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First Avenue :
Sun., February 12, 7:30pm
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The Darkness stormed onto the music scene in 2003 with histrionic hair-metal that we'd confidently thought was left behind in the '80s. But the unabashed arena anthems of the English quartet certainly caught the fancy of music fans and critics who wanted to turn back the clocks while they...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Producer Mark Johnson traversed the globe recording mainly street musicians singing verses of classic tunes that he spliced into melting-pot nuggets for a documentary and album. Most prominently, Ben E. King's "Stand By Me," anchored by street singers Roger Ridley in Santa Monica and Grandpa...
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St. Paul (Downtown)
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There's something inherently mysterious about the Pines' dusky, timeless folk music—the way it sinks into the listener's bones like a deep winter chill, the way it only improves with time and age like a bottle of wine forgotten in the cellar for 50 years and then unearthed and uncorked....
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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1987 was a notable year for Minnesota: the Twins won the World Series, Prince released one of his best albums in Sign 'O' the Times, and St. Louis Park's own Coen Brothers released their first great comedy Raising Arizona. 1987 was also the year that Dr. Mambo's Combo was formed, and it just so...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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What softens a recession's bite as effectively as cheap booze? Nothing...except free entertainment. While "Triple Double"—the Triple Rock's freshly reinvented Tuesday bacchanal—offers both commodities by the truckload, the night's ever-changing DJ roster and floating-genre music...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Dance |
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The Record Room :
Every week Saturday, 10:00pm
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The spirit of SNDP -- First Ave's legendary '90s club-rave Sunday Night Dance Party -- lives on in a scaled-down size and a more day-job-accommodating Saturday night form in the Record Room's long-running Black. A sort of time-warp tonic for aging ravers, the night itself is the only real...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Dance |
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Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant :
Every week Monday, Sunday from Sun., February 12 until Mon., February 13, 7:00pm
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Singer Ana Moura is one of the brightest young stars of fado, the haunting, centuries-old Portuguese style whose spirit is roughly equivalent to the blues. Rooted in traditional Portuguese balladry and poetry, fado also incorporates a vital tangle of Arabic, African, and Jewish tendrils, coming...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Latin |
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Loring Pasta Bar :
Every week Wednesday, Thursday, 6:00pm
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A stalwart of the Twin Cities music scene for several decades, saxophonist and composer John Devine is perhaps most known for IMP ORK, the sizable improvisational ensemble that sometimes worked with the likes of Julius Hemphill and Roscoe Mitchell, as well as for his long tenure playing solo...
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University
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First Avenue :
Every week Saturday, 10:00pm
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There're two things you might want to keep in mind about First Ave's trendy Saturday-night cool-kid institution before you start muttering the same anti-hipster sentiments you've been harboring since !!! were an ellipsis. The first thing? Well, it's an 18+ dance night. Being 18 these days means...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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DJ |
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The Record Room :
Every week Thursday, 10:00pm
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Friday night gets all the love, Wednesday night has its nudge-wink "hump day" cachet and everyone hates Mondays so much that there's no choice but to go out and wash that start-of-the-week ennui away. But what about Thursday, the day of the week where people are most likely to put...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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DJ |
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Moses Oakland relocated from the Bay Area to the Twin Cities back in 1987, and since then -- well, it'd probably be easier and less space-consuming to list all the venues he hasn't played and the legends he hasn't gigged with. A blues, soul and jazz aficionado well-versed in a wide array of...
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Uptown/ Eat Street
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Clubhouse Jager :
Every week Wednesday, 10:00pm
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"Retro" is a tricky niche to slot a dance night into. Usually you've got to find yourself an era and a genre, hew towards the hits, and maybe garnish it with an outsized wink, a double-pistol-point and a smirking acknowledgement that you think the past is, well, kinda goofy. Clubhouse Jager's...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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DJ |
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Hell's Kitchen :
Fri., February 17, 10:00pm
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Nice Purse seem like they should be a cute band. Their sing-along lyrics and hippies-with-clean-hair look seem almost fresh-faced in this sloppy rock 'n' roll town. But if from afar they look like fuzzy kitties eating cotton candy, that makes the shock all the more pleasurable when you notice...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Rock |
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Fifth Element :
Third Thursday of every month, 6:00pm
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MCs may get all the mainstream attention nowadays, but hip hop started as a DJ-centered movement, and the truest heads can rattle off their all-time favorite producers as readily as they can list their top lyricists. Brandon Allday, who shares producer/MC double-duty honors with fellow Big...
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Uptown/ Eat Street
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Hip-Hop, DJ |
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University
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Rock |
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Tryg's :
Sun., February 12
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Golden Valley
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Rock |
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Navarre
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Rock |
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Uptown/ Eat Street
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Blues |
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Amsterdam :
Sun., February 12, 11:00am
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St. Paul (Downtown)
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Jazz |
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Cabooze :
Sun., February 12, 12:00pm
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Uptown/ Eat Street
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Bluegrass |
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University
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Classical |
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Choral |
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Seward/ Longfellow/ Minnehaha
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Rock |
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Rock |
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St. Paul (Downtown)
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Blues |
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