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Todd Rundgren The Varsity Theater : 7:00 p.m. May 20
In 1973, Todd Rundgren was the producer behind the meat-and-potatoes hard-rock gem that is Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band LP. But he was also the auteur behind his own A Wizard, A True Star, one of the decade's most ambitious and bewildering psychedelic masterpieces. Rundgren... More >>
University	Rock

Father John Misty First Avenue : 7:00 p.m. May 21
Josh Tillman issued a handful of solo albums before spending four years drumming and occasionally singing with Fleet Foxes, helping forge their atmospheric, Pacific Northwestern chamber folk-pop. Tillman then headed south, wandered into Laurel Canyon, absorbed the psychedelic remnants of '70s... More >>
Minneapolis (Downtown)	Indie Rock

Foals First Avenue : 7:00 p.m. May 20
Foals' previous two records established the Oxford-reared quintet as top-shelf acolytes of twitchy Talking Heads-inspired post-punk. Their just released third album, Holy Fire, flips the script by adding unexpected ballast. Lead single "Inhaler" finds the formerly lean and airy outfit sounding... More >>
Minneapolis (Downtown)	Indie Rock

New Found Glory First Avenue : 6:00 p.m. May 25
It's crazy to think that it's been ten years since New Found Glory released Sticks and Stones. Especially for the fans. The bulk of us are nearing our 30s. In our teens, we belted out the lyrics to "The Blue Stare" and "It Never Snows in Florida" with adolescent emotion. Those days are long... More >>
Minneapolis (Downtown)	Rock

Dr. Mambo's Combo Bunker's Music Bar & Grill : 9:30 p.m. every Mon., Sun.
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... More >>
Minneapolis (Downtown)	R&B

Jaill Amsterdam : 8:30 p.m. May 18
If you run across one of those aging, bitter punk bros moping about how indie rock's all pudding-soft, go right ahead and mock him for not paying enough attention. Noisy retro-proto-punk is still a thing, as it has been since the first zipper-booted dirtbags with bangs in their eyes and the... More >>
St. Paul (Downtown)	Rock

American Revival Mill City Nights : 8:00 p.m. May 25
Indie-rock with traces of country is a tough genre to innovate in, and even tougher to simply retread the same ground. Minneapolis band American Revival doesn't reinvent the indie-rock wheel, but it does add something immensely enjoyable to the genre, which is more than good enough. Their new... More >>
Minneapolis (Downtown)	Rock

Cornbread Harris Loring Pasta Bar : 6:00 p.m. every Fri.
You might've heard of his son -- a man named Jimmy who teamed up with another man named Terry, the rest being R&B history -- but Cornbread Harris is a Twin Cities legend in his own right. Harris is a WWII vet who joined Augie Garcia to record the area's first rock'n'roll record (1955's "Hi Yo... More >>
University	R&B, Jazz

Cory Wong Quartet Artists' Quarter : 7:00 p.m. every Tue.
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... More >>
St. Paul (Downtown)	Jazz

Transmission Clubhouse Jager : 10:00 p.m. every Wed.
"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. But Transmission... More >>
Minneapolis (Downtown)	DJ

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club First Avenue : 8:00 p.m. May 18
Chalk up Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's resilience to good timing if you want -- their debut album B.R.M.C. hit in the dead center of 2001's "rock is back" frenzy, when any shaggy-haired guitar-wielders who looked even vaguely classicist were treated as gods who strode the earth by British music... More >>
Minneapolis (Downtown)	Indie Rock

International Reggae All-Stars High Five Bar & Grill : May 24
Make all the jokes you want about the climate differences between Kingston and Minneapolis, but the cultural ones aren't as hard to reconcile. The aptly dubbed Lynval "Golden Voice" Jackson and his band have been a welcome and frequent presence in Twin Cities clubs for years now, and they're... More >>
Burnsville	Reggae

The Bungalow The Record Room : 10:00 p.m. every Thu.
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... More >>
Minneapolis (Downtown)	DJ

Open Blues Jam with Moses Oakland Famous Dave's BBQ & Blues Uptown : 8:00 p.m. every Sun.
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... More >>
Uptown/ Eat Street	Blues

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International Reggae All-Stars Bunker's Music Bar & Grill : 9:00 p.m. every Tue.
Make all the jokes you want about the climate differences between Kingston and Minneapolis, but the cultural ones aren't as hard to reconcile. The aptly dubbed Lynval "Golden Voice" Jackson and his band have been a welcome and frequent presence in Twin Cities clubs for years now, and they're... More >>
Minneapolis (Downtown)	Reggae

Crosstown Band High Five Bar & Grill : May 18
Burnsville	Rock

Hookers & Blow The Lodge of Robbinsdale : May 18
Robbinsdale	R&B

So Big McKracken's Pub : May 18
Burnsville	Rock

Soul Tree Mayslack's Music Lounge : May 18
Northeast Minneapolis	R&B

The Not Guilty Band Santorini Taverna & Grill : May 18
Eden Prairie	Rock

Mill City Hot Club Hell's Kitchen : 10:00 a.m. May 18
Minneapolis (Downtown)	Jazz

Judson Street Fest Judson Memorial Baptist Church : 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. May 18
Kingfield	Rock

The High 48s Aster Cafe : 11:00 a.m. May 18
University	Bluegrass

Como Ave. Jug Band (CD-release) Indeed Brewing Company : 12:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. May 18
Northeast Minneapolis	Bluegrass

Raffi Historic State Theatre : 1:00 p.m. May 18
Minneapolis (Downtown)	Children