Orla Gartland w/ FIGHTMASTER
2025-04-27 19:00 (America/New_York) | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
SUN April 27, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors 7:00 PM
Orla Joan Gartland is an Irish singer, songwriter and musician. Gartland released her debut studio album, Woman on the Internet, in 2021, which reached number 3 on the Irish album chart, number 1 on the UK Indie Chart, and number 10 on the UK Albums Chart.
FIGHTMASTER is the music project of nonbinary artist and activist, E.R. Fightmaster. Their music bends genres, blending alternative rock and indie folk with hints of pop, country, and even funk. With lyrics that playfully take on gender, power, grief and love, FIGHTMASTER finds the perfect balance between edgy and energetic, sensual and tender. Much like the artist themself, the music is genderbending, confident and queer as f*ck.

Nada Surf - Moon Mirror Tour w/ The CLE Elum
2025-05-02 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
FRI May 2, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors 7:00 p.m.

Moon Mirror, Nada Surf’s new record, has everything fans love and expect from them. Bittersweet anthems that begin quietly but explode into soaring harmonies? Check. Songs that are play-on-repeat heart punches? Check. Songs that are poetic and thought-provoking while also being absolute belt-at-the-top-of-your-voice-with-the-windows-down masterpieces? Check. It’s all here.
Nada Surf is Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca, Ira Elliot, and Louie Lino. Moon Mirror, their first for New West Records, was produced by the band and Ian Laughton at Rockfield Studios in Wales.
Moon Mirror is a thrilling and moving leap forward for Nada Surf. The songs on the album are true to the human experience — as meaningful and mysterious and sometimes absurd as it is. There’s love, yes, but also grief, deep loneliness, doubt, wonder, and hope. These are not the songs of a band in their 20s. There is hard-won wisdom here, and hard-won belief in possibility — the kind that comes from falling down and getting back up.
“Give Me The Sun” (“I’m looking for something/ I can’t say exactly what”), “Second Skin” (“I’m tired of living in this second skin/ I want to let everything in”), and “Moon Mirror” (“connect me to something”) grapple with being present and open, paying attention, and seeking connection in a world that feels alienating with its everything-all-at-once-ness. “In Front of Me Now” is a song against multi-tasking and sleepwalking through the one life we have. The song asks, “Why wasn’t I present? I could have been living,” and shows us a transformation in the chorus: “Today, I do what’s in front of me now.” I don’t know about you, but I need this reminder as much as ever.
Nada Surf has been working together for decades, and they’re consistently excellent, but they always surprise me. That’s what great art does. For nearly 30 years, Nada Surf has been a part of the soundtrack of my life. Our lives. I fell hard for the band over Let Go in 2002, and following that, The Weight Is a Gift, in 2005. Those songs are lodged in my body, someplace they’ll never be extracted from. So are songs from The Proximity Effect, Lucky, The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy, and Never Not Together, which was my favorite record of 2020. Moon Mirror will take its place among the others, in heavy rotation.

Youth Lagoon w/ Memory Pearl
2025-05-03 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
SAT May 3, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors 7:30 p.m.

“Life itself is a thunderstorm,” says Trevor Powers, the Idaho-based songwriter and producer behind the Youth Lagoon moniker. “Life itself is brothers on walkie-talkies… it’s your dog at the backdoor, or a speeding car off in the distance. It’s a gentle voice on the radio. Mom smoking on the porch. The color of sunlight. It’s always right under your nose and so easy to miss. Often, a simple treasure.”
In the fall of 2023, that treasure came in the form of a shoebox filled with home videos Powers found in his parents’ basement while he was looking for a pre-war harmonica that once belonged to his grandma. “When I took the tapes home and popped in the first one, it was my brother Bobby and I at the state fair. I was 4 years old choking on a corn dog,” he laughs. “If anything’s a summary of life, that is.” Powers spent the following week recording his favorite moments off the TV — Easter egg hunts, backyard baseball, bloody noses, birthday parties, road trips, and all the life in-between. “I was like a ghost in a lost memory,” says Powers.
The vivid intimacies of life and boyhood depicted in Powers’ home movies not only began shaping his songs, but infusing with them. He started sampling the audio and manipulating it into a kind of musical cinematography, fusing past with future. “What I was really consumed with was how much I could zoom in on my actual history,” says Powers. “I wanted to really make someone feel like they were inside my living room in 1993, but rearrange the furniture a bit. Something about combining that level of hyperreality with fairytales of devils and detectives weirdly felt like the truest way to immortalize these pieces of my family.”

The Damned w/ The BelRays
2025-05-05 19:00 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
MON May 5, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors 7:00 PM
Following their formation in 1976, The Damned became the first UK punk band to officially release a single, ‘New Rose’, and an album Damned Damned Damned. With 12 studio albums and several UK chart singles, the band are pioneers who emerged from the London punk scene, earning an ever-expanding fan base fuelled by legendary live shows. Their dark lyrics and Dave Vanian’s rich baritone vocals also catapulted The Damned to the forefront of the Goth-Rock Genre. The Damned of today defy any categorisation and the ease of which songs from all phases of their career fit together in this ground-breaking spectacle is absolute proof.
THE DAMNED line-up are:
Dave Vanian – Vocals
Captain Sensible – Guitar
Rat Scabies – Drums
Paul Gray – Bass
Monty Oxymoron – Keyboards

2025 Premium Pick-Up Party!
2025-05-10 12:00 - 17:00 | Jolly Scholar, 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States
It’s back for our fifth year!
It’s our annual Premium Pick-Up Party! Come meet your favorite station members, tour the station, and get your premiums before anyone else. Free food and a free drink (any draft beer, well drink, or milkshake) for everyone that donates at least $25. We’ll send an email to everyone who donated and of course announce it over the Cleveland airwaves. Come on down and party with your favorite college radio station in Cleveland Ohio that has the frequency 91.1 MHz. Stay tuned to WRUW for the latest updates!

What: Our fifth annual pick-up party
When: May 10, 2025 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Where: Jolly Scholar, 11111 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106
What do I get: Everyone who donated at least $25 will get a free drink ticket for a beer, well drink, or soft drink as well as a wristband for free food, including boneless wings, pizza, and pretzel bites
Do I have to donate to attend: Nope! Though you will not receive a free drink or free food.
Can I donate there: Yes! We will have a limited number of premiums still available on site. Or you can just donate and not receive a premium.
Where can I park: Street parking (free on weekends!) is available along Bellflower Rd. and East Blvd. and garage parking is available in Lot 29 ($2.00/hour). You can also take the RTA HealthLine, which will drop you off right in front, or Red Line to Little Italy and walk a short distance.
Will there be more music and fewer hits: Yes! Some of your favorite WRUW DJ’s will be spinning tunes throughout the party
What if I can’t make it: We will begin shipping out remaining premiums the following day. You will receive an email when it ships. Keep in mind we had a very successful year and may take some time for our volunteer staff to get everything out the door.
How did the platypus get its name: The common name “platypus” literally means ‘flat-foot’, deriving from the Greek word platúpous (πλατύπους), from platús (πλατύς ‘broad, wide, flat’) and poús (πούς ‘foot’).

Shakey Graves - 10th Anniversary Tour w/ Ruby Waters
2025-05-10 19:00 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
SAT May 10, 2025
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 7:00 PM

Across his career, Shakey Graves — a.k.a. the performance moniker of Austin, Texas-born Alejandro Rose-Garcia — has intentionally created thrilling musical adventures tailored to each fan: burning CDs and putting them in personalized decorated bags; building intricate scavenger hunts that send fans in search of unique tapes; and Bandcamp-exclusive releases.
“The fans and musicians that really resonate with me — and the inexplicable ways that I find things that I like — are usually entirely through randomness and chaos and accident,” Rose-Garcia says. “I’ve always been on this quest to make people feel like my own music is a choose your own adventure.”
As Rose-Garcia releases his new Shakey Graves album Movie of the Week — a collection of songs whittled down from epic-length recording sessions — he has devised one of his most innovative musical adventures yet. “For the album release, I’m setting up a website,” he says. “On this website, there will be a way to shuffle a collection of alternate tracks and unique songs from the sessions in seemingly infinite combinations to create new albums.” Thanks to this cutting-edge technology, fans will be able to own this alternate version and do whatever they want with it — giving them control over the destiny of the music.
“Imagination really is the tool,” Rose-Garcia says. “The point is to make and create something yourself. Any way that I can allow people to apply their imagination over my music — and allow them to sculpt it using their own prompts — will let them create something new.”v

MJ Lenderman and The Wind w/ This Is Lorelei
2025-05-13 19:00 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
TUE May 13, 2025
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 7:00 PM
No one paid too much attention when Jake Lenderman recorded Boat Songs, his third album released under his initials, MJ Lenderman. Before he cut it, after all, he was a 20-year-old guitarist working at an ice cream shop in his mountain hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, getting away for self-booked tours of his own songs or with the band he’d recently joined, Wednesday, whenever possible.
But as the pandemic took hold just as he turned 21, Lenderman—then making more money through state unemployment than he had ever serving scoops—enjoyed the sudden luxury of free time. Every day, he would read, paint, and write; every night, he and his roommates, bandmates, and best friends would drink and jam in their catawampus rental home, singing whatever came to mind over their collective racket. Some of those lines stuck around the next morning, slowly becoming 2021’s self-made Ghost of Your Guitar Solo and then 2022’s Boat Songs, recorded in a proper studio for a grand. With its barbed little jokes, canny sports references, and gloriously ragged guitar solos, Boat Songs became one of that year’s biggest breakthroughs, a ramshackle set of charms and chuckles. Much the same happened for Wednesday. Suddenly, people were paying a lot of attention to what Jake Lenderman might make next.
The answer is Manning Fireworks, recorded at Asheville’s Drop of Sun during multiple four-day stints whenever Lenderman had a break from the road. Coproducing it with pal and frequent collaborator Alex Farrar, Lenderman plays nearly every instrument here. It is not only his fourth full-length and studio debut for ANTI- but also a remarkable development in his story as an incredibly incisive singer-songwriter, whose propensity for humor always points to some uneasy, disorienting darkness. He wrote and made it with full awareness of the gaze Boat Songs had generated, how people now expected something great. Rather than wither, however, Lenderman used that pressure to ask himself what kind of musician he wanted to be—the funny cynic in the corner forever ready with a riposte or barbed bon mot, or one who could sort through his sea of cultural jetsam and one-liners to say something real about himself and his world, to figure out how he fits into all this mess?

BADBADNOTGOOD w/ Baby Rose
2025-05-14 19:00 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
WED May 14, 2025
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 7:00 PM

This spring, BADBADNOTGOOD will be bringing their genre defying album, Mid Spiral suite: Chaos, Order and Growth, on the road, featuring a special performance with Baby Rose, of their joint EP, Slow Burn. The trio called on some of their closest friends and collaborators, BADBADNOTGOOD touring member Felix Fox-Pappas (keys) and a few key-players in the Toronto jazz scene including Kaelin Murphy (trumpet), Juan Carlos Medrano Magallenes (percussion) and LA musician Tyler Lott (guitar), for an intensive and productive one-week of recording at Valentine Studios in Los Angeles in February 2024. The result is the Mid Spiral suite: Chaos, Order and Growth, which will be performed along with live reinterpretations of their previous releases.

ADULT. w/ Plack Blague and Slugg
2025-05-14 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
WED May 14, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors 7:00 p.m.

With over 23 years working and a sprawling discography to show for that labor, Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus have spent their entire career as ADULT. obscuring any defined genre or style, writing and recording albums as art for life’s sake. On their latest album, the group are back at it with some discordant, doom dance sludge to mark their 9th studio album Becoming Undone. Written between November 2020 and April 2021, the album might be the bands most non-conformant yet. Sure there’s plenty of dance bangers, but ultimately the album is riddled with impermanence, loss and looping dissatisfactions.

Chris Farren w/ Oceanator and Maura Weaver
2025-05-15 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
THU May 15, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors 7:00 p.m.
Ask Chris Farren how he feels when he finishes an album and he won’t hesitate to respond with: “Miserable. Miserable. Miserable.”
At least, that’s how it’s been over the years he’s been writing and recording solo. When the time came to make a record, Farren would be overtaken by an unparalleled anxiety, forcing him into the home studio he describes as “barely bigger than a closet,” where he agonized over the minute details of his work in progress. “Looking back on those records… I have no good memories of making them,” he admits. “It’s always been a lonely, doubt-ridden process.”
It’s surprising to hear this, knowing Farren’s reputation as a prolific songwriter who made his name recording with Jeff Rosenstock in Antarctigo Vespucci and before that, the Floridian punk band Fake Problems. In 2014, Farren started releasing music under his own name all while continuing his project alongside Rosenstock, and his first album, Like a Gift From God or Whatever endeared him to fans of the now-defunct Fake Problems and new listeners who had yet to experience the delight of a new Chris Farren song. Like a Gift From God or Whatever was followed by Can’t Die and Farren’s Polyvinyl debut, Born Hot. Last year, Farren wrote what he describes as a soundtrack to a spy film he invented that will never be committed to film. Inspired by Marvin Gaye’s soundtrack to Trouble Man, Death Don’t Wait (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) was a creative exercise, one Farren completed in mere months that stands apart from the extensive, at times arduous, process of making a Chris Farren album.
Citing My Bloody Valentine, TV on the Radio, and Camera Obscura as clear influences, Farren says he can’t listen to much music until it’s time to make a new record, but when it’s time, he submerges himself in music that moves him. “I wrote between fifty and eighty songs for this album,” he says. The final cut is as genuine, empathetic, and of course, funny, as Farren is, and though he claims nihilistic tendencies, it’s the dogged optimism that endures. On “All We Ever,” Farren compiles a list of things he wants (to stop paying rent, to love the government, to
get drunk with friends) that accumulate into a three-minute reminder that no life is ever pristine, that there will always be wants unfulfilled, and that that’s okay.

A Place To Bury Strangers w/ The Serfs and The Mall
2025-05-18 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
SUN May 18. 2025
ALL AGES
Doors 7:00 p.m.

Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers‘ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. A synthesizer that you too, can own (in part), if you buy the record on vinyl. “It’s pretty messed up, chaotic,” says frontman Oliver Ackermann, “But it feels really human.” In an era of making music where so little is DIY and so much is left up to AI, to never setting foot in a practice room or a home studio, making something that feels deliberately chaotic, messy, and human, is entirely the point. Synthesizer is a record that celebrates sounds that are spontaneous and natural, the kind of music that can only come from collaboration and community.
The writing sessions for Synthesizer started in 2022 in the band’s Queens studio, shortly after the release of See Through You. A Place to Bury Strangers re-formed with a new lineup, Ackermann still at the helm, now featuring friends John and Sandra Fedowitz. This new iteration of the band was inspiring for Ackermann, “It felt like a fresh new thing,” he says, “I wanted to write songs everyone was excited about playing.” Indeed, the sense of connectivity is everywhere on the record. Synthesizer very much feels like a record of reinvention, of taking a carefully honed aesthetic and sound and cracking it wide open, gutting it, reimagining it. And of course, to ever so slightly reinvent one’s sound, one must also build a new instrument, thus again the synth in question. The resulting record is one that is romantic, colorful, loud as hell.

Jon Spencer w/ Cheater Slicks
2025-05-21 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
WED May 21, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors: 7 PM
Get ready for Jon Spencer & the HITmakers to BURN your playhouse down with their new long-player, SPENCER GETS IT LIT!
The incredible, indelible Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion, Boss Hog, Pussy Galore, Heavy Trash, etc) is back with the incendiary HITmakers – and with his HOTTEST record yet!
Spencer Gets It lit is classic Jon Spencer taken to the extremis – electro-boogie, constructivist art pop, a psychedelic swamp of industrial sleaze and futurist elegance. It is an epic master work of freak beat from the world’s weirdest garage. Across brain-boggling layers of fury, fuzz guitar, and a crash bang battery of phaser blasts, photon torpedoes, and otherworldly zounds, he frantically spits, croons, rhapsodizes, and seduces. Spencer Gets It Lit is his most complex and groovy record in years, a dark, danceable odyssey- both a studied take-down of the early 21st century, and a celebration of the place were electricity meets the mind.
Thirteen wicked hot songs of love, loss, lust, life – from the Farfisa-fueled,warped psycho -punk rave up of “Junk Man,” to the intimate lover’s plea of “My Hit Parade,” to the outer-space end-of-days country funk of “Worm Town,” Spencer Gets It Lit delivers all of the friction, excitement, and post modern depravity one could ever ask for!
Says Spencer, “Send out the Hit Signal! This is the most uncompromising album I’ve ever made!” And the HITs just keep on coming!

Lettuce
2025-05-22 19:00 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
Thu May 22, 2025
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 7:00 PM

LETTUCE is (a) the prime ingredient in a salad, (b) a slang for cash, (c) a green herb that can be smoked, (d) a genre-busting six-member musical collective formed in 1992 by four alumni of the prestigious Berklee College Of Music, or (e) all of the above. If you answered “e,” then you’re in on the sheer magic of a band that both feeds the rich history of funk and combines it with strains of hip-hop, rock, psychedelia, jazz, soul, jam, go-go, and the avant-garde.
The GRAMMY® Award-nominated six-piece is comprised of Adam Deitch [drums, percussion, arrangement], Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff [guitar], Erick “Jesus” Coomes [bass], Ryan Zoidis [alto, baritone, tenor sax, Korg X-911], Eric “Benny” Bloom [trumpet, horns], and Nigel Hall [vocals, Hammond B-3, Rhodes, clavinet, keyboards]. To date, their discography includes Outta Here [2002], Rage! [2008], Fly [2012], Crush [2015], the EP Mt. Crushmore [2016], the live album Witches Stew [2017], Elevate [2019], Resonate [2020], Unify [2022], and now VIBE – a single 48 minute continuous session of pure, free-flowing improvisation, available digitally for the first time.

Tennis w/ Billie Marten
2025-05-25 19:00 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
Sun May 25, 2025
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 7:00 PM

Tennis is Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley. The two met in the philosophy department at the University of Colorado in 2008 after dropping out of their respective music programs. In the years after graduating, they got involved in Denver’s DIY music scene. Through house shows, they were connected with Underwater Peoples, and Firetalk. Tennis’ first singles “South Carolina,” “Baltimore,” and “Marathon” were released in 2010. The band went blog-viral nearly overnight, landing them a record deal with Fat Possum. Cape Dory, (2011 on Fat Possum), documents Moore and Riley’s time spent living aboard a small sailboat on the Atlantic coast. The album debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Heatseeker chart, transitioning Tennis from house-shows to stages such as Lollapalooza. Tennis recorded their sophomore effort Young & Old (2012) with Patrick Carney of the Black Keys. They made their television debut on The Tonight Show, The Late Show, and Conan. In 2014 they signed with Communion. The resulting release, Ritual in Repeat was the culmination of separate recording sessions with Richard Swift, Jim Eno and Patrick Carney. Moore and Riley were greatly influenced by Richard Swift’s approach to recording and engineering, prompting Riley’s decision to take over as engineer on their future releases. With shifting labels and new interests, Tennis chose an alternate path for their band and career. In 2016, Moore and Riley formed the label Mutually Detrimental and began self-releasing. Their newfound freedom allowed them to return to their sailboat to write their next full-length, this time in the Sea of Cortez. Yours Conditionally, released in 2017, became their most commercially successful album–charting at #4 on Billboard’s Independent list and in the top 100 highest selling vinyl releases that year. They played Coachella and opened for artists like The National, Father John Misty and The Shins–proving their DIY roots as a cornerstone to their sound and narrative. Their follow up Swimmer (2020), was recorded in their home studio with Moore and Riley producing and engineering. The pair brought their long-time touring member Steve Voss in for the second time to drum on record. The singles, Need Your Love and Runner, were Tennis’ most successful releases to date. With nearly every show on tour sold-out (including two consecutive nights at Brooklyn Steel) the album’s campaign was cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic. Pollen, Tennis’ sixth studio album is due on February 10, 2023 (Mutually Detrimental).

The Wedding Present - Bizzaro 35th Anniversary Tour w/ The Tubs
2025-05-28 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
WED May 28, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors 7:00 p.m.

In 2025, The Wedding Present will be playing a series of concert dates in North America to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the release of their classic major-label debut long-player, Bizarro [“Simply unbeatable” – Melody Maker].
David Gedge says “Bizarro was our second album, and you can hear on it how much we had learned from the experience of recording our debut, George Best. You only have to listen to something like ‘Bewitched’ to notice that there’s much more in the way of texture and depth on Bizarro. We’d just improved as songwriters and arrangers, basically. It’s no less frenetic a record, though!”

Panchiko w/ Model/Actriz
2025-06-02 18:00 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
MON June 2, 2025
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 6 PM

On July 21st, 2016, a user on 4chan’s /mu/ board posted a photo of a demo CD they’d discovered in an Oxfam charity store in Nottingham, UK: titled D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L, purportedly released in 1998. The listener uploaded the ripped audio to file-sharing sites, and later YouTube, where it began circulating around web forums. A cult of fans banded together to solve the origin story of the mysterious disc, until eventually a long defunct local band from Nottingham who called themselves Panchiko discovered their album (limited to 30 copies) had spread virally across the internet 18 years later.
By popular demand Panchiko reunited touring the music of D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L to sold out audiences across the US and UK in 2022 and in May 2023 self-released a new LP titled Failed at Math(s) followed by expanded tours in the US, UK, and EU. Panchiko are currently in the studio crafting a new album with news to come.

Lords of Acid w/ Little Miss Nasty, Lucia Cifarelli from KMFDM, and Tomorrow's Ghosts
2025-06-10 18:30 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
TUE, JUN 1016+Doors 6:30PM
Known for their iconic mix of industrial, electro, and dance music, Lords of Acid has been shaking the foundations of the music world since the early ’90s with hits like “Pussy” and “I Sit on Acid.” Their live shows are notorious for their energy, boundary-pushing visuals, and relentless dance grooves. This tour marks a monumental chapter in the band’s long standing legacy and a new chapter as former Butcher Babies singer CARLA HARVEY joins the band.
Little Miss Nasty is widely recognized as the global icons of dark performance art and burlesque inspired dance. They blend elements of metal, goth, EDM, industrial and hip-hop with provocative choreography, big theatrical production, bold and sensual visuals, and a fierce, empowered attitude. Little Miss Nasty also released their debut album Weapon Of Choice last year and continues to release critically acclaimed original songs.
Lucia Cifarelli is undeniably one of the towering vocal and songwriting powerhouses of a generation and beyond, known primarily as the front woman for the Ultra Heavy Beat sensation of KMFDM, as well as numerous collaborations with the likes of Acumen Nation/DJ? Acucrack, Combichrist, Victor Love, Valentina, Julian Beeston’s Featured, and more, native New Yorker Cifarelli got her start in the 90’s alternative rock band DRILL on A&M Records, opening for Marilyn Manson, Stabbing Westward, Gang of Four, God Lives Underwater, Ace Freely, The Genitorturers and Sister Machine Gun.

Pete Francis (Founding Member of Dispatch) w/ C-Level, Brahctopus, and Songs For An Unknown God
2025-06-13 19:00 | The Winchester, 12112 Madison Ave, Lakewood, OH, 44107, United States
FRI June 13, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors: 7 PM
On June 13th C-Level is releasing “Long Legged Fly” the first single from their upcoming fifth studio album. The song features one of their biggest musical influences, Pete Francis (formerly of Dispatch) on guitar and vocals.

To celebrate this release Pete is coming to Cleveland to perform. This will be the first time Pete’s performed solo in Cleveland since 2008. Pete’s set will consist of solo intimate acoustic performances as well as fully backed rockers in which C-Level will be Pete’s backing band.

Illuminati Hotties w/ Georgia Maq & allie
2025-06-15 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
SUN June 15, 2015
ALL AGES
Doors: 7 PM
Listen to WRUW-FM to win a pair of tickets to see Superchunk on September 17 at Grog Shop!
Sarah Tudzin is in high demand these days. Not only is she a lauded engineer and producer who has helmed recent records by boygenius, Weyes Blood, and Speedy Ortiz, but her own band, Illuminati Hotties, has also emerged as one of the sharpest and most sensitive acts on the pop-punk side of indie rock this century tender-punk, she has often called it. On Illuminati Hotties radiant and bittersweet third LP, Power, Tudzin pairs that sense of modern professional busyness with scenes inspired by the extreme highs and lows of her personal life in recent years. To wit, the day before Tudzin released 2020s surprise Free I.H, her mother died. But weeks before that, Tudzin had met the person who has since become her longtime partner, the one with whom she can share all these troubles. Its not hard to imagine, then, all that propels Power.

This is an album, though, neither about loss nor love but instead about the life that we live amidst such ups and downs. While there are some beautiful blues here, like the tender finale Everything Changes or the haunted Rot, Tudzin mostly looks for an exuberant way through these tangles. The inescapable Falling in Love with Somebody Better is a pop-punk treasure where she wishes her mom had met her new love, while the breezy Sleeping In finds contentment in the compromises that a good relationship demands. Loaded with guests who alternately complement Tudzin’s unfailing melodic instincts (Cavetown, Death Cab for Cuties Jason McGerr, John Congleton) or help her cut loose from them (especially Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis during the riotous Whats the Fuzz), Power is a prime culmination of all the things that have kept Tudzin busy in recent years, her skills in the studio, her knack for a hook, or the mere travails and triumphs of existence itself.

U.S. Girls
2025-06-28 19:30 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
SAT June 28
ALL AGES
Doors 7:30 PM / Show 8:30 PM
Originally from Illinois, Meg Remy is established as one of the most acclaimed songwriters and performers to emerge from Toronto’s eclectic underground music scene where she currently lives. As the creative force behind the musical entity U.S. Girls, her celebrated discography spans 15 years from early experimental works released on the Siltbreeze label and includes three Polaris Prize shortlisted albums on 4AD: Half Free (2015), In A Poem Unlimited (2018), and Heavy Light (2020). All three albums also garnered Juno nominations for Best Alternative Album.

Remy has toured extensively through Europe and North America, establishing a reputation for politically astute commentary and theatrical performances with her extended U.S. Girls band, leading her to be named the best live act of 2018 by Paste Magazine. During this time, she has maintained a visual arts practice, exhibited collage work and directed several music videos and other video art works including her short film Woman’s Advocate (2014), in which she also performed. Recently, Remy published her first book, a memoir called Begin By Telling (2021), and she also made her first foray into film-scoring this year, having been tapped for filmmaker (and fellow Torontonian) Grace Glowicki’s surreal horror-comedy Dead Lover (which world-premiered at Sundance Film Festival and featured at SXSW).

As a platform and persona, U.S. Girls operates on a uniquely out-of-time wavelength, alternately wronged and rueful, classic but contemporary, bruised vignettes of poetic Americana through a feminist lens. Her most recent album, Bless This Mess (2023), marked both a divergence from and deepening of Remys songbook, more at peace with her restless truths and moods. New music is set to follow in 2025.

New Bomb Turks w/ The Drowns & DJ Matt Feeney
2025-07-06 00:00 | OH
Saturday, July 26
New Bomb Turks w/ The Drowns & DJ Matt Feeney
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
Born in the 1990s in Columbus, Ohio, New Bomb Turks are one of those groups that will forever mark the punk rock story. To see a concert of the quartet is to live a forbidden experience, a moment suspended between madness, screams, trances and electric shocks. The leader Eric Davidson does not come on stage, he takes it and leaves it only once the public ko standing. Their records have been published by the best American punks, from Crypt to Epitaph, from Fat Wreck Chords to Gearhead.
“You’ll never confuse “Lone Gone Sister” with “Good Golly Miss Molly.” The eighth missile on the 14-track blitzkrieg that is “!!Destroy-Oh- Boy!!” is a collision of revved-up guitars, bash-and-crash beats, and vocal snot that sounds like an auctioneer howling over a high-speed R&B party. But, in teen spirit, it is more akin to Richard Wayne Penniman than Nirvana, who allegedly changed music forever. At least until bands like the New Bomb Turks led a ragtag revolt in the other direction, back to primitive caves that spawned rock ‘n’ roll troglodytes throughout the ages.” – John Petkovic

Wax Mage 10th Anniversary Festival
2025-07-12 18:30 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
Saturday, July 12
Wax Mage Records 10th Anniversary Festival at Grog Shop!
Doors 6 PM | Show 7 PM
ALL AGES
$20 ADV / $25 DOS
+ $3 at door if under 21
Wax Mage Records celebrates 10 years in business with a showcase of bands with releases on the boutique label, specializing in award-winning, custom vinyl made in Cleveland, Ohio at Gotta Groove!
Performing will be Songs For An Unknown God, Wish Queen, Pal, Radderall, and Chayla Hope plus vendors and more TBA.
All advance ticket buyers will be entered to win a stacked Wax Mage Records prize pack!

Electric Citizen w/ Magick Potion and ALBUM
2025-07-13 20:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
SUN July 13, 2025
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
Seven years after their last release (Helltown, 2018), Electric Citizen returns with their fourth album, EC4—a powerful statement of renewal and raw energy. The album was meticulously crafted over several years and recorded with Mike Montgomery and John Hoffman at Candyland Studio in Dayton, KY. The album was mixed by Collin Dupuis (Lana Del Rey, The Black Keys) in Detroit and mastered by JJ Golden at Golden Mastering in California. The album art was created by Neil Krug (Lana Del Rey, Tame Impala, Weyes Blood), who the band worked with for their first album, Sateen. Now signed to Heavy Psych Sounds, the band is ready to unleash their most potent work yet—a fusion of hypnotic grooves, searing guitars, and Laura Dolan’s spellbinding vocals. EC4 is both a homecoming and a rebirth. Electric Citizen is back!

Pelican w/ Porcelain & Axioma
2025-07-17 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
Thursday, July 17
Grog Shop Presents at The Beachland Ballroom:
Pelican wsg Porcelain and Axioma
Doors 7 PM / Show 8 PM
All Ages
$20 advance / $25 day of show
+ $2 at door if under 21
Chicago rock institution Pelican have announced that their first full length in six years, Flickering Resonance, is set for release May 16 via Run For Cover, and unveiled plans for US and EU tours this Summer to follow their run supporting Russian Circles this March (full tour dates below). With founding guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec rejoining the band for his first full length since 2009’s What We All Come To Need, the album’s eight songs tap into the spirit of their formative era when Schroeder-Lebec teamed with fellow guitarist Trevor Shelley de Brauw and brothers Bryan and Larry Herweg (on bass and drums respectively) during the heyday of Chicago’s all ages hub Fireside Bowl. The venue’s variegated booking style would often result in post-hardcore, space-rock, indie, metal, and emo bands sharing bills, unwittingly providing a vast template of influences for the young band. “A lot of people didn’t hear it at first,” says Schroeder-Lebec of the band’s roots in a panoply of punk-related subgenres. “I was like, well, I guess the metal world is where we fit. But now we’re more willing to acknowledge all the suits we’re wearing.”

Wade Oval Wednesdays: Cream Camino
2025-07-23 17:30 | Wade Oval, 10820 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States
5:30 – 8:30 PM
ALL AGES
FREE
Cream Camino is a dynamic alt-rock band hailing from Ohio’s capital city and recognized as one of the most compelling live music acts in the Midwest. Influenced by rock legends such as Roger Waters, Jimi Hendrix, and John Bonham, illustrate the powerhouse sounds Cream Camino strives to achieve with every note. Their lively performances mixes in unforgettable original songs that quickly become an ear-worm, alongside cover songs played in a way that makes you feel like you’re hearing the song for the first time again.

Opener: Mirabelle Kajenjeri (Piano Cleveland)
Roaming Entertainment: hula hoops with Gerri, Pickup Stix Stilt Walking, a juggler, and Christa Freehands

Food Vendors:

Kernels by Chrissie
Deal’s Fresh Lemonade
Juicy Vegan
Lu Jax
Cleveland Fish & Seafood
Rascal House Pizza
Cheesy Dave’s
Squash the Beef
Carter’s BBQ
Sweet Doughlights
Le Scoop

Onsite Sponsors & Partners:

Cleveland Public Library Book Box & Tech Van
First National Bank
Cleveland Division of Waste Collections and Disposal
Cleveland Public Safety
University Circle Police Department

City Stages: Las Karambas
2025-07-23 18:30 | Transformer Station, 2811 Church Ave, Clevland, OH, 44113, United States
Wednesday, July 23, 7:30 p.m.
Las Karamba (Spain)
Founded in the midst of the bustling streets of Barcelona, Las Karamba consists of six women musicians who are mestizas and migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Catalonia, France, and Argentina. Together, they create new, timeless, danceable music that includes traditional styles—including son, cha-cha-cha, salsa, and timba—influenced by rap and urban music, as well as a touch of samba and rumba. With the band’s formation, six life stories converged, each individually shaped by migration and musical heritage.
Move and groove at City Stages, the CMA’s famous block parties that take place in front of Transformer Station and feature the best in global music. Arrive early and grab dinner and a drink at one of Ohio City’s bars or restaurants, or visit one of the local shops. Hang out in the Transformer Station beer garden and enjoy tacos from the Puente’s Tijuana Tacos food truck.
Seating is limited—bring camp chairs and delight in an evening of music and dancing in the street.
Free parking is available in the Lutheran Hospital lot located at West 28th Street and Franklin Boulevard.

Deep Sea Diver w/ Meerna
2025-07-24 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
THU July 24, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors: 7 PM
In the middle of July 2023 in a Los Angeles studio, Deep Sea Diver mastermind Jessica Dobson took a guitar solo but somehow felt nothing. Just days earlier, her Seattle band played a series of semi-secret shows for devotees at a hometown bar, de facto rehearsals for cutting a new record. The sets had gone well, but, almost immediately, the sessions didn’t. The songs’ essence seemed muddled, Dobson’s conviction lost somewhere in the 1,000 miles between Southern California and the home studio she shares with partner, drummer, and frequent cowriter Peter Mansen. On that first night in Los Angeles, she broke down, wondering what she was doing there, what her band could do to fix it. For the first time ever, Deep Sea Diver retreated, heading home without an album. Did they need to scrap it all, to begin again with new material?
Not at all: Following a brief break, Dobson found a renewed sense of self, a trust in her vision for her band and songs and her ability to capture them. After that Los Angeles hiccup, longtime collaborator Andy Park asked Dobson how the new stuff was going over an early fall dinner. She admitted she needed help. In that humbling confession, she soon found ways of working that helped her reimagine and reinvigorate Deep Sea Diver and led directly to the power and brilliance of Billboard Heart, Deep Sea Diver’s fourth album and first for Sub Pop. It is a coup, a triumph over self-doubt in which what first felt like failure became an opportunity to find new freedom, belief, and strength. You can hear it in each of these 11 songs, the beating heart that makes everything here feel like a new anthem for finding your own way forward.

The Decemberists w/ Merce Lemon
2025-07-25 18:30 | TempleLive, 3615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44115, United States
Friday, July 25
The Decemberists w/ Merce Lemon at TempleLive
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 8:00 PM
ALL AGES
The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2000. The band consists of Colin Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query, and John Moen. As of 2024, the band has released nine studio albums with their lyrics often focusing on historical incidents and folklore.
The mezzanine and balcony are accessible only by stairs. The Decemberists have partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to supporting organizations working for equity, access, and dignity for all. www.plus1.org

New Bomb Turks w/ The Drowns & DJ Matt Feeney
2025-07-26 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
Born in the 1990s in Columbus, Ohio, New Bomb Turks are one of those groups that will forever mark the punk rock story. To see a concert of the quartet is to live a forbidden experience, a moment suspended between madness, screams, trances and electric shocks. The leader Eric Davidson does not come on stage, he takes it and leaves it only once the public ko standing. Their records have been published by the best American punks, from Crypt to Epitaph, from Fat Wreck Chords to Gearhead.

Liquid Mike w/ Runaway Brother & Cool Party
2025-07-27 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
Liquid Mike is an indie power pop rock band from Marquette, MI, in the Upper Peninsula. Liquid Mike began in 2021 and is the product of Mike Maple’s pop-rock song writing. The band features a cast of U.P. standouts including Monica Nelson, Dave Daignault, Zack Alworden, Cody Marecek. Liquid Mike inhabits a sweet spot in the musical pantheon: catchy, well- crafted guitar and vocal hooks that will snag any fan of power-pop/pop rock. Liquid Mike invokes a relatable feeling of nostalgia with everyday lyrics of the quickly-receding flavor of Big League Chew bubblegum, drinking beer from used marinara sauce jars in college, and every 4th hand rust-bucket of a car you ever drove in a Great Lakes snowstorm. They self- released their fifth LP, “Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot” on Feb 2nd 2024.
