Weekend Agenda July 10-12

On Friday, shaggier-than-Jesus singer Chris Robinson brings his righteous blues-rock message to Minneapolis as The Black Crowes headline the main stage of this year's Basilica Block Party. If getting wasted on church grounds isn't quite sacrilegious enough for you, try the Riverview's screening of Monty Python And The Holy Grail. Pixies fans and followers of the postpunk icon born Charles Thompson will flock to the Triple Rock for a rare Black Francis show. Meanwhile, reels and wheels are the shared focus of the annual Bicycle Film Festival, continuing at the Cedar Cultural Center.

Here's a live clip of Counting Crows performing "Children In Bloom":

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Punk's not dead. In fact, as represented by Green Day at Target Center on Saturday night, it's alive and very, very lucrative. For something with a bit more basement cred and less mainstream radio ubiquity, the Triple Rock hosts Men (featuring JD Samson of Le Tigre). Catholic guilt and guilty alt-rock pleasures combine as Counting Crows headline the second night of the Basilica Block Party. The Uptown Theatre presents a midnight screening of the essential Beatles flick A Hard Day's Night.

Here's the video for Men's "Off Our Backs":

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Sunday finds the pretty-much-legendary Meat Puppets sharing the 7th Street Entry stage with Alan Sparhawk's Retribution Gospel Choir. High-sheen hip-hoppers Jadakiss and Cam'ron team up for a hot, head-nodding night at Epic. Francophiles have two fine outlets for celebrating Bastille Day: Barbette's art-and-music-packed Bastille Day Block Party in Uptown, and pub-rocker Graham Parker heading up a lively all-day soirée at Brit's Pub. On the darker end of the Euro-rock spectrum, Italian quasi-metal act Lacuna Coil appears at Station 4.

Here's the video for Lacuna Coil's "I Like It":

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