How To Meet Other Musicians
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Ready to get out of the basement? Have you perfected your signature guitar moves in front of the mirror? It’s time to meet up with some like-minded musicians and start something! Once you have the itch to start up a band of brothers or sisters, it must be scratched. It seems so simple, just go find other musicians, but people don’t religiously flock to venues to swap ideas as much as they used to. You know, that whole internet thing eliminated some of that. Here are ways you can find other musicians and start living the ‘How We Met’ portion of your future ‘Behind The Music’ special.
1. Shows
Is there a local band you really like? Go see them. Talk to them afterwards. Chances are they would love to talk about music, aspirations, people they know looking for a band, etc. The easy access of the internet has made people less likely to be bold and be the first to approach someone, but BE BOLD.
How did Keith Moon become the drummer of The Who? He talked to them after a show and told them he was better than their drummer. Courtney Love talked her way into Faith No More after a show while wearing a wedding dress. Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there. Chances are, there are musicians at the show doing the exact same thing you are…so find them, too!
2. BandMix.com
Band Mix is basically a Match.com for musicians to check out each other’s profiles and find matches for their band or music project. No love connections here, just individual musicians seeking band mates. Band Mix allows you to search by location, genre, instruments played, and even vocal range. Your profile allows you to upload audio, photos, and specify what kinds of musicians you’re seeking.
3. Music Stores (Equipment, Records, Head Shops…)
Flyers, conversation, and recommendations! Oh my! Generally, people who work at music stores are musicians, or aficionados of the local music scene. Ask questions. They’re at work and they’re bored. (See: High Fidelity)
They would love to talk with you about the latest gear, latest band, or latest band that broke up. (Stray musicians! Go find them!)
Already in a band? How did you find your band family? We want to know!
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Hear Here DSM (5/9 – 14)
Thursday, May 9th
*Dillinger Escape Plan (with The Faceless, Royal Thunder, The Maw, The Curse of Hail) – Wooly’s @ 7 p.m.
Open Jam with Fat Tuesday & the Greasefire Keys – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Rock Island Rollers – Music in the Junction @ 5:30 p.m.
David Zollo – Coda Lounge @ 6 p.m.
Ben Wantland – Confluence Brewing @ 7 p.m.
*Open Mic With Mary McAdams – Ritual Café @ 7 p.m.
Soul Searchers – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Brigette Newman, Big Joe Kinser Band – The Underground @ 9 p.m.
Friday, May 10th
Damien Jurado (with Canby) – Vaudeville Mews @ 6:30 p.m.
*Young Man (with Dustin Smith & the Sunday Silos, Annalibera) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Chad Elliot – Café Baratta’s @ 11:30 a.m.
Drew Nelson – Ritual Café @ 7 p.m.
Jade & Company – Fire Creek Restaurant @ 7 p.m.
James Biehn – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Alvarez Gots Crabbs – Underground @ 9 p.m.
Infuzion – Bourbon Street @ 9 p.m.
*Randy Burk & The Prisoners – Hull Ave Tavern @ 9 p.m.
Work Release Party with Bob Pace & the Dangerous Band – Gas Lamp @ 4:30 p.m.
Wrap Around Jacket – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Parlours & Mint (with Glacier Island) – Wooly’s @ 8 p.m.
*Dark Mirror, Patient, Blacked Out World, In Troubled Times – House of Bricks @ 9:30 p.m.
Tech N9ne – Val Air Ballroom @ 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 11th
Colin Gilmore (with Sonny Humbucker Band) – Vaudeville Mews @ 6 p.m.
The Laureates (with New Member Charles, Wolves In The Attic) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Bill Matykowski – Smokey Row @ 7 p.m.
Home Grown with Tajh – Mars Café @ 7 p.m.
David Zollo – Raccoon River Brewing Company @ 9 p.m.
James Biehn – Star Bar @ 9 p.m.
Signal – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Crooked Mile – The Thirsty Sportsman @ 9 p.m.
Kelly Steward & The Restless Kind – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
*Thankful Dirt, Deadnote, Madam Jules, The New Bodies, Jacob County and the Damaged Goods – House of Bricks @ 7 p.m.
Sunday, May 12th
Iowa’s Lyricist Lounge Networking Show – Vaudeville Mews @ 5 p.m.
Escape The Fate (with Glamour o f the Kill, Twenty 2 Salute, Ignore The Script) – Wooly’s @ 7 p.m.
Matt Woods – El Bait Shop @ 8 p.m.
World Music Sundays – Star Bar @ 9 p.m.
Monday, May 13th
Falling in Reverse (with American Fang, Switchblade Saturdays) – Wooly’s @ 7 p.m.
The Midnight Ghost Train – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Tuesday, May 14th
Spongecake & the Fluff Ramblers (with Smoothsayers, Chick With Dick) – Vaudeville Mews @ 8:30 p.m.
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Hear Here DSM (4/25 – 4/30)
Thursday, April 25th
Early Graves (with Approaching Nain) – Vaudeville Mews @ 6 p.m.
Fort Frances (with Canby) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Chad Elliot – Coda Lounge @ 6 p.m.
Andy Fleming – Confluence Brewing @ 7 p.m.
Soul Searchers – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Open Jam (with Fat Tuesday & the Greasefire Keys) – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Scott Holt – Gas Lamp @ 7 p.m.
Songwriter Night – House of Bricks @ 8 p.m.
Friday, April 26th
Pert Near Sandstone (with Mr. Babers Neighbors, Poppa Neptune) – Wooly’s @ 9 p.m.
Alex Kintzle, Joshua & Kristen Putney – Mars Café @ 7 p.m.
Women Writers in the Round (Jen Allen, Lavonne McRoberts, Kat Darling, Patresa Hartman) – Ritual Café @ 7 p.m.
One2Punch – Fire Creek Restaurant @ 7 p.m.
Tony Bohnenkamp – The Garage (Indianola) – 8 p.m.
Sutherland, Ankum & Thompson – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Los Saltinos – Star Bar @ 9 p.m.
The Smoothsayers (with Aries Rising) – The Underground @ 9 p.m.
Work Release Party (with Bob Pace & the Dangerous Band) – Gas Lamp @ 4:30 p.m.
North of Grand 10th Anniversary Show – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Lady Soal, Jym Crow, The Candeez – House of Bricks @ 9:30 p.m.
Viva Montesa (with The Usual Things, Bad Friends) – Vaudeville Mews @ 5:30 p.m.
My Gold Mask (with Clocks & Clouds, Is Home Is, Unknown Component) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 27th
Dead Larry CD Release Show (with Mighty Shady, Useful Jenkins, Joey Ficken) – Wooly’s @ 8 p.m.
Unity, No One, Nest of Snakes – House of Bricks @ 5 p.m.
Driver, Ashes Armada, The Austin Taft Soundtrack – House of Bricks @ 9:30 p.m.
Joe Ghormley – Smokey Row @ 7 p.m.
Aquamarine Dream Machine – Lot 33 @ 8:30 p.m.
Max Eubank – Star Bar @ 9 p.m.
Randy Burk & The Prisoners – Raccoon River Brewery @ 9 p.m.
Crooked Mile – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Hymn For Her (with Molly Gene One Whoaman Band) – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Playing Our Part Earth Month Benefit (with Cause For Concern, Crystal City, The Getaway Scene, Stone Mills) – Vaudeville Mews @ 5 p.m.
H.D. Harmsen & the Electrophones (with Gloom Balloon, Derek Lambert) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 28th
Battle of the Bands (Kayla Marie Thompson, G24, The Beaches, Black Star Alliance, Elise Marie and the Southern Fried Chicken Cluckers, Cameron, Old Road Riot, Secondary Grey, Reed) – Vaudeville Mews @ 3:30 p.m.
Fruition – El Bait Shop @ 8 p.m.
Tommy Castro & the Pain Killers – Gas Lamp @ 7 p.m.
Monday, April 29th
Quiet Hollers (with Patterson 215, Ben Wantland, Luke Fox) – Vaudeville Mews @ 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 30th
Josiah Leming (with One Love) – Vaudeville Mews @ 6 p.m.
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Hear Here DSM (4/17 – 4/23)
Wednesday, April 17th
Rebelution (with J BOOG, Hot Rain) – Wooly’s @ 8 p.m.
Josh Davis – Raccoon River @ 7:30 p.m.
The High Roller Express – Hull Ave Tavern @ 6 p.m.
Ben Wantland – Greenwood Lounge @ 8 p.m.
*Aquamarine Dream Machine – El Bait Shop @ 8 p.m.
Bob Pace & The Dangerous Band – Zimm’s @ 7 p.m.
Matt Logan – Fire Creek Restaurant @ 6:30 p.m.
J.D. McPherson (with Dustin Smith) – Vaudeville Mews @ 7 p.m.
Korby Lenker (with Ryne Doughty) – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Thursday, April 18th
99 Bottles (with Violent Knights, 6000 Wings & the Bended Bow) – Vaudeville Mews @ 5 p.m.
*Sorne (with Is Home Is) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Rainbow Penley – Coda Lounge @ 6 p.m.
David Zollo – Confluence Brewing Company @ 7 p.m.
Soul Searchers – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Laradee & The Positives – Star Bar @ 9 p.m.
Gas Lamp’s Open Jam (with Fat Tuesday & the Greasefire Keys) – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
*Joe Goodkin of Paper Arrows & Dustin Smith – Gas Lamp @ 7 p.m.
Friday, April 19th
GWAR (with Wilson, Warbeast) – Wooly’s @ 8 p.m.
The Jeff Bands Band – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
*Bonne Finken (with Seth Hedquist, Scott Dawson) – The Grapevine @ 7 p.m. (must RSVP)
*Shady at Best (with Luke Fox) – The Underground @ 9 p.m.
Dhobi Fats (with Quick Piss, The Beaches, Stillborn Mammoth) – Vaudeville Mews @ 5 p.m.
Rex Manning Day: An Ode to the 90s – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Gas Lamp’s Work Release Party (with Bob Pace & the Dangerous Band) – Gas Lamp @ 4:30 p.m.
Tweed Funk – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
R.S.V.P. – House of Bricks @ 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 20th
*Dead Horse Trauma CD Release – Wooly’s @ 5 p.m.
Euforquestra (with Blue Martian Tribe) – Wooly’s @ 10 p.m.
The End (Beatles Tribute Band) – Raccoon River Brewing Company @ 9 p.m.
Heath Alan Band – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Bill Matykowski – Smokey Row @ 7 p.m.
The Lowdown, Fancy Pants – The Underground @ 9 p.m.
The Shams (with Michelle McGuire) – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
He’s My Brother She’s My Sister (with Ramona and the Swimsuits) – Vaudeville Mews @ 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 21st
*Broadway Calls (with Muddy Rails, No Good Deed, 515) – Vaudeville Mews @ 5 p.m.
Is/Is (with MediumPENIS) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
The Dark Royals – El Bait Shop @ 8 p.m.
*Vesta Salon Rockin’ Earth Month featuring Tony Bohnenkamp & Crooked Mile – Gas Lamp @ 4 p.m.
Monday, April 22nd
WhiteWater Ramble (with Tallgrass) – Wooly’s @ 9 p.m.
Tuesday, April 23rd
Vampirates (with Die Mutts, Nancy Grace Death Squad, Scarlett Isis and the Hooker Bodies, The Glashtens) – Vaudeville Mews @ 5 p.m.
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Hear Here MSP (4/11 – 4/17)
Thursday, April 11th
Matt Stanton, Rachael & The Ranch Hand Resistance – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 10 p.m.
Doug Otto and the Getaways – 331 Club @ 9:30 p.m.
Twenty one pilots (with New Politics, Five Knives) – Triple Rock @ 7 p.m.
STS9 (with Russ Liquid) – Mainroom at First Avenue @ 7 p.m.
The Protomen (with Young & Tender) – 7th Street Entry @ 8 p.m.
Friday, April 12th
The Union Suits, Whitey Morgan & the 78’s – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 9:30 p.m.
That 1 Guy (with Captain Ahabs Motorcycle Club) – Cabooze @ 10 p.m.
Prof (with Mac Lethal, I Self Devine, Haphduzn) – Mainroom at First Avenue @ 8 p.m.
The Men (with Gun Outfit, Fury Things) – 7th Street Entry @ 8 p.m.
Phosphorescent (with Strand of Oaks) – Turf Club @ 8 p.m.
Brian Laidlaw and the Family Shade, Phillips Phonograph – 331 Club @ 10 p.m.
Saturday, April 13th
Neil Dynamite & The Heartlights, The Joseph Bell, King Tuesday – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 9:30 p.m.
Prof (with Mod Sun, Culture Cry Wolf, Meta) – Mainroom at First Avenue @ 6 p.m.
Akron/Family (with Red Daughters, M. Geddes Gengras) – 7th Street Entry @ 8 p.m.
Family of the Year, The Mowgli’s (with Lydia Hoglund) – Triple Rock @ 8 p.m.
The Ike Reilly Assassination (with Little Man) – Turf Club @ 8 p.m.
Juno What?! (with Turkuaz) – Cabooze @ 10 p.m.
Black Church Service – 331 Club @ 10 p.m.
Sunday, April 14th
Monday, April 15th
Dan Lund & Buffaloaf – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 8:30 p.m.
Young Man (with The Weeks) – 7th Street Entry @ 7:30 p.m.
Pocahontas County, The Roe Family Singers, Mother Banjo – 331 Club @ 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 16th
Hollywood Blvd – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @9:30 p.m.
Valley Meadows – 331 Club @ 10 p.m.
Purling Hiss (with Hollow Boys) – 7th Street Entry @ 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 17th
The Riverside Swing Band – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Trampled By Turtles (with Actual Wolf, Fever Dream) – Mainroom at First Avenue @ 7 p.m.
Trampled By Turtles 7th Street Takeover (with Fat Kid Wednesdays, Sans Souci Quartet, Next of Kin) – 7th Street Entry @ 7 p.m.
Now, Now and The Lonely Forest (with Prissy Clerks) – Triple Rock @ 7:30 p.m.
Soap (with Headband Jam) – Cabooze @ 10 p.m.
R.K. Mischo, The Dang O’ Tri’ole – 331 Club @ 7 p.m.
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Hear Here DSM (4/11 – 4/16)
Thursday, April 11th
Clutch (with Orange Goblin, Lionize, Scorpion Child) – Wooly’s @ 7:30 p.m.
David Zollo – Coda Lounge @ 6 p.m.
Miles Nielsen – Confluence Brewing Company @ 7 p.m.
Soul Searchers – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
The Greenery (with To The Wind, Street Thieves, Infinite Signal) – Vaudeville Mews @ 4:30 p.m.
B. Dolan (with Toki Wright, Mike Mictlan, prettygirlhatemachine) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Gas Lamp’s Open Jam (with Fat Tuesday & the Greasefire Keys) – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Friday, April 12th
Mason Jennings (with Sad Brad Smith) – Wooly’s @ 9 p.m.
R. J. Mischo, Scott Eggleston, Scot Sutherland, Dwight Dario – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Thankful Dirt – Fire Creek Restaurant @ 7 p.m.
Arthur Stapp – Ritual Café @ 7 p.m.
Scott Davis Quartet – Cosmopolitan Lounge @ 8 p.m.
Gas Lamp’s Work Release (with Bob Pace & The Dangerous Band) – Gas Lamp @ 4:30 p.m.
Electric Rag Band (with Stutterin’ Jimmy & The Goosebumps) – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Shatter, Vaudeville, Kick – House of Bricks @ 5 p.m.
Bringing Hawaii – Vaudeville Mews @ 7 p.m.
Fierce Bad Rabbit (with Naïve Melodies) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 13th
Don Jamieson, 2 AM, Uhmerikun Zen, Scott Lemon, Superchief – House of Bricks @ 7:30 p.m.
Randy Burk & the Prisoners (with James Biehn & The Host Country) – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
The High Crest – Raccoon River Brewing Company @ 9 p.m.
Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray – Ritual Café @ 7 p.m.
3 Legged Dawg – Star Bar @ 9 p.m.
Bill Matykowski – Smokey Row @ 7 p.m.
Sunday, April 14th
John Davey (with Erin Rae, Annalibera) – Vaudeville Mews @ 6 p.m.
Joe & Vicki Price – El Bait Shop @ 8 p.m.
Bon Jovi – Wells Fargo Arena @ 7:30 p.m.
Dirty Fences (with PURE GUT, John the Bastard) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Monday, April 15th
Justin Jones (with The Colt Walkers, Pets With Human Names) – Vaudeville Mews @ 6 p.m.
Good For You (with Greg Ginn of Black Flag) – Gas Lamp @ 8 p.m.
Tuesday, April 16th
The Stone Foxes (with Satellite State, Spacecamp, Person Whale) – Vaudeville Mews @ 5 p.m.
Moonlight Grammar (with FDR, Toby Diligent, Bandage Bleed Diamonds) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
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Hear Here MSP (4/3 – 4/10)
Thursday, April 4th
The Rolling Blackouts, Church Of Cash – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 9:30 p.m.
Jay Newz (with Infinite Kings, Mic Lyric, Ronnie Vyce, Exclusive Murray, C4, Tee J) – Cabooze @ 10 p.m.
Bernie King & The Guilty Pleasures – 331 Club @ 9:30 p.m.
Matt Costa, The Blank Tapes – Triple Rock @ 8 p.m.
Anthrax (with Exodus, High on Fire, Municipal Waste, Holy Grail) – Mainroom at First Avenue @ 6 p.m.
Trampled By Turtles (with Frankie Lee) – Symphony Hall at the DECC @ 6:30 p.m.
Hey Marseilles (with Young Buffalo, Ben Rosenbush & The Brighton) – 7th Street Entry @ 8 p.m.
4onthefloor (with Erik Koskinen) – Turf Club @ 8 p.m.
Friday, April 5th
Trailer Trash – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 9:30 p.m.
The Jelly Project, The Lone Crows, La Madness – Triple Rock @ 8 p.m.
Galactic (with Nigel Hall Band) – Cabooze @ 9 p.m.
Chants and Seas, The Further Adjustments, Lotus Easter – 331 Club @ 10 p.m.
Jamie Lidell (with Empres Of, Ludwig Persik) – Fine Line @ 8 p.m.
Cold War Kids (with Houses) – Mainroom at First Avenue @ 8 p.m.
Wovenhand (with Wrekmeister Harmonies) – 7th Street Entry @ 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 6th
Bad Bad Hats, The Belfast Cowboys – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 9:30 p.m.
Today is the Day, Black Tusk, Ken Mode, Fight Amp – Triple Rock @ 7:30 p.m.
Sammuto (with Snowblink) – 7th Street Entry @ 8 p.m.
4onthefloor (with The Evening Rig, Wishbook, Trapper Schoepp & The Shades) – Mainroom at First Avenue @ 8 p.m.
MarchFourth Marching Band – Cabooze @ 10 p.m.
Sunday, April 7th
Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers (with Rayland Baxter) – Turf Club @ 7 p.m.
IceAge, Condominium, Wild Child, Ex Nuns – Triple Rock @ 8 p.m.
Modestep (with Popeska) – Mainroom at First Avenue @ 7 p.m.
Hey Ocean! (with We Are The City, West of Aldine, Meme) – 7th Street Entry @ 7 p.m.
Monday, April 8th
Dan Lund & Buffaloaf – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 8:30 p.m.
The Roe Family Singers, Jon Rodine – 331 Club @ 9 p.m.
Tuesday, April 9th
Nikolay Diletsky, The Bootstrap Family Band – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 9:30 p.m.
Noah Gunderson, Denison Witmer – 7th Street Entry @ 7:30 p.m.
Valley Meadows – 331 Club @ 10 p.m.
Wednesday, April 10th
The Bad Companions – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 9 p.m.
B. Dolan, Toki Wright, Mike Mictlan – Triple Rock @ 8 p.m.
Lonsesome Dan Kase – 331 Club @ 9:30 p.m.
Clutch (with Orange Goblin, Lionize, Scorpion Child) – Mainroom at First Avenue @ 6:30 p.m.
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds (with Black Diet) – 7th Street Entry @ 8 p.m.
Soap (with Electric Children, Alex Frecon) – Cabooze @ 10 p.m.
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Hear Here DSM (4/3 – 4/9)
Wednesday, April 3rd
The High Roller Express – Hull Ave Tavern @ 6 p.m.
The High Crest – Raccoon River Brewing Company @ 7:30 p.m.
*Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt (with Meth Dad, Is Home Is, Los Drugs) – Vaudeville Mews @ 5 p.m.
Boats (with Foxholes, Dang Felton) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Mason Jar – Greenwood Lounge @ 8 p.m.
Twiztid, (Head) Pe (with Lil’ Wyte, Potluck, Liquid Assassin, Corpse) – Wooly’s @ 6 p.m.
Brother Trucker – El Bait Shop @ 8 p.m.
Bob Pace & The Dangerous Band – Zimm’s @ 7 p.m.
Somebody’s Darling – Gas Lamp @ 8 p.m.
Thursday, April 4th
Jimmie Vaughn & Tily-A-Whirl (with Bad Luck City) – Forte Conference Center @ 7 p.m.
Rainbow Penley – Coda Lounge @ 6 p.m.
This Must Be The Band (with Grood) – Vaudeville Mews @ 8:30 p.m.
Hold For Swank, Street Thieves, Abe Froman, Lake of Fat Kids – House of Bricks @ 5 p.m.
Josh Davis – Confluence Brewing Company @ 7 p.m.
Laradee & The Positives – Star Bar @ 9 p.m.
Open Jam (featuring Fat Tuesday & the Greasefire Keys) – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Soul Searchers – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Ben Wantland, Stutterin’ Jimmy & The Goosebumps – The Underground @ 9 p.m.
Friday, April 5th
Work Release Party (with Bob Pace & the Dangerous Band) – Gas Lamp @ 4:30 p.m.
Tommy & The High Pilots – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Heath Alan Band – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
*Psychostick (with Polkadot Cadaver, Downtown Brown, Dark Mirror, Astral Space) – Vaudeville Mews @ 6:30 p.m.
Toots & The Maytals, Dave Bess, Come Unity – Wooly’s @ 9 p.m.
*Parabelle, As For You, Fatal Addiciton – House of Bricks @ 9:30 p.m.
Sound Rover: Antique Fog Café with River Glen and Katie Ross – Mars Café @ 7 p.m.
Scott Davis Quartet – Cosmopolitan Lounge @ 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 6th
Thankful Dirt – Raccoon River Brewing Company @ 9 p.m.
*Horror Business (Misfits Tribute Band) with Painface, Green Death, As For You, Agrinex – Wooly’s @ 7 p.m.
*Bright Giant (with Enemy Planes, John June Year) – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
*You Me & Apollo (with The Host Country) – Vaudeville Mews @ 5:30 p.m.
Ghosts of Guyana (with Bite My Tongue, Callen’s Mudmen, Dresden Style, DJ Tanner Tanner) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Infuzion Band – Star Bar @ 9 p.m.
Rick Burke – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Bill Matykowski – Smokey Row @ 7 p.m.
*Deadnote, Alex Bergan – House of Bricks @ 5 p.m.
4010, Nest of Snakes, Numbered Existence – House of Bricks @ 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 7th
Cancer Free for Annali (with MooseKnuckle, Laradee & The Positives, Electric Shag, Fancy Pants – Wooly’s @ 5 p.m.
Denison Witmer (with Noah Gundersen) – Vaudeville Mews @ 6:30 p.m.
Mason Reed (with The Spicy Pickles Jazz Band) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Crooked Mile – El Bait Shop @ 8 p.m.
Monday, April 8th
Beach Day (with Chains of Love, Quick Piss, Ramona Muse) – Vaudeville Mews @ 5 p.m.
Promised Land (with Karen Meat & the Players) – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
*Water Liars with Seedlings (featuring Ty Wistrand) – Gas Lamp @ 8 p.m.
Tuesday, April 9th
Suffocation (with Exhumed, Jungle Rot, Rings of Saturn, Admiron, Agrinex, Corpse) – Wooly’s @ 5:45 p.m.
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Hear Here MSP (3/28 – 4/3)
Thursday, March 28th
Invisible 2 Women, Johan Engevik – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 9:45 p.m.
Teague Alexy, Matt ‘Dubs’ Walvante – 331 Club @ 9:30 p.m.
Shout Out Out Out Out (with Heloise & The Savoir Faire, Tickle Torture) – 7th Street Entry @ 8 p.m.
Har Mar Superstar (with The Virgins, Year of the Horse) – Triple Rock @ 8 p.m.
Friday, March 29th
DJ Jill Riley, Sisters Magnet & The Brothers Steel, E.L.nO. – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Redman (with Big Zach, Absent) – Cabooze @ 10 p.m.
France Camp, Greg Grease, Blue Ruin, Wealthy Relative – Triple Rock @ 8 p.m.
Reina del Cid and the Cidizens, Chants and Seas, Lydia Liza – 331 Club @ 10 p.m.
Waves and Fidlar (with Cheatahs) – 7th Street Entry @ 7 p.m.
Pert Near Sandstone (with Cornmeal, The Ragbirds) – Mainroom at First Avenue @ 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 30th
Davina & the Vagabonds – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 9:30 p.m.
As I Lay Dying, The Devil Wears Prada (with For Today, The Chariot) – Mainroom at First Avenue @ 5 p.m.
The Motet, Soap – Cabooze @ 10 p.m.
San Cisco (with Chaos Chaos) – Triple Rock @ 8 p.m.
Ducktails (with Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Panther Day) – Turf Club @ 8 p.m.
Micranots (with I Self Devine, Kool Akiem, Special Surprise Guests) – 7th Street Entry @ 9 p.m.
Jesse Saunders (with Nate Laurence, J Matthews) – The Record Room @ 10 p.m.
Tickle Torture, Hot Freaks, Mayda – 331 Club @ 10 p.m.
Sunday, March 31st
Hayden (with Lou Canon) – Triple Rock @ 7 p.m.
Bobby Long (with Michael Bernard Fitzgerald) – 7th Street Entry @ 8 p.m.
Monday, April 1st
Dan Lund & Buffaloaf – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 8:30 p.m.
Andrew McMahon (with Barcelona, Erland Wanberg) – Fine Line @ 6:30 p.m.
Sky Ferreira, How To Dress Well (with High Highs) – Triple Rock @ 7 p.m.
Little Green Cars (with John Mark Nelson) – 7th Street Entry @ 7:30 p.m.
The Roe Family Singers – 331 Club @ 9 p.m.
Tuesday, April 2nd
Judd Erickson and Curt Stone – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 8:45 p.m.
Spaceghostpurrp (with Greg Grease) – 7th Street Entry @ 8 p.m.
Valley Meadows – 331 Club @ 10 p.m.
Wednesday, April 3rd
Elmer & The Thunderjetts – Lee’s Liquor Lounge @ 9 p.m.
The Joy Formidable (with Guards, Kitten) – Mainroom at First Avenue @ 7 p.m.
Doldrums (with Sean Nicholas Savage) – 7th Street Entry @ 8 p.m.
Fiddle Heirs, Palmer T. Lee – 331 Club @ 7 p.m.
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Hear Here DSM (3/27 – 4/2)
Wednesday, March 27th
Tear Out The Heart, Hello Ramona, Buster Casey, Hours of Decay, Ignore The Script, Dream Annabelle – Vaudeville Mews @ 4 p.m.
Carbellion, Outshine, Nest of Snakes – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
High Roller Express – Hull Ave Tavern @ 6 p.m.
Ron Burchett – Raccoon River Brewing Company @ 7:30 p.m.
The High Crest – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Chris & Brenden – Fire Creek Restaurant @ 6:30 p.m.
David Zollo – El Bait Shop @ 8 p.m.
Bob Pace & the Dangerous Band – Zimm’s @ 7 p.m.
Air Dubai, Lolove & Paranoid Social Club – Gas Lamp @ 8 p.m.
Thursday, March 28th
Dirk Newton, Heather Miller, Luke Dickens, Alan Morphew – House of Bricks @ 8 p.m.
Ira Grace & The Bible Belt Prophets – Coda Lounge (Savory Hotel) @ 6 p.m.
*Mary McAdams – Confluence Brewing Company @ 7:30 p.m.
Soul Searchers – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Max Wellman Trio – Gramercy Tap @ 8:30 p.m.
Boy Hits Car – Vaudeville Mews @ 6:30 p.m.
Gas Lamp’s Open Jam featuring Fat Tuesday & the Greasefire Keys – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Friday, March 29th
*4onthefloor, North of Grand, Zachary Harper – Wooly’s @ 8 p.m.
Kilborn Alley Blues Band – Star Bar @ 9 p.m.
Fancy Pants – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Late Night Lucky – The Underground @ 9 p.m.
*Gimikk – The Garage @ 8 p.m.
*Kris Lager Band, Deadnote – DG’s Tap House @ 9 p.m.
One2Punch – Fire Creek Restaurants @ 7 p.m.
Lil Iffy & Andy D, DJ Richie Daggers – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Gas Lamp’s Work Release featuring Bob Pace & the Dangerous Band – Gas Lamp @ 4:30 p.m.
Hemlock, Apathy Syndrome, Absolute Power, Hours of Decay – House of Bricks @ 5 p.m.
*Obsidian’s Dream, Microwaved, Crooked Halo – House of Bricks @ 9:30 p.m.
Dark Horse Patrol – Vaudeville Mews @ 6:30 p.m.
Making Movies, Parranderos – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 30th
Cornmeal, Mooseknuckle – Wooly’s @ 9 p.m.
Sutherland, Ankum & Thompson – Star Bar @ 9 p.m.
Oreo Meatwagon – Raccoon River Brewing Company @ 9 p.m.
Homegrown – Greenwood Lounge @ 9 p.m.
Bill Matykowski – Smokey Row @ 7 p.m.
The Snacks – The Underground @ 9 p.m.
Kris Lager Band – Gas Lamp @ 9 p.m.
Oktane Gang, Tre D Crazi, Animal Team, J.R.E., Mystr N – Vaudeville Mews @ 5:30 p.m.
*Talking Mountain, Derek Lambert & the Prairie Fires, Doctor Dentist, Jackie Queedoray – Vaudeville Mews @ 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 31st
Pierce The Veil, Memphis May Fire, letlive., issues – Wooly’s @ 7 p.m.
Chrash, Golden Bloom – Gas Lamp @ 8 p.m.
The River Monks, Doubting Daniel & the Deliverance, Har Di Har, Dustin Smith & Paige Harpin
Monday, April 1st
Pocket Vinyl, Limbos – Gas Lamp @ 8 p.m.
Tuesday, April 2nd
Awolnation, Blondfire, Mother Mother – Val Air Ballroom @ 8 p.m.
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