Sparks - MAD! Tour
2025-09-15 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Agora, 5000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, 44103, United States
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
Sparks is an American pop and rock duo formed by brothers Ron (keyboards) and Russell Mael (vocals) in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles in 1971. The duo is noted for their quirky approach to songwriting; their music is often accompanied by sophisticated and acerbic lyrics—often about women, and sometimes containing literary or cinematic references—and an idiosyncratic, theatrical stage presence, typified by the contrast between Russell’s animated, hyperactive frontman antics and Ron’s deadpan scowling. Russell Mael has a distinctive wide-ranging voice, while Ron Mael plays keyboards in an intricate and rhythmic style. Their frequently changing styles and visual presentations have kept the band at the forefront of modern, artful pop music.

Brian Jonestown Massacre
2025-09-16 19:00 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
Tue Sep 16, 2025
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 7:00 PM

Named in tribute to the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist and his influence in introducing Eastern culture and music into the world of Western rock & roll, the Brian Jonestown Massacre formed in San Francisco, CA, in 1990. Some 40 different members passed through the group’s ranks over the next half-decade, but their focal point always remained singer/guitarist Anton Newcombe, who along with bassist Matt Hollywood, guitarist Dean Taylor, organist Mara Regal, accordionist Dawn Thomas, drummer Brian Glaze, and “Spokesperson for the Revolution” Joel Gion, recorded the Massacre’s 1995 shoegazer-influenced debut LP, ‘Methodrone.’ A collection of early recordings, ‘Spacegirl and Other Favorites,’ followed on the band’s own Tangible label in early 1996, and was the first of four Brian Jonestown Massacre LPs to appear that year. Next up was the brilliant, ‘Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request,’ a full-blown homage to the Stones’ glorious psychedelic-era excesses. Recorded live in the studio, the grittier ‘Take It from the Man!’ found the band exploring even broader territory. Finally, the year ended with the release of ‘Thank God for Mental Illness,’ a showcase for strong country and blues leanings.
In 1997, the BJM — now consisting of Newcombe, Hollywood, Gion, Taylor, Peter Hayes and drummer Brad Artley — resurfaced with ‘Give It Back!’ After signing to TVT, they released ‘Strung Out in Heaven’ the following year, but the band’s own eccentricities kept them from staying on the label. After a few scattered EPs, they resurfaced in 2001 with ‘Bravery, Repetition and Noise,’ distributed by Bomp. ‘And This Is Our Music’ followed in 2003. Despite a continued lack of major distribution, the Brian Jonestown Massacre earned the largest profile of their career in 2004, when the band became the unlikely focus of an award-winning documentary, ‘DIG!,’ which charted the trials of Newcombe and those of his rival, Courtney Taylor, leader of the Dandy Warhols. The ‘We Are the Radio’ EP followed in August 2005.
Three years later, Anton Newcombe reinvented the band as he had obtained all the releases of his past albums & formed his own label, ‘a’ Recordings. His first new album on this label was ‘My Bloody Underground,’ featuring yet another lineup and a hint of shoegaze and noise pop. ‘Who Killed Sgt Pepper?’ followed shortly after, being made available in streaming format at the end of 2009 and receiving an official release on February 27th, 2010.

Superchunk
2025-09-17 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
WED, September 17, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors: 7 PM
Following a series of worldwide tours celebrating the 30th anniversary of their landmark album Foolish in 2024, Superchunk’s return to the road is heralded by “Bruised Lung,” their first new song in over a year. Since releasing their first 7-inch in 1989, Superchunk have run the gamut of milestone albums: early punk rock stompers, polished mid-career masterpieces, and adventurous curveballs. “Bruised Lung” finds them as vital as ever, a scorching guitar anthem that at once recalls what has earned Superchunk their reverent following while looking forward to their future. “Bruised Lung” is elevated by Merge Records favorite Rosali on lead guitar and backing vocals. Catch Superchunk all over the country this fall.

Dry Cleaning w/ Infinity Knives + Brian Ennals
2025-09-25 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
As soon as Dry Cleaning finished their debut album New Long Leg – critically acclaimed across the board and number four in the UK album charts – they immediately set about moving fowards. Having already started writing their second record before their first was released, they proposed to producer John Parish that they spend twice as much time on the follow-up, Stumpwork.
Listen to the album and you can feel that increased boldness – vocals which coil tightly around deft and complex riffs, great meshes of instrumental texture and the willingness to launch into full-on abstraction. It is a heady mix that is entirely Dry Cleaning’s own, distinguishing from their contemporaries. “We felt more confident,” says guitarist Tom Dowse. “We could see the bigger picture and knew where to focus our energy more efficiently.”

Lene Lovich w/ Metrolight
2025-09-27 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
Lene Lovich, the Post-Punk/New Wave icon who could count John Lennon and Frank Zappa among her fans, is set to return to the United States for the first time in 18 years this fall. She will undertake her first full North American tour in 35 years, playing 25 shows across the country beginning in Des Moines on September 16th.
Born in Detroit, Lene and her mother relocated to the city of Hull in northern England when Lene was 12 years old. Inspired by the music of her hometown as well as the flamboyant “British Invasion” sounds coming out of swinging London in the 1960s. She had a particular fondness for fellow American expat Jimi Hendrix, and recalled that although she had no money for the bus fare and was too young to legally attend the concert, when Hendrix played in Hull she slipped out of the house and walked all the way across the city to sit outside the stage door and listen to him play.
Lovich moved to London in the mid-1970s just as the Sex Pistols were about to seize the nation by the proverbial throat, forming a band with her partner Les Chappell, and soon beginning to make a name for herself with her flamboyant style and effervescent live performances. She came to the attention of Oval Music moguls Charlie Gillett and Gordon Nelki, whom had recently helped to launch the careers of Ian Dury and Elvis Costello, taking Lene to the same independent record label, Stiff Records, that had been at the vanguard of punk and New Wave in the UK, with debut releases from The Damned and Devo, as well as the aforementioned Dury and Costello, and Stiff Records house producer Nick Lowe.
Lene rocketed to the top of the UK charts with her second single on Stiff, the unforgettable “Lucky Number”, in 1979. The success of the single propelled her debut album Stateless to instant cult status, where it remains to this day, a classic of its time and hugely influential on the burgeoning 1980s post-punk Goth subculture. Lene’s second album, Flex, released in 1980 was arguably even more influential in the United States than Stateless.
Lene toured America successfully many times during the 80s, and her band included Thomas Dolby on keyboards, with whom she co-wrote her biggest selling US single “New Toy”. Her third album, No Man’s Land, released in 1982, seemed poised to become her commercial breakthrough in America. Alas by then her relationship with Stiff had deteriorated. She released the album March in 1989 on the independent label Pathfinder Records, and toured America one more time, in 1990, subsequently retreating from the limelight to raise a family in rural England.
Sporadic collaborations and extremely rare live appearances was all that was seen of her for many years, until the release of the album Shadows and Dust in 2005. With her daughters now grown up, Lene returned to regular live performances in 2012 when she and guitarist Jude Rawlins formed the Lene Lovich Band to take her classic material back on the road. The band garnered huge acclaim across the UK and Europe, where they have toured consistently ever since. Finally, in 2025, America will get the chance to see what they’ve been missing for far too long, the iconic and unique Lene Lovich at full volume.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
2025-09-28 19:00 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
SUN Sep 28, 2025
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES

Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian post-rock collective that originated in Montreal, Quebec in 1994. The group releases recordings through Constellation, an independent record label also located in Montreal. The group released their debut album F♯ A♯ ∞, in 1997 and toured regularly from 1998 to 2003.

Destroyer: Dan's Boogie Tour w/ Jennifer Castle
2025-10-06 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
MON Oct 6, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors: 7 PM
What is a “boogie”? In the common tongue, it’s a dance or an occasion to dance, a song or a shindig, an incitement to move, quickly, whether it’s on the floor or out of town, getting down or lying low. This being a Destroyer album and not the common tongue, the implications of a title like Dan’s Boogie are at once more alluring and dangerous. “A boogie is a hustle, a scam that doesn’t quite work, the moves we make when we’re up against it,” explains Dan Bejar (ex-New Pornographers). “I think of spy work, double agents, sleeping with one eye open, an eye on the exits. But I also think of petty street-level victories and losses and improv.”

YĪN YĪN
2025-10-11 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGE
Yin Yin is a Southeast Asian psychedelia influenced band from Holland. Their newest release, 2024’s “Mount Matsu” mixes Japanese instrumental folk and City Pop influence. Deeply informed by both the imaginative sound waves of the cosmos as well as the earthly musical culture of Japan, Mount Matsu is the reflection of a chaotic environment of influences slowly coming into focus. Infectious, strangely harmonious and highly energetic, the record is also the first by the band that came into being as the result of a truly democratic process among four befriended musicians.

Charlie King w/ Special Guest Deborah Van Kleef
2025-10-19 16:00 | St. Paul’s Church, 4427 Franklin Blvd., Cleveland, OH, 44102, United States
4-6 PM
ALL AGES
Charlie King is a musical storyteller and political satirist. Pete Seeger hailed him as “One of the finest singers and songwriters of our time.” Folk legend Peggy Seeger says, “If we had more Charlie Kings in the world, I’d be less worried,” and Tom Paxton adds, “Luckily, we have him!”
Deborah Van Kleef is a Cleveland-based folksinger and music educator known for her folk and roots music, often featuring themes related to working-class life and personal storytelling. Her songs include tracks like “Banjo On My Knee Blues” and “The Great Fast Food Strike.”

Acid Mother's Temple w/ The Macks
2025-10-20 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
Formed in 1995 by Makoto Kawabata at the same time as the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective. The group released its debut album in 1997 on PSF Records (Japan), and it was selected as one of the year’s best albums in the The Wire magazine (UK). In 1998 the group played their first tours of the US and Europe. Since then the group has released a huge number of albums on labels from many different countries. As of 2017, the group has released around 80 albums. Every year since 1998, they have toured extensively in the US and Europe, and more recently have started performing around Asia and in Japan too. The group has performed in collaboration with many musicians including psychedelic originators Gong and Guru Guru, Simeon (Silver Apples), Nik Turner (Hawkwind), and the Occitanian trad singer Rosina de Peira. Japanese collaborators have included Afrirampo, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Jun Kuriyama (The Ox), and many others.
To begin with the group had a floating line-up with contributions from many members of the AMT Soul Collective. But as tours became more frequent, the group began to coalesce around a core touring line-up. Other bands were created with Acid Mothers Temple as part of their name (AMT & The Cosmic Inferno, AMT SWR, AMT & The Space Paranoid, AMT & Infinity Rising Zero, Acid Mothers Gong, Acid Mothers Guru Guru, Acid Moon Temple, etc.), but AMT & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. has continued to function as the mothership and main lineage for all our activities.
In 2016, twenty one years since the group’s founding, there was a major shift in the line-up and “Next Generation” was added to the name. We now view the first twenty years as chapter one in our story, and we are now turning the page to start chapter two. The group played more than 100 shows in each year, toured in Europe, North America, South America, Oceania and Asia, also Japan. They also played many festivals (Glastonbury Festival in UK, Levitation in US and France, Rock In Opposition in France, Standon Calling in UK, Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival in Malaysia, LUC fest 貴人散步音樂節 in Taiwan, etc).
During pandemic, they launched their official Bandcamp, have released more than 60 albums (including many unreleased materials), and have toured in Japan in each year. And they played the streaming festival “Levitation Sessions”. They organized “Acid Mothers Olympic 2021” against “Tokyo Olympics 2021”, they originated and played a new style of “music sports”. Finally the group went to the first European tour in Autumn 2022 and North American tour in Spring and Autumn 2023, after pandemic. 2024, the group will tour in Europe in Spring and North America in Autumn.
The current touring line-up is: Kawabata Makoto, Higashi Hiroshi, Satoshima Nani, Sawano Shozo and Jyonson Tsu since 2022.

Neko Case w/ Des Demonas
2025-10-25 19:00 | The Agora, 5000 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, 44103, United States
SAT Oct 25, 2025
ALL AGES
Doors: 7 PM
Singer, songwriter, music producer, visual artist, and writer Neko Case is the consummate career artist — fearless and versatile, with a fierce work ethic and a constant drive to search deeper within herself for creative growth. “One of America’s best and most ambitious singer-songwriters” (Rolling Stone) and “essentially peerless” (NPR), Case has long been revered as one of music’s most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics, musicians, and lifelong fans. In addition to numerous acclaimed and GRAMMY-nominated solo records, Case is a founding member of Canadian supergroup The New Pornographers. She is the author of The New York Times bestselling memoir ‘The Harder I Fight the More I Love You’ and the weekly Substack newsletter ‘Entering The Lung,’ and is currently composing the musical theater adaptation of the Academy Award-winning motion picture ‘Thelma & Louise.’

bar italia
2025-11-15 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
bar italia return with a slew of European and North American tour dates. The run of shows in October and November, including stops in London, Milan, Barcelona, Paris, Los Angeles, New York and Toronto, will follow a sold-out, small capacity London show previewing new music at 93 Feet East on June 19th. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 20th at 10am local time.
The last two years have seen the London trio release two critically acclaimed albums on Matador only several months apart – the poised Tracey Denim and the grand The Twits. They’ve traversed the globe with headline performances from Istanbul to Tokyo, sold-out multi-night stints in New York and Los Angeles, and festivals including Corona Capital, Glastonbury and Coachella. With over 160 shows worldwide across 2023-2024, bar italia became an exhibitionist and muscular five-piece – equally comfortable at festival mosh-pit incitement and moments of pin-drop intimacy.

Florry
2025-11-18 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
A far cry from the cool, calculated distance and reserved posture that is all-too-familiar to the indie-rock sphere, Florry, the Philly-bred septet and songwriting vehicle of bandleader Francie Medosch, are marking their territory as a band resolving to do something very different: they are having a really good time out there.
Cutting her teeth in the Philadelphia DIY scene starting in 2019 as a student at Temple University, the early days of Florry found Medosch at the end of her teenage years releasing a slew of singles and EP’s in a familiar idiom of lo-fi bedroom recordings tinged with country melancholy. A lot has changed since then. Most importantly, perhaps, the project snowballed into a barn-burning seven piece rock band in the proceeding years; and without sacrificing any of the emotional immediacy that’s come to define Medosch’s brashly earnest, bleeding-heart lyrical style, you’re unlikely to find her lingering as much on the melancholy these days. Or, as Medosch plainly puts it in regards to Sounds Like… , the band’s forthcoming LP:
“The Jackass theme song was actually a really big influence on the new album”
The release of their 2023 formal full-length debut The Holey Bible (via Dear Life) found Medosch now flanked by six bandmates and trafficking in a wider, more rock-oriented approach with the bravado of someone with a new lease on life. With Jon Cox (Sadurn, Son of Barb) on pedal steel, John Murray on electric guitar, Colin Dennen on bass, Will Henrikson on fiddle, Katya Malison (Doll Spirit Vessel) on Vox, and Joey Sullivan (Bark Culturr) on drums, Florry 2.0 had arrived. The retooled seven-piece embraced a lengthy run of tours dialing in their new kinetic sound and freewheeling chemistry including runs with Fust, MJ Lenderman, Greg Freeman, and Real Estate. Greeted to critical acclaim upon its release, with positive notices from outlets including Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paste, and Brooklyn Vegan, the album quickly introduced Florry to an expanded audience and pointed a way forward for Medosch and the band at a time when the future wasn’t so clear.
“I had a job lined up selling insurance, I guess I figured that was that, you know?”
As it turns out, that was not that. A few days went by, and then the phone started ringing. From managers, from booking agents, from indie-rock elder statesman Kurt Vile, who took the band on the road in support of his 2023 Back to Moon Beach LP.
On the winkingly titled Sounds Like… , the band’s second full-length release via Dear Life, Florry is picking up right where they left off in 2023. Again upping the ante with a bigger, brighter, more abrasive sound that resembles something closer to Rolling Thunder Revue-era Bob Dylan than their humble DIY roots. Across ten tracks, the band wear their influences on their sleeve while carving out a space that is distinctly their own, blending raw honky-tonk grit and rich instrumental textures with the disarming sincerity and intimacy of the group’s lo-fi beginnings. It’s a record about searching—searching for home, for love, for meaning, and for a sound that captures it all.

Wine Lips w/ Mr. Phylzzz and The Rosies
2025-11-22 19:30 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
Wine Lips w/ Mr. Phylzzz and The Rosies
Doors 7:30 PM | Show 8:30 PM
ALL AGES
at Grog Shop
It’s been one hell of a wild ride for Wine Lips.
Originally formed in Toronto back in 2015 as a part-time project between Cam Hilborn (vox, songwriter, guitar) and drummer extraordinaire Aurora Evans, Wine Lips quickly escalated into a full-blown, full-time, full-on international phenomenon. Their debut album took them across North America followed immediately by an intensive and unexpected tour of Hong Kong and China in 2018. They released their massive “Stressor” album the very next year (2019) to rave reviews and massive critical acclaim. Multiple tracks from Stressor charted across North America and Europe radio, while several songs ended up being featured in broadcast and Netflix series. Endless touring ensued.
Then 2020 happened. The band used their mandatory downtime to fully dedicate themselves to crafting their groundbreaking third full-length “Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party” (recorded by Simon Larochette at Sugar Shack). The record was released in October 2021 and then shit really hit the fan. The international music press lost their collective minds, penning over 250 glowing features and super positive reviews spanning 35+ countries. At the time of writing, the album is rapidly approaching 20 Million spins on Spotify alone. The vinyl release of MDSBP is currently in its 7th pressing with 9 different colour variants. The lead track “Eyes” has been licensed to a metric ton of films, series and video games including ABC’s The Rookie, Hockey Night In Canada and VR Skater. Even more endless touring ensued, except this time the venues were huge and mostly sold-out.
Which brings us to the new record… “Super Mega Ultra” is an absolute beast. Recorded by Simon Larochette at The Sugar Shack in Ontario, the album is jam-packed with 12 ramped-up supersonic ear-scorching auditor delicacies. SMU is probably Wine Lips’ most ambitious undertaking to date, exploring new thematic territory while firmly maintaining their signature psych garage punk rock panache. You truly need to hear the album to believe it… And if you haven’t already guessed, more endless touring is booked for 2024. The wild ride continues!

PERF ft. Beige (Detroit), Joey Sardelle, oraclepussies, Le Schlippy
2025-11-29 21:00 | Crobar, 3244 Saint Clair Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 44114, United States
PERF ft. Beige (Detroit), Joey Sardelle, oraclepussies, Le Schlippy
Doors 9 PM
21+
at Crobar
PERF is a queer-friendly event and safe space.

The Surfrajettes w/ Bethlehem Shalom
2025-12-03 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
The Surfrajettes w/ Bethlehem Shalom
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
What’s thicker, our eyeliner or our guitar strings?
The Surfrajettes are a four-piece instrumental combo from Toronto, ON, Canada. Since forming in late 2015, the band has charmed audiences with their clever mix of psychedelic rock and reverb-drenched surf music, sky-high beehives, go-go boots, and eyeliner as thick as their guitar strings.
The band achieved viral online notoriety from their home-made performance videos and their feature by Norman’s Rare Guitars in LA. The debut 45 single “Party Line / Toxic” released late 2018 on Hi-Tide
Recordings to immediate success. The band has toured extensively in its support, including performances on The Beach Boys Cruise, The Melissa Etheridge Cruise, at Sea.Hear.Now, Nashville Boogie, Wild O Fest in Mexico City, The New England Shake- Up!, Surf Guitar 101

Codefendants w/ Heart & Lung and Skuff Micksun
2025-12-07 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
Codefendants w/ Heart & Lung and Skuff Micksun
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
at Grog Shop
Fat Mike of NOFX‘s newly launched project, Codefendants, are the breath of fresh air and the steel-toe-cap kick in the nuts music has needed for too long. Get Dead vocalist Sam King’s graffiti crew were giving tattoos and making flash art to raise money to help rapper Ceschi Ramos when he was in prison. Months later they met at the Gilman Street Project in Berkeley, California. They bonded, talking about their love of hip-hop and punk rock, over a bottle of Jameson. They didn’t know it yet, but they had just started Codefendants. Impossible to define by traditional standards, Codefendants were forged out of a desire to make an album that sounded like nothing else; a completely genre-fluid album, a cross between hip hop, new-wave, flamenco, and the Beatles. They call the genre ‘Crime Wave’.

Kyle Eldridge x Screamin' Rebel Angels
2025-12-11 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
Kyle Eldridge x Screamin’ Rebel Angels
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
at Beachland Tavern
Kyle Eldridge is a Country & Western singer songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky and known as one of the most prominent guitar players in the traditional scene for his Maphis/ Travis picking and Western Jazz styling.
He got his start playing in the south where he met Upright Bassist Dakota Collins who brought him to Nashville, Tennessee. They began playing Honky Tonks on the famous Broadway strip and soon after, he recorded his debut EP in Los Angeles, California at Deke Dickerson’s studio.
He has played next to such artists as Jim Heath of Reverend Horton Heat, Shaun Young of High Noon, Jody & Rose Lee Maphis, The Lucky Stars, Dale Watson, Tommy Emmanuel, and many more. Dubbed the “Heir Apparent” by Larry Collins of The Collins Kids fame, Kyle Eldridge has been burning his way into the Country & Western scene and has quickly become in demand both domestically and abroad.
You can catch his show case at a music festival or a night club near you.

Protomartyr w/ Autopolitan
2025-12-17 19:00 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
Protomartyr – 10 Years of The Agent Intellect w/ Autopolitan
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
Globe Iron
Protomartyr is an American post-punk band formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 2010. The band consists of Joe Casey, Greg Ahee, Alex Leonard, and Scott Davidson. In 2020, Kelley Deal joined the band in a touring capacity, providing additional keyboards, guitar and backing vocals.

JD McPherson w/ Melissa Carper
2025-12-17 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
“SOCKS” A Rock N’ Roll Christmas Performance by JD McPherson with special guest Melissa Carper
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
Acclaimed singer, songwriter and musician JD McPherson will embark on his fifth-annual “SOCKS: A Rock n’ Roll Christmas Tour” this December with confirmed stops at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom, Nashville’s Basement East, & Minneapolis’s First Avenue, among several others. Tickets are available now via www.jdmcpherson.com/tour.
These performances celebrate McPherson’s breakthrough debut Christmas album, SOCKS, which was released in 2018 on New West Records. The album features 11 all-original Christmas songs, the album has been the best-reviewed holiday record receiving overwhelming critical praise.

The Infamous Stringdusters w/ Mountain Grass Unit
2026-01-28 19:00 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
The Infamous Stringdusters w/ Mountain Grass Unit
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
It’s been 20 years since the inception of The Infamous Stringdusters, the Grammy Award-winning ensemble whose tone and swagger meld acoustic majesty with a full-blown rock show attitude.
To celebrate, the groundbreaking jam-grass quintet is releasing 20/20. Twenty brand new songs for twenty years. The endless miles in pursuit of a dream. The surreal, whirlwind shows of transcendence and lore. The legacy that has become truly infamous.
“We’ve been around for 20 years, and I feel like we’re putting more into our music — both writing and the live shows — than we ever have,” says banjoist Chris Pandolfi. “And the reality is, that you do need to step a little harder on the gas to get the same results — it takes real intention.”
At its core, 20/20 marks an important milestone for the group, who happily exemplify sonic exploration and endless curiosity while maintaining a deep respect for musical tradition — under the bright stage lights or in the midst of a recording session.

Daffo w/ earth 2 tiffany
2026-02-02 19:00 | Beachland Ballroom, 15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, 44110, United States
Daffo w/ earth 2 Tiffany
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
An essential new voice on the indie-rock scene, 21-year-old singer/songwriter Daffo brings an unexpected beauty to the most uncomfortable of feelings. With a poetic specificity that cuts right to the heart, the Los Angeles-based artist speaks an unfiltered truth about all that sets them apart from the wider world, confronting everything from shame and self-loathing to misplaced affection and the chaos of living with an overactive brain. Originally from the Philadelphia suburbs, the musician otherwise known as Gabi Gamberg started writing songs after taking up guitar at age nine, then later shaped their sound by playing countless DIY shows in backyards and basements in New York City and New Jersey. After spending much of the past year on tour with the likes of Sir Chloe and illuminati hotties, Daffo now makes their full-length debut with Where the Earth Bends: a one-of-a-kind coming-of-age album that finds powerful catharsis in painful confession.

Nuovo Testamento w/ Dark Chisme
2026-02-25 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
Dark Wave Dance Cave presents Nuovo Testamento w/ Dark Chisme
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
The Los Angeles-based trio, Nuovo Testamento, is lighting up the dance floor with their uniquely dark italo disco-flavored pop hits. Following the release of the coldwave cult favorite Exposure EP in 2019 on Avant! Records, their acclaimed full length, New Earth, exploded onto the scene with its graceful touch of 1980s-influenced club elements, contagious rhythms and the powerful punch of synthpop. The release was widely considered across genres to be one of 2021’s best underground albums. With the release of their highly anticipated second LP in early 2023, Love Lines, Nuovo Testamento continued to explore the light, the dark and exultant personal power in what will undoubtedly become an instant dance classic. Following a celebrated remix for Scowl and full North American tours supporting the Soft Moon and Molchat Doma, Nuovo Testamento is on tour in the US and Europe throughout 2024.

Spiritual Cramp w/ GUV / Imploders / The Carp
2026-03-07 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
$20 advance | $24 day of show
+ $3 at door if under 21
Spiritual Cramp aren’t looking for a soapbox. The San Francisco-born punk experimentalists are here to flash a big smile, flip you off, deliver a burst of musical adrenaline, and then keep on walking. “But at the same time, that’s something that I’m working on,” vocalist Michael Bingham knowingly grins. And on their upcoming sophomore album, RUDE (due TK via Blue Grape Music), Spiritual Cramp discover a newfound balance between that impish cheekiness, emotional vulnerability, and rabid energy. “When you focus on yourself and the people around you, you can keep your side of the street clean,” Bingham says. “And when I see the opposite of that, I get kind of offended, which is what a lot of these songs are about.”
From the very first seconds of RUDE’s opening track “I’m an Anarchist”, Spiritual Cramp make it clear what their side of the street is. The record is framed with the tuning of an FM dial and the voice of DJ Crash (played by percussionist Jose Luna), introducing Wild 87 Radio and the “San Francisco rude boy sound.” The fictitious radio station takes its name from the band’s original moniker prior to renaming themselves after a song by southern California rockers Christian Death, and recurs on the album as a way to keep the band grounded in their SF roots. “My foundation is in San Francisco, California, and from there I can go anywhere and be who I am,” Bingham says. The song that follows the radio intro similarly grounds listeners in the Spiritual Cramp musical language, Bingham delivering tongue-in-cheek sloganeering (“I’m an anarchist, so leave me alone”) over clap-along sunshine punk.
While Spiritual Cramp have perfected their kaleidoscopic take on rock over nearly a decade, the gleeful RUDE marks the start of a new era for the band. Bingham and bassist Mike Fenton have been the band’s constants in that time—not to mention having worked on other projects together prior—and wrote the majority of Spiritual Cramp’s songs on their own across a series of lineup changes. But after a seemingly endless tour in support of their self-titled 2023 debut, their new lineup of Bingham, Fenton, percussionist Luna, guitarists Nate Punty and Orville Neeley III, and drummer Julian Smith gelled to the point that the co-founders decided to bring everyone into the room for the writing process. “It really helped give color and energy to the whole record,” Fenton says. The results are nothing short of ecstatic, bounding between new wave burn, indie rock swagger, old-school punk, and even dub and hip-hop flourishes

Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy and Friends play R.E.M.'s Life's Rich Pageant w/ Bobcat Goldthwait
2026-03-10 19:00 | Globe Iron, 2325 Elm St., Cleveland, OH, 44113, United States
Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy and Friends play R.E.M.’s Life’s Rich Pageant w/ Bobcat Goldthwait
ALL AGES
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy And Friends are thrilled to announce a spring 2026 U.S. tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.’s iconic album, Lifes Rich Pageant. After the pair’s rapturously received run earlier this year honoring the band’s famed 1985 album Fables of the Reconstruction, which saw the four original members of R.E.M. join Shannon & Narducy on-stage at their two shows in Athens, GA, the extensive Lifes Rich Pageant tour will take Shannon & Narducy to stops in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, and more.
Additionally, they will return for two shows in R.E.M.’s hometown of Athens, GA. Kicking off Wednesday, Feb. 11 at Summit in Denver, CO, the tour will see Shannon & Narducy— alongside Jon Wurster (drums), John Stirratt (bass), Dag Juhlin (guitar), and Vijay Tellis-Nayak (keyboards)—playing Lifes Rich Pageant in full each night in addition to many other beloved R.E.M. classics.

LaMP: Russ Lawton, Scott Metzger, Ray w/ Da Land Brass Band
2026-03-11 19:00 | OH
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
$20 advance / $25 day of show
Interstate jammers LaMP — featuring Vermont-based Russ Lawton (drums) and Ray Paczkowski (keys), alongside Brooklynite Scott Metzger (guitar) — distill singular, road-honed improv instincts into taut, instrumental epics.
While each of the players has extensive experience with other gigs — Lawton and Paczkowski with the Trey Anastasio Band (TAB) and Soule Monde, and Metzger through projects such as Joe Russo’s Almost Dead (JRAD) and Medeski, Martin, Metzger & Cline (MMMC) — LaMP has hewed its own path.
The trio is currently touring behind their second studio collection, One Of Us, that packs 10 tracks into 35-minutes of kaleidoscopic interplay and club-shifting grooves. It’s the cleanest distillation of the LaMP sound yet, a mission statement of improvisational group-think and compositional chops.
Throughout its runtime, One Of Us acts as a showcase for the myriad of sonic ﬂavors LaMP brings to the table, delivering a listen which works both as deep headphone immersion or a packable-party custom-tailored to deliver the jams to upcoming 2025 tour hangs.
As word has spread and crowds have grown with each subsequent tour, it’s become clear that LaMP ft. Russ Lawton, Scott Metzger & Ray Paczkowski will be a musical force to be reckoned with for the foreseeable future.

The Obsessed w/ The Great Iron Snake / Radian / Bessemer Saints
2026-03-12 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
7 PM Doors | 8 PM Show
All Ages
$18.50 ADV / $22 DOS
Since their formation in 1978, they have become known around the world for their influential contribution to the origins and continued legacy of the doom metal and underground hard rock genres. The distinctive vocals and guitar wizardry of founder and driving force Scott “Wino” Weinrich has left a mark on the world of heavy music that continues to inspire.
The Obsessed gained momentum in the Baltimore/DC area of the USA in the early to mid 1980’s during the height of the hardcore punk movement. Often cited as the band that bridged heavy metal and punk together, the band gained the respect of punk heavy weight contemporaries Black Flag, The Bad Brains, and Minor Threat, to name a few. The attitude and spirit of The Obsessed has led many to regard them as “America’s Motorhead”.
Wino went on to join the doom metal giants Saint Vitus as lead singer on seminal albums including 1986’s ‘Born Too Late’‘. In 1990, The Obsessed came back with their eponymous debut album, “The Obsessed”. This album was quickly followed by 1991’s “Lunar Womb” and 1994’s “The Church within.
The band then signed with Relapse Records and recorded 2017’s “Sacred”, an album showing The Obsessed were back with pure vengeance. Sacred brought the band to venues and festival stages around the world.
In 2022 the band became a four piece with the addition of Chris Angleberger on bass and Jason Taylor on guitar. The band has been touring heavily since and have been seen on USA and European festival stages such as HellFest, Freak Valley Festival, Snowblind Festival and multiple DesertFests.
The band’s 2024 album, Gilded Sorrow, on Ripple Music, marked a new chapter in their legacy. The album captures the essence of the band’s classic sound while adding a fresh new atmosphere with a dual guitar attack. In 2025, Bob Pantella (The Atomic Bitchwax, Monster Magnet, Raging Slab) joined The Obsessed on drums. To quote Wino, “This is the strongest The Obsessed has ever been. We are geared up and ready to play. We will be hitting your city soon!”

Jordana w/ Kelcey Ayer
2026-03-17 19:00 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
Jordana w/ Kelcey Ayer
Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM
ALL AGES
Jordana’s music has always possessed a unique sense of place.
You can hear the stillness of a Kansas bedroom on her 2020 debut Classical Notions… Humid late night New York walks on her double EP Something To Say To You. There’s the kaleidoscopic otherworldliness of Summer’s Over, her collab release with TV Girl. The unmistakable sunshine of LA on 2024’s Lively Premonitions. But on her new semi self-titled project, Jordanaland, the 25-year-old songwriter has officially crafted a place all her own.
“Jordanaland is definitely an escape from Americaland. It looks a lot like LA in the videos…for some reason. Weird,” muses Jordana. “But it’s wherever you want it to be, just close your eyes.”

WRUW-FM Telethon 2026
2026-03-23 00:00 - 2026-03-30 00:00 | WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland, 11220 Bellflower Rd, Cleveland, OH, 44106, United States
What: WRUW-FM Telethon 2026
When: March 23, 2026 at 12 AM ET – March 29, 2026 at 11:59 ET
How to Donate: Go to telethon.wruw.org OR call 216.368.2208 between 8 AM – 12 AM
WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland’s annual Telethon fundraiser begins Monday, March 23 and runs until Sunday, March 29. Telethon is the one time of the year that we ask for financial contributions to support our mission of preserving the college radio listening experience and bringing “more music, fewer hits,” to the Greater Cleveland airwaves, as well as globally, via online streaming at wruw.org.
WRUW-FM is Case Western Reserve University’s independent, non-commercial radio station, broadcasting freeform music programs ranging from jazz, EDM, metal, folk, indie, showtunes and more 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. WRUW showcases local talent live on-air during “Live From Cleveland” and amplifies the voices of our community on public affairs programming like “It’s About Justice”, “Voices and Choices”, and “Gaywaves” in addition to being the largest carrier of the weekday syndicated news program “Democracy Now” in the state of Ohio.
In 2025, listener donations made it possible for us to purchase a new radio transmitter, reel-to-reel machine, two new digitizing robots, and live broadcast equipment. This year, we are focusing on raising money to cover the cost of installation of the new transmitter and supporting technology. This investment in our signal will improve sound quality, prevent drop outs, and fix other technical issues, giving our audience the best listening experience possible.
2026 has been a challenging year for non-commercial radio with dwindling arts-based funding and competition for control over the FM dial at an all-time high. WRUW-FM is vital to Cleveland’s music ecosystem, providing an accessible means for anyone to hear new, alternative sounds and underrepresented voices. This year, our college radio community has demonstrated their amazing ability to band together to protect freedom of expression on the left side of the dial. We encourage people to call from March 23-29 to 216.368.22008 to make their donation or contribute online at telethon.wruw.org to help us meet our fundraising goals and support our mission.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Chuck Ragan w/ Heart & Lung / Flippant
2026-03-27 19:30 | Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106, United States
Doors 7:30 PM | Show 8:30 PM
ALL AGES
$25 advance / $30 day of show
People discover Chuck Ragan in different ways. Some people know Ragan from the pioneering punk act Hot Water Music he’s co-fronted for the past three decades. Others are aware of his successful solo career or the Revival Tour, a collection of traveling troubadours that included his peers like Frank Turner and the Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon. Some folks may have even come across him from the successful fly fishing operation he runs out of Grass Valley, California. The one throughline through all this is the way that Ragan approaches everything with a level of honesty and integrity that can’t be faked—and that sentiment is undeniable on Love And Lore, his first solo collection in ten years and one that’s being released as Hot Water Music take a well-deserved victory lap for their breakout album Vows, which came out earlier this year.
