Duluth’s Saltydog plays the Lake Harriet Bandshell in Minneapolis tonight at 7:30 p.m.
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Another busy week of live music in Minnesota kicks off with a free show tonight from Duluth’s Saltydog at the Lake Harriet Bandshell. Find out what else is happening in psychedelic music.
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Los Bitchos opening for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at Poppodium 013 in Tilburg, Netherlands back in March 2023.
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Los Bitchos’ gig at 7th Street Entry Thursday is a highlight in a very busy week in Minnesota psychedelic music from the Twin Cities to Duluth down to Winona. Find out what all else is happening from weekly residencies from TWINE and Jumpsuit to some killer jazz options at Icehouse and Berlin.
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The Swongos are a three-piece instrumental band that sometimes adds a player or two.
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The Swongos, a psychedelic instrumental band, from the St. Croix River Valley near the Twin Cities, will be opening for cumbia-influenced London outfit Los Bitchos at 7th Street Entry July 10. Jam in the Stream caught up with Swongos drummer Brian Liggett.
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Boss Mama and The Jebberhooch perform at The Rugged Spruce Golf Club in Mahtowa on Saturday, which is a very busy day for music “Up Nort” in Minnesota. Pictured: Boss Mama sits in with Saltydog at Zen Arcade March 27. PHOTO BY JAVIER SERNA/@jaminthestream
In Jam in the Stream’s weekly Minnesota live music roundup, a big music weekend in Duluth is outlined, as well as Mark Joseph’s plans up north following The Big Wu’s big Zoo show last Friday, and the options around the Twin Cities, including some of the weekly residency shows worth checking out.
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The Big Wu packed a lot of music into a pair of 45-minutes sets at The Minnesota Zoo Friday.
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The Big Wu, Minnesota’s legendary improvisational rock band, delivered a pair of sets while headlining The Minnesota Zoo’s “Wild Nights” series in Apple Valley Friday. Read a review of the show and see a photo gallery of the show from Jam in the Stream.
Read MoreDaniel Donato’s Cosmic Country announced an extensive fall tour with stops in the Northeast, Southeast and Midwest in September and October. The first round of pre-sales (via his fan club) went live today (June 25), venue presales are Thursday (June 26) and the general sale is Friday (June 27). The tour concludes in the Midwest with a return to First Avenue in Minneapolis Oct. 30 and Milwaukee’s Turner Hall Ballroom on Halloween.
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The Big Wu keyboardist Al Oikari at First Avenue last December. The Big Wu headlines the Minnesota Zoo Friday. PHOTO BY JAVIER SERNA/@jamithestream
It’s another packed week of music in Minnesota. The Big Wu headlines the Minnesota Zoo “Wild Nights” series Friday, one of the top jazz bassists ever plays the Dakota Wednesday and Thursday, mesmerizing harpist Mikaela Davis plays the Icehouse Courtyard Saturday and Saltydog has a pair of shows at Up Yonder in Grand Marais. And there’s more.
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Dave Simonett brings Dead Man Winter to Bent Paddle July 4 to benefit Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters. Simonett has been an outspoken advocate for conservation groups such as Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters and Pheasants Forever. PHOTO BY JAVIER SERNA/@jaminthestream
Trampled by Turtles annual Bayfront Festival Park show in Duluth (July 5) has been expanded into three nights of music, with side projects Dead Man Winter playing a Boundary Waters benefit show at Bent Paddle Brewing (July 4) and LazyLightning420 paying tribute to the Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound at Jade Fountain (July 6). Get the details.
Read MoreAzymuth, the latest Jazz is Dead show to hit Minnesota, showed they were far more than a nostalgia act 50 years into their existence. The band delivered the heavy psychedelic samba funk at Amsterdam Bar in Saint Paul. Jam in the Stream was granted photo credentials for the show. Check out editor Javier Serna’s photo gallery.
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After 50 years, Azymuth continues on with original guitarist Alex Malheiros (far right).
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Minnesota Live Music Roundup: Lots of options, including the latest legendary funk band to hit the Twin Cities: Azymuth, which plays Amsterdam Bar Friday. But other highlights include Gary Clark, Jr., an Enormous Quartet reunion show, Chinese American Bear, In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel tribute) and a Buffalo Galaxy show a stone’s throw from Duluth.
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Mikaela Davis has brought the harp to psychedelic music. PHOTO BY WYNDHAM GARNETT, COURTESY OF MIKAELA DAVIS
“I felt like I was in a dream being up there with all of those greats,” harpist Mikaela Davis on her appearance with John Scofield, Christian McBride, Marco Benevento and Joe Russo at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2021.
Davis, who heads out on tour with her band Southern Star in June — including a date at the Icehouse Courtyard in Minneapolis on June 28 — took five (plus) questions from Jam in the Stream editor Javier Serna, including how she wound up playing with jam bands and that 2021 Newport Jazz Festival “Jam Jawn.”
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Feed the Dog supports Mae Simpson at The Hook’s Under the Canopy stage on Saturday. The Rebel Queens also open.
This week’s Minnesota live music roundup includes the likes of Mae Simpson and Feed the Dog at The Hook and Ladder’s Under the Canopy stage, and, as always, there are a lot of options around the state for live, psychedelic music.
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Keyboardist Kevin Gastonguay got some of his chops playing with several bands that held residencies at Bunkers in Minneapolis. PHOTO PROVIDED BY KEVIN GASTONGUAY
Kevin Gastonguay, one of the baddest keyboardists to come out of Minneapolis in the past decade, chatted with Jam in the Stream about his recent guest spot with The Big Wu in Steamboat Springs, Colo., in March.
He also talked about his time playing two and three nights a week for years at a time at legendary Minneapolis live music venue Bunkers.
“If you go to Bunkers, you are probably going to see some good shit,” the international touring musician said, noting that he runs into musicians the world over who know about the gem.
Mexico-based guitarist Todd Clouser, a Minnesota native, talked with Jam in the Stream about Flowerchild, the first studio effort involving legendary organist John Medeski, Minneapolis drummer JT Bates and himself, and his summer touring plans. They have played several shows together at Icehouse in Minneapolis, and released a live recording, You The Brave: Live at Icehouse in 2018.
Read MoreThe Big Wu’s Mark Joseph chatted with Jam in the Stream editor Javier Serna regarding the band’s summer touring plans in the Upper Midwest, upcoming live releases, current studio efforts, and the love the band has nurtured among its fans in places such as Wisconsin and Colorado. He also told a tale of a white-knuckle drive over Rabbit Ears Pass in Colorado last March.
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Confucisaurus is one of four performers this Saturday afternoon at Pimento on the Lake, part of a recurring series next to Lake Bde Maka Ska that is being curated by Geoffrey Fischbein of Only Every Monday. PHOTO BY JAVIER SERNA/@jaminthestream
It dawns on me every week, when I write this live music column, how lucky Minnesotans are to have such an incredible amount of varied styles of music, which I know extends well beyond my own almost narrow interests — ya know, my love for improvisational and psychedelic music of so many stripes.
But forgive me for rambling — below I’ll give details for Eddie Christmas, Dr. Mambo’s Combo, Ice Horse featuring Mikkel Beckmen, the Jones Gang, the TC Gumbo Jam, Confucisaurus, Kung Fu Hippies, Chase & Ovation, JoJo Green, Saltydog, The Big Wu, Dylan Salfer , Boss Mama and The Jebberhooch, and more.
The New Orleans Suspects (pictured from left to right: Eddie Christmas, Jake Eckert, Brad Walker, CR Gruver, Chris Senac, bring that NOLA funk to The Hook and Ladder’s Under The Canopy this Saturday. PHOTO PROVIDED
The New Orleans Suspects, Leo Kottke, Dope Lemon and Primus bring an eclectic mix of music to Minnesota this week. But there’s also a lot of incredible local music happening this week, including a pair of free mid-week, lakeside shows in Minneapolis and a pair of residencies from TWINE and Boss Mama and The Jebberhooch.
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Jam in the Stream reviews the latest animated music video from Mcbess/mcbaise, the French psychedelic illustrator/musician. “Alice,” which was released May 23 is the second single he’s released off his upcoming and fourth LP.
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Mik Bondy of The Garcia Project chatted with Jam in the Stream ahead of the band’s two-night run at the Granada Theater in Minneapolis this Friday and Saturday. Bondy talked about one of the ways the band attempts to emulate the sound and feel of the various eras of the Jerry Garcia Band.
Read MoreChicago’s Ministry hits the Palace Theatre in Saint Paul Tuesday, one of several shows making Jam in the Stream’s weekly list of live music options in Minnesota.
Other highlights include but are not limited to George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, The Garcia Project, and TWINE, which is taking their improvisational magic up to Grand Marais for the holiday weekend.
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