AirLands at 7th street Entry with Val Son and St. Anthony Mann
Dec
16

AirLands at 7th street Entry with Val Son and St. Anthony Mann

AIRLANDS is a 5 piece Minneapolis Based Indie Collective with a focus on Ethereal texture, harmonic vocals, introverted yet explosive songwriting, and symphonic string arrangements. Sometimes the drums come in from over the hills. Or barefoot from the next room. Think haunting cello and chiming guitar. Harmonies. As many as we can have. Think five people trusting a song, and using it to climb out of the hollows.

AirLands makes songs that are both about what a person knows, and what a person doesn’t know, trusting the songs to hold the space, and do the work and the witnessing.


St. Anthony Mann is the musical venture of Adam Bjoraker. After spending formative years in the Midwestern plains, Mann decided to bring what he'd learned in Milwaukee, Wisconsin back home to Minnesota. With help from friends Ben McKeown (drums), Matt Tessier (bass), and DJ LaFontsee (guitar), Mann uses the guitar and voice to paint songs that attempt to daydream both within and without themselves.

Val Son is a four-piece band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, with members having cut their teeth in the Twin Cities music scene for nearly two decades. Combining varied life and musical experiences, Val Son exists as a collaborative and DIY project.

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AirLands at Icehouse with Ben Noble
Nov
6

AirLands at Icehouse with Ben Noble

AIRLANDS is a 5 piece Minneapolis Based Indie Collective with a focus on Ethereal texture, harmonic vocals, introverted yet explosive songwriting, and symphonic string arrangements. Sometimes the drums come in from over the hills. Or barefoot from the next room. Think haunting cello and chiming guitar. Harmonies. As many as we can have. Think five people trusting a song, and using it to climb out of the hollows.

AirLands makes songs that are both about what a person knows, and what a person doesn’t know, trusting the songs to hold the space, and do the work and the witnessing.

Ben Noble is a Minneapolis-based artist and producer. He released his debut album Whisky Priest in the Spring of 2017. Fully self-produced and recorded in a cabin, Whisky Priest is a journey of exacting introspection. Noble loves the contrast of serene, innocent melodies with a haunting chorus of falsetto voices. A sea of guitars and strings adds cinematic qualities, creating a drama of darkness and light. Whisky Priest wrestles with the desire to create a good world for those he loves while facing the fact that there is a nagging darkness in him that will never go away. Noble’s follow-up album Where The Light Comes In is a major expansion of the sonic palette, introducing drums, synthesizers, electric guitars, and much more to Noble's signature melodies and textures. It is as much a sonic experiment as it is a heart-rending search for answers to questions of grief and the cyclical nature of trauma.

“Ben Noble’s music is a sonic sanctuary.” - CITY PAGES

“Noble’s intimate sound and lullaby-like melodies set him apart in the Twin Cities music scene.” - THE WAKE MAGAZINE

“Obvious comparisons to Bon Iver wouldn’t be too off, especially with his looped falsetto and harmonies. But Noble’s ultra-tender voice and haunting writing style better recalls Damien Rice.” - STAR TRIBUNE

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The Parkway with Diane and Dave Mehling
Jul
22

The Parkway with Diane and Dave Mehling

A thrilling heavy-hitting ensemble of local musicians fronted by Kevin Calaba (Stars of Track and Field). Given dynamic love and lush energy by Dan Lawonn (Jeremy Messersmith), Jasper Nephew (Owl City), Dave Mehling (The Fontanelles, Portage) and Scott McPherson (Elliot Smith, Beck, She and Him), AirLands brings their music home to one of their favorite Minneapolis stages.

The five-piece will run through their favorites and also include a few tracks from Calaba’s first band Stars of Track and Field.

Expect arrangements to span from dreamy orchestral swaths to bare-boned ballad ghost towns. The band is never far from cosmic collapse, as the pieces and gears are in constant motion which is by choice and pure need.

Intimate sets by Diane and Dave Mehling open the evening and are not to be missed.

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Fireworks Show Merriweather Lakehouse
Jul
4

Fireworks Show Merriweather Lakehouse

AirLands was offered a chance to play a fireworks show on a lake in Maryland on the fourth of July. Let’s make no mistake, it is a very, very, very, strange time to be celebrating the Fourth of July.

AirLands was offered a chance to play a fireworks show @merriweather_lakehouse on a lake in Columbia Maryland on the fourth of July. We are extremely grateful for this kind and generous offer (we're looking at you David). We can't wait to bring and share the music. But let’s make no mistake, it is a very, very, very, strange time to be celebrating the Fourth of July.

Systemic racism continues to cripple entire communities, we have taken away a woman’s right to choose, there have been over 250 school mass shootings, separation of church and state seems to be melting away, there’s a very real climate crisis, inhumanities along borders, a war overseas, and the list could go on and on...

So why would I accept this show? Because I need to do my job. My job as a musician, is to continue to use my voice, through art, and spread hope as best I can, and if I ever get a big of enough platform, to hand it over to those who need it. That is not the job of every musician, but that is mine. And Like I said, it feels very strange to celebrate the Fourth of July this year, but I will not give up on hope. Ever. Not ever.

Let’s go! See you in the streets.

“In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.” ~ Barack Obama

#reproductiverights #BLM #guncontrol #hope #dissent

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The IceHouse April 29th 9pm
Apr
29

The IceHouse April 29th 9pm

So can I be you, instead of just be me? AirLands. Connecting into the sadness. Overly honest and hopeful. Five Humans. Harmonies. Soaring French horn. No guitar riffs, something less angular, more crystallized. Lyrics phoned in off of lost letters from deep black space. A cello. Acoustics. If Redwoods were drums and moonlight were mallets. Arriving slowly, only to leave again. Never the same twice. That makes sense, right?

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