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Apr19 Fri
Pig Destroyer, Jarhead Fertilizer, No/Mas and Bandit
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PMMore Information
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Pig Destroyer
Jarhead Fertilizer
No/Mas
Bandit
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Apr20 Sat
Upon A Burning Body, The Browning, Hollow Front, VCTMS
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 6:00 PM, Show at 7:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
INDIVIDUAL: $22.00
TICKET SALE DATES
INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: January 11, 2024 12:00 PM to April 20, 2024 5:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Upon A Burning BodyThe BrowningHollow FrontVCTMS
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Apr21 Sunu+n booking presents
Metz with Gouge Away
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ADVANCED: $20.00
DAY OF: $25.00
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED Public Onsale: February 14, 2024 10:00 AM to April 20, 2024 11:59 PM
DAY OF Public Onsale: April 21, 2024 12:00 AM to April 21, 2024 8:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Metz with Gouge Away
$20 adv/ $25 day of show
With time, we come to understand the way the joy of connection is mirrored by the void of loss, how the constancy of love is matched only by the impermanence of life, the simple idea that we could not create light if we did not risk the dark—we’d never need to.So it is with METZ, a band once known for blowing out eardrums with songs of joyous rage who have, over their past few records, begun exploring ways to turn abrasiveness into atmospherics, the evolution of their sound not only a reflection of the maturing of the band themselves but also of a changed world that demands nuance and compassion to comprehend and to survive.
It was a journey already underway on 2020’s Atlas Vending, but one that reaches new heights on Up On Gravity Hill, where the Canadian trio creates a kaleidoscopic sonic world as tender as it is dark, aided once again by engineer Seth Manchester (Mdou Moctar, Lingua Ignota, Battles, The Body). Deep, detailed, and unyieldingly personal, it is not only METZ’s most powerful record to date but also their most beautiful.
Still three punks from Ontario at heart, guitarist and vocalist Alex Edkins, drummer Hayden Menzies, and bassist Chris Slorach waste no time as opener “No Reservation/Love Comes Crashing” sweeps in like a wave, sonically and thematically setting the scene for the record to come. A dynamic song about feeling suspended in stasis, layers of dissonance melt into a restlessly heady outro marked by escalating crescendos of shimmering noise that reach for the stars—and is that a violin quivering brightly beneath those elegant swells of guitar, those charging drum fills, those intricate bass lines? It is indeed, courtesy of composer Owen Pallett; his presence an immediate indicator that METZ are thinking more cinematically than ever before.
For those who believe in the power of the rock band to exemplify the highest resonance of human connection, there is much on Up On Gravity Hill to lift the spirit, a puzzle worth repeated listening to unlock or just to get lost in again and again. Rather than the music being flattened into a single plane, the band explores “the space above the cymbals,” resulting in some of the most spacious, sympathetic, and accessible songs—could we call them pop?—of their career. If this seems contradictory, well, METZ has always been something of a contradiction.
Lyrically, Up On Gravity Hill pulls no punches: this is a record about death the way all art is ultimately about death, yet it crackles with life and intensity. “Entwined” is a charging throwback to the cerebral Dischord punk bands the trio grew up loving; the snarling “99” takes on the nonstop onslaught of advertising that marks our modern lives; “We are all just a dream,” sings Edkins on “Superior Mirage,” Menzies’ charged drumming and flickering hi-hats a contrast to the song’s ghostly themes of impermanence. The record peaks on the gorgeous closer “Light Your Way Home,” which features vocal contributions from Amber Webber of Black Mountain. Here, Edkins confronts the choices that keep him from the people he loves, their absence only emphasizing how much they matter. “If only I could see what isn’t shown/ I’d clear a path for you,” he sings, a deeply emotional confession for a band that has found a new way to bend the raw power of rock music to its most delicate, intricate ends.
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Apr23 Tue
Matt Pless, Little Foot and Glenmont Popes
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
INDIVIDUAL: $10.00
TICKET SALE DATES
INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: March 18, 2024 8:51 AM to April 23, 2024 6:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Matt Pless
Little Foot
Glenmont Popes
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Apr24 Wed
Pylon Reenactment Society, Dim Wizard, Tomato Flower
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
INDIVIDUAL: $15.00
TICKET SALE DATES
INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: February 27, 2024 10:00 AM to April 24, 2024 6:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Pylon Reenactment Society
Dim Wizard
Tomato Flower
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Apr25 Thu
Grayson Moon, Noah Pierre Band, Attic Sessions
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
INDIVIDUAL: $15.00
TICKET SALE DATES
INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: March 8, 2024 7:31 AM to April 25, 2024 7:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Grayson Moon, Noah Pierre Band, Attic Sessions
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Apr26 Fri
The Slackers with The Players Band and DJ Bobby Babylon
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 8:00 PM, Show at 9:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
INDIVIDUAL: $25.00
TICKET SALE DATES
INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: January 12, 2024 10:00 AM to April 26, 2024 7:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
The Slackerswith The Players Band
and DJ Bobby Babylon
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Apr27 Sat
Grim Reefer Fest 2024 w/ Weedeater, Telekinetic Yeti, Black Lung and more!
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 1:00 PM, Show at 2:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
DAY OF: $50.00
ADVANCE TICKET TIER 2: $40.00
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCE TICKET TIER 2 Public Onsale: March 1, 2024 12:00 AM to April 26, 2024 11:59 PM
DAY OF Public Onsale: April 27, 2024 12:00 AM to April 27, 2024 1:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
GRIM REEFER FEST 2024Weedeater, Telekinetic Yeti, Black Lung, Left Lane Cruiser, Haze Mage, Leather Lung, High Leaf, Foehammer, Weed Coughin, Bleak ShoreThe Golden Grillz food truck serving hot food all day and night as well.
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Apr30 TueFloor Show!
Lead Spirit, Soup Activists, Narcan, Music Mouse and Geeker
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
INDIVIDUAL: $15.00
TICKET SALE DATES
INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: March 18, 2024 3:50 PM to April 30, 2024 6:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
FLOOR SHOW!
Lead Spirit, Soup Activists, Narcan, Music Mouse and Geeker
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May1 Wed
Dustin Kensrue
The Desert Dreaming TourBaltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 6:30 PM, Show at 7:30 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ADVANCED: $22.00
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED Public Onsale: February 8, 2024 12:00 PM to April 30, 2024 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Dustin Kensrue
The Brevet
Brother Bird
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May3 Fri
The Messthetics with Sensor Ghost & Walsh Kunkel
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 8:00 PM, Show at 9:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ADVANCED: $17.00
DAY OF: $20.00
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED Public Onsale: April 4, 2024 11:10 PM to May 2, 2024 11:59 PM
DAY OF Public Onsale: May 3, 2024 12:00 AM to May 3, 2024 9:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
The Messthetics with Sensor Ghost & Walsh Kunkel
The last time drummer Brendan Canty and bassist Joe Lally were in a band together, they were the rhythmic architects for Fugazi, an organization whose decade and a half of disciplined progressivism provided a necessary bridge between the zenith of late-punk expression and everything alternative in rock that followed. In 2016, the two were enlisted by guitarist Anthony Pirog in a conspiracy to subvert and reimagine the power trio, bringing fully into the 21st Century a form that may have reached near perfection with Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys on the very first day of the 1970s.
With a self-titled recording scheduled for release in the Spring of 2018 on Dischord, the Messthetics will widen the reach of a decisive instrumental music that so far, they have only shared with a privileged handful of east coast and southern audiences. Across its eight original compositions and one cover, Anthony guides the sound through complex changes and harmonic densities that might compound, but never confound or muddy its connection with the listener’s body. Recorded by Brendan in their practice space, the group’s debut gives Anthony ample opportunities to swap guitar textures and styles as freely as an octopus changes patterns.
Brendan’s kit has a big heavy bell that he brought back from the Fugazi days. He maneuvers through this rhythmically shifty music with a fluid briskness that is periodically disrupted by the clang of his bell. Joe spent 8 years in Italy, among other things, woodshedding on eastern rhythms counted in 7 and 13, perfect preparation for the oddly-metered work of the Messthetics. He brings a rock-solid foundation to the groove at the same time playing a harmonic complement as ambitious and interesting as Anthony’s lines.
Bands can be dangerous when their members have accrued enough mileage to see their chops season into something like musical wisdom. When that understanding has the rare opportunity to percolate through a collaborative environment founded in love and anchored in gratitude, well, then shit can get rather intense. Anthony Pirog writes difficult music because original music usually is. Yet the ideas that he feeds through the Messthetics, are embraced by the Canty-Lally time machine, not just with precision and nuance, but with soul, joy, and groove. These last three are, indeed, the big guns in this spiritual war that music must become in the post-Trump era.
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May6 Monu+n booking presents
Brontez Purnell, Friday Junior, Clear Channel & kaz
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 8:00 PM, Show at 9:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ADVANCED: $15.00
DAY OF: $18.00
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED Public Onsale: April 6, 2024 2:56 PM to May 5, 2024 11:59 PM
DAY OF Public Onsale: May 6, 2024 12:00 AM to May 6, 2024 9:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Brontez Purnell
Friday Junior
Clear Channel
kaz
BRONTEZ PURNELL HAS BEEN MAKING MUSIC SINCE THE ‘90S. HE STARTED IN THE SOCIAL LIES, A HARDCORE AFRO-PUNK DUO IN ALABAMA IN HIS TEENS, AND LATER GRAVY TRAIN!!! HE THEN WENT ON TO LEAD HIS LONG RUNNING PROJECT THE YOUNGER LOVERS. HE IS ALSO A DANCER, FILM MAKER, CHOREOGRAPHER (THE BRONTEZ PURNELL DANCE COMPANY), AND AUTHOR OF 8 BOOKS.
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May9 Thu
Ashley Kutcher and guest Dead Like Disco
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
INDIVIDUAL: $20.00
TICKET SALE DATES
INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: March 1, 2024 10:00 AM to May 9, 2024 6:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Ashley Kutcher
and guest
Dead Like Disco
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May10 Fri
Modern Life is War with Jaye Jayle & Ammo
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 8:00 PM, Show at 9:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ADVANCED: $18.00
DAY OF: $22.00
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED Public Onsale: January 19, 2024 10:00 AM to May 9, 2024 11:59 PM
DAY OF Public Onsale: May 10, 2024 12:00 AM to May 10, 2024 9:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Modern Life is War with Jaye Jayle & Ammo
We formed Modern Life Is War in early 2002 in our hometown of Marshalltown, Iowa. By the time we played our first show in our drummer’s parents basement on April 20th, 2002 we already had our self-released 7” in the works. We were very naive and didn’t know much about what we were about to get into. That summer we booked our own tour to the East Coast and back. The end of that tour was very likely to be the end of the band’s existence. However, by the time we got home it was clear that it was already taking on a life of it’s own and there was more work to be done. The beginnings of our band were completely DIY and homegrown and although many things have changed and progressed we always keep those early days in mind in everything we do. All aspects of Modern Life Is War remain very personal to us.We have released four full length albums: My Love. My Way. (2003), Witness (2005), Midnight in America (2007), and Fever Hunting (2013). Like all bands that have been around for some time, we have been through some shit. Broken Vans, breakups, reunions, injuries, tours, lineup changes, mental illness, peaks, valleys, misery and general confusion. This has been one of the most frustrating yet extremely rewarding things we have done with our lives. We value creativity, self-expression and independent thought and do our best to represent that with our music and our lyrics.Along the way we have developed a wildly supportive cult of supporters (thank you) who allow us to keep traveling and recording. We are currently battling it out in this mad world through a series of 7" singles we have titled “Tribulation Worksongs.” Volumes 1 & 2 came out in 2018 and 2019 will see the release of the next two volumes. Modern Life Is War is Jeffrey Eaton (vocals), Chris Honeck (bass), John Eich (Guitar), Luke Rauch (Drums) and Bo Becker (Guitar). Former members include: Matt Hoffman, Tyler Oleson, Sjarm 13 and Tim Churchman. Even as elderly people who don’t have many years left on this earth we still enjoy getting wild as hell and screaming and sweating on stages and floors around the world. Please come join us.
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May12 Sun
Dosser, Crossing i's Dotting t's, Violet Evergreen and Lean Tee
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ADVANCED: $15.00
DAY OF: $18.00
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED Public Onsale: April 3, 2024 10:55 PM to May 11, 2024 11:59 PM
DAY OF Public Onsale: May 12, 2024 12:00 AM to May 12, 2024 8:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
DosserBaltimore shoegaze.
Crossing i's Dotting t'sCalifornia grunge rock.
Violet EvergreenBaltimore emo / shoegaze.
Lean TeeBaltimore indie-rock.
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May14 Tue
The Stivs, Tomorrow Starts Today, Skyjacker, The Downstrokes
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 7:00 PM, Show at 7:30 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
INDIVIDUAL: $15.00
TICKET SALE DATES
INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: April 10, 2024 9:11 AM to May 14, 2024 6:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
The StivsTomorrow Starts TodaySkyjackerThe Downstrokes
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May15 Wedu+n booking presents
Narrow head, Wishy & Dazy
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 8:00 PM, Show at 9:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ADVANCED: $20.00
DAY OF: $22.00
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED Public Onsale: February 23, 2024 10:00 AM to May 14, 2024 11:59 PM
DAY OF Public Onsale: May 15, 2024 12:00 AM to May 15, 2024 9:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Narrow Head
Wishy
Dazy
Doors at 8/ show at 9
Get Tickets$20.00 -
May17 FriPresented by Emo Nite LA
Emo Nite at Ottobar
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesShow at 9:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
INDIVIDUAL: $16.00
TICKET SALE DATES
INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: February 23, 2024 11:00 AM to May 17, 2024 8:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Emo Nite at Ottobar presented by Emo Nite LAEarly access to tickets will be up on the Emo Nite patreon!Got a request? Let us know what you wanna hear!
$1 from every ticket sold will be donated to Living The Dream Foundation.
IG: @emonite, @theottobar, @_deprariousTwitter: @emonitela, @ottobuddy, @_deprarious"Become a part of the Nite fam: http://patreon.com/emonitela
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May18 SatTrixie Little presents
HOPELESS ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 8:00 PM, Show at 9:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
VIP: $30.00
ADVANCED: $20.00
DAY OF: $25.00
VIP 2: $35.00
TICKET SALE DATES
VIP Public Onsale: March 15, 2024 10:00 AM to May 17, 2024 11:59 PM
ADVANCED Public Onsale: March 15, 2024 10:00 AM to May 17, 2024 11:59 PM
DAY OF Public Onsale: May 18, 2024 12:00 AM to May 18, 2024 7:00 PM
VIP 2 Public Onsale: May 18, 2024 12:00 AM to May 18, 2024 7:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
HOPELESS ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS
featuring Trixie Little, Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith
Trixie Little's absurdist cabaret show and 12-step meeting for all romantics recovering from a hopeless world. Award-winning OG cabaret sensation and physical comedian, Trixie Little, will also be performing the puppet show that launched her career-- Carmen: The Hot Dog Opera. Co-starring the storyteller- folk singer- and NY Times writer, Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith. With special surprise guests!A totally unique cabaret experience that is a love letter to LOVE itself! With ridiculous dance numbers, live music, honest story telling, smart striptease, food puppets, audience sing-a-longs, and plenty of comedy.
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May20 MonScenic Presents
Dead Boys, The Plimsouls and more TBA
Baltimore, MDUnited StatesDoors at 7:00 PM, Show at 8:00 PMMore InformationTICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
INDIVIDUAL: $25.00
TICKET SALE DATES
INDIVIDUAL Public Onsale: January 24, 2024 2:39 PM to May 20, 2024 6:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Dead Boys
The Plimsouls
and more TBA
Get Tickets$25.00