Twin Cities concerts the week of Sept. 9: Gillian Welch, Ted Leo, Avril Lavigne
By Dustin Nelson,
2024-09-08
It's another sonically expansive week around the Twin Cities with hip-hop (Lupe Fiasco), Americana (Gillian Welch and David Rawlings), indie rock (Ted Leo & the Pharmacists), pop-punk (Avril Lavigne and Simple Plan), experimental sounds (Six Organs of Admittance, Noise Party 9), and a whole lot more on tap.
Here are six shows worth hitting (and a whole lot more).
While Rawlings' name hasn't been at the forefront of any albums until this year's Woodland , named after the duo's longtime Nashville studio, Welch and Rawlings have been collaborators for decades. That includes Welch's classic, Time (The Revelator) .
The towering figures of Americana will have a two-night stand at St. Paul's Fitzgerald Theater.
The Austin-based duo were originally scheduled to head to Surly's Festival Field back in June, but the show had to be rescheduled. So, now's the time to see the Grammy-nominated group's sonically expansive performances that evoke kaleidoscopic sounds of the early '70s in a mix of jazz, funk, soul, and psychedelic rock.
The Armory will be a nostalgia machine on Thursday as it welcomes the "Sk8er Boi" singer. Though, fans are probably aware that she hasn't been dormant since her debut album, Let Go , sold 16 million copies. Fellow pop-punk lifers Simple Plan (who also debuted in 2002) open, along with Girlfriends.
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Shake the Sheets this week. The sardonic singer will play its pivotal album in its entirety. Guess we'll have to wait another six years until we get to hear The Brutalist Bricks in its entirety. Ganser and Tender Comrade open.
The Walker Art Center's 2024-25 performing arts season kicks off with a poet and performer Moor Mother. They'll present the U.S. premiere of a new song cycle titled The Great Bailout, which "confronts colonialism, slavery, and commerce in Great Britain and their historical parallels in the United States."
Ben Chasny and co.'s latest album, Time Is Glass , proved that they're still as knotty and enrapturing as they have been for nearly a quarter century. The album builds intricate and sometimes confounding webs of finger-picked guitars, gentle vocals, and brash, unearthly sounds. The Quaking Bogge and Paul Metzger open.
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