MANKATO — The great bands just keep coming to the What’s Up Lounge. Saturday will be no exception when the Rockford Mules, Captain Eleven and Pocket Genius take the stage.
Just last June, the Star Tribune chose the Rockford Mules’ “From the Devil’s Spit to Angel Tears” album as one of its seventh-annual semi-annual best-of albums in the Twin Cities. The article began: “A band that could open for Kid Rock or Aerosmith as easily as the Black Keys or Hold Steady, this dust-stormy country-punk quintet polished up its sound for its second disc without losing its gut-punching power. When frontman Erik Tasa howls, ‘Step aside, son,’ it sounds like he’s talking to indie-rock peers who forgot how to turn the knobs up to 11.”
The Twin Cities band is made up of Tasa, Joel Habedank, Ryan Rud and Craig Peck and draws inspiration from southern rock and “electric mud,” they say, “infused with a ’70s dirty denim sneer.” The band has shared the stage with Violent Femmes, Soul Asylum and Lucero and have performed twice at the North vs. South Music Festival in Lawrence, Kan.
The Captain Eleven guys are Anthony Ticknor (guitar and vocals), Aaron Hubbard (bass), Jason Knudson (lead vocals), Jeremy Heath (drums and programming) and Matt Potocnik (guitar). The Mankato band formed less than two years ago and have a pop-punk sound. All of the members have played in various bands over the past 10 or 15 years. They also have ties to the Mankato punk scene in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
Minneapolis alt-rock band Pocket Genius is made up of Cory Docken (guitar, vocals), Colin Murphy (guitar, vocals), Jeremy Bergo (bass) and David Jarnstrom (drums). The band’s influences include Ash, Anna Ternheim, Asexuals, Band of Horses, Beach Boys, Broken Social Scene, Big Drill Car and Doughboys, among many others.
— Amanda Dyslin
If you go
What
Rockford Mules, Captain Eleven and Pocket Genius
When
10 p.m. Saturday at the What’s Up Lounge, 701 N. Riverfront Drive
Admission
$5
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Captain Eleven is a Mankato pop-punk band.
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Pocket Genius is a Minneapolis alt-rock band.
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The Rockford Mules had one of the seventh-annual semi-annual best-of Twin Cities albums chosen by the Star Tribune in June.
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