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A benefit for Abortion Access Front, the Sept. 10 event features “sexist songs reclaimed by righteous feminists.

The Suburbs with the Hang Ups at First Avenue on Friday, April 21.

Shoutouts, too, to the New Standards, Aby Wolf and Andrew Walesch.

Critics picks for entertainment in the week ahead.

Highlights for Jan. 5-11 include Brandon Commodores NRG, Acoustic Bowie, Eleganza and Dosh.

"Southeast of Saturn 2" features tracks by the 27 Various, Shapeshifter and Fauna.

MINNEAPOLIS — The music scene that Lydia Liza entered as a 16-year-old, “vulnerable in every sense of the word,” was full of men and full of threats. Men who groomed her with bad intentions, men who kissed her without her permission. Soon, she and her guitar will return to venues again. But thanks to a #MeToo reckoning that’s been playing out backstage, that scene will be different, she hopes. She will be different, at least. “I never really was worried about losing a r...