Australian DJ Flume spent a mesmerizing night in Minneapolis this past Thursday. The eclectic producer just released a brand new record – Palaces – and embarked upon the similarly named Palaces Tour in support of it across North America this past week with a duo of sold out shows in Madison, Wisconsin. His stop at the Armory […]
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The metal train keeps on rolling through Minneapolis! Tuesday night saw absolute thrash mayhem possess the Skyway Theater with the back to back to back excellence of old school thrash bands Death Angel, Exodus, and the mighty Testament took to the stage to show that kicking ass is timeless. The ‘The Bay Strikes Back Tour’ […]
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The metal keeps on rolling in Minneapolis! Nightwish brought fellow European power metallers Beast in Black with them to the Fillmore last Friday for a night of bombastic, high energy fun, with solos and falsettos and guitar theatrics aplenty! To open the night, Beast in Black! The Finnish quintet recently made their first trek over […]
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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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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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