Obi Original & The Black Atlantics performed at the first night of Carbon Sound’s Sunday night residency at Berlin in Minneapolis on Jan. 5, 2025.
Obi Original & The Black Atlantics performed at the first night of Carbon Sound’s Sunday night residency at Berlin in Minneapolis on Jan. 5, 2025.Bump Opera for MPR

The Gig List for May 17: Obi Original; Keep For Cheap; Tabah & other Art-A-Whirl shows

Saturday, May 17
12:00 pm

All showtimes listed below are Central Daylight Time (CDT).

  • Infrasound Music Festival featuring Ace Ventura, Subdocta, Digital Mystikz, and more: 11 a.m. at Harmony Park Music Garden, Clarks Grove, Minn

  • Art-A-Whirl Weekend featuring Bands on Vans, Mary Jam, Speed Riders, and Socktopus: 12 p.m. at 331 Club, Minneapolis (FREE)

  • White Boy Summer, Vicious Vicious, Tabah and more: 12 p.m. at Bauhaus Brew Labs, Minneapolis

  • Black Market Brass, Dylan Salfer, Obi Original and more: 1:30 p.m. at Indeed Brewing, Minneapolis

  • Keep For Cheap, Harlow, Manias and more: 3 p.m. at Sociable Cider Works, Minneapolis

  • Vibes: The Outdoor Function: 4 p.m. at The Cabooze, Minneapolis

  • Adam Linz/Joe Strachan: 4:30 p.m. at Berlin, Minneapolis (FREE)

  • Katy Tessman album release with Annie & Kari and Favourite Girl: 6 p.m. at Icehouse, Minneapolis

  • My Cousin Dallas: 6 p.m. at White Squirrel Bar, St. Paul (FREE)

  • The Belfast Cowboys Anniversary with Mark Joseph & American Soul, The de'Lindas: 6 p.m. at Hook and Ladder, Minneapolis

  • The Wailers: 6:30 p.m. at Dakota, Minneapolis 

  • An Evening with Ryan Smith of Soul Asylum and The Mellismatics: 7 p.m. at The High Hat, St. Paul

  • Chemical-X and Friends: 7 p.m. at Underground Music Cafe, Minneapolis

  • Hippie Sabotage with Carpetman: 7 p.m. at Fillmore, Minneapolis 

  • Speed with Whispers, Out4Blood, and Lack: 7 p.m. at Fine Line, Minneapolis 

  • The Cactus Blossoms with Jack Klatt: 7 p.m. at The Historic Auditorium, St. Croix Falls, Wisc.

  • Deceased with Grand Demise of Civilization: 7:30 p.m. at Zhora Darling, Minneapolis 

  • Mallrat with Anna Shoemaker: 7:30 p.m. at 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis 

  • Tommaso Moretti’s Inside Out 4tet: 7:30 p.m. at Berlin, Minneapolis 

  • Twin Star Rocket: 7:30 p.m. at Green Room, Minneapolis

  • The Crosses with Laugh Track and Meditation: 8 p.m. at Cloudland Theater, Minneapolis 

  • Flipp with Cretin Avenue Hop: 8 p.m. at Turf Club, St. Paul

  • Paul Frantzich & David Anania: 8 p.m. at Aster Cafe, Minneapolis

  • Sam Graber Band: 8 p.m. at 318 Cafe, Excelsior, Minn.

  • The Devil Makes Three with the Bridge City Sinners: 8:30 p.m. at First Avenue, Minneapolis

  • Catastrophic Heros with Evernoir and Exphasis: 9 p.m. at White Squirrel Bar, St. Paul (FREE)

  • Gimme Gimme Disco: 9 p.m. at Varsity Theater, Minneapolis

  • The Wailers: 9 p.m. at Dakota, Minneapolis

  • The Good The Bad & the Funky: 9:30 p.m. at Bunker’s, Minneapolis

  • JOEY: Genre-Jumping Grooves feat. selectors AllDay & Jam E.Z.: 10 p.m. at Hook and Ladder’s Mission Room, Minneapolis

  • sequence. (house techno digital soul): Malion • Jen-E • D Untethered: 10 p.m. at Uptown VFW, Minneapolis

  • Strictly R&B: Taurus Takeover SZN 2: 10 p.m. at The Cabooze, Minneapolis

  • Dilla Day: 10:30 p.m. at Icehouse, Minneapolis

  • Late Night Lounge: DJ Amy Pickett B2B Allen Hz: 10:30 p.m. at Berlin, Minneapolis (FREE)

On TV

  • Jensen McRae on CBS Saturday Morning Saturday Sessions (CBS)

  • Bad Bunny (with host Scarlett Johansson) on Saturday Night Live (NBC)

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The Gig List for May 17: Obi Original; Keep For Cheap; Tabah & other Art-A-Whirl shows