La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
First Avenue present La Dispute with special guests From Indian Lakes and Flooding
Review and photos by Jesse McKinney
Flooding
Flooding ended up being one of the bigger surprises of the night for me! The best way I can describe Flooding is shoegaze and slow-core, but with splashes of loud heavy moments. Coming out of Lawrence Kansas, Flooding has only been around since 2020 but you can see the following they have already built, with tons of fans packing the floor to see them open the show. First Ave was way more packed than I’m used to, even shortly after doors opened!
What stuck with me most was how the songs slowly dragged themselves forward before suddenly blowing up into these huge bursts of sound! A couple of the shifts hit way harder live than I expected! Their sound feels messy in a very intentional way and everything is barely holding together but it still lands exactly how it should.
The vocals of Rose Brown really sold that feeling too! They sounded emotionally worn but without feeling overdone or theatrical. You could tell the crowd was fully locked in during their set! Flooding is not usually the kind of band I would throw on day to day, but after the show I caught myself going back through their music and adding a few songs to playlists.
Flooding performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and From Indian Lakes.
Flooding performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and From Indian Lakes.
Flooding performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and From Indian Lakes.
Flooding performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and From Indian Lakes.
Flooding performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and From Indian Lakes.
Flooding performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and From Indian Lakes.
Flooding performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and From Indian Lakes.
Flooding performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and From Indian Lakes.
Flooding performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and From Indian Lakes.
Flooding performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and From Indian Lakes.
Flooding performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and From Indian Lakes.
Flooding performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and From Indian Lakes.
From Indian Lakes
From Indian Lakes was the perfect band to have play before La Dispute. Their whole set had a huge immersive sound that completely filled the room and it never felt overwhelming. The production stayed dark and emotional the whole time but it fit their vibe perfectly! Nothing about the set felt overdone or forced it naturally pulled the room in.
You could also tell right away this was a band that has been doing this for a long time. Everything sounded layered and polished live. They still played like they genuinely loved being up there. A lot of bands with their clean, atmospheric sound can come off disconnected live, but From Indian Lakes never really has that problem. The set felt warm in a weird way even with how moody everything sounded.
As somebody who had never listened to them before I will admit some of the songs blended together for me a little but By the end of the set I was really enjoying it! That type of sound and style seems to work well for them! From Indian Lakes had a majority of the crowd locked in from start to finish and it was easy to see why! They felt like the kind of band you catch late at night and end up getting completely lost in. It was easy to see why La Dispute wanted From Indian Lakes to open for them on this tour.
From Indian Lakes performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and Flooding.
From Indian Lakes performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and Flooding.
From Indian Lakes performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and Flooding.
From Indian Lakes performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and Flooding.
From Indian Lakes performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and Flooding.
From Indian Lakes performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and Flooding.
From Indian Lakes performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and Flooding.
From Indian Lakes performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and Flooding.
From Indian Lakes performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and Flooding.
From Indian Lakes performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and Flooding.
From Indian Lakes performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and Flooding.
From Indian Lakes performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with La Dispute and Flooding.
La Dispute
La Dispute have been around since 2004 and after seeing them live it makes complete sense why they are still one of the most respected bands in post-hardcore! Their set didn’t feel like a normal hardcore or post-hardcore show, it felt like a therapy session for ever person in the packed First Ave crowd that night. I have seen loud singalongs before, but this was on another level! At points it honestly felt like the crowd was screaming every word louder than vocalist Jordan Dreyer! Even without knowing every lyric it was impossible not to get pulled into everything happening around you.
A huge part of that comes from how personal La Dispute feels live. Nothing about it feels fake, theatrical, or built around some “scene” image. The emotion never came off like a gimmick. It felt painfully real the entire time. The spoken-word sections would pull the whole room in and then out of nowhere everything would explode into these insanely loud screamed passages that hit even harder live than I expected. You can immediately understand why fans connect to this band so much and spend so much time quoting and analyzing every lyric online. It doesn’t feel like people casually listen to La Dispute, It feels like their songs genuinely mean something to the their fans.
Jordan Dreyer instantly vaulted to the top of my favorite vocalists I have ever seen live! I genuinely do not understand how he can move around on stage so much for an entire set while still delivering every line with that much power behind it! He never stopped moving one single time and it was impressive how he didn’t seem to lose a single step! The body language alone was intense to watch! What made it even better was that none of it felt over-rehearsed or performative. It looked completely natural and the songs physically needed to come out that way.
Even with how emotionally heavy everything felt, La Dispute was still a really fun band to watch live! They feel intensely authentic in a way that is hard to explain unless you see them for yourself. This is absolutely one of those bands that if I get another chance to see them live, I am there immediately!
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
La Dispute performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 7, 2026 during the No One Was Driving The Car Tour with support from From Indian Lakes and Flooding.
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