Rock the Garden 2014: It's a double date for the music fest

Minneapolis' hippest music fest, Rock the Garden expands to two days with dual headliners De La Soul and Spoon.

June 20, 2014 at 10:41AM
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Is two of something good really better than one? Rock the Garden organizers certainly hope Twin Cities music lovers think so. After three or four years of single-day tickets selling out faster than you can say, "Please tell the band Low to finish its sound check," the 12th installment of Walker Art Center's outdoor music fest with 89.3 the Current was turned into a two-day event for the first time this year. Because of that — and because it's one of RTG's more eclectic, record-nerdy lineups of late — tickets are still available to Saturday's more festive, mixed-bag lineup with hip-hop vets De La Soul, and to Sunday's guitar-heavy indie-rock marathon with Spoon.

The Rock the Garden concert at the Walker Art Center/Minneapolis Sculpture Garden on Saturday, June 15, 2013.
The 2013 Rock the Garden concert at the Walker Art Center/Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. (Chris Riemenschneider — Special to the Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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Chris Riemenschneider

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Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas.

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