There’s lots of great live music options this week, following what was somewhat of a quiet weekend around here.
If you head over to the residency portion on my recently launched Minnesota music calendar, you’ll find a recent addition in TWINE playing the Cabooze on Wednesdays.
Tonight is the first night of the residency, and I plan on being there. It’s free tonight, but there will be an $8 cover in following weeks. The show starts at 8.
TWINE is one of the most exciting jam bands we have in Minnesota, and there’s been some lineup changes in the group fronted by guitarist Will Effertz.
Brian “Snowman” Powers is now an official member of the band. You might have seem him perform with the band before.
The residency also puts an exclamation point on the fact that the Cabooze is thankfully under new ownership and trying to reestablish ties to the local music scene.
The place had no longer been booking the jam scene on its main stage the last few years, a loss that was deeply felt by local musicians.
So let’s all do our best to support this historic venue, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this fall.
Now, on to other options.
The Black Pumas play Surly tonight, with a 7 p.m. showtime. This show was rescheduled from June 21.
In the first of two appearances, drummer Joe Russo is featured in Selcouth Quartet at the Icehouse Thursday, with an 8 p.m. show. Russo also brings Joe Russo’s Almost Dead to the Palace Theatre in St. Paul on Dec. 7. Selcouth Quartet is a jazzier outfit, but definitely brings the improvisational chops.
Friday has three great options. There’s George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic at Treasure Island in Welch. Marcus Rezak with Mark Joseph (of The Big Wu) at Icehouse, and Bob Pat Band at the Hook & Ladder’s Mission Room. I’m personally torn between Rezak and Bob Pat Band.
On Saturday, Goose hits the Armory, the third jam- or jam-adjacent band to hit the Armory this year after Billy Strings and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Will Effertz’ WE Collective will be playing a free after show at Gluek’s.
Sunday, The Big Wu play a day-time show at Hazelden, St. Paul, part of the drug rehabilitation center’s 75th anniversary party.
I made a bunch of updates to this calendar last night. Keeping the calendar updated proved to be more difficult than I hoped while spending a month on the road following King Gizzard post Mondegreen.
I’m excited about The Motet coming to St. Paul’s Amsterdam Bar on Nov. 11.
Neal Francis will be at Fine Line on Nov. 15.
Wilco announced three shows at the Palace Theatre Dec. 13-15.
Cortex, who I saw recently in Chicago, is playing Fine Line Oct. 14. The 70s French fusion band will be performing Tropeau Bleu in its entirety. It’s an incredibly dope LP that you should check out and happens to be a favorite among hip hop producers, including who I consider to be the greatest beat maker of all time, the late J Dilla. Alain Mion, the pianist and composer and Cortex bandleader, is all that remains of the original lineup. But Mion still has it, folks.