Noah Kahan @ Target Field—Know before you go: Delaware North food and beverage workers will be walking out on an unfair labor practice strike before the show. So don't buy concessions—that's crossing a picket line.—Keith Harris

Open Mic with Grant Dawson @ 318 Cafe

Bosso Poetry Company @ 331 Club

Harold’s House Party on KFAI with Don Scott and Rosanne Licciardi @ 331 Club

Thursday, August 6

Simshows at the Abi: Wub Island Edition @ Abi’s

Your Mom’s Mom, Garf, Unattractive Giant Monster @ Acadia

Ditch Pigeon (Album Release) @ Amsterdam—The new album is Chronic Burger Vision (relatable!), and you can read more about the band in my last Playlists column.—Keith Harris

David Huckfelt’s Mystery Lights @ Animales

Kehlani with Durand Bernarr, Isaia Huron, TheARTI$t, Waseel @ Armory—I’m gonna put my critical rep on the line here and call “Folded” the best song ever written and sung about meeting your possible ex at the door with his/her/their clothes and seeing if the spark gets rekindled. If nothing else on Kehlani’s newish self-titled album meets that high standard, it’s still their strongest since their 2017 debut, SweetSexySavage. You can tell everyone involved is taking this seriously because the guest list is so long; if anything, there are too many rap features, though most (Weezy, Clipse, Cardi, not Big Sean of course) add a little something. While many of their vibes-first R&B contemporaries place self-esteem before hooks, Kehlani loves a good song—so much so that when Babyface gets a songwriting credit here (on an Usher duet) I can’t help but imagine what a great team they’d make.—Keith Harris

The Weeping Covenant with Alec Watson @ Aster Cafe

Majmin, headtriiip, AJANIMF @ Berlin

Crates: E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching @ Berlin

Jaybee & the Routine @ Bunker’s

Ryan Freitas Quintet @ Carbone’s

McNasty Brass Band @ Crooners

Travis Anderson Trio @ Crooners

Preservation Hall to Bourbon Street @ Crooners

Jane Monheit @ Dakota

Navarro the Development @ Driftwood Char Bar

Paul Bergen @ Dubliner Pub

Test Site 67 @ Dubliner Pub

LGBTQ+ Twin Cities Latin Dance @ Eagles 34

Karaoke With On Call Entertainment @ Eagles 34

Stinging Nettles, the Jay Boys @ Eagles 34

Vinyl Night @ Gambit Brewing

OSFNA After Party @ Gidi

Snapz Live Band Open Mic @ Green Room

Mayyadda, the Stinging Nettles @ Hook and Ladder

Power of 10 @ Hopkins Downtown Park

Field Hospitals, Hex Horse, Bell Choir @ Icehouse

Record Night @ Fulton Brewing

Paul Barry Blues Band @ Lake Harriet Bandshell

Room3 @ Landmark Center

Acoustic Thursdays @ Mainstreet Bar

Nina Luna @ Mia

Kung Fu Hippies @ Minnehaha Bandstand

No Limits The B Side @ Minnesota Music Cafe

John Doe & Exene Cervenka @ Parkway Theater

Déjà Móó @ Pillsbury Creative Commons—Three years ago, massive music festival Coachella sent a cease-and-desist to Minnesota nonprofit Cow Tipping Press, which has hosted a disability literary arts festival called Cowchella for years. While that name has since been retired, the event formally known as Cowchella lives on. Rebranded as Déjà Móó, this year’s fest features a “mega-book release” from over 30 writers with intellectual and developmental disabilities, plus music from KRSM Radio, local jazz/R&B group Bakkwooddrift, and headliners LAAMAR. There will also be local food vendors and a disabilities arts and advocacy fair. In line with the festival’s mission, the event will be wheelchair accessible, ASL interpreted, and cognizant of sensory concerns (with a designated quiet area and a mix of indoor and outdoor spaces). Déjà Móó itself is not particularly bovine-themed (sorry to disappoint!), but I’m sure any cow-based accessories would be welcome.—Clare O'Connor

Drums of Navarone @ Schooner Tavern

Noeline Hofmann @ 7th St Entry

Young the Giant, Cold War Kids, little image @ Surly Brewing Festival Field

Mae & the Guys @ 318 Cafe

Northeast Invitational @ 331 Club

Triple Threat Tribute Night @ Turf Club

Watershed, Brynn Arens @ Underground Music

Bay Faction, Lawnchair Dads @ Underground Music

Heavy Thur Presents Gypsy Wizard Queen @ White Squirrel

Shot Down in Flames, Bleak Sabbath, System 13 @ White Squirrel

Jared Nels @ Wooden Ship Brewing

Luca Calvetti @ Volstead’s

Color in Reverse, Nuzumi, Zer-0 @ Zhora Darling

Friday, August 7

The Feral Parents @ Acadia

Afters, Weekend @ Bernie’s @ Amsterdam

Funk Friday Feature TH3 @ Animales

Slander—Night 1 @ Armory

Jack Cassidy, Monica Livorsi @ Aster Cafe

Mill City Hot Club @ Berlin

Bryan Murray/Adam Linz/Dan Monaghan (Album Release) @ Berlin

Shannon Blowtorch @ Berlin

Drinkwine with Friends @ Blues Saloon

Alex Rossi @ Bunker’s

Bomja 004: Into the Wild @ Cabooze

Matt Gold & Dustin Laurenzi with Alpha Consumer @ Cedar Cultural Center

Tom Hunter @ Crooners

The Spirit of Whitney @ Crooners

Preservation Hall to Bourbon Street @ Crooners

Brass Funkadelic with Emerson Avenue @ Crooners

Talib Kweli @ Dakota

No Regard, Zero Track Mind, Main Street Free Fall @ Day Block Brewing

New Entangled Particles, the Outcats @ Driftwood Char Bar

Toronzo Cannon, the Butanes @ Dual Citizen

DD & Company @ Dubliner Pub

Irish Music Session @ Dubliner Pub

T Marie & Bayou Juju @ Eagles 34

Performance Anxiety, Aeris and the Piggies, Blood Quantum, Lucky Crayfish @ Eagles 34

Favourite Girl, Zahra Wiedmann @ 50th & France

Eli Gardiner @ 56 Brewing

Jack Harlow @ Fillmore

Sapphic ONE-Derland @ Fine Line

Death Makes Time, Blood Cookie @ Flying V

Let’s Gidi Fest Welcome Party @ Gidi

David Singley @ Gingko Coffee

Rainforest Rave @ Green Room

Twin Cities Irish Festival with the High Kings, Chasing Abbey, and Biird @ Harriet Island

A Decade: Celebrating 10 Years of the Hook @ Hook and Ladder—It’s a real accomplishment for a new venue to make it a full decade, and it deserves a celebration—two whole nights of hooking and laddering. (Pretend those words mean “eating and drinking” and “listening to music,” I guess.) The Hook has been holding it down since 2016, which truly feels like a different era, a time before its Longfellow corner became the epicenter of the 2020 uprising. Musically, Friday serves up a father-son lineup, with Alan Sparhawk’s Black-Eyed Snakes and daughter Hollis’s Willem Dafoe Fan Club, along with Duluth’s Entheos Enclave. Saturday’s lineup includes unkempt punks the Silent Treatment, soul man Nicholas David, the West Bank Social Club, and the Potluck String Band. And all the while you’ll be wolfing down picnic faves like watermelon and potato salad.—Keith Harris

Lasalle (EP Release) @ Icehouse—These funky locals, who were selected for First Ave's best new bands in January, are less Minneapolis Sound than new jack swing, and their namesake/leader sings strikingly like Peter Cox of Go West.

Lodge @ Lake Harriet Bandshell

Camoufly @ The Loft

Mixtape Arcade @ Mainstreet Bar

Will Aldrich Quartet @ Metronome Brewery

Hippies & Cowboys @ Midway Saloon

Dive Bar Orchestra @ Minnehaha Bandstand

The Johnnie Brown Experience @ Minnesota Music Cafe

Corazon Serrano @ Myth Live

John Holiday and Beethoven’s Fifth @ Orchestra Hall

JoJo Greene @ Schooner Tavern

Sophie Hiroko, Ava Levy, Scrunchies, Lana Leone @ 7th St Entry

House Proud 15-Year Reunion @ Sociable Cider Werks

Chris Mason @ 318 Cafe

Piss With Style, Druthers, the Skeleton Crew @ 331 Club

Reese Glover, Thomas Sticha, Tony Cuchetti @ Turf Club

Pith, Porch Knights, Pyrmafrost @ Underground Music

DJ Pauly D @ Uptown Theater

Super Dope @ Uptown VFW

Paul Harper @ Volstead’s

Helen, Joan of Profile @ White Squirrel

Taylor Ray & the Fits, Other Stars @ White Squirrel

Jazicality, Ozone Creations, & Brandyn Lee Tulloch & Poetic Roots @ Zhora Darling

Lojay will perform at Let's Gidi Fest.Photo provided

Saturday, August 8

Artist Tour USA, RoyalExperienceCollective1 @ Acadia

Hot Flash Dance: A Dance Party for Divas of a Certain Age @ Amsterdam

Wild Lyre @ Animales

The Hillcats @ Aster Cafe

Slack/Peterson/Haneman @ Berlin

Bulldozer School (Anthony Cox/Dave King/Brandon Wozniak) @ Berlin

Sami Knox @ Berlin

Chase & Ovation @ Bunker’s

Sunset Social Club @ Cabooze

Darrio: Jamaica Independence Day @ Cabooze

Trench Size Trio @ Carbone’s

Creekbed Carter's Hot Dog Ball with Pine & Fire and Jo Kellen @ Cedar Cultural Center—Creekbed Carter Hogan’s new release, Peasants Revolt, collects just the sort of anti-capitalist country songs you’ve been waiting for. Inspired by the likes of Fernando A. Flores’s novel Brother Brontë and Julius S. Scott’s history of the Haitian Revolution, The Common Wind (but not in an overtly lit’rary manner), the self-described “court jester of the apocalypse” doesn’t flinch from the perils of our age (“I hear it’s warmer than it ought to be/Up at the mouth of the Mississippi,” he sings on “Burn”). But his bright voice addresses a world in flames without being a scold or a sucker about it. How can you not love a fella who sings, “When it all falls apart/Will you cradle my heart/Like the hot dog I’m dreaming of?”—especially since Carter promises ”medieval hot dog themed costumes” as well as consumable dogs from The Wienery down the street for tonight’s show. And look at me, I made it through this whole blurb without quipping about a certain still-raging civic scandal.—Keith Harris

Reminiscing ’75-’79 @ Crooners

The Amy Manette Band @ Crooners

Jimmy Martin and Drew Jansen @ Crooners

Joyann Parker Band @ Dakota

Sandpaper, Cheap Glue, Josie Villano @ Dreamstate Cafe

Cheat Day, the Flyovers @ Driftwood Char Bar

Backyard Blues Festival @ Dual Citizen

DD & Company @ Dubliner Pub

Tim Cheesbrow @ Dubliner Pub

Mary Strand & the Garage, Ted Hajnasiewicz, Large Headed Fish @ Dusty's

Knife Emoji, Sunken Planes, Deletist @ Eagles 34

Broadway Rave @ Fine Line