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Turf Club :
9:00 p.m. May 26
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Mark Sultan may not be a household name, but he's an incredibly busy and influential musician. Typically thrown into the "garage punk" genre, he's played with King Khan and BBQ Show (he is also known as BBQ), Almighty Defenders (with the Black Lips), Spaceshits, and Les Sexareenos. Currently he...
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Macalester/Groveland
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Epic :
8:00 p.m. June 1
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Armin Van Buuren's brand of dance music is not in the usual vein. He has carved out a space in which he functions as an electronic folk singer of sorts. Without singing himself -- he has guests on nearly all of his singles -- the emotions stirred up by pushing buttons and mixing ultra-catchy...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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After breaking into the rap game in the early '90s with the help of the Notorious B.I.G., Lil' Kim has had no problem staying in the spotlight. As the self-proclaimed Queen Bee of hip-hop, Kim released a string of hit records before being incarcerated in 2005, but she still managed to turn that...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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The setting for the Shins long anticipated return to Minneapolis has shifted from an initial club gig at the Brick to the rather lavish confines of the Orpheum Theatre, a move which should suit frontman James Mercer's rather tranquil new numbers quite perfectly. Mercer is the only constant in...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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With Orchestra Hall about to close for extensive renovations, the old place will get a Crescent City-style sendoff courtesy of two bands steeped in traditional New Orleans jazz: the venerable Preservation Hall Jazz Band (pictured) and the relative upstart New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, led by...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Jazz |
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The lion's share of the press surrounding Kathleen Edwards's latest album, Voyageur, has been preoccupied with her romantic ties to our very own local-boy-made-Grammy-good Justin Vernon of Bon Iver. Considering the impressive career the Canadian alt-country songstress had already carved out...
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University
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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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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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"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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Usually when someone's referred to as one of the best-kept secrets in town, it's an aspiring journeyman or a niche-genre artist that's flying under the radar. But as the weekly resident of one of St. Paul's premier clubs, Cory Wong doesn't quite fit under either category -- the jazz-and-more...
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St. Paul (Downtown)
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Jazz |
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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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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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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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The Record Room :
10:00 p.m. third Fri. of every month
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Fusing fashion-driven, style-conscious tastemaking and deep, crowd-rocking musical knowledge isn't something to be taken lightly on either end of the equation. Do it wrong, and it comes across like surface-gloss pandering wrapped around some flavor-of-the-moment bassbin ephemera. But do it...
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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Fifth Element :
6:00 p.m. third Thu. of every month
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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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Minneapolis (Downtown)
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Dance |
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Uptown/ Eat Street
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Rock |
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Eden Prairie
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Rock |
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St. Paul (Downtown)
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Rock |
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Macalester/Groveland
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Rock |
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Fridley
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Rock |
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Hopkins
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Rock |
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Navarre
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Rock |
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Shoreview
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Rock |
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St. Paul (Downtown)
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R&B |
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