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SUMMARY:Chris Farren w/ Oceanator and Maura Weaver
DESCRIPTION:THU May 15\, 2025 \nALL AGES \nDoors 7:00 p.m. \nAsk Chris Farren how he feels when he finishes an album and he won’t hesitate to respond with: “Miserable. Miserable. Miserable.” \nAt 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.” \nIt’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. \nCiting 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 \nget 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.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/chris-farren-w-oceanator-and-maura-weaver/
LOCATION:Beachland Ballroom\, 15711 Waterloo Rd.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:ADULT. w/ Plack Blague and Slugg
DESCRIPTION:WED May 14\, 2025 \nALL AGES \nDoors 7:00 p.m. \n  \nWith 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.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/adult-w-plack-blague-and-slugg/
LOCATION:Grog Shop\, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:BADBADNOTGOOD w/ Baby Rose
DESCRIPTION:WED May 14\, 2025 \nAges: All Ages\nDoors Open: 7:00 PM\n\nThis 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.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/badbadnotgood-w-baby-rose/
LOCATION:Globe Iron\, 2325 Elm St.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:MJ Lenderman and The Wind w/ This Is Lorelei
DESCRIPTION:TUE May 13\, 2025 \nAges: All Ages \nDoors Open: 7:00 PM \nNo 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. \nBut 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. \nThe 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?
URL:https://wruw.org/event/mj-lenderman-and-the-wind-w-this-is-lorelei/
LOCATION:Globe Iron\, 2325 Elm St.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Shakey Graves - 10th Anniversary Tour w/ Ruby Waters
DESCRIPTION:SAT May 10\, 2025 \nAges: All Ages\nDoors Open: 7:00 PM\n\n\nAcross 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. \n“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.” \nAs 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. \n“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
URL:https://wruw.org/event/shakey-graves-10th-anniversary-tour-w-ruby-waters/
LOCATION:Globe Iron\, 2325 Elm St.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:2025 Premium Pick-Up Party!
DESCRIPTION:It’s back for our fifth year! \nIt’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! \n\nWhat: Our fifth annual pick-up party\nWhen: May 10\, 2025 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM\nWhere: Jolly Scholar\, 11111 Euclid Ave\, Cleveland\, OH 44106\nWhat 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\nDo I have to donate to attend: Nope! Though you will not receive a free drink or free food.\nCan 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.\nWhere 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.\nWill there be more music and fewer hits: Yes! Some of your favorite WRUW DJ’s will be spinning tunes throughout the party\nWhat 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.\nHow 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’).
URL:https://wruw.org/event/2025-premium-pick-up-party/
LOCATION:Jolly Scholar\, 11111 Euclid Ave\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:WRUW
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SUMMARY:The Damned w/ The BelRays
DESCRIPTION:MON May 5\, 2025 \nALL AGES \nDoors 7:00 PM \nFollowing 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. \nTHE DAMNED line-up are: \nDave Vanian – Vocals \nCaptain Sensible – Guitar \nRat Scabies – Drums \nPaul Gray – Bass \nMonty Oxymoron – Keyboards
URL:https://wruw.org/event/the-damned-w-the-belrays/
LOCATION:Globe Iron\, 2325 Elm St.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Youth Lagoon w/ Memory Pearl
DESCRIPTION:SAT May 3\, 2025 \nALL AGES \nDoors 7:30 p.m. \n  \n\n“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.” \nIn 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. \nThe 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.”
URL:https://wruw.org/event/youth-lagoon-w-memory-pearl/
LOCATION:Grog Shop\, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Nada Surf - Moon Mirror Tour w/ The CLE Elum
DESCRIPTION:FRI May 2\, 2025 \nALL AGES \nDoors 7:00 p.m. \n  \nMoon 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. \nNada 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. \nMoon 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. \n“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. \nNada 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.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/nada-surf-moon-mirror-tour-w-the-cle-elum/
LOCATION:Grog Shop\, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Orla Gartland w/ FIGHTMASTER
DESCRIPTION:SUN April 27\, 2025 \nALL AGES \nDoors 7:00 PM \nOrla 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. \nFIGHTMASTER 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.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/orla-gartland-w-fightmaster/
LOCATION:Beachland Ballroom\, 15711 Waterloo Rd.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T190000
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SUMMARY:Ben Kweller - Cover The Mirrors Tour with RYMAN
DESCRIPTION:THU April 24\, 2025 \nALL AGES \nDoors 7:00 p.m. \nBK is back and he’s not the same. Who could be after the heartbreak he’s endured since the sudden passing of his 16-year old son. Instead of hiding away\, the beloved indie-rocker is walking through the fire of grief with intention and purpose. This unimaginable journey has led him to his seventh album\, Cover The Mirrors\, and the accompanying tour which begins on April 15th. \n“Music has been my savior throughout my life but never before has it saved me as much as it has this past year. My upcoming album\, Cover The Mirrors\, is a deep dive into my new reality.  It’s a collage of my good days and my bad days\, my highest highs and my lowest of lows. It’s the most personal\, emotionally raw project I’ve ever worked on.” \nKweller has been an open book throughout his illustrious career. His songs hold a nostalgic quality that takes you to a time and a place\, happy or sad. He’s also one of the rare few who can translate his recordings into captivating concerts that keep his fans coming back again and again. If you’ve never seen BK live before\, the Cover The Mirrors Tour is sure to be his most heartfelt and joyous live show yet. This is a chance for old and new fans to come together and witness one of the great songwriters at his creative peak.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/ben-kweller-cover-the-mirrors-tour-with-ryman/
LOCATION:Grog Shop\, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Brainiac w/ DANA and PAL
DESCRIPTION:TUE April 15\, 2025 \nALL AGES \nDoors 7:00 p.m. \nBrainiac spent the 90s carving their own path directly through every typical musical trope\, but just as their trajectory had poised them to present their maniacal vision of hissing electro-punk to the mainstream\, the death of lead singer Timmy Taylor cut their story short. In the wake of this tragic event\, many artists (such as Trent Reznor\, The Mars Volta\, Muse\, The Flaming Lips\, the Breeders\, Mogwai\, etc) have espoused the band’s lasting influence and relevance as trailblazers whose music still sounds fresh and ahead of its time even today. \nOver 25 years later\, following a full length documentary about the band along with several recently unearthed archival releases\, the surviving band members emerge to celebrate the music and give it life once more both for a new generation and long time fans alike. Don’t miss out while you have the chance. Go freaks go!
URL:https://wruw.org/event/brainiac-w-dana-and-pal/
LOCATION:Grog Shop\, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250413T190000
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SUMMARY:La Lom w/ El Marchante
DESCRIPTION:SUN April 13\, 2025 \nALL AGES \nDoors 7:00 PM \nThe Los Angeles League of Musicians\, LA LOM\, are an instrumental trio formed in Los Angeles in 2021. They blend the sounds of Cumbia Sonidera\, 60’s soul ballads and classic romantic boleros that emanate from radios\, backyard parties and dance clubs of Los Angeles with the twang of Peruvian Chicha and Bakersfield Country.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/la-lom-w-el-marchante/
LOCATION:Beachland Ballroom\, 15711 Waterloo Rd.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T180000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250328T034125Z
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SUMMARY:Crack The Sky w/ Cuda Brothers
DESCRIPTION:FRI April 11\, 2025 \nALL AGES \nDoors: 6:00 PM \nCrack the Sky is an American progressive rock band formed in the early 1970s. In 1975\, Rolling Stone declared their first album “debut album of the year.” Today\, some 45+ years later\, the band is back and breaking new ground. Compared to Steely Dan by Rolling Stone Record Guide\, their first three albums charted on the Billboard 200. In 2015\, their debut album was ranked number 47 in the Rolling Stone list of “50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time.”
URL:https://wruw.org/event/crack-the-sky-w-cuda-brothers/
LOCATION:Music Box Supper Club\, 1148 Main Ave.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250407T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250413T235900
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20250328T074103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250330T192418Z
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SUMMARY:WRUW Telethon 2025
DESCRIPTION:Telethon is coming! This is the one time a year we ask for your help to grow and improve WRUW-FM. Support us by donating online NOW or make a donation by calling in during Telethon week! Visit telethon.wruw.org now to donate to your favorite shows and check out the awesome new premiums we’re offering as gifts for your donation. You’ll be hearing our DJs pitch to you all this week so please excuse any change in our normal 24/7\, 365 days a week\, programming. Which happens\, by the way\, because of support from listeners like you. \nAbout 60% of our annual operating budget comes from Telethon. Past telethons have paid for our increase to 15\,000 watts\, our web streaming\, our archives\, our digital signal\, new studios\, and last year a brand new transmitter! This year\, it’s our goal to raise another $91k to pay for the installation of this massive piece of metal!  \nFrom April 7 at 12 a.m. though April 13 at 11:59 p.m.\, listeners can donate online at telethon.wruw.org or by calling 216.368.2208 from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. each day. 
URL:https://wruw.org/event/wruw-telethon-2025/
LOCATION:WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland\, 11220 Bellflower Rd\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240907T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240907T230000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240709T234328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T160700Z
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SUMMARY:Studio-A-Rama 2024
DESCRIPTION:WRUW is proud to announce the return of Studio–A–Rama! That’s right\, after a 4-year hiatus\, Studio–A–Rama returns this year on Saturday\, September 7 to it’s original location in the Mather Memorial Courtyard. Our one-day music festival is FREE and open to all ages as a thank you for your support 365 days of the year.\n\n\nAs always\, Studio–A–Rama will feature a full day’s worth of local and national acts beginning at 1 p.m. and running until 11 p.m. Check out our line-up below! We have ONE more very special surprise to announce… our secret headliner who will take the stage at 10 p.m. Stay tuned!\n\n\n1:45 PM – The Super Babes2:30 PM – HONOLULU HIGH3:15 PM – C-Level4:00 PM – NATURE4:45 PM – Brood X5:30 PM – RRRIOT!6:15 PM – MuAmin Collective7:00 PM – Suitor7:45 PM – Perfect Pals8:30 PM – Grumpy Plum9:15 PM – Shadow Show (Detroit\, MI)\n10:00 PM – Cheekface (Los Angeles\, CA)\n\n\nBring a blanket\, lawn chairs\, or a picnic\, but please leave glass bottles AND alcoholic beverages at home. You may enjoy a meal from food trucks on site at the event\, or walk just a few yards away to our friends The Jolly Scholar to enjoy a cold one. You will be able to listen and watch the performance simulcast on the big screen!\n\n\nWe can’t wait to see you there\, at the triumphant return of Studio-A\, now in its 38th non-consecutive year!\n\n\nDriving to Studio-A? There are surface lots surrounding the area off of Ford Dr. and Bellflower Rd. where you may park for up to 4 hours or more at a time for a nominal fee. Metered parking spots are available just a short walk away on Bellflower Drive and East Blvd. Be sure to carpool and if you’ll be drinking\, bring a DD.\n\n\nTaking Public Transit? Use the RTA Rapid Red Line and take it to the Cedar-University stop. Take the CircleLink right to Mather Memorial! Or take the Healthline to Euclid Av & Cornell Rd station\, we are just a 5 minute walk away.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/studio-a-rama-2024/
LOCATION:Mather Memorial Courtyard\, 11220 Bellflower Road\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240903T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240903T233000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240621T051323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240621T051323Z
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SUMMARY:The Linda Lindas
DESCRIPTION:Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7 p.m. \nALL AGES \nThe Linda Lindas debut album\, Growing Up was released in 2022 to wide critical praise with The New York Times calling it “a combination of wholesome and fierce” and Pitchfork hailing it as “the most heartwarming record of the year.” Since its release they’ve performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon\, Jimmy Kimmel Live!\, CBS Mornings\, Tiny Desk\, James Corden and appeared in the pages of Vogue\, W Mag\, The New York Times and in fashion campaigns for Opening Ceremony and Rodarte. The Linda Lindas spent most of 2022 and 2023 on a world tour including playing shows with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs\, Japanese Breakfast and Paramore and will spend the summer of 2024 opening for Green Day.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/the-linda-lindas/
LOCATION:Beachland Ballroom\, 15711 Waterloo Rd.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240817T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240817T233000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240621T061955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240621T061955Z
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SUMMARY:Angie McMahon w/ Mimi Gilbert
DESCRIPTION:Doors 7:30 p.m. | Show 8:30 p.m.\nAll Ages; + $3 at the door if under 21 \nTo make her new album\, Light\, Dark\, Light Again\, Angie McMahon had to walk through the fire. The Melbourne singer-songwriter’s second LP was written from the ashes of a tough but transformative few years of relationship changes\, private breakdowns and core-shaking revelations about self. At times\, McMahon felt like falling apart. But instead\, she pushed through and found that hope\, joy and relief lies on the other side of pain. \nThe inevitability of change\, the push and pull and between light and dark\, and the natural cycles of the world are all over Light\, Dark\, Light Again\, which marks McMahon’s step into a bolder\, bigger\, brighter expanse of sound than she has utilised before. Whether she is documenting her own metamorphosis on Saturn Returning\, rumbling with rage\, power and reverence for the earth on Mother Nature\, celebrating release on Letting Go or pledging to step into the bravest version of herself on Exploding\, McMahon’s songs feel like a triumph; music that buoys and cradles you. \nLight\, Dark\, Light Again is a record about facing the fear and learning it can be a portal to something bigger and better. It finds that the only certainty in life is that everything ends\, and everything begins again – that there is life and death and life again\, that there is light and dark and light again.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/angie-mcmahon-w-mimi-gilbert/
LOCATION:Grog Shop\, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240813T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240813T233000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240621T061446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T192938Z
UID:757799-1723575600-1723591800@wruw.org
SUMMARY:Together Pangea Celebrates 10 Years of Badillac w/ Liily
DESCRIPTION:Doors 7 p.m. | Show 8 p.m.\nAll Ages; + $3 at the door if under 21 \nSince they began jamming back in William’s Santa Clarita bedroom\, Los Angeles indie band Together Pangea have continually challenged themselves with each subsequent offering. Jelly Jam [2010] poured the gasoline\, Living Dummy [2011] struck the match\, and Badillac [2014] lit the fire with its revved-up nineties rock-inspired flames. Along the way\, fan favorites like “Sick Shit\,” “Badillac\,” and “Offer” would rack up millions of Spotify streams\, while the group received support from Consequence of Sound\, Pitchfork\, MTV\, Stereogum\, and more. Following the 2015 release of The Phage EP\, produced by The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson\, these working class boys embarked on the journey to what would become 2017’s Bulls and Roosters\, which evidenced their growth as a tried-and-true rock band with just the right amount of “brattiness\,” as they like to say. \nTogether Pangea— William Keegan\, Danny Bengston\, and Erik Jimenez— return in 2021 having made the most of 2020’s turbulence by writing and recording DYE\, an upbeat\, undeniable collection of hooks\, anthems\, and power-pop garage-rock catchiness that isunmistakably the album of their career. \nDYE is an amalgam of the band’s last three records: theinward looking and self-pleasing experimentation of 2017’s Bulls and Roosters\, the frantic and scream-y Badillac with its inspiration from emotionally raw grunge\, and the 50’s pop heavy 2011 album Living Dummy. After more than a decade as Together Pangea\, the band know how their bread is buttered and made an effort to focus on what they know they do best.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/together-pangea-celebrates-10-years-of-badillac-w-liily/
LOCATION:Grog Shop\, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240802T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240802T233000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240621T050552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T192953Z
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SUMMARY:Lambrini Girls w/ Blossom Park
DESCRIPTION:Doors 7 p.m. | Show 8 p.m. \nALL AGES \nFlying the nest with a dream to curate slut vibes nationwide\, Lambrini Girls became the gayest band to ever win 50 consecutive Eurovision contests in a row. With inspirations drawn from shit punk to noise rock ; not only do Lambrini Girls plan on setting your bin on firethey want to create spaces at shows for anyone who feels like there isn’t a place for them there already. No one deserves to feel uncomfortable\, no one deserves to feel invisible\, start conversations with your mates\, never let anyone stop you existing authentically and most importantly: Gays to the front!
URL:https://wruw.org/event/lambrini-girls-w-blossom-park/
LOCATION:Beachland Ballroom\, 15711 Waterloo Rd.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240731T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240731T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240715T232843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240715T232843Z
UID:757954-1722454200-1722459600@wruw.org
SUMMARY:City Stages 2024: Bia Ferreira
DESCRIPTION:City Stages\, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s acclaimed free outdoor summer concert series featuring the best in global music\, returns to Hingetown with three dynamic performances in July. These block parties take place in front of Transformer Station. Each begins at 7:30 p.m. \nBia Ferreira\, a Brazilian singer\, composer\, and multi-instrumentalist\, stands out for her innovative approach to combining Afrodiasporic rhythms—like soul\, R & B\, reggae\, and rap—with Brazilian music—such as samba and repente. She is known for her lyrics addressing racism\, women’s rights\, and LGBTQIAP+ rights. She broke into public consciousness in 2017 with the track “Cota Não é Esmola\,” which highlights the importance of the quota system for the black Brazilian population’s access to the country’s universities. In addition to the 13 million views on YouTube and several million Spotify plays\, the song became mandatory reading for the University of Brasília’s entrance exam. Ferreira was nominated for the 2018 Women in Music Awards. This evening\, she performs with her trio. \nSeating is limited—bring camp chairs and enjoy 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. Transformer Station is located at 1460 West 29th Street (at the corner of Church Avenue)\, Cleveland\, OH 44113. Transformer Station remains open until 9:00 p.m. during City Stages.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/city-stages-2024-bia-ferreira/
LOCATION:Transformer Station\, 2811 Church Ave\, Clevland\, OH\, 44113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,Live Remote,WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240728T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240728T230000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240709T192803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T192803Z
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SUMMARY:Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew: Remain In Light w/ Cool Cool Cool
DESCRIPTION:Doors 6:30 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m. \nALL AGES \nFor those hoping that Talking Heads would announce a reunion tour since they started being able to be in the same room together again\, there’s been no word of that. However\, Heads guitarist/keyboardist Jerry Harrison and ancillary member Adrian Belew have announced more dates of their Remain in Light tour where they’re playing the band’s classic fourth album in full. Cool Cool Cool opens.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/jerry-harrison-adrian-belew-remain-in-light-w-cool-cool-cool/
LOCATION:The Agora\, 5000 Euclid Ave.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240726T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240726T230000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240709T191843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T192856Z
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SUMMARY:The Mountain Goats w/ Field Medic
DESCRIPTION:Doors 7 p.m. | Show 8 p.m.\nAll Ages \n\nMaybe you are just like John Darnielle: In the depths of the pandemic winter at the end of 2020\, the Mountain Goatsfrontman passed the time trapped at home in North Carolina watching pulpy action movies\, finding comfort in familiar tropes and sofabound escapism. But you are not really like John Darnielle\, unless the action movies you found comfort in included French thrillers like 2008’s Mesrine\, vintage Italianpoliziotteschi\,or the 1974 Donald Pleasence mad-scientist vehicle The Freakmaker. Or unless watching them brought you back to your formative days as an artist\, when watching films fueled and soundtracked your songwriting jags and bare-bones home recordings and in turn inspired your 20th album to be a song cycle about the allure—and futility—of vengeance. But there’s no shame in not being like John Darnielle; few people are.“On earlier tapes you’ll find these sound samples\,” Darnielle says. “‘Oh\, where’s this sample from?’ It’s from whatever movie I was watching while I was sitting around on the couch with a guitar. I watch a movie\, somebody’d say something that I like the sound of and I’ll write that phrase down. And then I would pause the VHS\, write the song\, record the song on a boombox\, and go back to watching my movie. I got into doing that again; I just kept watching action movies and taking notes on what they’re about and on what the governing plots and tropes and styles are. It was very much like an immersion method acting technique.”The resulting performance is Bleed Out\,a cinematic experience unto itself. One song about preparing to exact bloody revenge begat another song about the act of exacting bloody revenge and then more songs about and the causes and the aftermath of being driven to exact bloody revenge\, each delivered with the urgency and desperation deserving of their narrators and circumstances.Just as Getting Into Knives and Dark in Here—recorded in Memphis and Muscle Shoals\, respectively\, in the first two weeks of March 2020\, just before such a thing would become impossible—were heavily informed and influenced by their historic settings\, Bleed Out is all pent-up energy and explosion\, executed by a bunch of friends who were mainly happy to be in a room together making loud noises. In January 2021\, just weeks after Darnielle had started writing\, his bandmates Peter Hughes\, Matt Douglas\, and Jon Wurster joined him at a studio in the woods near his home in Chapel Hill. Everything was finished inside a week.“We often make a record and then bring in some guests who flesh out the textures\,” Darnielle says. “And for this one\, it was very much like a pack mentality. That sort of seemed to proceed from the songs.” One new face was that of Bully’s Alicia Bognanno\, recommended to Darnielle by his manager as a producer who could help nurture the rougher-edged sound these songs requested. “We met up and hit it off. She’s a great guitarist. It was kind of just a lark\, to see what would happen\, and it was totally great.”That abandon is on full display from the opening track\, “Training Montage\,” which lovingly documents the getting-ready-for-battle scene in any action movie regardless of provenance and loudly declares its intentions: “I’m doing this for revenge.” This and the next song\, “Mark on You\,” were the first two Darnielle wrote\, and they set the tone for everything that follows on Bleed Out. \nRunning narrative themes are not new to Mountain Goats projects\, especially in recent years\, be it the pro wrestlers of 2015’s Beat the Champor the goths of 2017’s Goths. Darnielle was drawn to the antiheroes of the hard-boiled action flicks he was bingeing\, particularly the ways in which their quests for justice were almost all inevitably doomed.“In these movies and elsewhere\, it’s such a dearly held trope\, when in fact\, I don’t think anybody really exacts much revenge in this life at all\,” he says. “Because we all know that revenge is bullshit\, right? The Greeks knew this. It’s never a zero-sum game. And yet the idea is so delicious\, you can’t get enough of it. It’s more of a grail—because you can’t have it\, it starts to seem really appealing. That’s why you want to get revenge\, because you know you’re never going to get revenge.”Bleed Out could be all one movie\, from the opening training montage to the demise in the elegiac closing title track. Songs like “Make You Suffer\,” “First Blood\,” “Hostages\,” and “Need More Bandages” do what they say on the tin\, telling typically vivid\, deliberately recognizable vignettes of desperate characters in no-win situations who plan on taking as many people down with them as they have to. But Darnielle sees these as unconnected stories that feel universal in their desire for justice\, if not in their wanton bloodshed. Anthems don’t get more straightforward or anthem-y than “Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome\,” tapping into an anger that’s easy to reach in 2022\, even if the solutions aren’t.Few people think as much\, or as well\, about violence and its portrayal as John Darnielle. His recent bestselling novel Devil House(his third) is all about the relationship between tragedy and entertainment\, though he is careful to downplay any parallels to Bleed Out beyond a natural attraction to terrible things as a coping mechanism.“That’s what catharsis is\,” he says. “When you are able to experience something that is frightening to you but you don’t have to be harmed by it—that experience is really valuable. I think we’re reflecting on the nature of what we consume and of what it says about us.”
URL:https://wruw.org/event/the-mountain-goats-w-field-medic/
LOCATION:The Agora\, 5000 Euclid Ave.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240725T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240725T233000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240621T060325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240621T060325Z
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SUMMARY:The Felice Brothers
DESCRIPTION:Doors 7 p.m. | Show 8 p.m.\nAll Ages; + $3 at the door if under 21\n\n\nThe Felice Brothers first emerged from the Hudson Valley nearly two decades ago with a gloriously ramshackle sound that drew on everything from Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan to Walt Whitman and Flannery O’Connor. In just a few short years\, the group went from busking in the subway to playing Radio City Music Hall with Bright Eyes and appearing everywhere from the Newport Folk Festival to Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble. Beginning with 2007’s Tonight At The Arizona\, the band helped pave the way for the modern folk revival\, while at the same time challenging its boundaries and conventions with bold sonic experimentation and unyielding integrity. The New York Times likened their music to “the rootsy mysticism of the Band\,” while Rolling Stone praised the “scrappiness” of their “folk-rock noir\,” and The Guardian hailed their songs as “impeccably crafted\, with literary-minded lyrics that are both playful and profound.” \nThe band’s newest record\, Valley of Abandoned Songs\, marks The Felice Brothers’ debut for Conor Oberst’s new Million Stars label and showcases the group at their most intimate and unvarnished. Balancing hope and despair in equal measure\, the album explores the search for meaning and connection through the eyes of a wide-ranging cast of misfits and outcasts\, and though the recordings here span several years of almost-lost tunes\, the result is a thoroughly cohesive collection that manages to feel both utterly timeless and particularly attuned to the present all at once.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/the-felice-brothers/
LOCATION:OH
CATEGORIES:Concert,WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240724T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240724T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240715T233519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240715T233519Z
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SUMMARY:Mad Daddy! A Celebration of How Cleveland Changed Rock Radio
DESCRIPTION:On the Wednesday\, July 24 edition of “Dare Waves”\, Neal and his sometimes radio side-kick Reverend Comrade X will air an interview with Mike Olszewski\, author of the new book “Mad Daddy – Myers\, Mintz\, and the Moondog and how Cleveland Ohio changed Rock Radio”.  In addition to the interview\, Dare Waves will air radio bits from The Mad Daddy\, and music from The Cramps\, Andre WIlliams\, Screaming Jay Hawkins\, and more.\n\n\nThe interview will air before the event “Mad Daddy! A Celebration of how Cleveland changed Rock Radio” which takes place on Saturday July 27 at 2PM\, at the Music Box Supper Club. This event is FREE and open to the public.\n\nHosted by Mike and Janice Olszewski (with special guests)\, the event tells the story of Pete Myers and his on-air persona\, the Mad Daddy\, a legendary 50’s Cleveland radio DJ. Pete Myers “The Mad Daddy.” was a Northeast Ohio radio legend thrilling Cleveland and Akron audiences with a rapid-fire delivery over early rock and roll. Born from the pages of Mad magazine\, Famous Monsters of Filmland\, and his own twisted humor\, The Mad Daddy gave his legion of followers a whole new way to communicate and helped define the power and influence of the youth culture that emerged in Cleveland in the 1950s.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/mad-daddy-a-celebration-of-how-cleveland-changed-rock-radio/
LOCATION:WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland\, 11220 Bellflower Rd\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240718T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240718T220000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240628T020914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T192052Z
UID:757837-1721323800-1721340000@wruw.org
SUMMARY:The Claudettes
DESCRIPTION:Doors 5:30 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m. \nAll Ages \n  \n“Rich\, layered…the execution is sophisticated\, suggesting a band bashing out 1960s pop after hours at a dive bar\, sometimes so thoroughly connecting with the lateness of the hour that they drift into dream-pop. Even if there are some shimmering\, ethereal touches\, the hard-swinging piano of chief songwriter Johnny Iguana and the sweet\, steely purity of vocalist Berit Ulseth give the Claudettes an earthy\, human hook.” –Stephen Thomas Erlewine\, AllMusic \nGrounded in blues and jazz yet pushing the boundaries of rock\, the Claudettes are writing the most riveting chapter of their story now. With six albums on Forty Below Records and Yellow Dog Records\, the Claudettes have earned international acclaim for their piano-powered “garage cabaret” sound featuring Rachel Williams (vocals)\, Johnny Iguana (piano\, vocals\, songwriting)\, Zach Verdoorn (bass\, guitar\, vocals) and Michael Caskey (drums). Outside the Claudettes\, Iguana has earned Blues Music Award and Living Blues Award nominations\, toured with Junior Wells and Otis Rush\, played on three Grammy-nominated releases and recorded with Buddy Guy\, Junior Wells\, Derek Trucks\, Mick Jagger\, Keith Richards and more. Johnny is also composer of the score for the Emmy-winning\, smash-hit FX/Hulu series The Bear.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/the-claudettes/
LOCATION:Music Box Supper Club\, 1148 Main Ave.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240717T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240717T210000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
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SUMMARY:City Stages 2024: Wesli
DESCRIPTION:City Stages\, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s acclaimed free outdoor summer concert series featuring the best in global music\, returns to Hingetown with three dynamic performances in July. These block parties take place in front of Transformer Station. Each begins at 7:30 p.m. \nBorn Wesley Louissaint in Port-au-Prince\, Haiti\, Wesli is a prolific songwriter\, guitarist\, and producer. Uniting a large cross section of Montreal talent\, his music links Haitian voudou and rara with roots\, Afrobeat\, and hip-hop. Since being crowned with the Révélation Radio-Canada award for 2009–2010\, Wesli has gone on to win the Babel Med Music Award (2010)\, SOCAN’s Hagood Hardy Award (2016)\, an award from the Académie Charles Cros (2019)\, a Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year (2019)\, a Félix Award for World Music Album of the Year (2019)\, and a Canadian Folk Music Award for World Solo Artist of the Year (2020). He has toured across North America\, Haiti\, Colombia\, Brazil\, and Europe and participated in WOMEX\, Mundial Montréal\, and Cape Verde’s Atlantic Music Expo. For his Cleveland debut\, he is performing as part of a six-piece party band. \nSeating is limited—bring camp chairs and enjoy 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. Transformer Station is located at 1460 West 29th Street (at the corner of Church Avenue)\, Cleveland\, OH 44113. Transformer Station remains open until 9:00 p.m. during City Stages.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/city-stages-2024-wesli/
LOCATION:Transformer Station\, 2811 Church Ave\, Clevland\, OH\, 44113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,Live Remote,WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240714T233000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240621T045931Z
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SUMMARY:Mates of State w/ Al Menne
DESCRIPTION:“Still The One Tour” \nDoors 7 p.m. | Show 8 p.m. \nAll Ages \nMates of State\, the iconic indie band featuring married couple Jason and Kori\, today announce a 17-show tour for this summer 2024 in conjunction with going back into the studio to record all new songs. \nMates garnered a rabid following beginning in 1998 and toured nearly non-stop for 15 years\, performing all over the world including runs with NPR’s This American Life\, The Postal Service\, The Strokes\, Jimmy Eat World\, Santigold and Death Cab for Cutie. They’ve also been seen on David Letterman\, Coachella\, Lollapalooza\, Conan O’Brien\, and Yo Gabba Gabba. \nSince 2000\, Mates’ have released 7 full length albums (on labels including Barsuk and Polyvinyl) while simultaneously starting a family of 3 daughters(!) who travelled the world with them on tour. The Mates’ paused touring for a minute to “give their girls a bit of an anchor through their teenage years”\, while continuing to write and explore to find their next musical phase. This new direction is coming to light and Mates are hitting the road hard with 17 shows in 17 days\, no days off. \nThey also are currently recording a full-length album with long-time collaborator\, producer Peter Katis\, at Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport\, CT.
URL:https://wruw.org/event/mates-of-state-w-al-menne/
LOCATION:Beachland Ballroom\, 15711 Waterloo Rd.\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240706T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240706T233000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240621T041339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240621T041416Z
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SUMMARY:The Spits w/ The Hell
DESCRIPTION:Doors 8 p.m. | Show 9 p.m.\nAll Ages; + $3 at the door day of show \nIn an era that relies so heavily on quick-hit bands\, there are very few things that are truly part of the subculture and not just the passing zeitgeist du jour. Closing in on three decades\, The Spits have signified the crossroads between punk mayhem and well-honed songwriting\, creating some of the most unhinged and anthemic tracks in underground music while standing tall enough to be uttered in the same breath as names like Jay Reatard\, Dead Moon\, Ty Segall and more. \nThe Spits are readying their highly anticipated VI\, due May 1 via their own Thriftstore Records imprint. Recorded by Erik Nervous on cassette four track\, the band’s new LP VI is ten hummable tracks\, shrouded in chainsaw punk that mesh the wild showmanship of party-rock legends Van Halen and the leather-clad toughness and songwriting chops of the Misfits. Marking a “return to roots’’ approach for the LP\, the band decided to record and write VI in the basements of Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids\, Michigan over the course of several spurts of activity\, each yielding a few new songs from a terrible drum kit with a literal thrift store guitar. “We’ve only been into an actual studio like three times\,” admits Sean Wood. “I don’t think we’ve had one record that was recorded all in one place\, this may be the closest thing. And for these songs we’d record a couple tracks\, step away and go back at it later– sometimes weeks later. You know\, take our time.”
URL:https://wruw.org/event/the-spits-w-the-hell/
LOCATION:Grog Shop\, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,WRUW
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240704T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240704T230000
DTSTAMP:20260411T173802
CREATED:20240626T031857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240626T031857Z
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SUMMARY:Live From Cleveland Rewind Special: Mr. Stress
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, July 17 of 2014\, Bill “Mr. Stress” Miller visited WRUW and sat in on all the evening’s shows!\n– 5 PM Woodchoppers Ball with Chip\n– 7 PM Polka Changed My Life Today with Dr. Polka and Andrew The Mailman\n– 8 PM Laying Down Tracks with Mr. JEG\n– 10 PM Live From Cleveland featuring Mr. Stress backed by Cleveland’s own The Nightwalkers\n\nThis may have been the last live recording of Mr. Stress before he passed on May 19\, 2015 at the age of 72. For this July 4th\, WRUW-FM will be presenting an encore broadcast of that very special night\, beginning at 5 PM. Tune in for “An Evening With Mr. Stress” exclusively on\nWRUW FM 91.1 Cleveland which will last until 11 p.m. ET. \nBill Miller was the first baby born in Cleveland on New Years Day of 1943. Mr. Stress was an original inductee to the Cleveland Blues Society Hall Of Fame in 2009. Here’s CWRU’s entry on Mr. Stress: https://case.edu/ech/articles/m/miller-bill-mr-stress
URL:https://wruw.org/event/live-from-cleveland-rewind-special-mr-stress/
LOCATION:WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland\, 11220 Bellflower Rd\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44106\, United States
CATEGORIES:WRUW
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