Thursday night at The Palace Theater was a veritable smorgasbord of musical virtuosos. Promoting the release of their upcoming 2022 album, The Other Side Of Make-Believe, Interpol took to North America to promote their new material, joined by solo act Matthew Dear and downtempo chill rock heroes Tycho supporting. Between the three of them, the lineup had […]
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After many, many postponements, the 2022 (technically 2020) version of annual extreme metal touring festival Devastation on the Nation was finally able to get under way. They rolled through Minneapolis’ Lyric at Skyway Theater this past Friday with a monstrous lineup that can satisfy just about anyone who is into black metal, with six bands who […]
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Hot off the release of their newest album (just a few weeks prior), Hippo Campus embarked on the nationwide tour in support of LP3, filled to the brim with the endearing, feel-good bangers that fans of the band have come to love (with an almost rocket-like trajectory towards popularity). Hailing from Saint Paul, the hometown heroes […]
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What was to be night two of a back to back for Austin, Texas’ indie legends Spoon unexpectedly became a last minute night one for Saint Paul music goers. Vocalist Britt Daniel let the highly energetic crowd on Friday evening know that it was the first time in his career (a hefty one, as he […]
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Amorphis is a band that has been a bit of a white whale in terms of my ability to catch a live show. I’ve been listening to the band’s excellent output ever since I was in college and they dropped Silent Waters and I fell in love with Tomi Joutsen’s incredible vocal performance and the monstrous […]
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Self-described “chewed bubblegum pop” band Peach Pit have been on a meteoric rise the past few years. Starting out with a couple of video releases on youtube,t he band have since quit all of their jobs to focus on touring and recording. It’s really special to see a band go from that small to completely […]
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First Avenue attendees were in for a real treat this past Monday. It’s becoming sort of a pattern for musicians lately to decorate their shows with some version of “we’re finally touring on material that we recorded 2 years ago”, but for these bands, it was extra special – Dragonforce & Firewind had both been […]
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Both New York based and both with their hands deep in the psychedelic cookie jar, L’Rain and Animal Collective are no strangers to walls of sound. While approaching a sort of musical hypnosis from different angles (L’Rain takes a more soulful, constructive approach and Animal Collective are a bit more pop-y), they both achieve the same […]
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Continuing a wave of sold out shows in town on the heels of tours returning from their planned starts in 2020, First Avenue filled out Tuesday night for a smorgasbord of acclaimed indie goodness. A triple threat lineup of Michigander, Foxing and the ever-magnificent Manchester Orchestra brought together a night of self-reflective, soulful indie rock […]
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Two years in the making, Killswitch Engage’s tour (still with original bands August Burns Red and Light the Torch) rolled through a cold Minnesota night at the Fillmore in Minneapolis with exactly the fervor you would expect a show that had been delayed that long to bring with it. A wall to wall packed house greeted […]
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