The Brass Rail

Chilli Hendrix, Buddy Merlot, Adam Araque, Tuffy Campbell & The Bussin Boys
2023-01-14 21:45 UTC | The Brass Rail, 1121 Broadway, Fort Wayne, IN, 46802, United States

MAC DAY: A celebration of Mac Miller hosted by J Tubbs
2023-01-19 20:00
$7 cover, must be 21

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
Live original music
$7 cover must be 21

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
$7 cover

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
