First Avenue
Live music venue in Minneapolis, MinnesotaWikipedia
85
MENTIONS
63
EPISODES
50
PODCASTS
Search complete. 85 mentions across 63 episodes found for "First Avenue".
Sep 11, 2026
Jason NarducyGUEST
That was David Owens and Sketch Fest in San Francisco.
Jason NarducyGUEST
And it just trickled – started to trickle in after that, Minneapolis, First Avenue.
Jason NarducyGUEST
And so we put together a little nine-date tour just as kind of like a is-this-possible type thing.
Michael ShannonGUEST
Which we had never done before.
Chad CookHOST
I kind of caught on late.
Chad CookHOST
But the Copper Blue tour was actually my first First Avenue show.
Keith PhillyHOST
Oh, so you got to go to it.
Chad CookHOST
Yeah, I did.
Michael AradSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so I was at home by myself when I heard on the radio that a plane had struck the World Trade Center.
Michael AradSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And you could see the towers from our bedroom window on First Avenue.
Michael AradSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I saw a thin plume of smoke and I thought it must have been a freak accident, a small plane.
Michael AradSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I grabbed my camera and went up to the rooftop of our building.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
You did it.
Brian TurnerHOST
And broadcasting from the booth on First Avenue, this is East Village Radio and Brian Turner with you.
Brian TurnerHOST
Until 6 o'clock p.m. this afternoon, thanks for joining us.
Brian TurnerHOST
Almost didn't make it.
RobHOST
Okay.
RobHOST
On June 13th at 721 p.m. at First Avenue.
RobHOST
Are you guys here? Now, that's a bummer.
RobHOST
That's a bummer to get because Matt, do you know what that date is? June 13th.
RobHOST
The next, the next message we got Mike from Perlin.
RobHOST
And I promised to do almost no research.
RobHOST
My brother and I went to the wallflowers first Avenue and had the time of our lives.
RobHOST
Oh, Jacob Dillon's take on Tom Petty's long after dark was very impressive.
CalebHOST
It was only through, there, there's this really cool, uh, public radio, uh, station in the Twin Cities called The Current.
CalebHOST
They set up this thing where The, The Killers played First Ave, and this was in the last five years.
JoelGUEST
Mm.
CalebHOST
And you know, First Ave is legendary, but it's not big at all.
JoelGUEST
Yeah.
CalebHOST
So the only way you could get tickets was to win them.
CalebHOST
And so, like, I, that was one that I was like, that would've been, like, an all-time sh- I can't imagine seeing a huge band like that in-
JoelGUEST
Yeah
Brian OakeHOST
saw White Zombie the first time they ever came through the Twin Cities and they went outside the regular system.
Brian OakeHOST
It was this new startup that was trying to compete with the monster that was First Avenue at the time.
Brian OakeHOST
They didn't know how to promote it.
Brian OakeHOST
They didn't have anything.
speaker_1NARRATOR
United Cigar Stores Company, J.A. Burns, District Inspector.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Notice, Baldwin and Howell Real Estate, Temporary Office, Presidio Terrace, First Avenue and Washington Street, San Francisco.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Lindgren Hicks Company, General Contractors, have opened temporary offices in the Fairmont Hotel, corner Mason and California streets.
speaker_1NARRATOR
All our San Francisco bookkeepers, stenographers, and superintendents report there, as soon as circumstances permit, to Mr. Wagner, Louis A. Hicks, President.
JoshHOST
it.
JoshHOST
I don't blame the guy at all, but I was on a bus and somebody got on and asked the bus driver, hey, does this bus go to XRX's Avenue? Xerxes Avenue.
JoshHOST
Xerxes, but yeah, that doesn't look like Xerxes at all.
JoshHOST
No, yeah.
JoshHOST
he's heard it and just thought, well, that can't be Xerxes.
JoshHOST
That starts with an X.
JoshHOST
But yeah, he called it Xerxes Avenue.
JoshHOST
I like that better.
Kevin PoindexterGUEST
So I missed out.
Kevin PoindexterGUEST
But, you know, I did go down to First Avenue and got my picture taken there.
Kevin PoindexterGUEST
And it's cool because GBV is on the wall of First Avenue as well on the outside.
Kevin PoindexterGUEST
Oh,
WillHOST
really? Yeah.
53 more episodes mention First Avenue.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.