Atmosphere announces Cabooze Plaza on Sept. 7

Tickets go on sale Friday at noon for the local hip-hop vets' only local outdoor set of the year.

July 17, 2012 at 5:46PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Atmosphere played to about 10,000 fans at Taste of Minnesota in 2010. / Tom Wallace, Star Tribune
Atmosphere played to about 10,000 fans at Taste of Minnesota in 2010. / Tom Wallace, Star Tribune (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

After its Soundset headlining set got cancelled by a tornado warning and lightning, Atmosphere is squeezing in another hometown outdoor gig before the season ends. Slug & Co. will play their first-ever show at the Cabooze Plaza on Sept. 7, which is also the kickoff date their fall tour. Tickets ($25) go on sale Friday at noon, and are likely to sell out fast (click here for details). The Cabooze lot usually holds about 2,500 people. It's an all-ages gig and will feature two more local rap vets, I Self Devine and Carnage, who are opening the whole month-long tour. Rhymesayers is saying these will be Atmosphere's last dates of 2012, a year that saw them playing everywhere from South Africa to New Zealand. But not Shakopee.

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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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