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The Montana-based Kitchen Dwellers are in the midst of headlining their own spring tour, with Sicard Hollow. The band has dates out on the East Coast before hitting several stops in the Midwest, including Indianapolis, Kalamazoo, Mich., Chicago and Milwaukee.
The Kitchen Dwellers’ guitarist Max Davies answered some questions from Jam in the Stream amidst the band’s Spring ‘23 tour with Sicard Hollow, as the band headed for the east coast and Midwest.
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Ghost Funk Orchestra bandleader and guitarist Seth Applebaum chatted with Jam in the Stream editor Javier Serna ahead of the band’s first Minnesota gig at the Turf Club in Saint Paul.
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Goose’s light rig is one of many reasons fans have fallen in love with this band’s live experience.
Jam in the Stream weighs in not on the Goose show itself, per say, that rolled through Minnesota Sunday but the polarizing aspect that three up-and-coming bands have sparked the past few years. It’s OK to like, or not like, any or all of them. But it would be better if we all just remembered to be kind to one another.
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Minneapolis jamgrass quartet Buffalo Galaxy will be playing four shows in Colorado this week.
Photo by Keely Zynda
Zach Tauer, banjoist for Minneapolis jamgrass quartet Buffalo Galaxy, chatted with Jam in the Stream ahead of the band run of four shows in Colorado in May, 2023. The interview covers other coming shows planned, including festival appearances, and the band’s upcoming single, music video, and LP.
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This week, a pair of artists announced pop-up shows independently of each other. String Cheese Incident is doing a free show at Chicago radio station 93xrt (details on acquiring tickets included in story) April 28. Also, Adam Greuel and the Space Burritos announced a pop-up show Linneman’s Riverwest Inn on Saturday, April 15.
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Los Bitchos has a unique sound, heavily influenced by cumbia. They’re playing in Los Angeles April 20, the day before Phish plays three nights at Hollywood Bowl.
Phish fans in Los Angeles early for the Hollywood Bowl run – and anyone into psychedelic rock – should head over to the El Rey Theatre on April 20 to catch Los Bitchos. The London-based quartet opened for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard on their tour of Europe last month and won over many new fans.
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Victor Wooten and his brothers Regi, Roy and Joseph, as well as Sonny T,. were welcomed at Bunkers, with Tuesday night regulars International Reggae All-Stars graciously sharing stage time. Photo by Javier Serna
Victor Wooten, who played two sets April 4 at the Dakota Jazz Club, couldn’t get enough of playing with his brothers. The four men made their way over to Bunkers after their two Dakota shows and let out some energy, joined by Sonny T.
Read MoreThe Bob Pat Band celebrated the birthday of Bob Pat with a free show at 56 Brewing in Northeast Minneapolis Saturday April 1. The band kept the jams coming for two sets as the 56 Brewing concert hall filled in, many of Bob Pat’s friend showing up for the occasion.
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Serra Petale, Los Bitchos’ lead guitarist, took some time before the sold out Oslo show to do an interview with Jam in the Stream. Photo by Javier Serna
Serra Petale of Los Bitchos gave an interview to Jam in the Stream before opening up for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at the Sentrum Scene in Oslo, Norway March 8. Petale, a long-time fan of King Gizz, talked about the experience opening up for the Australian psych rock band, her own band’s roots in cumbia and how Los Bitchos wound up having an all-female core.
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The Krasno/Moore Project, with guitarist Eric Krasno and drummer Stanton Moore, is touring the U.S. right now. They cut an album covering female greats from Aretha Franklin to Billie Eilish.
They have dates still in Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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The band’s artist and light man Jason Galea made full use of the Sentrum Scene as a canvas for his incredible projections. Photo by Sue Serna
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard took their 17-show tour of Europe to Oslo, Norway's Sentrum Scene, the perfect backdrop for the incredible visual element to their live shows. It turned out to be Jam in the Stream’s favorite show of the first five attended, though one show remains tonight in Prague.
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard played a set of mostly older songs in Stockholm, Sweden. Photo by Javier Serna
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard heated up a repurposed brewery on a cold, winter night in Stockholm, Sweden.
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King Gizzard obliged a metal-thirsty crowd by ripping three loud songs late in their set at 013 Poppodium, including the debut of “Gila Monster.” Photo by Javier Serna
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard hit its stride three shows into their March tour of Europe and the U.K. The band fed off the energy of a mosh-happy, metal-thirsty Dutch crowd that was rewarded with the debut of “Gila Monster.”
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King Gizzard continued their European tour in Amsterdam on March 3, at circular former gas storage facility that has a beautiful second life as a concert venue. Part of the crowd at Amsterdam’s Gashouder sat down and “rowed the boat” when the band teased “Dripping Tap,” during “Mr. Beat.”
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PARIS — King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard opened their March tour of Europe with “Rattlesnake,” at the Zenith on March 2.
Read MoreBuffalo Galaxy guitarist/singer Johnny Kovarik chatted with Jam in the Stream ahead of his band’s opening gig for N.J.-based Dogs in a Pile at 7th Street Entry in downtown Minneapolis.
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The room filled in for Jon Sullivan Band at the Hook & Ladder Theater in Minneapolis Feb. 10.
Photo by Rachel Bulow
In a co-headlined bill, singer Jon Sullivan delivered Max Graham’s vocals for Kind Country Band, keeping the memory of the late mandolinist alive, at the Hook & Ladder Theater in Minneapolis Feb. 10, 2023. Jam in the Stream quotes Sullivan, bassist Nick Spielman and Kind Country fiddler Chris Forsberg from interviews.
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Feed the Dog. Photo courtesy of Ty Hellbach
It’s taken me a couple of days to recover from what was the first Ice Dance Music Festival at Heidel House Hotel & Conference Center in Green Lake, Wis.
Would do again.
Up here in the cold, frozen tundra, we’re always looking for fun shit to do come late winter that doesn’t necessarily involve plane tickets south (one day, Phish Mexico, one day).
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After his Saturday night show (the third and final show of a three-night run at 1st Bank Center), Billy showed up unannounced at Knew Conscious, an intimate 450-person music venue/art gallery/club to sit in with a lineup billed with guitarist Ross James (Terrapin Family Band) and banjoist Andy Thorn of Leftover Salmon and their Electric Dead Grass project featuring bass player Garrett Sayers (The Motet) and drummer Mark Levy (Circles Around the Sun). They jammed until about 4 in the morning — the stuff of my dreams.
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