August 28
In the event of unfavorable weather, the concert will be moved indoors.

Thursday, August 28
Doors at 7pm - $7 - All Ages

Here is a sneak preview of the poster for the weekend (eclipse records)…

Particularly excited for Noah Paster’s (second?) show on drums w/ Lazer Forever.

The whole lineup so far has been insane and tonight is a great showcase.

Crossing Guards
Magic Castles
To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie
Lazer Forever
Communist Daughter

All Ages, starting around 7pm, $4 or $5 cover.

Good Morning, Gentlemen is Mark Erickson, Andrew Broder, Kristen Kvalsten and Jeremy Ylvisaker (as DJ Crown Salesman), an actual experimental theater/language/sound club that is glad to meet you. What’s that? We’re fired? Who do you think you are? We do the firing around here. We fire you! You can’t fire us. We’re Good Morning, Gentlemen.
Good Morning, Gentlemen began making amusing radio dramas but have since left that genre behind for their scheduled showings at the BLB. Why? Because radio dramas only work on the radio. Have you ever been to a live radio show? BO-RING!
Amongst the four members of Good Morning, Gentlemen there are two college degrees, three mortgages on homes in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area and one child. If you know these people at all it’s probably because three of them have made respectable attempts at making a living playing music (the exception is Kristen who is tone deaf and wouldn’t know a prepared piano from a DAT tape). In the past twenty years Andrew, Jeremy and Mark have shared stages and studios with MF Doom, Cheap Trick, Deerhoof, The Little River Band, Andrew Bird, Ornette Coleman, Tom Herbers, The Ohio Players and Qbert. Jeremy once chatted up Monica Lewinsky backstage and even gave her a CD to share with her friends.

Coming back in September - every Sunday (7, 14, 21, 28) at 7pm.

From the e-desk of Bill Mike..

The seventh Reloaded Wednesday will feature Pungee, a Meters
influenced groove of first rate Twin Cities instrumentalists.
The
group is named after a Meters tune, and they work out of the Meters
and other funk luminaries song-book.
The group consists of Bill Mike
(guitar) Toby Marshall (Hammond B3) Graham O’Brien (drums) and Casey
O’Brien (bass).
The group’s collective biography is astounding and no
one should miss them playing songs from one of the most classic funk
groups of all time.

Eff’d Up will also be bringing their individual brand of hip-hop to
the bill.
The crew may be most famous for throwing the hip-hop
festival EFfit Fest every year.
But this year they are making waves in
the Midwest with their sound.

Reloaded Wednesdays is also very proud to have a fantastic house DJ,
DJ Anton. presents a great blend of hip-hop, funk and soul.
Thanks for
joining the Reloaded team Anton.

Reloaded Wednesdays is also proud to welcome Drinking Jenga back after
a disastrous misplacement of the Jenga boards shortly before the
August 6 Reloaded. Crisis averted, Drinking Jenga is back on.

For Robyn’s Dirty Thirty! Congrats Robyn.

Thanks Mojo Marshall of Switchblade Comb for the following words & links…

“First off, the above poster is awesome! Nice job Amy Jo. The real poster will have gold glitter and be for sale at the show with proceeds going to help Rift Magazine’s publishing costs.

Solid Gold + Vampire Hands + Super Special Guest TBA
Saturday, August 23
Hexagon Bar
Minneapolis, MN
10 pm | FREE | 21+

Who: Califone
What: Outdoor show for Walker’s Movies & Music w/ ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
When: Monday, August 18. Music begins at 7 pm; films begin at dusk (approximately 8:45 pm)
Where: Loring Park. In case of rain, this event will be moved to the Walker Art Center’s Cinema. Seating is first-come, first-served.
Why? Last edition of this season.

Music begins at 7 pm; films begin at dusk (approximately 8:45 pm)

We realize that these shows aren’t even happening in 2008, but tickets are onsale already for both of the shows here:

http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4562

Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:00 pm
Thursday, March 19, 2009, 10:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Non-members: $25
Walker members: $21

Spend an evening with one of the most enigmatic and celebrated singer-songwriters of the last decade. Oldham’s atmospheric art-folk is borne of an Appalachian netherworld finding its glimmer and glow through gentle guitars, lush harmonies, shimmering folk-tronics, and elegies that slide between spare and sly, lovely and lonely, beautiful and bucolic. A rare live performance by one of today’s most prolific and fiercely creative artists.

Just for those keeping score, these shows are the Thursday during SXSW unfortunately, so if you plan on going next year, you’re SOL for seeing Will at the Walker. Will’s last show in the Twin Cities was at in-store at Roadrunner in 2006, and before that i believe 2001, so he doesn’t get around these parts too often.