Reviler Rewind: September 2026
Catch up on everything Reviler published in September 2026: photos, reviews, and local music from Minneapolis/St. Paul and beyond.
September was a busy month of shows with photos and reviews of a dozen shows including Adam’s bucket list dream of seeing Sugar.
Feature
Do Look Back: Sugar’s Besides album (3 Nights of First Avenue shows starting tonight!)
Sugar plays a sold-out, three-night stand at First Ave starting tonight – their first Minneapolis shows in over 30 years. We look back at Besides, the b-sides comp that started it all for me, plus mailing lists, bootleg cassettes, and one very confused dad with…
Local
Listen to the Atmospheric Electronica of White Dune’s Rare Earth LP (MINNEAPOLIS RELEASE SHOW TONIGHT!)
Dave Power (he of Solid Gold, bathtub cig and many more) recently put out a great LP called Rare Earth of (self-described) Boards of Canada-influenced electonrica. The album is 12…
Listening
Review: I Will Die In This Jean Jacket’s “Hang From A Cloud”
Read a review of the debut from local musician Jim Blaha's new solo project I Will Die In This Jean Jacket
Listen to Kiwi Jr’s Latest Jangly Pop From Their New LP Blowin’ Up (MINNEAPOLIS SHOW TONIGHT!)
Kiwi Jr. is a group of jangly pop connoisseurs from Canada who have been on the grind over the last few years making richly melodic music. I was hooked via…
On Their Instrumental Self-Titled Debut, Croz Boyce (Avey Tare and Geologist of Animal Collective) Explore Their Warm and Tender Side (MINNEAPOLIS SHOW TONIGHT!)
Dave Portner (Avey Tare) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) are either 2/3 or half of Animal Collective, depending on the area you are talking about, and you can hear the band's…
Photographs
- 01Megasound At The Minnesota State Fair
- 02Aestis | Meshes | Coworker at Pilllar Forum
- 03Sugar at First Avenue
- 04Ceremony at the Fine Line
- 05Chat Pile at First Avenue
- 06Yard Act at The Fine Line
- 07Kiwi Jr. | Real Numbers | Sandpaper At Cloudland
- 08Aldous Harding | Sam Burton At The Cedar Cultural Center
- 09POiSON GiRL FRiEND at Green Room
- 10Public Image Ltd. at First Avenue
Watch
Chat Pile “Shrine” (Show Thursday night!)
Chat Pile headline the First Avenue mainroom for the first time tomorrow night (9/17)
Concerts
We Went There: Kiwi Jr. At Cloudland
As I mentioned in my preview post ahead of their Friday show at Cloudland, Canadian janglers Kiwi Jr are a band that burst into my world in late 2019 on…
We Went There: Croz Boyce at The Cedar
Croz Boyce, on record, are Avey Tare and Geologist from the legendary aughts band Animal Collective. They put out their debut LP this year, and it highlighted their breezy, nature-infused…
We Went There: Nels Cline at the Walker Art Center
As I walked to the bus after seeing Nels Cline's variety show "River Mouth, Unseen Green" at the Walker Art Center's McGuire Theatre, I wrestled with whether this was the…
From the Archive
We were pretty early on Whitney who blew up not too long after this. Check out what we said back in 2010:
Listen to some dreamy folk-pop from Whitney (former members of Smith Westerns) (Show tonight!) (September 2016, 10 years ago)
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Adam Bubolz is a co-founder, writer, and photographer at Reviler, covering the Minneapolis/St. Paul music scene since 2009. His concert photography has appeared throughout the site’s coverage of local and touring acts.
