May 2006
In stores now at the
Electric fetus, check out “Buckcherry 15”- it rocks! . . . Are you ready for
Lynx basketball while introducing #1 draft pick -Seimone Augustus?
Go to www.lynxbasketball.com;
expect a great season ahead- go girls go! . . .
Steven Stills formerly of Crosby Stills Nash and Young, May 3rd
at the Fine Line, “if you can’t be with the one you love, love the one your
with” . . . Prime Time’s second major show with Skid “mother f***ing
Row” with special guest, Knight Crawler in Burnsville - 3 blocks west of 35W
on Cty. Rd 42 & Irving Ave., PARTY! .
. . Friday, May 5th -
Savoy Brown feat. original legendary guitarist Kim Simmonds (“Can’t Get Next
to You”) at Star Central / Columbia Heights May 6th . . . The Black
Eyed Peas with my girl Fergie plus the Pussycat Dolls, May 7th at Excel Energy
Center, sounds like an orgy?!?!? . . . Ride the wave with original LA surf
guitarist, Dick Dale at the Cabooze Friday, May 12th . . . Belladiva
is hot to trot at Dummy’s debut performance in the Northern boobs, I mean
burbs - May 12th . . . Tool, Friday, May 12th Orpheum
Theatre . . . Happy Mother’s Day!
W/Collin Raye, Live at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, early showtime - 7:00pm . . .
Delirium A Cirque Du Soleil Live Music Event @ Xcel Energy Center, May
15-16, very cool! . . . Southern rockers, Blackfoot (“Train
Train” / “Highway Song”) live at Star Central, Columbia Heights,
May 19th. . . Mayslacks May Music Fest under the Big Top with
Corey Stevens kicking it off May 19, GB Leighton on the 20th & more
headliners 26-28th, go to www.mayslacks.com
or phone 612 789-9862 for complete schedule & more info . . . The Dixie
Chicks long-awaited release co-written with Dan Wilson (Semisonic) in racks May
23rd, also check out new releases by Pink, Queensryche, and Nine Inch
Nails. (Note: Queensryche tix for
Myth Sept 9th show now on sale at Ticketmaster) . . . INXS is back!
Switched on Tour – May 25th at the Orpheum Theatre, gotta like
‘em, you too, J.D., even though Jordas kicked your ass!
. . . Check out Star Central’s May 26th concert featuring
all female 80’s LA rockers, VIXEN (with the exception of original guitarist,
Jan who is hometown girl originally from St. Paul,) performing hit “Edge of a
Broken Heart” with special guest from the Windy City,
Enuff Z Nuff, look out boys, these girls are Paris Hilton like “hot!”
. . . Corey Stevens kicks off Doc Holiday’s first major concert in Delano May
26th . . . Posin A
Tribute to Poison as seen on VH1 rocks hard at Dibbo’s in Hudson, WI, May 26th
. . . May 26-27, Best Show Ever, 2006
Minnesota Rock & Country Hall of Fame at the Medina Entertainment Center
feat. Suicide Commandos, Big Walter Smith Andrews Sisters, Del Counts, Eddie
Cochran and more . . . Up Next: “New” Cars featuring Todd Rundgren plus
Blondie at Grand Casino Hinckley June 1st . . . REO Speedwagon with
MN’s own Gypsy, June 5th at Myth
(see cover story) . . . June 6-11, Riverdance at the Orpheum Theatre in
Minneapolis . . . Spyro Gyra at the Hopkins Center - Thursday, June 8th
. . . Dummyfest 2006 w/Zed Leppelin, Austin Healy, Jesse Lang, Boogie
Wonderland, Uncle Chunk, the Killer Hayseeds and more – stay tuned, June
16-18, Forest Lake, MN . . . Sheryl Crow, the Wildflower Tour, June 16th
– Orpheum Theatre . . . Joe Jackson at the Fitzgerald Theater, Friday June 16th
. . . Vans Warped Tour 2006. Sunday, June 18th, 12 Noon, Metrodome
Parking Lot. Great site, NOT! . .
Cinderella and FireHouse at Myth in Maplewood, Saturday, June 24th
featuring the real “hair ball”. . . Emmylou
Harris and Mark Knopfler, an evening of duets, at the Orpheum Theatre, June 26th
. . . Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Pearl Jam – weird combo, June 26-27
at Xcel Energy Center . . . Elvis
Costello and the Imposters, The River In Reverse Tour 2006, June 28th
at O’Shaughnessy Auditorium at the College of St. Catherine . . . Check her
out our girl, Sasha Cohen w/Michelle Kwan, Irina Slutskaya, Surya Bonaly /
Champions On Ice at Target Center, Friday, June 30th. . . Get Ready
for Taste of Minnesota over the 4th of July weekend to include Soul
Asylum, Alice Cooper, Dwight Twilley, Los Lonely Boys, Gypsy, Transit Authority,
Jesse Lang, Davy Jones, Gary Wright, etc . . . One for the kids – 93 X
presents The Unholy Alliance Preaching to the Perverted Tour 2006 featuring
Slayer, lamb of god, Mastodon, Children of Bodom, Thine Eyes Bleed at Roy
Wilkins Auditorium July, 8th . . . Train returns on the 8th
of July to the Basilica Block Party, Hail Mary! . . . 92 KQRS presents the 15th
Anniversary Moondance Jam, the Campin’ & Jamin’ Event of the Summer -
July 12-15. Announced headliner
acts include Ted Nugent, The Outlaws, The Guess Who, Doobie Brothers,
Steppenwolf, Starship, Dennis DeYoung of Styx, Heart, Alice Cooper, Little River
Band, The Bangles, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and more, shazam! . . . the coolest
chick ever – video star, Fiona Apple at the Northrop Auditorium in
Minneapolis, July 14th . . . VH1 Classic Presents and Produced by
Live Nation - Def Leppard &
Journey, Tuesday, July 18th at Target Center – the true event of
the summer! . . . Stay tuned for roster announcements for annual bike rally
-Rumble to Rivers in the sticks of SW Minnesota in Atwater, the weekend of July
28-29th, skinny dipping anyone? . . .
Wefest.com
Aug 3-5, Detroit Lakes, MN
featuring Martina McBride, Keith Urban, Big & Rich, Sugarland, Trisha
Yearwood . . . Bonnie Raitt on the 26th and The Steve Miller Band -
Main Grandstand at the MN State Fair Monday, Aug. 28th.
Put on your shit kickers for country stars -Allan Jackson, Wednesday,
Aug. 30th as well as Brooks & Dunn with special guest Sugarland
on Labor Day Monday, Sept. 4th . . .
Hottest ticket of the summer: James
Gang (“Funk 49” & Joe Walsh) in Sturgis, SD at the Annual Bike Rally - 1st
tour in 35 years, Aug. 10th! . . . “Rock Star 2006,” this
season’s Round 2 - Gilby Clarke (Guns ‘N Roses), Jason Newsted (formerly of
Metallica,) and Tommy Lee (of Motley Crue) in search for their new vocalist for
their supergroup aka Supernova! Stay tuned! . . .
Don’t you love the summer? The
Sound of Music is the air!