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BABES IN TOYLAND at First Avenue

First Avenue 701 1st Ave N, Minneapolis, MN, United States

BABES IN TOYLAND with KITTEN FOREVER and AGEIST

$25

The Current’s 12th Birthday Night 1

First Avenue 701 1st Ave N, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Friday night’s (Jan. 27) First Avenue lineup includes Kenyan-born, Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Jay Smart Music, local Afrobeat 12-piece band Black Market Brass, folk-rocker Strand of Oaks, Portland-based folk trio Joseph and local indie-pop singer-songwriter jeremy messersmith. Tickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/3354097/the-currents-12th-birthday-party-ftjeremy-messersmithjosephstrand-of-oaksblack-market-brassand-jay-smart-minneapolis-first-avenue?cobrand=first-avenue

$20

Are You Local? 2017 Finalists Showcase

Turf Club 1601 University Ave W, St. Paul, MN, United States

See the finalists from the Star Tribune’s 2017 Are You Local? competition compete for best-new-band supremacy, and a slot in the upcoming Are You Local? First Avenue Mainroom show on February 17. The winning band will also receive $2,000 in cash and other prizes. Turf Club. Monday, February 6, 2017. 7:00pm. $5.00 advance, $7.00 door. 21+.

$5 – $7

Dead Man Winter

First Avenue 701 1st Ave N, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Furnace marks a whole lot of firsts for the accomplished songwriter. It’s his first time putting his long-running, popular string band, Trampled by Turtles, on hiatus to focus all of his efforts on a more personal project. It’s his first time speaking so plainly and literally about something happening in his private life. And it’s his […]

$20

POLIÇA

First Avenue 701 1st Ave N, Minneapolis, MN, United States

If the opening moments of POLIÇA’s latest album, United Crushers (2016), leave you feeling unsettled, then Channy Leaneagh has done her job. With her voice pitch-shifted down into an ominous, nearly unrecognizable register, she sings of a post-industrial urban landscape littered with broken promises, a land of poverty and violence that’s been rigged against us from the […]

$25

Are You Local? Showcase Featuring the Suburbs

First Avenue 701 1st Ave N, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Founded in 1977, The Suburbs are recognized worldwide as among the original heroes of the “Minneapolis Sound;” a historic music era that saw the emergence of other bands like The Suicide Commandos, Prince, The Replacements and Hüsker Dü. With Gramma’s Boyfriend, Shannon Blowtorch, and the winning band from Are You Local? 2017 Finalist Showcase. Presented […]

$15 – $17