Warped Tour: There aren’t a lot of big names on the 23rd annual lineup for this roaming, day-long music and extreme-sports caravan, but there’s the usual action-packed, high-octane, ADD-ready mix. Read an interview with the Melvins’ Buzz Osborne about the event at /music. Sat., 7th Street Entry, $5.)īash 17: Because wearing black in the hot sun and blowing out your eardrums fits some people’s definition of summer fun, the great team behind the legendary Amphetamine Reptile label and our Grumpy’s watering holes have lined up another delightfully odd lineup that includes Seattle vets Mudhoney and the Melvins along with art-punk pioneer Lydia Lunch, reunited Austin noisemakers Cherubs, Atlanta scene faves Whores and local guitar wizards the Blind Shake. The 99ers: These youthful middle-aged Twin Cities rockers with alternating male/female singers have a blast tearing up timeless Ramones, Buzzcock and X influences on their sixth album, “Pop Punk Girl,” which they’re celebrating with co-leader Emily Bee’s Clash tribute band, Rude Girl, plus Ripper and the Silverteens. This one features an opening set by one of the Twin Cities’ most killah rappers, Carnage the Executioner, plus Raw Dog. Ghostface Killah: The Wu Tang-Clan’s greatest MC is reportedly taking over from RZA and spearheading a new album by the whole group along with a sequel to his celebrated sophomore solo album, 2000’s “Supreme Clientele.” In the meantime, he’s playing some festival and club dates on his own, a good chance to hear tracks from throughout his now-storied career. Paul by one day and delay several other shows this week due to “transportation issues at the Canadian border.” He opened the 57-city 4 Your Eyez Only Tour two weeks ago in Phoenix dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit and stuck largely to last year’s album of the same name, as well as songs from 2015’s personal opus “Forest Hill Drive.” Bas, J.I.D. He had to postpone his arena debut in St. Cole: The PG-13-sexy North Carolina rapper has been working his way up the local concert ladder from Myth nightclub in 2013 to the Soundset festival in 2015. Freeway,” “London Homesick Blues” and “Mr. Jerry Jeff Walker: Now something of a regular at the Minnesota Zoo, the veteran cosmic cowboy from Austin, Texas, spins some good yarns in conversation and in song, such as “L.A. New Standards: Between their Minnesota Orchestra gigs and elaborate, guest-filled Christmas concerts, here’s an increasingly rare chance to catch Minnesota all-stars Chan Poling, John Munson and Steve Roehm and their lovingly reinvented cover songs in the intimate cabaret-style setting for which they were intended. Saturday’s outdoor lineup is topped off by Bay Area vets Tommy Castro & the Painkillers with local mainstays Shannon Curfman, Reneé Austin and the Jimmys, plus more around Lowertown. Paul’s fourth annual bluesathon features “Pick Up the Pieces” hitmakers the Average White Band along with the Prince tribute band Chase & Ovation and co-organizer Mick Sterling’s band on its Mears Park main stage Friday, while Paul Metsa and Sonny Earl, Ken Valdez, Inside Straight Band and more will perform in surrounding venues. Lowertown Blues Festival: Using relatively the same layout and spirit as the beloved Twin Cities Jazz Festival - including the fact that it’s free - St. Sunday offers retro-twang guitar ace and song man Erik Koskinen with the Lowland Lakers and Candy Shop. Saturday features R&B/soul showman Har Mar Superstar, cult-loved folkie Mason Jennings, Ruben, the Sunken Lands and Blue Hazard. The music begins Friday with Elton John-endorsed singer/songwriter Haley (nee Haley Bonar), rowdy blues-rocker Crankshaft, ex-Hüsker Dü bassist Greg Norton’s new band Porcupine and Stillwater’s own sibling act the Shackletons. Instead, new organizers have turned to a free lineup that’s entirely from Minnesota and the 21st century. Lumberjack Days: The days of REO Speedwagon and Lynyrd Skynyrd playing Stillwater’s big riverfront festival are long over. Fri., Mystic Showroom, Prior Lake, $65-$99, ) Both bands are still making new music that matters: Garbage’s “Strange Little Birds” in ’16 and Blondie’s “Pollinator” in ’17. Garbage’s Shirley Manson, a generation younger than Harry, is a force, too, who can go from a whisper to a scream. Blondie’s Debbie Harry is a bona fide icon, a Rock Hall of Famer who mixed femininity, power and new-wave hooks into an enduring force. Blondie and Garbage: The Rage and Rapture Tour features two of the coolest female-fronted rock bands of all time.
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