| The music schedule is updated
as information becomes available. Please check back regularly
for additions and updates. All shows are 21+ unless noted
otherwise. All times listed are door times and shows generally
start an hour after doors unless noted otherwise. |
June 18,
Tuesday
8 pm |
DRINKDEEPLY Presents: SALOON SINGER SHOWCASE with Kev King, Jake Klar, Matt Karsmarski, Eric Hartlett |
No cover |
June 19,
Wednesday
8 pm show |
No BS Brass Band; w/ Lyric Hall Large Band • No BS! Brass Band is a powerful brass band that embraces the spirit of New Orleans into its original East Coast modern funk. Their danceable arrangements are outstandingly well thought-out and organized, drawing inspiration from funk, jazz, klezmer, calypso, and Led Zeppelin. Nearly every member has had conservatory training. Based in Richmond, Virginia, this band has quickly earned a reputation as a premiere band to see for an evening of heart-pounding energy and uncontrollable dancing. Check out this video. |
$8 advance;
$10 door
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June 20,
Thursday
8 pm show |
Off the Dome; w/ The Self; Relative Souls • Off The Dome pushes the envelope of contemporary music. Their dynamic compositions and sensational improvisation will be sure to get you dancing, singing, and having a great time! • The Self is an alternative rock band based in Hartford |
$5 |
June 21,
Friday
5-7 pm |
FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR • TBA |
No Cover |
June 21,
Friday
9 pm |
The Paul Collins Beat; w/ The 509ers; Thee Radiation • Paul Collins spent his pre-teens living in Greece, Vietnam and Europe before returning to his native New York. He studied at the prestigious Julliard Music School and eventually moved to San Francisco where he joined songwriter Jack Lee and bassist Peter Case to form The Nerves in 1974. The Nerves proved to be one of the pioneers of the burgeoning US punk rock scene, touring with The Ramones and recording the classic “Hanging on the Telephone,” later to become a hit for Blondie. He formed The Beat in 1979, and the group released four albums over the next 10 years. Reformed as The Paul Collins Beat in the late '90s, they have toured and released a string of new records ever since. |
$8 advance;
$10 door
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June 22,
Saturday
4:30-7:30 pm |
SATURDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ JAM w/ host George Baker • bring your ax and play, or sing. PA, amps,
drums provided. |
No Cover |
June 22,
Saturday
9 pm doors |
MANIC
PRODUCTIONS Presents: The Handsome Family; w/ Sean Rowe • The Handsome Family is a 20-year songwriting collaboration between husband and wife, Brett (music) and Rennie Sparks (words). May 2013 brings the release of their album "Wilderness." Their lyrics and music are very intense, highly descriptive and full of meticulously-researched narrative and exhilarating musical re-imaginings of everything from Appalachian holler, psychedelic rock, Tin Pan Alley and medieval ballad. They are full of romantic longing for nature's mysterious beauty and the tiny wonders of everyday life. They pair sweet melody with sad harmony, love poetry with dark beats. This is music that makes you shiver and cry, but also makes you happy to be alive. Their songs have been covered by many notable artists including Jeff Tweedy, Andrew Bird, Kelly Hogan and Christy Moore. Their work has garnered praise from Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr. A live review by Mike Ritchie in The Scotsman noted, "There's a lot of smiling at this gig, on and off stage. That might surprise many people who have only read about the duo's penchant for songs riddled with darkness, death and the macabre. But Rennie Sparks and her husband, Brett, are funny live ... through their chit-chat, the song introductions and the banter with the audience. This sell-out show was a knockabout celebration of the deadpan, a real joy.... Rennie's words plus Brett's music and strong, mellow vocals create a magical potion of grim fairytales in a rock and blues pot with grinning unavoidable." |
$15 advance;
$18 door
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June 23,
Sunday
4 - 7 pm |
BLUEGRASS JAM: with host Stacy Phillips • Here’s a chance to hear and partake in a bluegrass session in the “musicians’ living room,” Cafe Nine. We’ve invited some of the best banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, dobro and bass pickers in the area to get this series of bluegrass jams started. No electric instruments, please. |
No Cover |
June 23,
Sunday
start @ 8 pm sharp |
SUNDAY-AFTER-SUPPER
JAM: hosted by The George Baker Experience • all musicians and singers welcome.
PA, amps, keyboard, drums provided. |
No Cover |
June 24,
Monday
8 pm show |
Locust Honey • Locust Honey started in 2011 when a trio of friends got together for a Fourth of July gig. Over time the pick-up band morphed into a group that shares the sounds of generations of traditional musicians and their own original creations. Chloe, Ariel, and Meredith blend sweet harmonies with raging old time fiddle tunes to take "girl band" to a different level. Using various combinations of fiddle, banjo, guitar, and bass, they each contribute a different style to create music meant for dancing and listening. |
$6 advance;
$8 day of show
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June 25,
Tuesday
9 pm show |
The Murder Junkies; w/ Nasty Disaster; Goat Herder • The Murder Junkies were the last backing band of notorious punk rock performer GG Allin. After Allin's death, his brother and bassist Merle Allin, guitarist William Weber, and drummer Dino Sex decided to continue the band without GG. They recruited a new singer Mike Denied, and have released the album 'Feed My Sleaze.' The band tours sporadically and has gone through several line up changes. The most comtemporary singer has been J.B. Beverley, a musician from the Washington DC area who fronts two other bands, The Little White Pills and The Wayward Drifters. Jeff Clayton of Anti-seen has also toured with the Murder Junkies during some of the 1990's and during the 10th and 11th anniversary of GG's death. |
$10
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June 26,
Wednesday
8 pm show |
FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG ROADSHOW: featuring Patrick Corman; Jenee Halstead; Susan Cattaneo; Johnny Mainstream • The For the Sake of the Song Roadshow is an offshoot of the Boston-based concert series and webcast founded by Patrick Coman, which brings together performers to each play songs from the artist who has most influenced their work alongside their own original material. Join us to hear songs from Gram Parsons, Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt and more, plus original music from all performers |
$6 advance;
$8 day of show
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June 27,
Thursday
8 pm doors |
MANIC
PRODUCTIONS Presents: Night Beds; w/ Jenny O.; John Parson (of Modern Merchant) • It's difficult to say where Night Beds begins, but it could be here: August 2006, a young Winston Yellen is invited to a longtime friend's apartment. They talk, they record a little aimlessly, and something exciting emerges. Maybe it's a little later, when one is studying engineering in Nashville, and the other remains behind, an unhappy captive of secondary education. It could be any number of moments, really, along a series of migrations, but probably here: the summer of 2008, back in Colorado Springs, when they write the first Night Beds song, "You Were Afraid." |
$10
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June 28,
Friday
5-7 pm |
FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR • Ben Erickson |
No Cover |
June 28,
Friday
9 pm |
Johnny Nicholas & Hell Bent • For four decades Johnny’s consummate musicianship and vocal skills have graced live music scenes across the country and abroad. He has toured, performed and recorded with many true blues and Americana roots music legends including: Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Lockwood Jr., Johnny Shines, Big Walter Horton, Roosevelt Sykes, Nathan Abshire, Robert Pete Williams, Eddie Taylor, Billy Boy Arnold, Hound Dog Taylor, Johnny Young, Houston Stackhouse, and Boogie Woogie Red. He recorded and toured with Johnny Shines and Snooky Pryor, producing and playing guitar on their W.C. Handy Award-winning album 'Back to the Country.' He was a lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist with Asleep at the Wheel when they won the first of many Grammy Awards. He gave blues guitar icon Ronnie Earl his first gig in the now legendary band Guitar Johnny and the Rhythm Rockers. He has also shared the stage and performed with the likes of Howlin Wolf, BB King, Muddy Waters, Bonnie Rait, Eric Clapton, Pops and Mavis Staples, Delbert McClinton, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard,and Jimmie Vaughan among many others. Check out this video. |
$12 advance;
$15 door
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June 29,
Saturday
4:30-7:30 pm |
SATURDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ JAM w/ host the Nick DiMaria Quartet • bring your ax and play, or sing. PA, amps,
drums provided. |
No Cover |
June 29,
Saturday
9 pm |
The Defibulators; w/ Rusty Things; Proud Flesh • The Defibulators have emerged as one of the most engaging live acts from the thriving roots scene in Brooklyn, NY - melding bluegrass, rockabilly, dixieland, and punk into their own eclectic sound. Their shows are irresistibly infectious and rowdy (likened to watching "Hee-Haw on mescaline"), as they wield an arsenal of guitars, banjos, fiddles, and junkyard percussion, with relentless energy and rusty virtuosity. Razor sharp harmonies and surreal lyrics illuminate songs that are gritty and witty; spinning tales of deception, debauchery, depleted bank accounts, fanaticism, vintage firearms, biological anomalies, airline intoxication, and animal ennui. • Rusty Things is a 4 piece band from CT, playing a mix of folk rock and roll and punk. |
$6 advance;
$8 door
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June 30,
Sunday
4 - 6 pm |
DRINKDEEPLY Presents: Saxtet • Eight-piece jazz ensemble under the direction of pianist/composer Darren Litzie & featuring sax great Andrew Beals |
$5 |
June 30,
Sunday
8 pm doors |
MANIC
PRODUCTIONS Presents: Cory Chisel; Brian Dolzani • Cory Chisel's musical education put him on a path well worn by the greats who came before him and influenced him. People like Cash, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Sam Cooke, and Otis Redding. For Cory, songwriting is a byproduct of existing. We all talk to ourselves. Cory does so with a melody. Those internal conversations are the seeds, the building blocks of his songs. "Where a painter, in order to express himself, would reach for a canvas and paints, I go to the guitar and try to build it out. Or sometimes songs just come fully formed, usually if I'm really sleep-deprived and driving for whatever reason, it's like a radio station that my brain picks up." |
$10 advance;
$12 door
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online |
July 1,
Monday
8 pm |
GET TO THE POINT!: hosted by Chris Arnott • Performers TBA • To be considered for performances, email chris@ scribblers.us |
No Cover |
July 2,
Tuesday
8 pm |
ODDBALL EVENTS Presents: The Black Lillies; w/ Liz Frame & the Kickers • Born in the rumbling cab of a stone truck and aged in the oak of Tennessee's smoky night haunts, The Black Lillies have created their own unique brand of country, roots, rock and blues via Appalachia. Formed in 2008, the group has performed at festivals including Bonnaroo Music + Arts, Pickathon, CMA Festival & Fan Fair, Americana Music Festival, Four Corners Folk Festival and Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion. In addition, they've appeared on National Public Radio's Mountain Stage, and four separate PBS concert specials. In June 2011, they debuted on the Grand Ole Opry – which they have since played 15 times. Check out this video. |
$8 advance;
$10 door
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July 3,
Wednesday
8 pm |
DRINKDEEPLY and DIE HIPSTER Present: 2nd Annual Punk Rock BBQ featuring: The Lost Riots; w/ Bragging Rights; Cell 63; Empty Vessels • In early 2012 front man Jeffrey Thunders formed the Lost Riots with Sean Beirne from The Battlecats, Noel Tomas from The Field Recordings, and famous Connecticut punk rocker Matt Injection on bass. • Cell 63 is a punk/hardcore band from upstate New York, formed in August 2012. • Empty Vessels: Hardcore! Doom Punk! Noise! Surfcore! Sludge! |
$5 |
July 5,
Friday
8 pm doors;
9 pm show |
JAZZ HAVEN Presents: Mario Pavone Orange Sextet • Featuring Mario Pavone - bass / compositions; Dave Ballou - trumpet; Noah Preminger - tenor saxophone; Peter Mceachern - trombone; Peter Madsen - keyboards; Steve Johns - drums. The Orange Sextet makes a stop on it's east coast tour to play it’s sizzling , propulsive jazz. "The group has the rhythmic and harmonic grids of be-bop and all that descends from it , and the cathartic tracing-in-air of free jazz." - Ben Ratliff, New York Times |
$12 advance;
$15 door
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July 6,
Saturday
4:30-7:30 pm |
SATURDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ JAM w/ host Mike Coppola and Friends • bring your ax and play, or sing. PA, amps,
drums provided. |
No Cover |
July 7,
Sunday
3 - 7 pm |
DRINKDEEPLY Presents: Summer Surf Series • The Vultures; Dark City (NYC); Thee Icepicks (ME) |
$5 |
July 9,
Tuesday
8 pm |
ODDBALL EVENTS Presents: Della Mae; w/ Phoebe Hunt • Commanding a powerful collective chemistry with vocal, instrumental, and songwriting talent to spare, the Boston-based Della Mae combo mines time-honored elements to create music that's fresh and contemporary. The group quickly won an enthusiastic following through their high-energy live performances at festivals around the country. The band expanded its reputation with their self-released first album, 2011's 'I Built This Heart.' 'This World Oft Can Be,' Della Mae's Rounder debut, shows that like The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers, and Punch Brothers, the five multitalented young women of Della Mae are respectful of American musical tradition, but not restricted by it, combining centuries' worth of musical influences with an emotionally tough, undeniably modern songwriting sensibility. |
$13 advance;
$15 door
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July 11,
Thursday
8 pm |
Eilen Jewell; w/ Joe Fletcher • Since her official 2006 debut, 'Boundary County,' Jewell has surveyed a wide range of traditional musical styles, from the folk and jug band leanings of her early recordings, through an album-length homage to Loretta Lynn and the country gospel of her work with 'The Sacred Shakers,' right up to 2009's 'Sea of Tears,' which bristled with the electricity of '60s UK garage rock and Chicago blues. Her latest, 'Queen of the Minor Key,' draws on everything from classic country to early R&B, with an emphasis on sounds from the seamier side of the tracks. With dirty sax riffs and low-slung guitars, the instrumentals that bookend the album - "Radio City" and "Kalimotxo" - evoke the bump-and-grind exotica of vintage Southern California suburban saloons. Yet on the flipside, Jewell imbues slow, jazzy numbers like "I Remember You" and "Only One" with torch and tenacity that linger long past last call. Eilen Jewell is the Queen of the Minor Key. Sad songs are her wealth and finery. Lend her your ears, and you will quickly hear why her humble subjects admire and adore her more with each passing year. |
$10 advance;
$12 door
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July 13,
Saturday
4:30-7:30 pm |
SATURDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ JAM w/ host Gary Grippo and Friends • bring your ax and play, or sing. PA, amps,
drums provided. |
No Cover |
July 15,
Monday
4:30-7:30 pm |
SATURDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ JAM w/ host Gary Grippo and Friends • |
No Cover |
July 18,
Thursday
7 pm |
ODDBALL EVENTS Presents Honkatonk Throwdown: featuring New Country Rehab; w/ The Silks • Merging the old and new with reverent exuberance, Toronto-based New Country Rehab is a quartet of musicians’ musicians, comprised of John Showman, Ben Whiteley, Champagne James Robertson and Roman Tome. Their musical style has a roots/folk/alt-country high voltage sound that is earning them lots of fans in the U.S., Europe and back at home. Singing of love and loss, they evoke the likes of Hank Williams and Bruce Springsteen, with tunes that keep your toes tappin’ and your heart throbbin’. They're currently touring in support of their second great album, 'Ghost of Your Charms' (2013), gaining critical praise and attention with every stop. • Formed in summer 2010 in Rhode Island, The Silks have burst onto the country blues scene in New England with ferocity and enthusiasm. Front-man and songwriter Tyler James Kelly has managed to assemble a cast of musicians with resumes consisting of The Midnight Creeps (Jonas Parmalee), Electric Service (Matt Donnelly) and The Sugar Honey Iced Tea (Laila Aukee) and blending it into a sound that is all their own. With compliments that vary from drawing comparisons to The Rolling Stones in style and songwriting to a soundman shouting “that’s the most fun I’ve ever had!” after a show, The Silks have garnered a reputation as a band that everyone found themselves wanting to see. |
$10 advance;
$12 door
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July 20,
Saturday
4:30-7:30 pm |
SATURDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ JAM w/ host Tony Dioguardi and Friends • bring your ax and play, or sing. PA, amps,
drums provided. |
No Cover |
July 23,
Tuesday
8 pm show |
ODDBALL EVENTS Presents The Young Dubliners; w/ Steve Broderick; The Alehounds • The Young Dubliners are quite possibly Celtic rock's hardest working band, playing hundreds of shows to thousands of fans across the US and Europe every year. In recent years they have twice appeared on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, had songs featured in TV shows (Sons Of Anarchy, Human Target) and toured extensively as a headliner and as the opener for such a diverse list of artists as The Flaming Lips, Collective Soul, Jethro Tull, Johnny Lang and many more. They've been recording their ninth studio album, and their tour showcases much of the new material. |
$13 advance;
$15 door
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|
July 25,
Thursday
8 pm doors |
MANIC
PRODUCTIONS Presents: Night Moves; w/ Big Tusk (ex- The Appledaughters); Olive Tiger • Night Moves formed in Minneapolis in 2009 by guitarist and vocalist John Pelant, bassist Micky Alfano and multi-instrumentalist Mark Ritsema, and is a distinctly original concoction. Their honey-dipped sound seethes with a kind of down-home tenderness - the arrangements are colossal in shape. On their debut album 'Colored Emotions,' Pelant’s tone-perfect vocals serve not just as its lyrical core but also its glittering adornment. With an extensive vocal range, his voice ventures where lone guitar solos cannot. Hence, there’s no cornball guitar hero antics in Night Moves. Instead, they carefully built their songs around strong acoustic and rhythmic grounds, crystal-clear production, and Pelant’s deft howl. The reverb of hollow-body guitars, the bright wash of crash cymbals, the haze of harmonica and organ tremolo are the album’s bedrock and shine like gold. The songs of Night Moves conjure a spiritual energy only 20-somethings dislodged by adversity and isolation could produce. |
$10
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July 27,
Saturday
4:30-7:30 pm |
SATURDAY AFTERNOON JAZZ JAM w/ host George Baker • bring your ax and play, or sing. PA, amps,
drums provided. |
No Cover |
July 27,
Saturday
9 pm |
Elison Jackson; w/ Lake Superior; Kindred Queer • Elison Jackson is a garage-folk/stoner-soul band from New Haven that has self-released two records. The band's 2011 release, "Spectral Evidence", was praised as having a "dark, almost supernatural vibe (CT.com)" with "songs like half-remembered memories or stories from a distant lifetime (Symbiotic Reviews)." • Pete Rahn and Jeff Thomson are two Michigan expats who found each other in Montpelier, Vermont. With a longing for Detroit rock n' roll and Great Lakes culture, they started Lake Superior as a side project of another band in 2009. They got together, wrote songs, played a few shows, and had fun unitl in 2012 they realized that they had turned into a real band with some damn good songs. • Vocal harmony, progressive acoustic guitar, drums and poetically driven melodic development characterizes New Haven-based trio Kindred Queer. |
$5 |
Aug. 1,
Thursday
8 pm |
Amy LaVere • Amy LaVere's life since the release of her last album has seen the breakup with a long-term love relationship and musical collaborator, as well as the death of a musical mentor, which resulted in a longer gestation period for this, her third album, 'Stranger Me' (Archer). Under the circumstances, one could imagine the allure of emotional distance. Texturally rich and often employing dissonance and off-kilter instrumentation, it is her most exploratory work to date. Producer Craig Silvey, fresh from engineering Arcade Fire's Grammy-winning 'The Suburbs' album, proved a perfect choice in helping LaVere materialize the music that was in her head. The resulting soundscape, alternately haunting and exuberantly defiant, creates a perfect backdrop for this collection of songs about frustration and feeling emotionally disconnected. |
$8 advance;
$10 door
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Aug. 2,
Friday
9 pm doors |
MANIC
PRODUCTIONS Presents: Hurray for the Riff Raff; w/ Frank Fairfield • Hurray For The Riff Raff began when Alynda Lee Segarra left her native Bronx, NY, at 17 and started hopping freight trains across the USA to explore its mythical small towns and backwaters and live a life on the road and the rail track. She hooked up with The Dead Man Street Orchestra, a home-made family of young, itinerant music makers living on the edge of the American dream. When the roaming was done she settled in New Orleans, a magnet for the creatively dispossessed, and allowed music to take hold of her life. She quickly embraced the city's community of street musicians, who encouraged her to develop her voice by singing old jazz songs. She took up the banjo and was soon performing with many of the traditional bands that cluster the sidewalks of the French Quarter, playing and singing while learning from the music of the city she loves. Influenced by the sounds of classic country, 1960s rock 'n' roll, and master singer/songwriters like Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams and Neil Young, Hurray For The Riff Raff has deep roots in the landscape of America. Check out this video. |
$10
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Aug. 3,
Saturday
8 pm doors;
9 show |
SLOPPY SECONDS Presents: Homeboy Sandman; w/ Open Mike Eagle; Mega Ran; Ceschi; Northern Lights; Old Self • My name is Homeboy Sandman. I'm a musician from Queens, New York. Hip hop is my genre. My label is Stones Throw, and when it comes to progressive hip hop, creative hip hop, boundary pushing hip hop, hip hop changing hip hop, nobody does it better. Can't nobody rhyme like me and I get respect from all walks of life on this planet. Rich to poor, this color to that, because I show love for real, and I'm not scared. Peace. • Open Mike Eagle is poised to become the latest in an illustrious line of MCs to step out of the Los Angeles underground and onto the national stage. Gifted with a facile style, knack for droll wordplay, and penchant for penning memorable hooks, Open Mike Eagle presents art rap for the masses. • Raheem Jarbo, aka Random or Mega Ran, from Phoenix. People will remember Ran for his daring leap into video game remixing which led to a Capcom cosign. His combination of fantasy and introspective hip-hop has found its way into TV shows, movies, video games, and even coursework at several universities. • Ceschi (pronounced chess-key) Ramos makes his own version of progressive hip hop spliced with elements of folk & indie rock. • Northern Lights: Hip hop, soul, experimental trio/production duo from New Haven. • Old Self: Cell-phone pizza rap / post-hippie trauma MC from Milford, CT |
$10 advance;
$12 door
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Aug. 4,
Sunday
3 - 7 pm |
DRINKDEEPLY Presents: Summer Surf Series •Tsunami of Sound |
$5 |
Aug. 7,
Wednesday
8 pm |
Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express • One of the driving forces behind cult heroes Green on Red and the influential L.A. Paisley Underground scene in the 1980s, Chuck Prophet's creative mold was actually cast in San Francisco. Recalls Prophet, "Temple Beautiful (the name of his new album) is the name of a long closed rock and roll club which was between Bill Graham's iconic Fillmore Ballroom and the tragic storefront church founded by the Reverend Jim Jones. It's where I saw my first gigs." |
$15
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Aug. 8,
Thursday
8 pm |
The Please, Please Me; w/ Brandon Patton • The Please, Please Me is an indie pop trio from Austin with a few tricks up its sleeve. Featuring two drummers who left New York City to chase their musical dreams, the Please, Please Me is ”poetry you can dance to.” Frontwoman Jessie Torrisi beckons with her sultry voice one moment and duels with Agustin Frederic on the toms the next. The cream in the cookie is cellist Alissa McClure, and her army of sound effects. It’s fun music for smart people, evoking the brashest, most inspiring women of our time from beat poets like Patti Smith to divas like Chrissie Hynde. • Brandon Patton, songwriter and instrumentalist, currently resides in New Haven |
$6 |
Aug. 14,
Wednesday
8 pm |
ODDBALL EVENTS Presents The Boston Boys; w/ The Mike Dillon Band • "With one ear tuned to the sounds of the past and the other firmly facing forward, (The Boston Boys) have developed a one-of-a-kind take on the great music of the Carolina hills and beyond. You can bet on the fact that, whether you have the pleasure of seeing them in Boston, or somewhere along the folk concert circuit, you'll be witness to a one-of-a-kind show that's definitely something to write home about." • Mike Dillon is one of the most dynamic, multifaceted, electrifying percussionists in the country. Emerging in late 1980s, as the first vibraphonist and vocalist to lead a rock/funk band, contributing to its evolution by his use of effects, Dillon has become well-known for producing genre-bending music. As a touring musician and prolific songwriter, he has continuously pushed his distinct sound in new and inventive directions. On stage, Dillon is a powerful force, with boundless energy that hails a punk rock/hardcore edge and the seamless ability to play multiple percussive instruments at once. |
$8 advance;
$10 door
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Aug. 22,
Thursday
8 pm |
Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys • Jeffery Broussard was a leading member in Zydeco Force, an influential band at the forefront of the nouveau zydeco movement. His accordion and vocals defined this new style of Creole music, incorporating the soulful sounds of R&B into contemporary zydeco music and dance. Son of esteemed accordionist Delton Broussard, young Jeffery began his musical journey on drums in his father’s legendary band, the Lawtell Playboys, who were themselves innovators, adding some R&B and a funkiness to this traditional roots music. During this time, Jeffery was exposed to some of the great Creole fiddle players, including the king of the zydeco fiddle, Calvin Carrière. He has retained those precious melodies and songs he heard at home, at social gatherings and on the bandstand. And with the creation of the Creole Cowboys, and as one of Louisiana’s newest Creole fiddle players, he captures the essence of this rich musical heritage. |
$12 advance; $15
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Aug. 31,
Saturiday
8 pm |
ODDBALL EVENTS Presents Eugene Chadbourne • Avant jazz/rock/punk/folk artist Eugene Chadbourne is unique in the history of music for being at the same time an avant garde composer in the classical tradition, a jazz improviser, a folk musician and a member of a rock band. Only Frank Zappa could compete with such eclecticism. "The Groucho Marx of the guitar, skronkabilly alien Eugene Chadbourne deals solely in slapstickery, sly punchlines, and exaggerated eccentricities. As if his implode-on-a-dime freakouts weren't enough, he's perhaps the quickest guitarist alive to exploit the parts of the instrument beyond the fretboard and beyond sanity, pounding, tweaking, scraping, and hammering away — not to mention playing a rake like the world's meanest axe." |
$10 advance;
$12 door
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Sept. 3,
Tuesday
8 pm doors |
MANIC
PRODUCTIONS Presents: Suuns; w/ Rose Windows • It didn't take long for Montreal's Suuns to resurface with a second full length, 'Images Du Futur,' and, as one would anticipate, this latest exploration takes on even greater visceral depths. At the outset it appears we're still ensconced in the warehouse, whether it's the grinding opening explosives of "Powers of Ten" or the crude, ominous rise-and-fall riffs in "2020." Broken up by Ben Shemie's melodious and angst-ridden murmurs, the industrial low-end throb presides early on, lulling us into thinking the band has picked up right where they left off with their debut LP, 'Zeroes QC.' "Minor Work" builds steadily around a nostalgic, fuzz-infused beat and bares a soothing, contagious harmony. "Mirror Mirror" departs from the frenzied earlier pace, decelerating to a lethargic drawl; the droning, almost tedious undertones are paid off with flurries of synthesized flute that announce the dawn of the dreamscape ahead. We aren't to be disappointed. |
$10
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Sept. 6,
Friday
9 pm |
Barrence Whitfield & the Savages • Barrence Whitfield is a full-throttle soul screamer in the spirit of Little Richard, Wilson Pickett and Solomon Burke. He has been described as the owner of one incredible pair of lungs, with limitless energy and unmatched enthusiasm for his music and his audience. Whitfied and guitarist Peter Greenberg formed the group in 1983, combining the best of '50/60s rocking R&B with high-octane garage/punk. In 2010, after a 25-year hiatus, they reformed and recorded a new album, 'Savage Kings,' and the band has been touring Europe and the US since then. |
$10 advance;
$12 door
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Sept. 11,
Wednesday
8 pm doors |
MANIC
PRODUCTIONS Presents: Majical Cloudz • Majical Cloudz is music and performance. Rooted in solo material written by Devon Welsh between rural Ontario and Montreal, he joined with Matthew Otto to collaboratively produce and perform the music. Their performance is deeply expressive - strong vocals sit on top of washes of white noise, filtered synths and sparse thuds. The songs are intensely lyrical, oriented around themes of death, patience, family, and desire. The live show celebrates the joy in sadness and the value of a shared musical experience. |
$10
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Sept. 13,
Friday
9 pm doors |
MANIC
PRODUCTIONS Presents: Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion; The Melodic • Nearly a decade after folk-rock duo Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion put out their first album together, the husband-and-wife pair feel like they’ve finally hit their stride on 'Wassaic Way,' a collection of 11 new songs to be released August 6 on Rte 8 Records. Produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Patrick Sansone at the Loft in Chicago, 'Wassaic Way' finds Guthrie and Irion pushing further beyond the folky sound they established on 2005’s 'Exploration,' their first studio LP. After Irion’s solo album 'Ex Tempore' in 2007, the live album 'Folksong' in 2009 and the children’s collection 'Go Waggaloo' in 2009, the pair began expanding their sonic horizons on 2011’s 'Bright Examples,' an album that drew praise from American Songwriter magazine for its “lush, dreamy sound.” |
$10 advance;
$12 door
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Sept. 17,
Tuesday
8 pm doors |
MANIC
PRODUCTIONS Presents: Califone • There are many kind of stitches: seams to secure sleeves into armholes ... sutures closing wounds and deep incisions ... loops or crosses of embroidery floss ... a sudden pain in the side. 'Stitches,' the new album from Califone, touches on all these definitions, its episodes of discomfort and healing rendered with exquisite beauty and craftsmanship. Intimate timbres - garage-sale drum machines, slack guitar strings, hushed vocals - offset the album's cinematic inclinations. The listener moves through a landscape of Old Testament blood and guts, spaghetti Western deserts and Southwestern horizons, zeroing in on emotions and images that cannot be glanced over. Motes of dust dance briefly in afternoon sunlight. |
$12 advance;
$15 door
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Sept. 27,
Friday
8 pm |
ODDBALL EVENTS Presents Rock'n'Rolla featuring Scott H. Biram; w/ Black Pistol Fire • The self proclaimed ‘Dirty Old One Man Band’ successfully, and sometimes violently, lashes together blues, hillbilly and country precariously into raucous punk and godless metal. Years of non-stop touring have honed his assault to a fine edge. Biram ain’t no candy-ass singer/songwriter either, sweetly strumming songs about girls with big eyes and dusty highways. HELL NO!!! His singing, yodeling, growling, leering and brash preachin’ and hollerin’ is accompanied by sloppy riffs and licks from his 1959 Gibson guitar and pounding backbeat brought forth by his amplified left foot. The remainder of this one-man band consists of an unwieldy combination of beat-up amplifiers and old microphones strung together by a tangled mess of guitar cables. |
$10 advance;
$12 door
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Sept. 28,
Saturday
9 pm |
String Band • A very diverse, bouncy jam-band sensibility leaning towards a folk rock sound, definitely trying to be psychedelic for you, but with a kicking country-rock flavor. Makes you want to get up and dance ... or stumble ... or wonder what the hell is this? |
$5 |
Oct. 2,
Wednesday
8 pm |
ODDBALL EVENTS Presents Black Bear Combo • More info TBA |
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Oct. 3,
Thursday
7 pm doors;
8 pm show |
ODDBALL EVENTS Presents Mary Gauthier; w/ Scott Nolan • In conversation and in public, Mary Gauthier (say it: go-shay) comes off as a practical, no-nonsense woman. Stoic, even. But her songs carry so much emotional punch, they can leave you staggering. Gauthier knows where our exposed nerve endings lie because she’s probed her own so deeply, finally learning to unlock the fear and loneliness that controlled her for so long before songwriting - and the sobriety that drew it forth at age 35 - gave her a steadier flight path. Since then she has made six groundbreaking albums of original songs, spent more than a dozen years recording and touring around the world, harvested a huge crop of music industry awards, and had covers of her songs made by a roster of great artists. |
$20
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Oct. 10,
Thursday
8 pm doors;
9 pm show |
Gina Sicilia • Gina got her first true taste of performing at age 19 during weekly jams held at the Philadelphia blues and jazz club, Warmdaddy's, beginning in 2005. She'd already acquired her eclectic musical taste from her parents, who played all kinds of music at home, including pop tunes from her father's native Italy. But after she ordered a packaged-for-TV compilation album called Solid Gold Soul that featured Bobby Bland, Etta James, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin and others, she become hooked on old-school soul, blues and R&B. |
$10 advance;
$12 door
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Oct. 14,
Monday
7 pm doors;
8 pm show |
ODDBALL EVENTS Presents Glenn Tilbrook • Mention Glenn Tilbrook and most people may immediately think of Squeeze. After all, with his writing partner Chris Difford, Tilbrook was responsible for Top 10 hits all around the world such as "Tempted", "Hourglass", "Cool For Cats" and "Up The Junction". Although you might forgive him for resting on his laurels after 13 albums and countless tours all over the world, Tilbrook has continued to write and perform with the same enthusiasm that he brought to Squeeze's earliest recordings. With his two solo albums, "The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook" and "Transatlantic Ping-Pong", he proved he's lost none of the joie-de-vivre that became Squeeze's trademark. For 2009's album "Pandemonium Ensues", he injected some fresh faces by recruiting a new band, The Fluffers, and some prestigious guests in the shape of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis. This has been complemented by a conversational live show that is delightfully shambling in its approach – Tilbrook loves blurring the boundary between crowd and performer by performing requests and even taking his audience for walkabouts to set up impromptu gigs! |
$20 advance;
$25 door
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Nov. 16,
Saturday
8 pm |
ODDBALL EVENTS Presents The Tarbox Ramblers • Taking listeners to a place where Appalachian music, ancient blues and gospel come together in powerful, unexpected combinations, The Tarbox Ramblers are left-field traditionalists whose rough-hewn, direct sound has drawn raves from Rolling Stone, All Things Considered, The New Yorker and many more. This is old-soul music, and The Ramblers - string bassist Scott McEwen, drummer Robby Cosenza and guitarist Michael Tarbox - have played it to considerable effect, making converts of audiences wherever they’ve gone. Robert Plant caught the group’s live show and asked them to open his tour dates right on the spot; he later tapped them as backing band for a set with Alison Krauss at The Rock Hall of Fame’s Leadbelly Tribute. Playing with the ease and familiarity of musicians who understand each other's deepest impulses, these gifted interpreters of traditional music also write a growing number of startlingly good original songs. With this band, a lot can happen quickly: you’re likely to hear thickets of gorgeous backwater guitar, followed by fierce waves of percussion in call-and-response drum-and-vocal songs, followed in turn by timeless lightning-in-a-bottle laments. |
$10 advance;
$12 door
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