/21684206210/cfQ
(320, 50)
Event Display
JUL 07
JUL 07
Fargo Theatre, Broadway North, Fargo, ND, USA
Rock ‘n’ roll is often hard to define, or even to find, in these fractured musical times. But to paraphrase an old saying, you know it when you hear it.
And you always hear it with the Wallflowers. For the past 30 years, the Jakob Dylan-led act has stood as one of rock’s most dynamic and purposeful bands – a unit dedicated to and continually honing a sound that meshes timeless songwriting and storytelling with a hard-hitting and decidedly modern musical attack. That signature style has been present through the decades, baked into the grooves of smash hits like 1996’s Bringing Down the Horse and more recent and exploratory fare like 2012’s Glad All Over.
Even so, in recent years, Dylan – the Wallflowers’ founding singer, songwriter and guitarist – has repeatedly stepped outside of his band, first with a pair of more acoustic and rootsy records, 2008’s Seeing Things and 2010’s Women + Country, and then with the 2018 film Echo in the Canyon and the accompanying soundtrack, which saw him collaborate with a host of artists classic and contemporary, from Neil Young and Eric Clapton to Beck and Fiona Apple.
But while it’s been nine long years since we’ve heard from the group with whom he first made his mark, the Wallflowers are silent no more. And Dylan always knew they’d return. “The Wallflowers is much of my life’s work,” he says simply. Plus, he adds with a laugh, “It’s pretty hard to get a good band name, so if you have one, keep it.” Good band name aside, that life’s work continues with Exit Wounds, the brand-new Wallflowers studio offering.
Full Details
JUL 13
JUL 13
Bluestem Amphitheater, 50th Avenue South, Moorhead, MN, USA
After more than three decades as the lead singer and guitarist for Barenaked Ladies, Ed Robertson has a routine when it comes time to start writing songs for a new album. “I tend to get ideas while I’m driving up to my lake house,” he says. “I record voice memos along the way, and then I listen back and try to make sense of them and mix and match the various ideas I’ve come up with. On a typical drive, I’m happy if I get six or seven — eight ideas would be a good drive.
“For this album,” he continues, “on my first writing trip I had 21 different song ideas. I thought, ‘Wow, this is really cool.’ Then I sat down to write, and I thought if I could finish one of them — get the verses, get the bridge, get the chorus in one day — then I’ll know this whole writing period is going to be good. And I finished eight songs. I sat down at 10 in the morning, and I looked up at 9:30 and I hadn’t eaten, I hadn’t moved from the writing table. It was exciting. I’ve never felt that before.”
The results mark a new chapter for a band that’s sold more than 15 million albums, earned Grammy nominations and won multiple Juno Awards, and in 2018, were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. In Flight, BNL’s eighteenth studio album, retains the dry wit and keen observation we expect from Robertson, bassist Jim Creeggan, keyboardist/guitarist Kevin Hearn and drummer Tyler Stewart, but adds a strong sense of maturing and lessons learned.
“I think as I age, I get less self-conscious,” says Robertson. “I had a goal to write simpler songs on this record, to not out-clever myself and be a little more direct, more emotionally present and honest. And when I listened to what I wrote, I heard what I’ve been talking about for the last couple of years — ruminations on gratitude, getting older, cancel culture. It was everything I’ve been thinking about, distilled into songs.”
While BNL’s last album, 2021’s Detour de Force, looked closely at the perils of contemporary, alternate reality media, In Flight offers a sense of joy and appreciation, exemplified in the first single, “Lovin’ Life,” in which they unironically sing “We’re lovin’ life/We love it so much that we wanna live it twice/We’re lovin’ life/We take it high, we take it low/We ride that rollercoaster anywhere it goes.” (Robertson wrote the song with Better Than Ezra’s Kevin Griffin and Steve Aiello of Thirty Second to Mars; elsewhere on the album, he co-wrote “I Am Asking You” with Donovan Woods).
“It’s very easy to get overwhelmed by the firehose of bad news that we’re all pretty tuned into, and it is real,” says Robertson. “But I think it’s really important to remember to still be grateful. I guess I’m just trying to take in the negativity that surrounds us and learn about it and grow from it. ‘Lovin’ Life’ is about experiencing the positivity, because that’s there, too.”
He points to the recording of the song “Too Old” (“You don’t scare me a bit/I’m too old for this shit”) as a pivot point for In Flight. “The demo had this arpeggiated acoustic guitar and it was almost melancholy,” he says. “It was pretty, but It made it a little more distant from the message. When we started jamming it in pre-production, it turned into this Tom Petty-ish, guitar driven thing, it had a little bite. That was the moment where we were just letting shit happen organically and it felt great.”
Even at this point in a legendary career, Barenaked Ladies were open to altering their work habits and finding ways to better serve the new songs. “Typically in the past, we’ve done all the guitar overdubs, then we go in and do percussion, then do all the keyboard parts,” says Robertson. “With this record, we put up a song and said, ‘What does it need?,’ then put up the next song and finished song by song. So it demanded everyone’s attention all the time, as opposed to just concentrating on their parts or the week where they’re focusing on their instrument. That kept everybody invested and involved all the way through.”
Of course, a band known for hits like “One Week” and “If I Had $1,000,000” isn’t going to put out an album without humor — or Canadian Content. Kevin Hearn presented the group with “See the Tower,” a song telling the story of the structure that highlights the Toronto skyline. “It’s got a kind of sentimental approach, in all the right ways,” says Robertson. “It reminds me of a song on Sesame Street or a kid’s book about the CN Tower.”
Hearn contributed three more songs to In Flight, including one about local Toronto legend “The Peace Lady” and a biting fantasy about a real place in New York City, “The Dream Hotel.” Jim Creeggan co-wrote two of the tracks, adding the sweet devotion of “Just Wait” and “Wake Up” (on which he collaborated with Max Kerman of the Arkells).
Robertson is confident that the album’s more thoughtful songs, like “Waning Moon” and “Fifty for a While,” will play just as well on stage as the comical material. “On the last tour, the songs that I thought we wouldn’t even try live ended up being real highlights of the show,” he says. “We ended up doing ‘Man Made Lake’ every night, and it was a real anchor point. ‘Live Well’ was another one — the most vulnerable, personal, raw, emotional songs. And it’s always been like that, we’ve always had ‘One Week,’ but the flip side is the reflective nature of ‘Pinch Me,’ and our audience accepts that from us.”
With the song “One Night,” Robertson even addresses this unique relationship BNL has with its fans. “We were trying to write something sexy that wasn’t just about a steamy night between two consenting adults,” he says, “but rather the magical connection that happens between a whole audience and a band. When it goes right — which it almost always does — for that ‘One Night’ it’s a very intense connection.”
Barenaked Ladies have become an institution, with a passionately dedicated audience (enough for them to headline their own cruises and have an ice cream flavor named after them) and a constant flow of new fans (plenty of whom discover the band through their theme song to the endlessly popular The Big Bang Theory). Maybe it’s just the passage of time, maybe the joy of getting back on the road after the COVID lockdown, but Ed Robertson has noticed a change in his own attitude which adjusted his tone on In Flight.
“I was talking to my daughter the other day,” he says, “and I told her that there would have been a me in the past that was standing on stage going, ‘Okay, seven more songs and then I get on the bus and go to the next city, and then it’s only six more shows before the end of the tour, when I get to go home and be with my family.’ Now I find myself looking out and going ‘We sold out Red Rocks — again!’ I feel very connected to how lucky we are that we still get to do this.
“I think this band is the underdog success story of the century,” Robertson continues. “Show me another band with a 35-year career, 15 million records sold, number one hits worldwide, and has never been on the cover of any major music publication. We’re a band that has committed to being who we are and what we are, and being as good as we can be — doing the best shows we can do, writing the best songs we can write — and we’ve done it for 35 years. I’m super proud of that.”
Full Details
JUL 13
JUL 13
Red River Valley Fair Association, Main Avenue West, West Fargo, ND, USA
See BREAKING BENJAMIN live at the Red River Valley Fair on Saturday, July 13th!
Full Details
JUL 18 - JUL 20
JUL 18 - JUL 20
Moondance Events, Turtle Lake Twsh 46, Walker, MN, USA
Moondance Jam 33: The Rock 'N Roll Event of the Summer
July 18 - 20, 2024
National concerts on the main stage and regional shows on the Tiki and MDJ Saloon stages with camping available.
Full Details
JUL 18
JUL 18
Fargo Brewing Company, North University Drive, Fargo, ND, USA
Right now, Pierce the Veil are at their most raw, crackling with urgency and immediacy. Never predictable, always engaging, Pierce the Veil continue to soar on the strength of highly potent energy, rich musicality, and a scrappy sense of authentic exuberant ambition that’s frankly unrivaled. The aforementioned Fuentes, guitarist Tony Perry, and bassist Jaime Precadio put volatile, angsty, confessional emotions into the music, which is why their songs resonate with so many. “No matter where the band performs, fans will show up,” wrote Loudwire. “When you see Pierce The Veil live, you’ll understand why.”
PTV’s evolution from album to album is nothing less than stunning. The early buzz generated by A Flair for the Dramatic (2007) made its follow-up one of the most anticipated albums of 2010. Selfish Machines shot to No. 1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart. The Chicago Tribune saluted Collide with the Sky for its “post-hardcore punk with more than a few nods to Queen.” They became a true arena act on Misadventures, selling out huge venues without losing the intimate connection with their fans.
Pierce the Veil have long cemented their status as one of the most exciting and relevant acts in their genre — by constantly evolving.
Full Details
JUL 25
JUL 25
North Dakota State Fair Center, East Burdick Expressway, Minot, ND, USA
The North Dakota State Fair (NDSF) has officially announced that Machine Gun Kelly will be part of the 2024 NDSF Line-up. Machine Gun Kelly is set to hit the stage on Thursday, July 25, 2024. The North Dakota State Fair is scheduled from July 19 to July 27, 2024.
“Machine Gun Kelly marks the second of three exciting, single-night ticket announcements for our 2024 lineup. Stay tuned for our final reveal – it’s a surprise you won’t want to miss,” Says Craig Rudland NDSF’s General Manager.
Tickets for the 2024 North Dakota State Fair, including Machine Gun Kelly’s performance, are set to go on sale starting March 1 at ndstatefair.com. Mark your calendars to not miss out on this musical extravaganza!
About North Dakota State Fair: Celebrating its 58th year, the North Dakota State Fair has been a cherished tradition in Minot, North Dakota. Drawing over 300,000 visitors annually, the fair offers a diverse range of activities, exhibits, and entertainment. For more information about the 2024 North Dakota State Fair, visit ndstatefair.com. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements!
Full Details
AUG 13
AUG 13
Bluestem Amphitheater, 50th Avenue South, Moorhead, MN, USA
Lamb Of God & Mastodon bring the ASHES OF LEVIATHAN TOUR to Bluestem Amphitheater with Malevolence on Tuesday, August 13! Our presale starts Thursday, February 8 at 10am using code 20YEARS → bit.ly/484giOf
• Gates open at 4pm
• All ages
• Reserved Seated, GA Pit, GA Bench, GA Lawn
• Rain or Shine
GRAMMY® Award-nominated metal titans Lamb of God and GRAMMY® Award-winning band Mastodon announce the co-headlining Ashes Of Leviathan Tour. The tour finds the two iconic bands join forces to celebrate the 20th anniversary of two seminal releases: Lamb of God’s biggest-selling album “Ashes of the Wake” and Mastodon’s acclaimed sophomore album “Leviathan”, which were both released on August 31, 2004. Both bands will perform their respective albums in full.
Nobody has waved the flag for 21st century American heavy metal higher or harder than Lamb Of God. The Richmond, Virginia-based band have quietly emerged as the genre’s foremost torchbearers with a feral intensity brewed at grimy basement shows and uncanny power amplified on some of the world’s biggest stages. Along the way, they have garnered five career GRAMMY®Award nominations, sold over three million albums worldwide, packed arenas around the world and tallied over one billion streams and counting—a true rarity for a group this heavy. Following the world-burning “New American Gospel” in 2000, they delivered a classic in the form of 2003’s “As the Palaces Burn”, which Rolling Stone touted as one of “The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.” They served up back-to-back gold-certified records with “Ashes of the Wake [2004] and “Sacrament” [2005]—christened “Album of the Year” by Revolver. “Wrath” [2009] catapulted to #2 on the Billboard 200 followed by consecutive Top 3 entries “Resolution” [2012] and “VII: Sturm und Drang” [2015]. Metallica handpicked them as direct support on various tours, while they’ve welcomed everyone from Chino Moreno of Deftones to Chuck Billy of Testament to appear on tracks. Following 2020’s unanimously acclaimed “Lamb of God”, the 2022 blockbuster “Omens” arrived as their sixth consecutive Top 15 debut on the Billboard 200, 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums Chart, #3 on the Top Album Sales Chart, #3 on the Top Rock Albums Chart, and #5 on the Top Vinyl Albums. Lamb of God’s most recent studio offering, 2022’s Omens, notably marked the band’s sixth consecutive Top 15 debut on the Billboard 200 in addition to capturing #1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums Chart, #3 on the Top Album Sales Chart, #3 on the Top Rock Albums Chart, and #5 on the Top Vinyl Albums Chart. Not to mention, it has amassed an unprecedented 60 million streams and counting.
GRAMMY® Award-winning band Mastodon have quietly evolved into one of the most influential, inimitable, and iconic rock bands of the modern era. Since emerging in 2000, the Atlanta quartet have defied both sonic and thematic boundaries with an uncategorizable, undeniable, and uncompromising vision unlike anything else in music. This vision manifested over the course of canonical albums such as “Leviathan”, which landed on Rolling Stone’s coveted The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time. Following the seminal “Crack The Skye” [named one of the best albums of 2009 by Time], they earned three consecutive Top 10 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 with “The Hunter” [2011], “Once More ‘Round the Sun” [2014] and “Emperor of Sand” [2017]. Out of six career nominations, they received a GRAMMY® Award in the category of “Best Metal Performance” for “Sultan’s Curse”. They are the rare creative force whose music can be felt everywhere from Game of Thrones, Adult Swim, The History Channel and DC comics films to Coachella and Bonnaroo. Mastodon’s latest studio album, “Hushed and Grim”.
Full Details
AUG 16 - AUG 18
AUG 16 - AUG 18
U.S. Bank Stadium, Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Metallica has confirmed the title and release date of its forthcoming 12th studio album: 72 Seasons will be available April 14, 2023 via the band’s own Blackened Recordings. Produced by Greg Fidelman with Hetfield & Ulrich, and clocking in at over 77 minutes, the 12-track 72 Seasons is Metallica’s first full length collection of new material since 2016’s Hardwired…To Self-Destruct. The album will be released in formats including 2LP 140g black vinyl and limited edition variants, CD and digital—for a full listing of configurations, pre-orders and further information, go to metallica.com/72-seasons-info.
72 Seasons is heralded by first single “Lux Æterna,” a short, sharp blast that distills 40 years of Metallica into three and a half minutes. “Lux Æterna” is available now to stream and download, and as an instant grat track with all pre-orders of 72 Seasons. To watch the “Lux Æterna” video, directed by Tim Saccenti, go here.
Speaking on the concept of the album title, James Hetfield said: “72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves. The concept that we were told ‘who we are’ by our parents. A possible pigeonholing around what kind of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the continued study of those core beliefs and how it affects our perception of the world today. Much of our adult experience is reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking free of those bondages we carry.”
Today also marks the announcement of every Metallica show booked through 2023 and 2024: Presented worldwide by Liquid Death and Blackened American Whiskey (in North America only) and promoted by Live Nation, Metallica’s M72 world tour will see the band playing two nights in every city it visits—with each No Repeat Weekend featuring two completely different setlists and support lineups. The M72 tour will feature a bold new in-the-round stage design that relocates the famed Metallica Snake Pit to center stage, as well as the I Disappear full-tour pass and the debut of discounted tickets for fans under 16 years of age. Two-day tickets will be on sale Friday, December 2nd at ticketmaster.com and will include the option of pre-ordering 72 Seasons vinyl and/or CD. Single day tickets will be available beginning January 20th. For further information including fan club presales, enhanced experiences and more, go to metallica.com/m72-info.
A portion of proceeds from every ticket sold will go to the band’s All Within My Hands foundation. Founded in 2017, AWMH’s efforts to assist and enrich the lives of members of the communities who have supported the band have raised nearly $13 million – providing $5.9 million in grants to career and technical education programs in the US, over $2.5 million to combat food insecurity, and more than $3.2 million to disaster relief efforts worldwide.
2023 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:
Aug 4 & 6 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
Aug 11 & 13 – Montreal, QC – Stade Olympique
Aug 18 & 20 – Arlington, TX – AT&T Stadium
Aug 25 & 27 – Inglewood, CA – SoFi Stadium
Sept 1 & 3 – Glendale, AZ – State Farm Stadium
Nov 3 & 5 – St. Louis, MO – The Dome at America’s Center
Nov 10 & 12 – Detroit, MI – Ford Field
2024 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Aug 2 & 4 – Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium
Aug 9 & 11 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field
Aug 16 & 18 – Minneapolis, MN – US Bank Stadium
Aug 23 & 25 – Edmonton, AB – Commonwealth Stadium
Aug 30 & Sept 1 – Seattle, WA – Lumen Field
Sept 20, 22, 27, 29 – Mexico City, MX – Foro Sol
Show 1 support: Pantera & Mammoth WVH
Show 2 support: Five Finger Death Punch & Ice Nine Kills
Mexico City: Greta Van Fleet replaces Pantera on Show 1 of both weekends
Full Details
AUG 17
AUG 17
Target Field, Twins Way, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Green Day brings The Saviors Tour to Target Field on August 17, 2024 with special guests The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Lindas.
Full Details
AUG 23
AUG 23
Dakota Magic Casino, 102nd Street Southeast, Hankinson, ND, USA
An Evening With Larry the Cable Guy
Full Details