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Slipknot will kick off their first U.S. headline tour in support of their No. 1 album, All Hope Is Gone, at Saint Paul’s Xcel Energy Center on Friday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. Special guests Coheed and Cambria and label mates Trivium will round out the bill. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on [...]
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Xcel Energy Center and JAM Productions announced today that AC/DC’s widely anticipated “Black Ice World Tour” will come to Xcel Energy Center on Sunday, Nov. 23. Tickets will go on sale Saturday, Sept. 20, at 10 a.m. at the Xcel Energy Center Box Office and through Ticketbastard. From the press release...
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Tenebrism is a group work first performed at the Artery24 Performance Art Festival at the Soap Factory this July. Twin Cities Theatre Company Lamb Lays with Lion is re-mounting this work that “runs the gamut from Caravaggio to Jesus and Joy Division to beer,” along with other short works...
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The Faint put on one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen, with synchronized video, dance-heavy beats and explosive energy. And now…finally - a Minneapolis tour date! November 14 at First Avenue. The video above is “The Geeks Were Right” off their new album, Fasciinatiion.
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Jars of Clay played a sweet Christmas show here in the Twin Cities (my first JOC show), and I was super impressed. The group have a new EP, Closer, coming out on August 5 and will tour through Minneapolis, playing Target Center on October 10. Here’s the first single… Closer - Jars of Clay
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The first “official” record by the entire Doomtree crew — a self-titled monster boasting 21 tracks and featuring all nine members of Minneapolis’ own hip-hop collective — comes out July 29. The CD Release Party is set for Friday, August 1 with I Self Devine and Kill the...
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Eau Claire, WI-based band The Daredevil Christopher Wright worked with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) to put together their full-length debut album, In Deference to a Broken Back, which has not yet been released.
BUT, the trio will record a Daytrotter session next week, so hurry up and love this band up before...
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Check out the new Red Cross marketing plan…Donate blood, get a backstage pass at Vans Warped Tour. It will go down as the “Blood for Access” strategy (perhaps more befitting of Ozzfest?).
What a truly fantastic idea. Those pasty white emo kids are surely chock full of nutrient-rich...
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Just got a press release that Saint Paul’s Eclipse Records is hosting a special early-evening in-store performance from Illinois indie-pop band Headlights on June 24th. That’s great and all, but there’s a catch…
What makes this show a first is its Age Restriction; only people...
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Michael Nau, formerly of Page France, will be pushing back the release of his debut full-length as The Cotton Jones Basket Ride in favor of an EP series to be released through Quite Scientific Records. The album, Paranoid Cocoon, was initially slated for a spring release but will now be replaced with...
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AOL’s Spinner.com posted the brand new video for “Clouds” video from Omaha’s Neva Dinova late last week. Director Rob Walters built a classic small town dance scene for frontman Jake Bellows to tear down.
“Clouds” is the first single from the recently released You...