Tokyo Police Club, Lowertown Music Fest, Billy Bragg, more
Jimmy Fontaine
More Just Announced
Not content with an ordinary three-month tour, the members of Tokyo Police Club announced this week that they will use the outing to prove they're the best. In honor of their second album, Champ (due out June 8), the Ontario indie-rockers are challenging you to whatever it is you think you can do better than them. Says the press release: "Challenge us to something. Anything. Ping Pong. Baking. Mario. Nerf guns. Hockey. Unicycling. Catching grapes in your mouth. You name it. When we come to your town on tour we'll make it happen. This summer, it's on." Submit your ideas (and start the trash-talking early) on the band's official website. If they choose to take you on, you'll get a free ticket to their Aug. 19 show at the Varsity and the chance to send them on to the next town feeling a little less victorious.
6/19: Tame Impala: Turf Club
6/25: Hawks And Oxen CD-release show: Cedar Cultural Center
7/1: Foreigner + Styx, Kansas: Target Center (on sale May 28)
7/3: Hawthorne Heights: Triple Rock Social Club
7/8: Bob Schneider: Fine Line Music Cafe
7/11: Silverstein + Emery, I Set My Friends On Fire, Dance Gavin Dance, Sky Eats Airplane, Ivoryline: Station 4
7/19: Rasputina: Varsity Theater
7/28: Frank Fairfield + Blind Boy Paxton: Cedar Cultural Center
7/30: Cynic + Intronaut, Dysrhythmia: Station 4 (on sale 5/22)
7/31: Lowertown Music Fest: Mason Jennings, Cloud Cult, Tapes 'N Tapes, Frank Turner: Lowertown
8/2: Something Corporate: The Cabooze
8/19: Tokyo Police Club + Freelance Whales: Varsity Theater
9/8: Billy Bragg: Cedar Cultural Center
9/11: Efterklang: Walker Art Center (all Walker shows on sale 7/20)
9/25: John Prine: Orpheum Theatre
11/5-6: Brad Mehldau Quintet and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, featuring Joshua Redman: Walker Art Center
11/10: Jeff Daniels: Cedar Cultural Center
12/2: Mischief And Mayhem: Walker Art Center
2/4-5: Kronos Quartet: Walker Art Center
3/4: Wordless Music Orchestra and Tyondai Braxton (of Battles): Walker Art Center
4/23: Tony Allen: Cedar Cultural Center (on sale 7/20)
