Beloved TC alt-rock band 12 Rods announces Jan. 16 reunion show

***UPDATE: Tickets go on sale Friday at noon for $20, here's the link.

One of the first questions fans will ask when they find out 12 Rods is playing a reunion show Jan. 16 at First Avenue is, "Which 12 Rods?" The answer: basically every version.

The widely respected but mostly unfamous alt/indie/whatever rock band of the late-'90s and early-'00s -- which landed a big deal with V2 Records and recorded one album with Todd Rundgren as producer (mostly a disaster) – is reuniting to promote a reissue of its fourth and final record, 2002's "Lost Time." The lineup of the band that made that album will obviously play at the show, including co-founding brothers Ryan and Ev Olcott, drummer Dave King (Bad Plus, Happy Apple), bassist Bill Shaw and then-unknown-and-maybe-even-still-pubescent guitarist Jake Hanson (who went on to play with Haley Bonar, Solid Gold, the Pines, etc.).

However, today's Facebook post announcing the show also says the show will feature "nearly every other" musician who went through 12 Rods' locally vaulted ranks, including Christopher McGuire, Matthew Foust, Tal Tahir and George Marich.

"Lost Time" will be re-released via Chigliak, the new label run by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver). Chigliak's site describes it as "a record label devoted to releasing extraordinary albums that were never commercially released." The 12 Rods swan song certainly fits that bill, as the band self-released after its remarkably unfruitful run with V2. Pitchfork gave the album an 8.1 rating, but only a few dozen music geeks around the world knew what Pitchfork was at that time.

In a Star Tribune interview around "Lost Time's" release, frontman Ryan Olcott said about the record, "A lot of it was career frustration. And some of it was sticking with the lonely bachelor theme, also a frustrating part of my life."

At least one of those is a theme Olcott and other fans can probably still relate to 12 years later. Stay tuned for ticket info from First Avenue.