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Lucky Devils Band

Lucky Devils Band

Tuesday March 19th 7pm FREE All Ages —LUCKY DEVILS BAND— The Lucky Devils Band, a customizable event band, showcase their talents! This showcase is the band rehearsal evening – they’ll be playing… Read more

Tuesday March 19th

7pm

FREE

All Ages

—LUCKY DEVILS BAND— The Lucky Devils Band, a customizable event band, showcase their talents! This showcase is the band rehearsal evening – they’ll be playing new and old material, and they’ll probably play some pretty unusual stuff too – always a lot of fun! They’ll play a mixture of chilled out music and high energy tunes. Lucky Devils showcases are a relaxed, free, public gig where you can see the band performing live. You can ask any questions, talk to the musicians, and get a good feel for how amazing and different the band is compared to everything else out there. Showcases are an invaluable part of your event planning research and the best way to ensure that you get a great band! Showcases are also a fun evening out – you can talk to the band and see them playing a variety of styles.

The White Buffalo

The White Buffalo

Thursday March 21st with support from Miss Olivia & the Interlopers 7pm ADV $22.50 | $25 Standing Room Only Read more

Thursday March 21st
with support from Miss Olivia & the Interlopers

7pm

ADV $22.50 | $25

Standing Room Only

Party Lab $4 Wells every Thursday!

Party Lab $4 Wells every Thursday!

Join us for Party Lab every Thursdays with a $4 well special! -Halsero & Roch -KPMADMAN -Bex Halsero & Roch with a heavy rotation of open format remixes of hip hop and… Read more

Join us for Party Lab every Thursdays with a $4 well special!

-Halsero & Roch
-KPMADMAN
-Bex

Halsero & Roch with a heavy rotation of open format remixes of hip hop and throwbacks, KPmadman playing underground dance music and Bex with the house, disco and grooves.

10pm-2am

Tucson Swing Festival with Mysterious Babies

Tucson Swing Festival with Mysterious Babies

Friday March 22nd Mysterious Babies featuring Day 1 of the Tucson Swing Festival! 6pm $10 Read more

Friday March 22nd

Mysterious Babies featuring Day 1 of the Tucson Swing Festival!

6pm

$10

Decibels for David

Decibels for David

Friday March 22nd 7pm $10 donation

Friday March 22nd

7pm

$10 donation

RED EYE at Club Congress (Fridays)

RED EYE at Club Congress (Fridays)

Red Eye at Club Congress! $5 Seltzers, $5 Wells, $5 AMF’s Every Friday! 10pm Free Enter with ID at Club or 5th Ave entrances -Pico de Gallo on the Plaza -Bex &… Read more

Red Eye at Club Congress!

$5 Seltzers, $5 Wells, $5 AMF’s Every Friday!

10pm

Free

Enter with ID at Club or 5th Ave entrances

-Pico de Gallo on the Plaza

-Bex & Halsero in the Club

Desert Haze | Vintage Clothing Market

Desert Haze | Vintage Clothing Market

Join us for Desert Haze Vintage Market! Free on the Plaza from 11am – 4pm The Bloody Mary bar will be up and running in our newly renovated Lounge and The Cup… Read more

Join us for Desert Haze Vintage Market!

Free on the Plaza from 11am – 4pm

The Bloody Mary bar will be up and running in our newly renovated Lounge and The Cup Cafe will be open so you can snack and sip while you shop!

VENDORS:

– Nakosfaucet
– Off the Highway
– Swindle my Soul
– SECONDHANDCONTRABAND
– Globo Retro
– Curated Ego
– Century Flowers Vintage
– Cowtail Vintage
– Lowbrow Vintage
– Perfectly Classy
– Sam Loves Suzy
– Oak Harbor Vintage
– Yoz Vintage
– Graduating Vintage

Retro Game Show Night Presents: The $9.95 Pyramid!

Retro Game Show Night Presents: The $9.95 Pyramid!

Retro Game Show Night Presents The $9.95 Pyramid! Club Congress Saturday March 23 6pm doors, 7pm show $15 Get ready to play The $9.95 Pyramid on Saturday March 23 at Hotel Congress!… Read more

Retro Game Show Night Presents The $9.95 Pyramid!

Club Congress
Saturday March 23
6pm doors, 7pm show
$15

Get ready to play The $9.95 Pyramid on Saturday March 23 at Hotel Congress!

Join your lovably loquacious host Chatty Kathee and her effortlessly effervescent executive assistant Swish Manley for a seriously silly night of The $9.95 Pyramid! The fabulously fierce Fulta Burstyn and wildly wacky Mona Lisa DiCaprio will join the fun as our celebrity guests! Put your name in Kathee’s big, red, sparkly box for a chance to play for life-changing prizes and soul-crushing fame!!

C’mon down to Hotel Congress for Tucson’s very own Retro Game Show Night – now in its 13th year! Open seat tickets are just $15 at the door, at Hotel Congress’s front desk or online (service fees may apply)! Doors open at 6pm and the ridiculousness starts at 7pm. Drop everything and get your tickets NOW! 21+

(Open seat & SRO tickets will be available at the door the night of show until we run out!)

RED EYE at Club Congress (Saturdays)

RED EYE at Club Congress (Saturdays)

Red Eye at Club Congress! $5 Seltzers, $5 Wells, $5 AMF’s Every Saturday! 10pm Free Enter with ID at Club or 5th Ave entrances -Humphouse on the Plaza -Sounds by Posi in… Read more

Red Eye at Club Congress!

$5 Seltzers, $5 Wells, $5 AMF’s Every Saturday!

10pm

Free

Enter with ID at Club or 5th Ave entrances

-Humphouse on the Plaza

-Sounds by Posi in the Club

Dirty Red and the Soul Shakers

Dirty Red and the Soul Shakers

Sunday March 24th 5pm $10

Sunday March 24th

5pm

$10

Karaoke con Congress

Karaoke con Congress

Congratulations, you’re booked! You’re the star at Karaoke con Congress every Sunday night on the Taproom Patio – FREE @ 10pm! Read more

Congratulations, you’re booked! You’re the star at Karaoke con Congress every Sunday night on the Taproom Patio – FREE @ 10pm!

Lady Haha: Comedy Open Mic for Women, LGBTQ+ & Allies

Lady Haha: Comedy Open Mic for Women, LGBTQ+ & Allies

6pm Signups, 7pm Show Comedy without the competition. In August 2021, local Comedians Priscilla Fernandez, Mo Urban and Amber Frame created Lady Haha: a comedy open mic for women, LGBTQ+, all marginalized… Read more

6pm Signups, 7pm Show

Comedy without the competition.

In August 2021, local Comedians Priscilla Fernandez, Mo Urban and Amber Frame created Lady Haha: a comedy open mic for women, LGBTQ+, all marginalized folx and our allies to perform ANY genre of comedy (not just stand-up) in a supportive and super fun environment. Whether it’s your first time trying comedy or your thousandth—all levels of experience are welcome! Everyone gets at most 5 minutes of stage time, and it’s free!

Anyone 21+ can come watch, but the stage is reserved for marginalized-funny people and our allies. Our only rule is “no hate speech” (sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia and violent speech).

Lady Haha also produces comedy-variety shows in Tucson with an emphasis on diversity and all genres of comedy.

We’re proud to say we are the first and only comedy open mic of its kind—IN THE WORLD—right here in little ol’ Tucson, AZ. We hope to see more of these popping up!

Amor Deluxe

Amor Deluxe

Wednesday March 27th w/ The Working People 7pm FREE

Wednesday March 27th

w/ The Working People

7pm

FREE

Amor Deluxe w/ Juanita & Juan and The Working People

Amor Deluxe w/ Juanita & Juan and The Working People

Wednesday March 27th 7pm FREE

Wednesday March 27th

7pm

FREE

Sr.

Sr.

Thursday March 28th w/ Simple Existence 7pm Adv $10 | Dos $12

Thursday March 28th

w/ Simple Existence

7pm

Adv $10 | Dos $12

TIDES Re-Release Party

TIDES Re-Release Party

Friday March 29th w/ Mastadonna & Bloody Roar 7pm

Friday March 29th

w/ Mastadonna & Bloody Roar

7pm

Ronstadt Brothers

Ronstadt Brothers

Friday March 29th w/ Will Clipman & Michael G. Ronstadt 7pm Adv $10 | Dos $12 Read more

Friday March 29th

w/ Will Clipman & Michael G. Ronstadt

7pm

Adv $10 | Dos $12

Floozy Flea Freak Show

Floozy Flea Freak Show

Saturday March 30th Floozy Flea will feature clothes, art, jewelry and live music! This event is for queer women, bipoc & disabled owned businesses. 2-7pm $5 suggested donation Read more

Saturday March 30th

Floozy Flea will feature clothes, art, jewelry and live music! This event is for queer women, bipoc & disabled owned businesses.

2-7pm

$5 suggested donation

Dogs In A Pile

Dogs In A Pile

Saturday, March 30th with Special Guests Bush League Doors 7pm $20 Advance, $22 Day of Show 21+ Read more

Saturday, March 30th with Special Guests Bush League

Doors 7pm

$20 Advance, $22 Day of Show

21+

The Coolers

The Coolers

Sunday March 31st 5pm $10

Sunday March 31st

5pm

$10

Karaoke con Congress

Karaoke con Congress

Congratulations, you’re booked! You’re the star at Karaoke con Congress every Sunday night on the Taproom Patio – FREE @ 10pm! Read more

Congratulations, you’re booked! You’re the star at Karaoke con Congress every Sunday night on the Taproom Patio – FREE @ 10pm!

bar italia

bar italia

Wednesday, April 3rd with Great Area and The Place 7pm ADV $18 | $20 16+ —BAR ITALIA—Bar Italia is a British trio based in London comprising Nina Cristante (aka NINA), Jezmi Tarik… Read more

Wednesday, April 3rd
with Great Area and The Place

7pm

ADV $18 | $20

16+

—BAR ITALIA—Bar Italia is a British trio based in London comprising Nina Cristante (aka NINA), Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton (the latter two perform as Double Virgo).

The trio’s debut album, “Quarrel”, was released on World Music in 2020. Their second album, “Bedhead”, was released on World Music in 2021. In 2023 the trio signed to Matador and released “Tracey Denim”.

Old 97’s

Old 97’s

Thursday April 4th w/ special guests Holler Choir 7pm ADV $25 | DOS $30 Formed in Dallas, Texas, Old 97’s first emerged in the early ’90s with an adrenaline pumping blend of… Read more

Thursday April 4th

w/ special guests Holler Choir

7pm

ADV $25 | DOS $30

Formed in Dallas, Texas, Old 97’s first emerged in the early ’90s with an adrenaline pumping blend of rock and roll swagger, punk snarl, and old-school twang that quickly brought them into the national spotlight. Conventional wisdom places the band at the forefront of a musical movement that would come to be known as “alternative country,” but, as the New York Times so succinctly put it, their sound always “leaned more toward the Clash than the Carter Family.” Fueled by breakneck tempos, distorted guitars, and wry storytelling, the foursome built a reputation for high-energy albums and even higher energy shows, earning themselves performances everywhere from Conan and Letterman to Bonnaroo and Lollaplooza alongside countless rave reviews. NPR lauded the group as a “pioneering force,” while Rolling Stone hailed their music’s “whiskey-wrecked nihilism and slow-burn heartbreak,” and The New Yorker praised their songwriting as “blistered, blasted, and brilliant.” On top of his prodigious output with Old 97’s, Miller simultaneously established himself as a prolific solo artist, as well, releasing eight studio albums under his own name that garnered similarly wide-ranging acclaim and landed in a slew of prominent film and television soundtracks. A gifted writer beyond his music, Miller also contributed essays and short stories to The Atlantic, Salon, McSweeney’s, and Sports Illustrated among others, and in 2019, he released his debut book, a collection of poetry for children, via Little, Brown and Company.

That joy is utterly palpable on their latest release, Twelfth.’ Loose and raw, the record is an ecstatic celebration of survival, a resounding ode to endurance and resilience from a veteran group that refuses to rest on their considerable laurels. Working out of Sputnik Sound in Nashville, Miller and his longtime bandmates—bassist Murry Hammond, guitarist Ken Bethea, and drummer Philip Peeples—teamed up once again with GRAMMY-winning producer Vance Powell (Chris Stapleton, Jack White), and while the resulting album boasts all the hallmarks of a classic Old 97’s record (sex and booze, laughter and tears, poetry and blasphemy), it also showcases a newfound perspective in its writing and craftsmanship, a maturity and appreciation that can only come with age and experience. Perhaps the band is growing up; maybe they’re just getting started. Either way, Old 97’s have never been happier to be alive.

**HOLLER CHOIR**

Led by the lyrical craftsmanship of singer, guitarist, and songwriter Clint Roberts, the distinctly Appalachian, old-time sound of Asheville’s Holler Choir combines haunting harmonies, stirring string compositions, and heart-wrenching ballads, yet hardly conforms to a stereotypical genre. Call it a confluence of old-time, Americana, and bluegrass, but, by its own exceptional design, the sound and atmosphere of Holler Choir are singular. Robert’s wordcraft and explosive vocal range is met with the dulcet clawhammer banjo plucking of long-time collaborator Helena Rose and the sturdy timekeeping of upright bassist Norbert McGettigan. With a rotating cast of gifted musicians featured on Holler Choir’s recordings and electrifying live performances, it’s no wonder they are the band to watch in 2024.

The Black Moods

The Black Moods

Friday, April 5th with Znora 7pm All Ages —THE BLACK MOODS—Born in the Arizona desert and reared on stages across North America, the band delivers a fresh, fiery update of a timeless… Read more

Friday, April 5th
with Znora

7pm

All Ages

—THE BLACK MOODS—Born in the Arizona desert and reared on stages across North America, the band delivers a fresh, fiery update of a timeless sound.

Big Al and the Heavyweights

Big Al and the Heavyweights

Sunday April 7th 4pm $10

Sunday April 7th

4pm

$10

A. Savage

A. Savage

Tuesday April 9 Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm with Mali Velasquez $20 Advance, $25 Day of Show 16+ *Best Life & Hotel Congress present* –A. Savage–Andrew Savage, or A. Savage, (born 1986) is… Read more

Tuesday April 9

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm

with Mali Velasquez

$20 Advance, $25 Day of Show

16+

*Best Life & Hotel Congress present*
–A. Savage–Andrew Savage, or A. Savage, (born 1986) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and painter, best known for his work as co-frontman for the rock band Parquet Courts.

In addition to his work for Parquet Courts, Savage is also a solo artist. In 2017, he released his first album, Thawing Dawn, under the stage name A. Savage.[1]

Savage is also a painter and visual artist, and has created all Parquet Courts’ album art.[2] Savage received a Grammy Awards nomination for Best Recording Package for the album art of his band’s 2016 album Human Performance.[3]

Sheer Mag

Sheer Mag

Wednesday, April 10th with support from Dogbreth Doors 7pm ADV $18 | DOS $20 21+ –SHEER MAG–Coming on like a soulful yet unholy amalgam of The Mekons, Thin Lizzy, The Jackosn 5,… Read more

Wednesday, April 10th with support from Dogbreth

Doors 7pm

ADV $18 | DOS $20

21+

–SHEER MAG–Coming on like a soulful yet unholy amalgam of The Mekons, Thin Lizzy, The Jackosn 5, and MC5, Pennsylvania’s Sheer Mag distill big ’70s riffs and garage punk attitude into a hook-filled, lo-fi dance party.

The band formed in Philadelphia in 2014 around the talents of Kyle and Hart Seely, Matt Palmer, Ian Dykstra, and powerhouse vocalist Tina Halladay, and within a year started issuing a flurry of 7″ releases that caught the attention of everyone from Stereogum and Pitchfork to Rolling Stone and NPR. In early 2016, Sheer Mag issued their Static Shock Records label debut LP, I/II, which collected all the tracks from their first two EPs. A year later, another edition of their singles compilation was issued, this time adding the four tracks featured on their aptly named third EP, III. The band had already begun work on their debut full-length, with Hart Seely at the controls. Featuring a more nuanced approach to their tinny AOR sound, and with Halladay’s vocals even more front and center, Need to Feel Your Love was released in July 2017. The group got political and personal on their 2019 sophomore effort, A Distant Call, which looked to socialism, economic hardship, and the death of Halladay’s father for inspiration. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi

Mark Hummel Blues Survivors w/ Anson Funderburgh

Mark Hummel Blues Survivors w/ Anson Funderburgh

Wednesday April 10th 7pm **Reserved Seating**: $27 **ADV** $17 | **DOS** $25 Read more

Wednesday April 10th

7pm

**Reserved Seating**: $27

**ADV** $17 | **DOS** $25

Sextile

Sextile

Friday, April 12th w/ Donzii 7pm ADV $20 | DOS $22

Friday, April 12th

w/ Donzii

7pm

ADV $20 | DOS $22

Bidi Bidi Banda Final Tour!

Bidi Bidi Banda Final Tour!

Friday, April 12th Presented in Partnership with Pueblos del Maiz 7 pm ADV $15 | DOS $20 Read more

Friday, April 12th
Presented in Partnership with Pueblos del Maiz

7 pm

ADV $15 | DOS $20

Julie Buck’s Celebration of Life
2:30PM

Julie Buck’s Celebration of Life

Sunday, April 14th Celebrating the life of Julie Buck w/ The Coolers, Wholly Cats Swing Club, Legion of Mario, Mr . Skynrd, and Whose Blues. With appearances by Vasanta Weiss and Charlie… Read more

Sunday, April 14th

Celebrating the life of Julie Buck w/ The Coolers, Wholly Cats Swing Club, Legion of Mario, Mr . Skynrd, and Whose Blues. With appearances by Vasanta Weiss and Charlie Martin.

3pm

$10 suggested donation

AHF- Passport Packages

AHF- Passport Packages

Enjoy access to various events at this year’s Agave Heritage Festival! Quantities are limited and this is a limited-time offer! Ticket price includes any taxes and gratuity. AGAVE HERITAGE PASS #1 –… Read more

Enjoy access to various events at this year’s Agave Heritage Festival! Quantities are limited and this is a limited-time offer! Ticket price includes any taxes and gratuity.

AGAVE HERITAGE PASS #1

– (2) Dinner Tickets* – to choice of dinner April 18-21
– (2) Agave Fiesta tickets
– (2) Flor de Toloache tickets

**AHF Flash Sale Price $495.00**

AGAVE HERITAGE PASS #2

– (2) Guided Tasting tickets
– (2) MezCrawl tickets
– (2) Crisol Guided Tasting tickets

**AHF Flash Sale $295.00**

**A festival representative will contact you within 72 hours of ticket purchase to book your dinner reservations.*

AHF – MezCrawl

AHF – MezCrawl

MezCrawl 2024 – Downtown Tucson Thursday, April 18 21+ $65 Agave rules the night with cocktails, mezcal and culinary delights! Kick off the night with a traditional mezcal toast at the Playground… Read more

MezCrawl 2024 – Downtown Tucson

Thursday, April 18

21+

$65

Agave rules the night with cocktails, mezcal and culinary delights! Kick off the night with a traditional mezcal toast at the Playground Bar & Lounge and then stroll to any of the over 12 participating Downtown Tucson restaurant and bar locations Ticket includes veladora (traditional mezcal sipping glass), lanyard, mezcal toast with Mezcal, light bites & mezcal cocktail samples at all 12 locations.

AHF – Agave Culturescapes & Festival Opening Reception

AHF – Agave Culturescapes & Festival Opening Reception

Thursday, April 18 | 6-9pm FREE Join Southern Arizona and the University of Arizona Community in celebrating the culture, history, and heritage of the noble agave plant as we dance, sip, talk,… Read more

Thursday, April 18 | 6-9pm

FREE

Join Southern Arizona and the University of Arizona Community in celebrating the culture, history, and heritage of the noble agave plant as we dance, sip, talk, laugh, and engage for a night of celebration. The reception includes Dr. Luis Coronado of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Som Do Sisal Brazilian Orchestra as well as many of the agave industry’s best and most influential.

Flor de Toloache’s Agave Heritage Festival kickoff with Som do Sisal

Flor de Toloache’s Agave Heritage Festival kickoff with Som do Sisal

Friday April 19th 7pm ADV $25 | DOS $30 All Welcome —FLOR DE TOLOACHE—Experience a historic night of both culture and entertainment with the Grammy Award Winning Mariachi Flor de Toloache. Joined… Read more

Friday April 19th

7pm

ADV $25 | DOS $30

All Welcome

—FLOR DE TOLOACHE—Experience a historic night of both culture and entertainment with the Grammy Award Winning Mariachi Flor de Toloache. Joined by Som do Sisal a 13 piece Brazilian Youth Orchestra that plays instruments made of repurposed Agave Sisal plants. This concert kicks off the Agave Heritage Festival Weekend in true Tucson style. As a special treat from the Agave Heritage Festival, the first 200 21+ concert goers are treated to a agave spirit sample from Bahnez Mezcal Artisanal.

AHF – Agave Fiesta

AHF – Agave Fiesta

Agave Fiesta 2024! Saturday, April 20 7-10pm 21+ $65 This annual signature event showcases all things agave, including presentations, over 50 small-batch artisanal agave spirits, and an agave cocktail showdown. Enjoy live… Read more

Agave Fiesta 2024!

Saturday, April 20

7-10pm

21+

$65

This annual signature event showcases all things agave, including presentations, over 50 small-batch artisanal agave spirits, and an agave cocktail showdown. Enjoy live music from Mamma Coal and AB Sanchez, delicious food, agave spirit tastings, agave art, and other goods produced or inspired by the agave plant. Discover the nuances of and differences between mezcal, bacanora, and tequila, get to know the producers themselves, and enjoy delicious food pairings during the Grand Tasting. Guest festival shot glass (thought we sip not shoot) 4 mezcal neat pours, 2 mezcal cocktails samples, 1 local beer sample and a delicious plate of food from the Culinary Team of Cup Cafe

Snow Strippers at Club Congress

Snow Strippers at Club Congress

Sunday April 21st w/ special guest Club Eat 7pm ADV $25 | DOS $30 16+ —SNOW STRIPPERS—Snow strippers is a duo made up of members Tatiana Schwaninger and Graham Perez. They met… Read more

Sunday April 21st

w/ special guest Club Eat

7pm

ADV $25 | DOS $30

16+

—SNOW STRIPPERS—Snow strippers is a duo made up of members Tatiana Schwaninger and Graham Perez. They met in Florida in 2018 and began making music together towards the end of 2021, forming the band Snow Strippers. Graham had been producing music for years, while Tati had no previous experience making music before. They make electronic music that they want to listen to. They do all of their creative, visuals and merch independently. They run the band along with their label, Nice Bass Bro. Their third full length project, April Mixtape 3, dropped May 2023 on Surf Gang Records.

late night drive home
7:30PM

late night drive home

Monday April 22nd **Spotify Presale: February 6th 10am local** 7pm ADV $18 | DOS $22 16+ —LATE NIGHT DRIVE HOME—Acclaimed by Alternative Press as “reinventing indie rock”, late night drive home are… Read more

Monday April 22nd

**Spotify Presale: February 6th 10am local**

7pm

ADV $18 | DOS $22

16+

—LATE NIGHT DRIVE HOME—Acclaimed by Alternative Press as “reinventing indie rock”, late night drive home are bringing their roots of growing up in a small town outside of El Paso around the world.

Starting in 2019, singer Andre Portillo and guitarist Juan “Ockz” Vargas learned how to play their instruments while simultaneously learning how to produce music. When 2020 hit, the two best friends spent their time together uploading their work on SoundCloud. As they started to gain momentum online, Ockz recruited his cousin Freddy Baca on the bass (who learned how to play the bass in order to join the band) and their long time friend, Brian Dolan on drums. On one fateful day in 2021, they released their hit song “Stress Relief” on all streaming platforms, their lives were forever changed.

“Stress Relief” accumulated over 100M streams across all platforms, which resulted in late night drive home signing a record deal with Epitaph Records. Now, gearing up to release their debut EP “i’ll remember you for the same feeling you gave me as i slept” off the tails of a successful sold out headline tour, late night drive home are stopping at nothing, while also remembering their roots and growing up in rural america; just being able to create art for them is enough.

Los Shadows

Los Shadows

Tuesday April 23rd with Gio Chamba Doors 7pm $10 Advance, $13 Day of Show Read more

Tuesday April 23rd with Gio Chamba

Doors 7pm

$10 Advance, $13 Day of Show

Los Shadows

Los Shadows

Tuesday April 23rd w/ Twin Seas Doors 7pm ADV $10 | DOS $13 21+ –LOS SHADOWS– Los Shadows were founded in San Diego, CA in 2015 by friends Andy Saldana and Pepe… Read more

Tuesday April 23rd

w/ Twin Seas

Doors 7pm

ADV $10 | DOS $13

21+

–LOS SHADOWS– Los Shadows were founded in San Diego, CA in 2015 by friends Andy Saldana and Pepe Gonzales. Building from a foundational 4 piece Indie Rock band, Los Shadows self-released LPs ‘Miami’ in 2017 and ‘NOT a Safe Space’ in 2019. –GIO CHAMBA– Gio Chamba is the wild duo of Gio Alejandro and Coffee Guzman founded in 2014. Their infectious musical blend and raucous performances give them an edge that is hard to find in many bands. Fresh and exciting, yet there’s a celebratory sense of familiarity and warmness in their performances. In the nine years of making music together, they have shared the stage with acts such as: AB Quintanilla & Los Kumbia Allstarz, Ozomatli, Natalia LaFourcade, Caravan Palace, Las Cafeteras, Chicano Batman, Sonido Gallo Negro, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Baby Bash, and Los Lonely Boys to name a few. They have also performed in several festivals and notable stages such as: Free Press Summer Fest & SuperBowl Live in Houston Texas, Fortress Festival in Fort Worth Texas, Villapalooza and Mole de Mayo in Chicago, CMJ Showcase in New York City, MXLAN in McAllen Texas, & The Aztec Theatre in San Antonio Texas.

Zach Person

Zach Person

Wednesday April 24th Artist presale tickets available 3/6 @ 11am. Click “access presale ” or “got a code”? and enter the code to access the presale. Doors 7pm $15 Advance, $18 Day… Read more

Wednesday April 24th
Artist presale tickets available 3/6 @ 11am.
Click “access presale ” or “got a code”? and enter the code to access the presale.

Doors 7pm

$15 Advance, $18 Day of show + fees

21+

*Standing Room Only*

Lola Kirke

Lola Kirke

Thursday April 25 with Dale Hollow Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm $10 Advance Gen Adm, $20 guaranteed reserved seating $15 Day of Show + fees —LOLA KIRKE—Lola Kirke has played many roles as… Read more

Thursday April 25 with Dale Hollow

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm

$10 Advance Gen Adm, $20 guaranteed reserved seating
$15 Day of Show + fees

—LOLA KIRKE—Lola Kirke has played many roles as an actress (“Mozart in the Jungle,” “Gone Girl,” “Winning Time”), but as a musician her sights have always been set squarely on Country.

“I don’t totally get it either,” laughs the London born New York raised Kirke. “But I’ve always been drawn to dynamic parts for women, and I can’t think of any other genre where we can be mothers, heartbreakers, glamorous, gritty, drunk, tender, and everything in between all at once.”

She’s also just a sucker for the songwriting. “I wanted to know how I could make the most complicated feelings sound simple, or how to make the saddest things be fun or witty. Great Country just does that so well.”

After relocating from Los Angeles to Nashville in 2020, Kirke devoted herself to honing the craft she’d come to admire so deeply in artists like The Judds, The Pistol Annies, and Dolly Parton. Shortly thereafter, she released her critically acclaimed sophomore LP “Lady For Sale” on the much respected Third Man Records in 2022, and played sold out shows with the likes of Jenny Lewis, and Margo Price.

In her downtime, Kirke threw herself into writing, both on her own and with others. “I was nervous a lot of people in Nashville wouldn’t take me seriously. There’s so much talent there. I was intimidated. Plus while being a musician turned actor is kind of chic, the other way around can be kind of cringey—even to me. Also growing up Jewish and singing Country isn’t exactly a normal trajectory, so I felt I had a lot working against me.”

But Kirke’s commitment and talent were clear enough to hitmakers like Aaron Ratiere (Miranda Lambert), Mary Kutter (Bailey Zimmerman, Nate Smith), and Jason Nix (Lainey Wilson), with whom she wrote the bulk of her latest EP “Country Curious.”

To achieve the more contemporary sound Kirke envisioned (“I was kind of like—what would happen if I wrote ‘Bro Country’ but for girls?” she says, only half jokingly), she enlisted the Grammy nominated, chart topping Elle King, who’d been itching make her debut as a producer. “I knew she’d be the right fit. She always been so supportive of me and I’ve always loved how she blends her roots rock sound with a real pop sensibility.” Their lifelong friendship made the collaboration even more of a shoe in. “She was the first girl I knew singing Country in New York City!” Kirke beams when talking about King.

If Kirke’s doubts about her place in music didn’t dwindle after First Aid Kit invited her on tour and jump on board to feature on the EP’s first single, “All My Exes Live in LA,” one can imagine it’s only a matter of time. “Lola is a stunning combination of wildness, beauty, and humor, with a voice that digs inside my head and heart,” says the legendary Rosanne Cash, one of Kirke’s all time heroes, and her collaborator on “Karma.”

“I honestly adore this woman and count myself both a friend and her biggest fan.” Cash continues.

After listening to Kirke sing, or catching one of her effervescent live shows, you’ll be hard pressed to disagree.

Israel’s Arcade

Israel’s Arcade

Friday April 26th 7pm Adv $12 | Dos $14 —ISRAEL’S ARCADE— Coachella Valley band Israel’s Arcade formed in 2018 by multi instrumentalist and vocalist Israel Pinedo. Israel’s Arcade debut single 12 Regrets… Read more

Friday April 26th

7pm

Adv $12 | Dos $14

—ISRAEL’S ARCADE— Coachella Valley band Israel’s Arcade formed in 2018 by multi instrumentalist and vocalist Israel Pinedo. Israel’s Arcade debut single 12 Regrets was released in 2018 following with the release of their debut EP in 2019. They got their start by playing small back yard shows in the Coachella Valley but soon began branching out into more popular pacific west coast cities and venues such as The Roxy and the Echo/Echoplex in Los Angeles. They have since released a number of singles that have reached over 1 million streams and released their first full length LP December 8th.

Leigh Lesho

Leigh Lesho

Saturday April 27th w/ special guest Jacob Acosta 7pm $15 All Welcome —LEIGH LESHO—Folk-inspired singer-songwriter Leigh Lesho is a storyteller and a visionary, leading us to find and treasure our voice, our… Read more

Saturday April 27th

w/ special guest Jacob Acosta

7pm

$15

All Welcome

—LEIGH LESHO—Folk-inspired singer-songwriter Leigh Lesho is a storyteller and a visionary, leading us to find and treasure our voice, our path, and our joy in a world riddled with suffering. Born of a winding cosmic calling and a deep reverence for sound as a link to the divine, her music is not breathtaking, but giving, casting healing spells and bringing its listeners to life. Encompassing a wide range of genres from folk-rock to americana and alt-country and a voice that demands attention, Leigh’s lyric-driven work is reminiscent of legends like Stevie Nicks, Linda Ronstadt, Joan Baez, and her muse, Tori Amos. The haunting melodies of the desert invoke a familiar backdrop where acoustic meets electric and music meets eternal

—JACOB ACOSTA—Jacob Acosta is an international recording and performing artist based in Tucson, Arizona. He has worked with the legendary indie-producer John Vanderslice, been featured on National Public Radio, played dozens of festivals and tours across the U.S., and has released sixteen records in the genres of blues rock, indie-shoegaze, pop, deep house, progressive house, organic house, americana and folk since 2008 by his own namesake along with the groups Mason, Burning West, HYTS, Roll Acosta, and Race You There. His most popular local release is ‘Desert Sounds’ about Arizonan culture and the Southwest. His genre is called ZonaFolk as it blends elements of latin, western, rock, pop, and caribbean styles of music. The history and storytelling of his songs highlight the culture, and community of Arizona.

Skip Heller and the Voodoo 5

Skip Heller and the Voodoo 5

Sunday April 28th 5-8pm Adv $10 | $12

Sunday April 28th

5-8pm

Adv $10 | $12

Joy Again

Joy Again

Monday April 29th ADV $20 | DOS $24 7pm 16+ —JOY AGAIN—“Inspiration is an egg laid by the mother goose named Destiny” -JFK. For Joy Again, inspiration indiscriminately bounces around like a… Read more

Monday April 29th

ADV $20 | DOS $24

7pm

16+

—JOY AGAIN—“Inspiration is an egg laid by the mother goose named Destiny” -JFK.

For Joy Again, inspiration indiscriminately bounces around like a superball. It ping-pongs between the Philadelphia band before it settles and crystallizes in one capriciously catchy bop after another. These six lo-fi alternative pop outliers—Sachi DiSerafino [vocals, guitar], Arthur Shea [vocals, guitar], Blaise O’Brien [keys], Zachary Tyndall [keys], Will Butera [drums], and Kieran Ferris[bass]—draw hooks and melodies from the most unexpected corners as they create without limitations or boundaries. Their music has become indie anthems for millions of listeners, and sparked creativity and new ideas for countless fans.

Joy Again has cultivated a strong following across the country with over 2.8 million monthly listeners on spotify alone. Fans have created over 1 million tiktok videos using Joy Again songs, “Looking Out For You” charted at 13 on TikTok’s Top 200. The band has created their following in part by touring across the country with the likes of Wallows, Snail Mail, Rostam, and Metronomy to name a few. A strong core of fans have followed the band through several iterations, they have created a folk-lore like aura to the bands history and discography.

The long short of Joy Again’s origin story is this: During ninth grade, Arthur reached out to Sachi on Facebook, “because he posted about Jimi Hendrix”. Blaise was another Facebook find (thanks Mark). Tyndall and Sachi worked at a coffee shop together. Kieran went to boarding school with Arthur and Sachi. Will and Arthur are 2nd cousins, which they both forgot about until meeting again through Kieran.

After a summer and fall filled with writing and recording, the band is eager to show their new album to their fans and to the world. Each song is better than the next, and the song following it is twice as good, forming some sort of M.C. Escher-like musical journey.

Ulthar with Languish

Ulthar with Languish

Wednesday May 1st w/ Headhunt & Spit Doors 7pm $12 Advance & Day of Show +fees Read more

Wednesday May 1st w/ Headhunt & Spit

Doors 7pm

$12 Advance & Day of Show +fees

Slow Hollows: Dog Heaven Tour w/ Special Guest Computerwife

Slow Hollows: Dog Heaven Tour w/ Special Guest Computerwife

Thursday, May 2nd w/ support from Computerwife **Artist Presale:** Wednesday, November 8th @ 10am Doors 7pm | Show 7:30pm ADV $18| DOS $20 16+ –SLOW HOLLOWS–After a three-year hiatus, Slow Hollows returns… Read more

Thursday, May 2nd

w/ support from Computerwife

**Artist Presale:** Wednesday, November 8th @ 10am

Doors 7pm | Show 7:30pm

ADV $18| DOS $20

16+

–SLOW HOLLOWS–After a three-year hiatus, Slow Hollows returns reinvented, sharing new single & video “Old Yeller.” The genre-defying Los Angeles band founded by songwriter Austin Feinstein is now his solo project. Though the group amicably disbanded in early 2020, the now 25-year-old artist never stopped writing songs. The more he fleshed out new material, the more Feinstein realized it made sense to continue on as Slow Hollows. “Ultimately making a cohesive record was themost important thing to me,” says Feinstein. “Having some time away from the band made me realize what ‘Slow Hollows’ stood for. It’s hard to realize what you’re getting at when you’re doing it, so the time to myself helped me understand what made it work.”

In sharp contrast to 2019’s Actors, which interpolated R&B and dance music and was influenced by collaborations with Frank Ocean (Feinstein sings the chorus on Blonde’s “Self Control”) and Tyler, the Creator (who crafted the beat for Actors’ “Heart”), “Old Yeller” focuses purely on Feinstein’s songwriting, stripping things back to only an acoustic guitar, his voice, and gentle atmospherics. “Old Yeller was recorded in two or three takes one afternoon in September ‘22” shares Feinstein, “The lyrics take inspiration from the job of an old vacuum cleaner; feeling dusty and worn down, working over the same familiar spaces over and over again, until reaching the point of frustration and resignation. Taking production inspiration from John Cale, we decided to add a drone underneath the track.”

Caroline Rose

Caroline Rose

Friday, May 3rd with support from Ian Sweet Doors 7pm ADV $25 | DOS $28 All Welcome *Caroline Rose’s The Art of Forgetting VIP Screening:* *- Invitation to a pre-show screening of… Read more

Friday, May 3rd
with support from Ian Sweet

Doors 7pm

ADV $25 | DOS $28

All Welcome

*Caroline Rose’s The Art of Forgetting VIP Screening:*
*- Invitation to a pre-show screening of “The Art of Forgetting” short film*
*- Limited edition lyric booklet signed by Caroline Rose*
*- $10 merchandise coupon** and merchandise shopping opportunity before doors open to the public*
*- Commemorative Movie Laminate*
*- Priority entry into the venue*

***merchandise coupon is only redeemable at this show only***

Emo Nite at Club Congress!

Emo Nite at Club Congress!

Friday May 10th **Artist Presale: *Tuesday March 5th at 11am PT*** 9pm ADV $21 | DOS $25 + fees $1 from every ticket sold will be donated to Living The Dream Foundation. Read more

Friday May 10th

**Artist Presale: *Tuesday March 5th at 11am PT***

9pm

ADV $21 | DOS $25 + fees

$1 from every ticket sold will be donated to Living The Dream Foundation.

Lawrence Rothman

Lawrence Rothman

Saturday May 11th 7pm ADV $15 | DOS $17 21+ — LAWRENCE ROTHMAN—Acclaimed songwriter, musician and producer Lawrence Rothman returns with their highly-anticipated new album, The Plow That Broke the Plains, April… Read more

Saturday May 11th

7pm

ADV $15 | DOS $17

21+

— LAWRENCE ROTHMAN—Acclaimed songwriter, musician and producer Lawrence Rothman returns with their highly-anticipated new album, The Plow That Broke the Plains, April 26 on KRO Records.

Born in St. Louis, MO and now based between Los Angeles and Nashville. Lawrence is known for their genre-bending work, which includes their most recent album, 2021’s acclaimed Good Morning, America (feat. Lucinda Williams, Amanda Shires, Marissa Nader, Girlpool, etc) as well as their work as a producer and songwriter for artists including Angel Olsen, Margo Price, Amanda Shires, Kali Uchis, Girl in Red, Alison Mosshart, Kim Gordon and more.

For this next chapter in their ever-evolving artistic career, Lawrence arrived at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios to make an album that stands as a testament to resilience—capturing the strength and lessons salvaged from a very personal eating disorder, while addressing themes of addiction, gender identity and societal pressures. Recorded primarily live, with an emphasis on first takes, the 13-track album was produced and mixed by Lawrence Rothman and Yves Rothman (Yves Tumor, Blondshell), with contributions from Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires and S.G. Goodman. Rooted in Lawrence’s upbringing surrounded by folk and country music in Missouri, The Plow That Broke the Plains is a snapshot of their most unfiltered self.

Describing the recording process, Lawrence shares, “The Plow That Broke the Plains” is me not hiding behind any persona or mask and just being myself and putting that uncensored self into the words and recordings no matter how painful the confrontation was.

MEATBODIES

MEATBODIES

Monday May 13th 7pm ADV $16 | DOS $18

Monday May 13th

7pm

ADV $16 | DOS $18

UPSAHL
6:30PM

UPSAHL

Wednesday May 15th **Artist Presale:** Tues 1/23 @ 10am PT **General On Sale:** Wednesday 1/24 @ 10am Local **UPSAHL Meet & Greet Experience VIP Package:** $63 **General Admission:** ADV $18 | DOS… Read more

Wednesday May 15th

**Artist Presale:** Tues 1/23 @ 10am PT

**General On Sale:** Wednesday 1/24 @ 10am Local

**UPSAHL Meet & Greet Experience VIP Package:** $63

**General Admission:** ADV $18 | DOS $20

6:30pm

16+

—UPSAHL—Early in her career, UPSAHL released songs that gained much-deserved recognition throughout the Phoenix music scene. As a graduate of the Arizona School for the Arts, she went on to ignite a groundswell of fan adoration and tastemaker praise by way of numerous indie alternative gems. “Can You Hear Me Now” achieved a palpable viral buzz followed by the widely praised single “Drugs,” which has been used in nearly two million TikTok videos, reaching #6 on the Viral Chart and the #1 Sound on the Trends Chart.

2020 was a standout year where UPSAHL released her second EP Young Life Crisis, which Billboard crowned as one of the Top 25 Pop albums of the year. UPSAHL undertook her first co-write on “Good in Bed” for Dua Lipa’s GRAMMY Award-winning blockbuster, Future Nostalgia, and lent her pen to Madison Beer on her fiery single “BOYSHIT,” as well as Mike Shinoda’s upbeat anthem “Happy Endings,” which featured herself and iann dior. UPSAHL has also collaborated with Anne-Marie and Little Mix on “Kiss My (Uh Oh).” Most recently, UPSAHL joined forces with GAYLE on her track “e-z,” was featured on the star-studded film Bullet Train soundtrack, with the song “My Time to Shine,” co-wrote three songs on Renee Rapp’s latest EP Everything To Everyone, and was featured on NGHTMRE’s single “ATMOSPHERE” from debut DRMVRSE. Her latest collaboration with Alan Walker on the single “Shut Up,” which UPSAHL co-wrote and is featured on, steadily climbs various charts around the world.

In the fall of 2021, UPSAHL released her debut album Lady Jesus, anointing the singer as one of People Magazine’s “Talented Emerging Artists Making Their Mark in 2022” and “a musical force to be reckoned with” (Nylon). It was followed by the powerful statement-making “Monica Lewinsky,” a feminist anthem, in addition to “Antsy,” and “Into My Body off her star-sign inspired EP Sagittarius out today. The EP provides an introspective glimpse into her fiery persona and pay homage to her sign.

The latest EP follows on the heels of UPSAHL’s highly successful debut headline tour, where she sold out venues across the US, and then continued on an expansive international tour, which included Australia, the UK and Europe.. Her high-octane performance style has also earned her spots on major festival lineups, including Lollapalooza, and tour support for acts including Yungblud, FLETCHER, K. Flay, BROODS, Olivia O’Brien and PVRIS.

Desert Music Project Single Release

Desert Music Project Single Release

Thursday May 16th 7pm Adv $10 | Dos $12

Thursday May 16th

7pm

Adv $10 | Dos $12

AJ Lee and the Blue Summit

AJ Lee and the Blue Summit

Friday, May 17th 7pm ADV $17 | DOS $23 ALL Ages —AJ LEE AND THE BLUE SUMMIT–“Could This Kid Be the Next Allison Krauss?” Mother Jones magazine asked about AJ Lee —… Read more

Friday, May 17th

7pm

ADV $17 | DOS $23

ALL Ages

—AJ LEE AND THE BLUE SUMMIT–“Could This Kid Be the Next Allison Krauss?” Mother Jones magazine asked about AJ Lee — and for good reason. She has won the Northern California Bluegrass Society’s (NCBS) Best Female Vocalist award nine times by age 21! Popular Webzine Californiality called AJ “California’s Hottest Singer” because of her jaw-droppingly beautiful voice. AJ began singing and performing on stage at the astonishing age of five. By twelve, she began writing her own songs and showcasing them nation-wide. She has traveled with many bands, including “The Tuttles with AJ Lee,” which was featured at numerous festivals across the U.S. and beyond. She is a fantastic mandolinist and songwriter with a gorgeous voice. Ms. Lee is excited to share Blue Summit’s latest album consisting of all original

AJ Lee & Blue Summit are pure, beautiful American music. Soaring harmonies, top notch picking and strumming as well as a healthy respect and reverence for the classic country, bluegrass and folk music of the past all add up to a band who are masters of the genre. That’s not to say that AJ Lee & Blue Summit are antiquated in anyway. While the band tips a hat to the American masters of the past, their sound is modern and thoroughly of today. The band are great torch bearers of the music that helped build America.

**Awards & Honors**
NCBS Best Female Vocalist (2020, Nine-Time Winner)
Winfield National Flatpicking Contest, 2nd Place (2019)
Freshgrass Band Contest Winner (2019)
NCBS Best Bluegrass Band (2020)
NCBS Best Mandolin Player(2020)
NCBS Best Guitar Player (2020)

Tyson Motsenbocker

Tyson Motsenbocker

Sunday, May 19th w/ Gable Price, Dos Argentés & Micah Bentley 6pm Adv $12 | Dos $15 Read more

Sunday, May 19th

w/ Gable Price, Dos Argentés & Micah Bentley

6pm

Adv $12 | Dos $15

FEA

FEA

Friday May 24th 7pm Adv $12 | Dos $15

Friday May 24th

7pm

Adv $12 | Dos $15

Kelli Baker

Kelli Baker

Sunday May 26th 6pm $10

Sunday May 26th

6pm

$10

Dead Poet Society

Dead Poet Society

Tuesday May 28th w/ support from Andres **Spotify Presale: Tuesday January 9th @ 12pm ET** **General On-Sale: Friday January 12th @ 10am local** Doors 7pm ADV $20 | DOS $25 16+ —DEAD… Read more

Tuesday May 28th

w/ support from Andres

**Spotify Presale: Tuesday January 9th @ 12pm ET**

**General On-Sale: Friday January 12th @ 10am local**

Doors 7pm

ADV $20 | DOS $25

16+

—DEAD POET SOCIETY—Asked what it is he wants audiences to take away from “FISSION,” the forthcoming second album from Dead Poet Society, Jack Underkofler offers eight small but powerful words: “We want to leave them with the truth.”

The affable and engaging 30-year-old delivers these words with the forthrightness that marks his discussions about the band he fronts, completed by Jack Collins (guitar), Will Goodroad (drums), and Dylan Brenner (bass), and the art this collective of college friends have exhaustively dedicated themselves moulding, too often to their own detriment.

It’s an answer that epitomizes the dedication with which the quartet approaches their craft, and the search for its purest, most meaningful form. “It’s not as simple as saying we want our music to leave people with a positive outlook,” Underkofler explains. “You want music to speak to wherever you find yourself. We want to leave people feeling that whatever they are experiencing is valid, no matter what place they are at in their lives.”

After a decade defining, redefining, and perfecting their art, where Dead Poet Society finds themselves on the eve of their sophomore release is much clearer. Make no mistake: Dead Poet Society is a uniquely captivating group, rock’s next great breakout act, with “FISSION” set to capture the hearts and challenge the minds of fans old and new on the journey ahead.

Following on the heels of their acclaimed debut full-length “–!–“ (2021), “FISSION” seeks to unpack the personal journey its creators have been on during that ride to date. “FISSION,” as its title hints, is a 13-track study of personal change and the turbulence of growth that, as Underkofler attests, takes “a microscopic and broad look at the events that changed who we are.” To that end, there are deep rakings over the coals of relationship breakdowns, examinations of addiction in all its guises, ruminations on the responsibilities and challenges of adulthood, and struggles with the evolution, loss, and continual search for self. “In a lot of ways, this album is about unpacking those emotional pains that come with being an adult,” Underkofler says.

“The past few years have left me in a constant state of growth through the life events of which I’ve had little control, or which didn’t pan out the way I wanted them to,” the frontman admits. “There’s a ‘before’ you, and an ‘after’ you, and there’s no going back. Life tends to force your hand, and it’s futile to fight it. You have to accept that things that happen to you will change you, and let them build you into the next phase of who you are.

“There is a constant battle to not mourn who I was because the things you go through define you as a person and turn you into a person worth being,” he adds. “But that can be difficult to wrestle with. There is a positive to it, but it is birthed through a lot of pain.”

“It’s both exciting – ‘Fuck you. I’m gonna take this head-on’ – and at the same time, you’re terrified how you’re going to get through the next month,” adds Goodroad. “One day you’re super confident about where life is going, the next you’re second-guessing everything. It’s like the myth of Sisyphus: it’s a boulder you have to push up the hill every day.”

Twinned lead singles “Running In Circles” and “Hurt” weave through fears of following the wrong path while hiding behind false fronts. “How Could I Love You” and “I Hope You Hate Me” tackle the sometimes bittersweet, more often simply bitter fallout from a tumultuous relationship. “81 Tonnes,” meanwhile, sees Underkofler revisit a time of particular helplessness and instability. ’I need peace now slow my body down can you pull me out?’ he pleads. ‘Too afraid of fission and faith to save me from myself.’

It’s that track which gave guitarist Collins his clearest understanding of the emotions he and his bandmates share, which were coming to the fore in the song. “Jack described “81 Tonnes” to us as about being left with ‘a permanently altered state of mind,’ which felt like the perfect summary of so many of those songs on the album to me,” he says. ”They all lead you to the finish line of, ‘I’m a different person now because of all this…’”

To some extent, through “FISSION”’s creation, Dead Poet Society has become a different band, too. A more attuned one; more accomplished, certainly. “We were really trying to define our sound more on this record,” Collins nods. “We worked a lot more on guitar tones, bass tones, and drum sounds, and paid close attention to melody. The aim was to make our sound bigger – we wanted a more dynamic record, where you could hear the best representation of us live. I feel like the evolution is us maturing a little bit, and wanting to create a sound that was less an obvious reflection of our influences – Muse, Queens Of The Stone Age, Nothing But Thieves, Royal Blood – and more definitively our own. We don’t control where the inspiration comes from. We just had to obey the songs and what they were telling us to do next.”

“We hone in on a feeling, rather than a sound,” adds Underkofler. “This album is the defining moment of when we truly became Dead Poet Society. It’s the closest we’ve come to realizing the essence of the ideas we’ve always had for this band.”

The result is a compelling record of depth and substance, which weaves through the spectrum of anthemic alternative, dark hard rock, and progressive indie. “FISSION“ is at once comfortingly familiar and disconcertingly alien; raw and analogue – “Profoundly human,” as Goodroad says – while possessing a colder, digital inflection. Unexpected turns and deviations reveal themselves often; repeat listens reveal greater secrets yet. It’s a multifaceted record of contrast and cohesion, on which the bright glow of the ballad “Tipping Point” and album-highlight “My Condition” – the sort of infuriatingly hooky earworm anthem with which alternative radio airwaves are dominated – can coalesce with the industrial-leaning mechanics of the piston-driven “Hard To Be God” and “KOET.”

“I think the best way to make other people feel something is to make yourself feel something. The best songwriters are people who can take a particular emotion and feeling and create the most narrow translation when someone hears that song,” Underkofler says. “If someone hearing a song can be taken to the exact headspace that the person who wrote it was in at the time, for me, that is the mark of a great songwriter. And I feel with these songs, we’ve achieved that better than we ever have before.”

It’s a headspace you’re left to ruminate in long after Underkofler is finished protesting ‘But what if I’m always alone? / And I don’t like who I am anymore’ on the closing “Black And Gold”. Because when all is said and done, the truth is that the impact of “FISSION” and Dead Poet Society willreverberate now and in years to come.

Ambient Lounge | Steve Roach & Michael Stearns Night 1

Ambient Lounge | Steve Roach & Michael Stearns Night 1

Wednesday May 29th Night 1 6pm doors | 7pm show **Reserved Seating: $35** **General Admission:** ADV $25 | DOS $30 21+ —STEVE ROACH—AMBIENT LOUNGE – THE NEXT LEVEL STEVE ROACH & MICHAEL… Read more

Wednesday May 29th Night 1

6pm doors | 7pm show

**Reserved Seating: $35**

**General Admission:** ADV $25 | DOS $30

21+

—STEVE ROACH—AMBIENT LOUNGE – THE NEXT LEVEL
STEVE ROACH & MICHAEL STEARNS
W/ SPECIAL GUEST ROBERT RICH
MAY 29 & 30, CLUB CONGRESS
TUCSON, AZ

Yes you’re reading this correctly! Steve and Michael will be performing solo and collaborative sets for the first time ever together on 2 nights in May 2024. Add to this, the return of Robert Rich as guest and we have 3 unforgettable nights in the Soundcurrent.

These concerts will be presented in 4 channel sound within the intimate and great sounding Club Congress in Downtown Tucson. The artist’s intention is to place the audience directly within the core of the creative vortex. Pure sonic immersion unfolding before your ears and eyes. In this setting we are leaving the visuals out of the picture and keeping the focus on the artists at work, presenting and sharing with the audience a rare intimate encounter at the crucible of the creative experience.

As did the recent Ambient Lounge concert with Robert Rich and Steve, these shows will sell out. Tickets will be on sale soon. We will announce as soon as the ticket sales open up. We hope to see you at this rarefied event on the horizon – May 29, 30 2024.

Ambient Lounge | Steve Roach & Michael Stearns Night 2

Ambient Lounge | Steve Roach & Michael Stearns Night 2

Wednesday May 29th Night 1 6pm doors | 7pm show **Reserved Seating: $35** **General Admission:** ADV $25 | DOS $30 21+ —STEVE ROACH—AMBIENT LOUNGE – THE NEXT LEVEL STEVE ROACH & MICHAEL… Read more

Wednesday May 29th Night 1

6pm doors | 7pm show

**Reserved Seating: $35**

**General Admission:** ADV $25 | DOS $30

21+

—STEVE ROACH—AMBIENT LOUNGE – THE NEXT LEVEL
STEVE ROACH & MICHAEL STEARNS
W/ SPECIAL GUEST ROBERT RICH
MAY 29 & 30, CLUB CONGRESS
TUCSON, AZ

Yes you’re reading this correctly! Steve and Michael will be performing solo and collaborative sets for the first time ever together on 2 nights in May 2024. Add to this, the return of Robert Rich as guest and we have 2 unforgettable nights in the Soundcurrent.

These concerts will be presented in 4 channel sound within the intimate and great sounding Club Congress in Downtown Tucson. The artist’s intention is to place the audience directly within the core of the creative vortex. Pure sonic immersion unfolding before your ears and eyes. In this setting we are leaving the visuals out of the picture and keeping the focus on the artists at work, presenting and sharing with the audience a rare intimate encounter at the crucible of the creative experience.

As did the recent Ambient Lounge concert with Robert Rich and Steve, these shows will sell out. Tickets will be on sale soon. We will announce as soon as the ticket sales open up. We hope to see you at this rarefied event on the horizon – May 29, 30 2024.

Ambient Lounge | Steve Roach & Michael Stearns Night 3

Ambient Lounge | Steve Roach & Michael Stearns Night 3

Friday May 31st Night 3 6pm doors | 7pm show **Reserved Seating: $35** **General Admission:** ADV $25 | DOS $30 21+ —STEVE ROACH—AMBIENT LOUNGE – THE NEXT LEVEL STEVE ROACH & MICHAEL… Read more

Friday May 31st Night 3

6pm doors | 7pm show

**Reserved Seating: $35**

**General Admission:** ADV $25 | DOS $30

21+

—STEVE ROACH—AMBIENT LOUNGE – THE NEXT LEVEL
STEVE ROACH & MICHAEL STEARNS
W/ SPECIAL GUEST ROBERT RICH
MAY 29 & 30, CLUB CONGRESS
TUCSON, AZ

Yes you’re reading this correctly! Steve and Michael will be performing solo and collaborative sets for the first time ever together on 2 nights in May 2024. Add to this, the return of Robert Rich as guest and we have 2 unforgettable nights in the Soundcurrent.

These concerts will be presented in 4 channel sound within the intimate and great sounding Club Congress in Downtown Tucson. The artist’s intention is to place the audience directly within the core of the creative vortex. Pure sonic immersion unfolding before your ears and eyes. In this setting we are leaving the visuals out of the picture and keeping the focus on the artists at work, presenting and sharing with the audience a rare intimate encounter at the crucible of the creative experience.

As did the recent Ambient Lounge concert with Robert Rich and Steve, these shows will sell out. Tickets will be on sale soon. We will announce as soon as the ticket sales open up. We hope to see you at this rarefied event on the horizon – May 29, 30 2024.

Felix Y Los Gatos

Felix Y Los Gatos

Sunday June 2nd 6pm $10 —FELX Y LOS GATOS—Felix y Los Gatos is a national touring act with their roots planted firmly in the desert Southwest. With 20+ years of stage experience,… Read more

Sunday June 2nd

6pm

$10

—FELX Y LOS GATOS—Felix y Los Gatos is a national touring act with their roots planted firmly in the desert Southwest. With 20+ years of stage experience, the Gatos have an improvisational style that is uniquely their own. “Green Chile Gumbo” Blues, as the band refers to their sound, is a unique blend of Latin, Blues, Tejano, New Orleans Swing, “New Mexico Ranchera”, and rockin’ outlaw country.

DENT MAY “What’s For Breakfast?” Tour

DENT MAY “What’s For Breakfast?” Tour

Thursday, June 13th w/ special guest Sedona ADV $18 | DOS $20 7pm

Thursday, June 13th

w/ special guest Sedona

ADV $18 | DOS $20

7pm

Surely Tempo

Surely Tempo

Monday, July 1 with support from Tony Jupiter Doors 7pm $15 Advance | $20 Day of Show + fees 16+ Read more

Monday, July 1
with support from Tony Jupiter

Doors 7pm

$15 Advance | $20 Day of Show + fees

16+

Mystery Skulls “Forever” 10th Anniversary Tour

Mystery Skulls “Forever” 10th Anniversary Tour

Wednesday July 24th Mystery Skulls celebrates 10 years of “Forever” with a North American tour spanning more than 25 cities. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Mystery Skulls will be performing “Forever” front… Read more

Wednesday July 24th

Mystery Skulls celebrates 10 years of “Forever” with a North American tour spanning more than 25 cities. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Mystery Skulls will be performing “Forever” front to back for the first time ever, in addition to other songs across their releases. VIP packages are available.

******Artist Presale: Wednesday 3/13 @ 10am local***
***Click “access presale ” or “got a code”? and enter the code to access the presale.******

**General On Sale: Friday 3/15 @ 10am local*****

**VIP Packages also include 1 GA ticket**

6pm doors

Adv $20 | Dos $25 + fees

—MYSTERY SKULLS—Luis Dubuc was looking for a change of pace when he started his dance/electro-soul act, Mystery Skulls in 2011. And what started off as a new passion project quickly turned into something larger than life.

Fans were quickly enchanted by the upbeat, groovy sounds Mystery Skulls was producing. As fans grew rabid for more content, Luis continued to produce new and exciting music that they could lose themselves in. The result is an impressive discography that has amassed over 100 million streams and nearly 550,000 monthly listeners on Spotify alone.

Back to Life (2019) and Now or Never (2020), the latest two full length albums from Mystery Skulls have shown that there’s no limit to the project’s success. Having self-produced and self-released both albums, Luis poured himself into each album and the fans immediately connected with that. This landed both albums at #1 on the iTunes Electronic charts, surpassing legendary acts like The Chemicals Brothers and Moby.

Following the release of Back to Life, Mystery Skulls hit the road, aiming to reach as many fans as possible, selling out shows throughout North America and the UK. Luis is passionate about creating powerful moments of joy and release for fans through his live sets, and because of that he has been able to take Mystery Skulls to a wide array of events from the Voodoo Music and Arts Experience, to opening for Busta Rhymes at the Cannes Film Festival, and the ESPN X-Games.

Every live set is a chance to let go. Mystery Skulls adds a layer of intrigue to each performance with his backlit set, leaving him a shadowy, pulsating figure in the night. The anonymity translates onto his diverse set of fans, leading them to feel free to lose themselves on the dance floor for the evening.

Despite COVID-19 halting touring plans throughout the last year, Mystery Skulls continued to show unstoppable force. July 2021 gave way to a feature in Fortnite of his animated short for fan favorite, “Ghost.” Keeping up the momentum Mystery Skulls plan to release a full length album at the end of 2021 and will headline in North America throughout Spring 2022. The future is limitless and Mystery Skulls is taking advantage of every second of it. Join in on the adventure!

2nd Annual Summer Hair Metal Madness Party with The Dirt!

2nd Annual Summer Hair Metal Madness Party with The Dirt!

Saturday August 17th 7pm $20

Saturday August 17th

7pm

$20

Club Congress

From its 1985 inception as a once-weekly showcase for downtown Tucson’s creative community, to its current status as one of the “10Best” around, Club Congress has rightfully earned its reputation as the epicenter of southern Arizona’s arts and music scene.

Hundreds of events are featured annually between its venerable indoor club stage, and the larger outdoor plaza stage. Through the years, Club Congress has featured a multitude of local and national artists including Nirvana, No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sia,The 1975, and Imagine Dragons to name just a few.

Club Congress is a southwest staple that has earned repeated accolades as a “10Best” as well as Tucson’s best dance club and remains an iconic venue for top-level talent.

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