observational comedy on dating, family and gal stuff and had a 2009 1 hour special on Comedy Central. Filipino-American Koy does fairly clean cross-cultural and family situation humor and, on his first late-night TV appearance on Leno in 2005, he earned a rare standing ovation! You may know him best for his work on Chelsea Lately.
Trailer Trash [Our Best Local HonkyTonk Band]
Lee’s Liquor Lounge/ 9:30/ $6/ 21+
Alex Rossi & Root City Band [Soulful Pop and Swinging Blues]
Famous Dave’s, Uptown/ 9:00/ $6/ AA
HonkyTonk Bowl w/ Big John Bates (Vancouver, BC) & The Mystic Order of Reverb and Twang
Memory Lanes, S Mpls/ 10:00/ FREE/ 21+
--Excellent rockabilly band from Canada with a twangy local opener on a stage set over a few of the middle lanes.
--Saturday, Oct 6, 2012—
Tift Merritt and Band w/ Ben Weaver
The Cedar/ 8:00/ $18-22/ AA
--Merritt, touring to support her excellent new album “Traveling Alone”, is not your normal singer/songwriter. She is a talented multi-instrumentalist, a wonderful storyteller and an excellent live performer who moves easily between folk, rock, and alt-country. In 2004 she was nominated for the Grammy for Best Country Album! Opener Weaver is a rootsy country-blues singer/songwriter who has drawn comparisons to Greg Brown and Tom Waits
Sing It Loud Reunion Show [Punky Pop-Rock]
Mill City Nights/ 5:30/ $15-18/ AA
--The first show since 2010 for this local band who got a short moment in the national spotlight in the late 2000’s.
Michael Johnson [Big-Time National Star in the 70’s and 80’s]
Hopkins Center For The Arts/ 7:00 Social Hour, 8:00 Show/ $24/ AA
--Longtime guitarist extraordinaire Johnson is a master songwriter who had a Billboard #1 hit in 1978 with “Bluer Than Blue” and the top five hits “Almost Like Being In Love” and “This Night Won’t Last Forever”! He proved his versatility a decade later with five Billboard Top 10 Country hits including the #1’s “Give Me Your Wings” and “The Moon Is Still Over her Shoulder”!
More Than Lights CD Release w/ Reed Grimm (American Idol Season 11) & Shoeless Revolution [High-Energy Danceable Jam-Rock]
Cabooze/ 10:00/ $8-12/ 18+
--More Than Lights is a talented band that blends jamrock, blues, hip hop and jazz into an infectious brew that is best experienced live. Shoeless Revolution is a more funky pop-rock jam band that is also great live!
Gossip w/ Magic Mouth and Bonnie Montgomery
Fine Line/ 9:00/ $20/ 18+
--Two punky danceable indie rock bands with a classically-trained opera singer moonlighting as a folk and country singer/songwriter opening.
Tilly and The Wall [Fun Indie Pop from Omaha!]
400 Bar/ 9:00/ $12-14/ 18+
Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Pineiro [Legendary Cuban Band!]
Dakota/ 7:00 and 9:00/ $25// AA
--Come find out what they were dancing up a storm to in Havana in the 1920’ s, played by some of the best young Cuban musicians around today.
Minnesota RollerGirls
Roy Wilkins Auditorium/ 7:30/ $13-18/ AA
--The girls are back with their raucous brand of fun that includes live halftime rock music, face-painting for the kids and the always popular “black-eye booth”! Four teams from the MNRG League will be going at it.
The Belfast Cowboys [Van Morrison Tribute] and Motel California [Eagles Tribute]
Lee’s Liquor Lounge/ 9:00/ $6/ 21+
Rock N’ Bowl w/ Molly & The Mistakes [Upbeat, fun R&R Covers]
Memory Lanes, S Mpls/ 10:00/ FREE/ 21+
--Sunday, Oct 7, 2012—
Norah Jones
Orpheum/ 7:00/ $59-69/ AA
--A rare musician who truly evolves with each new album but does it so well she holds on to her old fans and gains new ones. She is coming to town to play songs off her fine new CD, ”Little Broken Hearts”, produced by Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse! An AP reviewer called it “stylish yet deeply emotional”.
Geoff Muldaur and Jim Kweskin w/ Spider John Koerner
The Cedar/ 7:30/ $25-30/ AA
--Three 60’s and 70’s folk, blues and folk-rock legends!
Alex Cuba [Latin and Cuban-Tinged Jazz & Soulful Pop]
Dakota/ 7:00/ $20/ AA
--This Cuban-born Canadian has a great cross-cultural sound that earned him the 2006 and 2008 Juno Awards for Best World Music Album and then the 2010 Latin Grammy for Best New Artist!
Sundays w/ Kurt Jorgensen Band
P.D. Pappy’s, Stillwater/ 4:30/ FREE/ AA
--Good original rock, roots, and blues and tasty cover songs.
Dr Mambo’s Combo [every Sunday and Monday]
Bunker’s / 9:30/ $7/ 21+
--Fun, well-played covers of 70’s and 80’s soul, R&B and dance tunes.
--Monday, Oct 8, 2012—
Classic Country w/ Dan Lund & Buffaloaf [every Monday]
Lee’s Liquor Lounge/ 8:00/ FREE/ 21+
--Very well-played classic country music.
The Cactus Blossoms [Classic Country w/great harmonies, every Monday]
Turf Club / 7-10:00/ $5/ 21+
--Wonderful old-school country originals with excellent harmonies.
--Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012—
Kellogg’s 2012 Tour of U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Champions
Target Center/ 7:00/ $25-75/ AA
--Along with 2008 Olympic All Around Gold Medalist Nastia Liukin, four of five gals from the Gold Medal-winning 2012 London Olympic Team are scheduled to perform including Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Jordyn Wieber and Kyla Ross! Many from the U.S. Men’s Team will also appear
Beach House [Sold Out!]
First Ave/ 8:00/ $22/ 18+
Maria Muldaur & Her Bluesiana Band [Roots & Blues, Wed also]
Dakota/ 7:00/ $35/ AA
--Muldaur helped start the American folk music revival in the 60’s, sang with The Grateful Dead and had the huge pop hit “Midnight at the Oasis” in the 70’s and continues as a vital recording and touring artist in this century. Her 2005 folk-blues album, “Sweet Lovin’ Ol Soul” was nominated for both the W.C. Handy and Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album
Generationals w/ Devin [Young Indie Rockers with a pop bent]
The Cedar/ 7:30/ $10-12/ AA
--Generationals, from New Orleans, were named one of influential music magazine Paste’s Top Twenty New Bands of 2011 and Brooklyn, N.Y. newcomer Devin is for fans of Elvis Costello and The Strokes.
St. Dominic’s Trio [every Tuesday]
Nye’s, NE Mpls/ 9:30/ FREE/ 21+
--This stripped-down version of The Belfast Cowboys still plays plenty of Van Morrison covers.
International Reggae All-Stars [every Tuesday]
Bunkers / 9:00/ $6/ 21+
--Good roots-reggae originals and plenty of covers.
--Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012—
Beth Orton-Solo
Varsity/ 8:00/ $25-35/ 18+
--Her new album, “Sugaring Season”, is a stripped-down old-school English folk album with a lot of powerful but sorrowful and painful songs. It echews the folk-rock put to modern beats-sound of her past hits but can be a rewarding late-night listen. As she is solo on this tour, if you adjust your expectations for what this show will be like, you’ll have a much better chance of enjoying it.
Two Door Cinema Club [Excellent Irish Indie Rockers]
First Ave/ 6:30/ $25/ AA
--Their danceable indie rock sound, with bits of electronica and pop and delivered with punky Irish attitude, has lead their last two U.S. singles, 2011’s “What You Know” and 2012’s “Sleep Alone” on to the Billboard Top 25!
Root City Band [Soulful Pop & Swingin’ Bluesy Rock, every Wed!]
Gluek’s/ 10:00/ $5/ 21+
--One of the most fun dance floor-filled weekly shows in the Twin Cities for the last decade is back for the month of September. Talented lead singer, writer, and guitarist Alex Rossi has had other projects taking him around the country and over the ocean but he and the gang’s infectious, swinging blues-rock should be in fine form.
Nick (now on The Voice) and The Feelin at The Happy Gnome [every Wednesday]
The Happy Gnome upstairs, St Paul/ 8:00/ Free/ 21+
--Good piano-led rock, pop and soul music for free and just $4 for all MN craft beer pours. Nick made past Round 1 on The Voice!!
Molly Maher & Erik Koskinen [Roots & Americana every Wednesday]
Aster Café at Riverplace/ 9:00/ $4/ 21+
--The best night of local roots and Americana music in the Twin Cities each week. Superb musicianship.
--Thursday, Oct 11, 2012—
Paula Cole [1997 Top 10 Hits “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?” and “I Don’t Want To Wait”!!]
Dakota/ 7:00/ $45/ AA
--She took a short hiatus in the first half of the past decade but she’s returned with two strong albums and that incredible soprano voice is still intact. Expect to hear material from her whole career and new songs from an album that should be out in the spring.
Wayne “The Train” Hancock [“The King of Juke Joint Swing”!]
Lee’s Liquor Lounge/ 9:00/ $15/ 21+
--I love this quote from Hank Williams III; “Wayne Hancock has more Hank Sr. in him than either me or my dad, Hank Williams II. He is the real deal!” His sound is an amalgam of honkytonk, western swing, blues and Texas rockabilly and Lee’s is the perfect roadhouse to see him perform!
Nick Waterhouse
Fine Line/ 9:00/ $15/ 18+
--“L.A. nuevo-retro R&B bandleader Waterhouse, kind of a Mayer Hawthorne with a guitar and glasses, is an impeccably dressed vintage black music revivalist who draws from 50’s rhythm and blues and rock figures like Ike Turner and Little Willie John for his own jumpin’ tunes.” Quote from philly.com.
Rasputina [Two Electric Cellos and a Drummer Playing Rock N’ Roll]
Varsity/ 8:00/ $15/ 18+
--“Dark”, “Gothic”, and “Cabaret” are some of the words used to describe this truly different indie folk and rock band. For a taste of their sound, you could check out on YouTube their cool cover of Heart’s big hit “Barracuda”.
TopBrewer.org Home Brew Competition & Tasting w/ Live Music
Groveland Tap, St Paul/ 6-10:00/ $15/ 21+
--This competition over the next four Thursdays pits 24 of Minnesota’s best brewers, with a combined 300 years experience, in a head-to-head battle to get their recipe done in a full production-level run at Lucid Brewery. Local guitarist and singer George Scott McKelvy plays at the first two quarterfinals, at Groveland Tap this week and next Thursday, 10/18, at Edina Grill. For more info on the last two stops you can head to TopBrewer.org.
“2 Sugars, Room for Cream” [Fringe Festival Comedy Hit, thru Nov 11]
New Century Theatre/ Various Times, Wed or Thur thru Sunday/ $25 / AA
--This show sold out every performance at the 2009 Fringe Festival! It is smartly written and performed by Shanan Custer, a favorite Brave New Workshop veteran, and Carolyn Pool, an Ivey Award-winning actress. It is a series of humorous, sometimes serious, vignettes of everyday life.
The Butanes [Vintage Soul and R&B, Every Thursday]
Shaw’s, NE Mpls/ 8:30/ FREE/ 21+
--Great 60’s and 70’s soul music with some tasty blues and rock covers mixed in. Highly Danceable!
