by staff
“Vote No” efforts to defeat the marriage amendment has spawned a whole slew of events this weekend, and from the techno-tastic SYSTEM party at the Bolt Underground to an arty party in the NE Arts District, there couldn’t be more ways to support the cause. It’s also a big weekend for film in the Twin Cities, thanks to the annual Sound Unseen Film Festival and the Twin Cities Film Fest, and a big weekend for art with the St. Paul Art Crawl, not to mention plenty of spooky, pre-Halloween events like the Haunted Basement and the Zombie Pub Crawl. So get out there, get political, and enjoy some art, scares, music and film while you’re at it!
xo, l’étoile
DAILY THROUGH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH
Sound Unseen Film Festival
@ Trylon Microcinema
3258 Minnehaha Avenue
Minneapolis
@ Harriet Brewing’s Tap Room
3036 Minnehaha Avenue
Minneapolis
@ Ritz Theater
345 13th Avenue NE
Minneapolis
Screenings various times, 8 pm afterparties / Screenings are all ages, parties are 21+ / Screenings range from free to $15, all afterparties free
Celebrating the marriage of music and film, the indivisibility of sound and vision, it’s time for Sound Unseen’s annual rocking festival of small-time music-related movies, followed by some post-screening live shows (and drinks) at the Harriet Brewing Tap Room, conveniently down the street from the Trylon Microcinema, host for most of the festival’s selections. From the Rick Springfield you only thought you knew, to the Boston hardcore scene, to alien invaders who fall in love with folk music, Sound Unseen reiterates the relations of the imaginative eye and ear, enticing hundreds of Minneapolis’ best and brightest to spectate and listen before stumbling home with a pleasant golden glow buzz, whistling in the pleasant mid-autumn night. In addition to Charles Bradley: Soul of America, the program this year includes An Affair of the Heart, an in-depth look at Rick Springfield, the “Jessie’s Girl” sweetheart singer-songwriter still going strong on tour at age 62 with a devoted following; Bad Brains: A Band in D.C., which gets into the influential punk band that refused to be confined into any fixed sound or genre, thereby representing the true spirit of Punk Rock; The Source, about a cult-like commune of psychedelic musicians from the 1970s, reforming decades after their hippie heyday; XXX All Ages XXX: The Boston Hardcore Story, which takes a different look at Punk (no, it’s not a melding of Sasha Grey and “More Than a Feeling”), demonstrating how hardcore emblems such as mosh-pits weren’t necessarily the creations of drug addled decadents, but had more straight-edged progenitors than we might expect; Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, the festival’s centerpiece film (playing at the Ritz Theatre), about a young man who posted his songs on YouTube and became Steve Perry’s replacement in Journey; Cartoon College, delving into the artistry of comic-book making; Beware of Mr. Baker, about Cream and Blind Faith drummer Ginger Baker’s musical and personal journeys across the globe; and Radio Unnameable, about radio DJ Bob Fass, a boundless on-air personality. Sound Unseen is about the alchemy sound and vision transubstantiating together, the films being followed by live musical performances at free afterparties nightly from Thursday to Saturday, a lineup this year including the lovely DJs Lady Heat, Laliberte, Gallupstar, Bomba De Luz, DJ Don Cuco, Strange Names, and the man, the myth, the reality, Mark Mallman. -Niles Schwartz
Click HERE for Niles’ full column on this year’s Sound Unseen and Click HERE for the Sound Unseen site
A shot from "Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey"
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11TH & FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH
“RABBIT: An Original Rabbit Tragedy”
@ Bedlam Lowertown
213 4 Street E
Saint Paul
8 pm / $5-10 suggested donation
In the first stop of their 14-city tour before returning for a homecoming show at the new Lowertown Bedlam Theater, local theater collective Eternal Cult will be performing their latest production all with the help of an opera-singing Greek chorus. In a nod to classic Greek tragic plays and Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this original production written by Bedlam Theater regulars Savannah Reich and Jon Mac Cole balances the doom and gloom by positing its protagonist as a cute, fluffy cottontail rabbit named Jonathan as he struggles against a run of very bad luck. In addition to the sure-to-be-stellar playwrighting, the show also features original music and set design. -Jahna Peloquin
Click HERE for the Bedlam Theater site
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11TH
Top Brewer
@ Groveland Tap
1834 St. Clair Avenue
St. Paul
6 pm with main beer sampling from 7-8:30 pm / 21+ / $15
The latest craft beer event to hit the Twin Cities, Top Brewer is not only a fun beer tasting soiree, but also an ongoing competition which pits local home brewmasters against each other in a series of events happening this month. Four qualifiers will take place – two of them at St. Paul’s Groveland Tap in the Mac-Grove neighborhood this Thursday, October 11 and October 25 – with additional events in Edina and Maple Grove on October 18 and November 1. The event includes brew sampling, food pairings, a complimentary pint of Lucid and live entertainment. -Kate Iverson
Click HERE for Kate’s Q&A with Top Brewer’s Matt Dowgillo for the651.com for more on the event, and HERE for the Top Brewer site
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11TH & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH
One Night One Mission
@ Various locations
Founded in New York in 1996, Dress for Success started as an organization providing workwear to underprivileged women. There are now affiliates in over 13 countries serving 65,000 women. As the recession hit and the national unemployment rate sits at 7.8%, there is more need than ever for this service. The Twin Cities chapter was launched in 2009 and has served over 1,000 women, and this weekend, they launch their first annual One Night One Mission this Saturday, a night of 40-plus coordinated fundraisers happening in the Twin Cities for the organization, including events at Guild Collective, hosted Guild co-founder Pam Mondale, Dress for Success regional co-founder Julie Moss, and jewelry designer Stephanie Lake on Thursday, designer resale shop Second Début on Saturday afternoon, and more. -Jahna Peloquin
Click HERE for our Q&A with One Night One Mission event organizers, visit www.onenightonemission.com to RSVP and www.dressforsuccess.org/twincities for more info.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11TH
“Dummies: Photographs by Jaime Carrera”
@ Palmer’s Bar
500 Cedar Avenue S
Minneapolis
7–10 pm / FREE
Artist Jamie Carrera’s tastes tend to run toward challenging, arcane and revealing performance pieces, so it comes as no surprise that his habit of exhaustively photographing and documenting the lives of his cats (and sharing those photos via social media) did not immediately register to him as part of his artistic milieu. However, once a VICE magazine editor pointed out their artistic merit, Carrera started to see the project as a natural extension of his artistic endeavors and a body of work in their own right. The photos, which will be shown in the rather unique dive bar environs of Palmer’s on the West Bank, constitute a poignant look into the intimate and sometimes obsessive bond between a man (or men in this case, and Carrera’s boyfriend Nick deserves recognition as co-cat dad) and his cat. We won’t pull the crazy cat people card as we’re all a little crazy when it comes to our pets, some of us are just brazen enough to turn our obsessions into art and share them with the world. Come down for the opening reception this Thursday, mingle with a motley crew of art lovers and cat obsessives and snap up a limited edition print of handsome kitten devils Henri and Beau for a mere $5! -Anthony Enright
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11TH
Paper Darts Volume Four Launch Party
@ Icehouse
2528 Nicollet Avenue S
Minneapolis
8 pm doors, 9 pm event (ends at 11 pm) / 21+ / $5
Local art and lit darlings, Paper Darts just kicked out number four of their vivid, beloved print volumes, and you know what that means – an epic launch party literati-style. Tonight, don’t miss the action as Paper Darts celebrates the release at Icehouse with an evening featuring a coterie of theTwin Cities’ finest musicians, artists, dancers, singers, writers, actors – aka a delicious clusterfuck of talent. Check out rapid fire poetry, live art creations, story interpretation and the hypnotic melodics of local psychedelic art rock faves, Brute Heart. Double the size of previous issues, Volume Four is jam packed with authors, artists, and musicians who have made a “blood oath vowing to explore nonconforming perspectives of art and culture,” including work from seasoned story master Peter Bognanni, illustrated fiction from Allegra Lockstadt and gorgeous spreads from veteran illustrator Olaf Hajek – just to name a few! Snag your copy of the latest and largest issue of Paper Darts yet, hot off the press, and enjoy the lit decadence. -Juleana Enright
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11TH
Liar’s Tour at MIA
@ Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 3rd Avenue S
Minneapolis
6-7 pm / FREE
Join in for an evening filled with art, lies and prizes! Test your lie detecting skills at the Liar’s Tour, an exploration of several galleries at the MIA during which three true stories and one lie will be told. Figure out which tales are fiction and the person spotting the most lies will win a prize. Best of all? The event is totally free, too good to be true? -Chelsea Streich
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11TH
Big Cats “For My Mother” Album Release Show w/ The Chalice + K. Raydio
@ Cedar Cultural Center
416 Cedar Avenue S
Minneapolis
7:30 pm / All Ages / $10 advance, $12 door
Big Cats’ For My Mother is literally that – an instrumental album recorded by Spencer Wirth-Davis in honor of his mother, who died of ovarian cancer in 2010. It’s great stuff – laid back, occasionally pretty, and always quite remarkably dense and well-arranged, incorporating a wide array of influences including jazz and classical. Seventy-five percent of the proceeds from the record are being donated to the Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance, which is also cool as hell. For this show, he’s assembled a 15-piece band to play the album all the way through – it sounds like a very interesting night of instrumental hip-hop. Openers the Chalice are a nifty, somewhat experimental hip-hop/R&B/electronic combo, and K. Raydio is a great R&B songwriter, plying her smooth R&B voice against some nifty, jazz-inflected beats. -Jon Hunt
Click HERE for the Cedar Cultural Center site
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11TH
$50 Pyramid feat. Robyne Robinson & Joe Hastings (Hastings 3000)
@ Grumpy’s Bar
1111 Washington Avenue S
Minneapolis
10 pm / 21+ / FREE
Haven’t you ever wanted to see local celebs make fools out of themselves? Perhaps while they are trying to answer questions in a booze filled version of TV’s $100,000 Pyramid, but with a lot less money and a lot more dirty talking. In an effort to spread the word about the $50 Pyramid this week there will be a live taping hosted by Ian Rans from TV’s Drinking with Ian. The two stars playing for the big money are former Fox 9 anchor and jewelry designer Robyne Robinson and one-man, gas-masked band Hastings 3000, Joe Hastings. They need a few someones to play against – only the fearless may apply. Whoever wins takes home the big bucks. -Alexandra Katz
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11TH
Lady Parts
@ Clubhouse Jäger
923 Washington Avenue N
Minneapolis
10 pm / 21+ / FREE
It may sounds like a campy ’70s horror/softcore flick, but the suggestively titled “Lady Parts” is, in fact, the Twin Cities’ hardest-partying all-girl DJ trio to its home at Jäger. Join Susannah, Syril, and Emily – aka Lady Parts – for some sweet, sultry sounds ranging from party-ready hip hop to retro R&B and soul, and be sure to get in on the tasty drink specials ($2.50 PBR Tallboys and $5 Jameson) slung by Jäger’s good lookin’ bar staff. -Jahna Peloquin
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH
St. Paul Art Crawl
@ Various locations
6-10 pm Friday, noon-8 pm Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday / FREE
It’s baaaack. The bi-annual St. Paul Art Crawl makes its autumn appearance once again! This time around it’s extra special, however, considering that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the beloved studio tour. Wander your way through numerous buildings, studios, and galleries jam packed vivid paintings, photographs, sculpture work, and oh-so-much more, in Lowertown and beyond. See our top picks below for a few suggestions on what to check out! -Kate Iverson
Click HERE to read Kate Iverson’s new interview with Cheryl Wilgren Clyne on this year’s Crawl and HERE for the St. Paul Art Crawl site
FRIDAY OCTOBER 12TH-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH
Art Crawl Spotlight: Alex Kuno Open Studio & “Teething” Preview
@ Alex Kuno Studio
262 E. 4th Street, Studio #206
St. Paul
6-10 pm Friday, noon-8 pm Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday / FREE
Get an insider’s peek at local art fave Alex Kuno’s personal studio this weekend. Kuno, whose prolific exhibit series “The Miscreants of Tiny Town” has graced numerous gallery walls in the twin towns over the past year, will be giving us a sneak preview of his new “Miscreants” iteration. See new works from the artist’s upcoming “Teething” exhibit, set to officially open at the Arts Institute of Minnesota Gallery in Minneapolis on November 9th. Also make a trek up to the second floor of the neighboring Air Sweet Air Gallery to see additional works by Kuno. This artist’s can’t-miss work is a combination of fable and mystery with a sprinkling of creepiness and a dash cute to balance things out. According to the invite, “special offers and huge deals” will abound, as will Kuno’s witty repartee! -Kate Iverson
Click HERE for more info
FRIDAY OCTOBER 12TH-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH
Art Crawl Spotlight: “Just Like Honey”
@ Air Sweet Air Gallery
262 E. 4th Street, Studio 203
St. Paul
6-10 pm Friday, noon-8 pm Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday / FREE
While traversing the wilds of Lowertown this Art Crawl weekend, be sure to make your way over to Air Sweet Air Gallery, where a whimsical exhibit of tiny proportions awaits. Lay eyes on a savvy selection of artist-made dioramas of all styles and concepts, hand-crafted by an impressive roster of local creatives. Make no mistake, these dioramas aren’t like the ones you made in grade school, they are imaginative miniature creations manipulated by the deft hands of skilled artists. See meticulous and nostalgic dioramas by the likes of Aaron Dysart, Brian Hart, Nick Howard, and many more. While you’re there, be sure to snare a limited edition illustrated bear mask by this year’s official Art Crawl poster artist and ASA proprietress, Cheryl Wilgren Clyne. -Kate Iverson
BONUS: Check out the 2nd floor of Air Sweet Air, where you’ll be treated to an inaugural peek at the new annex gallery or “fantom galerie,” if you want to be fancy. On display will be “Slant of Certain Lightness” featuring works by Alex Kuno and Cheryl Wilgren Clyne.
Click HERE for more info
FRIDAY OCTOBER 12TH-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH
Art Crawl Spotlight: Modern Myths
@ Echo Arts
275 4th Street E, Suite B200
St. Paul
6-10 pm Friday, noon-8 pm Saturday (with opening reception from 7-10 pm plus afterparty 10 pm -midnight), noon-5 pm Sunday / FREE
Join A Forest for Trees Collective at Echo Arts this weekend for the debut of “Modern Myths” a photography exhibit featuring the work of artistically-minded shutterbugs Scott Demeranville, Hilary Lund, Rhea Pappas, Stephen Stephens and Brian Hart. The exhibit will be on display all weekend, with an opening reception held on Saturday night from 7-10 pm followed by a fun after party complete with live music after 10pm. Sounds like the place to be! -Kate Iverson
Click HERE for more info
FRIDAY OCTOBER 12TH-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH
Art Crawl Spotlight: Big Table Studio
@ Big Table Studio
375 Wabasha Street N
St. Paul
6-10 pm Friday, noon-8 pm Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday / FREE
If you’ve ever wondered about the process of screen printing, a visit to Big Table Studio should be on your art crawl itinerary. Stop by the hip poster shop and print studio to peruse their numerous colorful creations, watch the Big Table team work their magic, and even screen print a poster of your own, emblazoned with an exclusive design made specifically for the St. Paul Art Crawl’s 20th Anniversary. While you’re in the neighborhood, you may as well stop in for a pint and a bite at the nearby Amsterdam Bar & Hall, just next door. -Kate Iverson
Click HERE for more info
FRIDAY OCTOBER 12TH-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH
Art Crawl Spotlight: Kara Hendershot
@ Kara Hendershot Studio
Northern Warehouse
308 Prince Street
St. Paul
6-10 pm Friday, noon-8 pm Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday / FREE
We heart the art of one Ms. Kara Hendershot! The staple St. Paul painter seems to always be evolving her work, yet her signature style is still instantly recognizable. Wispy strands of unexpected color and illustrative portraiture merge with subtly sorrowful scenes and textural techniques. This prolific young painter knows how to rock the crawl the right way too: she’s offering art pieces catered to every pocketbook, from large scale works to small scale works to fine art prints to hand made magnets. While you’re there, be sure to check out Hendershot’s side project, Bent Whisker, a series of humorous illustrations, t-shirts, and more. -Kate Iverson
Click HERE for more info
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH
“Guy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba”
@ Weisman Art Museum
333 E River Road
Minneapolis
Artist talk 6:30 pm, opening reception 7:30–9pm, show runs through January 1, 2013 / Artist talk free, party $15 advance $20 door, $10 for U of M alumni and non-U of M students (free for WAM Members and U of M students)
Perhaps we payed a bit too much attention in cultural studies class, but we’re suckers for a good discussion of post-colonialism (not kidding, buy us a drink mention Edward Said and stand back). Maybe this subject doesn’t immediately fascinate you, but it probably should, as there may be no more important, lasting or topical subject than the lingering influence and resentments that have accompanied the legacy of Western colonialism (hello, Middle East anyone?). South African artist Gary Tillim’s work directly addresses the colonial and post colonial heritage of the African continent through an examination if the Architectural influences and residual landmarks that comprise much of the infrastructure of the continent. WIth compelling photographs and a critical (even sardonic) perspective, Tillim’s exhibition Avenue Patrice Lumumba will have you looking at the history and culture of Africa, and by extension the rest of the colonial world (including the US of A) in a new light. The opening reception features hors d’oeuvres along with music from music by the African Jazz Trio, and if you come early, you can hear a special live dialogue between the artist (broadcasting live from South Africa) and exhibition curator Karen Irvine that’s certain to be lively. (Note, the artist talk takes place in room 230 of the STSS building across the plaza from WAM.) -Anthony Enright
Click HERE for the Weisman Art Museum site
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH-SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20TH
Twin Cities Film Fest
@ Showplace ICON Theater in West End
1625 West End Boulevard
St. Louis Park
For full schedule and film synopses, go to twincitiesfilmfest.org
Death of film culture? Not in the freaking Twin Cities this weekend. Turn one way and you have fine new releases like Argo and Seven Psychopaths. Hang left, and you’ll be rocking it out at the Trylon and the Ritz with Sound Unseen Film Festival. And if you head to the ICON Theater in St. Louis Park, the relatively young Twin Cities Film Festival will be chugging away, with 60 films on hand. With screenings in the West End in autumn, the TC Film Fest necessarily carries a different vibe from the spring’s long-running Mpls./St. Paul festival (I suppose unlike most metropolitan areas, our warm season opens and closes with the movies, which we deserve with our moody climate). We also collect some of the more prestigious fare from the September fests of Toronto, New York, and Telluride. This weekend includes Todd Berger’s warmly-received comedy It’s a Disaster, starring David Cross and Julia Stiles, and Dustin Hoffman’s touted directorial debut Quartet, a comedy about the dynamics and jealousies between some retired opera singers, starring Billy Connelly, Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay. This year’s fest also includes two of the year’s most anticipated films: David O. Russell’s comedy of psychological dysfunction, The Silver Linings Playbook with Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro (apparently doing his best work in years), and the feature debut of Sopranos creator David Chase, Not Fade Away, following a group of youths in the 1960s inspired to form a band. And if one doesn’t feel like wandering into unfamiliar territory, the fest has nabbed the 30th anniversary print of Steven Spielberg’s E.T., showing this Sunday at 12:15 pm. Some may scoff at the selection when the time slot could just as well go to an independent or local filmmaker’s work, but to heck with that. E.T. invented us, you might say, so let’s luxuriate in the big and the small, the famous and obscure, and the old and the new. -Niles Schwartz
Click HERE for the Twin Cities Film Fest site
"It's a Disaster"
NIGHTLY THROUGH WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31ST
The Haunted Basement
@ Soap Factory
514 Second Street SE
Minneapolis
6 pm-midnight / 18+ / $22
Okay, so you’re the kind of fellow who’s lulled to sleep by The Exorcist. You think The Shining is for pussies. The Japanese horror collection is mere child’s play. Yeah, we get it, you can handle your horror…when safely ensconced by your giant LCD screen. But how brave, my little friend, will you be with there’s nothing standing between you and your worst nightmares? Enter: the Soap Factory’s long-awaited, long-feared Haunted Basement. Believe us, the artists behind this event don’t mess around. They painstakingly work to make every detail – every dim-lit bedroom, every satanic scene, every vomit stench – as terrifying as possible. As if the basement of the Soap Factory old digs isn’t scary enough, renowned local theater director Noah Bremer in collaboration with special effects makeup artist Kristen Leigh, the smell engineers from the St. Croix Sensory, and a talented team of local artists and costume designers join forces to scare the living shit out of you while highlighting the grotesque perversion of the mundane. Tickets sell out quick. So get yours now, or we’ll just assume you’re a weeny. -Juleana Enright
Click HERE for the Soap Factory site
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH (RUNS THROUGH OCTOBER 31ST)
The Butcher Shop: House of Gore!
@ 1444 E. Reaney Avenue
St. Paul
5-11pm / All Ages, but intended for an adult audience / $5
Like a good scare? Willing to let strangers in frightening costumes grab at you? Got $5? Celebrate Halloween the way that it’s meant to be celebrated, in a dilapidated house filled with black lights, emotionally abusive actors and fake blood! Or is it real blood? Is it your blood?! Will there be spiders? Probably. Monsters? Certainly. A tent at the end filled with qualified professionals trained to help you cope with your agonizing case of PTSD? Probably not. The Butcher Shop: House of Gore! is not legally responsible for you being a wuss. -Beth Hammarlund
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH
The Bodyguard: A Burlesque Benefit
@ Hell’s Kitchen
80 S 9th Street
Minneapolis
9:30 pm-2 am / 21+ / $10
Hosted by Boi Wonder Productions & Black Hearts, this event benefits a huge contributor to the cabaret community, AJ “The Bodyguard” Peterson, who is recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident. Included in the evening’s fabulous lineup are burlesque performances by local faves Coco Dupree, Ophelia Flame and Michelle L’Amour, among many others. Be sure to bid on the great items during the silent auction and support AJ while enjoying what is sure to be a night of amazing performances. -Chelsea Streich
Click HERE for the Hell’s Kitchen site
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH
Heartbeats/4onthefloor Split Vinyl Release w/ Retribution Gospel Choir + Filligar
@ First Avenue Mainroom
701 First Avenue N
Minneapolis
7 pm / 18+ / $12 advance, $15 doors
“Ocean Green,” Heartbeats’ song from this split 7″, is a nifty little pop slab, a pounding, piano-driven song that could have come from 1960s Los Angeles as easily as from 1990 San Francisco a la Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Haven’t heard the 4onthefloor song yet, but, you know, lots of bass drum, and a Southern Rock twang, right? I’m on record as loving Retribution Gospel Choir, which is Al Sparhawk’s rawk combo – I’d rather hear it than Low, frankly, even though it’s a super guilty-pleasure-type thing (basically everything I listen to is a guilty pleasure). Filligar is from Chicago, and plays good old-fashioned guitar/piano-driven pop music in a super early-’70s boogie mode with a few rough-and-ready indieisms thrown in. It sounds like a great night of somewhat throwbacky rock and roll music, folks. -Jon Hunt
Click HERE for the First Avenue site
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH
Tav Falco and The Panther Burns
@ Bayport BBQ
328 5th Avenue N
Bayport, MN
7:30 pm / 21+ / $20
The legendary, Memphis-bred Tav Falco and the Panther Burns got their start in 1979, blending rockabilly, blues, country and good ol’ fashioned rock ‘n’ roll. The band, which once included the late, great Alex Chilton, has influenced the likes of the Cramps and the Gun Club, and they’re considered the grandfathers of southern gothic-tinged roots music and rockabilly. Taking inspiration from obscure country blues music, Antonin Artaud’s works like The Theater and Its Double, beat poetry, anarchist theory and Dada humor, their strange, creepy style of American rock and roll might remind one of something out of a David Lynch movie – in a good way. Taking place at blues joint Bayport BBQ, just north of Hudson, the show doubles as the venue’s two-year anniversary and starts off with the 1974 short documentary on Tav Falco, Honky Tonk; John Schooley opens. It’s a rare chance to see some legendary rock. -Danielle Morris
Click HERE for the Bayport BBQ site
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH
Debashish Bhattacharya w/ Steve Sklar + Johnna Morrow
@ Cedar Cultural Center
416 Cedar Avenue S
Minneapolis
7 pm doors, 8 pm show / All Ages / $18 advance, $20 door
Fans of Indian music – and anybody who’s ever touched a psychedelic record should be, as that’s where the drone you know and love comes from! – will love Debashish Bhattacharya, a slide guitar maestro who plays gorgeous, traditional Indian raga with a sinewy
slide guitar that ends up sounding a lot like a sitar. His music is complex, dense, hypnotic, and really really cool. If you don’t fear music that isn’t Western, you’ll adore it. Openers Steve Sklar and Johnna Morrow play original music with incredibly diverse instrumentation, including throat-singing, didgeridoos, guitar, percussion instruments of all stripes and more. -Jon Hunt
Click HERE for the Cedar Cultural Center site
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH
Medusa’s 5-Year Anniversary
@ Medusa
see FB invite for location deets
8 pm doors, 9 pm music / $7
Our fair punk-bizarre venue Medusa has made it past the sleepy months of infancy, past the terrible twos and into the cacophonous fives. Come celebrate Club-Med’s anni with live sets from seven bands sure to give you an auditory concussion. Featuring experimental hardcore from Minneapolis’ Scaphe, False, the deathly screamo melodics of Tips 4 Twat, Mr. Hide, Tender Meat’s emotronic sounds, Jose Bove and otherworldly noise from International Novelty Gamelan. -Juleana Enright
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH
Worldwide Discotheque
@ Clubhouse Jäger
923 Washington Avenue N
Minneapolis
10 pm / 21+ / FREE
Monthly all-vinyl DJ party Worldwide Discotheque features DJ Brian Engel of Hotpants and Hipshaker fame and DJ Steely Dan from the Kinda Cloudy Radio show on KFAI, so you know it’s got to be good. Get ready to get funky – the masterfully mixed and endlessly dynamic old-school beats set the tone for the evening, spanning genres including funk, Afro Beat, disco, boogie, salsa, reggae, highlife, Cumbia, boogaloo, rocksteady, dancehall and ska from Africa, South America, and Jamaica. This month, they’ll be joined by special guest DJ Paul Harding, longtime host of Radio K International and regular at King & I Thai. -Staff
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH
WAK LYF presents BLVCK MVSS
@ Kitty Kat Club
315 14th Avenue SE
Minneapolis
10 pm / 21+ / FREE
Get ready to goth out. Local DJ collective WAK LYF is bringing darkwave to the shabbily decadent confines of the Kitty Kat Club. Their “BLVCK MVSS” dance party will have you getting ready to worship the dance floor as the WAK LYF DJs Neuport, Jim Frickle, Cobra Blood and special guests DJs Slim Brit and Asher Diamonds spin hauntingly face-melting dance tunes, backed with visuals by Video Villains. Be sure to get there early to cash in on $3 PBR Tallboys, $2.50 Hi-LYF tallboys and $3 rails before midnight. -Jahna Peloquin
Click HERE for more info
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12TH
“The Myth of Utopia: New Work by John Diebel & Terrence Payne”
@ Rosalux Gallery
1400 Van Buren Street NE
Minneapolis
Opening reception 7-10 pm, runs through October 30th / FREE
With their new dual show, Rosalux Gallery member artists John Diebel and Terrence Payne offer up their individual takes on the dystopia of urban society – in two colorful, but very different, sets of work. For his part, Diebel takes a slightly more literal approach, his graphic, color-blocked collages depicting an imaginary cityscape that is clearly inspired by the Eastern Bloc of 1980s Berlin. Payne sticks to his signature large-scale oil paintings, offering a less literal but more literary take on “the myth of utopia” with the inclusion of some irony-laced phrases embedded within the works (“You Think You Are Dancing, But Really You Are Just Dying Slowly”). -Jahna Peloquin
Click HERE for “The Myth of Utopia” blogspot and HERE for the Rosalux Gallery site
Terrence Payne's "You Think You Are Dancing, But Really You Are Just Dying Slowly"
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12TH
SYSTEM at Bolt Underground: Vote No Benefit
@ Bolt Underground (enter through rear of building)
501 Washington Avenue S
Minneapolis
10 pm-2:30 am / 21+ / $7 with RSVP at rsvp.systemmusic.net, $10 without
With long-running techno night BLACK having been discontinued at First Ave’s Record Room, a new techno haven has helpfully popped up to soften the blow. BLACK co-presenter SYSTEM’s new, bi-monthly night at gay club the Bolt Underground takes place this weekend, doubling as a benefit for Minnesotans United for All Families, with all proceeds from the night go toward the organization’s Vote No efforts. The house music-geared night put together by SYSTEM promoter Mike Gervais will feature sets from Twin Cities vets DJs Dirty McKenzie (aka DJ Apollo and Dory Kalahe), House Proud promoter and Celebrity Records owner Bryan Gerrard, Ian Traas (one-half of the Sexbotz) and original Steppers Alliance DJ and former First Avenue resident Matt Veloce. Get there early for 2-4-1 rail drinks and Miller Lites until 11 pm. -Jahna Peloquin
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH
Art for Equal Marriage Benefit
@ Northrup King Building
1500 Jackson Street NE, Studio 367 (3rd floor)
Minneapolis
6-11 pm / All ages / FREE
Support the local arts community and the cause to “Vote No” with a benefit art show and silent auction on Saturday night at Northeast arts hub the Northrup King Building. Over 70 artists are participating, including Gina Louise, Erin Sayer, Kyle Fokken, Mike Welton, Caitlin Karolczak and Mark Rivard, plus there will be Wendy Petersen on hand DJing vinyl, a cash bar, and gourmet hors d’oeuvres. Proceeds go toward Minnesota United for All Families, a coalition dedicated to defeating the proposed anti-gay marriage amendment. -Jahna Peloquin
Click HERE for more info
Painting to be included in silent auction by Caitlin Karolczak
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH
Zombie Pub Crawl VIII
@ West Bank
Various locations near Cedar & Riverside
Minneapolis
@ Zombie Island (Midway Stadium)
1771 Energy Park Drive
St. Paul
all ages/ 21+( to drink) $22.99 advance/ $40 day off starts at 2pm
This year’s Zombie Pub Crawl is looking to be the biggest gathering of zombies in the WORLD. The Crawl started in 2005 with 150 zombies and it has grown to thousands of undead in just a few years. There are many ZPC copycat events springing up in other cities, but this is the original. This year’s has awesome dual city events on the West Bank of Minneapolis and “Zombie Island” (aka Midway Stadium) in St. Paul, and there is some seriously “killer” music happening at the two locations this year. Awesome local and national acts will keep the undead thoroughly entertained. The highlights at Zombie Island include Marijuana Deathsquads, Action Bronson, Riff Raff, Get Cryphy DJs and DMX. Also there is zombie carnival with free rides for all the zombies, and fireworks all night. The West Bank has band and entertainment at EVERY bar along the way but there is a few key stages where all the big entertainment happens. The Cabooze features local acts the Japhies, the Goondas, the Chalice and the Clerb, as well as Booty Bounce queen Big Freedia and ’90s throwback the Gin Blossoms outdoors, as well as great line up of local and national DJs inside. The Cedar features a line up of metal that is hard to beat, Exodus, Impaler, Black Rainbow and Mordwulf. The Red Sea, the Nomad, the Triple Rock, Palmer’s, Republic, the Acadia and the 400 Bar also have zombie entertainment as well. This the undead event of the year, if not ever. -Danielle Morris
Click HERE for the Zombie Pub Crawl site
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH
Last Chance for Love: A Vote No Benefit
@ Pilotvibe Studios
1828 Marshall Street NE
Minneapolis
7 pm–late / All Ages / Donations welcome
It’s hard for us to imagine who exactly is against two consenting adults committing to a life long relationship of mutual respect and companionship, but apparently from the appearance of a small spattering of nasty Vote Yes signs there must still be some residual bigotry floating around. What better way to help the effort to get out the No votes than partying down with a bunch of brilliant, creative and committed Twin Cities friends in a convivial and spontaneous show of support for love and marriage. Hosted by Pilotvibe Studios in the NE Arts District, this party features more fun activities and special happenings than you can shake a stick at. You can crate custom ringtones, sing some Marry-aoke (see what they did there), participate in an interactive animation project, shop cool prints from local artists, and imbibe drinks from celebrity bartenders. If all that does’t already have you lured in, the evening’s tunes will be spun by DJ Maggie Morrison of LaLiberte/Lookbook fame. Revelers are encouraged to break out formal wedding attire of any vintage, so you can finally give second live to that lime green bridesmaid’s dress you had to wear at your cousin’s wedding in 1999. Come show your support for a good cause and make sure love get’s a fair chance this November. -Anthony Enright
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH
Vacation Dad EP Release Party w/ Olsen Twinns + the Birthdays + Little Spoon + DJ Famuel
@ Hexagon Bar
2600 27th Avenue S
Minneapolis
10 p.m. / 21+
Living up to his holiday-loving meme, Vacation Dad is a traveling party purveyor, spreading the good word of chillwave bliss from city to city across the country. One-half of the team behind DIY label MJMJ, Vacation Dad is Andy Todryk, aka the drummer for WI band Farms. His latest EP, Livin, features hazy tropical beats, heavy on the beach vibes and thunderous percussion with a hint of the tribal – not to mention the fact that it comes bundled with a collage book collecting over 100 35mm photos pulled from two years of tours and travels, so you can dream along as you ride the wave. Tonight’s EP release hipshaker features a chance to get your hands on the album for a discounted price plus enjoy live sets from the electropoppy Olsen Twinns, Boston’s dreamhousers the Birthdays and dreamgazers Little Spoon, a DJ set from Famuel and, of course, tunes from Vacation Dad. -Juleana Enright
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH
Sound Unseen presents Mark Mallman CD Release Show w/ Van Stee
@ Ritz Theater
345 13th Avenue NE
Minneapolis
7 pm doors, 8 pm show / All Ages / $10 advance, $12 door
The thing people forget about Mark Mallman when they talk about the crazy stunts and the gimmicks is what a great pop songwriter he is. The sleep-deprived experimental stuff he does during the Marathons isn’t remotely representative of the tight, focused, hooky pop music he usually traffics in. Frankly, Double Silhouette, his latest, is the album the Killers were trying to make with Battle Born – an epic, gorgeous pop album filled with arena-ready choruses. But he does it in a way that doesn’t make him sound pompous (sorry, Killers). Even at his most epic, Mallman sounds humble and human and deeply idiosyncratic, and that’s why this album works so bloody well. Forget the gimmicks, folks. The excellent Double Silhouette is one of the best local records of the year and proves that Mark Mallman is one of the Twin Cities’ best songwriters (if not its very best), an absolute master of the pop song form. -Jon Hunt
Check out We Will Rock You for Jon’s full review of “Double Silhouette” and Click HERE for the Sound Unseen site
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH
The Golden Bubbles Album Release Show w/ Buffalo Moon + Koo Koo Kanga Roo
@ Kitty Cat Klub
315 14th Avenue SE
Minneapolis
9 pm / 21+ / $5
The new album from locals the Golden Bubbles, Seventy-Two is smart, occasionally funny, piano-driven pop music arranged like a cross between the best disco song you’ve never heard and the soundtrack to your favorite television show in 1978. It’s great stuff, at once meaty and muscular and delightfully frothy, sporting terrific melodies like wide-collared polyester leisure suits and never afraid to get cheesy as hell which, when you’re doing stuff like this, is an essential trait – you can’t blush, you can’t pretend this is all winky-winky, you have to hit it with complete sincerity or else it turns coy. Seventy-Two never gets coy. The band celebrates with a release show with bossa nova crooners Buffalo Moon and zany dance duo Koo Koo Kanga Roo. -Jon Hunt
Head over to We Will Rock You to read Jon’s album review in full and click HERE for more info
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH
Nightosaur w/ Exiles
@ Icehouse
2528 Nicollet Avenue
Minneapolis
10:30 pm doors, 11:30 pm show / 21+ / $5
Hot off the recently-released Spaceaxers, one of Minneapolis’ best heavy bands, Nightosaur, brings the metal to the Icehouse. Their name describes them perfectly: a Jurassic rock sound that is heavy, ferocious and epic. They keep more on the classic side of heavy, sounding like Iron Maiden or earlier Metallica, but with their own twist and turns and ripping guitar solos and equally bad ass lyrics. Their live show also show classic heavy metal swagger with lot of headbanging, showy guitar soloing and the band mantra is “shirts or beards, never both.” Opening are Exiles, the new project from Holly Newsom of Zoo Animal and Flip Arkulary of the Half Hearts. -Danielle Morris
Click HERE for the Icehouse site
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH
TOO MUCH LOVE: Resurrection
@ First Avenue Mainroom
701 1st Avenue N
Minneapolis
10 pm / 18+ / $3, $2 with college ID & zombies
We’ve been getting down at Soviet Panda’s weekly Saturday night dance party TOO MUCH LOVE since it first debuted five years ago. After an impressive run, it bid adieu to the First Ave Mainroom last week before moving up to the Record Room this week. But don’t fret – they’ll be throwing one big Mainroom bash every last Saturday of the month, beginning with the Halloween bash TOO MUCH BLOOD on October 27. Check out the intimate new Record Room night, where Soviet Panda and guest DJ B. Carter Grimes will be spinning his dance-ready mix all night and enjoy 2-4-1s before midnight. Early arrival is suggested. -Jahna Peloquin
Click HERE for the First Avenue site
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH
Neil Halstead (of Slowdive and Mojave 3)
@ Bryant Lake Bowl
810 W Lake Street
Minneapolis
9:30 doors, 10 pm show / All Ages / $15
Halstead is one of my all-time favorite songwriters. I’m on record as thinking Slowdive are the unsung heroes of the shoegaze movement, combining dreamy melodies and delicious guitar noise better and more consistently than their compatriots (check out their Souvlaki LP if you need proof). His follow-up group, the now-sadly-defunct Mojave 3, were a rootsier version of same, combining Halstead’s delightful and wistful melodies with his honeyed delivery and delicate acoustic guitar playing. Since their breakup in 2006, he’s been doing the solo thing, and his latest, Palindrome Hunches, is a terrific, melancholic album filled with marvelous songwriting – if you’ve not heard him, think a breathier Nick Drake with a tendency towards the major-keyed melody. Expect an evening of hushed pleasures, and maybe he’ll grace us with the Slowdive classic “Allison.” -Jon Hunt
Click HERE for the Bryant-Lake Bowl site
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH
West Bank Boogie MN Blues Hall of Fame Induction & Party
@ Wilebski’s Blues Saloon
1638 Rice Street
St. Paul
Noon doors, 1 pm music, 2 pm ceremony / All ages / $10 suggested donation
It’s time once again for the Minnesota Blues Hall of Fame Ceremony, and this year’s salutes heavy hitters in the local blues scene over the years. That includes legendary musicians James Samuel “Cornbread” Harris, Jr., the late Big Walter Smith, Dan Schwalbe, Will Donicht and The Lamont Cranston Band, plus the Electric Fetus record store and local music writer Cyn Collins, whose 2006 oral history of the West Bank blues music scene, West Bank Boogie, will also be inducted. Tentative plans for the ceremony include a musical tribute to Big Walter by Jimi “Primetime” Smith and the The Groove Merchants, an appearance from Cornbread Harris, and performances by Dan Schwalbe, Javier & the Innocent Sons and Bob Bingham. -Jahna Peloquin
Click HERE for the Minnesota Blues Society site
Cornbread Harris Photo © Bjorn1101 / Flickr
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH
Riot Act Reading Series
@ The Belmore/The New Skyway Lounge
25 N 4th Street
Minneapolis
7 pm / FREE
After a lengthy hiatus, the always outrageous, kick-in-the-face literary romp Riot Act Reading Series takes its comedy flanks from its former home at Nick and Eddie to Doug Anderson’s new joint, the Belmore/the New Skyway Lounge to deliver a hot, artsy mess of rebellious readings, ingenious storytelling and scholarly rudeness. Host and punk rock poet Paul Dickenson will be joined by short film producer and everyone’s favorite liquor cashier, Beck DeRobertis; the so-called “Mistress of the Stietto Poetiica” Laura Brandenburg, and author and “inter-planet traveller” Frank Henry Rawlings III. -Staff
Paul Dickenson, Photo by Sean Smuda
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