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Jan 17- Terrastock Tea Party w/ The Broken Spurs, Scott Scarboro, D.W. Box, and Ben Sollee on Cello (Mellwood Arts Center) [UPDATE: CANCELED, RE-SCHEDULED FOR FEB, MORE DETAILS LATER]

Jan 17- The Dave Matthews Tribute Band (Expo-Five)

Jan 17- Armor for Sleep (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Jan 17- Black Kerouac (Pour Haus)

Jan 17- DL (Dark Star Tavern)

Jan 18- Squeeze-Bot (The Rudyard Kipling)

Jan 18- The Mack (Jazz Factory)

Jan 18- Phantom Family Halo w/ La Otracina (Cahoot’s)

Jan 18- One Small Step (Ear x-tacy, 7pm)

Jan 18- One Small Step w/ The Invaders (Lisa’s Oak St. Lounge)

Jan 18- Arnett Hollow (Bluegrass Brewing Co.)

Jan 18- Amherst, Nightbirds, Consume Consumer, On Parallels (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Jan 19- Todd Rundgren (Madison Theatre, Covington)

Jan 19- Garrison Starr (House Party)

Jan 19- The Broken Spurs (The Nachbar)

Jan 19- The Scourge and the Sea (The Dame)

Jan 19- Jon Ashely (Ear x-tacy)

Jan 19- Thirteenth Sun (Hideaway Saloon)

Jan 19- The Blue Umbrellas (Tink’s Pub)

Jan 19- Hip Hops Bar Tour (Granville Inn)

Jan 20- Martin Sexton (Headliners)

Jan 20- MLK Jr. Celebration Concert (Brown Theatre)

Jan 21- Craig Wagner (Jockamo’s)

Jan 22- Aim for the Skies! (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Jan 22- DJ Kim Sorise (Monkey Wrench)

Jan 23- Hot Hot Heat, Editors, Louis XIV (Newport Music Hall, Columbus)

Jan 23- De Novo Dahl (Southgate House)

Jan 24- Sara Bareilles (Ear X-tacy)

Jan 24- Peter Searcy, Brigid Kaelin, Rob from Muckrakers & Special Guests (Gerstles)

Jan 24- Funk Out (Darkstar Tavern)

Jan 24- Johnny Berry, solo (The Nachbar)

Jan 25- Ferdinand Fox, The Invaders & DJ Narwhal (Read More)

Jan 25- The Slow Break w/ Giant Tigers and Bad Blood (Lisa’s Oak Street Lounge)

Jan 25- Marion Square w/ Tenia Sanders (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Jan 26- Dan Deacon w/ Girl Talk (The Metro, Chicago) (Read More) SOLD OUT

Jan 26- Halfway to Forecastle w/ Band of Horses, Cass McCombs, VHS or BETA, Catfish Haven and moreSOLD OUT (Headliners)

Jan 26- Kentucky Prophet (The Pour Haus)

Jan 26- Digby (Gerstle’s Place)

Jan 26- The Broken Spurs (Wick’s on Dixie)

Jan 26- D. Mawl w/ Ten (Ice Breakers)

Jan 26- Bajingo and the Hoo Hoos (Vernon Lanes)

Jan 26- Consume Consumer w/ The Scarlet Veil (The Underground)

Jan 26- Thirteenth Sun (The Hideaway Saloon)

Jan 27- Band of Horses, Cass McCombs (Southgate House)

Jan 29- Maestro J (Ali Center)

Jan 30- SSION (Southgate House)

Jan 30- Grampall Jookabox, Doog (The Dame)

Jan 31- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (Bogarts, Cincy)

Jan 31- Darkstar House Band (Darkstar Tavern)

Jan 31- Johnny Berry & The Outliers (Southgate House)

Jan 31- Cari Clara (The Dame)

Feb 1- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings w/ DJ Kim Sorise (Headliners)

Feb 1- Tiger Army, the Dear & Departed, Revolution Mother (Uncle Pleasants)

Feb 1- Amherst, On Parallels, and Vertigo (Ice Breakers)

Feb 1- Vampire Squid (Vernon Lanes)

Feb 1- Vampire Squid, Capillary Action, Lee Van Cleef (Rudyard Kipling)

Feb 1- Brassknuckle Boys, Heartthrob, The Bridgeburners (Third Street Dive)

Feb 1- Paradigm (Hideaway Saloon)Feb 1- Six Organs of Admittance (The Dame)

Feb 1- Murals (BBC on 4th)Feb 1- Yardsale (Bearons on Bardstown)

Feb 1- John Baxter & the Bottom Feeders (Bud’s Tavern)

Feb 1- Digby (Gerstles)

Feb 2- The Parade Schedule w/ Luke Asher (The 930)

Feb 2- Hip Hops Bar Tour (Rudyard Kipling)

Feb 2- Adventure (Lisa’s Oak St. Lounge)

Feb 2- Mason Proper (Rhinos Youth Center, Bloomington)

Feb 2- Noizejoi (Ear x-tacy & Raw)

Feb 5- Wake the Day (Headliners)

Feb 6- The Fiery Furnaces (Exit/In, Nashville)

Feb 6- Hambone (Wick’s on Baxter)

Feb 7- The Whigs (Mad Hatter)

Feb 8- One Small Step (WFPK Live Lunch)

Feb 8- One Small Step (Quills)

Feb 8- Ben Sollee, Brigid Kaelin, Mike Mangione (The 930)

Feb 8- Ultra Pulverize CD Release Show (Vernon Lanes)

Feb 8- Heartthrob (Third Street Dive)

Feb 8- David Olney & Sergio Webb w/ Edgehill Ave. (House Concert)

Feb 8- House Party-Acoustic: Amherst, Jimmy Vegas, On Parallels, Sugar Spell it Out, and Rosewood (2113 Village Dr.)

Feb 8- De Novo Dahl (Bread & Bagel, Bowling Green)

Feb 9- Edgehill Ave. (Zazoo’s)

Feb 9- The Teeth, The Scarlet Veil and Swiftwind (Derby City Espresso)

Feb 9- Lincoln and the Lost Prayers, Slithering Beast, Cougar Express, and J.K. McKnight (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Feb 9- Arnett Hollow (Wick’s on Baxter)

Feb 11- Ingrid Michaelson & Matthew Perryman Jones (The 930) SOLD OUT

Feb 12- Dark Star Orchestra (Bogart’s)

Feb 13- Vampire Weekend (Gypsy Hut, Cincy) SOLD OUT

Feb 13- Ben Purdom & The Zombie (Pink Door)

Feb 14- The Bravery (20th Century Theatre, Cincy)

Feb 14- Aim for the Skies! (Bulldog Cafe)

Feb 15- Hip Hops Bar Tour (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Feb 15- Mountain Asleep, Social Symphony, June Caught Fire and more (The Brick House)

Feb 15- Flamenco at the Forge (Kaviar Forge)

Feb 15- Louisville is for Lovers 2008 CD Release Show w/ Phantom Family Halo and others (Pour Haus)

Feb 15- Bonepony, The Muckrakers and Marion Square (Headliners)

Feb 15- John Baxter & the Bottom Feeders (Air Devil’s Inn)

Feb 15- Amherst, The Murals (Wicks on Baxter)

Feb 16- Johnny Berry and The Outliers (Headliners)

Feb 16- High on Fire, A Life Once Lost, Saviours & Intronaut (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Feb 16- Inept and Amherst (Expo 5)

Feb 16- The Headlights & The Evangelicals (Icehouse VOID SKATESHOP, Lexington)

Feb 16- The Guttersluts, Good Morning Salute, 12:00 Flashers (3rd Street Dive)

Feb 16- Broadfield Marchers & The Blind Shades (Nachbar)

Feb 16- Sarah Elizabeth (Rudyard Kipling)

Feb 18- Chick Corea & Bela Fleck (Brown Theatre)

Feb 20- Citizen Cope (Headliners)

Feb 20- Shooting Spires (Void Skateshop)

Feb 22- Wax Fang, UltraPulzerize, Venus Trap (Headliners)

Feb 22- Sugar Spell it Out, Kristen Key, Junior Revolution, A Decade to Die For, Ellision (Mad Hatter, Covington)

Feb 22- Dangerbird, The Ladybirds (Pour Haus)

Feb 22- Kentucky Prophet, Nacirema, iii, Bob Anonymous (Petrus)

Feb 23- Grinstead, The Foxery, Sugar Spell it Out, A Decade to Die For, Ellision (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Feb 23- The Mack (Lonshot Tavern)

Feb 23- Yardsale (Highlands Tap Room)

Feb 23- Shannon Wright with King’s Daughters & Sons and Tara Jane O’Neil (The 930)

Feb 23- Dirty Guv’nahs, John Baxter & the Bottom Feeders, The Loft (Pour Haus)

Feb 23- Warm in the Wake (Ear x-tacy)

Feb 23- Over the Rhine (KCA)

Feb 23- Hoots & Hellmouth, Giant Bear, Warm in the Wake (Headliners)

Feb 24- Foreign Born, St. Vincent (Wexner Center, Columbus)

Feb 24- Hoots & Hellmouth, Giant Bear, Warm in the Wake (The Dame)

Feb 25- One Small Step (Pink Door)

Feb 26- Baby Dee (The Icehouse, Lexington)

Feb 27- Say Hi To Your Mom (Gypsy Hut, Cincy)

Feb 27- De Novo Dahl (The Dame)

Feb 27- Jacob Duncan, Jason Tiemann & John Goldsby Record Live Album (Nachbar)

Feb 28- They Might be Giants w/ Oppenheimer (Bluebird, Bloomington)

Feb 28- Iswhat?!, Noisejoi, Black Fountain, NAM (The Dame)

Feb 29- Hotpipes CD release party w/ The Features, Chico Felini (South Gate House)

Feb 29- Will Hoge & Jason Isbell w/ Dawn Landes (Headliners)

Feb 29- Over the Rhine (KCA)

Feb 29- Hip Hops Bar Tour (Monkey Wrench)

Feb 29- Slithering Beast w/ Jimmy Vegas (Third Street Dive)

Feb 29- Alanna Fugate CD Release Party (BBC, St. Matthews)

Feb 29- The Fervor, The Slow Break, Adventure (Pour Haus)

Feb 29- Presidente!, Rude Weirdo & Plows (Cahoots)

Feb 29- The Confessional (Bearno’s by the Bridge)

Feb 29- Thirteenth Sun (Hideaway Saloon)

Mar 1- Drive-by Truckers (ear X-tacy, 1pm)

Mar 1- Drive-by Truckers w/ The Felice Brothers (Headliners)

Mar 1- The Whigs, Wax Fang & Spinto Band (The Dame)

Mar 1- Alanna Fugate, Leigh Ann Yost, Teneia Sanders (Jennica’s 2 Year Anniversary)

Mar 1- Beechwood Jam Fest w/Code Red, Villebillies, more (Louisville Gardens)

Mar 1- Rustic Frog Benefit with Ultrapulverize (Rustic From, New Albany)

Mar 1- The Broken Spurs w/ The Glasspack (Longshots Tavern)

Mar 1- Todd Snider (St. Francis of Assisi)

Mar 1- Andrea Davidson (Dutch’s Tavern)

Mar 1- The Scarlet Veil, The Mack and Boxmaker (Cahoot’s)

Mar 2- Tesla (Bogarts)

Mar 2- The Parade Schedule, Sleepy Giant with Jess Britt and Ghost to Falco (tba)

Mar 3- Bowerbirds w/ Phosphorescent (Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington)

Mar 4- Brigid Kaelin (Jazz Factory)

Mar 4- Big Head Todd and the Monsters (Madison Theatre, Covington)

Mar 5- Van Halen (US Bank Arena, Cincy)

Mar 5- Paradigm (The Pink Door)

Mar 5- The Mack (Stevie Rays)

Mar 5- Laromlab (TBA, Louisville)

Mar 6- The Muggabears (Gypsy Hut)

Mar 7- Tift Merritt (Ear x-tacy)

Mar 7- Clay Buffet w/ Azns n Bnzs & Skyscraper Stereo (215 S. Clay Street)

Mar 7- Black Mountain w/Bon Iver (Headliners)

Mar 7- Jefrodisiac, Richie Panic, VHS or Beta DeeJays (Fuzion)

Mar 7- NOFX, No Use for a Name, The Flatliners (Madison Theatre, Covington)

Mar 7- Sugar Spell it Out, One Small Step for Landmines, Junior Revolution, Pomegranates, Look Mexico, The Parade Schedule (Uncle Pleasants)

Mar 7- Ben Sollee & Arnett Hollow (Pour Haus)

Mar 7- Lotus Blake (Derby City Espresso)

Mar 7- Hot Pipes (CD Central)

Mar 7- Sarah Elizabeth (The 930)

Mar 8- Aiden (Ear x-tacy, 2pm)

Mar 8- Hot Pipes (ear x-tacy, 6pm)

Mar 8- Hot Pipes & The Photographic (Pour Haus)

Mar 8- Punch Brothers w/ Chris Thile (The 930)

Mar 8- N.E.R.D. (Bogart’s, Cincy)

Mar 8- South By South End (Bulldog Cafe)

Mar 8- The Phat Mavericks (The Dame)

Mar 9- Pepi, The Binary Marketing Show & themovingsidewalk (Nachbar)

Mar 9- Dub Trio (The Dame)

Mar 9- Battle of the Bands I w/ Jamili Brown and Broadfield Marchers (Headliner’s)

Mar 10- Human Bell (ear x-tacy, 7pm)

Mar 10- Islands (Southgate House)

Mar 10- 777 (The Dame)

Mar 11- The Photographic (ear x-tacy, 7pm)

Mar 11- California Guitar Trio (21C)

Mar 11- Gutter Twins (Southgate House)

Mar 11- Great Northern (Southgate House)

Mar 12- Guerilla Radio (KCA)

Mar 12- Relient K (Headliners)

Mar 12- The Invaders (Pink Door)

Mar 13- Weber (Hideaway Saloon)

Mar 14- Meat Puppets (WFPK Live Lunch)

Mar 14- Built to Spill / Meat Puppets (Headliners) SOLD OUT

Mar 14- Brett Dennen w/ Stephen McWhirter (Hard Rock Cafe)

Mar 14- Her, Lonesome Bears, He Was Animated, June Caught Fire, Social Symphony (The Brick House)

Mar 14- Andrea Davidson (Rudyard Kipling)

Mar 14- Amherst & Hidden Amongst Heroes (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Mar 14- Ultra Pulverize, Kentucky Prophet & Technology vs. Horse (Third Street Dive)

Mar 14- SkyHi (The Dame)

Mar 14- The Teeth (Cahoots)

Mar 14- Consume Consumer (Tailgater’s)

Mar 14- Jamili Brown & Sub-urban Situation (Wick’s on Baxter)

Mar 14- Young Jeezy (Louisville Gardens)

Mar 14- Edgehill Ave. (ZaZoo’s)

Mar 15- Pelican, Black Cobra, Unearthly Trance and Your Black Star (Headliners)

Mar 15- Bloom Street (Hideaway Saloon)

Mar 15- Broadfield Marchers (Zazoo’s)

Mar 15- Dan Tyminski (Brown Theatre)

Mar 15- Alanna Fugate (Lisa’s Oak Street Lounge)

Mar 15- Venus Trap and themovingsidewalk (Rudyard Kipling)

Mar 16- Noisycrane, Bedtime, The Who Nose (The Dame)

Mar 17- John Baxter & the Bottom Feeders (Molly Malones)

Mar 17- National Hotel (Nachbar)

Mar 17 – School of Language (Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington)

Mar 17- The Stationary Set, In Endeavors (The Dame)

Mar 17- Sugar Spell it Out, The Foxery, Farewell Flight, Husband and Wife (Bellarmine University)

Mar 17- Warmer Milks w/Sunburned (Artsplace Fukkin’ Basement, Lex)

Mar 18- The Death Set, These are Powers and Tight Leather (Void Skateshop)

Mar 18- Mussels (MagBar)

Mar 18- Hallelujah the Hills, Ben Allen, Onward Pilgrim (The Dame)

Mar 19- Hallelujah the Hills (Rudyard Kipling)

Mar 19- Murder by Death (Bogart’s, Cincy)

Mar 19- The Moxies, Johnny Nobody (The Dame)

Mar 19- Jackie O (Mag Bar)Mar 19- Douglas Lucas (PHT)

Mar 20- Man Man w/ The Extraordinaries & Lucky Pineapple (Headliners)

Mar 20- Kelley Stoltz (Rudyard Kipling)

Mar 20- Varsovia, Mather Father (The Dame)

Mar 21- Broadfield Marchers (WFPK Live Lunch)

Mar 21- Paradigm w/ Bloom Street and Thirteenth Sun (Headliners)

Mar 21- Furlong w/ Audrey Ryan (Rudyard Kipling)

Mar 21- Amherst, Jonny on the Rocks, Creatures, By Morning, Sugar Spell it Out (Uncle Pleaseant’s)

Mar 21- Times New Viking (The Frowny Bear, Lexington)

Mar 21- Consume Consumer (Felt)

Mar 21- Emerson Hart & Peter Searcy (Hard Rock Cafe)

Mar 21- Prideswallower (DCE)

Mar 24- N.E.R.D (CityBlock)

Mar 24- In Atlantic, Tested on Animals (The Dame)

Mar 25- Dave Fischoff, Dickie Haydon (The Dame)

Mar 26- Stars (KCA)Mar 26- The Teeth (Pink Door)

Mar 26- Andrea Davidson (Stevie Ray’s)

Mar 27- Bodies of Water w/ Le Loup (Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington)

Mar 27- The Fox Hunt (MagBar)

Mar 27- Ultra Pulverize (Busters, Lexington)

Mar 27- People Noise (The Dame)

Mar 27- Nile (Headliners)

Mar 28- British Sea Power w/ The North, The 1900s & People Noise (Phoenix Hill Tavern)

Mar 28- The Weakerthans, Liam Finn, Christine Fellows (Mad Hatter)

Mar 28- Tailgater’s Battle of the Bands (Tailgater’s)

Mar 28- Ben Sollee (Hard Rock Cafe)

Mar 28- Teneia Sanders, Weber, Leigh Ann Yost, Hambone (Zazoos)

Mar 28- Corey Smith (Headliners)

Mar 28- Freedom and Whiskey, Dishman and Ballard (Pour Haus)

Mar 28- Mixel Pixel (Gypsy Hut, Cincy)

Mar 29- Why? Xiu Xiu & Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down (Southgate House)

Mar 29- One Small Step (Ground Floor Gallery)

Mar 29- KILL VILLE Dance Party w/ The Ladybirds (Glassworks)

Mar 29- The Broken Spurs, American Bang! (tba)

Mar 29- The Cowboy Junkies w/ Mary Gauthier (Clifton Center)

Mar 29- Trampled by Turtles, Velvet Water (The Dame)

Mar 29- Twizted (Headliners)

Mar 30- Cabin w/ Seabird (Dame)

Mar 30- Battle of the Bands II w/ The Scarlet Veil and The Instruction (Headliner’s)

Mar 31- Brigid Kaelin (Pink Door)

Mar 31- Throw Me the Statue w/ Delta Spirit (The Dame)

Mar 31- Partly Cloudy (Madison Theatre, Cincy)

Mar 31- Sonset Down (Headliners)

Apr 1- Napalm Death, Devil Drivers (Headliners)

Apr 1- Ben Sollee & Sparrow Quartet (Kentucky Theatre, Lex)

Apr 2- Justin Townes Earle (ear x-tacy)

Apr 2- Why? (Bear’s Place, Bloomington)

Apr 2- Shooter Jennings (The Dame)

Apr 2- The Confessional (CD release party – tba)

Apr 2- The Ladybirds w/ Black Diamond Heavies (Pink Door)

Apr 3- Tight Leather, The Smacks!, The NEC (Busters, Lex)

Apr 3- Shooter Jennings (Headliners)

Apr 4- These United States (The 930)

Apr 4- Marie Digby w/ Andrea Davidson (Hard Rock Cafe)

Apr 4- The Smacks! (Rudyard Kipling)

Apr 4- The Fervor (The Comet, Cincy)

Apr 4- Tight Leather, Suspected Terrorists, the NEC (Pour Haus)

Apr 4- The Instruction (The Vernon)

Apr 4- Bitch and the Exciting Conclusion (The Dame)

Apr 4- Jamili Brown (Felt)

Apr 4- Lotus Blake (DCE)

Apr 2-5- MusicNOW Festival (Cincy)

Apr 5- Scourge of the Sea, These United States (Dame)

Apr 5- Spoon w/ White Rabbits and The Walkmen (Bogart’s, Cincy)

Apr 5- The Confessional (Lisa’s Oak Street Lounge)

Apr 5- Ultra Pulverize, Shedding, The Town Criers, Squeeze-bot (930 Art Center)

Apr 5- Dead City Rejects w/ King Sonic (Third Street Dive)

Apr 5- Kinsey CD Release Show (Headliners)

Apr 5- The Glasspack, Plows The Broken Spurs (Longshot Tavern)

Apr 5- Dangerbird, The Backsliders (Pour Haus)

Apr 6- Unearth (Headliners)

Apr 7- Grinstead (Molly Malones)

Apr 7- Okkervil River, Howlin’ Rain (Buskirk-Chumley Theater, Bloomington)

Apr 8- Cursive (Rhinos, Bloomington)

Apr 9- Matt Pond PA w/ Carbon/Silicon (20th Century, Cincy)

Apr 9- Son Volt w/ Bobby Bare Jr (Headliners)

Apr 9- Magpies (MagBar)

Apr 9- The Everybodyfields (The Dame)

Apr 9- IamIs (Pink Door)

Apr 9- Son Volt and Bobby Bare Jr. (Headliner’s)

Apr 10- J Roddy Walston and The Business (MagBar)

Apr 10- Matt Kinman (Nachbar)

Apr 11- Dead Child (Cahoots)

Apr 11- Johnny Berry & The Outliers (Nachbar)

Apr 11- Feist (IU, Bloomington)Apr 11- 7 Day Sun (Headliners)

Apr 11- David Rovics (The Brick House)

Apr 11- Amherst, Grinstead, Unit Like Stereo (Tailgater’s)

Apr 11-12- Insomniacathon 2008 (Rudyard Kipling)

Apr 12- Minus the Bear, Big Sleep, & Portugal, the Man (Bogarts, Cincy)

Apr 12- Broadfield Marchers & The Blind Shades (Hideaway Saloon)

Apr 12- Bloom Street (Longshot Tavern

Apr 12- Minus the Bear, Big Sleep, & Portugal, the Man (Bluebird Nightclub, Bloomington)

Apr 12- Sugar Spell it Out, Gasoline Heart, The Brewskies, and Adam and Daves Bloodline (Vernon Lanes)

Apr 13- Jay Reatard, Black Keys (The Vogue, Indianapolis)

Apr 13- The Bravery (Headliners)

Apr 13- Wax Fang w/ J Roddy Walston (The Dame)

Apr 15- Galactic (Headliners)

Apr 15- Coliseum w/ Young Widows (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Apr 15- The Panderers (Southgate House)

Apr 16- AP Tour w/ All Time Low, The Rocket Summer, The Matches, Sonny, More… (Headliner’s)

Apr 16- Alanna Fugate (Hideaway Saloon)

Apr 17- Kathleen Edwards and Dan Wilson (Headliners)

Apr 18- Cabin’s Pre-Primary Election Party w/ ENLOU (2227 S. Preston)

Apr 18- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club w/ The Duke Spirit (Mad Hatter)

Apr 18- Metroschifter, Plows (Pink Door)

Apr 18- Sara Bareilles (Bellarmine University)

Apr 18- Broadfield Marchers w/ The Blind Shades (Longshot Tavern)

Apr 18- Sugar Spell it Out, Amherst (Headliners)

Apr 18- Dan Tedesco and the Long Haul, John Baxter and the Bottom Feeders (Pour Haus)

Apr 18- Edgehill Ave. Unplugged (Jenicca’s) Cancelled

Apr 19- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club w/ The Duke Spirit (The Dame)

Apr 19- Spoon w/ White Rabbits and The Walkmen (Vogue, Indianapolis)

Apr 19- Culture Shock Festival (Bloomington, IN) with The Dodos, Beach House

Apr 19- Jackie O (House Party)

Apr 19- Yardsale (Underground Sounds)

Apr 19- Gigantour 2008 w/ Megadeth, In Flames, High On Fire (The Gardens)

Apr 19- The Broken Spurs (Pink Door)

Apr 19- Tight Leather (CD Central)

Apr 19- Slithering Beast & Johnny Berry & The Outliers (Expo 5)

Apr 19- Mighty Kindness w/ Teneia Sanders, Alanna Fugate, Tamara Dearing, Leigh Ann Yost (Willow Park)

Apr 19- 9Fest (Brick House)

Apr 19- Cougar Express (Pour Haus)

Apr 19- Town Criers and Virgin Flame (Nachbar)

Apr 20- Iron & Wine w/ Califone (Headliners) SOLD OUT

Apr 20- The Cops (The Dame)

Apr 20- Alanna Fugate (Nachbar)

Apr 20- Squeeze-bot (Air Devils Inn)

Apr 21- themovingsidewalk (Pink Door)

Apr 21- Mark Olson (St. Francis of Assisi)

Apr 22- The Fiery Furnaces (Locals Only, Indy)

Apr 23- Waterfront Wednesday w/ The Whigs, Wild Sweet Orange and Griffin House (Waterfront Park)

Apr 23- One Small Step, The Mack, Bu Hao Ting (Pour Haus)

Apr 23- Arnett Hollow (Pink Door)

Apr 23- Velvet Saints (PHT)

Apr 24- Okkervil River (Mad Hatter)

Apr 24- Stars of the Lid (The 930)

Apr 24- Kate Nash (Webster Hall, NY)

Apr 24- Enon (Gypsy Hut, Cincinnati)

Apr 25- Hark the Herald CD Release Show w/ Cartel (Headliners)

Apr 25- One Small Step (Actor’s Theatre)

Apr 25- Blue Man Group (Freedom Hall)

Apr 25- Reverend Horton Heat (Southgate House

Apr 25- Douglas Lucas, Julie Nuemark, Ted Wulfers (Pour Haus)

Apr 25- Slithering Beast (Old Louisville Coffeehouse)

Apr 25- Mitch Barrett (House Concert)

Apr 26- Arnett Hollow and Lucky Pineapple (Nachbar)

Apr 26- FreeKy Fest (Downtown Lex)

Apr 26- Teitur (The Dame)(Early Show)

Apr 26- Nappy Roots (The Dame )(Late Show)

Apr 26- All Over Jimmy (Wick’s on Dixie)

Apr 27- Half-Handed Cloud (Loudon House, Lex)

Apr 27- Earth (The Dame)

Apr 28- Jack Rose (Lisa’s)

Apr 28- The Rosebuds (The Dame)

Apr 29- Jack Rose, Warmer Milks, D. Charles Speer (The Dame)

Apr 29- Velcro Pygmies (Chow Wagon)\

Apr 30- Brett Dennen & Mason Jennings (Waterfront Park)

Apr 30- Liberation Prophecy (Nachbar)

Apr 30- Ra Ra Riot/The Little Ones (Gypsy Hut)

Apr 30- Consume Consumer (Pink Door)

Apr 30- Andrea Davidson (Bearno’s By The Bridge)

Apr 30- Fishboy (503 Oldham Ct.)

May 1- VHS or BETA Deejays (Hotel Nighclub)

May 1- Doug E. Fresh, MC Lyte, D. Mawl (Club Oasis)

May 1- The Fervor, Frontier(s), Jake Winstrom (Pour Haus)

May 1- Seven Mary Three w/ Peter Searcy (4th Street Live)

May 1-2- Velcro Pygmies (PHT)

May 2- Arnett Hollow w/ Zongo (BBC St. Matthews)

May 2- Caribou w/ Fuck Buttons (Waldron Auditorium, Bloomington)

May 2- Wax Fang, Parlour, Mucca Pazza (Headliners)

May 2- The Glasspack (Rudyard Kipling)

May 2- Dead Child (ear x-tacy, 7pm)

May 2- Dead Child (Cahoots)

May 2- B-52’s (Kentucky Derby Fest)

May 2- Good Souls (Old Louisville Coffee House)

May 2- Goo Goo Dolls (4th Street Live)

May 2- Foxhole and Interstates (The 930)

May 3- Skyscraper Stereo (Dark Star Tavern)

May 3- Five Finger Death Punch (Headliners)

May 3- The Olympia Three, Slithering Beast and Parade Schedule (Rudyard Kipling)

May 4- Chris Schutz and the Tourists (Hideaway Saloon)

May 6- Seether (Coyote’s)

May 6- Holy Fuck (Gypsy Hut, Cincy)

May 6- Hello Tokyo (The Poison Room, Cincy)

May 7- Elvis Costello (The Palace)

May 7- Mason Dixon Disaster (Lisa’s)

May 7- Locksley and Rooney (Bogart’s, Cincy)

May 8- The Slow Break w/ Giant Tigers (Cahoots)

May 9- Prizzy Prizzy Please, One Small Step, Good Luck, DJ SeanJean (Seidenfadens)

May 9- Brigid Kaelin (WFPK Live Lunch)

May 9- Maestro J (Speed Art Museum)

May 9- People Noise, The Zero Element, Six White Horses (Pink Door)

May 9- Tegan and Sara (Bogart’s, Cincy)

May 10- Jeremy Enigk (The 930)

May 10- Kentucky Homefront w/ Brigid Kaelin (Clifton Center)

May 10- Arnett Hollow (Mad Hatter, Covington)

May 10- Battle of the Bands Finals w/ The Instruction (Headliners)

May 10- Broadfield Marchers w/ Crash Henry (Cahoot’s)

May 10- Caldera (Bulldog Cafe)

May 10- Cougar Express w/ Consume Consumer (Uncle Pleasant’s)

May 10- My Morning Jacket (SNL)

May 12- The Swell Season (Brown Theatre) SOLD OUT!

May 12- Pall Wall, Tech N9ne (Headliners)

May 14- Aim for the Skies! (Bulldog Cafe)

May 14- J. Roddy Walston, These United States (The Dame)

May 14- Scourge of the Sea (Transy University)

May 16- Laura Viers, Liam Finn (The 930)

May 16- J Roddy Walston & The Buisness (Mag Bar)

May 16- Alanna Fugate (Jennica’s)May 16- Tantric (PHT)

May 16- Heypenny w/ Yardsale (Pour Haus)

May 16- Sugar Spell it POut, Grinstead, Arafel, Amber Adaire (Peddlers Mall)

May 17-18- Mayhem in May (Uncle Pleasant’s)

May 17- Brassknuckle Boys, Heartthrob (The Dame)

May 17- The Confessional (Stevie Rays)

May 17- El Roostars (Air Devils)

May 17- Thirteenth Sun (Hideaway Saloon)

May 17- Ultra Pulverize (Monkey Wrench)

May 17- Paradigm & Bloom Street (BBC, Shelbyville Rd.)

May 17- Chemic, The Parade Schedule, Rodeo Ruby Love (Quills)

May 17- Broadfield Marchers w/ The Scarlet Veil and Sugar Spell it Out (Pour Haus)

May 18- Coliseum (Rudyard Kipling)

May 18- Brigid Kaelin CD Release Show (St. Francis of Assisi)

May 18- Edgehill Ave. (Captain’s Quarters)

May 18- Petticoat, Petticoat (The Dame)

May 19- KT Tunstall (Brown Theatre)

May 19- Technology vs. Horse (The Dame)

May 19- Ben Sollee (KY Theatre, Lex)

May 20- Ash Wednesday (The Dame)

May 21- North Mississippi Allstars w/ The Lee Boys (Headliners)

May 21- Shipping News, Young Widows, Frontier(s) (Pour Haus)

May 21- Tommy Emmanuel (Brown Theatre)

May 21- The Swells, Blind Corn Liquor Pickers (The Dame)

May 22- Devotchka (Southgate House)May 22- Varsovia (The Dame)

May 22-24- Abbey Road on the River (Belvedere)

May 23- BACKSEAT SANDBAR TURNS ONE w/ Zero Element, Skyscraper Stereo, The Instruction and Azns n Bnzs (Pour Haus)

May 23- Boom Orangutan (PHT)

May 23- The Mack (Java Joint, Bardstown)

May 24- The Glasspack, Trophy Wives (The Rudyard Kipling)

May 24- The Upshot Trio, Tommy and the Try Tones (The Dame)

May 24- Alanna Fugate w/ Reed KD (Pour Haus)

May 24- D.Mawl (Cox Park)

May 24- Over the Rhine (National City Pavilion, Cincy)

May 26- Clear Conscious (The Dame)

May 26- Dude Plays Saxophone, The Parade Schedule, Pineapple Explode (Deric Toney’s House)

May 27- The Cotton Jones Basket Ride, Joybombs (The Dame)

May 28- Ben Sollee & Back Door Slam (Waterfront Park)

May 29- The Parade Schedule, Luke Asher and Kentucky Nightmare (Nachbar)

May 30- Bloom Street (Dark Star Tavern)

May 30- Andrea Davidson (Bearno’s by the Bridge)

May 30- Antikythera (PHT)

May 30- Edgehill Ave. (Slugger Field)

May 30- Phantom Family Halo, Tight Leather, bedtime (The Void, Lex)

May 31- Mudhoney w/ Phantom Family Halo and Easy Action (Headliners)

May 31- Scourge of the Sea, Chico Fellini (The Dame)

May 31- The Teeth (The Rudyard Kipling)

June 1- Murder By Death, Gasoline Heart and The Ladybirds (Uncle Pleasant’s)

June 3- MC Chris w/ The Instruction (Headliners)

June 4- Ingrid Michaelson (Headliners)

June 5- Sexual Disaster Quartet (The Dame)

June 6- The Photographic (21c)

June 6- Skyscraper Stereo (Raw Sushi Lounge)

June 6- Paradigm (Hideaway Saloon)

June 6- The Features (The Dame)

June 6- Clay Buffet (Clay Street)

June 6- Azns n Bnzs (DCE)

June 6- Partly Cloudy (Pops)

June 6- Amherst (Valley Dairy Freeze)

June 6-8- Crucial Fun Fest (Lexington)

June 7- Paul Thorn (Headliners)

June 7- The Rudies (The Dame)

June 7- El Roostars (Air Devils Inn)

June 7- Slithering Beast (Keswick Democratic Club)

June 7- Broadfield Marchers w/ Blind Shades (Brick House)

June 7- Edgehill Ave., Leigh Ann Yost, Kathleen Hoye, Justin Lewis (Lisa’s)

June 8- Vampire Squid w/ Screaming Mechanical Brain and Femme Fatality (The Brickhouse)

June 8- Kottonmouth Kings (Headliners)

June 9- Cross Canadian Ragweed (The Dame)

June 10- My Morning Jacket (ear x-tacy) SOLD OUT

June 10- Michael Hurley w/ Sapat (Lisa’s)

June 10- The Raconeturs (National City Pavilion, Cincy)

June 11- Ben Sollee (Headliner’s)

June 11- Dirty Dozen Brass Band w/ The Dialectics (The Dame)

June 11- Dead City Rejects (Uncle Pleasants)

June 12- The Secret Handshake w/ Cobra Starship (Headliners)

June 12- Black Diamond Heavies (Gypsy Hut)

June 12- Hackensaw Boys (The Dame)

June 12-15- Bonnaroo (Manchester, TN)

June 13- CunninLynguists (The Dame)

June 13- Something Amazing Tour w/ June Caught Fire (Brickhouse)

June 13- Glow in the Dark Tour w/ Kanye and Lupe (US Bank Arena, Cincy)

June 14- Jose Gonzalez (Headliner’s)

June 14- Same as it Ever Was: Tribute to the Talking Heads (The Dame)June 14- One Giant Leap, Boom Orangutan, Mungus (Wick’s on Dixie)

June 14- Amherst (Brick House)

June 14- Consume Consumer (Zazoo’s)

June 14- Death Cab for Cutie (The Lawn, Indy)

June 16- The Muckrakers (Great American, Cincy)

June 17- Edwin McCain (Headliners)

June 17- Mates of State (Southgate House)

June 18- The Fervor (Pink Door)

June 19- Scout Niblett (ear x-tacy, 7pm)

June 19-22- Terrastock Festival (Mellwood Arts Center)

June 19- Terrastock Afterparty w/ Skyscraper Stereo (Pink Door)

July 19- Portrait of a Suicide (Bulldog Cafe)

June 19- Slo-Fi (The Dame)

June 19- Matthew Ryan (Southgate House)

June 20- Dawn Landes (Pour Haus)

June 20- Wax Fang, The Whigs (The Dame)

June 20- Paradigm (Headliners)

June 20- The Fervor (Slugger Field)

June 20- Warmer Milks (Artsplace C Colburn Opening)

June 20- Slithering Beast (Pour Haus)

June 20- Justin Lewis (60 West Bistro)

June 21- Mark Kozelek (The 930)

June 21- Dawn Landes, Jason Isbell (The Dame)

June 21- Matt Costa w/ Delta Spirit (Headliners)

June 21- Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza (Bulldog Cafe)

June 21- Sugar Spell it Out w/ Juffage (Brick House)

June 22- Whitechapel (Headliners)

June 22- The Parade Schedule, Frank Schweihardt (The Sleepy Giant)

June 24- Blondie (KCA)

June 26- A Narrow Pier, Paper Airplane and Broadfield Marchers (Lisa’s)

June 26- Scourge of the Sea, Captains of Industry (The Dame)

June 26- Cabin (Two Keys Tavern, Lex)

June 26- The Mack, Broken Letters (Pour Haus)

June 27- Lucky Pineapple (ear x-tacy)

June 27- Brigid Kaelin (Air Devils Inn)

June 27- Scourge of the Sea (The Gypsy Hut, Cincy)

June 27- The Genders (The Dame)

June 27- The Dialectics (Al’s Bar)

June 27- The Surf Report (3rd Street Dive)

June 27- Arnett Hollow (BBC St. Matthews)

June 27- The Smacks! and The Nimoids (Nachbar)

June 27- Loretta Lynn (Caesar’s Indiana)

June 28- Dianogah (ear x-tacy, 5pm)

June 28- Sugar Spell in Out, Amherst (Tyler Park)

June 28- The Olympia Three (Germantown Shotgun Festival)

June 28- IamIs (Nachbar)

June 28- (in the clear) – tba

June 30- Rush (Riverbend, Cincy)

June 30- July 1- Jakob Dylan (Kentucky Theatre)

July 2- The Instruction w/ Dude Plays Saxophone (Pink Door)

July 2- Brigid Kaelin (ear x-tacy)

July 2- Modest Mouse (Bogart’s)

July 2- Bu Hao Ting (Skull Alley)

July 3- Lucky Pineapple (Slugger Field)

July 3- Beejezus Independents Day Party (Nachbar)

July 4- De Novo Dahl, Tight Leather, Bedtime (Phonenix Park)

July 4- George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Los Lobos, JJ Grey & Mofro (Waterfront Park)

July 4- Weird Al Yankovic (Iroquois Amphitheater)

July 5- Ultra Pulverize, DJ Narhwal, Everything Now! (Pour Haus)

July 5- Snow Monster CD Release Show w/IamIs (Rudyard Kipling)

July 5- Grinstead (Thunderdome)

July 5- Beebs Fest (Clarksville, IN)

July 5- Snoop Dogg, 311 & Fiction Plane (Riverbend, Cincy)

July 6- Boys Like Girls w/ Metro Station (Headliner’s)

July 7- Amherst (Uncle Pleasants)

July 8- Ween (CityBlock)

July 9- Will Hoge (Southgate House)

July 9- Good Night & Good Morning, A.P. Swearengin, Matt Jones, Jack Cofer, Misty Lyn & the Big Beautiful (The Shrieking Shack)

July 10- Luke Asher (The Rud)

July 11- Velcro Pygmies (4th Street Live)

July 11-12- Lebowski Festival

July 11- Skyscraper Stereo (Wick’s on Baxter)

July 11- The Impossible Shapes w/ Ladybirds and Anton Mink (Lisa’s)

July 11- Consume Consumer (Uncle Pleasants)

July 11- IamIs (Skull Alley)

July 11- Edgehill Ave. (Zazoo’s)

July 11- Your Black Star & The Fervor (Pour Haus)

July 11- Broadfield Marchers (The Rud)

July 12- The Scarlet Veil and Thank You Jade (Third Street Dive)

July 12- Tight Leather, All American Werewolves (Avoid Busters)

July 12- Indie Day (ear X-tacy)

July 13- Frontier(s), Foxy Shazam, Vampire Squid, Mountain Asleep (Skull Alley)\

July 16- Consume Consumer (Pink Door)

July 16- The Confessional (Stevie Rays)J

July 16- Elf Power (Al’s Bar, Lex)

July 18- The Apples in Stereo, The Poison Control Center & Big Fresh (Headliner’s)

July 18- Medeski Martin & Wood (Bomhard Theatre)

July 18- Anton Mink w/ The Scarlet Veil (DCE)

July 18- Venus Trap (The Rud)

July 18- Lucky Pineapple (Slugger Field)

July 18-20- Pitchfork Music Fest (Chicago)

July 19- Gold Jacket Club w/ Joe Manning (The 930)

July 19- Teenage Rehab (Third Street Dive)

July 20- Thao Nguyen (Northside Tavern, Cincy)

July 21 – THAO NGUYEN w/ Tune Yards and The Instruction (SKULL ALLEY)

July 21- Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (Mad Hatter, Cincy)

July 22- Hollywood Lies (Uncle Pleasant’s)

July 22- Steve Earle (Kentucky Theatre, Lex)

July 23- Amos Lee (Headliner’s)

July 23- Foo Fighters w/ Supergrass (Conseco Fieldhouse, Indy)

July 24- Forecastle Kick-off Party w/ Lucky Pineapple (Glassworks Rooftop)

July 25-27- Forecastle Festival (Riverfront Belvedere)

July 25- Tamara Dearing (60 West Bistro)

July 25- Deer Meet (Rudyard Kipling)

July 25- bedtime, Dude Plays Saxophone (Skull Alley)

July 26- Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy w/ Thomas A. Minor and the Picket Line (Funtown, Jeffersontown) SOLD OUT

July 26- Summit City (Whitesburg, Kentucky)

July 26- Amherst w/ The Loss (Headliner’s)

July 30- Shake Anderson, Danielia Cotton and Dave Barnes (Waterfront Wed.)

July 30- VHS or BETA deejays (Pink Door)

July 30 - Dead Child, Human & Dirty J (Lisa’s)

July 31- Wild Sweet Orange (ear X-tacy)

July 31- Marion Square (Brownies)

Aug 1- Black Diamond Heavies (WFPK Live Lunch)

Aug 1- Dave Matthews Band, Willie Nelson (Slugger Field)

Aug 1- Clay Buffet, with Azns n Bnzs, Skyscraper Stereo (Clay St.)

Aug 1- Kentucky Prophet w/ Ultra Pulverize & William Sides Atari Party (Rudyard Kipling)

Aug 1- Black Diamond Heavies (Glassworks)

Aug 1- Grinstead w/ Consume Consumer (PHT)

Aug 1-2- Kentucky Bluegrass Music Festival (On the Belvedere)

Aug 2- Grizzly Bear (The 930)

Aug 2- Tight Leather, NEC, Candy (Void Skateshop, Lexington)

Aug 2- Suspected Terrorists, The Genius File (Pour Haus)

Aug 2- John Mann CD Release Show w/ The Swells (The Rud)

Aug 3- Radiohead w/ Grizzly Bear (Verizon Wireless Music Center, Indy)

Aug 3- Sugar Spell it Out w/ Ellison and The New Diet (Brick House)

Aug 4- Luke Asher w/ Kelly McRae (21c)

Aug 4- Bowerbirds (Northside Tavern, Cincy)

Aug 4- Chemic w/ Away with Vega (Skull Alley)

Aug 5- Arsonists Get All the Girls (Headliner’s)

Aug 5- What Made Milwaukee Famous? (PHT)

Aug 6- Kentucky Prophet (Pink Door)

Aug 6- G Love and Special Sauce (Murat, Indy)

Aug 8- Arnett Hollow (Slugger Field)

Aug 8- IamIs, Adventure, Venus Trap (Actor’s Theatre)

Aug 8- LeAnn Yost w/ Tenia Sanders (The Rud)

Aug 8- Dead City Rejects w/ Stoner Moms (3rd Street Dive)

Aug 8- Paper Route, Phantom Planent (Bogart’s)

Aug 8- Punch Brothers (St. Francis of Assisi)

Aug 9- The Olympia Three, Doctors of Dunk, Slithering Beast (Pour Haus)

Aug 9- Bear Claw, Plows, Fork in Socket (Skull Alley)

Aug 10- We are Scientists w/ Oxford Collapse (Southgate House)

Aug 11- Russian Circles w/ Trophy Wives (The Rud)

Aug 12- Smashing Pumpkins (The Palace)

Aug 12- Bon Iver w/ AA Bondy (John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN)

Aug 16- My Morning Jacket (Review)

Aug 21- Seven Mary Three (PHT)

Aug 22- Peter Search, Brigid Kaelin & Jim Bianco (Monkey Wrench)

Aug 22- Village People (KY State Fair)

Aug 22- Sick City Trio w/ Pirate Baby Nachos (6 & Oak)

Aug 23- Bob Dylan (Caesar’s Indiana)

Aug 23- Amherst w/ Varsovia (Pour Haus)

Aug 23- Arnett Hollow w/ Virgin Flame (BBC St. Matthews)

Aug 23- The Ladybirds (St. Francis of Assisi)

Aug 23- DJ Kim Sorise (DCE)

Aug 25- 80s Regeneration Tour (National City Pavilion, Cincy)

Aug 27- VHS or BETA, Ben Sollee & Seepeoples (Waterfront Park)

Aug 27- Silver Jews w/ Monotonix (Headliner’s) POSTPONED TO 2009

Aug 28- Left Lane Cruisers (Highland’s Taproom)

Aug 28- Marion Square (Brownies)

Aug 28- J Roddy and the Business w/ Junior Revolution (Al’s Bar, Lex)

Aug 28-29- DebFest w/ Lotus Blake and Dangerbird (The Rud)

Aug 29- J Roddy and the Business (The Rud)

Aug 29- Your Black Star (Monkey Wrench)

Aug 29- Cowboy Mouth (PHT)

Aug 29- Chemic w/ Velvet Saints (BBC, Theatre Sqare)

Aug 30- Defiance, Ohio! (Skull Alley)

Aug 30- Broadfield Marchers, Our Man Flint, A Narrow Pier (Pour Haus)

Aug 31- Nine Inch Nails (Rupp Arena)

Sept 4- Ben Sollee, The Instruction & Wodka (4th Street Live)

Sept 4- These United States w/ The Instruction (The Rud)

Sept 5- Bodeco w/ The Instruction (Fox Den/Coyotes)

Sept 5- Shindig (Brickhouse)

Sept 5- The Shondes w/ Venus Trap, Lucky Pineapple & Young Widows (Headliner’s)

Sept 5- Lords, Mountain Asleep, Head Above Water (Skull Alley)

Sept 5- Tim Lowly (The 930)

Sept 5- Luke Asher w/ Yardsale (Pour Haus)

Sept 6- Inept w/ Kinsey, Serene, In the Clear & Hark the Hearld (Headliner’s)

Sept 6- Nailgun Strategy (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Sept 6- Lords, Frontier(s) (Cahoots)

Sept 7- Journey, Heart, Cheap Trick (Riverbend, Cincy)

Sept 9- Vampire Weekend (Headliner’s)

Sept 9- Chemic, Luke Asher, Murals (Skull Alley)

Sept 11- Terrorstock 2008 w/ Bad Blood, Ben Purdom & The Ladykillers (Cahoots)

Sept 13- Dead City Rejects Final Show (Headliner’s)

Sept 14- LRS Fest 10 w/ Brett Michael (Waterfront Park)

Sept 14- Creedence Clearwater Revival (Horseshoe Casino)

Sept 17- O.A.R. (The Palace)

Sept 18- Mark Olson (St. Fransis of Assisi)

Sept 18- Los Lonley Boys w/ Dave Barnes (Brown Theatre)

Sept 19- Amherst (Skull Alley)

Sept 19- Octoberfest w/ The Felice Brothers, AA Bondy (Lex)

Sept 19- The Seedy Seeds CD Listening Party (Shake It Records, Cincy)

Sept 20- Watson Park (Wick’s on Baxter)

Sept 20- Cabin, Arnett Hollow & Peter Searcy (4th Street Live)

Sept 21- Grampall Jookabox, PWRFL Power, Chemic (Skull Alley)

Sept 21- The Mack & The Parade Schedule (6th & Oak)

Sept 22- French Kicks (Southgate House)

Sept 23- Monotonix (Bluebird, Bloomington, IN)

Sept 23- Stars w/ Bell X1 (Southgate House)

Sept 24- Will Hoge (Waterfront Park)

Sept 25-27- Midpoint Music Festival (5/3 Bank Theatre)

Sept 26- Lucky Pineapple (ear X-tacy, Glassworks)

Sept 26- Tamara Dearing (60 West Bistro)

Sept 26- Yardsale, Second Story Man (Pour Haus)

Sept 26- Great White (Expo 5)

Sept 27- Avett Brothers (Coyote’s)

Sept 27- Tamara Dearing (Lisa’s)

Sept 29- Brian Banger, ZCFOS & Ramming Speed (DCE)

Oct 1- Joan Osborne (Bomhard Theatre)

Oct 2- Citizen Cope (Brown Theatre)

Oct 2- Ryan Adams (Murat, Indy)

Oct 2- Lawlapalooza and the Battle of the Legal Bands (PHT)

Oct 3- Tamara Dearing (KCA)

Oct 3- Ryan Adams (Taft Theatre, Cincy)

Oct 4- Queers (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Oct 4- Ben Folds w/ Louisville Orchestra (Whitney Hall)

Oct 4- Hanson (Coyote’s)

Oct 4- Deer Meet w/ The Montagues (Pour Haus)

Oct 4- Tim Barry, Chuck Ragan & Ben Nichols (Skull Alley)

Oct 4- Monikers (Cahoots)

Oct 4- Villebillies CD Release Show (Headliners)

Oct 4- The Seedy Seeds, Slingshot Dakota, The Joybombs (Shrieking Shack, Lex)

Oct 7- Black Keys (CityBlock)

Oct 8- The Antlers (Skull Alley)

Oct 9-11- Fringe Fest (New Albany)

Oct 9 – Wovenhand, Interstates (930)

Oct 10- Whistle Peak and The Mack (Seidenfaden’s)

Oct 10- Pinback (Headliner’s)Oct 10- Zombie Prom (ear X-tacy)

Oct 11- Your Black Star & Parms (Nachbar)

Oct 11- Peak Summit Fest (St Mattews)

Oct 11- Old Crow Medicine Show w/ The Felice Brothers (The Palace)

Oct 11- Bonepony w/ The Muckrakers (PHT)

Oct 11- Young Widows (Skull Alley)

Oct 11- Black Acid Candy Box, Introverts & Friends and Relatives (Pour Haus)

Oct 11- Silver Jews (Birdy’s, Indy)

Oct 12- The Watson Twins (KCA-Bomhard Theatre)

Oct 12- Sugar Spell it Out w/ Love Like Fire (Skull Alley)

OCt 12- People in Planes (Headliner’s)

Oct 12- The Kooks (Bogart’s)

Oct 12- Monotonix (Exit In, Nashville)

Oct 13- Cars Can Be Blue (Nachbar)

Oct 13- Squeeze-Bot, Nautical Fox, Panda and Child (Cards Cafe)

Oct 14- Backseat Sandbar presents Starfucker, Tight Leather (Nachbar)

Oct 14- Alanis Morissette (The Palace)

Oct 14- The Walkmen (Soutgate House)

Oct 14- Ted Leo w/ Future of the Left (Bogart’s, Cincy)

Oct 16- Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s (The 930)

Oct 16- Donovan Frankenreiter (Headliner’s)

Oct 16- The National w/ The Breeders for Obama (Fountain Square, Cincy)

Oct 18- Cory Branan (The Rud)

Oct 18- Shake It with Jesse Jamz, Azns n Bnzs, more (Pink Door)

Oct 18- TV on the Radio (Bogart’s, Cincy)

Oct 19- Hoots & Hellmouth (Monkey Wrench)

Oct 20- GWAR (Club Oasis)

Oct 21- David Byrne (The Palace)

Oct 22- Mount Eerie (Skull Alley)

Oct 22- King’s Daughters & Sons w/ Magnolia Electric Company (Headliners)

Oct 23- Abigail Williams (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Oct 23- Elephant 6 (UK, Lex)

Oct 24- Frisbee, Brian Probus (DCE)

Oct 24- Arnett Hollow, The Hemingways, Tenia Sanders (Gerstle’s)

Oct 24- Jonathan Richman (Southgate House)

Oct 25- Everthus the Deadbeats w/ IAmIs (6th & Oak)

Oct 25- Bloomstreet CD Release Show (Headliner’s)

Oct 25- 500 Miles to Memphis (Monkey Wrench)

Oct 26- Ghost Buffalo (Skull Alley)

Oct 26- Dolly Parton (The Palace)

Oct 27- Holly Golightly (Southgate House)

Oct 27- Hendrix Experience (KCA)

Oct 29- Villebillies & Rehab (Coyote’s)

Oct 29- IamIs (Pink Door)

Oct 30- The Hold Steady and Drive-by-Truckers (Coyote’s)

Oct 31- HALLOWEEN SHOW: Backseat Sandbar Presents Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, No Kids and The Pomagranates (Pour Haus)

Nov 1- Ben Sollee (The 930)

Nov 1- Wax Fang w/ The Features (The Dame)

Nov 4- Murder By Death w/ J Roddy (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Nov 5- Henry Rollins (Headliners)

Nov 5- Royal Bangs w/ Idaho, Alaska (The Dame, Lex)

Nov 6- Icy Demons w/ Royal Bangs (Skull Alley)

Nov 7- Girl Talk w/ The Death Set and DJ KidTronic (Headliner’s)

Nov 7- Hollywood Holt (Fuzion)Nov 7- Paradigm (Hideaway Saloon)

Nov 7- Louisville Orchestra- Tribute to Led Zeppelin (KCA)

Nov 8- Watson Park (Pour Haus)Nov 8- Dressy Bessy (Al’s Bar, Lex)

Nov 8- Arnett Hollow (Hideaway Saloon)

Nov 8- Edgehill Ave. w/ Yardsale (Gerstle’s)

Nov 9- Girl Talk w/ The Death Set and DJ KidTronic (Bogarts)

Nov 11- Wolf Parade (Vogue, Indy)

Nov 12- Black Diamond Heavies (The Rud)

Nov 12- Wolf Parade (Southgate House)

Nov 12- Michael Franti & Spearhead (Brown Theatre)

Nov 12- XO, Shanti, Paper Mache, Smile Smile, SSIO (Pink Door)

Nov 12- Rude Weirdo w/ Drunkdriver (Cahoots)

Nov 13- MC Chris w/ Totally Michael and Prizzy Prizzy Please (Headliner’s)

Nov 13- Young Widows (Cahoots)

Nov 13- The XYZ Affair, Chemic (Nachbar)

Nov 13- David Mead w/ Brigid Kaelin (Gerstle’s)

Nov 14- Whistle Peak, Idaho, Alaska, The Seedy Seeds (Al’s Bar, Lex)

Nov 14- John Prine (The Palace)

Nov 14- Off With Their Heads w/ The Riot Before (Skull Alley)

Nov 14- Mates of State (Dame)

Nov 15- The Jen Futrell Memorial Show w/ Wurm Kraut, Plainwords, Antilles, Juvenescent Beat!, The Lady Birds and others (Skull Alley)

Nov 15- Mates of State (Headliner’s)

Nov 15- Christmas on Mars (Film) + The Teeth, Tight Leather & Caboladies (6th & Oak)

Nov 15- Olympia Three w/ Slithering Beast (Pour Haus)

Nov 16- These United States (The Rud)

Nov 18- Harry Connick Jr. (Palace)

Nov 18- Pelican (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Nov 20- Reverend Horton Heat (Jim Porter’s)

Nov 21- Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (Old Tar Distillery, Lex)

Nov 21- Ingrid Michaelson (Madison Theatre)

Nov 21- Broadfield Marchers & Edgehill Ave. (Zazoo’s)

Nov 21- Digby (Gerstle’s)

Nov 21- Dude Plays Saxophone (Skull Alley)

Nov 22- Infamous Stringdusters (The 930)

Nov 22- Dropkick Murphys (Coyote Murphys)

Nov 22- Your Black Star, DW Box, Murals (Skull Alley)

Nov 22- Thirteenth Sun (Hideaway Saloon)

Nov 22-23- Good Folk Fest w/ Daniel Johnston (Mellwood Arts Center)

Nov 23- Dar Williams (Clifton Center)

Nov 24- The Howlies w/ IamIs and The Stationary Set (Lisa’s)

Nov 26- Wax Fang (Headliner’s)

Nov 27- Arnett Hollow (BBC-St. Matthews)

Nov 28- JJ Grey In-Store at ear X-tacy, 6pm

Nov 28- JJ Grey & Mofro (Headliner’s)

Nov 29- VHS or BETA, The Broken Spurs w/ The Frontier(s) (Headliner’s)

Nov 29- Skull Alley Darfur Benefit w/ Amherst, Xerxes, Mountain Asleep, Pineapple Explode, Fork In Socket, Aquaventure, Dude Plays Saxaphone, Sugar Spell It Out

Nov 29- Kentucky Prophet (Highland Tap Room)

Nov 30- Squeeze-bot (DCE)

Nov 30- The North w/ Douglas Lucas (Headliner’s)

Dec 3- Ultra Pulverize w/ The Seedy Seeds (Southgate House)

Dec 3- Weber (Stevie Ray’s)

Dec 4- Vetiver (21c)

Dec 4- Idaho, Alaska (The Rud)

Dec 5- Paradigm (Hideaway Saloon)

Dec 5- Reverend Horton Heat (Southgate House)

Dec 5- Skyscraper Stereo (Ear x-tacy, 8pm)

Dec 5- Sugar Spell It Out (Brick House)

Dec 5- Digby (PHT)

Dec 5- Lucky Pineapple (Cultural Preservation Resources, Lex)

Dec 5- The Dialectics (Al’s Bar)

Dec 6- Ziggy Stardust Covers by Phantom Family Halo, The Slow Break, IamIs, Whistle Peak, Trophy Wives, and Six White Horses.

Dec 6- Matisyahu w/ K’naan Oh (Headliners)

Dec 6- Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (KCA)

Dec 6- Stupid Factory Workers Party w/ Murals and The Zero Element (Pour Haus)

Dec 6- The Confessional (Tink’s Pub)

Dec 6- Idaho, Alaska (Al’s Bar)

Dec 6- Digby (PHT)

Dec 6- The North w/ Douglas Lucas (Gerstle’s)

Dec 7- Juliana Hatfield (The Dame)

Dec 9- Hayes Carll (Phoenix Hill)

Dec 9- Yes (The Palace)

Dec 11- Ra Ra Riot (The 930)

Dec 11- Ben Sollee (The Dame)

Dec 11- Edgehill Ave. (Monkey Wrench)

Dec 12- Over the Rhine (Bomhard Theater)

Dec 12- Skyscraper Stereo Album Release Party (The Monkey Wrench)

Dec 12- Shindig w/ Sugar Spell it Out (Brick House)

Dec 12- The Hemmingways (Gerstle’s)

Dec 12- The Ladybirds (St. Francis of Asissi)

Dec 12- Yard Sale, The Deloreans, Bad Blood (Pour Haus)

Dec 13- Lotus Blake (Pour Haus)

Dec 13- The Confessional (Bearno’s- Bridge)D

ec 13- Amherst- CD Release Show w/ SSIO, On Parallels (Cahoot’s)

Dec 13- Grinstead (St. Andrew’s Pub)

Dec 14- Slithering Beast (Bearno’s- Bardstown Road)

Dec 15- Squeeze-bot (Comedy Caravan)

Dec 16- Vampire Squid (Skull Alley)

Dec 17- Bon Iver w/ The Tallest Man on Earth (Headliner’s)

Dec 17- The Faint (Southgate House)

Dec 17- The Kodiaks (Stevie Ray’s)

Dec 18- Hambone (Stevie Ray’s)

Dec 18- Weber (Hideaway Saloon)

Dec 19- Amherst- CD Release Party w/ Broadfield Marchers (Skull Alley)

Dec 19- DW Box (WFPK Live Lunch)

Dec 26- Nervous Melvin & The Mistakes (Dutch’s)

Dec 26- The Instruction w/ The Hemingways (Gerstle’s)

Dec 26- Skyscraper Stereo (Pink Door)

Dec 27- Arnett Hollow (Hideaway Saloon)

Dec 31- Skyscraper Stereo (Wicks on Baxter)

Dec 31- The Ladybirds (Seidenfadens)

2009

Jan 3- Broadfield Marchers (BBC)

Jan 3- Dangerbird, The Fox Hound, The Mag Pies (The Rud)

Jan 3- Xerxes (Skull Alley)

Jan 3- Lewd Acts w/ Azns n Bnzs (Saved Industries)

Jan 7- Hambone (Wick’s on Baxter)

Jan 8- Rattletooth, Xerxes, Straight A’s (Skull Alley)

Jan 9- Skyscraper Stereo (Pour Haus)

Jan 9- Alanna Fugate (WFPK Live Lunch)

Jan 9- Alanna Fugate CD Release Show (Flanagan’s)

Jan 9- Jamie Barnes (The 930)

Jan 9- Good Luck (Skull Alley)

Jan 9- Bloom Street (Longshot’s Tavern)

Jan 10- Follow the Train w/ Lucky Pineapple (Headliner’s)

Jan 10- Tim Krekel Orchestra (ADI)

Jan 10- Squeeze-Bot, State Champions, The Olympia Three (Nachbar)

Jan 10- Satisfaction, “A Rolling Stones Experience” (PHT)

Jan 10- Rock and Roll: The Reunion Tour Preview (ear x-tacy)

Jan 10- The Muckrakers (Monkey Wrench)

Jan 11- AC/DC (US Bank Arena, Cincy)

Jan 13- Kentucky Prophet (DCE)

Jan 14- George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Freekbass (Madison Theater, Covington)

Jan 15- Reel Big Fish (Bogart’s, Cincy)

Jan 15- Sick City Four (DCE)

Jan 15- Paper Airplane (Skull Alley)

Jan 15- Todd Bodenheimer, Elvis Tribute Artist (El Nopal)

Jan 16- Slithering Beast (ear X-tacy)

Jan 16- The Gabe Dixon Band (Vernon Lanes)Jan 16- Hambone (Seidenfadden’s)

Jan 16- Girl Talk, Grand Buffet, Hearts Of Darknesses (Jake’s, Bloomington)

Jan 16- The Features (The Dame)

Jan 17- Halfway to Forecastle (The Green Building)

Jan 17- The Genius File (Skull Alley)

Jan 17- The Confessional w/ OK Zombie (Skybar)

Jan 17- Peter Searcy (Gerstle’s)

Jan 17- Amherst w/ Trophy Wives (Cahoots)

Jan 17- Brigid Kaelin on A Prairie Home Companion (Palace)

Jan 17- Thirteenth Sun (Hideaway Saloon)

Jan 19- Squeeze-bot (Comedy Caravan)

Jan 20- Kings of Leon (The Palace)

Jan 22- Lambchop w/ Sapat (The 930)

Jan 22- Royal Bangs (Southgate House)

Jan 23- The Seedy Seeds w/ Kaslo & Stick Figures (Skull Alley)

Jan 23- The Instruction w/ The Zero Element (DCE)

Jan 24- Teneia Sanders (Wicks on Baxter)

Jan 24- Frisbee CD Release Show (Sky Bar)

Jan 24- Hotpipes (Al’s Bar, Lex)

Jan 25- Merry Pranksters 22nd Anniversary Show (Longshot Tavern)

Jan 27- One Right Turn, Drexel and the Bootleggers (ear x-tacy, 6pm)

Jan 27- Alejandro Escovedo (The Dame, Lex)

Jan 28- Disco Biscuits (Headliners) CANCELED

Jan 29- Teniea Sanders (Wicks on Baxter)

Jan 29- National Hotel (Hideaway Saloon)

Jan 29- Saliva (PHT)

Jan 29- Passion Pit, Paper Route, Cale Parks (Northside Tavern)

Jan 30- Ben Lee w/ Chemic (Bellarmine U) Canceled.

Jan 30- Mansions (Skull Alley) Canceled.

Jan 30- Bloom Street (Hideaway Saloon)

Jan 30- Hambone (Bearno’s on Bardstown)

Jan 30- Eremy Jervin & Kentucky Nightmare (Nachbar)

Jan 30- Luke Asher, Ben Purdom & Dude Plays Saxophone (The Rud)

Jan 31- Air Supply w/ The Louisville Orchestra (The Palace)

Jan 31- Edgehill Ave. w/ Grayson Capps (PHT)

31- Skyscraper Stereo (Highlands Taproom)

Jan 31- Brigid Kaelin w/ The Muckrakers (Gerstle’s)

Jan 31- Three Flying Carpets w/ The Lions Rampant (Third Street Dive)

Jan 31- The Mack (Starting Gate)

Jan 31- Venus Trap (Monkey Wrench)

Jan 31- Johnny Berry, Scott Mertz (DCE)

Feb 1- IamIs (DCE)

Feb 2- Kathleen Edwards (20th Century Theatre)

Feb 3- VHS or BETA (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Feb 3- Big Head Todd and the Monsters (20th Century Theatre)

Feb 4- Murder by Death (Southgate House, Cincy)

Feb 6- Wokers CD Release Show w/ Ultra Pulverize and Frontier(s) (Skull Alley)

Feb 6- Brigid Kaelin (Speed Museum)

Feb 6- Paradigm (Hideaway Saloon)

Feb 6- Daniel Martin Moore (ear X-tacy)

Feb 6- King Sonic (Gerstles)

Feb 7- Keller Williams (Headliner’s)

Feb 7- The Guggenheim Grotto (Vernon Lanes)

Feb 7- Dangerbird CD Release Show w/ Adventure (Nachbar)

Feb 7- Hambone (Gerstle’s)

Feb 7- Good Luck, Second Story Man, Parents (Skull Alley)

Feb 9- Powerman 5000 (Headliner’s)

Feb 9- Duncan Sheik (Clifton Center)

Feb 10- Larkin Grimm (21c)

Feb 10- Workers In-Store Show (ear x-tacy, 8pm)

Feb 10- Basshound (Gerstle’s )

Feb 11- Louisville is for Lovers Acoustic Showcase (The Lounge)

Feb 11- State Champ w/ DJ Sam Sneed (Pink Door)

Feb 11- The Pretenders (The Murat Theatre, Indianapolis)

Feb 12- Mahjongg (Al’s Bar, Lex)

Feb 12- Legendary Shack Shakers w/ O’Death (Jim Porter’s)

Feb 12- Dead Man, Radio Moscow and Trophy Wives (Skull Alley)

Feb 12- The Sea and Cake (Southgate House)

Feb 13- Brigid Kaelin w/ Shannon Lawson (Monkey Wrench)

Feb 13- Louisville is for Lovers Live Lunch (WFPK)

Feb 13- Son Volt (Headliner’s)

Feb 13- The Instruction (Wick’s Goose Creek)

Feb 13- Hambone (Wick’s on Baxter)

Feb 13- The Pretenders (Taft Theatre, Cincinnati)

Feb 13- Hellfish (Gerstle’s)

Feb 13- La Dispute, Mountain Asleep, Rattletooth (Skull Alley)

Feb 14- Louisville is for Lovers Showcase (Skull Alley)

Feb 14- Valentine’s Day w/ Tim Krekel Band (Headliner’s)

Feb 14- The Sparrow Quartet In-Store (ear x-tacy, 4pm)

Feb 15- BB King w/ Buddy Guy (The Palace)

Feb 15- The Sparrow Quartet (UL Comstock Hall)

Feb 16- The Kodiaks w/ The Toasters (Skull Alley)

Feb 17- Eagles of Death Metal (20th Century Theatre, Cincinnati)

Feb 17- 3 Doors Down (Broadbent Arena)

Feb 18- I cy Demons, IamIs, Chemic (Skull Alley)

Feb 19- Subtlefoe, Trampolines, Blind Shades (DCE)

Feb 20- Saul Williams (Berea College)

Feb 20- Marah w/ Dude Plays Saxophone (Uncle Pleasants)

Feb 20- This That and the Other (Gerstle’s)

Feb 21- Sondre Lerche w/ the Louisville Orchestra (Whitney Hall)

Feb 21- Cougar Express, Arafel, Skyscraper Stereo (Cahoots)

Feb 24- Drive-by Truckers (Dame, Lex)

Feb 25- The Features, Lucky Pineapple, Broken Spurs (Headliners)

Feb 26- The Olympia Three (Highlands Tap Room)

Feb 27- Hoots and Hellmouth w/ Dirty Church Revival (Vernon Club)

Feb 27- Bedtime w/ Broadfield Marchers (Longshot Tavern)

Feb 27- Edgehill Ave. (WFPK Live Lunch)

Feb 27- Edgehill Ave. CD Release Show (PHT)

Feb 27- Broadfield Marchers (Longshots Tavern)

Feb 28- Matt and Kim, Hollywood Holt (Skull Alley)

Feb 28- Brian Scary and the Shredding Tears w/ Draft Riots & Deer Meet (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Feb 28- Rude Weirdo (Cahoot’s)

Feb 28- The Seedy Seeds (Louisville, TBA)

Mar 2- Brett Dennen (Headliner’s)

Mar 2- The Watson Twins In-store Show (ear x-tacy)

Mar 3- Ben Kweller w/ The Watson Twins (Headliner’s)

Mar 3- Tokyo Police Club (Mad Hatter, Cincy)

Mar 5- Jessica Lea Mayfield w/ Leigh Ann Yost and Jenny Madison (Vernon Club)

Mar 6- Tapes ‘n Tapes, Wild Light (Phoenix Hill Tavern)

Mar 6- Justin Townes Earle (St. Francis of Assisi)

Mar 7- Joshua Radin (Headliner’s)

Mar 7- My Dear Disco, The Hard Lessons, Javalins (Vernon Club)

Mar 7- Wax Fang, Lucky Pineapple, Whistle Peak (The Dame)

Mar 10- Joan Baez (Brown Theatre)

Mar 10- The Bouncing Souls, Dillinger Four, Delay (Skull Alley)

Mar 10- Here We Go Magic (Southgate House)

Mar 11-12- MusicNow Festival (Cincy)

Mar 12- Bonnie “Prince” Billy (Bloomington, IN)

Mar 12- Hambone (Stevie Ray’s)

Mar 12- Lisa Hannigan In-store Show (ear x-tacy)

Mar 12- Lisa Hannigan (The 930)

Mar 12- Brown Shoe (Rudyard Kipling)

Mar 12- These United States w/ Chemic (The Rud)

Mar 13- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit w/ Deer Tick (Headliner’s)

Mar 13- Teneia Sanders (The Rud)

Mar 13- DD/MM/YYYY (Skull Alley)

Mar 13- The Olympia Three (Highlands Tap Room)

Mar 13- Deer Tick (Headliner’s)

Mar 14- Pointer Sisters (Palace)

Mar 14- Winterpills w/ The Fervor and Kaiser Cartel (Vernon Club)

Mar 15- Taste of Chaos Tour (Expo 5)

Mar 15- Jessica Lea Mayfield, Leigh Ann Yost, Jenny Madison (Vernon Club)

Mar 16- Ryan Adams (The Palace)

Mar 16- Women w/ Crystal Stilts (Al’s Bar, Lex)

Mar 16- Spinellis Bingo w/ Azns n Bnzs (Spinellis Pizza, 10pm)

Mar 17- Unknown Hinson (PHT)Mar 17- Skyscraper Stereo (Nachbar)

Mar 17- Balthrop, Alabama (The Rud)

Mar 18- Chin Chin (21c)

Mar 18- The Bitter Tears (Pour Haus)

Mar 19- Arnett Hollow In-Store (Ear x-tacy, 6pm)

Mar 19- Rachael Yamagata (Hard Rock Cafe)

Mar 20- The Bluegrass Hotel Concert (Galt House)

Mar 21- Deer Meet, Lincoln and the Lost, Quin (DCE)

Mar 21- The Villebillies w/ Bad Blood (Headliner’s)

Mar 21- LisaPoluza 2009 (Lisa’s)

Mar 24- The Antlers w/ Guggenheim Grotto (Vernon Club)

Mar 24- Ra Ra Riot, Passion Pit, Cut Off Your Hands (Cinemat, Bloomington)

Mar 25- Kurt Reifler (Stevie Ray’s)

Mar 26- Cloud Mouth (Skull Alley)

Mar 27- Louisville Brewfest w/ Thomas A. Minor, The Instruction and Adventure (Clifton Center)

Mar 27- Matt Kearney (Bellarmine)

Mar 27- The Why Store and Healing Sixes (PHT)

Mar 28- Cowboy Junkies w/ The Louisville Orchestra (KCA)

Mar 28- Lucky Pineapple, Casper & the Cookies, Everything Now! (Glassworks)

Mar 28- Squirrel Nut Zippers, Old School Freight Train (Phoenix Hill Tavern)

Mar 28- The Muckrakers (Gerstle’s)Mar 28- Idaho, Alaska (6th & Oak)

Mar 28- Corey Smith (Headliner’s)

Mar 28- King Sonic (Third Street Dive)

Mar 28- Whispertown 2000, Mondo Shades & Sick City Four (Nachbar)

Mar 28- Skyscraper Stereo (Highlands Taproom)

Mar 28- Slithering Beast, Yardsale, Hammertorch (Skull Alley)

Mar 28- Black Stone Cherry (Coyotes)

Mar 28- Sarah Borges and The Broken Singles (Vernon Club)

Mar 30- Handsome Furs (Southgate)

Apr 1- The Confessional (Stevie Ray’s)

Apr 2- Skyscraper Stereo (Monkey Wrench)

Apr 3- People Noise, Trophy Wives, The Art (Pour Haus)

Apr 3- Amherst (Uncle Pleasant’s)

Apr 4- The Instruction w/ Yardsale and The Genius File (Pour Haus)

Apr 4- The Hold Steady, The War On Drugs (Jake’s, Bloomington)

Apr 6- John Vanderslice, John Darnielle (Mountain Goats), Tallest Man Man on Earth (Buskirk Chumley Theatre, Bloomington)

Apr 8- Dr. Dog (Headliner’s)

Apr 10- Death Cab for Cutie, Cold War Kids, Ra Ra Riot (The Palace)

Apr 10- The Instruction Pre-Game Show (Slugger Field)

Apr 11- Idaho, Alaska (Dame, Lex)

Apr 11- Bonnie “Prince” Billy (The Vogue, Indy)

Apr 14- Leonard Mynx (DCE)

Apr 14- Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head (Mad Hatter)

Apr 15- G. Love and Special Sauce (Headliner’s)

Apr 15- Rufus Huff In-Store (Ear x-tacy)

Apr 15- The Temptations (KCA)

Apr 16- Anathallo w/ Chemic (The 930)

Apr 16- The Works (Hideaway Saloon)

Apr 16- Umphrey’s McGee (Taft Theatre, Cincy)

Apr 16- The Avett Brothers (Vogue, Indy)

Apr 16- Backyard Tire Fire (Gerstle’s)

Apr 16- Rufus Huff (Stevie Rays)

Apr 16- Vinyl Night (ear x-tacy)

Apr 17- Mock Orange w/ Frontier(s) (Skull Alley)

Apr 17- Bob Anonymous, Anton Mink (Lisa’s Oak Street Lounge)

Apr 17- MMJ “Live in Louisville” Listening Party (ear x-tacy, 10-Midnight)

Apr 18- RECORD STORE DAY w/ Ben Sollee, Royal Bangs, Skyscraper Stereo, Brooks Ritter, Amanda Lucas (ear x-tacy)

Apr 18- Daughters and Sons (The Comet Bar, Cincinnati)

Apr 19- Royal Bangs (Skull Alley)

Apr 19- Thirteenth Sun (Hideaway Saloon)

Apr 20- Bingo Night (Spinelli’s, 9pm)

Apr 20- Great Lake Swimmers (Southgate)

Apr 21- AMP, Consume Consumer, Creatures (Skull Alley)

Apr 22- Extra Golden (Waterfront Park) (part of Waterfront Wednesday)

Apr 23- Of Montreal (Madison Theatre)

Apr 23- Cheer-Accident, Phantom Family Halo, Young Widows (Glassworks)

Apr 23- Wale (Old Tarr Distillery)

Apr 23- Extra Golden (Northside Tavern)

Apr 23- Disco Biscuits (Headliners)

Apr 23-25- Finningan’s Festival (The Rud)

Apr 24- Peter Bjorn & John (Southgate House)

Apr 24- The Felice Brothers (Headliners)

Apr 24- The Instruction w/ Chemic and ChicoFellini (Pour Haus)

Apr 24- Sugar Spell it Out (Skull Alley)Apr 24- Edgehill Ave. (DCE)

Apr 24-25- SXSE Music and Art Fest (Shooters)

Apr 25- Flight of the Conchords (IU Bloomington)

Apr 25- Lucero (Headliners)

Apr 25- The Muckrakers (Gerstle’s)

Apr 25- Saint Fest 2 (Skull Alley)

Apr 28- Red Jump Suit Apparatus (Headliner’s)

Apr 29- Charlie Daniels Band (Derby Waterfront Show)

Apr 30- Russian Circles, Mountain Asleep (Skull Alley)

Apr 30- Junior Boys (Dame)

Apr 30- Unknown Hinson (Jim Porter’s)

May 1- Young Widows w/ Frontier(s) (Headliners)

May 1- O.A.R. (4th Street Live)

May 1- Broken Spurs, Scotty Lust (Cahoot’s)

May 1- Preface, State Champion, Cascade Hollow (Skull Alley)

May 1- Thirteenth Sun, Paradigm, The Pass (Hideaway Saloon)

May 1- Arnett Hollow, Broadfield Marchers, Athens (BBC, Shelbyville Rd.)

May 2- KENTUCKY DERBY

May 2- Phantom Family Halo w/ Six White Horses, Centipede EST, Metal Bubbles (Lisa’s)

May 2- The Rumors (4th Street Live)

May 4- National Finger-style Guitar Champion Richard Smith (Steilberg String Instruments)

May 4- Cut Off Your Hands (Southgate House)

May 5- Rev. Horton Heat (PHT)

May 5- El Ten Eleven (Skull Alley)

May 5- David Cook (American Idol Guy) (Headliner’s)

May 6- Bowerbirds (Southgate House)

May 7- Del the Funky Homosapien w/ Mike Relm (The Dame)

May 7- Plain White T’s (Headliner’s)

May 7- Bryan Adams (KCA)

May 8- Ben Sollee w/ Daniel Martin Moore (Bomhard Theatre)

May 8- husband&wife w. SSIO (The 930)

May 8- The Glasspack (Longshot Tavern)

May 8- Broadfield Marchers (DCE)

May 10- The Veronicas (Headliner’s)

May 12 – TV on the Radio (Headliners)

May 12- Rodey Ruby Love, Chemic, Englishmen (DCE)

May 12- The Walkmen & Kings of Leon (National City Pavillion, Cincy)

May 12- Slingshot Dakota (Skull Alley)

May 13- Jennifer Hudson (The Palace)

May 14- OK Kino (DCE)

May 14- VAMP (Nachbar)

May 14-16- PLAY: Miranda Branson, Branson Miranda (Walden Theatre)

May 15- Shedding, The Poison Arrows (Skull Alley)

May 15- The Sundresses, Lions Rampant, Scotty Lust & Two Timers (Pour Haus)

May 15- Aby Laby Land (Nachbar)

May 16- Luke Asher, Eremy Jirvin, Midwest Dilemma (Nachbar)

May 16- Deer Meet, Hitchhike (DCE)

May 16- Funeral Sex w/ Joan Dark (Lisa’s)

May 16- Tracy Morgan (Horshoe Casino)

May 17- Metavari w/ Ben Purdom (DCE)

May 18- PBR BINGO (Spinelli’s)

May 19- Black Moth Super Rainbow w/ Tiny Frights (Red Mile Barn, Lex)

May 21-25- Abbey Road on the River (Belevedere)

May 21-23- PLAY: Miranda Brason, Branson Miranda (Walden Theatre)

May 22- Coliseum, Lords, Bison BC, Mountain Asleep (Skull Alley)

May 22- Mansions, Only Sons, State Champions, Animal City, Giving Up (the Rud)

May 22- Mike Keneally and Bryan Beller (Steilberg String Instruments)

May 25- Abbey Road on the River (Belevedere)

May 27- The Ataris, Frontier(s), Nowhere Fast, The Alcohawk (Skull Alley)

May 27- Meat Puppets, The Features, Broken Spurs (Waterfront Wednesday)

May 27- Gomez (Headliner’s)

May 27- Nautical Fox (Nachbar)

May 28- Nappy Roots (Headliner’s)

May 28- Camera Obscura (Southgate House)

May 29- Dubfest 2009 w/ The Children (Glassworks)

May 29- Thomas A. Minor and the Picket Line (BBC, Shelbyville Rd.)

May 30- NIN w/ Jane’s Addiction and Street Sweeper (Verizon Center, Indy)

May 31- Squeeze-Bot (Nachbar)

June 1- White Rabbits (Southgate House)

June 2- ok kino w/ see diagram (Nachbar)

June 2- Crystal Antlers (Southgate House)

June 3- Royal Bangs w/ I Need Sleep (Skull Alley)

June 5- Ultra Pulverize, Prizzy Prizzy Please, The Delicious (Glassworks)

June 5- Vandaveer (the 930)

June 5- Hoots & Hellmouth (The Vernon Club)

June 5-7- Crucial Fun Fest IV (Lexington)

June 6- Baxter Ave. Block Party

June 6- Joan Dark, The Deloreans, Three Flying Carpets (the Pour Haus)

June 6- Thirteenth Sun (Longshot Tavern)

June 6- Willie Nelson (Horseshoe Casino)

June 7- Esham (Headliner’s)

June 8- Rusted Root (Headliner’s)

June 9- St. Vincent (Southgate House)

June 10- St. Vincent (The Dame, Lex)

June 11- Chemic w/ You, You’re Awesome and The Kyle Sowashes (The Rudyard Kipling)

June 11- The Dead Weather (Coyote’s)

June 11-14- Bonnaroo Music Festival (Manchester, TN)

June 12- Wilco (Aranoff Center, Cincy)

June 12- Vibrolas, Undersea Explosion, The Jesse Minute (Pour Haus)

June 13- Bill Frisell Trio (the 930)

June 13- Bonnie “Prince” Billy (Red Mile Barn, Lex)

June 13- The Villebillies (Headliner’s)

June 16- Nana Grizol (Gumbo Ya Ya’s, Lex)

June 19- Phish (Verizon Music Center, Indy)

June 20- Indigo Girls (ear x-tacy)

June 20- Kentuckiana Pride Festival w/ Indigo Girls & Tiffany (Belvedere)

June 20- Phantom Family Halo w/ Trophy Wives (Cahoot’s)

June 21- Black Moth Super Rainbow (Southgate House)

June 23- Nautical Fox w/ Idaho, Alaska (Skull Alley)

June 24- Canadian Rifles (Skull Alley)

June 24- Guggenheim Grotto (Waterfront Park)

June 25- MSTRKRFT w/ Z-Trip (4th Street Live)

June 25- Julie Dorion w/ Second Story Man & Egret (Skull Alley)

June 25- California Guitar Trio (Glassworks)

June 26- The Winter Sounds w/ Paul Baribeau (Skull Alley)

June 26- The Queers (The Dame)

June 26- Arnett Hollow CD Release Show (BBC, Theatre Square)

June 26- Betty Rats, Dude Plays Saxophone, Deer Meet (6th & Oak)

June 27- Casiotone for the Painfully Alone w/ Chemic & You’re My Density (Skull Alley, $5, 7:30)

June 27- RiverFest (Shady Glen Club, Prospect)

June 27- The Deloreans CD Release Show (Seidenfadens)

June 30- Conor Oberst (Headliner’s)

June 30- Abigail Williams (Uncle Pleasant’s)

July 1- Mountain Asleep (Skull Alley)

July 3- Deer Meet (DCE)

July 4- Waterfront Independence Festival w/ The Ohio Players, The Greyboy Allstars, Lyrics Born (Waterfront Park)

July 6- Jenny Lewis w/ Heartless Bastard (Headliner’s)

July 8- Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson (Slugger Field)

July 10-11- LEBOWSKI FESTIVAL (Louisville)

July 10-12- FORECASTLE FESTIVAL (Riverfront Belvedere)

July 16- The Handsome Furs, Dri, The Cinnamon Band (Skull Alley)

July 17- Kentucky Chrome Review w/ Paul K (Vernon Lanes)

July 18- The Mack (Longshot Tavern)

July 20- Neko Case (Woodsongs Radio Hour, Lex)

July 24- Old 97’s (Headliner’s)July 24-25- Kentucky Music Weekend (Iroquois Amphitheater)

Responses

4/4 The Instruction, Very Emergency, The Hemingways @ The Vernon Club
By: Wes on March 24, 2008
at 2:41 pm
The Derby Aftermath Event
Saturday May 3rd 2008
2 events in one.
Performances @ 7pm
with Teneia Sanders, Maestro J, Sleepstone, Darnell Levine and more…

After Party @ 9:30pm til 3am with DJ DCeezy

Location:
The Riverbend Winery
120 South 10th Street
http://www.myspace.com/derbyaftermath
By: ET Productions on April 24, 2008
at 2:29 pm
June 17-Mates of State = Newport,KY @ Southgate House

June 20-Scout Niblett = Newport,KY @ Southgate House

June 21-Scout Niblett = Bloomington,IN @ Waldron Arts Center
By: Mute on May 26, 2008
at 8:42 pm
Thursday, June 26 at Lisa’s Oak Street Lounge

A Narrow Pier

Paper Airplane

Broadfield Marchers

Music starts at 9, $5
By: A Narrow Pier on June 22, 2008
at 4:24 pm
WEDNESDAY JULY 30TH LISA’S OAK STREET LOUNGE-DEAD CHILD WARM UP SHOW FOR WEST COAST TOUR-

DEAD CHILD-
HUMAN-
DIRTY J-
MUSIC AT 9,5 BUCKS
By: dead child on July 27, 2008
at 12:51 pm
Aug 23- Stars w/ Bell X1
is actually Sept 23
By: drew on August 6, 2008
at 12:08 pm
the american freedom machine is playing 8.9.08 at the nachbar 10pm if you are into some rowdy country music.
By: cat! on August 8, 2008
at 2:26 pm
Sept.6th at Cahoots-Lords cd release show,Revenants 10pm 21+

Sept 13th at Headliners-Dead City Rejects(last show ever!!),
with The Revenants,Nowhere Fast all ages $10 6pm

Here’s the big one!!!
Sunday Oct 19th all ages $15 at City Block
The Misfits,The Revenants,Adaptize

And please add us to your local list.We have been playing here for 11 years now.Thanks

The Revenants
http://www.Revenants.com
By: Gabrielle on August 14, 2008
at 6:11 pm
Saturday, October 11th at The Pour Haus:
(doors open at 9:30pm)

BLACK ACID CANDY BOX 2008 REUNION SHOW, featuring:

Miranda Cason @ 10:00pm
Black Acid Candy Box @ 11:00pm
Friends and Relatives @ 12:00am
By: Clint Allen/Black Acid Candy Boxx on September 9, 2008
at 12:43 am
Nov 8 – Jim Lauderdale with Johnny Berry @ Phoenix Hill Tavern

Nov 13 – David Mead and Brigid Kaelin @ Gerstles
By: Bill Cooper on October 29, 2008
at 9:34 pm
Feb 6- Workers (formerly Your Black Star) CD Release Show @ Skull Alley
By: Nick on December 25, 2008
at 9:35 pm
DEC 31- Consume Consumer, Amherst, Creatures. New Year’s Eve bash! @ Uncle Pleasants 9pm $5 18+
By: CC on December 30, 2008
at 3:50 pm
Feb. 2 Elf Power/Vic Chesnutt = Indianapolis @ Locals Only

Mar. 5 – Phosphorescent = Bloomington,IN @ Cinemat

Mar. 30 – Handsome Furs = Newport,KY @ Southgate House
By: Mute on January 15, 2009
at 8:33 pm
Sunday, March 29 – 7:30 p.m.
SURVIVING THALIA – CD RELEASE PARTY
Headliner’s Music Hall
All Ages $10 adv./$12 d.o.s.
FREE CD with paid admission/ticket purchase
Special Guests:
Institution
Poetry of the Dead
Descention
By: Jason Koerner on January 23, 2009
at 6:35 pm
Death Cab @ The Palace Apr. 10th @ 8 p.m.
By: Rebecca on February 2, 2009
at 3:08 am
Brandi Carlile is with Sondre Lerche at Whitney Hall tomorrow (2/21)

Cowboy Junkies at Whitney Hall 3/28
By: Randall on February 20, 2009
at 9:21 am
The Low Anthem is with Lisa Hannigan on March 12 at the 930
By: Randall on February 27, 2009
at 10:10 pm
My Brightest Diamond. March 22nd @ Al’s Bar in Lexington, KY
By: Meagan on March 7, 2009
at 4:52 pm
Vandaveer, Arnett Hollow @ The Green Building, Monday, March 16
By: kevin on March 14, 2009
at 9:10 am
Mar 28- SICK CITY FOUR w/ MONDO SHADES (The Nachbar)
By: F on March 16, 2009
at 8:12 pm
BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW!!!

W/ Tiny Fights

@ Red Mile Round Barn, May 19th, Lexington
By: AJ on April 7, 2009
at 4:45 pm
March of Dimes benefit show @ Lisa’s Oak St. Lounge April 17th w/ Elle Riot, Bob Anonymous,Anton Mink,Nighthawks at the Diner,Polio hosted by Crash DDZ and spun by Dj JMethodz
By: Chloa on April 10, 2009
at 1:33 pm
Papadosio @ The Hideaway Saloon – May 2nd
By: Alli Cautilli on April 28, 2009
at 1:16 pm
[...] Find the most up-to-date and complete concert listings for the area courtesy of Backseat Sandbar. [...]
By: Louisville and Surrounding Areas Summer Fun Guide 2K9 | The Decibel Tolls on June 8, 2009
at 2:36 pm
Nov 20- Depeche Mode (Palau Sant Jordi; Barcelona, Spain)
By: drew on June 24, 2009
at 11:25 am
Sunday, July 12 – SUNN 0))) at Southgate House. Uber heavy drone magic.

Monday, July 13 – WRFL presents Deer Tick @ Al’s Bar. Honky-tonk garage rock, in a seriously good stuff.

Sunday, August 23 – Over the Rhine @ Natasha’s Bistro in Lexington. Jazzy midwestern neo-soul with gorgeous female vocals.
By: Sa-riot on July 6, 2009
at 10:50 am
oh yeah, almost forgot: RICHIE HAVENS at the Master Musicians Festival in Somerset on Friday, July 17!
By: Sa-riot on July 6, 2009
at 11:47 am
September 20th
Akron/Family
Jeffrey Lewis
21c
By: trytherain on July 8, 2009
at 4:50 pm
July 13, 2009
Deer Tick
Al’s Bar – Lexington, KY
9PM $5

October 14, 2009
Andrew Bird & St. Vincent
Bogarts – Cincinnati, OH
8PM $23.50

October 22, 2009
Mount Eerie
Red Mile Round Barn – Lexington, KY
8:30PM $?
By: James on July 12, 2009
at 4:20 pm
October 16th, 2009
Dinosaur Jr
Headliners – Louisville, KY
8PM $?
By: James on July 12, 2009
at 4:28 pm
October 6 – The Decemberists, Singletary Center, Lexington

and make sure you SAVE THE DATES – October 9-11 – for Boomslang, a WRFL-sponsored 3-day, multi-venue celebration of sound, art and other curiosities. Initial line-up is looking tasty, and will officially drop next week. Follow @sariot on twitter for more leaks & details.
By: Sa-riot on July 27, 2009
at 4:10 pm
August 22nd, 2009

Amherst (last show)
Consume Consumer
Cougar Express
Sugar Glyder (north carolina)
The Past Times

Headliners Music Hall
7:00 pm
$8.00
ALL AGES
By: jonathan on August 2, 2009
at 9:02 pm

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