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2010 - 02/09 - Dave Hause (of The Loved Ones) / Max Stern / American War - 8pm $6 adv / $8 dos
Raised in a musical family, Philadelphia based musician Dave Hause has been involved with music since youth. Beginning his musical career as a roadie and later defining his own music stylings in various punk bands he finally started The Loved Ones. They have released two full length records and several EPs. While continuing to tour extensively with The Loved Ones in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan, Hause continues to work on his own solo music. In addition to working on demos for his first full-legnth solo album, he recently joined Chuck Ragan, Jim Ward, and Tim Barry on the Revival Tour. Dave Hause Myspace
2010 - 02/10 - Four Year Strong / Strike Anywhere / This Time Next Year / Title Fight - 6pm $12 adv / $14 dos
Taking influence from the likes of Lifetime, Gorilla Biscuits, and New Found Glory, Four Year Strong built an aggressive and melody-riddled combination of hardcore, emo-pop, and pop-punk upon their formation in Worcester, MA. The band's lineup -- vocalists/guitarists Dan O'Connor and Alan Day, bassist Joe Weiss, drummer Jake Massucco, and synth player Josh Lyford -- was cemented during the musicians' high-school tenure in 2003, though a form of the band had already existed for several years. Following the appearance of two self-released EPs, Four Year Strong signed a deal with New Jersey-based imprint I Surrender Records. Their debut full-length, Rise or Die Trying, was issued on the label in September 2007. Tour dates with groups like the Starting Line, Valencia, and From First to Last kept them on the road for the remainder of the year, and the band returned in 2009 with an album of '90s covers, Explains It All. Four Year Strong Myspace
2010 - 02/11 - Funk Soul Dance Party feat Misterbradleyp / Neil Chastain / aLive - 18+ $3 \| 21+ Free

2010 - 02/12 - Scott Lucas (Local H) & The Married Men / Christopher Black / Edgewater Lights - 9pm $8
For anyone remotely in-the-know of Chicago’s music scene, Local H is a band name that surely rolls off your tongue. But during the rock duo’s downtime, frontman Scott Lucas doesn’t exactly kick his feet up. For the past few years, the singer/songwriter/guitarist has spread his musical aptitude to Chicago electronica group, the Prairie Cartel. Most recently, Lucas has crafted yet another new project—the Married Men... In his newest musical outfit, Lucas proves himself a rock and roll chameleon, shedding his tough Local H exterior and evoking a tamer sound and stage persona. The sextet, which has just wrapped up work on its forthcoming debut, George Lassos the Moon, set the stage for the Disciplines. Their lineup alone (violin, accordion, guitars, drums) proved not only would they sound nothing like Local H, but chances are they wouldn’t sound much like most contemporary indie bands. Scott Lucas & the Married Men Myspace
2010 - 02/13 - The Invasion Agency Presents Cleveland Lovefest: The Manhattan Scene / Freshman 15 / Ten Count Fall / Erickson / Exit Cleveland / The Status / Euphoria / The Alumni Club 6pm $8 adv / $ 10 dos
What originally started as a continuation of singer/songwriter Brian-Marcel's solo work, the then trio of Tim Depasquale (drums), Matthew Augusta (guitar) and Brian-Marcel Edmond (vocals/guitar/piano) quickly enlisted the services of BME's twin brother Brandon-Marshall Edmond (ex This Awkward Silence) and close friend/bassist Danny Thompson (ex a near fatal fall) , to complete the lineup. The Manhattan Scene combines electric grooves that could make even a statue consider dancing, with lyrics/melodies that will for sure be cemented in your memory for years to come.
2010 - 02/13 - At B Side Liquor Lounge: An evening of Dilla (Fundraiser for Lupus Research) Featuring DJs:K-Nyce, Tuggle, Misterbradleyp, aLive & Esso - 10PM 21+ \| $5 Suggested Donation18+ \| $10

2010 - 02/14 - Wiz Khalifa / Keyel / Fam Famous / Machine Gun Kelly - 8pm $12
Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987 in Minot, North Dakota), better known by his stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, signed to Rostrum Records. In 2005 he released his first official mixtape, Prince of the City: Welcome to Pistolvania, and later in 2006 he released his first full length street album entitled Show and Prove. Since then he has released a further six mixtapes and a collaboration mixtape titled How Fly with friend Curren$y. He released his debut album, Deal or No Deal, in November of 2009, it reached #1 on the iTunes hip hop chart, and then reached the top ten on iTunes’ overall album chart the week it was released. Previously signed to Warner Bros. Records, he left the label in July 2009 after numerous delays in releasing his planned debut album for the label, First Flight. Khalifa stated to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that, “I learned a lot during my time there and matured as an artist during the process. I’m happy to be moving on with all of my material and having the chance to be in control of my next moves”.He is also the founder of the rap crew Taylor Gang, which includes friends Kev Tha Hustler, Ekko, Smallz Money and Gene Stovall. They derived the name from the fact they always used to wear Chuck Taylor shoes.
2010 - 02/14 - At The B Side Liquor Lounge: The Get Up! Presents A Very Special Valentine's Day Event W/ Ladytron DJ Set (feat Mira Aroyo) 9pm - $5 before 11pm \| $10 after 11pm
Mira Aroyo, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. Of mixed Bulgarian and Hasidic background, Aroyo moved with her family to Israel when she was ten. She is the only member of Ladytron that never lived in Liverpool: Reuben Wu and Daniel Hunt were raised in the city and Helen Marnie studied there. While a DJ in London, Aroyo met Danny Hunt through mutual friends and found that they were DJing the same kind of music. Mira's role in Ladytron has been keyboardist, singer, and as a songwriter. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English.
2010 - 02/15 - At The B Side Liquor Lounge: Stove Monkeys Present: Flavor Tripping - 8pm $10
A Berry With a Miraculous Effect In 1725 the explorer Reynaud des Marchais observed that a West African tribe obsessively chewed an unfamiliar red berry before meals. Brazenly, he decided to try one himself without knowing the strength of the effect. The effect was staggering. I know this because I recently chewed the same berry at the B-side Liquor Lounge in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The “miracle berry” contains a protein, called miraculin, that bamboozles sour and acid receptive taste buds into thinking they are sensing sugar, thus making sour foods taste like candy. When I bit the grape sized fruit, it tasted mildly sweet, until the seed cracked and released its bitter tannins. Still, I swished the pulp around my mouth for a minute, as instructed by the “Flavor Tripping” party hosts chef Matt Mytro (Stove Monkeys, Crop Bistro, Paladar, Boulevard Blue) and promoter Reuben Kutash. Then I tried a lime wedge. I hate lime wedges. And for the tiniest micro-instant I tasted lime wedge. But the tartness flip-flopped. It transformed to an astonishing succulent sweetness. Lime-loathe metamorphosed to lime-love. The flavor was full and true, not weak or artificial at all. No hint of sour remained. And remember, miraculin is a protein, not a sugar or sugar derivative. I next downed a glass of straight balsamic vinegar. Yum. My least favorite shot, tequila, spawned an ear-to-ear grin. Willy Wonka would have been proud. In fact, Mr. Myrto and Mr. Kutash provided a large array of morsels fresh from the West Side Market with which to provoke the reaction of the berry. Stove Monkey's Website
2010 - 02/17 - Magical Properties Tour feat. Daedelus / Nosaj Thing / Jogger / Ay (of Ken Rei) - 9pm $10 adv / $12 dos
Daedelus, the eccentric, electronic maestro of the Pacific coast returns with "Exquisite Corpse" his most complete and baffling record to date. One of LA's most daring new artists this young musical romantic weaves together a true "love-sound" that falls between honeyed melody and avant-electronics. Daedelus chops and splices disparate acoustic sources into incredible works of staggering resonance. Contrasting IDM styled cut-ups with childlike arrangements from the 30's and 40's, he has refined a style that has no imitators. Exactly the kind of music you’d expect from a scarily well-connected hip hop nut who happens to dress in Edwardian clothing and names himself after an Ancient Greek Legend. The album title, as well as the idea, is taken from the old Surrealist game in which a group of random French crazies and intellectuals write down part of a sentence, fold the page and pass it on to the next - 'Consequences' without the consequences. Or if that doesn't make sense, how about this? "A kind of collective collage of words or images" ("Dada & Surrealist Art" by William S.Rubin). And there's definitely a collective at work here, Daedelus' trademark musicality running up against a slather of maverick talent from the worlds of hip hop and beyond. The performances range from traditional (MF Doom, Sci from Scienz of Life) to poetic (Mike Ladd, CYNE, Laura Darling) to experimental (Prefuse 73, Hrishikesh Hirway of The One AM Radio, TTC, Jogger), but Daedelus moulds the seemingly disparate elements of sound with a single-minded vision. With a body of work including releases through Mush, Plug Research, Hefty, Tigerbeat6, and Eastern Developments, Daedelus' rep is long since established. At last he has given us the record about which journalists can use the word "surreal" without being lazy. And for this alone we must all be thankful.Nosaj Thing is now, without a doubt, among L.A.’s finest musical modulators. His electronic soundscapes and wild beat tectonics play like vignettes that affect the listener’s mind as deeply as he hits their soul. Nosaj Thing creates nothing less than the sound mastery of beat driven, experimental electronics from a gifted noise constructor. Daedelus Myspace
2010 - 02/18 - The Stereo Riot / Something For Lucy - 9pm $5

2010 - 02/19 - People Under The Stairs / Rapper Big Pooh (from Little Brother) / Smokescreen - 9pm $12 adv / $14 dos
People Under the Stairs formed when Mike Turner (Double K) and Chris Portugal (Thes One) met on the fringe of L.A.'s late-'90s hip-hop underground. The duo, devoted to jazzy samples, danceable beats, intricate rhyming skills, and laid-back humor, debuted in 1998 with the acclaimed The Next Step and followed it up in 2000 with Question in the Form of an Answer. Gathering heavy praise and touring with De La Soul, the group took their road experiences and brought it to the studio to record their next album. The final results appeared in the summer of 2002 under the name O.S.T. This highly acclaimed release, which sound-scanned over 35,000 to date, brought People Under The Stairs to the forefront of underground hip-hop. Its follow-up album, Or Stay Tuned complemented this release and allowed the group to headline nation-wide tours. Known for serving up playful back-and-forth rhymes set to vinyl-centric production, Thes One and Double K are now back with Stepfather. "People are really going to be surprised by this album, says Thes One, Were flipping the script on this one, coming with an extremely progressive approach. We study a lot of music theory and classic material, and this album reflects that. Even when we did the old school tracks on the album, we still tried to push the envelope with vocal settings and drum patterns. Using obscure vintage drum machines and running mic pre-amps to the point of intentional distortion, PUTS created a sonic kaleidoscope of textured and layered beats which are complimented by their refreshingly cool narratives of the L.A. Hip Hop life. People Under The Stairs Myspace
2010 - 02/20 - The Movement / ModQUAD / Oojis Whack - 9pm $8 adv / $10 dos

2010 - 02/21 - Freeway Boy Entertainment Presents: The Best Rappers U Never Heard City Tour - 9pm $6 adv / $8 dos
Featuring Carl E. Story / Mali Goines / Baby / Freeway Boys / Fam Famous / All Day Recess
2010 - 02/22 - Supersuckers / Sun God / tba - 9pm $10
The Supersuckers are an American garage punk band. They are the self-proclaimed “Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in the World.” Following the relative success of their 1997 foray into country music with the release of Must’ve Been High, they have also been known to play country shows under various names, including, of course, The Supersuckers. As of April 2005, the members are Eddie Spaghetti on bass and lead vocals along with Rontrose Heathman and Dan “Thunder” Bolton on guitars. Drummer and original member Dancing Eagle recently parted ways with the band while guitarist Dan “Thunder” Bolton is on temporary hiatus. But now he is back after taking a long needed break from the road. Dusty from Agent Orange handled drums for a bit, but the new, permanent drummer is Scott Churrilla from The Reverand Horton Heat.
2010 - 02/23 - Cold Cave / Hair Police / Emeralds / The Nevari Butchers - 9pm $7
Cold Cave are an experimental electronic pop group from Philadelphia and New York City who make melodic synthscapes with jackhammer beats. They acknowledge the dark roots of synthesizer music as well as its potential for making the brightest pop with their hard songs celebrating the contradictory beauty of the human condition. Cold Cave Myspace
2010 - 02/26 - Scrimshaw / The Sundresses / The Poland Invasion - 10pm $5

2010 - 02/26 - Skies of December / Along Came A Spider / City Under The Sea / Above The Atlantic / Clarity Calls Forth - 6pm $8
Unsigned band, Skies of December from Cleveland, OH came out on the east-coast regional scene swinging a few years ago, and have played countless amounts of shows with notable acts such as Attack Attack!, Gwen Stacy, Broadway, Let's Get it!, I See Stars, Miss May I, Burden of a Day, We Came as Romans, and many more. Skies constantly leave fans more than satisfied with their creative, visually alluring live show, and addictive song structure. They have combined emotional singing melodies, with heavy music from day one, and the results are exceptional, and truly recognized by all listeners willing to give them a chance.
2010 - 02/27 - Craig Ramsey & The Nice People / The Buried Wires / Prisoners - 9pm $6
Craig Ramsey is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Cleveland, Ohio. On his stunning solo debut, Parting Gift For A Party Girl, Craig crafts rainy-day pop music chronicling the late autumn of an ill-starred relationship. As one half of the indie-pop duo Bears, Craig has toured the country behind three critically acclaimed albums, sharing stages with likeminded groups such as Camera Obscura, Tily And The Wall, and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. When Craig performs his solo material live, he often does so with a backing group. He’s dubbed the backing group The Nice People because they are nice people, and genuine niceness is, Craig believes, an undervalued quality. Should you have the opportunity to experience Craig Ramsey & The Nice People in a live setting, please say hello.
2010 - 02/28 - Saosin / Maylene & The Sons of Disaster / Before Their Eyes / Viadora - 8pm $12 adv / $14 dos
California-based Saosin burst onto the post-hardcore scene in March 2003 with their explosive screamo-tinged debut EP, Translating the Name, on Death Do Us Part. For the recording, the band was comprised of vocalist Anthony Green, former Slayer guitar tech and drummer Pat McGrath, guitarist/vocalist Justin Shekoski (ex-As Hope Dies), and former Open Hand members bassist Zach Kennedy and guitarist/vocalist Beau Burchell. The band's name comes from a Chinese proverb that means "small heart," as in love cautiously. Shortly after the EP's completion, Kennedy exited (going on to join Ashlee Simpson's band) to be replaced by Chris Sorenson, and since McGrath had been enlisted solely to play drums on the album, Saosin weren't solidified until that July with the addition of permanent drummer Alex Rodriguez (also formerly of Open Hand). Even though Translating had been out since March, the band didn't make its on-stage debut until June. Their powerful live performance and heavy Internet presence were coupled with high praise for their EP (comparing them to the emotional catharsis of Glassjaw), cultivating an impressive underground following. The guys hit the road nationwide that summer with Boys Night Out and Anatomy of a Ghost. Green parted ways with the band in February 2004 for personal reasons, later going on to front the emo/post-hardcore outfit Circa Survive. The other bandmembers pressed on without him, however, and though they had yet to find a permanent replacement, stayed true to their Warped Tour obligation with Story of the Year's Phil Sneed taking the mike. By the summer's end, Cove Reber had become the band's new singer. Saosin spent time on winter's Taste of Chaos tour before hooking up with Capitol Records in March 2005. After numerous compilation appearances, a self-titled EP of demos and live cuts appeared that August; summer was spent on co-headlining dates with Anberlin. Saosin continued work on their eponymous full-length debut with Howard Benson, finally releasing the long-awaited disc in September 2006. Plenty of touring followed well into the next year, including dates with bands like Senses Fail, Bleeding Through, A Static Lullaby, and Poison the Well. In March 2008, Saosin released Come Close, a live CD/DVD. The band toured relenetlessly playing festivals and headline gigs throughout 2007 and 2008. Despite their touring schedule, they managed to record and complete In Search of Solid Ground, their proper sophomore full-length effort, and release it in September of 2009.
2010 - 03/04 - Split Lip Rayfield / Not So Good Ol Boys / Heelsplitter - 9pm $10 adv / $12 dos
Split Lip Rayfield are bluegrass outlaws from Wichita (kansas) that play home-made bass (Jeff Eaton), banjo (Eric Mardis) and Wayne Gottstine (Acoustic Guitar). Kirk Rundstrom lost his battle with esophageal cancer in '07. Split Lip Rayfield (Bloodshot, 1998) was the manifesto of their thrash-grass. Like Bad Livers and 1980s' cowpunks, they rip through songs of chronic loss and emargination at lightning speed, shouting apocalyptic wit and desperation over the non-stop barrage of epileptic drum-less rhythms Split Lip Rayfield Myspace
2010 - 03/05 - The Atypicals / Digiraattii / In One Wind / Belmez - 10pm $5
Atypicals offer a glorious return to the glistening, sex-saturated synth-pop that ruled the Eighties. Formed in the summer of 2009, Atypicals fuse various influences of psychedelic rock, jazz, and their love of modern electropop and house into their music, creating a sound entirely their own: infectious, cutting-edge electronica that stimulates mind and body.
2010 - 03/05 - Crime In Stereo / Light Years / Exceteras - 6pm $8 adv / $10 dos
Crime In Stereo is a Long Island-based punk band. Comparable to Dag Nasty, Brand New, and Lifetime, the band released their debut, a split with New York's Kill Your Idols, in 2003 on hardcore label Blackout! Records. In early 2004, the band released their debut full-length in conjunction with Brightside Records, Explosives and the Will to Use Them and was well-received by several punk music webzines. The band's relationship with the label eventually turned sour for as yet undisclosed reasons, and the band signed in early 2005 with Nitro Records, owned by Dexter Holland of well-known 90's punk revivalists The Offspring. Although a four-song EP titled The Contract was released in July 2005 to finish up the band's contract with Blackout! Records / Brightside, the band released the Fuel. Transit. Sleep EP that same year with Nitro Records containing two songs from the following album, The Troubled Stateside, which was released April 18, 2006 on Nitro Records. The band left Nitro Records some time after the release of The Troubled Stateside and signed to Bridge Nine Records[1] who released their third full-length, Crime in Stereo is Dead, on October 23, 2007. The band released a 10-song collections disc titled Selective Wreckage on Bridge 9 in late 2008.
2010 - 03/11 - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists / Title Tracks - 8pm $15
Grog Shop's favorite boys return to Cleveland! With his latest, Living with the Living, Ted Leo delivers that existentialist ethos to a new crop of rude boys. For their fifth full-length release, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists met up with Brendan Canty (Fugazi) at Long View Farms to iron out a new set of anthems that arrive with a confident and outspoken immediacy. With Living with the Living, Ted and Co. wipe clean the slate that once held names like Weller, Strummer and Bragg and indulge some of their farthest-reaching musical ambitions. 'Army Bound' and 'La Costa Brava' evoke the melodic spirit of Andy Partridge, Ray Davies and ArgyBargy-era Squeeze, while 'Colleen' is Ted's most successful meditation on pop music yet. Along with the punk sound and energy found in Ted Leo and the Pharmacistsí previous works, Living with the Living finds soul, funk and R and B injected into the trajectory of Chris Wilsonís dexterous percussion, Dave Lernerís bedrock bass and an onslaught of combustibles from Ted's possessed fingertips. In 2005, the refrain was "roll out and make your mark, pull on your boots and march." On Living with the Living, Ted doesn't shy away from his convictions and, rather, invites the testing of his mettle. You can ask, take a look; / We're all pretty open books. / What I stand for, I mostly stand behind. / What I am, I mostly can't hide. The most indelible stamp Ted leaves on his work is an incitement to his fans to take themselves seriously, never compromise their ideals and, essentially, make a difference in theirs and the lives of those around them. Itís a message of compassion not unlike that of one of Ted's denim-clad, working-class-empowering forebears. As we've learned from those artists, vital, impassioned music is often the direct result of a dire political climate, and Living with the Living is a shining example of that truism. A voice of dissent with a firm grasp of the past and a hopeful eye to the future, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists are rebels without a pause. Ted Leo Website
2010 - 03/12 - Cubic Zirconia - At The B-Side Liquor Lounge - Cubic Zirconia (NYC) Live / Mike Filly / Misterbradleyp - 10pm $5 21+ / $7 18 +
Cubic Zirconia (NYC) Live Tiombe Lockhart (Platinum Pied Pipers) + Nick Hook & Todd Weinstock (Men, Women, And Children) = Cubic Zirconia. Cubic Zirconia = Spaced Out Live R&B Acid House http://www.thesavantguard.org/ http://www.myspace.com/cubiczirconiamusic With Mike Filly & Misterbradleyp
2010 - 03/12 - We Were Promised Jetpacks / The Lonely Forest / Bear Hands - 9pm $10 adv / $12 dos

2010 - 03/13 - Michael Rose / Dub Tonic Kru / Carlos Jones P.L.U.S. Band - 9pm $20 adv / $23 dos

2010 - 03/14 - The Tossers / Lords Of The Highway / tba - 9pm $10 NEW DATE!
Coming from the predominantly Irish neighborhoods of South-Side Chicago, the Tossers have been expanding the boundaries of contemporary Irish music since the early '90s. The band chose their name for its derogatory meaning of "throw away." The term dates back to Shakespeare and depending on who you ask it also means commode, drunk or the bunk British currency the Irish rejected after their independence in the 1920s. Never afraid to take on new challenges at any venue for any audience the Tossers have had an eclectic past playing with acts such as the legendary Pogues, Spider Stacy (solo), the Popes, the Dropkick Murphy's, Stiff Little Fingers, Black 47 and Flogging Molly. In addition to this Irish menagerie they've also toured with hardcore favorites like Clutch and Murphy's Law; rockabilly icons Reverend Horton Heat and the Horror Pops; SKA classics like the Pie Tasters, Reel Big Fish and Catch 22; and moody rock n' rollers Murder By Death. The list goes on, as does the band. The Tossers Website
2010 - 03/15 - Dillinger Escape Plan / Darkest Hour / IWRESTLEDABEARONCE / Animals As Leaders - 7pm $18
The Dillinger Escape Plan is a band from Morris Plains, New Jersey. The band performs a fast-tempo, technically proficient style of music popularly known as mathcore. The band recorded their second EP with Relapse Records in 1998 entitled Under the Running Board. A year later, this was followed with the album Calculating Infinity, which was met with great acclaim from both underground and mainstream press. The band were renowned in the hardcore scene for the intensity of their performances, which have at times incorporated spectacular light shows, fireworks, fire breathing, and other special effects. While the band’s lineup has changed over the years, in part due to a variety of injuries, guitarist Ben Weinman and former drummer Chris Pennie have been present in many of the lineups. After the departure of vocalist Dimitri Minakakis in 2000, the band held a nationwide search and selected Greg Puciato as the new singer. The band has since released two full length albums with Puciato on vocals: 2004’s Miss Machine and 2007’s Ire Works.
2010 - 03/17 - POS / Dessa / Astonautlis - 9pm - $12
P.O.S built his reputation as an innovator, with an unlikely punk rock past and expressive, honest content. He re-earns the accolades with every release. His records capture his charisma—they’re driving and sincere, the dark moments counterbalanced by some giggling banter with the engineer. P.O.S released his first rap record, Ipecac Neat, on Doomtree in 2003. After signing with Rhymesayers shortly after, it was quickly released and widely distributed on Rhymesayers Entertainment. The album earned P.O.S a dedicated following of critics and underground fans. Two years later they devoured his melodic sophomore release Audition, which featured collaborations with heavyweights like Slug from Atmosphere; Craig Finn of The Hold Steady; and Greg Attonito of The Bouncing Souls.
2010 - 03/18 - RJD2 / Break Science / Happy Chichester - 9pm $15 adv / $18 dos
Catapulted to notoriety, fame, and serious hip-hop credibility with 2002's Dead Ringer LP, Philadelphia based DJ and multi-instrumentalist RJD2 has enjoyed a thoroughly prolific career, following that debut album with 2004's critically acclaimed Since We Last Spoke. In essence, this is RJD2's entrance into the continuum of enigmatic songwriter/producers capable of creating a record full of rich songwriting, complex arrangements and clever production that transcends genre.
2010 - 03/19 - H2O 15 Year Anniversary Tour w/ The Swellers - 8pm $12 adv / $14 dos

2010 - 03/20 - Good Luck / The Sidekicks / Tigers Jaw - 8pm $6

2010 - 03/21 - Marc Maron / tba - Doors 7pm / Show 8pm $15

2010 - 03/23 - The Big Pink / A Place To Bury Strangers / Hot Cha Cha - 8pm $12 adv / $14 dos
The Big Pink are an electro rock duo which formed in 2007 in London, England. The group consists of Robbie Furze (vocals, guitar) and Milo Cordell (keyboards, synths, vocals). They are best known for their 2009 single “Dominos”, which peaked at #29 on the UK Singles Chart. This London duo use gritty beats, droning guitars, abstract effects and dreamy vocals to create a soundscape that is arty yet tuneful. They have previously supported TV on the Radio, Florence & The Machine, Crystal Castles and Klaxons. Milo Cordell is son of 1960s pop producer Denny and runs the Merok label, which has released cutting-edge dance acts Klaxons and Crystal Castles. Robbie Furze is a former guitarist with electro-punk singer Alec Empire and is also a founding member of the band Panic DHH. The Big Pink Myspace
2010 - 03/24 - Circa Survive / Good Old War / The Christmas Lights- 7pm $15
Circa Survive is a progressive rock band consisting of former Saosin vocalist Anthony Green and members of the now-defunct This Day Forward, including guitarists Brendan Ekstrom and Colin Frangicetto. Compared to the sound of Green’s former group, the music of Circa Survive taps a different musical influence for Green, who cites Paul Simon, dredg, and Björk among later artists who have more influence on his vocal stylings in Circa Survive which are comparatively less aggressive, as well as his songwriting. Circa Survive Website
2010 - 03/28 - Jedi Mind Tricks / tba - 9pm $13 adv / $15 dos
Jedi Mind Tricks (JMT) is a hip hop group with two members from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one from Camden, New Jersey. The group was founded by two high school friends rapper Vinnie Paz (Vincenzo Luvineri) and producer / DJ Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (Kevin Baldwin). In 1999 the New Jersey rapper Jus Allah (James Bostick) joined the group to record the 2nd studio album by JMT, Violent by Design but left shortly after for reasons that remain unexplained. The track “The Rebuilding” (2006) marked his unofficial return to JMT since the split, but made a full fledged return aside Vinnie Paz for the 6th studio album, A History of Violence (2008). DJ Kwestion is also a part of the group, mainly scratching choruses on the turntable. Kwestion (or Kwes) is also a part of the group Skratch Makaniks. Kwestion was a replacement for JMT’s previous tour DJ, Drew Dollars, who is no longer affiliated with the group. JMT has collaborations with both regional MCs and rap veterans, including GZA, Kool G Rap, 7L & Esoteric, Sean Price, Ras Kass, Canibus, Percee P, Killah Priest, Louis Logic, R.A. the Rugged Man, Tragedy Khadafi, and Ill Bill. The group has sold 250,000 albums in the United States and 300,000 albums worldwide, all of which were released independently.
2010 - 03/28 - At The B-Side Liquor Lounge: Dave Haslam (UK) - Former Hacienda DJ, Stone Roses Tour DJ - 9pm 21+ $5 / 18+ $10
Dave Haslam DJ-ed over four hundred and fifty times at the Hacienda, mostly Thursdays and Saturdays through the 'Madchester' years in the late 1980s, but then returned to play at the club in 1996; he was on the wheels of steel on the last night of the club on June 28th 1997. In the 1990s he hosted 'Freedom' and 'Yellow' at the Boardwalk and DJ-ed at the likes of 'Cream' in Liverpool, 'Angels' in Burnley, Home in London and round the world; including Ibiza, Chicago, Reykjavik, Paris, Lyon, Berlin, Zurich, and Detroit. His gigs with bands include shows with the Stone Roses at Spike Island and New Order at G-Mex. A two-and-a-bit year residency every Saturday at 'Chica Chica Boom' at the Rossetti in Manchester finished on July 29th 2005. Since then he has hosted a number of club nights in Manchester, including 'Another Planet' and 'Sweet Sensation', and DJ'd in Peru, Paris, London, Dublin, 'Creamfields' (August 2008) and Geneva.
2010 - 03/30 - Nebula / Quest of Fire / Non Fiction - 9pm $10
It all started when Eddie & friend Neil Blender were making weird 4 track music for skate movies like Alien Workshop’s first video. He then went on to drum for Olivelawn and later on played guitar with Fu Manchu, writing some of the songs and playing lead guitar on the first three albums. In 1997 Eddie Glass and Ruben Romano decided it was time to use the whole arsenal - Guitars, Drums, Moogs, Sitars, psychedelics and formed Nebula. Tom crossed the pond in the summer of 2004 to join the Nebula ranks. With the recent addition in early 2007 of Rob Oswald, (Karma To Burn/Mondo Generator), Nebula are re-igniting the fires started in ’97. Five albums later - one on Relapse, two on Sub Pop, a couple of EP’s on Meteor City and now the long gone Mans Ruin and a long list of records with Cargo/Sweet Nothing, Nebula continues it’s long ties with the extreme sports community, featured regularly in soundtracks to movies, TV shows like Viva la Bam and Monster Garage and on video games including Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4, Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 and NHL 2007. After appearances at the X-Games, Los Angeles’ Sunset Junction Festival and numerous tours in Europe, Australia, Japan, South America and many North American tours with the likes of Mudhoney, J Mascis & The Fog and The Hellacopters, Nebula have recently returned from a month long festival tour in Europe.
2010 - 03/31 - Little Dragon / VV Brown / DJ Mike Filly - 9pm $12
Little Dragon is a music group based in Gothenburg, Sweden. YUKIMI NAGANO on vocals together with her close high-school friends Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrick Källgren (bass), and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards), Little Dragon’s first release was a double-A-side 7” single on Off The Wall and then signed to Peacefrog (home to José and Findlay Brown), “PlayTwice” / “PlayTest”. Nagano was born and raised in Gothenburg to a Japanese father and American mother; she grew up listening to American folk because of her mother, but always had an affinity for r and b. Keyboardist Wirenstrand spent his childhood in Smaland before moving to Gothenburg, hearing a lot of Swedish folk music, later getting into electronic and synth music. Bodin grew up hearing early hip-hop and jazz. Fredrik who plays bass was influenced by experimental noise music electro house etc. Nagano and Bodin play live with José González. Bodin also drums with Peps Perrson, a Swedish blues/reggae artist.
2010 - 04/01 - Henry Rollins - The Grog Shop Presents at The Kent Stage - Henry Rollins: The Frequent Flyer Tour - 7pm Doors / 8pm Show $20 adv / $25 dos
Will be available at www.kentstage.org and the Grog Shop. In 1980, Henry Rollins was a teenager living in Arlington, Virginia, USA, just over the river from Washington, DC. He worked as the shift manager for a Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop near Georgetown University, and was a huge fan of a Southern California punk rock band called Black Flag. One day, Henry and his friend Ian MacKaye (who later formed Fugazi) drove to New York City to see Black Flag play at the Peppermint Lounge. They played later at a small club down the street, and Henry jumped on stage and took the mike for a song. A few days later, Henry was called back to New York to audition for the band. Henry spent the next six years riding in vans, sleeping in the back of trucks, getting beaten and mauled on stage, and fronting the baddest, most primal rock and roll band in the history of the world. Since 1986, Henry has enjoyed a more pleasant lifestyle and career as a singer. He is a published (and often lucid) poet. His band, Rollins Band, was a highlight of the Woodstock '94 concert. His autobiography, Get In The Van, is available in print and as a self-narrated compact disc. He has written several articles for Details, an American magazine. Henry Rollins Website
2010 - 04/02 - The Grog Shop Presents At The Beachland Tavern - Tim Barry (from Avail) / Red Clay River / Not So Good Ol Boys - 8pm $10
Based out of Richmond, VA, singer/songwriter Tim Barry is most well known as the frontman for Avail, an aggressive hardcore outfit that's been rocking out in the underground since the early '90s. He largely grew up in Reston, a suburb just outside of D.C., fueling his teenage restlessness with 1980s punk, speed metal, and, of course, the nearby Dischord scene. Later on, he grew to appreciate his parents' folk, country, and classical collections as well. Fronting Avail since 1991, the band had released six studio albums as of 2006 and toured exhaustively all over the world, turning themselves into something of cult favorites in the process. In the mid-2000s, the politically conscious Barry began releasing solo material that abandoned the loud-hard-fast punk rules of Avail and stripped it all down to Woody Guthrie-inspired folk, the only thing tying the two projects together being Barry's gruff voice and brash delivery. Armed with just his guitar, Barry recorded some demos in 2005 on the side, simply for himself to share with his friends; he laid the tracks down with no intentions of formally releasing the material outside of just burning CD-Rs for extra gas money at shows. But one such friend was so taken by the honesty of his music that Barry was eventually convinced to release the eight songs as is under the title Laurel Street Demo 2005 on his friend's German label, Dancing in the Dark. In between touring the U.S. twice over with Avail, he took off two weeks in 2006 to lay down more material for a subsequent full-length album, using various friends and family members as backing musicians. Owing much to his blue-collar roots in Richmond -- where he spent much time riding freight trains and sitting by the James River -- the candid country-tinged folk of Rivanna Junction was issued in November 2006 via Suburban Home Records Tim Barry Myspace
2010 - 04/03 - Electric 6 / The Hot Rails / Swarm Of Bats - 9pm $10 adv / $12 dos
Formerly known as the Wildbunch, the Detroit sextet Electric Six mix garage, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs like "Danger! High Voltage," which reached number two on the British charts early in 2003. Singer Dick Valentine, guitarists Rock and Roll Indian and Surge Joebot, bassist Disco, and drummer M. formed the Wildbunch in 1996 (keyboardist Tait Nucleus? joined the band later), releasing their debut single, "I Lost Control (Of My Rock & Roll)," and the eight-track An Evening with the Many Moods of the Wildbunch's Greatest Hits...Tonight! that year on Uchu Cult Records. They also released 1999's full-length on that imprint. The group switched to Flying Bomb for singles like 1997's "The Ballade of MC Sucka DJ," the Christmas single "Flying Bomb Surprise Package, Vol. 1," and 2001's "Danger! High Voltage," which became an underground hit, particularly in the U.K. The following year the group signed to XL and re-recorded "Danger! High Voltage," this time adding backing vocals from the White Stripes' Jack White. After the re-release of the single in 2003, Electric Six issued their full-length debut album, Fire, later that spring. Just a few weeks after the album's release, Disco, Rock and Roll Indian, and Surge Joebot left the band and were replaced by Frank Lloyd Bonaventure, the Colonel, and 661453Johnny Na$hinal. In 2004, the band got a new record deal with Rushmore, a British Warner Bros. imprint, and lost Bonaventure and M., whose bass and drum duties were filled by John R. Dequindre and Percussion World, respectively. The second Electric Six album, Señor Smoke, arrived in the U.K. early in 2005. It took another year for the album to be released stateside, on Metropolis Records. Switzerland arrived in fall of 2006 and I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master followed in October of 2007. Early in 2008, Valentine embarked on his American Troubadour solo tour, which included stops in Hamtramck, MI, and Portland, OR; that spring, Electric Six recorded their fifth album, Flashy, in the Colonel's studio. Metropolis released Flashy that fall.
2010 - 04/04 - Love Is All / Cloud Nothings - 9pm $8 adv / $10 dos
The Swedish band Love Is All is comprised of Josephine Olausson (vocals, keyboard), Johan Lindwall (bass), Markus Görsch (drums), Fredrik Eriksson (saxophone), and Nicholaus Sparding (guitar/vocals). Olausson, Sparding, and Görsch had previously been members of Girlfriendo. The trio promptly regrouped after that band's demise and added Lindwall, who had recorded in a side project with Olausson and Sparding called Cat Skills. They finally added the missing piece with saxophone player Fredrik Eriksson. While earning many rave reviews from the blogging community for their blend of art punk and indie rock, the band released several singles, one of which made single of the week in NME. The singles were collected on the debut LP Nine Times That Same Song, released by New York-based What's Your Rupture? in late 2005. After much touring through 2006 and 2007, Eriksson left the band and Love Is All continued on as a quartet. A Hundred Things That Keep Me Up at Night and the remix album Love Is All Mixed Up arrived in 2008, along with Eriksson's replacement Åke Strömer (saxophone, keyboards).
2010 - 04/06 - Japandroids / Avi Buffalo / Two Hand Fools - 9pm $10
Japandroids are an indie garage rock duo from Vancouver comprised of Brian King (guitar) and David Prowse (drums), who share singing duties. Founded in 2006, the band self-released a pair of five-track EPs, All Lies (2007) and Lullaby Death Jams (2008), before making its full-length album debut with Post-Nothing (2009) on the Canadian label Unfamiliar Records. Though Japandroids were more or less unknown at the time of their album debut, Post-Nothing got a big boost from the tastemaking website Pitchfork, which championed the album as one of its "Best New Music" selections. Japandroids Myspace
2010 - 04/07 - Grog Shop Presents at House of Blues:Bassnectar / Major Lazer - 8pm $20 adv / $23 dos
Tickets on sale here at the Grog Shop w/ no fees! On sale Friday 1/15! -What started back in the mid nineties as an experiment fusing youth culture and social action has turned into a multi-faceted, multi-faced creature called Bassnectar. It is the brainchild of Lorin Ashton, and it exists as an open-sourced musical project that is as diverse as it is heavy, as raw as it is meticulous, and as fierce as it is imaginary. Bassnectar combines sound and force with weight while spanning the spectrum of sonic style, covering every genre imaginable, and smashing it all into a collision of wobbling, perverted basslines, hypnotic hide-and-seek adventures, and pretty much anything that strikes his fancy. He calls the end product “omnitempo maximalism,” which basically means no rules, no limitations, and no hesitation in fusing the familiar with the strange or the classic with the cutting edge. Whether remixing, collaborating, writing, DJing, performing live or working on constant social networking, Bassnectar’s music is the lure and social impact is the very sincere intention. According to Ashton, “we are so blessed, and so deeply fortunate to be alive and awake right now…it’s a basic truth, but it’s very powerful. I think privilege confers responsibility, and Bassnectar is a reflection of that opportunity to give back; the motion of my cells bouncing back at the world.”
2010 - 04/07 - Weedeater / Black Tusk / Gates Of Slumber / Struck By Lightning - 9pm $10

2010 - 04/08 - Fanfarlo / tba - 8pm $12 adv / $14 dos
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2010 - 04/10 - The Fall of Troy / Envy On The Coast w/ Special Guests Twin Atlantic - 6pm $12 adv / $14 dos
Post-hardcore trio the Fall of Troy formed in Mukilteo, WA, in 2002. Singer/guitarist Thomas Erak, singer/bassist Tim Ward, and drummer Andrew Forsman previously collaborated in 30 Years War, a screamo outfit they formed with fellow high school classmate Mike Munro on guitar. After a pair of self-released 2002 EPs, Martyrs Among the Casualties and Live at the Paradox, Munro left the group, citing day-job commitments, and the remaining trio continued as the Fall of Troy, selecting the name as before by randomly opening the pages of a history textbook. Their self-titled debut LP followed on Lujo Records in late 2003. At the time of recording, all three members were still under the age of 17, and apart from a handful of Pacific Northwest dates and a brief California tour, their live schedule was limited until the following year, when they self-released an EP, Ghostship. In mid-2005 the Fall of Troy issued Doppelgänger, their first effort for new label Equal Vision Records. During their April 30, 2006, gig at the Columbus, OH, venue The Basement, an angry Erak announced, "This is the last song the Fall of Troy will ever play together," but the trio later scotched rumors of their imminent breakup via their official website and entered the studio that December with producer Matt Bayles (Isis, Botch) to record new material. They emerged with the album Manipulator, which surfaced on record shelves in early May 2007, as spring was spent supporting the Deftones on nationwide dates.
2010 - 04/11 - NOMO / tba - 9pm $8 adv / $10 dos
NOMO were conceived in 2003 when University of Michigan jazz studies graduate and multi-instrumentalist (tenor sax, keyboards, electric mbiri) Elliot Bergman and some of his acquaintances began jamming at an Ann Arbor, MI, house where many of them lived. This led to the eventual formation of the group, which recorded its self-titled EP on Ypsilanti Records that same year, after producer Warn Defever dared Bergman to bring as many people as he could to the studio. In 2004 the band (which, with album and live appearance combined, has had over 60 contributors) issued a full-length record of the same name. NOMO’s mix of African beats, avant-garde jazz, and funk caught the attention of California’s Ubiquity Records, who soon signed them. With a core lineup that included Bergman, Erik Hall (guitar, Nu-Tone cymbals), Jamie Register (bass, vocals), Dan Piccolo (drums), Dan Bennett (baritone sax), Justin Walter (trumpet), Olman Piedra (congas, cajon, shekere), and Ingrid Racine (trumpet), NOMO released New Tones in 2006 and Ghost Rock in 2008.
2010 - 04/13 - Grog Shop Presents At Beachland Ballroom: The Hold Steady / The Oranges Band - 8pm $18 adv / $20 dos
The Hold Steady is a Brooklyn-based rock band formed by vocalist/guitarist Craig Finn (ex-Lifter Puller) in 2004. Wanting to capture the sound of bands such as The Replacements and The Grifters, he recruited guitarist Tad Kubler (also ex-Lifter Puller), drummer Judd Counsell, and bassist Galen Polivka. In 2005 the band grew to include Franz Nicolay (of The World/Inferno Friendship Society) on keyboards and Bobby Drake took over on drums following Counsell’s departure. The band recently released their fourth album, Stay Positive, recorded again with Boys And Girls In America producer John Agnello. Recording mostly live, the band released its debut, Almost Killed Me, on French Kiss Records in March 2004 and Separation Sunday a year later. In April 2006 the band signed to Vagrant Records and entered the studio on the 1st of May to begin work on their third record, Boys And Girls In America. Released in October, it was one of the most critically acclaimed records of 2006 and reached a much larger audience than its predecessors. On July 15, 2008, Stay Positive was released. It debuted at #30 on the Billboard 200. It debuted on the UK Album Chart at #15 on July 20, the third-highest new entry. It ranked #1 on the UK Indie Chart. The album was named the best of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. The song “Constructive Summer” was number 56 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.
2010 - 04/15 - Pissed Jeans / This Moment In Black History / tba - 9pm $7
As a working-class foursome from Allentown, PA (the town that inspired the Billy Joel song "Allentown"), Pissed Jeans vent their frustrations through a bludgeoning midtempo grunge punk sound focused on sexual depression and factory-town hopelessness, all doused in a heavy coat of sarcasm and apathy. On a sweltering August night in 2003, the Gatecrashers were driving between Los Angeles and San Francisco while rocking out to World Wrestling Federation: The Music, Vol. 2. During the peak of the sweaty singalong they realized they were onto something special and decided it would be fun to form a side project where they sang songs in the vein of the Whittingtons' "I'm Young, Dumb and Full of Cum," the idea being that everyone would swap instruments and create music for meatheads. Enveloped by the discomforting mood provided by the car's broken air conditioner, they reasoned that the vibe of the music should be like the oppressive heat inside the vehicle -- overwhelming and designed to drain the listener's energy. With influences ranging from early-'80s punk to '90s hardcore, the members of the Gatecrashers (Matt Korvette, Bradley Fry, Dave Rosenstrauss, and Tim) started penning songs for a demo under the name Unrequited Hard-On. Soon after, they changed their name to Pissed Jeans and recorded a second demo with the addition of a new song, "Night Minutes." After concocting a new batch of woeful anti-authoritative material, they released a 7" titled Throbbing Organ and their first LP, Shallow, on Parts Unknown. Shallow branched off of the sounds of Flipper and Stick Men with Rayguns into a more sludgy and droning territory. After the departure of drummer Tim, they recruited Sean McGuinness to take over, and the band signed to the iconic grunge label Sub Pop Records. Despite their new status, the bandmembers kept their day jobs. Guitarist Fry continued working in account management, bassist Rosenstrauss converted cars to run on biodiesel, and frontman Korvette worked as a claims adjuster for an insurance company. The blue-collar way of life fueled the lyrical fire for a 7" released on June 6, 2006, called I Don't Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear, an angry ditty about working in a restaurant and despising the patrons. The following year, Pissed Jeans released their second full-length, the heavy plodding Hope for Men for Subpop, while remaining in their hometown. After touring and making a video for "I've Got You Ice Cream" the group returned with King of Jeans in 2009.
2010 - 04/17 - Th' Ledgendary Shackshakers / tba - 9pm $12

2010 - 04/18 - Ralph's World - 3pm $15 adv / $18 dos or Family 4 Pack -$50

2010 - 04/20 - The Appleseed Cast / Dreamed - 9pm $8 adv / $10 dos
Lawrence, KS-based emo quartet Appleseed Cast were originally comprised of singer/guitarist Christopher Crisci, guitarist Aaron Pillar, bassist Jason Wickersheim, and drummer Louie Ruiz. Signing to Deep Elm, the group made its debut on the 1998 label sampler Records for the Working Class, releasing the full-length The End of the Ring Wars later that same year. In 1999 Appleseed Cast (now with new drummer Josh Baruth) released a new single, "Skatter Ik Ignito," as well as a split EP with labelmates Planes Mistaken for Stars and Race Car Riot; Mare Vitalis followed in early 2000, heavily showcasing Baruth's complicated beats and the band's overall dense, atmospheric sound. Despite the hints of a new direction, the album couldn't have prepared fans for the two Low Level Owl albums released in 2001. Complex, delicate, and highly experimental, these two records took a cue from Radiohead's Kid A and sent the band careening into space rock and electronica with only traces of emo poking through. The records weren't nearly as commercially accepted, but their overall bravery showed that the band was prepared to make stylistic leaps. The next year, Lost Songs brought four unreleased tracks from 1999 and five new songs together onto one album. Overdubbing new elements over the older songs, Appleseed Cast blended the tense emo of their early work and the broad experimentation of their new material. The band returned in 2003 with Two Conversations (Tiger Style), which continued to explore atmospheric texture in the framework of traditional rock & roll. An extensive tour followed the LP's release. The band next went on a brief hiatus following Tiger Style's demise, but soon returned with renewed energy and a new label. Peregrine appeared in March 2006 on Militia Group before hitting the road with dates on both coasts. By this time, the band consisted of founding members Crisci and Pillar, along with bassist Marcus Young and drummer Nathan Richardson (ex-the Casket Lottery).
2010 - 04/24 - Aloha / Pomegrantes / The Buried Wires - 9pm $10
Aloha follows the acclaimed LP Some Echoes (2006) and acoustic EP Light Works (2007) with a powerful record that shows the band unbound by past influences and boldly stepping out of the shadows. Written initially through a private band blog, Home Acres is a project three years in the making. Home Acres pushes the tempos and dials up the guitars, with the band's slow-burn intensity sometimes overflowing into huge moments. But even as the energy surges, Aloha casts an otherworldly glow, serving up ambience and attack with equal measure. Album opener "Building a Fire" pairs gritty, persistent bass and drums with celestial, elusive melodies. An explosion of drums and a Peter Hook-high bass riff leads "Moonless March" into a minor-key catharsis. As the album hits its head-nodding, toe-tapping stride, you begin to realize that there's darkness lurking under Tony Cavallario's luminous melodies. In "White Wind," ethereal harmonies stoke the flames as an era burns to the ground. Everywhere things seem to be slipping away, fading from view, going in and out of focus. Fuzzed-out marimbas, reverb-soaked organs and floating strings decorate wistful, chiming guitar chords while Cale Parks pounds away, powering the proceedings from behind the kit. Lyrically, Home Acres (named for a quaint old suburb of Rochester, NY) tries to sort through the wreckage of the Great Lakes region and a way of life. Left abandoned "waiting for a getaway car that never came" in the record's arena-rock-by-way-of-Silver Apples closer "Ruins," we’re left to think that maybe we ought to have dreamt bigger and fought the urge to disengage. A suggestion that Aloha has taken to heart for its biggest, brightest record to date.
2010 - 04/27 - Apples In Stereo / Generationals / Laminated Cat - 9pm $12
The Apples in Stereo is an indie pop band, from Denver, Colorado, co-originators of the innovative Elephant 6 Collective, a group of bands that initially included Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control but also includes Elf Power, The Minders and Beulah. The Apples in Stereo currently consist of Eric Allen (bass), John Hill (rhythm guitar), John Ferguson, Bill Doss and their new drummer as of 2006, John Dufilho, while lead singer/guitarist Robert Schneider writes the most of the band’s music and lyrics. Their debut release was 1995’s Fun Trick Noisemaker (with Jim McIntyre on bass). Longtime drummer Hilarie Sydney left the band in 2006, performing her last show at the Athens Popfestival. Robert Schneider has side projects: Marbles, Ulysses, Thee American Revolution and a new kids music project under the name Robbert Bobbert & The Bubble Machine. He does a lot of commercial composition and film score work. John Hill also plays guitar in Dressy Bessy. One of their most popular songs, “Signal In The Sky,” was created and featured in episode 46 of The Powerpuff Girls. They are best known for their bright, catchy lyrics and 60s pop/rock sound that often provokes comparisons to The Beatles, ELO and The Beach Boys.
2010 - 04/29 - Captured! By Robots / tba - 9pm $10 adv / $12 dos
Captured! by Robots is a touring musical comedy troupe with only one human member. It is part-concert and part-performance act, made up of three robots, two stuffed apes, three “headless hornsmen” playing backup brass, and their human, “JBOT”. The group is comprised of JBOT, the human “slave” to the robots (whose intestines hang from his abdomen); DRMBOT 0110, a severed doll’s head that plays the drums; GTRBOT666, who plays bass and guitar; AUTOMATOM, the assistant drummer created by robots, The Ape Which Hath No Name who plays tambourine halo; The Son of the Ape Which Hath No Name , who plays Monkey Cymbals; and the Headless Hornsmen, a full three-piece horn section. The fictional C!BR backstory claims that the human, in an attempt to make his own band, created the robots. Instead of following him, they revolted, pulled out his intestines and eyes, and now force him to travel the world with them, performing music and making him contemplate the inferiority of the human race. The human, JBOT, is portrayed by actor/musician Jay Vance, a former bassist for ska bands Blue Meanies and Skankin’ Pickle. He most notable for having played on the Blue Meanies’ album “Kiss Your Ass Goodbye.”
2010 - 04/30 - Yeasayer / Sleigh Bells - 9pm $12 adv / $14 dos
Since the release of their critically acclaimed 2007 debut All Hour Cymbals, Yeasayer has been around the world and back again. While their first record was conceived in total artistic isolation, constant touring forced Yeasayer to finally engage with their contemporaries. Inspired by musicians hell-bent on sonic experimentation as well as those more comfortable in a pop context, Yeasayer find their domain spanning across the musical spectrum. Studied, road worn, and eager to begin phase two, Yeasayer retreated to upstate New York to begin work on their new album titled ODD BLOOD. Yeasayer Myspace
2010 - 05/02 - Deadbolt / tba - 9pm $12 adv / $14 dos

2010 - 05/05 - Frightened Rabbit / tba - 8pm $13 adv / $15 dos

2010 - 05/07 - Converge / Black Breath / Lewd Acts - 7pm $12 adv / $14 dos

2010 - 05/15 - Doug Stanhope / tba - 8pm $20
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2010 - 05/31 - Grog Shop Presents At Beachland Ballroom: Brian Jonestown Massacre - 8pm $18 adv / $20 dos
On Sale Friday 1/29 @ 10pm! Named in tribute to the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist and his influence in introducing Eastern culture and music into the world of Western rock & roll, the Brian Jonestown Massacre formed in San Francisco, CA, in 1990. Some 40 different members passed through the group's ranks over the next half-decade, but their focal point always remained singer/guitarist Anton Newcombe, who along with bassist Matt Hollywood, guitarist Dean Taylor, organist Mara Regal, accordionist Dawn Thomas, drummer Brian Glaze, and "Spokesman for the Revolution" Joel Gion, recorded the Massacre's 1995 shoegazer-influenced debut LP, Methodrone. A collection of early recordings, Spacegirl and Other Favorites, followed on the band's own Tangible label in early 1996, and was the first of four Brian Jonestown Massacre LPs to appear that year; next up was the brilliant Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request, a full-blown homage to the Stones' glorious psychedelic-era excesses. Recorded live in the studio, the grittier Take It from the Man! found the band exploring even broader territory. Finally, the year ended with the release of Thank God for Mental Illness, a showcase for strong country and blues leanings. In 1997, the BJM -- now consisting of Newcombe, Hollywood, Gion, Taylor, guitarists Jeff Davies and Peter Hayes, and drummer Brad Artley -- resurfaced with Give It Back! After signing to TVT, they released Strung Out in Heaven the following year, but the band and Newcombe's own eccentricities kept them from staying on the label. After a few scattered EPs, they resurfaced in 2001 with Bravery Repetition and Noise, distributed by Bomp. And This Is Our Music followed in 2003. Despite a continued lack of major distribution, the Brian Jonestown Massacre earned the largest profile of their career in 2004, when the band became the unlikely focus of an award-winning documentary, DIG!, which charted the trials of Newcombe and those of his rival, Courtney Taylor, leader of the Dandy Warhols. The We Are the Radio EP followed in August 2005. Three years later, the band reinvented itself with My Bloody Underground, featuring yet another lineup and a hint of shoegaze and noise pop. Who Killed Sgt Pepper? followed shortly after, being made available in streaming format at the end of 2009 and receiving an official release on January 1st, 2010.

2010 - 02/09 - Dave Hause (of The Loved Ones) / Max Stern / American War - 8pm $6 adv / $8 dos

Raised in a musical family, Philadelphia based musician Dave Hause has been involved with music since youth. Beginning his musical career as a roadie and later defining his own music stylings in various punk bands he finally started The Loved Ones. They have released two full length records and several EPs. While continuing to tour extensively with The Loved Ones in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan, Hause continues to work on his own solo music. In addition to working on demos for his first full-legnth solo album, he recently joined Chuck Ragan, Jim Ward, and Tim Barry on the Revival Tour.

Dave Hause Myspace

2010 - 02/10 - Four Year Strong / Strike Anywhere / This Time Next Year / Title Fight - 6pm $12 adv / $14 dos

Taking influence from the likes of Lifetime, Gorilla Biscuits, and New Found Glory, Four Year Strong built an aggressive and melody-riddled combination of hardcore, emo-pop, and pop-punk upon their formation in Worcester, MA. The band's lineup -- vocalists/guitarists Dan O'Connor and Alan Day, bassist Joe Weiss, drummer Jake Massucco, and synth player Josh Lyford -- was cemented during the musicians' high-school tenure in 2003, though a form of the band had already existed for several years. Following the appearance of two self-released EPs, Four Year Strong signed a deal with New Jersey-based imprint I Surrender Records. Their debut full-length, Rise or Die Trying, was issued on the label in September 2007. Tour dates with groups like the Starting Line, Valencia, and From First to Last kept them on the road for the remainder of the year, and the band returned in 2009 with an album of '90s covers, Explains It All.

Four Year Strong Myspace

2010 - 02/11 - Funk Soul Dance Party feat Misterbradleyp / Neil Chastain / aLive - 18+ $3 | 21+ Free

2010 - 02/12 - Scott Lucas (Local H) & The Married Men / Christopher Black / Edgewater Lights - 9pm $8

For anyone remotely in-the-know of Chicago’s music scene, Local H is a band name that surely rolls off your tongue. But during the rock duo’s downtime, frontman Scott Lucas doesn’t exactly kick his feet up. For the past few years, the singer/songwriter/guitarist has spread his musical aptitude to Chicago electronica group, the Prairie Cartel. Most recently, Lucas has crafted yet another new project—the Married Men... In his newest musical outfit, Lucas proves himself a rock and roll chameleon, shedding his tough Local H exterior and evoking a tamer sound and stage persona. The sextet, which has just wrapped up work on its forthcoming debut, George Lassos the Moon, set the stage for the Disciplines. Their lineup alone (violin, accordion, guitars, drums) proved not only would they sound nothing like Local H, but chances are they wouldn’t sound much like most contemporary indie bands.

Scott Lucas & the Married Men Myspace

2010 - 02/13 - The Invasion Agency Presents Cleveland Lovefest: The Manhattan Scene / Freshman 15 / Ten Count Fall / Erickson / Exit Cleveland / The Status / Euphoria / The Alumni Club 6pm $8 adv / $ 10 dos

What originally started as a continuation of singer/songwriter Brian-Marcel's solo work, the then trio of Tim Depasquale (drums), Matthew Augusta (guitar) and Brian-Marcel Edmond (vocals/guitar/piano) quickly enlisted the services of BME's twin brother Brandon-Marshall Edmond (ex This Awkward Silence) and close friend/bassist Danny Thompson (ex a near fatal fall) , to complete the lineup. The Manhattan Scene combines electric grooves that could make even a statue consider dancing, with lyrics/melodies that will for sure be cemented in your memory for years to come.

2010 - 02/13 - At B Side Liquor Lounge: An evening of Dilla (Fundraiser for Lupus Research) Featuring DJs:K-Nyce, Tuggle, Misterbradleyp, aLive & Esso - 10PM 21+ | $5 Suggested Donation18+ | $10

2010 - 02/14 - Wiz Khalifa / Keyel / Fam Famous / Machine Gun Kelly - 8pm $12

Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987 in Minot, North Dakota), better known by his stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, signed to Rostrum Records. In 2005 he released his first official mixtape, Prince of the City: Welcome to Pistolvania, and later in 2006 he released his first full length street album entitled Show and Prove. Since then he has released a further six mixtapes and a collaboration mixtape titled How Fly with friend Curren$y. He released his debut album, Deal or No Deal, in November of 2009, it reached #1 on the iTunes hip hop chart, and then reached the top ten on iTunes’ overall album chart the week it was released. Previously signed to Warner Bros. Records, he left the label in July 2009 after numerous delays in releasing his planned debut album for the label, First Flight. Khalifa stated to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that, “I learned a lot during my time there and matured as an artist during the process. I’m happy to be moving on with all of my material and having the chance to be in control of my next moves”.He is also the founder of the rap crew Taylor Gang, which includes friends Kev Tha Hustler, Ekko, Smallz Money and Gene Stovall. They derived the name from the fact they always used to wear Chuck Taylor shoes.

2010 - 02/14 - At The B Side Liquor Lounge: The Get Up! Presents A Very Special Valentine's Day Event W/ Ladytron DJ Set (feat Mira Aroyo) 9pm - $5 before 11pm | $10 after 11pm

Mira Aroyo, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. Of mixed Bulgarian and Hasidic background, Aroyo moved with her family to Israel when she was ten. She is the only member of Ladytron that never lived in Liverpool: Reuben Wu and Daniel Hunt were raised in the city and Helen Marnie studied there. While a DJ in London, Aroyo met Danny Hunt through mutual friends and found that they were DJing the same kind of music. Mira's role in Ladytron has been keyboardist, singer, and as a songwriter. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English.

2010 - 02/15 - At The B Side Liquor Lounge: Stove Monkeys Present: Flavor Tripping - 8pm $10

A Berry With a Miraculous Effect In 1725 the explorer Reynaud des Marchais observed that a West African tribe obsessively chewed an unfamiliar red berry before meals. Brazenly, he decided to try one himself without knowing the strength of the effect. The effect was staggering. I know this because I recently chewed the same berry at the B-side Liquor Lounge in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The “miracle berry” contains a protein, called miraculin, that bamboozles sour and acid receptive taste buds into thinking they are sensing sugar, thus making sour foods taste like candy. When I bit the grape sized fruit, it tasted mildly sweet, until the seed cracked and released its bitter tannins. Still, I swished the pulp around my mouth for a minute, as instructed by the “Flavor Tripping” party hosts chef Matt Mytro (Stove Monkeys, Crop Bistro, Paladar, Boulevard Blue) and promoter Reuben Kutash. Then I tried a lime wedge. I hate lime wedges. And for the tiniest micro-instant I tasted lime wedge. But the tartness flip-flopped. It transformed to an astonishing succulent sweetness. Lime-loathe metamorphosed to lime-love. The flavor was full and true, not weak or artificial at all. No hint of sour remained. And remember, miraculin is a protein, not a sugar or sugar derivative. I next downed a glass of straight balsamic vinegar. Yum. My least favorite shot, tequila, spawned an ear-to-ear grin. Willy Wonka would have been proud. In fact, Mr. Myrto and Mr. Kutash provided a large array of morsels fresh from the West Side Market with which to provoke the reaction of the berry.

Stove Monkey's Website

2010 - 02/17 - Magical Properties Tour feat. Daedelus / Nosaj Thing / Jogger / Ay (of Ken Rei) - 9pm $10 adv / $12 dos

Daedelus, the eccentric, electronic maestro of the Pacific coast returns with "Exquisite Corpse" his most complete and baffling record to date. One of LA's most daring new artists this young musical romantic weaves together a true "love-sound" that falls between honeyed melody and avant-electronics. Daedelus chops and splices disparate acoustic sources into incredible works of staggering resonance. Contrasting IDM styled cut-ups with childlike arrangements from the 30's and 40's, he has refined a style that has no imitators. Exactly the kind of music you’d expect from a scarily well-connected hip hop nut who happens to dress in Edwardian clothing and names himself after an Ancient Greek Legend. The album title, as well as the idea, is taken from the old Surrealist game in which a group of random French crazies and intellectuals write down part of a sentence, fold the page and pass it on to the next - 'Consequences' without the consequences. Or if that doesn't make sense, how about this? "A kind of collective collage of words or images" ("Dada & Surrealist Art" by William S.Rubin). And there's definitely a collective at work here, Daedelus' trademark musicality running up against a slather of maverick talent from the worlds of hip hop and beyond. The performances range from traditional (MF Doom, Sci from Scienz of Life) to poetic (Mike Ladd, CYNE, Laura Darling) to experimental (Prefuse 73, Hrishikesh Hirway of The One AM Radio, TTC, Jogger), but Daedelus moulds the seemingly disparate elements of sound with a single-minded vision. With a body of work including releases through Mush, Plug Research, Hefty, Tigerbeat6, and Eastern Developments, Daedelus' rep is long since established. At last he has given us the record about which journalists can use the word "surreal" without being lazy. And for this alone we must all be thankful.Nosaj Thing is now, without a doubt, among L.A.’s finest musical modulators. His electronic soundscapes and wild beat tectonics play like vignettes that affect the listener’s mind as deeply as he hits their soul. Nosaj Thing creates nothing less than the sound mastery of beat driven, experimental electronics from a gifted noise constructor.

Daedelus Myspace

2010 - 02/18 - The Stereo Riot / Something For Lucy - 9pm $5

2010 - 02/19 - People Under The Stairs / Rapper Big Pooh (from Little Brother) / Smokescreen - 9pm $12 adv / $14 dos

People Under the Stairs formed when Mike Turner (Double K) and Chris Portugal (Thes One) met on the fringe of L.A.'s late-'90s hip-hop underground. The duo, devoted to jazzy samples, danceable beats, intricate rhyming skills, and laid-back humor, debuted in 1998 with the acclaimed The Next Step and followed it up in 2000 with Question in the Form of an Answer. Gathering heavy praise and touring with De La Soul, the group took their road experiences and brought it to the studio to record their next album. The final results appeared in the summer of 2002 under the name O.S.T. This highly acclaimed release, which sound-scanned over 35,000 to date, brought People Under The Stairs to the forefront of underground hip-hop. Its follow-up album, Or Stay Tuned complemented this release and allowed the group to headline nation-wide tours. Known for serving up playful back-and-forth rhymes set to vinyl-centric production, Thes One and Double K are now back with Stepfather. "People are really going to be surprised by this album, says Thes One, Were flipping the script on this one, coming with an extremely progressive approach. We study a lot of music theory and classic material, and this album reflects that. Even when we did the old school tracks on the album, we still tried to push the envelope with vocal settings and drum patterns. Using obscure vintage drum machines and running mic pre-amps to the point of intentional distortion, PUTS created a sonic kaleidoscope of textured and layered beats which are complimented by their refreshingly cool narratives of the L.A. Hip Hop life.

People Under The Stairs Myspace

2010 - 02/20 - The Movement / ModQUAD / Oojis Whack - 9pm $8 adv / $10 dos

2010 - 02/21 - Freeway Boy Entertainment Presents: The Best Rappers U Never Heard City Tour - 9pm $6 adv / $8 dos

Featuring Carl E. Story / Mali Goines / Baby / Freeway Boys / Fam Famous / All Day Recess

2010 - 02/22 - Supersuckers / Sun God / tba - 9pm $10

The Supersuckers are an American garage punk band. They are the self-proclaimed “Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in the World.” Following the relative success of their 1997 foray into country music with the release of Must’ve Been High, they have also been known to play country shows under various names, including, of course, The Supersuckers. As of April 2005, the members are Eddie Spaghetti on bass and lead vocals along with Rontrose Heathman and Dan “Thunder” Bolton on guitars. Drummer and original member Dancing Eagle recently parted ways with the band while guitarist Dan “Thunder” Bolton is on temporary hiatus. But now he is back after taking a long needed break from the road. Dusty from Agent Orange handled drums for a bit, but the new, permanent drummer is Scott Churrilla from The Reverand Horton Heat.

2010 - 02/23 - Cold Cave / Hair Police / Emeralds / The Nevari Butchers - 9pm $7

Cold Cave are an experimental electronic pop group from Philadelphia and New York City who make melodic synthscapes with jackhammer beats. They acknowledge the dark roots of synthesizer music as well as its potential for making the brightest pop with their hard songs celebrating the contradictory beauty of the human condition.

Cold Cave Myspace

2010 - 02/26 - Scrimshaw / The Sundresses / The Poland Invasion - 10pm $5

2010 - 02/26 - Skies of December / Along Came A Spider / City Under The Sea / Above The Atlantic / Clarity Calls Forth - 6pm $8

Unsigned band, Skies of December from Cleveland, OH came out on the east-coast regional scene swinging a few years ago, and have played countless amounts of shows with notable acts such as Attack Attack!, Gwen Stacy, Broadway, Let's Get it!, I See Stars, Miss May I, Burden of a Day, We Came as Romans, and many more. Skies constantly leave fans more than satisfied with their creative, visually alluring live show, and addictive song structure. They have combined emotional singing melodies, with heavy music from day one, and the results are exceptional, and truly recognized by all listeners willing to give them a chance.

2010 - 02/27 - Craig Ramsey & The Nice People / The Buried Wires / Prisoners - 9pm $6

Craig Ramsey is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Cleveland, Ohio. On his stunning solo debut, Parting Gift For A Party Girl, Craig crafts rainy-day pop music chronicling the late autumn of an ill-starred relationship. As one half of the indie-pop duo Bears, Craig has toured the country behind three critically acclaimed albums, sharing stages with likeminded groups such as Camera Obscura, Tily And The Wall, and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. When Craig performs his solo material live, he often does so with a backing group. He’s dubbed the backing group The Nice People because they are nice people, and genuine niceness is, Craig believes, an undervalued quality. Should you have the opportunity to experience Craig Ramsey & The Nice People in a live setting, please say hello.

2010 - 02/28 - Saosin / Maylene & The Sons of Disaster / Before Their Eyes / Viadora - 8pm $12 adv / $14 dos

California-based Saosin burst onto the post-hardcore scene in March 2003 with their explosive screamo-tinged debut EP, Translating the Name, on Death Do Us Part. For the recording, the band was comprised of vocalist Anthony Green, former Slayer guitar tech and drummer Pat McGrath, guitarist/vocalist Justin Shekoski (ex-As Hope Dies), and former Open Hand members bassist Zach Kennedy and guitarist/vocalist Beau Burchell. The band's name comes from a Chinese proverb that means "small heart," as in love cautiously. Shortly after the EP's completion, Kennedy exited (going on to join Ashlee Simpson's band) to be replaced by Chris Sorenson, and since McGrath had been enlisted solely to play drums on the album, Saosin weren't solidified until that July with the addition of permanent drummer Alex Rodriguez (also formerly of Open Hand). Even though Translating had been out since March, the band didn't make its on-stage debut until June. Their powerful live performance and heavy Internet presence were coupled with high praise for their EP (comparing them to the emotional catharsis of Glassjaw), cultivating an impressive underground following. The guys hit the road nationwide that summer with Boys Night Out and Anatomy of a Ghost. Green parted ways with the band in February 2004 for personal reasons, later going on to front the emo/post-hardcore outfit Circa Survive. The other bandmembers pressed on without him, however, and though they had yet to find a permanent replacement, stayed true to their Warped Tour obligation with Story of the Year's Phil Sneed taking the mike. By the summer's end, Cove Reber had become the band's new singer. Saosin spent time on winter's Taste of Chaos tour before hooking up with Capitol Records in March 2005. After numerous compilation appearances, a self-titled EP of demos and live cuts appeared that August; summer was spent on co-headlining dates with Anberlin. Saosin continued work on their eponymous full-length debut with Howard Benson, finally releasing the long-awaited disc in September 2006. Plenty of touring followed well into the next year, including dates with bands like Senses Fail, Bleeding Through, A Static Lullaby, and Poison the Well. In March 2008, Saosin released Come Close, a live CD/DVD. The band toured relenetlessly playing festivals and headline gigs throughout 2007 and 2008. Despite their touring schedule, they managed to record and complete In Search of Solid Ground, their proper sophomore full-length effort, and release it in September of 2009.

2010 - 03/04 - Split Lip Rayfield / Not So Good Ol Boys / Heelsplitter - 9pm $10 adv / $12 dos

Split Lip Rayfield are bluegrass outlaws from Wichita (kansas) that play home-made bass (Jeff Eaton), banjo (Eric Mardis) and Wayne Gottstine (Acoustic Guitar). Kirk Rundstrom lost his battle with esophageal cancer in '07. Split Lip Rayfield (Bloodshot, 1998) was the manifesto of their thrash-grass. Like Bad Livers and 1980s' cowpunks, they rip through songs of chronic loss and emargination at lightning speed, shouting apocalyptic wit and desperation over the non-stop barrage of epileptic drum-less rhythms

Split Lip Rayfield Myspace

2010 - 03/05 - The Atypicals / Digiraattii / In One Wind / Belmez - 10pm $5

Atypicals offer a glorious return to the glistening, sex-saturated synth-pop that ruled the Eighties. Formed in the summer of 2009, Atypicals fuse various influences of psychedelic rock, jazz, and their love of modern electropop and house into their music, creating a sound entirely their own: infectious, cutting-edge electronica that stimulates mind and body.

2010 - 03/05 - Crime In Stereo / Light Years / Exceteras - 6pm $8 adv / $10 dos

Crime In Stereo is a Long Island-based punk band. Comparable to Dag Nasty, Brand New, and Lifetime, the band released their debut, a split with New York's Kill Your Idols, in 2003 on hardcore label Blackout! Records. In early 2004, the band released their debut full-length in conjunction with Brightside Records, Explosives and the Will to Use Them and was well-received by several punk music webzines. The band's relationship with the label eventually turned sour for as yet undisclosed reasons, and the band signed in early 2005 with Nitro Records, owned by Dexter Holland of well-known 90's punk revivalists The Offspring. Although a four-song EP titled The Contract was released in July 2005 to finish up the band's contract with Blackout! Records / Brightside, the band released the Fuel. Transit. Sleep EP that same year with Nitro Records containing two songs from the following album, The Troubled Stateside, which was released April 18, 2006 on Nitro Records. The band left Nitro Records some time after the release of The Troubled Stateside and signed to Bridge Nine Records[1] who released their third full-length, Crime in Stereo is Dead, on October 23, 2007. The band released a 10-song collections disc titled Selective Wreckage on Bridge 9 in late 2008.

2010 - 03/11 - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists / Title Tracks - 8pm $15

Grog Shop's favorite boys return to Cleveland! With his latest, Living with the Living, Ted Leo delivers that existentialist ethos to a new crop of rude boys. For their fifth full-length release, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists met up with Brendan Canty (Fugazi) at Long View Farms to iron out a new set of anthems that arrive with a confident and outspoken immediacy. With Living with the Living, Ted and Co. wipe clean the slate that once held names like Weller, Strummer and Bragg and indulge some of their farthest-reaching musical ambitions. 'Army Bound' and 'La Costa Brava' evoke the melodic spirit of Andy Partridge, Ray Davies and ArgyBargy-era Squeeze, while 'Colleen' is Ted's most successful meditation on pop music yet. Along with the punk sound and energy found in Ted Leo and the Pharmacistsí previous works, Living with the Living finds soul, funk and R and B injected into the trajectory of Chris Wilsonís dexterous percussion, Dave Lernerís bedrock bass and an onslaught of combustibles from Ted's possessed fingertips. In 2005, the refrain was "roll out and make your mark, pull on your boots and march." On Living with the Living, Ted doesn't shy away from his convictions and, rather, invites the testing of his mettle. You can ask, take a look; / We're all pretty open books. / What I stand for, I mostly stand behind. / What I am, I mostly can't hide. The most indelible stamp Ted leaves on his work is an incitement to his fans to take themselves seriously, never compromise their ideals and, essentially, make a difference in theirs and the lives of those around them. Itís a message of compassion not unlike that of one of Ted's denim-clad, working-class-empowering forebears. As we've learned from those artists, vital, impassioned music is often the direct result of a dire political climate, and Living with the Living is a shining example of that truism. A voice of dissent with a firm grasp of the past and a hopeful eye to the future, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists are rebels without a pause.

Ted Leo Website

2010 - 03/12 - Cubic Zirconia - At The B-Side Liquor Lounge - Cubic Zirconia (NYC) Live / Mike Filly / Misterbradleyp - 10pm $5 21+ / $7 18 +

Cubic Zirconia (NYC) Live Tiombe Lockhart (Platinum Pied Pipers) + Nick Hook & Todd Weinstock (Men, Women, And Children) = Cubic Zirconia. Cubic Zirconia = Spaced Out Live R&B Acid House http://www.thesavantguard.org/ http://www.myspace.com/cubiczirconiamusic With Mike Filly & Misterbradleyp

2010 - 03/12 - We Were Promised Jetpacks / The Lonely Forest / Bear Hands - 9pm $10 adv / $12 dos

2010 - 03/13 - Michael Rose / Dub Tonic Kru / Carlos Jones P.L.U.S. Band - 9pm $20 adv / $23 dos

2010 - 03/14 - The Tossers / Lords Of The Highway / tba - 9pm $10 NEW DATE!

Coming from the predominantly Irish neighborhoods of South-Side Chicago, the Tossers have been expanding the boundaries of contemporary Irish music since the early '90s. The band chose their name for its derogatory meaning of "throw away." The term dates back to Shakespeare and depending on who you ask it also means commode, drunk or the bunk British currency the Irish rejected after their independence in the 1920s. Never afraid to take on new challenges at any venue for any audience the Tossers have had an eclectic past playing with acts such as the legendary Pogues, Spider Stacy (solo), the Popes, the Dropkick Murphy's, Stiff Little Fingers, Black 47 and Flogging Molly. In addition to this Irish menagerie they've also toured with hardcore favorites like Clutch and Murphy's Law; rockabilly icons Reverend Horton Heat and the Horror Pops; SKA classics like the Pie Tasters, Reel Big Fish and Catch 22; and moody rock n' rollers Murder By Death. The list goes on, as does the band.

The Tossers Website

2010 - 03/15 - Dillinger Escape Plan / Darkest Hour / IWRESTLEDABEARONCE / Animals As Leaders - 7pm $18

The Dillinger Escape Plan is a band from Morris Plains, New Jersey. The band performs a fast-tempo, technically proficient style of music popularly known as mathcore. The band recorded their second EP with Relapse Records in 1998 entitled Under the Running Board. A year later, this was followed with the album Calculating Infinity, which was met with great acclaim from both underground and mainstream press. The band were renowned in the hardcore scene for the intensity of their performances, which have at times incorporated spectacular light shows, fireworks, fire breathing, and other special effects. While the band’s lineup has changed over the years, in part due to a variety of injuries, guitarist Ben Weinman and former drummer Chris Pennie have been present in many of the lineups. After the departure of vocalist Dimitri Minakakis in 2000, the band held a nationwide search and selected Greg Puciato as the new singer. The band has since released two full length albums with Puciato on vocals: 2004’s Miss Machine and 2007’s Ire Works.

2010 - 03/17 - POS / Dessa / Astonautlis - 9pm - $12

P.O.S built his reputation as an innovator, with an unlikely punk rock past and expressive, honest content. He re-earns the accolades with every release. His records capture his charisma—they’re driving and sincere, the dark moments counterbalanced by some giggling banter with the engineer. P.O.S released his first rap record, Ipecac Neat, on Doomtree in 2003. After signing with Rhymesayers shortly after, it was quickly released and widely distributed on Rhymesayers Entertainment. The album earned P.O.S a dedicated following of critics and underground fans. Two years later they devoured his melodic sophomore release Audition, which featured collaborations with heavyweights like Slug from Atmosphere; Craig Finn of The Hold Steady; and Greg Attonito of The Bouncing Souls.

2010 - 03/18 - RJD2 / Break Science / Happy Chichester - 9pm $15 adv / $18 dos

Catapulted to notoriety, fame, and serious hip-hop credibility with 2002's Dead Ringer LP, Philadelphia based DJ and multi-instrumentalist RJD2 has enjoyed a thoroughly prolific career, following that debut album with 2004's critically acclaimed Since We Last Spoke. In essence, this is RJD2's entrance into the continuum of enigmatic songwriter/producers capable of creating a record full of rich songwriting, complex arrangements and clever production that transcends genre.

2010 - 03/19 - H2O 15 Year Anniversary Tour w/ The Swellers - 8pm $12 adv / $14 dos

2010 - 03/20 - Good Luck / The Sidekicks / Tigers Jaw - 8pm $6

2010 - 03/21 - Marc Maron / tba - Doors 7pm / Show 8pm $15

2010 - 03/23 - The Big Pink / A Place To Bury Strangers / Hot Cha Cha - 8pm $12 adv / $14 dos

The Big Pink are an electro rock duo which formed in 2007 in London, England. The group consists of Robbie Furze (vocals, guitar) and Milo Cordell (keyboards, synths, vocals). They are best known for their 2009 single “Dominos”, which peaked at #29 on the UK Singles Chart. This London duo use gritty beats, droning guitars, abstract effects and dreamy vocals to create a soundscape that is arty yet tuneful. They have previously supported TV on the Radio, Florence & The Machine, Crystal Castles and Klaxons. Milo Cordell is son of 1960s pop producer Denny and runs the Merok label, which has released cutting-edge dance acts Klaxons and Crystal Castles. Robbie Furze is a former guitarist with electro-punk singer Alec Empire and is also a founding member of the band Panic DHH.

The Big Pink Myspace

2010 - 03/24 - Circa Survive / Good Old War / The Christmas Lights- 7pm $15

Circa Survive is a progressive rock band consisting of former Saosin vocalist Anthony Green and members of the now-defunct This Day Forward, including guitarists Brendan Ekstrom and Colin Frangicetto. Compared to the sound of Green’s former group, the music of Circa Survive taps a different musical influence for Green, who cites Paul Simon, dredg, and Björk among later artists who have more influence on his vocal stylings in Circa Survive which are comparatively less aggressive, as well as his songwriting.

Circa Survive Website

2010 - 03/28 - Jedi Mind Tricks / tba - 9pm $13 adv / $15 dos

Jedi Mind Tricks (JMT) is a hip hop group with two members from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one from Camden, New Jersey. The group was founded by two high school friends rapper Vinnie Paz (Vincenzo Luvineri) and producer / DJ Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (Kevin Baldwin). In 1999 the New Jersey rapper Jus Allah (James Bostick) joined the group to record the 2nd studio album by JMT, Violent by Design but left shortly after for reasons that remain unexplained. The track “The Rebuilding” (2006) marked his unofficial return to JMT since the split, but made a full fledged return aside Vinnie Paz for the 6th studio album, A History of Violence (2008). DJ Kwestion is also a part of the group, mainly scratching choruses on the turntable. Kwestion (or Kwes) is also a part of the group Skratch Makaniks. Kwestion was a replacement for JMT’s previous tour DJ, Drew Dollars, who is no longer affiliated with the group. JMT has collaborations with both regional MCs and rap veterans, including GZA, Kool G Rap, 7L & Esoteric, Sean Price, Ras Kass, Canibus, Percee P, Killah Priest, Louis Logic, R.A. the Rugged Man, Tragedy Khadafi, and Ill Bill. The group has sold 250,000 albums in the United States and 300,000 albums worldwide, all of which were released independently.

2010 - 03/28 - At The B-Side Liquor Lounge: Dave Haslam (UK) - Former Hacienda DJ, Stone Roses Tour DJ - 9pm 21+ $5 / 18+ $10

Dave Haslam DJ-ed over four hundred and fifty times at the Hacienda, mostly Thursdays and Saturdays through the 'Madchester' years in the late 1980s, but then returned to play at the club in 1996; he was on the wheels of steel on the last night of the club on June 28th 1997. In the 1990s he hosted 'Freedom' and 'Yellow' at the Boardwalk and DJ-ed at the likes of 'Cream' in Liverpool, 'Angels' in Burnley, Home in London and round the world; including Ibiza, Chicago, Reykjavik, Paris, Lyon, Berlin, Zurich, and Detroit. His gigs with bands include shows with the Stone Roses at Spike Island and New Order at G-Mex. A two-and-a-bit year residency every Saturday at 'Chica Chica Boom' at the Rossetti in Manchester finished on July 29th 2005. Since then he has hosted a number of club nights in Manchester, including 'Another Planet' and 'Sweet Sensation', and DJ'd in Peru, Paris, London, Dublin, 'Creamfields' (August 2008) and Geneva.

2010 - 03/30 - Nebula / Quest of Fire / Non Fiction - 9pm $10

It all started when Eddie & friend Neil Blender were making weird 4 track music for skate movies like Alien Workshop’s first video. He then went on to drum for Olivelawn and later on played guitar with Fu Manchu, writing some of the songs and playing lead guitar on the first three albums. In 1997 Eddie Glass and Ruben Romano decided it was time to use the whole arsenal - Guitars, Drums, Moogs, Sitars, psychedelics and formed Nebula. Tom crossed the pond in the summer of 2004 to join the Nebula ranks. With the recent addition in early 2007 of Rob Oswald, (Karma To Burn/Mondo Generator), Nebula are re-igniting the fires started in ’97. Five albums later - one on Relapse, two on Sub Pop, a couple of EP’s on Meteor City and now the long gone Mans Ruin and a long list of records with Cargo/Sweet Nothing, Nebula continues it’s long ties with the extreme sports community, featured regularly in soundtracks to movies, TV shows like Viva la Bam and Monster Garage and on video games including Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4, Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 and NHL 2007. After appearances at the X-Games, Los Angeles’ Sunset Junction Festival and numerous tours in Europe, Australia, Japan, South America and many North American tours with the likes of Mudhoney, J Mascis & The Fog and The Hellacopters, Nebula have recently returned from a month long festival tour in Europe.

2010 - 03/31 - Little Dragon / VV Brown / DJ Mike Filly - 9pm $12

Little Dragon is a music group based in Gothenburg, Sweden. YUKIMI NAGANO on vocals together with her close high-school friends Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrick Källgren (bass), and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards), Little Dragon’s first release was a double-A-side 7” single on Off The Wall and then signed to Peacefrog (home to José and Findlay Brown), “PlayTwice” / “PlayTest”. Nagano was born and raised in Gothenburg to a Japanese father and American mother; she grew up listening to American folk because of her mother, but always had an affinity for r and b. Keyboardist Wirenstrand spent his childhood in Smaland before moving to Gothenburg, hearing a lot of Swedish folk music, later getting into electronic and synth music. Bodin grew up hearing early hip-hop and jazz. Fredrik who plays bass was influenced by experimental noise music electro house etc. Nagano and Bodin play live with José González. Bodin also drums with Peps Perrson, a Swedish blues/reggae artist.

2010 - 04/01 - Henry Rollins - The Grog Shop Presents at The Kent Stage - Henry Rollins: The Frequent Flyer Tour - 7pm Doors / 8pm Show $20 adv / $25 dos

Will be available at www.kentstage.org and the Grog Shop. In 1980, Henry Rollins was a teenager living in Arlington, Virginia, USA, just over the river from Washington, DC. He worked as the shift manager for a Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop near Georgetown University, and was a huge fan of a Southern California punk rock band called Black Flag. One day, Henry and his friend Ian MacKaye (who later formed Fugazi) drove to New York City to see Black Flag play at the Peppermint Lounge. They played later at a small club down the street, and Henry jumped on stage and took the mike for a song. A few days later, Henry was called back to New York to audition for the band. Henry spent the next six years riding in vans, sleeping in the back of trucks, getting beaten and mauled on stage, and fronting the baddest, most primal rock and roll band in the history of the world. Since 1986, Henry has enjoyed a more pleasant lifestyle and career as a singer. He is a published (and often lucid) poet. His band, Rollins Band, was a highlight of the Woodstock '94 concert. His autobiography, Get In The Van, is available in print and as a self-narrated compact disc. He has written several articles for Details, an American magazine.

Henry Rollins Website

2010 - 04/02 - The Grog Shop Presents At The Beachland Tavern - Tim Barry (from Avail) / Red Clay River / Not So Good Ol Boys - 8pm $10

Based out of Richmond, VA, singer/songwriter Tim Barry is most well known as the frontman for Avail, an aggressive hardcore outfit that's been rocking out in the underground since the early '90s. He largely grew up in Reston, a suburb just outside of D.C., fueling his teenage restlessness with 1980s punk, speed metal, and, of course, the nearby Dischord scene. Later on, he grew to appreciate his parents' folk, country, and classical collections as well. Fronting Avail since 1991, the band had released six studio albums as of 2006 and toured exhaustively all over the world, turning themselves into something of cult favorites in the process. In the mid-2000s, the politically conscious Barry began releasing solo material that abandoned the loud-hard-fast punk rules of Avail and stripped it all down to Woody Guthrie-inspired folk, the only thing tying the two projects together being Barry's gruff voice and brash delivery. Armed with just his guitar, Barry recorded some demos in 2005 on the side, simply for himself to share with his friends; he laid the tracks down with no intentions of formally releasing the material outside of just burning CD-Rs for extra gas money at shows. But one such friend was so taken by the honesty of his music that Barry was eventually convinced to release the eight songs as is under the title Laurel Street Demo 2005 on his friend's German label, Dancing in the Dark. In between touring the U.S. twice over with Avail, he took off two weeks in 2006 to lay down more material for a subsequent full-length album, using various friends and family members as backing musicians. Owing much to his blue-collar roots in Richmond -- where he spent much time riding freight trains and sitting by the James River -- the candid country-tinged folk of Rivanna Junction was issued in November 2006 via Suburban Home Records

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2010 - 04/03 - Electric 6 / The Hot Rails / Swarm Of Bats - 9pm $10 adv / $12 dos

Formerly known as the Wildbunch, the Detroit sextet Electric Six mix garage, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs like "Danger! High Voltage," which reached number two on the British charts early in 2003. Singer Dick Valentine, guitarists Rock and Roll Indian and Surge Joebot, bassist Disco, and drummer M. formed the Wildbunch in 1996 (keyboardist Tait Nucleus? joined the band later), releasing their debut single, "I Lost Control (Of My Rock & Roll)," and the eight-track An Evening with the Many Moods of the Wildbunch's Greatest Hits...Tonight! that year on Uchu Cult Records. They also released 1999's full-length on that imprint. The group switched to Flying Bomb for singles like 1997's "The Ballade of MC Sucka DJ," the Christmas single "Flying Bomb Surprise Package, Vol. 1," and 2001's "Danger! High Voltage," which became an underground hit, particularly in the U.K. The following year the group signed to XL and re-recorded "Danger! High Voltage," this time adding backing vocals from the White Stripes' Jack White. After the re-release of the single in 2003, Electric Six issued their full-length debut album, Fire, later that spring. Just a few weeks after the album's release, Disco, Rock and Roll Indian, and Surge Joebot left the band and were replaced by Frank Lloyd Bonaventure, the Colonel, and 661453Johnny Na$hinal. In 2004, the band got a new record deal with Rushmore, a British Warner Bros. imprint, and lost Bonaventure and M., whose bass and drum duties were filled by John R. Dequindre and Percussion World, respectively. The second Electric Six album, Señor Smoke, arrived in the U.K. early in 2005. It took another year for the album to be released stateside, on Metropolis Records. Switzerland arrived in fall of 2006 and I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master followed in October of 2007. Early in 2008, Valentine embarked on his American Troubadour solo tour, which included stops in Hamtramck, MI, and Portland, OR; that spring, Electric Six recorded their fifth album, Flashy, in the Colonel's studio. Metropolis released Flashy that fall.

2010 - 04/04 - Love Is All / Cloud Nothings - 9pm $8 adv / $10 dos

The Swedish band Love Is All is comprised of Josephine Olausson (vocals, keyboard), Johan Lindwall (bass), Markus Görsch (drums), Fredrik Eriksson (saxophone), and Nicholaus Sparding (guitar/vocals). Olausson, Sparding, and Görsch had previously been members of Girlfriendo. The trio promptly regrouped after that band's demise and added Lindwall, who had recorded in a side project with Olausson and Sparding called Cat Skills. They finally added the missing piece with saxophone player Fredrik Eriksson. While earning many rave reviews from the blogging community for their blend of art punk and indie rock, the band released several singles, one of which made single of the week in NME. The singles were collected on the debut LP Nine Times That Same Song, released by New York-based What's Your Rupture? in late 2005. After much touring through 2006 and 2007, Eriksson left the band and Love Is All continued on as a quartet. A Hundred Things That Keep Me Up at Night and the remix album Love Is All Mixed Up arrived in 2008, along with Eriksson's replacement Åke Strömer (saxophone, keyboards).

2010 - 04/06 - Japandroids / Avi Buffalo / Two Hand Fools - 9pm $10

Japandroids are an indie garage rock duo from Vancouver comprised of Brian King (guitar) and David Prowse (drums), who share singing duties. Founded in 2006, the band self-released a pair of five-track EPs, All Lies (2007) and Lullaby Death Jams (2008), before making its full-length album debut with Post-Nothing (2009) on the Canadian label Unfamiliar Records. Though Japandroids were more or less unknown at the time of their album debut, Post-Nothing got a big boost from the tastemaking website Pitchfork, which championed the album as one of its "Best New Music" selections.

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2010 - 04/07 - Grog Shop Presents at House of Blues:Bassnectar / Major Lazer - 8pm $20 adv / $23 dos

Tickets on sale here at the Grog Shop w/ no fees! On sale Friday 1/15! -What started back in the mid nineties as an experiment fusing youth culture and social action has turned into a multi-faceted, multi-faced creature called Bassnectar. It is the brainchild of Lorin Ashton, and it exists as an open-sourced musical project that is as diverse as it is heavy, as raw as it is meticulous, and as fierce as it is imaginary. Bassnectar combines sound and force with weight while spanning the spectrum of sonic style, covering every genre imaginable, and smashing it all into a collision of wobbling, perverted basslines, hypnotic hide-and-seek adventures, and pretty much anything that strikes his fancy. He calls the end product “omnitempo maximalism,” which basically means no rules, no limitations, and no hesitation in fusing the familiar with the strange or the classic with the cutting edge. Whether remixing, collaborating, writing, DJing, performing live or working on constant social networking, Bassnectar’s music is the lure and social impact is the very sincere intention. According to Ashton, “we are so blessed, and so deeply fortunate to be alive and awake right now…it’s a basic truth, but it’s very powerful. I think privilege confers responsibility, and Bassnectar is a reflection of that opportunity to give back; the motion of my cells bouncing back at the world.”

2010 - 04/07 - Weedeater / Black Tusk / Gates Of Slumber / Struck By Lightning - 9pm $10

2010 - 04/08 - Fanfarlo / tba - 8pm $12 adv / $14 dos

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2010 - 04/10 - The Fall of Troy / Envy On The Coast w/ Special Guests Twin Atlantic - 6pm $12 adv / $14 dos

Post-hardcore trio the Fall of Troy formed in Mukilteo, WA, in 2002. Singer/guitarist Thomas Erak, singer/bassist Tim Ward, and drummer Andrew Forsman previously collaborated in 30 Years War, a screamo outfit they formed with fellow high school classmate Mike Munro on guitar. After a pair of self-released 2002 EPs, Martyrs Among the Casualties and Live at the Paradox, Munro left the group, citing day-job commitments, and the remaining trio continued as the Fall of Troy, selecting the name as before by randomly opening the pages of a history textbook. Their self-titled debut LP followed on Lujo Records in late 2003. At the time of recording, all three members were still under the age of 17, and apart from a handful of Pacific Northwest dates and a brief California tour, their live schedule was limited until the following year, when they self-released an EP, Ghostship. In mid-2005 the Fall of Troy issued Doppelgänger, their first effort for new label Equal Vision Records. During their April 30, 2006, gig at the Columbus, OH, venue The Basement, an angry Erak announced, "This is the last song the Fall of Troy will ever play together," but the trio later scotched rumors of their imminent breakup via their official website and entered the studio that December with producer Matt Bayles (Isis, Botch) to record new material. They emerged with the album Manipulator, which surfaced on record shelves in early May 2007, as spring was spent supporting the Deftones on nationwide dates.

2010 - 04/11 - NOMO / tba - 9pm $8 adv / $10 dos

NOMO were conceived in 2003 when University of Michigan jazz studies graduate and multi-instrumentalist (tenor sax, keyboards, electric mbiri) Elliot Bergman and some of his acquaintances began jamming at an Ann Arbor, MI, house where many of them lived. This led to the eventual formation of the group, which recorded its self-titled EP on Ypsilanti Records that same year, after producer Warn Defever dared Bergman to bring as many people as he could to the studio. In 2004 the band (which, with album and live appearance combined, has had over 60 contributors) issued a full-length record of the same name. NOMO’s mix of African beats, avant-garde jazz, and funk caught the attention of California’s Ubiquity Records, who soon signed them. With a core lineup that included Bergman, Erik Hall (guitar, Nu-Tone cymbals), Jamie Register (bass, vocals), Dan Piccolo (drums), Dan Bennett (baritone sax), Justin Walter (trumpet), Olman Piedra (congas, cajon, shekere), and Ingrid Racine (trumpet), NOMO released New Tones in 2006 and Ghost Rock in 2008.

2010 - 04/13 - Grog Shop Presents At Beachland Ballroom: The Hold Steady / The Oranges Band - 8pm $18 adv / $20 dos

The Hold Steady is a Brooklyn-based rock band formed by vocalist/guitarist Craig Finn (ex-Lifter Puller) in 2004. Wanting to capture the sound of bands such as The Replacements and The Grifters, he recruited guitarist Tad Kubler (also ex-Lifter Puller), drummer Judd Counsell, and bassist Galen Polivka. In 2005 the band grew to include Franz Nicolay (of The World/Inferno Friendship Society) on keyboards and Bobby Drake took over on drums following Counsell’s departure. The band recently released their fourth album, Stay Positive, recorded again with Boys And Girls In America producer John Agnello. Recording mostly live, the band released its debut, Almost Killed Me, on French Kiss Records in March 2004 and Separation Sunday a year later. In April 2006 the band signed to Vagrant Records and entered the studio on the 1st of May to begin work on their third record, Boys And Girls In America. Released in October, it was one of the most critically acclaimed records of 2006 and reached a much larger audience than its predecessors. On July 15, 2008, Stay Positive was released. It debuted at #30 on the Billboard 200. It debuted on the UK Album Chart at #15 on July 20, the third-highest new entry. It ranked #1 on the UK Indie Chart. The album was named the best of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. The song “Constructive Summer” was number 56 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.

2010 - 04/15 - Pissed Jeans / This Moment In Black History / tba - 9pm $7

As a working-class foursome from Allentown, PA (the town that inspired the Billy Joel song "Allentown"), Pissed Jeans vent their frustrations through a bludgeoning midtempo grunge punk sound focused on sexual depression and factory-town hopelessness, all doused in a heavy coat of sarcasm and apathy. On a sweltering August night in 2003, the Gatecrashers were driving between Los Angeles and San Francisco while rocking out to World Wrestling Federation: The Music, Vol. 2. During the peak of the sweaty singalong they realized they were onto something special and decided it would be fun to form a side project where they sang songs in the vein of the Whittingtons' "I'm Young, Dumb and Full of Cum," the idea being that everyone would swap instruments and create music for meatheads. Enveloped by the discomforting mood provided by the car's broken air conditioner, they reasoned that the vibe of the music should be like the oppressive heat inside the vehicle -- overwhelming and designed to drain the listener's energy. With influences ranging from early-'80s punk to '90s hardcore, the members of the Gatecrashers (Matt Korvette, Bradley Fry, Dave Rosenstrauss, and Tim) started penning songs for a demo under the name Unrequited Hard-On. Soon after, they changed their name to Pissed Jeans and recorded a second demo with the addition of a new song, "Night Minutes." After concocting a new batch of woeful anti-authoritative material, they released a 7" titled Throbbing Organ and their first LP, Shallow, on Parts Unknown. Shallow branched off of the sounds of Flipper and Stick Men with Rayguns into a more sludgy and droning territory. After the departure of drummer Tim, they recruited Sean McGuinness to take over, and the band signed to the iconic grunge label Sub Pop Records. Despite their new status, the bandmembers kept their day jobs. Guitarist Fry continued working in account management, bassist Rosenstrauss converted cars to run on biodiesel, and frontman Korvette worked as a claims adjuster for an insurance company. The blue-collar way of life fueled the lyrical fire for a 7" released on June 6, 2006, called I Don't Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear, an angry ditty about working in a restaurant and despising the patrons. The following year, Pissed Jeans released their second full-length, the heavy plodding Hope for Men for Subpop, while remaining in their hometown. After touring and making a video for "I've Got You Ice Cream" the group returned with King of Jeans in 2009.

2010 - 04/17 - Th' Ledgendary Shackshakers / tba - 9pm $12

2010 - 04/18 - Ralph's World - 3pm $15 adv / $18 dos or Family 4 Pack -$50

2010 - 04/20 - The Appleseed Cast / Dreamed - 9pm $8 adv / $10 dos

Lawrence, KS-based emo quartet Appleseed Cast were originally comprised of singer/guitarist Christopher Crisci, guitarist Aaron Pillar, bassist Jason Wickersheim, and drummer Louie Ruiz. Signing to Deep Elm, the group made its debut on the 1998 label sampler Records for the Working Class, releasing the full-length The End of the Ring Wars later that same year. In 1999 Appleseed Cast (now with new drummer Josh Baruth) released a new single, "Skatter Ik Ignito," as well as a split EP with labelmates Planes Mistaken for Stars and Race Car Riot; Mare Vitalis followed in early 2000, heavily showcasing Baruth's complicated beats and the band's overall dense, atmospheric sound. Despite the hints of a new direction, the album couldn't have prepared fans for the two Low Level Owl albums released in 2001. Complex, delicate, and highly experimental, these two records took a cue from Radiohead's Kid A and sent the band careening into space rock and electronica with only traces of emo poking through. The records weren't nearly as commercially accepted, but their overall bravery showed that the band was prepared to make stylistic leaps. The next year, Lost Songs brought four unreleased tracks from 1999 and five new songs together onto one album. Overdubbing new elements over the older songs, Appleseed Cast blended the tense emo of their early work and the broad experimentation of their new material. The band returned in 2003 with Two Conversations (Tiger Style), which continued to explore atmospheric texture in the framework of traditional rock & roll. An extensive tour followed the LP's release. The band next went on a brief hiatus following Tiger Style's demise, but soon returned with renewed energy and a new label. Peregrine appeared in March 2006 on Militia Group before hitting the road with dates on both coasts. By this time, the band consisted of founding members Crisci and Pillar, along with bassist Marcus Young and drummer Nathan Richardson (ex-the Casket Lottery).

2010 - 04/24 - Aloha / Pomegrantes / The Buried Wires - 9pm $10

Aloha follows the acclaimed LP Some Echoes (2006) and acoustic EP Light Works (2007) with a powerful record that shows the band unbound by past influences and boldly stepping out of the shadows. Written initially through a private band blog, Home Acres is a project three years in the making. Home Acres pushes the tempos and dials up the guitars, with the band's slow-burn intensity sometimes overflowing into huge moments. But even as the energy surges, Aloha casts an otherworldly glow, serving up ambience and attack with equal measure. Album opener "Building a Fire" pairs gritty, persistent bass and drums with celestial, elusive melodies. An explosion of drums and a Peter Hook-high bass riff leads "Moonless March" into a minor-key catharsis. As the album hits its head-nodding, toe-tapping stride, you begin to realize that there's darkness lurking under Tony Cavallario's luminous melodies. In "White Wind," ethereal harmonies stoke the flames as an era burns to the ground. Everywhere things seem to be slipping away, fading from view, going in and out of focus. Fuzzed-out marimbas, reverb-soaked organs and floating strings decorate wistful, chiming guitar chords while Cale Parks pounds away, powering the proceedings from behind the kit. Lyrically, Home Acres (named for a quaint old suburb of Rochester, NY) tries to sort through the wreckage of the Great Lakes region and a way of life. Left abandoned "waiting for a getaway car that never came" in the record's arena-rock-by-way-of-Silver Apples closer "Ruins," we’re left to think that maybe we ought to have dreamt bigger and fought the urge to disengage. A suggestion that Aloha has taken to heart for its biggest, brightest record to date.

2010 - 04/27 - Apples In Stereo / Generationals / Laminated Cat - 9pm $12

The Apples in Stereo is an indie pop band, from Denver, Colorado, co-originators of the innovative Elephant 6 Collective, a group of bands that initially included Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control but also includes Elf Power, The Minders and Beulah. The Apples in Stereo currently consist of Eric Allen (bass), John Hill (rhythm guitar), John Ferguson, Bill Doss and their new drummer as of 2006, John Dufilho, while lead singer/guitarist Robert Schneider writes the most of the band’s music and lyrics. Their debut release was 1995’s Fun Trick Noisemaker (with Jim McIntyre on bass). Longtime drummer Hilarie Sydney left the band in 2006, performing her last show at the Athens Popfestival. Robert Schneider has side projects: Marbles, Ulysses, Thee American Revolution and a new kids music project under the name Robbert Bobbert & The Bubble Machine. He does a lot of commercial composition and film score work. John Hill also plays guitar in Dressy Bessy. One of their most popular songs, “Signal In The Sky,” was created and featured in episode 46 of The Powerpuff Girls. They are best known for their bright, catchy lyrics and 60s pop/rock sound that often provokes comparisons to The Beatles, ELO and The Beach Boys.

2010 - 04/29 - Captured! By Robots / tba - 9pm $10 adv / $12 dos

Captured! by Robots is a touring musical comedy troupe with only one human member. It is part-concert and part-performance act, made up of three robots, two stuffed apes, three “headless hornsmen” playing backup brass, and their human, “JBOT”. The group is comprised of JBOT, the human “slave” to the robots (whose intestines hang from his abdomen); DRMBOT 0110, a severed doll’s head that plays the drums; GTRBOT666, who plays bass and guitar; AUTOMATOM, the assistant drummer created by robots, The Ape Which Hath No Name who plays tambourine halo; The Son of the Ape Which Hath No Name , who plays Monkey Cymbals; and the Headless Hornsmen, a full three-piece horn section. The fictional C!BR backstory claims that the human, in an attempt to make his own band, created the robots. Instead of following him, they revolted, pulled out his intestines and eyes, and now force him to travel the world with them, performing music and making him contemplate the inferiority of the human race. The human, JBOT, is portrayed by actor/musician Jay Vance, a former bassist for ska bands Blue Meanies and Skankin’ Pickle. He most notable for having played on the Blue Meanies’ album “Kiss Your Ass Goodbye.”

2010 - 04/30 - Yeasayer / Sleigh Bells - 9pm $12 adv / $14 dos

Since the release of their critically acclaimed 2007 debut All Hour Cymbals, Yeasayer has been around the world and back again. While their first record was conceived in total artistic isolation, constant touring forced Yeasayer to finally engage with their contemporaries. Inspired by musicians hell-bent on sonic experimentation as well as those more comfortable in a pop context, Yeasayer find their domain spanning across the musical spectrum. Studied, road worn, and eager to begin phase two, Yeasayer retreated to upstate New York to begin work on their new album titled ODD BLOOD.

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2010 - 05/02 - Deadbolt / tba - 9pm $12 adv / $14 dos

2010 - 05/05 - Frightened Rabbit / tba - 8pm $13 adv / $15 dos

2010 - 05/07 - Converge / Black Breath / Lewd Acts - 7pm $12 adv / $14 dos

2010 - 05/15 - Doug Stanhope / tba - 8pm $20

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2010 - 05/31 - Grog Shop Presents At Beachland Ballroom: Brian Jonestown Massacre - 8pm $18 adv / $20 dos

On Sale Friday 1/29 @ 10pm! Named in tribute to the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist and his influence in introducing Eastern culture and music into the world of Western rock & roll, the Brian Jonestown Massacre formed in San Francisco, CA, in 1990. Some 40 different members passed through the group's ranks over the next half-decade, but their focal point always remained singer/guitarist Anton Newcombe, who along with bassist Matt Hollywood, guitarist Dean Taylor, organist Mara Regal, accordionist Dawn Thomas, drummer Brian Glaze, and "Spokesman for the Revolution" Joel Gion, recorded the Massacre's 1995 shoegazer-influenced debut LP, Methodrone. A collection of early recordings, Spacegirl and Other Favorites, followed on the band's own Tangible label in early 1996, and was the first of four Brian Jonestown Massacre LPs to appear that year; next up was the brilliant Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request, a full-blown homage to the Stones' glorious psychedelic-era excesses. Recorded live in the studio, the grittier Take It from the Man! found the band exploring even broader territory. Finally, the year ended with the release of Thank God for Mental Illness, a showcase for strong country and blues leanings. In 1997, the BJM -- now consisting of Newcombe, Hollywood, Gion, Taylor, guitarists Jeff Davies and Peter Hayes, and drummer Brad Artley -- resurfaced with Give It Back! After signing to TVT, they released Strung Out in Heaven the following year, but the band and Newcombe's own eccentricities kept them from staying on the label. After a few scattered EPs, they resurfaced in 2001 with Bravery Repetition and Noise, distributed by Bomp. And This Is Our Music followed in 2003. Despite a continued lack of major distribution, the Brian Jonestown Massacre earned the largest profile of their career in 2004, when the band became the unlikely focus of an award-winning documentary, DIG!, which charted the trials of Newcombe and those of his rival, Courtney Taylor, leader of the Dandy Warhols. The We Are the Radio EP followed in August 2005. Three years later, the band reinvented itself with My Bloody Underground, featuring yet another lineup and a hint of shoegaze and noise pop. Who Killed Sgt Pepper? followed shortly after, being made available in streaming format at the end of 2009 and receiving an official release on January 1st, 2010.

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