Funayurei, Cloudmaker, See Ray Hardly
2021-10-15 21:30 - 23:59 UTC | The Brass Rail, 1121 Broadway, Fort Wayne, IN, 46802, United States
$7.00 must be 21

Dormant, Doktra, Incas
2021-10-16 21:45
$7, must be 21

Church Girls, Jonah Leatherman
2021-10-17 20:45
$7, poster by Jaded Andrews

Gymshorts, Best Sleep
2021-10-19 21:00 - 23:55
poster by Jaded Andrews

The Felice Brothers with Al Olender
2021-10-21 20:00 - 21:30
An evening of music with The Felice Brothers
A folk-Americana-rock-country band with deep roots in varied genres, The Felice Brothers are what Rolling Stone lauds as “musician’s musicians” and poets. Indeed, Ian has proven his pedigree as a poet with the publication of his limited-edition collection of poetry Hotel Swampland
$15 no-fee tickets available now
must be 21 or older

poster by Matt Kelley

A Tribute to Elliott Smith
2021-10-22 22:00

Mobile Deathcamp, Burial Party, Squirrel Cage
2021-10-23 22:00
$7.00, must be 21

Sungate, Salvadore Ross, & The Be Colony
2021-10-29 22:00
$7.00 cover

Ween on Halloween
2021-10-30 21:30 - 23:30

Halloween Photoshoot
2021-10-31 20:00 - 23:30

80's Night with Unlikely Alibi
2021-11-05 22:00 - 23:59

The Lurking Corpses - 20th Anniversary Show with Wenches, Filth & Majesty, Burial Party
2021-11-06 21:30

Brett Newski, Middle Names
2021-11-12 22:00 - 23:59

Uncle Muscle, The New Normal
2021-11-13 21:45 - 23:59
$7 cover, must be 21 to enter.

Poster by Jaded Andrews

Ike Reilly and The Asssassination
2021-11-19 21:00 - 23:59
$13.00 no-fee tickets on sale now
Breaking new ground within the exploration of pure-styled rock & roll, Ike Reilly unveils an unusual ability as a songwriter, venturing to assault the ruggedness of hard rock tones and forwarding crude and fierce lyrics within his songs. Born in the little town of Libertyville, IL, Reilly has followed a trail separate from most of today’s singer/songwriters — unlike other such artists, Reilly prefers the harshness of intrepid rocking riffs, sustained by ingenious melodies and exalting words. A wave of enthusiasm within the indie music scene was motivated by his debut album, Salesmen & Racists, which hit record stores in 2001. Nevertheless, his path within the music world began years before in the late ’80s, while he was still in Libertyville.
During that time, Reilly played with the Drovers, a Celtic rock band active in Chicago’s club scene. After the Drovers, he moved on and formed the Eisenhowers, by then enjoying reasonable success on the local club circuit. Following the Eisenhowers, Reilly assembled Community 9, dedicating most of the band’s activity to classic themes of punk rock.

At the beginning of the ’90s, Reilly decided to retire. During the years that followed, the musician worked on all kinds of jobs, from hotel doorman to cemetery worker, only to return to music almost nine years later. Reilly’s chance showed up when Mike Simpson of the Dust Brothers listened to a demo tape containing some of his work. A few months later, Reilly signed a contract with Republic Records, and Salesmen & Racists, his successful debut album, hit record stores in July 2001, with recording credits including Reilly himself, Ed Tinley, and Mickey Petralia, previously responsible for the work of artists like Beck, Eels, and Luscious Jackson. Released in 2004, Sparkle in the Finish traded in the surrealist hip-hop of Salesmen & Racists for pure rock & roll swagger, while 2005’s Junkie Faithful adopted a dry-humored, Nick Lowe/Chuck Prophet-inspired style of pop/rock. The soulful, blues-tinged We Belong to the Staggering Evening arrived in 2007, followed in 2008 by the two-disc set of odd and ends Poison the Hit Parade and the Dylan-esque Hard Luck Stories in 2009. ~ Mario Mesquita Borges

Mista, Brandon S. Olvera, Jaydid, Jagua, Los Galaxies
2021-11-20 22:00
$10 admission, must be 21

The Beat Creeps (with Nic Roulette), Tri-State Killing Spree, Uncle Music
2021-11-21 20:00 - 21:00
$7

Piques, Los Lemons, Jonah Leatherman
2021-11-24 22:00

Open at 9PM Thanksgiving
2021-11-25 21:00

Namen Namen, Overlook, Jonah Leatherman
2021-11-26 21:45 - 23:59
$7 cover, must be 21

Strange Ranger, Florets
2021-11-27 21:30 - 23:59
On their third full-length ​Remembering The Rockets ​(out 7/26 via Tiny Engines)​, Strange Ranger continue to excel at translating the way intimacy can feel so overwhelmingly gigantic. With a dozen releases across their 10 years as a band, the Philly-via-Portland-via-Montana group, currently featuring Isaac Eiger (guitars, vocals), Fred Nixon (bass, piano, vocals), Nathan Tucker (drums), and Fiona Woodman (vocals), have traversed genres, moods, and textures while maintaining one important throughline: an exploration of closeness.
“Trying to close the distance between yourself and another person and wondering how much can really be done about that gap,” Eiger says. “​Sometimes you don’t want to be close with others but you feel guilty, and sometimes you do but you can’t.”
Their 2016 double-LP ​Rot Forever​ (which they released under the name Sioux Falls)​ ​was a 72-minute freakout that paired Built To Spill grandiosity with early Modest Mouse intensity. Many of the songs were six-minute treks that pushed guitar/bass/drum indie-rock to its breaking point, but the band was singing about crawling into bed and running back a lifetime’s worth of minor interactions.
After putting that into the world, Eiger and Nixon (the primary songwriters) felt they had gotten a rip-roaring rock record out of their systems, so they hung up their distortion pedals and traded caustic yelps for Alex G-esque croons on 2017’s ​Daymoon​ (Tiny Engines). It was a synth-adorned, insular bedroom-pop record that floated rather than soared, and they opted for lyrical impressionism over the hyper-specific outbursts of ​Rot Forever​.
On both albums, Eiger’s writing style reads like a loose assembly of quotes from conversations he’s had with others (some trivial, some extremely confessional) spliced with his own, private introspections. He asks a lot of questions in his music, often with no traditional context or exposition, which forces the listener to fill in the blanks between the visual details (“I thought you talked to the reporter / she had a polka dot recorder”) and the dialogue (“how was work, are you okay? / how’s your mom, is she the same?”) to either understand his story, or project your own encounters onto his.
Eiger, who writes the bulk of Strange Ranger’s lyrics, is a modern master of conveying the anxiety and uncertainty of growing older through a mixture of childhood nostalgia and interpersonal tidbits. There’s plenty of that on ​Remembering The Rockets​, but after all of these years of singing about his own coming-of-age story, the album approaches the quandary of whether he’ll ever be able to impart that process—through which he’s reaped so much artistic joy and curiosity—onto someone else.
“​So much suffering and horror is coming if we don’t seriously restructure our entire society, and I just really hope we get it together. I want to be a dad more than basically anything, and it’s unclear if that’d be an OK decision to make,” he says.
For a topic as severe as ecological collapse affecting his own parental aspirations—as well as other melancholy ruminations on loneliness, the passing of time, and the complications of emotional intimacy—Strange Ranger still ended up making the lushest, smoothest, and most pleasingly hypnotic album of their careers.
“​After making ​Daymoon,​ I think Isaac and myself were both feeling pretty creatively exhausted with the rock band format,” Nixon says. “We wanted the feel of the next record to put you in a trance.”
Opener “Leona” is a celestial pop song with a springy bassline and a shimmering, magical synth effect that dusts over its punchy outro groove. “Nothing Else To Think About” is a bobbing sunset soundtrack with a drum sample that puffs and clacks behind its ASMR-inducing bassline. For “Beneath The Lights,” Eiger pulls out the drawly, prickly croon of a ​Daymoon ​ballad like “Most Perfect Gold of the Century” and then contorts it with warbling, Justin Vernon-esque auto-tune. Ambient interludes like “athens, ga” and “‘02” are void of vocals and “traditional” rock elements altogether.
“It was definitely a learning curve figuring out how to do some of the weirder stuff,” Eiger says. “We’ve been using keyboards for a while now, but before we made this record we got this old Japanese synthesizer [Korg M1] which has like a trillion sounds. So that was a totally different experience.”
“We really didn’t know what we were doing and probably stumbled our way into a bunch of sounds we wouldn’t be able to recreate if we tried,” Nixon adds.
Portland, OR producer Dylan M. Howe was an essential contributor in this regard. Most of the samples and electronic beats were designed with Howe’s assistance, and he helped the band navigate the archaic software of the Korg M1—which was used for nearly every synth sound on the album. For many of the songs, such as “Message To You”, which Fiona Woodman sings the entirety of, the only component the band had going into their home studio was the drum loop. From there, they experimented with different arrangements and benefitted from Nathan Tucker’s versatile drumming abilities to build that song, and many others, outward.
Although Eiger taps The Cure, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Yves Tumor as integral influences, the main inspiration behind their foray into trip-hop drum loops and unearthly reverb was the 1996 song “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand.” It’s a one-hit wonder from the alt-rock group Primitive Radio Gods that Eiger first heard in the van a few years back, and he found it mesmerizingly beautiful.
“​I think we’ve always been attracted to music that you can nod your head to, and this time around I think we really tried to emphasize that,” Eiger says.
Tracks like “Pete’s Hill,” “Planes in Front of the Sun” and “Leona” lock into a similar breed of entrancing, rhythmic bliss. And they hit with maximum impact every time because they’re tastefully offset by a cheeky alt-country burner like “Ranch Style Home,” or a Lemonheads- esque cruiser like “Sunday.” But like all Strange Ranger albums, the band saved the most emotionally devastating songs for its finale.
“Living Free” and “Cold Hands Warm Heart” play like they’re in conversation with one another. The former is a synth-soaked reckoning with age (“all the years as blurry cars and trees / screaming right past me”) and purpose (“awkward angels in the snow / what if I just want a family?”). The latter is a sparse, two-and-a-half-minute piano ballad where Eiger acknowledges tepid hope as the only way forward. “Flickers of a world to come / here but lovelier than this one / see it rippling in the river,” he sings with a shaky intonation.
“​The image of a rocket in the sky just feels very beautiful to me and full of possibility,” Eiger says. “If you’re someone who wants to have kids and you decide not to, that kinda feels like folding and just saying, “yeah everything is fucked, there is no future.” And why even live at that point? It sucks that ‘hope’ has—for good reason—become this cheesy, lame idea. But if you’ve got no hope, you’re completely fucked in a situation like this one.”

Lip Synch Contest/ Silent Auction
2021-11-28 20:00

Necromoon, See Ray Hardly, CloudMaker
2021-12-03 21:30

Dani House, Florets, Jess Thrower
2021-12-04 21:45

Rockabilly Night! Anthony Castagna Trio, Kenny Taylor Trio
2021-12-09 20:30

Swell Time, Debutants, Florets
2021-12-10 21:45 - 23:59

Private Education, Middle Names, Antlerhead
2021-12-11 21:45

Mechanical Canine with Uncle Muscle
2021-12-14 21:00 - 23:59

Heavy Step, The Operators
2021-12-17 21:45 - 23:59

Namen Namen, Overlook, Necromoon
2021-12-18 21:45 - 23:59

Bad Santa Photoshoot
2021-12-21 20:00 - 23:30
FREE

New Years Eve - NO COVER PARTY
2021-12-31 21:30
must be 21

Retrovertigo, Disappear. Tijuana Tsunamis
2022-01-07 20:00 - 23:59
Retrovertigo
Disappear.
Tijuana Tsunamis
doors at 8PM/$7 cover, must be 21

2RQ, J Tubbs, Tesla Chapman, Tony Patagonia, DJ Too Quick
2022-01-14 21:30

Craig Brown Band, Uncle Muscle, Squirrel Cage
2022-01-22 21:45 - 23:59
Detroit’s CRAIG BROWN BAND returns to The Brass Rail with friends UNCLE MUSCLE and SQUIRREL CAGE.
$10 cover, must be 21.
poster by Jaded Andrews
Within walking distance of Hampton Inn & Suites Fort Wayne Downtown, Hilton Fort Wayne at The Grand Wayne Convention Center. Courtyard by Marriott Fort Wayne Downtown at Grand Wayne Center, The Bradley. Check out Visit Fort Wayne for more information.

Swell Time, Namby Pamby
2022-01-28 21:45

See Ray Hardly, Swell Time, Jared Andrews
2022-02-04 21:45 - 23:59

Florets, Best Sleep, Shade
2022-02-11 21:30 - 23:59
Live original rock music. $7 cover, must be 21

Within walking distance of Hampton Inn & Suites Fort Wayne Downtown, Hilton Fort Wayne at The Grand Wayne Convention Center. Courtyard by Marriott Fort Wayne Downtown at Grand Wayne Center, The Bradley. Check out Visit Fort Wayne for more information.

Los Galaxy, Man Of The Flood, Atticus Sorrel
2022-02-12 21:30

Pete Dio And The Old & Dirty, Austin Stirling
2022-02-18 21:30 - 23:59

!FUA!, Private Education, Primary School
2022-02-19 21:00

Bev Rage and The Drinks, Necromoon, Candy Ambulance
2022-02-25 21:30 - 21:45

Cloudmaker, March On Comrade, Slug Love
2022-02-26 21:30

Swell Time, Necromoon, See Ray Hardly, Lubs DJ Set
2022-03-04 21:30 - 23:30

Deal's Gone Slack with Stop the Presses
2022-03-05 20:00 - 23:59
Deal’s Gone Slack with Stop the Presses
It is a band that includes some of the guys from Deals Gone Bad, The Three Blue Teardrops(psychobilly, rockabilly), and The Slackers(yours truly, Glen from The Slackers). We play all the classics from Chicago’s legendary Deals Gone Bad along with a bunch of Slackers songs penned by me(big tunes and overlooked gems). We also got some killer new tunes and a few covers to spice it up.
With Jump Up Records recording artists Stop the Presses, ska/reggae with a retro-pop and new-wave persuasion from Brooklyn, NY.
$8.00 no-fee, advance on sale now
$10 day of show
Must be 21

The Meat Flowers, The Namby Pamby, Squirrel Cage
2022-03-11 21:30 - 23:59
The Meat Flowers
The Namby Pamby
Squirrel Cage
$7.00

poster by Jaded Andrews

The Piques, Starslinger, Jonah Leatherman
2022-03-12 21:45
$7.00 cover, must be 21 to enter. Poster by Jaded Andrews

MIDDLE NAMES | ANTLERHEAD | MARCH ON, COMRADE
2022-03-18 21:00 - 21:30

CloudMaker, Metavari, Bliss Nova
2022-03-19 21:30

Necromoon, Leones, Namby Pamby
2022-03-24 20:30 - 23:59

Lich King, Stonecutters, Toxic Ruin
2022-03-25 21:00
LICH KING
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4rlxS0LeVnHz6z1zp2iJbz?si=wbAZGTZMS8Knn-Q8WSwTLA
Facebook: facebook.com/LichKingMetal
Instagram: instagram.com/lichkingmetal
STONECUTTERS
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/71y6cbmaooWTvfbqjOSULC?si=ixL1uidkSsaIj2bq7mLoSA
Facebook: facebook.com/stonecuttersky
Instagram: instagram.com/stonecuttersband
TOXIC RUIN
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7vCHf8OT1t5d2HKDMV4mCa?si=LF_ivNGBSz-U2FsLYWXlfA
Facebook: facebook.com/toxicruin.metal
Instagram: instagram.com/toxicruin

Ross Hollow, !FUA!, Private Education
2022-03-26 21:30
$7 cover

Incas, Namen Namen, Toeheads
2022-04-01 21:30

Jonah Leatherman, The Head
2022-04-07 20:30 - 21:30

Mobile Death Camp, Squirrel Cage, Damage
2022-04-08 21:30

Savage Master, Midas, Electric Huldra
2022-04-09 21:30 - 23:59
SAVAGE MASTER
https://savagemasterofficial.bandcamp.com
MIDAS
https://midasbanddetroit.bandcamp.com
ELECTRIC HULDRA
https://electrichuldra.bandcamp.com/album/electric-huldra

$7 cover

Country Westerns (nashville), Craig Brown Band (detroit)
2022-04-14 20:00
$10.00 no-fee tickets on sale now
Must be 21 to enter
Nashville rockers Country Westerns are excited to announce their self-titled debut album, to be released on May 1, 2020 via Fat Possum Records. American Songwriter [LINK] broke the news of the signing and shared new track “Gentle Soul,” calling it “[QUOTE].” Hear “Gentle Soul” HERE, and pre-order the album HERE.
The band has also announced a slate of performances spanning from February to May of this year, which includes stops in Nashville, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and more. See below for the full itinerary of upcoming dates.
Even if you don’t know their names, you likely know their work. Drummer Brian Kotzur starred in Harmony Korine’s film Trash Humpers and was a member of Silver Jews. Singer, guitarist, and songwriter Joseph Plunket led Brooklyn legends The Weight, with a bass-playing side-hustle for Atlanta’s Gentleman Jesse. Plunket relocated to Nashville ten years ago and opened a bar. It was there, in a town teeming with solo artists and hired guns, that the two bonded over their shared desire to be in an actual band.
In 2016, Plunket and Kotzur spent a year in Kotzur’s garage writing riffs and tracking demos. During those hazy, late nights they began to hone their sound. Eventually, with a handful of songs and the encouragement of their friends, they began their quest for the third ‘Country Western’. After some time playing with different lineups—early recordings feature Reece Lazarus from Bully—their friend Sabrina Rush, another rock-n-roller for life, joined them on bass. Rush plays violin and is a member of the Louisville band State Champion, but had never played bass. The instrument came naturally to her and her harmonic bass lines were a perfect fit.
The first recordings with the complete lineup were made in Nashville with engineer Andrija Tokic, but the band was soon convinced to leave Nashville to record a couple of songs with Country Westerns enthusiast Matt Sweeney. With Sweeney as the band’s producer they set out for New York and did their first session at Brooklyn’s Strange Weather Studios, with Daniel Schlett. The Strange Weather recordings piqued the interest of indie record label Fat Possum. The band returned to Strange Weather to finish the record and, shortly afterward, signed a deal with Fat Possum Records.
On their debut album, Plunket delivers his words with a cool, raspy bravado and a hint of twang, summoning the spirits of the cities in which the tracks were made. The lyrics bend towards poetry and punk rock sneer in equal measure and lines such as “Maybe I ain’t smart, but I ain’t lying” set the tone for the entire album. The songs are full of insistent guitar riffs played on an electric twelve-string, the jangle either mitigating the edge or pushing it further.
Kotzur and Rush form a tight-knit rhythm section, alternately weaving around and syncing up with one another. They build the foundations of the songs with dynamic tempo, creating a full sound with Plunket—one that is bigger than you might expect for a three-piece.
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Reality Something, The Meat Flowers, Necromoon
2022-04-15 21:30 - 21:45

See Ray Hardly, Jared Andrews, Roman New Time
2022-04-16 21:30

Necromoon, The Namby Pamby, Leones
2022-04-21 20:30
$7 must be 21

Snakehandler Church, Hans Condor, Maybe Naughts
2022-04-22 21:30
The Debut of Snakehandler Church! Opening up for Hans Condor and The Maybe Naughts. Pure Rock Fury.
Playing host to Hans Condor
https://www.facebook.com/hanscondortn/
The Maybe Naughts
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073870620890

Jonah Leatherman, The Piques, Joshua Powell
2022-04-23 21:30
$7 cover
must be 21

Okilly Dokilly with Steaksauce Mustache
2022-04-28 20:45 - 23:59
Tickets on sale now $13.00 no-fee advance. $15.00 day of show.
Okilly Dokilly is the world’s only Nedal band. Hailing from Phoenix, Arizona, a majority of the band’s lyrics are direct Ned quotes. The band’s members include Head Ned, Red Ned, Thread Ned, Stead Ned and Bled Ned.
Established in 2015, the band found success before ever playing their first show, becoming a viral phenomenon after releasing just a few press photos and a 4-song demo. Within 2 weeks, the band had nearly 30,000 Facebook fans and was featured by numerous publications including Billboard, Time, The Independent, BBC, Esquire, Vice and many more.
Okilly Dokilly’s live shows are high energy affairs that weave together comedy and brutality. Guttural screams and pounding drums provide a soundtrack for the pummeling of an inflatable donut as green sweaters and round glasses blur across the stage.
As of early 2016, Okilly Dokilly has been steadily working on their debut record, which is projected to release later in the year.

Hayley and The Crushers, Namen Namen, Filth and Majesty
2022-04-29 21:00

The Waymores, Starslinger, Pete Dio and The Old & Dirty
2022-04-30 21:30
$7.00 cover, must be 21
On their sophomore album, Stone Sessions, The Waymores play authentic country music with an Americana flourish, combining elements of folk, blues and Honky Tonk into an instantly recognizable sound. Willie Heath Neal’s husky baritone and the warm alto of Kira Annalise complement each other perfectly. Their lush harmonies, and down-home lyrics echo the classic work of Conway and Loretta and Johnny and June Carter. On stage, the duo has an easy-going sense of humor that makes every crowd feel like a room full of old friends.

Ben Buck, Sankofa, Jantzonia, !FUA!
2022-05-01 20:30 - 23:59
$7 cover
must be 21
poster by Jared Andrews

Big Gorgeous, Mr. Clit and the Pink Cigarettes, Florets
2022-05-05 21:00

The Velvetheads, Pretty Good Not Bad, Bebops and The Rocksteadys
2022-05-06 21:30

Uncle Muscle (LP release show), Milk Bath (detroit), Stephie James (nashville)
2022-05-07 21:30 - 23:59
$10.00 cover
must be 21
poster by Jaded Andrews

Ryan Kerr and The Rebellion, Florets, Brett Conlin and the Midnight Miles
2022-05-12 20:30 - 23:59
$7 cover, doors at 8PM

Mean Mother, Burial Party, Snakehandler Church
2022-05-13 21:30

'Stache, The Piques for Jake's B-Day Show
2022-05-14 21:30
$4.00 cover, must be 21

Garbage Greek, Necromoon, Roman New Times
2022-05-17 20:30 - 23:59

Jeremy Porter & The Tucos, Streetlamps for Spotlights
2022-05-19 21:00
JEREMY PORTER & THE TUCOS: A rock and roll band from Detroit, Michigan. Guitars and whiskey, hooks and heartache, energy and PA
STREETLAMPW FOR SPOTLIGHTS: Streetlamps walk that line between ‘catchy-as-hell-but-rough-around-the-edges’ pop and loud noisy pissed off post punkers manipulating sonic chaos.

$7 cover, must be 21
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NORCOS Y HORCHATA, THE SHORTCUTS, NIFTY SKULLET
2022-05-20 21:30
$7 cover, must be 21 poster by Nick Ferran

Squirrel Cage, Cloudmaker, See Ray Hardly
2022-05-21 21:30

Colleen Green with The Meat Flowers
2022-05-23 20:30 - 23:59
Doors at 8PM, no-fee tickets on sale now $10
Colleen Green
The Meat Flowers
“Cool” by Colleen Green is out now! On her third album for Hardly Art Records and her first since 2015, Green is supported by producer Gordon Raphael (The Strokes) and mixer/drummer Brendan Eder to hone her legendarily lo-fi sound into a dirty clean ~30 minutes of addictive guitar pop that feels instantly familiar and utterly essential. In over 10 years of touring and performing, the almost completely DIY songwriter has been backed by a full band only once, so don’t miss this rare and special show!
Instagram instagram.com/colleengreen420
Facebook facebook.com/colleengreen420
Twitter twitter.com/colleengreen420
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/ColleenGreen420

Taking Meds, Leones, Best Sleep
2022-05-24 20:30 - 23:59

Joseph Huber with Jordan Joyes (of Gallows Bound)
2022-05-26 20:00
$9.00 no-fee tickets on sale now
Joseph Huber hails from the state of Wisconsin, and seems to bring forth the varied voices of whatever it may be that lies dormant within either the fertile soil or the callous concrete of that world. It has been said, “You don’t just like Joseph Huber’s music. You feel it’s something that the rest of the world needs to hear, and how criminal it is that it isn’t spreading far and wide.” That sentiment could be related to the fact that the voices which Huber unearths are subtle and take more than a hurried listen to truly absorb. A person who appears reserved and matter-of-fact in everyday speech brings forth songs that are anything but that.

Uncle Muscle, Connor Kelly and The Time Warp, Love Seat
2022-05-27 21:30 - 23:59

Exterminate All Rational Thought, Asava, Thematic
2022-05-28 21:30 - 23:59

Metalachi: The World's First and Only Heavy Metal Mariachi
2022-05-29 20:30
$13.00 no-fee tickets on sale now. $15.00 day of show. Must be 21
Catch their music on youtube

Metalachi Origin Story: On a hot summer night in Veracruz Mexico circa 1982, Consuela Espinoza stumbled out of her dilapidated shanty and into Rock N Roll history. What began as an innocent night of snorting horse tranquilizers in a hotel room with seven members of the village jai alai team went on to produce a great metal band. Unhampered by a steady regime of tequila and ill-advised sumo lessons, nine months later five bastard children were born. Unable to care for her hungry offspring and concerned that motherhood would seriously interfere with her Tuesday night Karaoke league, Consuela hastily packed the babies into the saddlebags of a burro and sent her children off to America in search of a better life.
Against all odds, 14 years later, and nearly dead from dehydration, the burro knelt down to drink from the stagnant waters of the Rio Grande just outside of Juarez Mexico –mere yards from the U.S. border. With one fleeting burst of energy, the brothers Espinoza cinco climbed from their leather restraints and scampered the vast reach of the river, collapsing onto the sweet amber hue of American soil. As if by destiny, lodged in the sand beneath their tanned faces was a record sleeve upon which were the words “Paranoid” and “Black Sabbath.” For many years to follow, this definitive black metal album served not only as a teacher and a mentor..but also as a friend. From these bleak and humble beginnings grew the seed that would eventually be the band we know today as Metalachi.

Clyde Cyrus, Pete Dio and The Old & Dirty
2022-06-02 20:30

Cloudmaker, The Namby Pamby, Florets
2022-06-03 21:45

Slug Love, Zachary Kerschner
2022-06-10 21:30 - 23:59
$7 cover, must be 21
poster by Jaded Andrews

Official Le Tour de Fort Stop
2022-06-11 12:00 - 18:00
We welcome returning and new Riders to the 13th annual Le Tour de Fort!
Our bicycle pub-crawl allows adults to drink responsibly for a good cause. Le Tour de Fort is not a race, contest or competition. This is a social event. Our mission is to support Veterans, strengthen our community and bring people together for an awesome time. Our ‘Tour Friendly Locations’ are locally owned establishments that serve our Riders throughout the event, help with our mission of supporting Veterans and are a crucial component of the Tour. A complete list of Tour Friendly Locations will be released in the future. For now, count on all your favorites plus a few new locations as we get closer. Thank you for your support!
Registration for the event will be online only from March 1st through May 22nd at 11:59 pm. **PLEASE NOTE**
***Only Riders that place their ticket orders prior to May 22nd are guaranteed shirts for this event. Riders that purchase tickets after May 22nd at 11:59 pm EST will only have the option to purchase a ‘Shirtless Ticket’ and are NOT guaranteed a LTdF 2022 event shirt Those Riders will instead be able to choose from our very limited supply of surplus shirts and vintage event shirts. Color, size and availability are not guaranteed. WHY? Because we run a tight ship here at Le Tour de Fort! We are not in the business of ordering 2,000+ shirts based on projections. Please place your order in a timely manner if you wish to receive an event shirt.
-PACKET PICKUP-
Friday, June 10th, 2022
VFW Post #857
2202 W Main St, Fort Wayne, IN 46808
12:00 PM – 7:00PM
Present your Eventbrite ticket to redeem your LTdF shirt and bicycle bib number. Miscellaneous freebies and goodies will be available from sponsors and vendors in limited quantities.
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Clownvis Presley with Jared Andrews
2022-06-11 21:00 - 23:59
$9.00 no-fee tickets on sale now.

Overlook, Namen Namen, Sweet Pill, Home Phone
2022-06-16 20:30 - 23:59

Lalo Cura, !FUA!, Los Galaxy
2022-06-17 21:30 - 23:59
$7 cover, must be 21.

The Meat Flower, Private Education
2022-06-18 22:30
$7.00 cover, must be 21

The Goddamn Gallows with Totally Orange Time Machine
2022-06-22 20:30 - 23:59
$10.00 no fee tickets on sale now. $12 day of show. Must be 21

Necromoon, Swell Time, Jagua
2022-06-24 21:30

Middle Names, The Namby Pamby, Los Lemons
2022-06-25 21:30

The Hooten Hallers, Pete Dio and The Old & Dirty
2022-06-26 20:00

Best Sleep, Los Lemons, Mula Khan
2022-07-01 21:45 - 23:59

The Be Colony, Streetlamps For Spotlights, Secret Mezzanine
2022-07-02 21:30 - 23:59

Namen Namen, Loveseat, Necromoon
2022-07-03 21:30

Sungate, The Piques, Jonah Leatherman
2022-07-08 21:45 - 23:59

Tuesday Atlas, Funayūrei, Adam Araque
2022-07-09 21:30
$7.00 cover, must be 21
Tuesday Atlas:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7nLv4mPINLInj2XkN5eBN5?si=HyKsys8oRVGMcIMYdOQvUA&utm_source=copy-link

https://instagram.com/tuesday_atlas?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

www.facebook.com/TuesdayAtlas

Funayūrei:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0PdGvgqsPRv51MAwbTigqX?si=GbKn9iW_T0qsGD84B037Iw&utm_source=copy-link

https://instagram.com/funayureimusic?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

https://www.facebook.com/funayureimusic

Adam Araque:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7HNnDc7DQInZKSUyBIPM2t?si=F8rn3bDnTDq5iHfbsfcM3g&utm_source=copy-link

https://instagram.com/adam.araque?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

**Early Show** Metavari See Ray Hardly
2022-07-16 21:00 - 23:59
Music Starts at 9PM with Metavari and See Ray Hardly $7 cover, must be 21

Oregon Space Trail Of Doom, Los Lemons, Florets
2022-07-21 20:30 - 23:45
$7 cover
must be 21 to enter
poster by Jaded Andrews

LOCKSTEP, NECROMOON, RVN3R
2022-07-22 21:00 - 23:59

The Be Colony, Clyde Cyrus, Nisa
2022-07-23 21:30 - 23:59
$7 cover, must be 21, poster by Jaded Andrews

Dummy (california) with Swell Time
2022-07-29 08:00 - 23:59
$8 no-fee advance tickets on sale now / $10 day of show
with Swell Time
Los Angeles band Dummy refuses to slow down. After releasing two cassette EP’s in 2020 (on Popwig and Born Yesterday respectively), Dummy’s debut full-length album arrives via Chicago’s Trouble in Mind Records. Employing pummeling guitars and celestial ambience within the same breath, the band folds a myriad of reference points into their drone-pop style. Influence from ‘60s melodicism and ‘90s UK noise pop can be found woven in with inspiration from spiritual jazz, Japanese new age, and Italian minimalism.

Dummy dodges the brooding, dark, dramatic tropes of contemporary “artistic” music often found in punk, experimental, and electronic, instead insisting on joyous and euphoric sonic palettes. They refuse to be artistically stagnant, continuously shifting their approach to writing across 12 tracks. Shaped by performances around Los Angeles in 2019, songs like “Daffodils” and “Fissured Ceramics” feature relentless driving energy and ample psychedelic noise. Elsewhere, Dummy counterbalances the aggression with meditative synthscapes focused on sound design and studio experimentation, like on the motorik “X-Static Blanket”. Finally, centerpiece “H.V.A.C.” and the album’s final track, “Atonal Poem”, seek to synthesize these two poles, offering multi-part journeys through uncharted sonic territory.

Sirius Blvck, Best Sleep, Drayco McCoy, Sundown
2022-07-30 21:00 - 23:59
$10.00 cover

Namen Namen, Sky Creature, Roman New Time
2022-07-31 20:00

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS Calm / Collected Tour 2022
2022-08-03 20:30

Swell Time, Lady Cannon, The Namby Pamby
2022-08-04 20:30 - 23:59
$7 cover, must be 21. Poster by Jaded Andrews

Acid Dad, Death Valley Girls, Shadow Show
2022-08-05 21:30 - 23:30
Acid Dad, Death Valley Girls
$8 no-fee advanced tickets available. $10 day of show
Acid Dad is an American alternative-rock band composed of singer-guitarists, Vaughn Hunt and Sean Fahey, and drummer, Trevor Mustoe. Vaughn first started recording the band in his Bushwick, NY basement releasing singles “Brain Body” and their first EP “Let’s Plan a Robbery.” Appearing live in the New York City rock scene in 2016, Acid Dad quickly moved to a world stage with their self-titled debut album, released by Greenway Records in 2018.
During 2020, the band spent their time building a new studio space in Queens, NY, while continuing to independently produce all their own music, art and even building their own guitars. With a new space and vision, the band produced their second LP, “Take It From The Dead,” set to be co-released in June 2021 by Brooklyn’s Greenway Records and psych powerhouse LEVITATION’s label, The Reverberation Appreciation Society.
“Take It From The Dead” features an array of different influences ranging from 90’s neo-psych, modern post-punk and 70’s rock-n-roll. Acid Dad has crafted a record that sounds new, yet feels nostalgic. In contrast to their earlier work, they make use of slower tempos and expand their sound to include songs that are both more intricate and more hypnotic. To accompany the new record, the band spent the last year collaborating with video artist Webb Hunt, producing psych and glitch art videos that form a visual counterpart to the dreamy distortions of their sound.
Acid Dad is Vaughn Hunt (guitars and vocals), Sean Fahey (guitars and vocals) and Trevor Mustoe (drums).

Death Valley Girls
Rock n’ roll has always served as a means to elevate the fringe of society, though it’s accentuated the plights of the outcasts and misfits in different ways throughout the years. In its infancy, rock was a playful rebuttal against segregation and Puritanism. In the ‘60s, it became a vehicle for an elevated consciousness. In the years following the Summer of Love and the clampdown on Flower Power, that countercultural spirit adopted the aggravated and occasionally nihilistic edge of bands like The Stooges, Black Sabbath, MC5, and The New York Dolls. And then as the ‘80s approached, popular rock n’ roll turned into a relatively benign celebration of hedonism and decadence, but that contingent of dark mystics from the ‘70s who lifted the veil and used music as a means of rallying people to altered planes had left their mark. It was an undercurrent in rock that would never die, but would percolate in corners of the underground. Today we can see it manifest in LA’s Death Valley Girls.
The group feels less like a band and more like a travelling caravan. At their core, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Bonnie Bloomgarden and guitarist Larry Schemel channel Death Valley Girls’ modern spin on Fun House’s sonic exorcisms, early ZZ Top’s desert-blasted riffage, and Sabbath’s occult menace. Their relentless touring schedule means that the remainder of the group is rounded out by whichever like-minded compatriots can get in the van. On their third album Darkness Rains, bassist Alana Amram, drummer Laura Harris, and a rotating cast of guests like Shannon Lay, The Kid (Laura Kelsey) and members of The Make Up, The Shivas, and Moaning help elevate the band from their rogue beginnings to a communal ritualistic musical force. On the surface level, Death Valley Girls churn out the hypercharged, in the red, scuzzy rock every generation yearns for, but there is a more subversive force percolating beneath the surface that imbues the band with an exhilarating cosmic energy.
Death Valley Girls’ sophomore album Glow In The Dark was based on the concept that many of us are trying to become more enlightened, and you can tell by the way they ‘glow in the dark.’ Darkness Rains goes a step further, attempting to shift the consciousness of those that have not yet considered how we are all connected and how that relates to the way we view life beyond death. Those that ‘glow’ can use the songs on Darkness Rains as new chants—or they can be used for pure entertainment. “Songs come from beyond and other worlds, you just have to tune into the right radio wave signal to dial them in. Our signal happens to be in a 1970 Dodge Charger Spaceship,” says Schemel.
Album opener “More Dead” is a rousing wake up call, with a hypnotic pentatonic guitar riff and an intoxicating blown-out fuzz-wah solo underscoring Bloomgarden’s consciousness-rattling proclamation that you’re “more dead than alive.” The pace builds with “(One Less Thing) Before I Die”, a minute-and-a-half distillate of Detroit’s classic proto-punk sound. But at track three, Death Valley Girls hit their stride with “Disaster (Is What We’re After)”, a gritty, swaggering rager that takes the most boisterous moments off Exile On Main Street and beefs it up with Zeppelin’s devil’s-note blues. Darkness Rains retains its intoxicating convocations across ten tracks, climaxing on an astral plane with the hypnotic guitar drones and cult-like chants of “TV In Jail On Mars.”
“Learn from the stars and beyond! Be happy and thankful we got to live together on Earth at the same time! And death is just a shift—stay alive and awake,” Bloomgarden and Schemel respond when asked for a final thought on Death Valley Girls. “Embrace the darkness and don’t fear the Reaper.” Suicide Squeeze Records is proud to further the cause by releasing Darkness Rains on October 5th, 2018 on LP/CD/CS/ and digital formats. The first vinyl pressing is limited to 1,500 copies. Both the cassette and vinyl include digital downloads.

Atticus Sorrel, Man of The Flood, Evan Lee Feat The Be Colony and Friends
2022-08-06 21:30 - 23:59
$7 cover, must be 21

poster by Michael Collins

Necromoon, Sugarpill (chicago), Leones
2022-08-10 20:45

RVN3R, THE PIQUES, ATTICUS SORREL
2022-08-12 21:45 - 23:59

Private Education, Primary School, Chris Rebllion
2022-08-13 21:45 - 23:59

Gymshorts with The Meat Flowers
2022-08-16 20:30
$7 no-fee tickets on sale now

GYMSHORTS is from Rhode Island and like the band’s home state frontwoman Sarah Greenwell is a petite powerhouse that marches to the beat of her own drum. Endearingly rebellious, fiercely independent, and hellbent on causing a commotion, Greenwell embodies the kind of rambunctious unpredictability that has personified some of pop culture’s most legendary troublemakers; a little bit Bart Simpson, a hint of Kevin McCallister, and a dash of Dennis The Menace form the inspirational foundation of GYMSHORTS’ particular brand of punk n roll, smoked to perfection in the back of Jeff Spicoli’s van.

With The Meat Flowers

La Armada & Zeta with Deathtax
2022-08-17 20:30
$13.00 no-fee tickets on sale now. $15 day of show
La Armada’s focus is to leave their mark on heavy music. A punk band at heart, they utilize elements of Afro-Caribbean rhythms and metal to create a style as unique as their story. Formed in the Dominican Republic in 2001 from where they dominated the Caribbean scene for years, the band opted to take a leap and relocate to Chicago in 2008, where they still reside.
Influenced by bands ranging from the Bad Brains to Death, they take elements from their native Island’s music to conjure a unique recipe; explosive live energy, and a clear cut narrative that highlights the effects of neo-colonialism on vulnerable communities.
Whether headlining tours throughout the world or supporting the likes of Sick of it All, Propaghandi, Strung Out, Death by stereo, and more, La Armada has come to bring a vibrant spin to the scene.
The South American rock group known as Zeta (originally from Venezuela, now based in the
United States) embraces their identity through music in collaboration with The Abajo Cadenas Orchestra (a collective of musicians spread out across the world) to publicly share a new album that connects them to their roots more than ever. Experimenting thoroughly with musical elements that anyone who grew up around Latin American culture will have engrained in their psyche such as calypso, cumbia, salsa, bossa nova and the distinct afro-Caribbean rhythms among other sounds that have left a cultural imprint that represent the places where the musicians grew up and formed their musical identities.

The Brass Rail proudly presents "It Was Never A Phase." and EMO NIGHT
2022-08-19 21:45 - 23:59
An Emo Night for the scene kid in you that never went away. Join us while our guest DJ’s go back to back playing all your favorite emo + pop-punk anthems. Emo/Punk attire is strongly encouraged, so break out the old liquid eyeliner, grab that hair dye, and dust off those skinny jeans that somehow still have some life left in them.

$8 cover, must be 21

Loveseat, The Tube Socks, Tziko & Rock For Food
2022-08-20 21:30 - 23:59
Live original music by
Loveseat
The Tube Socks
Tziko & Rock For Food
$7 cover, must be 21

poster by Jaded Andrews

Daisychain, Rvn3r, Incas
2022-08-23 20:30

Best Sleep, Lollygager, Swell Time
2022-08-26 21:30
It’s our bartender Catie’s birthday so she’s assembled an awesome lineup of music for you. BEST SLEEP LOLLYGAGGER SWELL TIME $7 cover, must be 21 poster by Jaded Andrews

Atticus Sorrell Band, Los Galaxy, The Namby Pamby
2022-08-27 21:30 - 23:59

Gool, The Namby Pamby, Home Phone
2022-09-02 21:30
Live original music by
Gool
The Namby Pamby
Home Phone
$7 cover, must be 21

poster by Jaded Andrews

Los Galaxy, Tony, Namen Namen
2022-09-03 21:45 - 23:59
NAMEN NAMEN (indie rock)
LOS GALAXY (funk fusion)
TONY (indianapolis rock)
$7 cover
must be 21
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War Cloud, Cursed Blade, Snakehandler Church
2022-09-10 21:00 - 23:59
Doors 9 pm Music 10 pm
$10
WAR CLOUD – Old School Heavy Metal hailing from Austin, Texas.
https://warcloudrock.bandcamp.com/
CURSED BLADE- Traditional heavy metal from Indianapolis, IN
https://cursedblade.bandcamp.com/album/cursed-demo
SNAKEHANDLER CHURCH- southern punk outta Ft. Waste, IN
https://snakehandlerchurch.bandcamp.com/releases

Jamie Buffet Night
2022-09-15 20:30 - 23:59
Jon Ross and Sean Richardson will be mixing up some of your favorite island drinks and sounds inspired by their ideas of Buffett Style living. No cover.

Private Education, Mighty Vices, ChrisRebellion
2022-09-16 21:45 - 23:59

The Be Colony w/ Ryne Shyne and TBD
2022-09-17 21:30 - 23:59

Namby Pamby, Necromoon, Bev Rage & The Drinks
2022-09-22 20:30 - 23:59

The Meat Flowers, Hayley & The Crushers, Lauren Balke
2022-09-23 21:45
Live original music $7 cover

poster by Jaded Andrews

Heavy Mother, Namen Namen, Craig Bell & The Dead Man's Handle
2022-09-24 21:45 - 23:59
Live Original Music with
Namen Namen
(Fort Wayne Indie Rock Band)
Heavy Mother
(R&R band from Bloomington, Indiana. Eddie Flowers (lead vocals), Mark McWhirter aka Dr. Ray (guitar), Zack Worcel aka Chode (bass), Clarke Joyner (drums). Eddie was in the original 1976/1977 Gizmos. Mark & Chode played with the Cowboys)
Craig Bell & The Dead Man’s Handle
(Bell and Pere Ubu leader David Thomas were band mates in garage-rock band Rocket from the Tombs in the mid-1970s, which makes Bell’s history important to countless fans of underground music as it rambled through punk rock, college rock, modern rock and indie rock through the decades.)
$7 cover, must be 21, poster by Jaded Andrews

Flamingo Nosebleed, Horror Section, Covert Flops, Ghost Party
2022-09-30 21:30 - 23:59
Come get wild as hell at this punk rock freak show! Flamingo Nosebleed, Horror Section (stl), Covert Flops (Indiana spy punks), Ghost Party (members of Putz and horror section)

SNAFU, Deathtax, Oberserver
2022-10-06 21:00
SNAFU
https://snafudetroit.bandcamp.com/

Deathtax
https://deathtax.bandcamp.com/

Observer
https://observerfw.bandcamp.com/

$7

Sankofa, Flostorm, Damo w/ Prophet Ecks, DJ MSG
2022-10-07 21:30 - 23:59

The Be Colony, The Namby Pamby, Secondhand Denim
2022-10-08 21:45 - 23:59
Live original music $7 cover. Poster by Michael Collins

Country Music Legend DALE WATSON with Kenny Taylor
2022-10-11 19:00 - 23:59
$15.00 no-fee advance tickets available. $20.00 day of show. Music starts at 8PM sharp Must be 21 to enter. With Kenny Taylor
Dale Watson, keeper of the true country music flame, latest album Call Me Insane, was recorded in Austin with veteran producer Lloyd Maines (Robert Earl Keen, Jerry Jeff Walker, etc.). The Austin-based honky-tonker carries on in the tradition of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson with his “Ameripolitan” brand of American roots music.
Album highlights include “Jonesin’ For Jones,” a love song to the music of the legendary George Jones, “A Day At A Time,” about “getting by by barely getting by;” “Call Me Insane,” the album’s moody title track; “Bug Ya For Love,” a fun warning to all the single ladies, and “Mamas Don’t Let Your Cowboys Grow Up To Be Babies.” (Yes, it is an answer song to the Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson hit.) “Crocodile Tears” is a tear-in-your-beer country song that sounds like an instant classic and “Burden Of The Cross” reveals Watson’s serious side.
Call Me Insane was recorded in Austin by Watson and his ace touring band, “His Lone Stars”: Don Pawlak (pedal steel), Mike Bernal (drums & percussion), and Chris Crepps (upright bass & background vocals). Dale plays electric guitar throughout and Lloyd Maines added acoustic guitar. They were joined in the studio by Danny Levin on piano and the Honky Tonk Horns: Jon Blondell (trombone), Joey Colarusso (saxophone), and Ricky White (trumpet).
“Having known Lloyd over 20 years and worked with him as a musician, I knew he was a great guy and picker,” Watson says. “But having Lloyd produce your record is like letting your mom in your kitchen. You know you’re gonna like what comes out and it’s amazing how such basic ingredients can be made even better. He is an artists’ artist.
The admiration is mutual. “I’ve been a Dale Watson fan since I played steel guitar on some of his early records,” Maines says of the sessions. “My early musical influences are the same as Dale’s. We both grew up playing real country music. Dale is one of a very short list of today’s artists who still keeps it real country. I’m honored that he asked me to produce his new record. I think he knew that I would maintain the integrity of his passion for the music.”
Dubbed “the silver pompadoured, baritone beltin’, Lone Star beer drinkin’, honky-tonk hellraiser” by The Austin Chronicle, Watson sat in with Jimmy Kimmel’s house band as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC) from SXSW 2015. He also emceed the first ever SXSW “Ameripolitan” showcase featuring the best of Honky-tonk, Outlaw Country, Rockabilly and Texas Swing music.
Since the release of El Rancho Azul in 2013, Watson’s profile has risen considerably via appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS), Austin City Limits and The Sun Sessions(PBS) and as a guest on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. A veteran touring artist and consummate entertainer, he is on the road more than 300 days a year. He also put his money where his heart is and took over ownership of two struggling Texas honky-tonks, the Little Longhorn Saloon in Austin (home of Chicken $#!+ Bingo) and The Big T Roadhouse in St. Hedwigs (outside San Antonio). If not on the road, he and His Lone Stars perform at one of them each Sunday.
Dale has flown the flag for classic honky-tonk for over two decades. He’s christened his brand of American roots “Ameripolitan” to differentiate it from current crop of Nashville-based pop country. The Alabama-born, Texas-raised Watson may be the hardest working entertainer today and is rapidly approaching legendary status. He is a country music maverick, a true outlaw who stands alongside Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and George Strait as one of the finest country singers and songwriters from the Lone Star State

The Orange Opera, Matthew Sturm
2022-10-14 21:45

Chilli Hendrix, Eli Sines w Beatrat, Chrisrebellion
2022-10-15 21:45 - 23:59
Live original music with
Chilli Hendrix
Eli Sines with Beatrat
Chrisrebellion
$7 cover
must be 21

Saintseneca, Swell Time
2022-10-20 20:00 - 20:30
$15.00 day of show walk-ups available.
Saintseneca’s Zac Little has been thinking a lot about memory. Not necessarily his memories, though they creep in often, too. Rather, he mulls over the idea of memory itself: its resilience, its haziness, how it slips away as we try to hang on, the way it resurfaces despite our best efforts to forget.
Memory is the common thread running throughout the Columbus folk-punk band’s fourth album, Pillar of Na, arriving in late summer via ANTI- Records. Following 2015’s critically lauded Such Things, the new album’s name is rooted in remembrance, referencing the Genesis story of Lot’s wife who looks back at a burning Sodom after God instructs her not to. She looks back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt. “Na,” meanwhile, is the chemical symbol for sodium. “Nah” is a passive refusal and the universal song word. It means nothing and stands for nothing. It is “as it is.”
Like Lot’s wife, Little cannot help but revisit where—and how—he grew up. Raised in church in southeastern Appalachian Ohio, he took up preaching when he was still a teenager, sometimes in small country settings and other times to congregations of thousands. But these days he’s more interested in listening. And questioning.
Musically, Pillar of Na is Saintseneca’s most ambitious album to date, with Little aiming to incorporate genre elements he’d rarely heard in folk. “I wanted to use the idiom of folk-rock, or whatever you want to call it, and to try to do something that had never been done before,” Little explains. “To reach way back, echoing ancient folk melodies, tie that into punk rock, and then push it into the future. I told Mike Mogis I wanted Violent Femmes meets the new Blade Runner soundtrack. I’m looking for the intersection between Kendrick Lamar and The Fairport Convention.”
“You’re always going to be situated in the folk legacy,” Little continues, acknowledging his past recordings, which include three albums (the aforementioned Such Things, 2014’s Dark Arc, 2011’s Last) and three EPs (2016’s The Mallwalker, 2010’s Grey Flag, and 2009’s self-titled). “But let’s move forward. I’m not trying to make the lost Velvet Underground B-side. I want to find something that has never been heard before, or at least go down trying.”

High Spirits, The Lurking Corpses, Tiny Wars
2022-10-21 21:45

Public Universal Friend, Swell Time, Man of The Flood
2022-10-22 21:30 - 23:59
Public Universal Friend is a real-life musical force based in Indianapolis, IN founded by songwriter Jody Friend. They are playing with Swell Time and Man Of The Flood

$7 cover, must be 21

Halloween Photo Shoot
2022-10-23 20:00
Bambi Guthrie Photography is back to host her annual HALLOWEEN PHOTO SHOOT. Come grab some pictures in y our outfits.
FREE / must be 21

Maggie Gently, The Namby Pamby, Doorgirl
2022-10-24 20:00
Live original music, doors at 8PM/$7

Sasha And The Valentines, Necromoon, Swell Time
2022-10-27 21:00
Live Original Music
$7 cover must be 21

Burial Party, Cavalcade, The Holy Nothing
2022-10-28 21:45
10/28/22 – This coming Friday is our EP release in Fort Wayne, IN at The Brass Rail (@brassrailfw)! Cavalcade (@cavalcadelansing) is coming down from Lansing, MI to join us, and The Holy Nothing (@theholynothing) will be playing their first show ever, so we hope to see you out! Costumes encouraged! (poster by @craighorky) #burialpartyfw #cavalcade #theholynothing #brassrailfw

$7 cover, must be 21

Hallo-WEEN Tribute Show
2022-10-29 21:00

The Meat Flowers album release Halloween Party with Loveseat
2022-10-31 21:00
THE MEAT FLOWERS are releasing their new albums “Woe Is Meat” with their friends LOVE SEAT $7 cover, must be 21. Costome Contest with Prizes
poster by Jaded Andrews

Norcos Y Horchata, Piques, Slug Love, and Half Built Homes
2022-11-04 21:30
Live original music

$7 cover, must be 21

Cloudmaker, Metavari, Sankofa
2022-11-05 22:00 - 23:59
Live Original Music with
Cloudmaker
Metavari
Sankofa
$7 cover must be 21

Grande Gigs Presents: Dead Register with Piss On Feet
2022-11-08 20:00 - 23:59
21+ with ID
$7 Cover at the Door
Doors @ 9pm / Live Music Starts at 10pm
Presented by: Grande Gigs – https://www.facebook.com/grandegigs
Live on stage at:
The Brass Rail
1121 Broadway St.
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
https://www.facebook.com/brassrailfw
Atlanta’s Dead Register has a complex kaleidoscope of sonic landscapes in their dark palette. Fronted by husband and wife tag team M.Chvasta (vocals, bass VI, bass) and Avril Che (keys, synthetic bass, piano bass, textures, backing vocals), the band is rounded out with the talents of drummer Randy Garcia. Together, the three musicians fuse a huge collection of inspirations into a rich, sophisticated hybrid of goth, post-punk, industrial, and 90s alternative rock. They do not simply bend genres; they snap them in half and rearrange them into entirely new crystalline structures.”
– Postpunk.com
Bands Include:
Dead Register (Atlanta, GA) – https://www.facebook.com/deadregister
Piss On Feet (Fort Wayne, IN) – https://www.facebook.com/YouCantBeatTheFeet

Mamalarky, Uncle Music, Home Phone
2022-11-11 21:00 - 23:59
$10 advance no-fee tickets on sale now / $12 day of show
with Uncle Muscle and Home Phone
Mamalarky spent two years working on their self-titled debut album (out via Fire Talk on November 20th). Raw and cerebral, the LP looks to a range of influences from their collective musical nerdiness. ”We might have a vocal melody that sounds like the lead steel guitar from Santo & Johnny, played over production that aims to be noisy and weird like Deerhoof or Sheer Mag, all the while steeped in the greats like Stevie Wonder or The Four Seasons,’ explains Livvy. The album itself was cobbled together in a mix of DIY ways: home recordings with Livvy’s roommate Joey Oaxaca (White Reaper, Mo Dotti), singles with Daniel McNeill (White Denim) and a “final wrapping-up” with engineer Jim Vollentine (Spoon, Skating Polly).
“We want to provide an experience that’s exploratory and trippy, but far removed from the problematic and corny psych stereotypes carried out by all those 60s dude bands. It grosses us out,” continues Livvy.
Topping it all off is Livvy’s hyper-personal songwriting. “I feel really exposed putting out an album,” she admits. Songs like “Drugstore Model” and “Don’t Laugh at Me” were inspired by her post-college move to LA where she didn’t immediately feel like she fit in with the local scene. The single “Fury” was born out of being on the road and written during a show soundcheck. “You Make Me Smile” had been penned in her car after an encounter with a stranger during a breezy day at the park that made Livvy reflect on her own romantic life.
“’You Make Me Smile’ came to me as I was unpacking feelings I had been repressing for a long time,” she says of the song’s origins. Even though the chorus says the song’s romantic title, it’s a sad, bittersweet song for Livvy. “I was transmuting this lovelorn, unexpressed, guilty feeling into something I could actually say out loud. At the time it was just a realization that my feelings for someone were never going to go away. They were always going to be carried with me whether I liked it or not.” It was a scary but necessary realization. “I knew I was going to be sitting with this crush in my head as I bumped along the road in a van.”
Even the band’s geological distance came to inspire the track “Schism Trek.” In between tours together, they were split between LA and Austin. “’Schism Trek’ explores what life looks like when you’re finding your way without the comfort of your friends beside you,” the singer explains. “The whole band was going through this in different ways as we went touring with different projects. Taking leaps and pushing our limits, we all came out stronger people for sure.”

The Namby Pamby (album release), Streetlamps for Spotlights, Loveseat
2022-11-12 21:30

Claude, Door Girl, Fresh Tar, Thinning
2022-11-14 20:30 - 23:59
Claude (existential dream pop from Chicago) with
Door Girl
Fresh Tar
Thinning
$7 cover, must be 21

Craig Brown Band, KT3, Squirrel Cage
2022-11-16 20:30 - 23:59
Live Original Music
Detroit’s CRAIG BROWN BAND
KENNY TAYLOR TRIO (KT3)
SQUIRREL CAGE
$7 cover, must be 21

Necromoon, Harlequins, Garbage Greek
2022-11-18 21:30

J Tubbs Presents: DeRay (Hip Hop) Esther Rose (Soul/Hip Hop) Best Sleep (Rock) 2RQ (Hip Hop) J. Tubbs with Los Galaxy & DJ Too Quick (Hip Hop/Soul)
2022-11-19 21:45
Live Original Music
DeRay (Hip Hop)
Esther Rose (Soul/Hip Hop)
Best Sleep (Rock)
2RQ (Hip Hop)
J. Tubbs with Los Galaxy & DJ Too Quick (Hip Hop/Soul)

$7 cover, must be 21

Overlook, The Piques, Man of the Flood
2022-11-23 21:00 - 23:59
OVERLOOK: In August of 2016, the four of us met in a basement for our first rehearsal. A month later, we started playing shows in our hometown, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Cut to January of 2018, we released our first single as Overlook. It’s hard to believe that we did all of this while spending our days in high school classrooms just trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Two studio albums, two EPs, a couple hundred shows, and a short stint at college later, we’re lucky enough to call Nashville home.
with MAN OF THE FLOOD and THE PIQUES
$7 no-fee ticket, must be 21

Arlen Gun Club, The Namby Pamby
2022-11-25 21:45 - 23:59

Cloudmaker, Necromoon, The Meat Flowers
2022-11-26 21:45 - 23:59
Live original music with
CLOUDMAKER
NECROMOON
THE MEAT FLOWERS
$7 cover, must be 21

Unlikely Alibi's 80's NIGHT
2022-12-02 21:30 - 23:59
Unlikely Alibi returns with their annual night celebrating the sights and the sounds of the 1980’s.
$7 cover, must be 21

Whiskey Daredevils, Uncle Muscle, Red Devil Ryders
2022-12-03 21:45 - 23:55
Live Original Music
Whiskey Daredevils
Uncle Muscle
Red Devil Ryders
$10 cover, must be 21

The Rosies, Man of the Flood, Namby Pamby
2022-12-08 20:30

Middle Names, March On Comrade, Golfcart Culdesac
2022-12-09 21:45 - 23:59
Live original music with
MIDDLE NAMES
MARCH ON, COMRADE
GOLFCART CULDESAC
$7 cover, must be 21 to enter

Loveseat, Connor Kelly & The Time Warp, Los Lemons
2022-12-10 21:45
Live Original Music by
LOVESEAT
CONNOR KELLY & THE TIME WARP
LOS LEMONS
$7 COVER MUST BE 21

Poster by Jaded Andrews

Left Lane Cruiser, Squirrel Cage
2022-12-16 21:45

Hillbilly Casino Xmas Special
2022-12-17 21:00
Hillbilly Casino returns with its annual Holiday Special with all of your favorite songs. **early show** $7 no-fee tickets on sale now.

Los Galaxy, Nostromo, Jiant
2022-12-23 21:30

Brass Rail Holiday Photo Shoot
2022-12-27 20:30 - 23:59
Bambi Guthrie Photography is back with her annual Holiday Photo Shoot. Stop by in your holiday get-up to take free photos with some of Christmas’s cheeriest characters.

Namen Namen, Janine (formerly CHURCH SHOES), Craig Brown Band
2022-12-29 21:00

Heaven's Gateway Drugs, Cloudmaker, Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapors
2022-12-30 21:45

Sankofa, Flostorm, DJ MSG, Doubtful Sound, 2RQ
2023-01-06 21:45

Dormant, The Part You Left Out, disappear.
2023-01-07 21:45
Live Original Music with
DORMANT
The Part You Left Out (first show!)
disappear.
$7 cover, must be 21

Loveseat, The Meat Flowers
2023-01-12 20:30

Toe Cutter, Sorry Eric, Necromoon
2023-01-13 21:45

Chilli Hendrix, Buddy Merlot, Adam Araque, Tuffy Campbell & The Bussin Boys
2023-01-14 21:45

MAC DAY: A celebration of Mac Miller hosted by J Tubbs
2023-01-19 20:00

Best Sleep
2023-01-20 21:30

Thinning, Moongoons, Frogman and Friends of Frog Man
2023-01-21 21:45

Chocq. T, Lalo Cura, ChrisRebellion
2023-01-26 21:45
Live original music by

Chocq. T: https://www.facebook.com/iamchocqt?mibextid=LQQJ4d
Lalo Cura: https://www.facebook.com/lalocurarock?mibextid=LQQJ4d
ChrisRebellion: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069426617013&mibextid=LQQJ4d

$7 cover, must be 21

See Ray Hardly, Cloudmaker, Funayūrei
2023-01-27 21:45 - 23:59

The Namby Pamby, Swell Time and Mol Sullivan (Cincinnati)
2023-01-28 21:45
The Namby Pamby TOUR KICKOFF SHOW with Swell Time and Mol Sullivan (Cincinnati)

The Relics, Private Education, Man of The Flood
2023-02-03 21:45

Cellar Dwellar, Necromoon, Namen Namen
2023-02-04 21:45

Mystik Fool, Gracie Jo & Mike Quinlivan, Kyla Walters
2023-02-09 21:00

Loveseat, Swell Time, The Dolphin Group
2023-02-10 21:45

Squirrel Cage, The Holy Nothing, and Faith in Nothing
2023-02-11 21:45

private function
2023-02-12 - 2023-02-13

Rookie Of The Year, Cedars, City Under Siege
2023-02-13 20:00 - 23:59
GIVIN UP NOW TOUR
$8 cover, must be 21. Poster by Corey Purvis

Middle Names, Piques, Loveseat
2023-02-17 21:45

My Dinosaurs Wear Ties (warped tour tribute band), Mighty Vicey, Private Education
2023-02-18 21:45
Hear all of your favorite “Warped Tour Songs” from
MY DINOSAURS WEAR TIES
with
MIGHTY VICEY and PRIVATE EDUCATION
$7 cover, must be 21
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Cole Ritter and The Night Owls with Kenny & Colin Taylor
2023-02-22 20:00
$9 no fee tickets on sale now
With a sound so nostalgic you’d swear you’ve heard them playing on a Sun Records album from the Golden Era, Cole Ritter and the Night Owls serve up a seamless blend of rockabilly, blues and vintage country that propels the listener into an entirely new sound space. Their rhythms rock in all the right ways, while the lyrics remind you of all the things you never knew you’d lost.
A true Nashville native, Cole picked up the fiddle at 3 years old, and began touring the southeast scene by age 8. Since then, he’s expanded his repertoire with the incredible voice and out of this world guitar playing that won him a spot on American Idol’s Hollywood Week. He soon went on to win Belmont University’s “Country Showcase” in 2020 along with his band the Night Owls.
With Father Son Legends Kenny & Colin Taylor

Zeta 20th Anniversary Tour with Necromoon and Kill Surf City
2023-02-23 21:00
$12.00 no-fee advance tickets on sale now. $15 day of show.
Must be 21 to enter.

Debutants, The New Normal, The Matchsell
2023-02-24 21:00
DEBUTANTS host an evening of stellar talent, featuring their friends…
THE NEW NORMAL (Nashville, TN)
THE MATCHSELLERS (Kansas City, MO)
Doors @ 8pm, Show @ 9pm
$10 cover, 21+

Heaven’s Gateway Drugs, Streetlamps for Spotlights, The Namby Pamby
2023-02-25 21:45

This Town Rocked Benefit Show
2023-03-03 21:00
Come relive the glory days with some old school punk bands and help raise money to finish This Town Rocked.
$10 at door with all proceeds going to film
Show starts promptly at 9
Opening Punk Prayer from Secretia Noxious
The Shortcuts
A few words from the director
Matt and the Maybe-Aughts
Secretia introduces 2nd trailer for This Town Rocked
Live Auction
Snakehandler Church
Secretia shares some stories
Last Chance at Failure

PIQUES, Los Lemons, and Frogman and the Friends of Frogman
2023-03-04 21:45

Shadow Show (detroit), Namen Namen, Necromoon
2023-03-10 21:45

Florets / Swell Time / March On, Comrade
2023-03-11 21:30

DJ Night with Tonga Conga and LUBS
2023-03-17 22:00

The Meat Flowers, Bochek, Roman New Time
2023-03-19 21:00

The Namby Pamby, Swell Time, Abel
2023-03-23 20:30

B﻿NNY with ULNA and THINNING
2023-03-24 21:30
BNNY with ULNA and THINNING
Everything, the debut album from Chicago quintet Bnny, may as well be a field recording taken from the lone country of grief. Written in sessions that span several years by singer Jess Viscius as she processed the death of her partner, the album is a chronicle of love at its most complex and loss at its most persistent. Viscius and her bandmates—her twin sister Alexa Viscius, plus best friends Tim Makowski, Adam Schubert and Matt Pelkey—render these songs as inky noir vignettes, with Viscius’ half-whispered vocals giving them a sense of poise and power that’s cool to the touch, even as the songs find her at her most vulnerable.
“I don’t cry often, generally I’m not super emotional,” Viscius says. “But when I sit down to play guitar, I can get in touch with the side of myself that I only know exists when I’m writing.” The first half of the album was written in the midst of a tumultuous relationship, while the second half was composed in its aftermath, but both sides are haunted by romance—even when she writes about her anger and disillusionment, the soft husk of Viscius’ voice and the depth of the songwriting as a testament to the sweetness that’s been lost. In the early songs, Viscius mulls over her responsibilities, bites back at broken promises, and occasionally finds herself adrift. In “Sure,” one of the album’s strongest songs, she circles around the titular word, testing its meanings and applications—“sure” as a positive affirmation, “sure” as a guarantee, “sure” as an exhausted acquiescence—and finding a weakness at the core of each of them. “I’ll change,” she sings in a disassociated loop in “August,” as if she’s trying to enchant herself into doing so. Later, in “Not Even You,” which recalls Sky Blue Sky-era Wilco, her voice breaks and she seems to gasp at her own loneliness and longing when she mistakenly thinks she sees her former partner on the street.
While Viscius cites the two-chord simplicity of the Velvet Underground as a major influence on her songwriting, she and her band use that minimalist blueprint to build sturdy songs that crackle with energy. Its lyrics are a reflection on instability and unreliability, but the pacey shuffle of “Promises” enacts the sweep of love, lust, and happiness that makes those promises feel worth keeping in the first place. In “Take That Back,” Viscius sings with a sarcastic laugh and the band backs up her cockiness. Guitar lines drift like fallen petals in “Little Flower,” and they trace dizzy circles through “August.” Everything is played in shades of blue: the navy haze of Jason Balla’s production, Viscius’ voice the color of morning light peeking through the blinds. Are these tunes familiar? Maybe, but so too is the sensation of falling in love and mourning its loss; in both instances, Everything is stamped with the complicated seal of the personal. “I don’t think you have to be a good musician to make good music,” Viscius says. “You just need to follow a feeling and be honest.”
That honesty, the sense of Bnny expanding as their world contracts, is ultimately what makes Everything such a powerful piece of music. Viscius toyed with the idea of only releasing the songs she wrote following her partner’s passing—the mournful, more pensive, and less castigating songs that make up the album’s second half. But, she figured, “That would only tell half of my truth. It seems more honest to include all of it, which is why I decided to call the album Everything. Because these songs, these memories, are everything I’ve got.”
Everything was recorded at Chicago’s Jamdek Studios and various bedroom closets with producer Jason Balla of Dehd, with additional production by Paul Cherry (“August,” “So Wrong”). The album was mixed by Collin Dupuis. It will be released on August 20th on Fire Talk Recordings.

City Mouse, Death Kill Overdrive, Flamingo Nosebleed, Zach Quinn (pears)
2023-03-25 22:00 - 23:59
City Mouse (Tampa/San Diego super rad female fronted punk/pop punk), Death Kill Overdrive(punk/garage/rnr from Iowa city, former lipstick homicide member), Zach Quinn (pears frontman solo electric), Flamingo Nosebleed (local headbangers)
$10 doors at 9, show at 9:30
Gonna be a killer show!

Prizefighter, Middle Names
2023-03-29 20:30

TAE & The Neighborly with Chocq.T
2023-03-30 20:45
$7 no-fee tickets available now
Tae & The Neighborly, a Wisconsin based Soul-pop R&B group, found themselves playing music together in a very unconventional way. With Fort Wayne’s CHOCQ.T
They were all neighbors, each one living alone on one floor of a five-story flat. Cake baking is a shared passion of the five member group, but in the sugar shortages early in the 2020 pandemic, they found themselves so continually knocking on each other’s doors asking for a single cup of sugar that a group decision was made to all move in together and share cake-baking resources. And since everyone knows all good rhythms begin in the kitchen, it wasn’t before long that the group began to write and perform together across the nation.
Critics hail the group as “having more kick than a bagged-up mule” (Rotary Times) and their live show “…going down smoother than a can of [beans] warmed on the campfire” (Cowboy Gazette). All in all, if you are looking for a dense show that will give you more inspiration fuel for self lovin’, world changin’, and consideration havin’ meet them where the music is made to be shared.

Private Education, The Namby Pamby, Swell Time
2023-03-31 21:45
Live Original Music with
PRIVATE EDUCATION
THE NAMBY PAMBY
SWELL TIME
$7 cover, must be 21

Observer, Cloudmaker, Loomspore
2023-04-01 21:30

Rabbit Foot Puppetry, Home Phone, Fresh Tar
2023-04-05 20:30

Matthew Sturm, Mudland, Squirrel Cage
2023-04-07 21:45

Anthony Giraldi The Be Colony Chocq. T
2023-04-08 21:45

Kandace's Country Line Dancing
2023-04-10 20:30

Necromoon, Swell Time, Frogman and Friends of Frogman
2023-04-14 21:45

The Namby Pamby, Jess Thrower, Lilly McKnown
2023-04-15 21:30

Franks & Deans (punk rock rat pack tribute) with Los Lemons
2023-04-16 20:30
FRANK & DEANS (punk Rock/ Rock & Roll Rat Pack tribute from Las Vegas, Nevada)
LOS LEMONS (surf rock/fort wayne)
$7 cover, must be 21

Man of the Flood, Overlook, The Be Colony
2023-04-20 20:00 - 21:00
The Crystal Bawl Tour
$7 cover, must be 21

Antlerhead, The Part You Left Out, Middle Names
2023-04-21 21:30 - 21:45

Private Education, The Namby Pamby, Thinning
2023-04-22 21:45

Keepers of Orchard (Indy), Frogman and Friends of Frogman,Thinning,
2023-04-23 20:00 - 21:00
Live Original Music
Keepers of Orchard
Frogman and The Friends of Frogman
Thinning
$7

Runaway Brother, Molly O'Malley, Thinning
2023-04-26 20:00 - 20:30
Live Original Music $8.00 cover

Loveseat, Stephie James, Sundog Sarah
2023-04-28 21:00

Swell Time, Diet Lite, Willie & The Cigs
2023-04-29 21:45 - 23:59

Scott H. Biram with Garrett T. Capps
2023-05-03 20:00
Scott H. Biram with Garrett T. Capps
$12.00 no fee advance tickets on sale now. $15.00 day of show
Scott H. Biram unleashes a fervent display of conviction through, not only the genuine blues, classic country, bluegrass, and rock n roll, but he seals the deal with punk, heavy metal, and frankly, anything else he wants to. He’s The Dirty Old One Man Band.
He will still the room with haunting South Texas blues, then turn it upside down, into a truck driver’s mosh pit. Like he says, it might be baptism, or it might be murder, either way…you gonna see the light.
This legally ordained preacher’s singing, yodeling, growling, leering and brash preachin’ and hollerin’ is accompanied by sloppy riffs, and licks literally yanked, one at a time, out of his collection of crusty, worn out, Gibson hollowbody guitars, and battle axes. All this held down with a pounding backbeat brought forth by his amplified left foot, and self customed stomp board. The remainder of this brutally charming one-man band consists of an unwieldy combination of beat-up amplifiers and old microphones strung together by a tangled mess of guitar cables. Don’t get too close! You gonna get some grease on ya!
Garrett T. Capps is a Bad mofo. He makes cowboy kraut with his band NASA Country & also lots of Tex-Mex rock n’ roll. He is San Antonio’s resident cosmic country gonzo honky tonk weirdo freak. He is a national treasure in Holland. He can usually be found at The Lonesome Rose, the bar he owns in the city he was born in. foo.

Justin Bailey, The Illegals, PK Houston
2023-05-05 21:00

Laid Back Country Picker, Squirrel Cage
2023-05-06 21:45 - 23:59
$7 no-fee tickets on sale now
Laid Back Country Picker: Devoid of genre, pure music with one foot in the truckstop, the other in 1970s guitar rawk. With Squirrel Cage

Dougie Poole with Meatflowers
2023-05-07 20:00
Tickets $12 advance (no-fee) or $15 day of show
Dougie Poole is a musician from New York City,. He writes earnestly about the experience of living in a city that is often a bellwether for changes in pop culture – addressing topics such as life in the gig economy (“Vaping on the Job”), romance in the digital age (“Claire”), and the existential urge to relocate (“Los Angeles”) – making for a unique perspective in the often Nashville-centric Americana space. His 2020 release The Freelancer’s Blues was reviewed in publications such as Pitchfork and All Music Guide, in addition to being featured as one of VICE’s Best Albums of 2020 (“equal parts heavy and hilarious”). Despite its indie origins, singles from The Freelancer’s Blues kept pace alongside entries from genre heavies like Orville Peck, Kacy Musgraves, and Charlie Crocket on a handful of commercially dominated DSP playlists, with “The Who’s Who of Who Cares” being featured on Spotify’s New Music Friday upon release.

Doors at 8PM, must be 21

Kepi Ghoulie Electric Band
2023-05-08 20:30
“KEPI GHOULIE once sang “I’ve got 99 lives” in the Groovie Ghoulies and he was not kidding! Six solo albums on Asian Man Records, a touring member of Chixdiggit for seven years, tours and albums with Mean Jeans, Copyrights and more…
Kepi and longtime cohort B-Face Rat were scheduled for a full on return to touring (Punk Rock Bowling, Europe, FEST) in 2020 (of course) when the pandemic ATTEMPTED to sideline him! Instead, he grabbed his trusty I phone and posted a song of the day for OVER TWO YEARS STRAIGHT! Playing virtual fests in Finland, Switzerland, Gainesville and more, this little buddy can not and will not stop!
The pandemic allowed Kepi to get caught up on some long time projects, re-issue much loved GROOVIE GHOULIES albums, sign a BRAND NEW DEAL WITH PIRATES PRESS RECORDS, and release multiple brand new and classic albums!!!
Maybe Kepi DOES have 99 lives! Either way, catch him on tour with one of his best lineups ever! Bface on bass (2/3 of the Fun In The Dark line up) , and Atom Bomb who has been on drums for over 10 years now!!! And YES, they play all of the old stuff too! ”

Man of The Flood, The Namby Pamby, Fernway
2023-05-11 20:00 - 20:30
Live Original Music, $10 cover, must be 21

Chilli Hendrix, Los Galaxy, Adam Araque
2023-05-12 21:00
$10 cover

Unlikely Alibi, UltraMagnetics
2023-05-13 21:45

The Namby Pamby, Caley Conway, Swell Time
2023-05-18 21:00

Bella's Bartok, Boat Show
2023-05-19 21:45
No-Fee $9 tickets on sale now
“Live your fantasy and embrace the stranger side of life with Bella’s Bartok. A band known for raucous theatrical performances and an outspoken political message of finding hope in a world beset by cruel uncertainty. With utter joy, they seamlessly blend a rich cacophony of sound and soul into their music with influences ranging from Punk to Folk and Pop to Americana. Let your freak flag fly high, fiercely and free, throw your societal inhibitions to the wayside and seek comfort in the warm sonic embrace of Bella’s Bartok. We are the night and you are bound to boogie.”

Speed Knobs, Carbon Decoy, Squirrel Cage
2023-05-20 21:45
Live original music with
SPEED KNOBS (Erick Coleman’s formerly of FAT ASS & THE BEAUTYS band)
CARBON DECOY
SQUIRREL CAGE
$7 cover, must be 21

Private Education, Thinning, A Salt River Sermon
2023-05-25 21:00
Our amazing sound person Daniel is leaving town. He’s helped us so much improve our sound so we want to send him off in style. Come here him play some drums and wish him the best on his move back to Texas.
Private Education
Thinning
A Salt River Sermon
$7

O’ Sister, Brother w/ Rosalind & The Way
2023-05-26 20:30

Swell Time, Necromoon, Cloudmaker
2023-05-27 21:30

Deer Scout, Thinning, Namby Pamby
2023-06-01 21:00

Heaven's Gateway Drugs, March On Comrade, The Piques
2023-06-02 21:30 - 23:59

LOVESEAT! Red Scarves, The Missed
2023-06-03 21:45

Soot, Snakehandler Church, The Holy Nothing, Squirrel Cage
2023-06-08 20:00 - 21:00

The Namby Pamby
2023-06-09 21:30

Le Tour Defort Official Stop
2023-06-10 12:00 - 19:00

Cloudmaker, Emmissary
2023-06-10 21:45

Kandace's Country Line Dancing
2023-06-12 20:30 - 23:30

Damien Jurado with Chris Pureka
2023-06-14 20:00 - 23:59
$16 advance no-fee tickets on sale now. $19 day of show
“Play on, there’s no such thing as better days,” Damien Jurado sings on “Roger,” the sweeping wash of a song that opens Reggae Film Star, his 18th full length album and second release from Jurado’s own Maraqopa Records label. But as he enters his 25th year as a recording artist, it’s clear these are, at the least, very good days for Jurado on the creative front. In these 12 songs, which evoke half-recalled dreams and overheard conversations, the cosmic rushes headlong into the autobiographical and specific moments on the clock fade from past to future to scenes set only in the eternal now.
Playing out like a backlot documentary filmed on the location of an unnamed TV or film set—maybe a sitcom taping, or perhaps it’s a low budget science fiction B-movie, or could it be a talk show?—the album is populated by performers awaiting call times, camera operators praying for their shot, and studio audiences rapt with anticipation. The stars here eschew glitz and glamor. Instead, they wander grocery stores and parking lots in the verdant Pacific Northwest and the desert Southwest, looking for payphones and a sense of purpose.

Alexander Craig, Left Lane Cruiser
2023-06-15 20:30

Sirius Blvck, Max Well, MZMR
2023-06-16 21:00
$8 cover, must be 21

UAW Pedal Poker Run
2023-06-17 13:00 - 19:00

Jimmy Whispers, The Meat Flowers
2023-06-17 21:30 - 23:59
The LA-via-Chicago songwriter JIMMY WHISPERS returns to The Brass Rail with his Midwest-DIY-Emo stylings.
No-Fee $8.00 advance tickets on sale now.

Beat Creeps, Love Seat
2023-06-22 20:45
Nic Rullette (blue moon boys, hillbilly casino) is back with his project THE BEAT CREEPS from Nashville.
“UNAPOLOGETIC GARAGE ROCK N’ ROLL” – ROCKABILLY MAGAZINE
This gang of miscreants met trolling the highways of the great American South in search of the next big kick. Giving a hard nod to bands like The Cramps, The Sonics, and The New York Dolls, The Beat Creeps bring a raw, un-apologetic approach to rock n’roll- shoving it in your face proving it’s not a phase- but a way of life. Singer Nic Roulette (Hillbilly Casino/Blue Moon Boys) brings a theatrical in your face performance- a true wildman you just never know what your gonna get! Leilani Kilgore on guitar, shreds sick riffs- having shared the stage with greats such as Buddy Guy, she’s a can’t miss! Elliott aka “The Garbage Man” beats his trash cans Chevy to the levy driving the rhythm hard with Ariel (L’assassins/Toxenes) holding it down-on attitude and bass. Catch them in town or on the road…but watch your back–these guys travel with baseball bats!
with Fort Wayne’s own LOVE SEAT

Best Sleep, Devin Hopwood, Birdwatch
2023-06-23 21:00

Heaven's Gateway Drugs, The Holy Nothings, Florets
2023-06-24 21:45

Necromoon, The Meat Flowers, Northwest
2023-06-25 20:00 - 23:59

Tom Harts, Serepta, Funayūrei
2023-06-30 21:45

Loveseat, Future Misters, The Meat Flowers
2023-07-06 20:00

Arc Transient, Paths, Middle Names, Antlerhead
2023-07-07 21:45

Death Hex, Holy Nothing, Observer
2023-07-08 08:00 - 17:00
21+ (Must have Valid ID for entry)
$8 Cover at the Door
Doors at 9pm / Show at 10pm
Venue:
The Brass Rail
1121 Broadway St.
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Presented by: Grande Gigs – https://www.facebook.com/grandegigs/
Live Performances by:
Death Hex (Toledo, OH) – https://www.facebook.com/deathhextoledo
Holy Nothing (Fort Wayne, IN) – https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093190566481
Observer (Fort Wayne, IN) – https://www.instagram.com/observer_fw/

Sundogsarah, Sophia Corinne, Quiet/Creator
2023-07-09 20:00

The Hooten Hallers, Mucca Pazza
2023-07-13 20:30 - 23:59
$12 no-fee advance tickets on sale now
The Hooten Hallers are a band that was founded by guitarist/lead vocalist John Randall and drummer/ falsetto vocalist Andy Rehm, who performed as a duo and were known for their raucous and often improvised live performances. Paul Weber briefly joined the band in 2013–14 on harmonica and tuba, and wrote several of the group’s songs, such as “She Used to Love My Music” and “Trouble Is”. Baritone and bass saxophonist Kellie Everett joined in 2014 and solidified the group’s line-up as a trio. The Hooten Hallers are a “high-energy blues, soul and rock and roll band known for their gritty Americana roots music”.
Mucca Pazza is an intrepid interdisciplinary instrumental music ensemble from Chicago, IL. Since 2004, they have made a name for themselves playing alarmingly danceable music composed and arranged especially for their implausible instrumentation by band members – original music which defies classification but has bloomed out of manifold influences, from surf to Stravinsky, from Bartok to Zappa, from Esquivel to Ellington. In addition to blaring trumpets, slithering saxophones, clarinets, trombones, and tubas, the band boasts a drumline that seems to share a single nervous system, an entire section of disparate instruments that don’t belong anywhere near a marching band (electric guitars, accordion, violin, and yes, a cello), and contains within its multitudes a cheer squad that performs absurdist cheers and asymmetrical, impressively low-to-the-ground pyramids. No-one has ever been completely certain of the exact number of people in Mucca Pazza. Everyone can be completely certain that this group of weirdos belongs together! Mucca Pazza: embracing the absurd! in solidarity with the improbable!

Necromoon, Tears of A Martian, Split Parasite
2023-07-14 21:45

Filthy & Majesty, The Snarks, Covert Flops, Lackluster
2023-07-15 21:30
EP release show, $7 cover, must be 21

Small Doses, Urine Hell, Feticide
2023-07-21 21:45
SMALL DOSES
Asheville, NC
Past members of Off With Their Heads and Fur Coats
URINE HELL
Chicago Based Noise Metal coming to the Fort right before they take off on their tour with Chat Pile
https://urinehell.bandcamp.com/
FETICIDE
Fort Wayne, IN
New School Death Metal out of the Midwest with a hardcore ethos.
$7 21+
Brass Rail
1121 Broadway St
Fort Wayne, IN 46802

Best Sleep, Soft Idiot, Door Girl, Leisure Hour
2023-07-22 21:30
Live original music with
Best Sleep
Soft Idiot
Door Girl
Leisure Hour
$7 cover, must be 21

Loomspore, The Holy Nothing, Oberserver
2023-07-27 20:45

Los Galaxy, SunDyle
2023-07-28 21:45 - 23:59
Los Galaxy is a six-piece instrumental funk-fusion band based in Indiana. Initially conceived as a loose collective of like minded artists, they spent their formative days busking on the streets of Fort Wayne before evolving into a fully-formed band. Since then, they have become an integral part of the city’s thriving music scene.

$7 cover, must be 21

Snakehandler Church, Squirrel Cage, Suede Brain
2023-07-29 21:30 - 23:59

Loveseat (Single Release) with Strobobean (Cincinnati) and Thinning
2023-08-04 21:00
Loveseat! is releasing a new single! Strobobean returns from Cincinnati to join with their deserty post-punk and locals Thinning round out the evening of music.
$7 cover, must be 21

The Namby Pamby, Cai Caudill, Cal in Red (Grand Rapids)
2023-08-05 21:45

John & Ben Carraoke
2023-08-10 20:30 - 23:59

Trauma Cat and Cloudmaker
2023-08-11 21:45
$7 cover- Must be 21+

Trauma Cat
Trauma Cat are equal parts band and absurdist performance art troupe. Hailing from Syracuse, New York, they call themselves “America’s sorriest power trio” — at once a superlative and a self-own befitting of the strange, tongue-in-cheek musicians at the group’s core.
Co-fronted by guitarist Ralph Kojig and bassist Roman Pando with drummer Rutger DiBoyere, Trauma Cat’s sound is the bastard child of Cake and Tool, or a modern American answer to XTC — a collage of art rock and progressive rock with shades of post-punk, shoegaze, and powerpop. Lyrically, Kojig’s and Pando’s songs often reflect on religion, death, and the internet.
Cloudmaker
Hardware-based electronic duo from the Midwest

Tropa Magica with Los Lemons
2023-08-12 21:45
“Invigorating”, “brilliant”, and “charismatic” are just a slew of the adjectives used to
describe Tropa Magica. “The East L.A. duo made a name for themselves by combining
alternative, grunge, and psychedelic rock with cumbia” -Spin magazine.

Having toured nationally and on multiple southwest and west coast tours, they have supported
established acts such as Bomba Estereo, Molotov, and comedian Felipe Esparza. The band has
boldly and successfully taken on larger LA stages at venues such as The Microsoft Theater, El
Rey Theater and The Hollywood Palladium.

In 2018 and 2019 Tropa Magica performed at So-Cal festival favorites Desert Daze and
Tropicalia. At the end of 2019 the band self released a limited edition 7inch vinyl EP “Smells
Like Cumbia” featuring Nirvana songs as cumbia renditions.

Despite the pandemic, 2020 has been a fruitful year for the band. They wrote and recorded the
theme song for comedian Felipe Esparza’s new Netflix special and collaborated with the
notorious Foo’s Gone Wild on the “Foo Files Cumbia” track released earlier this year. The band
has partnered up as ambassadors with 805/Firestone Beer and is sponsored by Fender guitars
and Ernie Ball.

Their sophomore LP “Tripiando Al Infinito En Mi Recamara” has garnished appraisal by music
critics:

“…the psychedelic cumbia-punk that David and Rene Pacheco have pieced together over a
decade as Tropa Magica has coalesced into something sublime on their sophomore album”
-Grimy Goods

“they’ve spread their wings sonically while losing none of the charisma that made them a hot
item at festivals…Tropa Magica’s new album, while born in East L.A., will truly be a child of the
world.”
-Buzzbands LA

(To learn a bit more) Tropa Magica has a short documentary that introduces the band nationally
on the well known media and news company “BESE”.

Mickey Factz, J. Tubbs, 2RQ, Max Wells, Tesla Chapman
2023-08-13 20:00 - 23:59
$8 no-fee advance tickets on sale now, must be 21

The Namby Pamby, Low Phase, Loveseat,
2023-08-17 20:30

Necromoon, Coffin Problem, Leones
2023-08-18 20:45 - 23:59

Middle Names, Adam Araque, The Relics
2023-08-19 21:45

Loomspore, Lollygagger ( Chicago), The Holy Nothing
2023-08-24 21:00 - 23:59

Florets, Frog Tongue, The Part You Left Out
2023-08-25 21:45
Live Original Music with
FLORETS
FROG TONGUE
THE PART YOU LEFT OUT
$7 cover, must be 21

Best Sleep, Necromoon, Florets
2023-08-26 21:45

A Light Sleeper, Serepta
2023-08-28 20:00
A LIGHT SLEEPER “Chicago’s a Light Sleeper is an ever-evolving quartet exploring collaborative composition from the bottom up, featuring breezy intertwining melodies from saxophonist Maria Elena Hernandez and violist Traci Newhouse, D. Pennepalli’s idiosyncratic guitar lines, and drummer Matthew Jung’s graceful clockwork core.”
SEREPTA “Serepta (the alter ego of Chicago musician, Hope Arthur) presents a colorful and vibrant experience, weaving together the art forms of avant garde makeup and bedroom pop. Their music explores the possibilities of experimental accordion, and draws from influences such as Bjork, FKA Twigs, Kate Bush, Depeche Mode and Gakuto Kamui.”
doors at 8pm/$7 cover, must be 21

TAE & The Neighborly, Swell Time
2023-09-01 21:00 - 23:59

Middle Names, Arc Transient, The Relics
2023-09-02 21:30

The Namby Pamby, Swell Time
2023-09-07 21:00

Anthony Giraldi, March On Comrade
2023-09-08 21:45 - 23:59
$10 cover, must be 21

Danny Attack, Bullet Points, Thinning
2023-09-09 21:30 - 21:45
Chainsmoking Records Presents:
DANNY ATTACK (vinyl release)
BULLET POINTS (Indianapolis)
THINNING
9:30pm/$8 cover

Ron Record, Grape Juice
2023-09-13 20:00

The Prescriptions, Thumbrider
2023-09-14 20:30

Pale Shade, Leones, Loomspore
2023-09-15 21:45

James & The Drifters
2023-09-16 21:30
A full night of music with James & The Drifters.
$10 cover, must be 21

Clem Snide with Fresh Tar
2023-09-19 19:30
$17 advance no-fee tickets on sale now. $20 day of show. Must be 21

“The last ten years have been a rollercoaster of deep despair and amazing opportunities that somehow present themselves at the last possible second,” says Eef Barzelay. “During that time, the band bottomed out, I lost my house, and I had to declare bankruptcy. The only way to survive was to try to transcend myself, to find some kind of deeper, spiritual relationship with life. Once I committed to that, all these little miracles started happening.”

‘Forever Just Beyond,’ Barzelay’s stunning new album under the Clem Snide moniker, may just be the most miraculous of them all. Produced by Scott Avett, the record is a work of exquisite beauty and profound questioning, a reckoning with faith and reality that rushes headlong into the unknown and the unknowable. The songs here grapple with hope and depression, identity and perception, God and the afterlife, humanizing thorny existential issues and delivering them with the intimate, understated air of a late-night conversation between old friends. Avett’s production is similarly warm and inviting, and the careful, spacious arrangement of gentle guitars and spare percussion carves a wide path for Barzelay’s insightful lyrics and idiosyncratic delivery.

“I look up to Eef with total respect and admiration,” says Avett, “and I hope to survive like he survives: with total love for the new and the unknown. Eef’s a crooner and an indie darling by sound and a mystic sage by depth. That’s not common, but it’s beautiful.”

Named for a William S. Borroughs character, Clem Snide first emerged from Boston as a three-piece in the early 1990’s, and the group would go on to become a cult and critical favorite, picking up high profile fans from Bon Iver to Ben Folds over the course of three decades and more than a dozen studio albums. NPR highlighted the Israeli-born Barzelay as “the most underrated songwriter in the business today, with a sneakily firm grasp on poignancy and humor,” while Rolling Stone hailed his songwriting as “soulful and incisive,” and The New Yorker praised his music’s “soothing melodies and candid wit.”

Abadeer, Moon Goons, Necromoon
2023-09-20 21:00

Harley Poe, The Homeless Gospel Choir, SundogSarah
2023-09-22 21:30
$20 advance no-fee tickets on sale now. $25.00 day of show.
Harley Poe: Misanthropic horror-themed acoustic punk. The music will steal your heart… then eat your brain.
with The Homeless Gospel Choir and SundogSarah .
Presented by Chainsmoking Records
Must be 21

Open Walls Party: Karkosa, The Holy Nothing, Rvmpvge
2023-09-23 21:00

Hallie Fundraiser: Florets, Swell Time, Quiet/Creator with BRAVAS
2023-09-27 19:00 - 23:59
**EARLY SHOW**
Hallie’s friends are raising some money to help her after she lost everything in an apartment fire. Music starts early. Bravas truck will be on the scene 7pm-10pm
$7 cover, must be 21

Ethan Williams Bowers, Sturm Band, Halfcap
2023-09-28 20:30

Florets, Social Cig, The Namby Pamby
2023-09-29 21:45

Thinning., North by North, Language, Seventh Cloud
2023-09-30 20:00 - 23:59

James Swanberg, See Ray Harvey
2023-10-01 21:00
$8 cover

Iguana Death Cult with Loveseat
2023-10-03 20:00 - 23:59

Flamingo Nosebleed, Veterans
2023-10-06 21:45

Halloween Photoshoot with Bambi Guthrie Photography
2023-10-07 19:45 - 23:30
Free Photos. No cover. Must be 21

Smoke & Mirrors, The Part You Left Out, Bearcase
2023-10-07 21:00

Baby Wave, Streetlamps for Spotlights
2023-10-11 20:45

Dead Leaf Echo, Heaven's Gateway Drugs, Los Lemons
2023-10-13 21:45
