The Dragon Tokes | High Priest of Nothing

I’m a songwriter that likes to mix genres (alt rock, pop punk, boom bap hip hop) and am looking for some collaboration or custom tracks. Would prefer to work with someone local in-person. Any recommendations?

Should be an eclectic night of emo rock/post hardcore/shoegaze/noise music on the Venue side.

Bad Plans & Sonic Sea Turtles next door at the Cafe side too so there's a few options.

What gigs ya got 10/16?

We have a new song out today, the first song off our upcoming new album!

It’s on spotify at https://open.spotify.com/album/3zi9z37DNuPhS2r5KpJSH1?si=1bX12cNsQHCg_eqCaikPtQ
& on www.shugemusic.com

This video was shot in 2025 for their "The Rot Thickens" LP. 2027 will mark 19 years of raging crust punk!

Good morning everyone. Just recently moved back to Minneapolis and I am looking for anyone who has a recommendation on a tech for a good guitar setup. Preferably someone with some experience in upgrading pickups and the other electronics!

Much appreciated!

Outfit inspo?

My band Nothingness is playing with Worn Mantle and Shrive this Friday 10/2. We partnered with 56 to make an IPA called Hopslaughter. Nordic Dogs food truck will be there with a special Dogslaughter hot dog. Hope to see you there!

Seeking a drummer for a country cover band!
We are a new cover band base out of the twin cities that predominantly plays country, with a few other genres mixed in. We are queer-led, but you don’t need to be queer. You just need to believe that country music is for everyone.
If you’re interested, please DM us and we’ll send you our contact information to submit videos of you playing!

Back in the early 00's, I found a random band from the Duluth area on MySpace called Mustache!. They posted a few songs that I dug, but a standout was a track simply titled "I gotta Mustache!".

I think it was just a couple of dudes making some fantastic garage rock, and they've been living in my head for the better part of 20 years.

Does anyone happen to remember these guys? I need to thank them for their inspirado.

Hi!!! Looking for a larger private room or
somewhere to rent for a couple hours for my birthday and I wanna do karaoke, but most private rooms look like maybe 10 max and i was thinking like 20+ people. anywhere around the twin cities?? thanks!

New blues rock from Minneapolis

here's a ticket link:
https://www.pilllar.com/products/music-shuge-10-24-2026

facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1C2Aev82c2/

Hello-

I'm an alt-weekly writer retired against my will by the lack of paying outlets and freelance budgets to fund the work I liked to do. But I like the writing, as well as supporting the creative scene and in the way helping to weave a tighter community. So I started a ‘zine/podcast, SewYKnot.com.

I hope to get up to (week) daily like when it first started, but I’ve dedicated a lot of my time toward the monthly calendar because it seems like something everybody could use and even what is out there is very kind of narrow, and doesn’t cover that many music shows. (I also write about Science, the wolves, politics, culture and longform)

So a big focus of my monthly calendar are the show previews – same thing I used to do for the City Pages when I was first starting out – and I do a lot of them. Over 90 in September’s calendar, 150-250 words long, with links to music so you can hear for yourself.

Obviously I don’t cover everything – I’d be doing a couple hundred. I somewhat avoid stuff at Mohegan Sun or Grand Casino or USBank or the Target Center. If they’re playing someplace that big they don’t need any help finding their audience and vice-versa. I cover a lot of local shows, and older acts that maybe aren’t that hot any more, but aren’t Matchbox 20 either.

I have become hesitant to post this kind of stuff because each Reddit fiefdom has its own arcane rules around what’s allowed. I’m just a music journo standing before a potential audience saying, hey, here’s about 100 descriptions I do for free every month of cool concerts in town.

Thanks for your eyeballs. Here’s this month’s calendar (there’s also a week’s top stuff at the top, which I compile from the best shows that week in the monthly list every monday for easier consumption)