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New Wave/Post-Punk legends The Pretenders have spent much of the past year performing show-stealing (we’re assuming…), hits-filled festival gigs and support sets for Axl, Slash, and Duff’s Guns N’ Roses and Foo Fighters. However, this past Sunday, July 14th, they brought An Evening with The Pretenders to the 2,500-capacity...
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Last Saturday, The Dresden Dolls blew the audience away with a just-under-three-hour set, appropriately titled An Evening With The Dresden Dolls. Amanda Palmer, on vocals and keys, along with Brian Viglione on drums, gave an incredible, unique, and unforgettable performance that brought me a newfound love for this renowned...
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Last week local punk rockers Mannequin Pussy played their seventh consecutive sold-out show at Union Transfer. It all began in August of 2021, when the Marisa Dabice-led band opened the first three dates of Japanese Breakfast’s five-night run at the Eraserhood venue, marking the official/unofficial return of live music...
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Last Saturday, Spanish Love Songs headlined a stacked lineup at the Theatre of Living Arts. With support from Worry Club, Sydney Sprague, and Oso Oso co-headlining, the show was an incredible experience. The band’s energy was unmatched – only by the energy of the audience. The setlist included songs...
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This past Saturday, legendary experimental rockers Swans returned to Union Transfer for the first time since 2016. They played one of their famously deafening two-and-a-half hour sets, opening with an hour-long rendition of ‘The Beggar,’ the title track of their 2023 LP. The extremely talented musicians put on an...
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Friday night The Foundry at The Fillmore was filled with a number of people who were likely getting ready to partake in the Wrestlemania festivities of the weekend, in addition to a plethora of other girls and gays decked out in vinyl, fishnets, and harnesses, who probably weren’t...
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Southern California indie rock band Benches played an amazing show in support of iDKHOW on Tuesday. Though the band was nearly an hour late due to bowling related circumstances – they were seen bowling while waiting for the venue to fill up – their performance was definitely worth...
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“We’re punch-drunk and happy to fucking be here,” proclaims Carrie Brownstein Monday night mid-set from the stage of The TLA, the most intimate room Sleater-Kinney have played in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection since their stop at The Starlight Ballroom in the summer of 2006, on...
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Similar to her show at The Met last July, beloved singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis put on a spectacular performance in St. Paul last Friday. Instead of the rotating few Rilo Kiley songs she had been playing on previous legs of the Joy’All Ball Tour, Jenny pleasantly surprised us by including...
New Wave/Post-Punk legends The Pretenders have spent much of the past year performing show-stealing (we’re assuming…), hits-filled festival gigs and support sets for Axl, Slash, and Duff’s Guns N’ Roses and Foo Fighters. However, this past Sunday, July 14th, they brought An Evening with The Pretenders to the 2,500-capacity...
