Here's the second half of the latest metal concert news for the Twin Cities area, covering July and August. See Part 1 for the updates for June.
Buckcherry returns to the area for a show on Wednesday, July 3 with Girl On Fire at the Vetter Stone
Amphitheater in Mankato.
Cantharone has another show lined up at the Hexagon Bar in Minneapolis
with Hate Beast on Thursday, July 4.
Long-running punk
band Meat Puppets will play four
shows in Minnesota to promote their 14th album, Rat Farm, released on Megaforce earlier this year. They play two
shows on Saturday, July 13 – an early 5:00 show at the St. John’s Block Party
in Rochester, followed by an 8:30 show at the Twin Cites Roots, Rock and Deep
Blues Festival in Minneapolis at Patrick’s Cabaret. The next night, Sunday,
July 14 has them at Tycoons in Duluth with Actual
Wolf and Enemy Planes.
The day after
performing with Sevendust in
Rochester, Otherwise has their own
headlining show on Sunday, July 14 at Pov’s 65 in Spring Lake Park with special
guests Throw The Fight and The Soft Light.
KEN Mode and Virginia doom band Inter
Arma play the Turf Club in St. Paul on Thursday, July 18.
Ambassador Gun hooks up with Philadelphia’s Sadgiqacea, Hivelords, and Poney for
a show at the Nomad World Pub in Minneapolis on Friday, July 19.
The Meat Puppets’ fourth Minnesota show
happens at the What’s Up Lounge in Mankato on Friday, July 19.
Comical metal band Psychostick returns, this time to Pov’s
65 in Spring Lake Park on Friday, July 19 with Outside The Murder and Strate-Jak-It.
Sweden's female-fronted power metal sensations Amaranthe play the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis on Tuesday, July 23 with support from Kobra And The Lotus.
Although they long ago abandoned their early punk roots, Minneapolis’s own Soul Asylum tops the Skyline Music Festival with Big Head Todd And The Monsters, Matthew Sweet, and Gear Daddies to Target Field in Minneapolis on Friday, July 26.
Although they long ago abandoned their early punk roots, Minneapolis’s own Soul Asylum tops the Skyline Music Festival with Big Head Todd And The Monsters, Matthew Sweet, and Gear Daddies to Target Field in Minneapolis on Friday, July 26.
A huge lineup of
local bands have organized the Metal For Life event at Neisen’s in Savage on
Saturday, July 27—all proceeds will be donated to the Shriners Hospital for
Children. Slated to participate are Cantharone,
Piranha, Gryzor, Matrekis, Clobberboot, Eldergaad, Dark Mirror, Tomorrow Brings New Blood, Chaostrophe, Deretla, Monogon, and Malice (MN). This event is all ages are
starts early at 10:00 am.
Locals Nuisance also play on Saturday, July 27
at the Cabooze in Minneapolis with Slow
Spokes, Aeous, We Be Lions, and Up Rock.
Florida instrumentalists Set And Setting play the Hexagon Bar in Minneapolis on Wednesday, July 31. Their debut album Equanimity was released last week through Forcefield and Science of Silence.
Florida instrumentalists Set And Setting play the Hexagon Bar in Minneapolis on Wednesday, July 31. Their debut album Equanimity was released last week through Forcefield and Science of Silence.
Minneapolis-based
heavy instrumentalist masters Zebulon
Pike rock the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis on Friday, August 2
with Vulgaari, Relentless, and Ashen.
Down in Mankato at
the Vetter Stone Amphitheater you can catch rock band Everclear at the Mankato Ribfest on Friday, August 2.
Loverboy plays the Mankato Ribfest at Vetter Stone Amphitheater on
Saturday, August 3.
The Monday, August
5 Vampire Weekend show at the
Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis is SOLD OUT.
The Big Night Out Tour
with hard rock bands Fuel, Hoobastank, Lit, and Alien Ant Farm
comes to Myth in St. Paul on Wednesday, August 7.
The Vetter Stone
Amphitheater in Mankato has a big night of 80s metal with Ratt, Sebastian Bach, Dokken, and Lita Ford on Thursday, August 15.
