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Purple Rain Sing-Along & Costume Contest
By Ben Palosaari
Published: June 24, 2009
If you own a purple suit and frilly white shirt that you've been itching to wear in public, or you're attempting a one-man Jheri curl revival, then Friday night is your time to...
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Karriem Riggins Experience
By Rick Mason
Published: June 24, 2009
A drummer and producer, Karriem Riggins splits his time among jazz, hip hop, and the increasingly potent ground in between. His extensive résumé as a jazz drummer...
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The Dirty Queer Show
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: June 24, 2009
The Dirty Queer Show promises to be a raucous Saturday-night party, and a deal at only $5, at Bedlam Theater. From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. you can check out queer-themed art, followed...
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Saint Paul Summer Beer Fest
By Ben Palosaari
Published: June 24, 2009
There is something quintessentially summery about beer festivals. Most of them offer the same basic routine: You're handed a smallish commemorative glass, then spend the...
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Fruit Bowl
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: June 24, 2009
Looking for fun without the booze? The Fruit Bowl is a sober Pride-associated event at Elsie's Bowling Center. Here you can bowl, sing karaoke, compete in the costume contest,...
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2009 Pride Festival
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: June 24, 2009
If choosing from the other five million Pride-related events makes your head spin, exploring the festival over at Loring Park is probably your best bet for a good time. As...
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Nas and Damian Marley
By Peter S. Scholtes
Published: June 24, 2009
As consolation for Rock the Bells skipping our city, that hip-hop festival's collaborating headliners branch off to play First Avenue, something they've both done before, and...
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Vieux Farka Touré
By Rick Mason
Published: June 24, 2009
It may be ironic to be named Vieux ("old" en français) when you’re the young heir to the brilliant sub-Sahara blues-guitar stylings of the late Ali Farka...
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Earl Brown Days
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: June 24, 2009
In honor of the most famous individual to come from Brooklyn Center (he did after all, found the State Highway Patrol), the suburb throws a festival each year throughout the...
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Blow 'em out, Nadine! A Burlesque Birthday Celebration
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: June 24, 2009
Cake is always a great way to celebrate a birthday, but awesome dance and underpants are pretty good, too. This Monday, Nadine Dubois, who's been hosting Lili's Burlesque Revue...
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5th Annual Uptown Pride Block Party
By Jessica Armbruster
Published: June 24, 2009
Pride celebrants this year should plan their weekend carefully, as a lot of events are happening around town, and they include a little of something for everyone. Events kick...
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Talk of the Stacks: Alan Furst
By Linda Shapiro
Published: June 24, 2009
Alan Furst's novels of pre-World War II Europe combine masterfully plotted spy stories with total sensual immersion: John Le Carré by way of Proust, with a streak of...
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Femi Kuti; King Sunny Ade
By Rick Mason
Published: June 24, 2009
This terrific bill pairs one Nigerian music giant with another's son—now with a solid rep of his own. Guitarist and singer King Sunny Ade was in the first wave of...
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The Avett Brothers; Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers
By Rick Mason
Published: June 24, 2009
The word is that North Carolina's Avett Brothers are on the verge of the big time, awaiting only the mid-August release of their Rick Rubin-produced major-league debut, I and...
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Los Lonely Boys
By Rick Mason
Published: June 24, 2009
Los Hermanos Garza return for what's becoming their annual zoo gig, promising to once again leave both tigers and humans howling with pleasure over the trio's growling...
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Shellac
By Erin Roof
Published: June 24, 2009
Shellac's Varsity Theater performance will be a welcome-home show for Todd Trainer, drummer for the influential noise-rock trio and a Minneapolis local notable. Trainer is the...
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Rancid
By Chris DeLine
Published: June 24, 2009
For Let the Dominoes Fall, Rancid's first album in six years, the band made a decision to approach the record in a way that they had never done before. Vocalist, guitarist, and...
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Rosanne Cash
By Rick Mason
Published: June 24, 2009
If you need a primer on country music, you couldn't find a better source than one of the genre's giants, Johnny Cash. In 1973, concerned that his 18-year-old daughter Rosanne...
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Charles Lloyd New Quartet
By Rick Mason
Published: June 24, 2009
First off, the members of Charles Lloyd's latest, incomparable quartet: pianist Jason Moran, drummer Eric Harland, bassist Reuben Rogers. It's a given that all three are...
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Fountains of Wayne
By Chris DeLine
Published: June 24, 2009
It would be nice to think that there aren't songs that make music fans never want to hear a band's name again, but sadly, such things happen. And typically, when they do, those...
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