Tonight - PETRA, THE DEAD MILKMEN, REAPING ASMODEIA, GORGATRON

Classic Petra performing October 25, 2012 at the Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park. Click on any of the pictures to see more photos of Petra (55).

It's a busy night around town, and kicking off an early show is venerable Christian rock band Petra (with ex-Head East vocalist John Schlitt) with Bread Of Stone at the Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park. This show is all ages, starts at 7:00, and will cost you $20 at the door. If you missed it, go read my interview from October 2012 with founding guitarist Bob Hartman. The Classic Petra (with Greg X. Volz on vocals) show in October was phenomenal - the band hasn't lost any of their fire. I met a number of readers at this show, and it was gratifying to have Bob Hartman tell me that all that day people told him they read my interview with him.

Eclectic punk band The Dead Milkmen return again with a show tonight at First Avenue in Minneapolis with Samuel Locke Ward and The Garbage Boys. It's an 18+ show that starts at 9:00, and tickets are $20 at the door.

Technical death metal band Reaping Asmodeia has an EP release show tonight at Station 4 in St. Paul with Our Judgment, Get The Gun, I Am Vengeance, and Daytripper. This is an early all ages show, and the cover charge is $10.

Death metal from Fargo arrives in the form of Gorgatron at Club Underground in Minneapolis. They're playing with Element 33, Beauty Of Decay, Expyre, and Tempestuous. Things should get underway around 9:00.

Concert Announcements - May 10, 2013

Taproot has added a stop at Buster’s in Mankato on Tuesday, May 14 with Boy Hits Car and Intertwined.

Reaping Asmodeia has added a date on Friday, May 17 at the What’s Up Lounge in Mankato with Conflicts, Fail To Decay, and Valor Tracks.

Metalcore band Phinehas will play Station 4 in St. Paul on Monday, May 20 with Ark Of The Covenant, Chugchugwob, When Glory Came Home, and Watchmen in support.

Local noise crew Burn Fetish is having a release party for their new album Sun And Dust at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis with With A Gun For A Face, Torch The Spires, and Fury Things on Sunday, May 26.

Singer guitarist Bob Mould of Minneapolis punk legends Hüsker Dü and alternative rock band Sugar is a part of the Rock The Garden concert that is already SOLD OUT. Sponsored by 89.3 The Current, Rock The Garden takes place in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden at the Walker Art Center on Saturday, June 15. Headlining the event is Metric with Silversun Pickups, Low, and Dan Deacon also performing. Local writer Jeff Severns Guntzel has written an interesting piece on Bob Mould for the Walker Art Center that extensively quotes Bob from various fanzine interviews from the early 80s.

The next night, Sunday, June 16, Bob Mould plays Grandma’s Sports Garden in Duluth.

Grant Hart, former drummer of Hüsker Dü, plays the Turf Club in St. Paul on Friday, July 12 to coincide with the release of his new solo album The Argument.

Sevendust has scheduled a show in Rochester at the Wicked Moose on Saturday, July 13 with support from Otherwise and Devour The Day.

The Cabooze in Minneapolis on Thursday, July 25 will host the All Stars Tour with Every Time I Die, Chelsea Grin, Veil Of Maya, Terror, Stray From The Path, Capture The Crown, Iwrestledabearonce, For All Those Sleeping, Structures, and Ice Nine Kills.

On Saturday, July 27 Chicago’s Kommandant, which features ex-members of black metal band Nachtmystium, will play Station 4 in St. Paul with Atrum Inritus and Nuklear Frost.

Saturday, July 27 also has Face Of Oblivion teaming with Goregatron, Byleth, Mastiff, and First Against The Wall for a show at the What’s Up Lounge in Mankato.

Great White Featuring Jack Russell returns to Neisen’s in Savage on Saturday, July 27 the day after their appearance at Halfway Jam in Royalton.

BulletBoys also return to Neisen’s in Savage on Saturday, August 10.

CORRECTION: Thanks to reader mad angel for catching my mistake - Grant Hart is the former drummer (not bassist) of Hüsker Dü. This has been corrected and updated with the title of Grant's forthcoming solo album, The Argument.