1st set : Dosh with members of the WHY band. Anticon Records represents hard in the Clown Lounge. If you’ve never seen WHY and members nows your chance. Highly Recommended!

2nd set : Metzger, Linz, Bates. Banjo trio from Antarctica. Werner Herzog got’s nothing on this trio as they play some old timey rags and swingers! Modestly Recommended

The Clown Lounge
21 + and all the booze you want to drink. Dave might even make you a Pink Squirrel?????
10:30 like you mean it!
$5 gets you access to heaven.
See you there.

Consider it a testament to Martin Dosh’s electronic wizardry that his live show is somehow more impressive than his intricate, layered records. He doesn’t just recreate his complex collages of looped audio; he composes something new on the fly, surrounded by banks of keyboards and samplers. Dosh’s 2008 album Wolves And Wishes, his fourth solo disc, follows his familiar method of building soundscapes through a careful rearrangement of live improvisation with collaborators. Recently, much of Dosh’s time has gone into his stellar musical partnership with Andrew Bird, but a new Dosh album is on the horizon, which finds him working with Happy Apple’s Mike Lewis, Bird, and a host of other collaborators. It’ll be titled Tommy, in tribute to Dosh’s recently deceased friend and sound engineer Tom Cesario. – AVClub

John Henry mentions this show on NPR this morning. Listen Here.

With “Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner,” Haunted House prove they aren’t just another Minneapolis All-Star jam band. They are a formidable rock and roll unit lead fearlessly by Mike Watton. Band members and collaborators include, yet are not limited to Jon Davis (Ghostband), Adam Patterson (whitesand/badlands), Cole Claerhout (Dante & The Lobster), Martin Dosh (Andrew Bird), and Freddy Votel. (Skoal Kodiak)

They are an unrivaled, rhythm-heavy rock orchestra. A piano-heavy Pixies or maximal Modest Mouse draw comparisons but don’t nearly describe the freak fluency they share..

Here are some details about the release shows from Mike..

Capgun Coup from Omaha has been added to the October 30th Hexagon bill. Knife World was so stunned by the invite they were rendered speechless. So the line-up is, in no particular order since I’m not sure how that’s going to shake out, but this is my best guess:

Vampire Hands
Haunted House
Capgun Coup
Mute Era

FREE – 21+

Full line-up for the Halloween, and I have no idea the order:

An Ali Farka tribute band
Tender Meat
Ratt Poison
Awesome Snakes
Japanther
Haunted House

$5 – ALL AGES

in celebration of our tour of the twin cities we put together a mixtape of our ‘tourmates’ and some of our favorite bands from minneapolis/st. paul. thanks to all of the bands for giving us permission to give you their songs. grab it fast, cause it’s only gonna be up for a week…then it’s gone, just like tour. enjoy!!!!

mplstp mix tape:

1.chooglin – this demon life (MP3)
2.red pens – street issue (MP3)
3.jeremy messersmith – franklin avenue (MP3)
4.the owls – channel (MP3)
5.mystery palace – stepchild (MP3)
6.lookbook – true to form (MP3)
7.kid dakota – pilgrim (MP3)
8.vampire hands – safe word (MP3)
9.fog – your beef is mine(MP3)
10.gay beast – eeexxxpppaaannndddiiinnnggg (MP3)
11.dosh – don’t wait for the needle to drop (MP3)
12.best friends forever – abe lincoln (MP3)
13.birthday suits – slowly motion (MP3)
14.the plastic constellations – we came to play (MP3)
15.skoal kodiak – harpie (MP3)
16.the blind shake – soft zodiac (MP3)

you can download the entire mix here:
MPLSTP MIX

With a wrecking-crew rhythm section, debonair vocals, and a guitar concoction that’s one part shred and two parts soul, it’s easy to understand why South Africa’s BLK JKS took music mega-gathering SXSW by storm last year. Now on its debut U.S. tour, the band shoots an African musical sensibility through the tenets of rock, electronic, and soul, reclaiming styles that have been stolen, watered down, and regurgitated for generations. BLK JKS’s fresh, forward rhythms, layered harmonies, elliptical guitar vernacular, and infectious urban Zulu mbaqanga blues combine in a swirl of experimentation and tribal energy. Catch the newest voice in African music’s 21st-century sound on this blistering opening night of the Cedar Cultural Center’s four-day Global Roots Festival. – (Walker Art Center, Buy Tix)

BLK JKS – “Molalatladi” (MP3)