This season has local bands, up-and-comers, and a few big names—not to mention the return of Mosh Madness and a rave on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Greta Gidley has been a fixture in finals at the NCAA Division III Championships at Hope College. Ditto Denison’s Emily Harris.

The Minnesota icon is doing something he hasn’t done in his home state in a dozen years: Perform proper concerts in consecutive years. He last did it with gigs in both St. Paul and Duluth in 2013 ...