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• May 21
  • Curren$y, The Jets, Smoke DZA, Fiend 4 Da Money, Corner Boy P, The Trademark, and Young Roddy First Avenue, 8 p.m.

    New Orleans rapper Curren$y spent years on the verge of artistic and commercial success ...

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    Dream Crusher, The Goondas, Dude Magnets, Hardcore Crayons, and Hevy Syrup Kitty Cat Klub, 9 p.m.

    The many-member, improv-based electronica group Dream Crusher serves as a kind of industrial Frankenstein’s ...

• May 22
  • Kurt Vile And The Violators, Black Bananas, and True Widow 400 Bar, 9 p.m.

    Philadelphia’s Kurt Vile might scare off listeners who are skeptical of trendy folk-pop and ...

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    Trace Bundy Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant, 8 p.m.

    Trace Bundy is an acoustic guitar hero. The Colorado-based virtuoso first picked up the stringed ...

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    Colin Kane Acme Comedy Company, 8 p.m.

    Colin Kane is an attractive, thirtysomething comedian whose act trends toward the somehow subversive universe ...

• May 23
  • Parents The Trylon, 7 p.m.

    Plenty of filmmakers have taken it upon themselves to expose (or invent) the darker side ...

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    Nickelback Target Center, 6 p.m.

    Nickelback has been the epitome of modern rock douchebaggery for so long that it’s ...

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    Lee "Scratch" Perry and Subatomic Sound System Cedar Cultural Center, 7:30 p.m.

    As inventive and iconoclastic as any genius hiding out in music history, Lee “Scratch” Perry ...

• May 24
  • M. Ward and Chris Scruggs First Avenue, 6 p.m.

    M. Ward was a talented, much-beloved indie singer-songwriter before he became the talented, much-beloved indie ...

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    The Barr Brothers Bryant-Lake Bowl, 8 p.m.

    Ever wonder what tunes like “Wipe Out” and “Johnny B. Goode” would sound like if ...

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    Chuck Mead and The Big Adventure Lee's Liquor Lounge, 9 p.m.

    Roots-rocker extraordinaire and card-carrying handsome SOB Chuck Mead is the frontman for honky-tonk country band ...

• May 25
  • Battleship Potemkin The Trylon, 7 p.m.

    A groundbreaking achievement of early cinema and a stunning study in the relationship between art ...

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    Forever Young: Prom First Avenue, 9 p.m.

    The uptown Minneapolis dance party known as "Forever Young," held in the basement of the ...

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    E.L.nO., Hookers And Blow, and DJ Jill Riley Lee's Liquor Lounge, 9 p.m.

    When Electric Light Orchestra’s bloated, symphonic prog-rock began to take hold in the mid- ...

• May 26
  • Mark Sultan, Birthday Suits, FMWired, and DJ Danny Henry Turf Club, 9 p.m.

    Whether it’s with The King Khan & BBQ Show, the Spaceshifts, The Ding-Dongs, The Almighty ...

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    Tech N9ne, Machine Gun Kelly, Krizz Kaliko, Mayday, Prozak, and Stevie Stone Cabooze, 4:30 p.m.

    Kansas City’s Tech N9ne spent years bouncing around the underground and getting by with ...

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    Fanfaronade and Kristoff Krane Triple Rock Social Club, 9 p.m.

    As a hyper-literate and very technical MC, it can be hard to stand out in ...

• May 27
  • Soundset Canterbury Park, 11 a.m.

    The folks at Rhymesayers have always thrown together a shipshape list of acts for Soundset ...

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    Grolar Bears, Saltee, Max Corcoran Project, and Hipshakers Triple Rock Social Club, 8 p.m.

    On paper, the idea of combining cello, beatboxing, and guitar seems like an improbable mix ...