A few noteworthy new additions to the summer concert calendar today:
*After a concerted effort to get folks to stop calling him Billy, Smashing Pumpkins frontman William Corgan is going even farther down the mature-arteest route by launching his entirely remade band's first-ever reunion tour. The last date on the short summer jaunt will be June 25 at the Pantages Theatre, not too far from where the stage was when the old Pumpkins played what was likely the biggest concert in Minneapolis history at the 1998 Aquatennial Bloc Party. Tickets for the Pantages show, dubbed "Insong: An Acoustic-Electro Evening," go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. for $52.95 through Ticketmaster or the State Theatre box office. Sir William says he's going to play solo tunes and even Zwan songs on the tour in addition to Pumpkins classics.
*Dawes has found another fun place to play in the Twin Cities: The Cabooze Plaza, where the Los Angeles throwback rockers will top out an excellent three-band bill on Tuesday, July 14, with locally affiliated jazz-pop specialists Lake Street Dive and burgeoning Brooklyn harmony rockers the Lone Bellow. Those tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. for $30 through eTix.com and First Ave outlets. Dawes' new David Rawlings-produced album arrives June 2.
*Another new Cabooze Plaza show for a completely different audience: British proto-pop-rocker Charli XCX, the most laughably horrendous act we saw at SXSW 2014, will land there on Tuesday, Aug. 4., on a co-headling tour with .fun guitarist Jack Antonoff's summery rock band Bleachers and opening L.A. buzz act BØRNS. Tickets for the all-ages show are listed at $30.50 and go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.
