The Suburbs concert on December 31, 2021 has been rescheduled and will take place on March 26, 2022. All tickets purchased for the original performance will remain valid for the new date, so please hang on to your original ticket for entrance.

Please note: Refund requests for this show must be submitted by January 22, 2022. To request a refund if your tickets were purchased through AXS, please contact support.axs.com or use the AXS app.

Doors open at 6:30PM | Show starts at 7:30PM | 18+

$30 Advance GA | $35 GA Day of Show | $50 Reserved Loge (Advance) | $55 Reserved Loge (Day of Show) | $40 Reserved P1 Balcony (Advance) | $45 Reserved P1 Balcony (Day of Show) | $35 Reserved P2 Balcony (Advance) | $40 Reserved P2 Balcony (Day of Show)

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Often described as a Midwest Roxy Music, but with more humor and rock scruff, The 'Burbs have been making their unique punk-pop-art-dance records and performing off and on ever since the ‘Mpls Sound’ heyday. Founded in 1977, The Suburbs are recognized worldwide as among the original heroes of the "Minneapolis Sound”; a historic music era that saw the emergence of other bands like The Suicide Commandos, Prince, The Replacements, and Hüsker Dü.

Led now by original keyboardist and singer Chan Poling, original drummer Hugo Klaers, and longtime saxophonists Max Ray (also of The Wallets), they are augmented by a supergroup of newcomers: Stevie Brantseg and Jeremy Ylvisaker on guitars, Steve Price on bass, Janey Winterbauer on backup vocals, Rochelle Becker on Bari Sax and Stephen Kung on horns and keys.

Voted among the "100 Most Influential Minnesota Musical Entities of the Twentieth Century" by The Minneapolis Star Tribune, with dance-club hits like “Waiting” and ”Music for Boys", and radio hits like ”Life Is Like”, “Rattle My Bones”, and the 2013 Marriage Equality Anthem, "Love Is The Law”, The Suburbs could be forgiven for resting on their laurels.

But the music and accolades keep on coming. "Turn The Radio On" from their 2013 album Si Sauvage was voted "Song Of The Year" by a poll of local music critics in the Mpls Star Tribune, and The New Yorker magazine, praising their last release Hey Muse!, wrote; “The ensemble maintains its quirky spunk and funky pop energy”.

The Suburbs continue to entertain at the highest level and remain one of the most creative and vital bands out there today, honoring their past and blazing into the future.

Run Westy Run was one of the great Twin Cities bands of the '80s, but decades later, in retrospect, they tend to get lost in the glare of an effervescent Minnesota music scene that at the time had no shortage of bright lights: The Replacements, Husker Du, Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks, Prince, Flyte Tyme, plus countless other sparkling contenders, many now lost to the sands of time.

Run Westy Run was formed in 1984 by 3 brothers from St. Louis Park, MN - Kirk, Kyle, and Kraig Johnson - along with Terry Fisher and Bob Joslyn, and were named after a 1966 children's book of the same name. The “Westies”, as they soon became known, started out as an intensely chaotic, Stooge-y hard rock band, but later evolved into a hard-to-define amalgam of indie, rock, roots, punk, and funk, driven by a ferocious, lusty energy that infected any audience they came into contact with at one legendary live show after another. The Westies have released 3 studio LPs along with a handful of singles and EPs over the years – and there are at least a few albums worth of material that got lost along the way – but their enduring legacy is a well-earned reputation as one of finest live bands to ever come out of the Land of 10000 Bands.

Things quietly ramped down for the Westies in the late '90s as various band members pursued other projects (So-So, The O'Jeez, Iffy, Golden Smog, and The Jayhawks, to name a few) but the band never officially called it quits. After a 15 year hiatus, Run Westy Run returned to the action in late 2013 with a gala holiday show at First Avenue. They finally issued a live album in 2014 that captured some of their live magic and released a digital EP in late 2017 that shows them evolving in new, exciting directions.

Still rocking local stages on a semi-regular basis while continually working on new material, the current lineup of RWR consists of founding members Kraig & Kirk Johnson and Terry Fisher, supplemented by a crackerjack rhythm section of drummer-about-town/producer Peter Anderson, and bassist Paul McFarland. In January 2021, the band recorded a new album's worth of tracks at Flowers Studio in Minneapolis with plans for a late 2021/early 2022 release. Well into their fourth decade of uncompromising creativity, anyone who has experienced the Westies lately can attest that they're still as vital as ever, maybe even more so.

Shane Kramer is many things: Professional DJ of more than five years, performing at hundreds of weddings and events, part of the Transmission Music Group, owner of more than 10,000 vinyl records, and connoisseur of James Bond flicks. When Shane is not spending time with his wife Jeni and their two boys, Miles and Linus, he is active in the local music scene, playing bass in various bands. An avid music enthusiast, Shane’s favorites are diverse and include Hall and Oates, The Cure, Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Prince, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and anything Motown.