Red Pens at Entry

From Minneapolis

First show since since April 16, 2011 • First Entry show since March 12, 2011 • First headlining show since March 18, 2011 • First Entry headlining show since November 24, 2010 • 76th show on MN Live's calendar since June 16, 2008

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From last.fm:

Seeing the Minneapolis duo, Red Pens, is like witnessing a demonstration, a demonstration in raw sonic bliss. Howard Hamilton III is a string-bending master who knows how to make feedback work to his advantage. His confident vocal stylings, coupled with drummer Laura Bennett's all or nothing kit pounding, are about as uniquely refreshing as it gets these days. The stage is littered with junk shop amps and guitars Hamilton seems to almost get tangled up in while he and Bennett exchange doses... Read more about Red Pens on Last.fm.

Added to bill on Mar 13

From Minneapolis

First show since since March 26, 2011 • Fifth show on MN Live's calendar since January 13, 2011

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From last.fm:

The Cloak Ox is made of four staunch music-making Midwestern men. They are Andrew Broder, Jeremy Ylvisaker, Mark Erickson and Martin Dosh and their names may be familiar. Of course, they may not be. They hail from Minneapolis, MN, and have been friends for many years, playing a lot—a lot—of music together and apart. They have started bands, quit bands, restarted bands, played in others' bands, inspired other people's bands that became very successful, and even sometimes joined those bands after the fact. Read more about The Cloak Ox on Last.fm.

Added to bill on Mar 13

From Minneapolis

First show since since March 19, 2011 • 40th show on MN Live's calendar since January 30, 2009

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Added to bill on Mar 13

From Minneapolis

First show since since March 31, 2011 • First Entry show • Third show on MN Live's calendar since February 6, 2011

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From last.fm:

In late 2003, just two years after 9/11, The OaKs's Ryan Costello sold everything he owned, joined a humanitarian organization and moved to Afghanistan. Costello lived there for two years, working in the Central Afghan mountains with returned refugees, teaching them creative agricultural techniques and becoming fluent in their native language, Farsi. Late at night, while the dust storms blocked out the stars and rattled the windows, he would sit and work out impressions of what he had seen and heard that day on his acoustic guitar. Read more about The Oaks on Last.fm.

Added to bill on Mar 13