BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Black Celebration – Depeche Mode Heavy Dance Party DTSTART:20251005T010000Z DTEND:20251005T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010717Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n9PM Doors\ nA BLACK CELEBRATION – PHILLY’S FAVORITE DEPECHE MODE DANCE PARTY!\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDJ Baby Berlin + Special Guest: Male Tears (SoCal 100% AUTHENTIC SYNTH-POP)\n \n“A mere year after the release of their broodi ng and intense album Krypt\, the LA-based ensemble Male Tears has made a r emarkable return with a completely new sound. Now a quartet\, with vocalis t James Edward leading the charge\, they’ve shifted from being more than just a dark wave act to integrating the dance-driven pulse of 80s synth-p op Italo disco.” – POST-PUNK.COM\nBlack Celebration is the fifth stud io album by Depeche Mode. This album further cemented the darkening sound and style of DM. ABC the party celebrates this darkening depeche mood as well. This event is an inclusive safe space goth party. Homophobia\, miso gyny\, transphobia\, racism\, xenophobia\, physical violence or hate of an y kind will not be tolerated.\nExpect to hear:TONS OF DEPECHE MODENEW WAVE DARK WAVEPOST-PUNKDEATH ROCKEARLY INDUSTRIALWAX TRAXGOTH CLUB HITSFACTORY RECORDS\nDepeche Mode\, New Order\, Ministry\, Sisters Of Mercy\, Bauhaus\ , Front 242\, Cabaret Voltaire\, Siouxsie and the Banshees\, The Cure\, Th e Cult\, Xmal Deutschland\, Pet Shop Boys\, Tears for Fears\, Erasure. INX S\, Love and Rockets\, Soft Cell\, Killing Joke\, Tones On Tail\, Visage\, NIN\, Skinny Puppy\, Nitzer Ebb\, Kate Bush\, Cold Cave\, Joy Division\, She Past Away\, Visage\, Lords Of The New Church\, Lebanon Hanover\, Front Line Assembly\, and more!\n#abcphilly #ablackcelebration #ablackcelebrati onphilly #darkwavephilly #goth #gothnight #gothphilly #newwave #darkwave # depechemode #postpunk #synthpop #tradgoth\nLet’s have a black celebratio n…9PM Doors / $8-$12 / 21+\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sachiko Kanenobu DTSTART:20241006T010000Z DTEND:20241006T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010719Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8PM – Do ors9PM – Show\n \nSACHIKO KANENOBU\nOften regarded as Japan’s first f emale singer-songwriter\, Sachiko Kanenobu created an enduring legacy with Misora\, a timeless classic of intricate finger-picking\, gently soaring melodies\, and rustic Laurel Canyon vibes. Originally released in 1972 on URC (Underground Record Club)\, one of Japan’s first independent record labels\, the Haruomi Hosono-produced album remains one of the most beloved works to come out of Japan’s folk and rock scenes.\nBorn and raised in Osaka in a large\, music-loving family\, Kanenobu picked up the guitar as a teen just as the “college folk” boom swept through university campus es in the Kansai area in the mid-60s. The Pete Seeger and American folk-le aning scene didn’t appeal much to her\, however\, and instead gravitated towards the British sounds of Donovan and Pentangle\, teaching herself gu itar techniques by listening to their music. Kanenobu made her songwriting and recording debut as part of Himitsu Kessha Marumaru Kyodan\, whose sol e single was released on URC in 1969. After years of being pushed aside by the label in favor of newer male artists who were more “folky” in a t raditional sense\, it was her friendship with the groundbreaking band and labelmate Happy End that ultimately helped her secure the opportunity to r ecord a solo album. With Hosono on board as producer\, Kanenobu spent seve n days recording the songs that would become Misora\, with most songs reco rded in a single take.\nBy the time Misora released in September 1972\, Ka nenobu was gone. She had left for America\, eager to start a new life with Paul Williams\, a music writer who had founded Crawdaddy Magazine in 1966 . Without the artist to promote it\, “Misora was asleep for a long time\ ,” she said. Meanwhile Kanenobu settled near Sonoma in Northern Californ ia\, retiring from music and concentrating on raising her two children. It wasn’t until Philip K. Dick\, the famed writer and family friend\, hear d Misora and encouraged her to get back into music\, that Kanenobu felt th e urge to pick up the guitar again. Soon new songs started flowing\, and D ick helped finance a single for Kanenobu in 1981. He was committed to prod ucing a full length when he died unexpectedly in 1982.\nWhile she enjoyed success (especially in Germany) with her hard-hitting group Culture Shock in the 1980s\, and continued to release albums in American and in Japan in the 1990s\, it’s Misora that keeps coming back to her. Every few years a new generation of fans discover the album. Devendra Banhart\, Jim O’Ro urke\, Steve Gunn\, and many others continue to tout its greatness\, leadi ng to a critically acclaimed reissue on Light In The Attic records in 2019 .\nIn 2023 her 1998 album “Fork In The Road” was remixed by Makoto Kub ota (Les Rallizes Denudes\, Sunset Gang) with new overdubs by members of m odern day psych-rockers Kikagaku Moyo. A vinyl pressing will be out in the U.S. this fall via the Temporal Drift label. In 2024 her song “Aoi Saka na (Blue Fish)” from Misora has been streamed nearly 2 million times\, b olstered by a featured appearance on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders’s Osc ar-nomiated film ”Perfect Days”.\n \n@\n@ (pronounced “At”) is th e folk-pop project of vocalist/guitarist Victoria Rose and multi-instrumen talist Stone Filipczak\, who owe their musical bond to the power of text m essages. Although the pair initially met years ago\, it wasn’t until spr ing 2020 when they began sending each other music between their respective cities — Rose based in Philadelphia and Filipczak in Baltimore.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Merce Lemon DTSTART:20241007T000000Z DTEND:20241007T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010720Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\n \nMERCE LEMON\nWhen asked how the city of Pittsburhg has inspired her creative practice\, she responds with a characteristic jo ke wrapped in an earthen warmth – “There are big hills\, three rivers\ , and more bridges than anywhere in the whole world.” Growing up in a fa mily of art and music in a city with a small\, but vigorously supportive s cene\, Merce has been going to shows here her whole life\, even playing th em with the “grown up” friends of her parents – as recently as a few years ago\, her band was comprised of her own father and his peers in the Pittsburgh music community.Merce took a step back in 2020\, after releasi ng her last album Moonth\, to reassess during an era of anxiety and lockdo wn – even the reliably nourishing exercise of releasing and playing musi c felt precarious. “I was grappling with what kind of relationship I wan ted with music in my life. It was just something I’d always done\, and I didn’t want to lose the magic of that – but I was just having less fu n.” In this time of restless confusion\, she turned her gaze inwardly\, down to the roots – figuratively and literally.“I got dirty and slept outside most of the summer. I learned a lot about plants and farming\, jus t writing for myself\, and in that time I just slowly accumulated songs. ” A never-ending creative hunger\, supported by the community framework she’d always been able to depend on\, had been newly fertilized by the w ide-eyed inspiration that came from plunging her hands into both the earth ’s soil and her own. Rooting around for an answer\, finding and turning in her palms what had been buried there all along – from this rediscover y\, imbued with the vitality of earth’s green magic\, Watch Me Drive The m Dogs Wild sprouted forth.\n \nGREG FREEMAN\n“Greg Freeman deals in bi blical deluges\, apocalyptic fever dreams\, Floridian miscreants\, and gre en mountain malaise. On his excellent debut LP “I Looked Out\,” Gregs ’s voice takes center stage\, creaking\, crooning\, and cutting through clouds of static. The songs are linked together by a palpable urgency\, wh ether it is the punch-in-the-face\, careening momentum of “Tower\,” th e country-gazing guitar squall of “Souvenir Heart\,” or the singalong finale of “Palms.” Careful arrangements and production choices bring o ut the best of the 7-piece band that ornament the album with pedal steel\, horns\, eerie strings\, and tape warbles. Greg’s strong narrative songw riting is equally effective chronicling the demise of a 1920s ocean liner as it is documenting his own interpersonal uncertainties. The sounds on th e record conjure up the feeling of driving around Chittenden County in the middle of winter\, high beams on\, slush on the floor mats. It’s hard f or me to imagine a more promising debut record\, and I can’t wait to see where this band goes next.” – Garrett Linck\n \nMARY ST MARY\nPhilad elphia\, PA\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:French Cassettes DTSTART:20241008T000000Z DTEND:20241008T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010721Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nFRENCH CASSETTES\nFrench Cassettes music is filled with winding melodies that pop up unexpectedly but grab hold and don’t let g o… and may leave you asking “who needs hands with hooks like these?” The harmony-driven power-pop quartet’s new LP\, Rolodex (Sophomore LP re leased on Tender Loving Empire)\, was conceived beneath a stairwell in the band’s adopted hometown of San Francisco\, where frontman Scott Huerta spent months staying up until 4 am\, obsessing over elaborate demos that w ould eventually become his band’s sophomore album. “I adopted the ment ality\, which was probably unhealthy\, that every song I wrote needed to b e my favorite song\,” he remembers. “I lost my mind so many times in t he middle of the night.” The album was self-recorded by lead guitarist Mackenzie Bunch in just about every corner of the Bay Area\, and the songs that were eventually stitched together are hook-filled and rooted in pop. But they’re also layered and intricate recordings: complex vocal harmon ies and counter-harmonies\, Rob Mills’ inventive percussion\, Thomas’ (Scott’s brother) honey-coated basslines\, and every shade of clean and fuzzy guitars stacked up like an orchestra. These uncommonly majestic\, es oteric pop forms serve as the perfect delivery service for Huerta’s play ful and verbose lyrics\, which are often presented as semi-autobiographica l puzzles.Taken together\, the eight tracks and 24 minutes that make up Ro lodex are an epic statement of purpose in a decidedly taut package. One th at brought a band back together\, more mature and more ambitious than ever .\nRUBBER BAND GUN\nMAVIS THE DOG\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:La Luz DTSTART:20241009T000000Z DTEND:20241009T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010723Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nLA LUZ\n“I was in a dream\, but now I can see that ch ange is the only law.”With a credo adapted from science fiction author O ctavia E. Butler\, an album title from a collection of metaphysical poetry \, and an expansion in consciousness brought on by personal crisis\, guita rist and songwriter Shana Cleveland learns to embrace a changing world wit h unconditional love on News of the Universe\, the new full-length from Ca lifornia rock band La Luz.News of the Universe is a record born of calamit y\, a work of dark\, beautiful psychedelia reflecting Cleveland’s experi ence of having her world blown apart by a breast cancer diagnosis just two years after the birth of her son. It’s also a portrait of a band in flu x\, marking the first appearance for drummer Audrey Johnson and the final ones from longtime members bassist Lena Simon and keyboardist Alice Sandah l\, whose contributions add a bittersweet edge to a record that is both el egy for an old world and cosmic road map to a strange new one.But is there any band in the world more suited to capturing the chaos of change in all its messy beauty than La Luz? Formed by Cleveland in 2012\, La Luz is bel oved for their ability to balance bedlam and bliss\, each new record anoth er fine-tuning of the band’s mix of swaggering riffs with angelic vocals borrowed from doo-wop and folk\; a band so reliably great that it makes t he huge step forward in confidence and sheer musicality that is News of th e Universe all the more formidable. Cleveland\, also a writer and painter\ , has developed into a truly original songwriter with her own canon of hau nted psychedelia that\, in recent years\, has drawn upon the changing land scape around her rural California home for inspiration\, notably on last y ear’s critically acclaimed solo release\, Manzanita\, a magical realist documentation of her pregnancy and early motherhood that appeared on many year-end lists.Yet if Cleveland has spent years writing songs about ghosts \, what lurks in the shadows of News of the Universe is nothing less than death itself. “There are moments on this album that sound to me like the last frantic confession before an asteroid destroys the earth\,” says C leveland.\nMIA JOY\nMia Joy has had music in her bones her entire life. Ra ised in a spiritual home to Musician and Poet parents\, Mia has been singi ng since she was a baby and joined the Chicago Children’s Choir at a you ng age. Mia’s brand of ethereal pop is equally indebted to 90s R&B Icons such as Sade to the ethereal ambient compositions of Grouper. “I bought my loop pedal because it’s the same loop pedal that Liz Harris of Group er had. I just spent my college check on it.” Spirit Tamer\, Mia’s deb ut record out on Fire Talk on April 30th 2021\, draws influences from both : emotive synth pop (“Haha”\, “See Us”) and yearning meditative in terludes that trace the peripheral edges between tracks. The album title c omes from a poem Joy wrote long ago (“writing was my first love”)\, an d the melding of her creative upbringing interweaves a sonic history that unfolds as Joy herself attempts to piece together the fractured pieces tha t shape growing up and growing into your own skin.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Hypos DTSTART:20241011T010000Z DTEND:20241011T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010723Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nTHE HYPOSThe Hypos are an Asheville\, NC band built aro und the collaboration of veteran songwriters Greg Cartwright(reigning soun d) and Scott McMicken(Dr Dog). Their eponymous debut album is a playful bl end of sounds and styles that is wonderfully hard to categorize but easy t o enjoy. Joined by Evan Martin on drums\, Kevin Williams on bass and Krist a Wroten on violin\, the Hypos world is a lush landscape of bouncing rhyth ms and Earthy acoustics. Scott’s unmistakable voice\, briming with curio sity and wonder\, makes the perfect traveling companion to Greg’s road w orn croon as they investigate all the sonic possibilities on their 10 song LP. Also\, they like Frogs. A lot. What else do you need to know? Oh yeah \, this fine album was lovingly mixed by Matt Ross-Spang.\nSLOPPY HEADS\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Native Harrow (Album Release) DTSTART:20241012T000000Z DTEND:20241012T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010724Z DESCRIPTION:\n\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – Doors8 PM – Show\nWXPN WelcomesNATIVE HARROW\nPhilly-based Native Harr ow have remained largely independent – musically\, professionally\, and aesthetically\, since their beginning\, meticulously crafting and perfect ing a sound that is melded together from pieces of folk\, soul\, and rock n’ roll. On 13th September\, they will release their new album Divided Kind. This album is the lifetime’s work of two scholars of music whose i ndividual backgrounds in the arts have forged a strict artistic discipline that exists in sharp contrast to the more traditionally laissez-faire wor ld of rock and popular music. Over a catalog of six albums\, Native Harro w have produced a discography of “rich\, engrossing records” and “in stant classics” while single-mindedly following their own artistic code\ , acquiescing only to the exigence of the song: each song its own world wi th its own rules. Their original perspective and extraordinary songwritin g\, combined with a completely individual approach to crafting albums and steering their career\, has garnered them coverage at Uncut\, Mojo\, The Guardian\, Rolling Stone\, The Line of Best Fit\, Paste\, American Songwri ter\, The Bluegrass Situation\, Holler\, Rough Trade\, Telegraph\, The Eve ning Standard\, The Times\, Shindig\, The Sun\, and many more. They’ve shared stages with the Eagles\, Robert Plant & Alison Kraus\, Beth Hart\ , Sierra Ferrell\, The Heavy Heavy\, Courtney Marie Andrews\, The Cactus Blossoms\, Great Lake Swimmers\, Esme Patterson\, and more.\nWhereas Nativ e Harrow’s previous records have grown increasingly more expansive\, bot h stylistically and in terms of the musical forces applied\, Divided Kind counters this categorical unfurling with a lateral move towards the ground \, with both feet firmly planted\, in a folk-soul-rock sound that still ex plores their love of RnB\, jazz\, country\, and farther-flung inspirations while simultaneously digging in\, with more authority\, to the musical wo rld they have constructed. Or maybe they’re still searching\, and Divide d Kind is what’s next. Their refusal to be put in a box\, and their rele ntless insistence on catering to the demands of each individual song sugge sts the latter is likely the truth at hand.\nSAM AND LOUISE\n \n\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Jake Xerxes Fussell DTSTART:20241013T010000Z DTEND:20241013T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010726Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nJAKE XERXES FUSSELL\nReared in Georgia and now settled in North Carolina\, Jake Xerxes Fussell has established himself as a devot ed listener and contemplative interpreter of a vast array of so-called fol k songs\, lovingly sourced from a personal store of favorites. On his late st album\, When I’m Called—his first LP for Fat Possum\, and his first as a parent—Fussell returns to a well of music that holds lifelong sent imental meaning\, loosely contemplating the passage of time and the proces sion of life’s unexpected offerings.  The album was produced by James E lkington and mixed by Tucker Martine. In addition to Elkington\, it featur es the playing of Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station)\, Joe Westerlund (Bon Iver\, Califone)\, and others. Blake Mills contributes guitars on several tracks. Joan Shelley and Robin Holcomb provide backing vocals.\nDAVID MOO RE\nDavid Moore is pianist and composer who has spent his career at the va nguard of instrumental ambient music.  He has released four full-length a lbums and five EPs as founder and leader of the ensemble Bing & Ruth\, whi ch have realized his vision of longform orchestrated textural music.  In collaboration with guitarist Steve Gunn he has released the hauntingly bea utiful album “Let the Moon be a Planet” and “Live in London\,” a f ive song recording from Cafe Oto. Moore is also one third of the jambient supergroup Cowboy Sadness along with members of The Antlers and Port St. W illow.\n \n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Davila 666 DTSTART:20241014T000000Z DTEND:20241014T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010726Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nDAVILA 666\nDávila 666 bum rushed the underground rock n’ roll scene in 2008 with their self titled debut album\, released on In the red records. For the next 4 years the gang vocal gutter pop group f rom Puerto Rico recorded and toured extensively. Releasing albums\, eps & singles on ITR\, Hozac\, Rob’s House\, Douchemaster\, Third man records among others\, while gaining notoriety for their high energy live shows\, making audiences around the world lose their cool in wild and uncontrollab le dance frenzies. Described as “Punk by way of Motown hits”\, “Worl d’s greatest party band” or “Menudo on drugs”\, the band went off the radar in 2012. After an 11 year hiatus\, D666 released their new ep ca lled “Secretos” in November 2023 on Brazilian trash rock imprint Mandi nga records in collaboration with their own label Frito records. Steering away from the lo fi recordings of the past to create just as catchy\, loud \, rhythm driven boppers\, drenched in layers of dark psychedelic goop. Wi thout a doubt D666 are with us & ready to infect rock n’ roll once again .\nLAS NUBES\nSince 2017\, Miami\, FL-based Las Nubes has played their und eniably catchy\, multilingual alternative/dream pop/shoegaze all over the damn place – bars\, basements\, festivals\, storefronts… The current q uartet of Ale Campos (guitar/vocals)\, Emile Milgrim (drums)\, Alumine Sot o (guitar)\, and Cuci Amador (bass/vocals) forge a relentless energy found ed on their collective DIY roots throughout South Florida and Latin Americ a. Throughout multiple lineups\, releases\, tours\, and even a name change \, they’ve only just begun scratching the surface.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Genevieve Stokes DTSTART:20241016T000000Z DTEND:20241016T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010726Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nGENEVIEVE STOKES\nLILY KERSHAW\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Teenage Halloween & Tiny Stills DTSTART:20241017T000000Z DTEND:20241017T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010726Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nTEENAGE HALLOWEEN\n“You’re not alone\, and I need t o change”.Teenage Halloween deal in strident\, ripping power pop out of New Jersey. Newest album\, Till You Return\, serves up 13 songs that reach out a hand to those in need\, whilst looking deep within to uncover perso nal failings and private yearnings. Gender identity\, state abuses\, findi ng solace in mental illness\, and radical self awareness all vie for space among searing arrangements typified by heartfelt vocals and irrepressible energy.The band\, which operated as a ‘rotating cast’ in its early ye ars\, is now firmly entrenched as an essential four-piece comprised of Luk Henderiks (vocals\, guitar) alongside Eli Frank (lead guitar\, vocals)\, Tricia Marshall (bass\, vocals) and Peter Gargano (drums). The quartet mai ntain the vital energy of their previous incarnations\, but bring an even more focused punch. The result leaves greater room for Henderiks’s lyric s and renews the band’s sonic mission to uplift themselves and those aro und them\nTINY STILLS\nFFO Bayside\, Fountains of Wayne\, The Weakerthans\ , Charly Bliss\, Descendents\, Tiny Stills is a fifth wave emo rock band f rom Los Angeles\, California made up of real life friends who actually lik e each other\; Kailynn West\, Chris Clark\, Jenny Merullo\, AJ Peacox. Aft er years of honing their bittersweet emulsion of pop punk and emo with too thy lyrics\, crunchy guitars and catchy melodies\, one message still reson ates loud and clear – even the worst days have a silver lining\, at leas t you’re not alone.\nFRIEND\nWASHER\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Brooke Candy DTSTART:20241018T010000Z DTEND:20241018T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010726Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nBROOKE CANDY\nAn undisputed icon of the underground mus ic\, fashion\, and queer art scenes\, Brooke Candy is a sex-positive pop i dol whose wide-ranging creative output revels in defiant glamour\, embodyi ng both speculative futures and über-romantic nostalgia. Born and raised in Los Angeles\, Candy first gained notoriety from her work on Grimes’ 2 012 music video “Genesis\,” followed quickly by high-profile collabora tions with such fellow iconoclasts as Charli XCX\, Sia\, Diplo\, Lizzo\, P ussy Riot\, Sophie\, Mykki Blanco\, and countless more.\nNAMASENDA\nNamase nda is a Swedish singer and songwriter from Stockholm. She is most well k nown for releases on British pop and electronic label\, PC Music.\nTA SH BLAKE\nTash Blake\, a 21-year-old LA-based singer-songwriter\, captivat es with her sultry\, provocative music inspired by Madonna\, Lady Gaga\, a nd Kurt Cobain. Known for her bold performances\, she explores themes of l oneliness and the “villain” persona. Tash’s debut single “Mannequi n” garnered over 3.4 million views\, and her latest EP\, Poster Girl\, i ncludes the single “LATEX\,” created in collaboration with producers J enna Andrews and Stephen Kirk.\n$75 – Ticket + VIP/M&G + SIGNED poster\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Greg Mendez & Allegra Krieger DTSTART:20241019T010000Z DTEND:20241019T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010726Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nGREG MENDEZ\nGreg Mendez is a Philadelphia songwriter w hose releases have garnered acclaim for their quiet\, lo-fi urgency. His n ew self-titled full length album is out now.\nALLEGRA KRIEGER\n“On the g round level of an apartment building in Manhattan’s Chinatown\, multiple lithium batteries combusted in an e-bike shop. It was just after midnight when songwriter Allegra Krieger awoke to a banging on her door. She made it out\, fleeing down eight flights of stairs and a “wall of grey smoke\ ,” which she recalls in her song\, “One or the Other.” Throughout th e song\, Krieger cradles gratitude and conjures a universe in which she re sponded differently to the fire. Ultimately\, she leaves us with two quest ions: “What do we know about living? What do we know about dying?”It w as in the months following the fire that Krieger wrote much of Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine\, her second full-length album with Double Double Whammy\, a collection of 12 songs that pick at the fragile membrane betwee n life and death. Krieger’s previous album\, I Keep My Feet on the Frag ile Plane\, hewed more closely to the domestic spaces of city and mind. Ro lling Stone regarded the album as “ten songs of heady philosophical mean derings packed with emotional dynamite\,” and likened her “finely phra sed lyrics” to those of “Joni Mitchell\, Leonard Cohen\, [and] David B erman.” Krieger’s existential meditations remain on Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine\, however her meandering melodies have taken on a stronge r sense of direction. She narrates candidly and assertively\; the full-ban d arrangements never overpower\, only offer a robust platform on which Kri eger’s voice reaches new heights.\nAMELIA CRY TIL I DIE\nWest Philly que er trans basement emo. Free Palestine.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Baby’s First Rodeo DTSTART:20241020T000000Z DTEND:20241020T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010726Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nBABY’S FIRST RODEO\nQUEER COUNTRY NIGHT!\nHosted by S am Rise & Brittany Ann Tranbaugh \nFEATURING – THE BOOTSTRAP BOYS & FIST CITY\nLINE DANCING WITH DONKEY + CHAIN STITCH EMBROIDERY BY EMILY JOYNTON \nTHE BOOTSTRAP BOYS\nTHERE’S JUST SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT ABOUT TH IS LITTLE BAND OF NASHVILLE OUTSIDERS RAMBLING ALL OVER HELL’S HALF ACRE IN A BEAT UP FORD MOTORHOME AFFECTIONATELY DUBBED “THE DELTA DAWN”. M AYBE IT’S BEING FROM THE MIDWEST THAT BRINGS IN A HEAVILY PRINE-INSPIRED FLAVOR TO BIG JAKE’S SONGWRITING\, OR MAYBE IT’S THE FACT THAT ALL FO UR BOOTSTRAP BOYS HAVE BEEN PLAYING IN BANDS IN EVERY SINGLE GENRE EXCEPT COUNTRY & WESTERN FOR THE LAST TWO DECADES\, OR MAYBE IT’S THE INFLUENCE OF MICHIGAN’S COLLECTIVE UNCLE BOB SEGER THAT JUST WON’T LET THEM SHA KE THAT LITTLE BIT OF MOTOR CITY ROCK & ROLL. \n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:LSDXOXO DTSTART:20241021T000000Z DTEND:20241021T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010726Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry\n7PM – Doo rs8PM – Show\nLSDXOXO\nOriginally from Philadelphia\, RJ Glasgow broke t hrough as LSDXOXO in New York City as part of the GHE20GOTH1K collective. Balancing uncompromising underground instincts with the impulse and pleasu re of the dancefloor\, his DJ sets and productions quickly earned him accl aim across all kinds of scenes globally. From searing techno to Baltimore club\, downright sleazy ghetto house to razor-sharp electro\, his club cre dentials have always been wide-reaching and on-point\, but his star has tr uly risen for the way he folds broader pop and rap hooks into these sounds . While he’s still busy slaying dancefloors\, his increased focus on voc als on his Dedicated 2 Disrespect EP for XL Recordings has made LSDXOXO ev ery inch the card-carrying superstar.This duality in the LSDXOXO sound has led to high-profile co-signs\, including remixing Lady Gaga\, Pink Panthe ress and Shygirl and producing five tracks for Kelela’s album Raven (War p)\, not to mention collaborating with VTSS\, Eartheater and Tygapaw. Exte nding his rise as a songwriter\, his fully-fledged live show has now taken to the stage\, giving the fierce identity of his music huge audiences at festivals including Primavera\, Nuits Sonores and Rewire.Of course\, his d ual life as a DJ still finds him constantly tearing up the rulebook with h is genre-fluid style\, whether at the helm of his pleasure-loving Floorgas m parties in Berlin and London or manning his May 2023 residency on BBC Ra dio 1 in the UK.The press are catching on to his relentless ascendance thr ough features in BUTT (shot by fabled photographer Wolfgang Tillmans) and Document Journal (styled by Ludovic De Saint Sernin)\, as  well as adorni ng the cover of DJ Mag’s April ’23 edition.Now the D.O.G. EP sets the scene for a hotly anticipated album in 2024\, but in the mean time there ’s only going to be more sweat-slicked style coming through from one of the brightest talents to shine his light on deepest\, darkest night music. \nLUSTSICKPUPPY\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Molly Nilsson DTSTART:20241022T000000Z DTEND:20241022T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010729Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nMOLLY NILSSON\nUn-American Activities is the 11th Studi o album by Molly Nilsson. Written and recorded entirely on location in Cal ifornia at the former home of writer\, poet and early opponent of the Nati onal Socialist regime in 1930s Germany\, Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Ma rta. An album of experimentation\, genre-mashing and\, above it all\, Nils son’s instantly recognisable melodic skill and empathy\, it continues th e songwriter’s explorations of power\, freedom\, oppression and its oppo sing force\, a love unbound.\nAIR WAVES\nAPOSTILLE\nApostille (Night Schoo l\, Glasgow) is the solo recorded music by Michael Kasparis\, also of Anxi ety and The Lowest Form.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Trace Mountains DTSTART:20241023T000000Z DTEND:20241023T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010730Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\n \nTRACE MOUNTAINS\n“And you’re off into the burni ng blue” songwriter Dave Benton sings on “Ponies\,” the centerpiece of Trace Mountains’ fourth full-length album Into the Burning Blue. Deco rated with retro textures and violet flowers\, the album begins with the c rackle of a fire\, as if something is burning and hatching into a new form . As Benton grappled with the end of an 8-year romantic relationship\, son gs were pouring out of him in quick succession\, often urgently before he had logically processed the emotions himself. Collectively\, the songs ar e imbued with a spectrum of weighted emotions\, but the blue continued to burn\, with each song adopting its respective hue — a violet reclaiming of passion\, a deep sea blue of sorrow\, the sky blue moments of relief an d liberation when he comes up for air and sees hope on the horizon. The pr essure of this period crystallized Benton’s adventurous spirit and self- renewal as he embraced new high-fidelity sounds and conviction. Writing ro utinely over a Roland CR-68 drum machine and enamored with the dramatic pr ecision of 80s music\, Benton enlisted Craig Hendrix (Japanese Breakfast) to bring his indie rock to immersive new heights.Out of Hendrix’s Philad elphia studio “The Well\,” the two employed synth-laden\, reverberatin g atmospheres that enter the frame like layers of supernatural silk. The e nd result is a pensive and playful collection of songs that gallop along F leetwood Mac pop grooves with sharp melodies and signature 80s gated snare (á la Phil Collins). The album still tumbles through Benton’s endearin g observations\, maintaining the candor that’s drawn people to his songw riting since his early work with indie rock band LVL UP.\n \nLONG BEARD\n Means To Me is the second full-length under Leslie Bear’s moniker\, Long Beard\, and her first since 2015’s Sleepwalker. Throughout the record\, Leslie explores what constitutes a home — how it extends beyond the phy sicality of a roof over your head to the comfort of another person. A sens e of self\, stability or security.\n \nThe last four years between record s mark a particularly significant and transitional time for Bear. A career move led her back to her hometown in New Jersey long after her friends an d peers moved away\, resulting in feelings of stasis and nostalgia that sh ape the album. Reflections on the past are evident in tracks like album si ngle “Sweetheart”\, in which Bear considers a past love\, where they a re now\, and her life in relation to theirs.\n \nCARMEN PERRY\nCarmen Per ry lives in Philadelphia and has spent the last ten years writing\, singin g\, and playing guitar in Remember Sports. Her debut solo record will be r eleased in Spring 2025. \n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sheer Mag DTSTART:20241024T000000Z DTEND:20241024T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010731Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nSHEER MAGUnderlying every great record\, every career-d efining work of art\, is a certain ineffable\, increasingly rarified quali ty: unity of vision. Great songs need not announce their greatness: their marriage of idea with action\, soul with sound\, appears as something whic h is naturally effortless\, unforced—they are what they are because they have no choice but to be. On Playing Favorites\, Sheer Mag’s third full length and first with Third Man Records\, this precise\, matured clarity of vision is put on full display. Over the course of the past decade\, She er Mag have labored to carve out a discernibly singular position within th e canon of contemporary rock: toggling with ease between the refined flour ishes of a “connoisseur’s band” and the ecstatic colloquialism of po pulist songwriting—yet displaying no strict loyalty to either camp—the ir sound\, while oft-referenced\, is unmistakably and immediately recogniz able as theirs alone. With Playing Favorites\, Sheer Mag have capitalized on a decade’s worth of devotion to their own collective spirit—a spiri t refined in both the sweaty trenches of punk warehouses and the larger-th an-life glamour of concert halls—emerging with a dense work of gripping emotions\, massive hooks\, and masterfully constructed power-pop anthems. This is the record the Philadelphian rock and roll four-piece has always b een destined to make.\nTHE OUT-SECTThe members of The Out-Sect all met whi le living in a Philadelphia junkyard. On weekends\, they would gather to d rink beers inside a broken down 1982 GMC Caballero with a copy of Back Fro m The Grave stuck in the car’s cassette player. Instantly being drawn to the trashy sounds of those pimple-faced mid-60s punks\, they figured they could write a song half as good as any of them. And that’s just what th ey did! Using instruments they found in the trash\, the band has managed t o write a handful of deranged “songs” that will leave you asking yours elf “What is that smell?” and “Dear god\, can they just stop playing ?”\nHAPPY BODYPhiladelphia\, PA\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Christina Ward Record Release DTSTART:20241025T000000Z DTEND:20241025T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010733Z DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n**All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry**\n  \n7 PM – Doors\n8 PM – Show\n\n \n \nCHRISTINA WARD\n\nChristina War d\, a versatile and boundary-pushing guitarist\, banjoist\, and songwriter from the Philly burbs\, crafts a sonic tapestry that blends indie prog ro ck\, shoegaze\, and a variety of other genres into a unique and captivatin g sound. Her musical odyssey began at 13\, when she snagged her first guit ar and embarked on a self-taught journey\, forging a distinctive style tha t’s both resonant and innovative. \n\n\n \nGEOLOGY (MEWITHOUTYOU)\nGeo logy is the home recording project of Greg Jehanian\, the long time bassis t of Philadelphia post-hardcore band\, mewithoutYou. Through straightforwa rd songwriting and melodies\, Jehanian seeks to highlight the small and or dinary moments that draw us closer to the enormity of Mystery. Geology can be summed up in these few words – lo-fi\, high hopes.\n \nFULLSCREEN\n Fullscreen is a philly-based cinematic indie rock band. The quartet uses s oaring melodies\, striking dynamic shifts\, scorching guitars\, and atmosp heric textures to turn richly detailed songs into an immersive live experi ence. \n\n\n\nAfter the mystical and introverted Labyrinthitis (2023) the y present their new single Apéritif\, a story of a humid summer heartbrea k. It emerges as an Italo-Disco inspired left turn that preserves the film ic\, escapist and narrative elements of their previous work. \nFinding in spiration in genre\, the band likes to think of each release as a differen t movie by the same director. If Labyrinthitis is the low-budget horror cu lt classic\, Apéritif is the effort to maintain artistic sensibilities in a wider-reaching romantic drama.\n\n\nFullscreen is: Kirby Vitek (he/him) \, Eric Schueler (they/he)\, Harper McGrath (he/him)\n\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:French Police DTSTART:20241026T010000Z DTEND:20241026T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010734Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nFRENCH POLICEFormed in Chicago\, French Police is led b y vocalist and guitarist Brian Flores. Their music combines raw energy and introspection\, cultivating a dedicated and underground following with th eir distinctive sound. With the release of their albums “French Police ” (2019)\, “Haunted Castle” (2020)\, and “BLEU” (2023)\, they ha ve showcased their artistic growth and have established a sense of identit y. French Police has toured in Mexico and North America. Drawing from a va riety of influences and inspiration\, their music carries a touch of cultu ral richness\, that sets them in a league of their own.\nWISTERIA\nJOHNNY DYNAMITE AND THE BLOODSUCKERSJohnny Dynamite and the Bloodsuckers is a Phi ladelphia based post-punk act signed to Born Losers Records. Over the cour se of their first three albums\, Johnny Dynamite has emerged as a succinct storyteller and songwriter. The character’s inside Johnny’s dream wor ld are lucid\, manic\, and brimming with pangs of nostalgia. Poised agains t dark and atmospheric instrumentals\, his harrowed vocal delivery and lyr ics paint a picture of lost youth\, hopeless romanticism\, and teenage reb ellion. Dynamite blends many different genres and connects the dots betwee n different pockets of subculture\; equal parts glossy new wave and anthem ic rock n’ roll. The Bloodsuckers’ signature beat centric production s tyle incorporates hard hitting drum machines\, 80’s style guitar riffs a nd ethereal retro synth patches. Dynamite’s sound has been compared to l egacy acts such as Pet Shop Boys\, INXS\, and The Cure as well as more mod ern acts such as MGMT and M83.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nina Ryser – Water Giants Release Show DTSTART:20241027T010000Z DTEND:20241027T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010735Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8PM – Do ors9PM – Show\n \nNINA RYSER\nNina Ryser is a Philadelphia-based musici an and composer. Her music has always inhabited its own world\; a singular and cohesive collection of Keyboard-centric home recordings that marry he r undeniable pop sensibilities with a truly bizarre dreamlike aesthetic. W ith a solo career spanning 7 releases as well as her work in the highly in fluential art-punk trio Palberta\, Nina’s artistic voice has been a stap le in the American underground for over a decade\, her distinctive and con sistent sound earning a cult following. Her latest effort Water Giants sig nifies a departure in both sound and artistic practice – her first solo release recorded outside of her home studio\, with a myriad of first time collaborators\, it’s Nina’s most pristine and expansive experimental p op offering to date\, centering Nina as a dynamic performer and lyricist w ithout foregoing the surreal qualities of her previous work.\n \nNULL\nPh iladelphia\, PA\n \nKRISTINE LESCHPER\nKristine Leschper is an interdisci plinary artist working in sound\, text\, image\, and performance. Her work positions itself around the spectacle of the human condition\, deeply int erested in questions of meaning-making\, womanhood\, socio-ecological syst ems\, and the wielding of power. Her personal philosophies around music-ma king approach the sonic landscape as an object with shape\, dimension and weight. She has presented over 250 live performances across the US\, UK\, and Europe.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Karl Blau DTSTART:20241028T000000Z DTEND:20241028T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010736Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nKARL BLAU\nBased in Philadelphia\, Blau has a legendari ly broad résumé. He has worked on 250 albums during the last three decad es\, his experience ranging from Earth and Microphones to Laura Veirs and Matthew E. White. And his own catalog has forever been that of a polyglot\ , bending funk and folk and pop and punk into experimental forms with tota l glee. To call Vultures of Love the culmination of all that is to imply some stopping point\, as if this is some destination Blau has now reached . But he moved to Philadelphia in part because he likes to be part of musi c that is going somewhere\, that is seeking some frontier. This is just a particularly compelling step on the path of an under-heralded adventurer\, still finding new ways to locate the space between the expected and unexp ected.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cloud Nothings: 10 Years Of Here And Nowhere Else DTSTART:20241030T000000Z DTEND:20241030T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010737Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nCLOUD NOTHINGS\nSome bands never miss. This rare breed consistently puts out great records every couple years\, avoiding the leng thy hiatuses or egregious sonic missteps that often come with achieving lo ngevity. It’s an often unsung reliability\, as few realize how truly rem arkable it is to put art into the world at this rate without letting the q uality slip. For n early 15 years\, Cloud Nothings have continued to hit t he target\, steadily becoming a part of the fabric of modern indie rock as we know it with a run of fantastic albums. This streak continues unabated with their latest full – length\, Final Summer – an album t hat’s s o assured\, so instantly satisfying\, that it forces you to pause and real ize you’re listening to one of the great American rock bands in their pr ime.\nEQUIPMENT\nFARMER’S WIFE\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Drinking Boys and Girls Choir DTSTART:20241031T000000Z DTEND:20241031T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010738Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nDRINKING BOYS AND GIRLS CHOIRDrinking Boys and Girls Ch oir (DBGC) are a three-piece punk band from Daegu\, South Korea. Members c onsist of MJ on Drums\, Meena on Bass\, and Megan on Guitar. Inspired by D aegu’s 90s- 00s hardcore punk/indie-rock scene before it moved to Seoul\ , the band have vowed not to move to the capital and prefer to nurture a s ustainable local scene. In 2017\, MJ suffered a serious motorbike acciden t\, so the band took a hiatus while awaiting her recovery. When she was fi t again\, they DIY produced their 18 track debut album “Keep Drinking” \, released on Damnably/Electric Muse in 2019\, followed by show stealing appearances at SXSW\, TGE\, LSC\, Pentaport\, Busan International Rock Fes tival\, Zandari & MU:CON and also toured the UK tour supporting label mate s Otoboke Beaver & Say Sue Me. In February 2020 the band toured Europe wi th Otoboke Beaver just ahead of the pandemic shutting down the world. So\, they wrote and recorded a new album and participated in several online ed itions of festivals. The band’s sophomore album “Marriage License” was released in 2021\, receiving acclaim and making best-of lists in the l ikes of Spin\, Paste\, MTV\, Bandcamp\, and gained radio play from KEXP an d Strombo’s show on CBC in Canada. The album is a rallying cry in the fi ght for LGBTQ+ rights in conservative Daegu – this year the 15th Daegu Q ueer Culture Festival (DQCF) saw them perform\, protected by 1\,500 police from 450 homophobic government officials\, for equality in marriage right s\, and speaking out against sexual harassment and exploitation such as wh at occurred in the heinous Nth Room case. In 2023\, the band joined label mates Otoboke Beaver’s UK/Ireland shows and joined them again for their 2024 North American tour in February. They were live in session at KEXP st udio in Seattle\, after having previously recorded a KEXP at home session for the station in 2021. They released new single “History” and have j ust finished recording their third album for release later in the year.\nP ARTY NERVES\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Wild Ones DTSTART:20241101T010000Z DTEND:20241101T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010739Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nTHE WILD ONES\nThe Wild Ones are Philadelphia’s (only ?) Thin Lizzy cover band.  The band features Greg Karlowitsch (Honey) on lead vocals and bass\, Max Stern (Signals Midwest\, solo) and Jon Hernande z (Timeshares) on guitars/vocals\, and Miles Ziskind (Gladie\, Honey) on d rums.    They aim to pay tribute to one of the greatest rock bands of a ll time\, playing all the hits along with some deeper cuts.  After a succ essful stretch of opening slots with Bar Dust (Philadelphia’s Pogues tri bute act)\, The Wild Ones take to Johnny Brenda’s this Halloween for the ir first headline spot. \nGHOULS’ NIGHT OUT\nPhiladelphia’s very own tribute to the classic Misfits GHOULS NIGHT OUT make their triumphant retu rn this Halloween on the Johnny Brenda’s stage! After a hard-fought lega l battle and numerous physical altercations\, original members Cat Dadzig (Cat Daddy) and Ricky Only (Rick Rein) have put aside their differences to give fans what they’ve been dying for. Joined by Willy Steele (Will Don nelly of GuitarSalad pedals\, Low Cut Connie) and drummer SCOOCHbeats\, GH OULS NIGHT OUT is no funny business\, all Horror Business.\nCOCA LEAVES & PEARLS\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Black Celebration – Everyday Is Halloween! DTSTART:20241102T010000Z DTEND:20241102T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010740Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n9PM Doors\ nA BLACK CELEBRATION – PHILLY’S FAVORITE DEPECHE MODE DANCE PARTY!\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSince Halloween is everyday we continue the celebratio n on 11/1. \n \nDJ Baby Berlin + Special Guest: Cage (NYC)\n \nMark “Cage” is currently resident DJ for two of New York City’s premiere monthly dark music parties: Procession (est. 2015) and Svmmon (est. 2016). He has also guest DJ’d at such notable venues and club nights as: Slime light (London)\, Dream Baby Dream (Berlin)\, Synthicide (New York)\, and R ed Party (New York)\, amongst many others. \n \nHalloween DecorHalloween VisualsCostumes EncouragedThemed DrinksPhotosTreats\n \nBlack Celebratio n is the fifth studio album by Depeche Mode. This album further cemented t he darkening sound and style of DM. ABC the party celebrates this darken ing depeche mood as well. This event is an inclusive safe space goth party . Homophobia\, misogyny\, transphobia\, racism\, xenophobia\, physical vio lence or hate of any kind will not be tolerated.\nExpect to hear:TONS OF D EPECHE MODENEW WAVEDARK WAVEPOST-PUNKDEATH ROCKEARLY INDUSTRIALWAX TRAXGOT H CLUB HITSFACTORY RECORDS\nDepeche Mode\, New Order\, Ministry\, Sisters Of Mercy\, Bauhaus\, Front 242\, Cabaret Voltaire\, Siouxsie and the Bansh ees\, The Cure\, The Cult\, Xmal Deutschland\, Pet Shop Boys\, Tears for F ears\, Erasure. INXS\, Love and Rockets\, Soft Cell\, Killing Joke\, Tones On Tail\, Visage\, NIN\, Skinny Puppy\, Nitzer Ebb\, Kate Bush\, Cold Cav e\, Joy Division\, She Past Away\, Visage\, Lords Of The New Church\, Leba non Hanover\, Front Line Assembly\, and more!\n#abcphilly #ablackcelebrati on #ablackcelebrationphilly #darkwavephilly #goth #gothnight #gothphilly # newwave #darkwave #depechemode #postpunk #synthpop #tradgoth\nLet’s have a black celebration…9PM Doors / $7-$10 / 21+\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New Sound Brass DTSTART:20241103T010000Z DTEND:20241103T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010742Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nNEW SOUND BRASS\nFour years ago\, without a peep (which is hard for a brass band) New Sound Brass disappeared. They left no note or forwarding address. Since that day\, fans\, all around the world have c ried continuously\, some even quitting their jobs to cry full-time. Until one day they returned and lit the brass world on fire\, or at least playe d a somewhat enjoyable set. November 2nd\, New Sound Brass is back\, we m iss you\, come party with us.\nFABERGÉGÉ\nAs local “supergroups” go\ , you’d have a tough time finding any with a better “goofball” pedig ree than Fabergégé. With contributions from Pat Finnerty (the man behind the surprise Fringe hit musical The Lid and an amazing force in his own r ight) and Brian Langan (Needle Points\, Langor\, and many more) and a came o from Amanda Blank\, former Sweatheart/Space 1026 legend Thom Lessner lea ds up this soft-new-wave inflected delight.\nKATIE FRANK\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Donovan Woods DTSTART:20241104T010000Z DTEND:20241104T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010743Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nDONOVAN WOODSSince he released his first album a decade ago\, singer-songwriter Donovan Woods’ blend of folk\, country and pop has resonated with audiences all over the world. In recent years\, the acc laimed\, award-winning singer-songwriter has seen his profile grow with hi s breakthrough album\, Without People.Touring behind (2020’s) Without Pe ople saw Woods play to his largest audiences to date. That included a stin t opening for New Jersey-based retro rockers Gaslight Anthem on their rece nt reunion tour.Throughout his distinguished career\, Donovan Woods has bu ilt a devoted following who cling to the acclaimed songwriter’s every wo rd. Never one to mince words\, Woods is one of music’s most vulnerable s torytellers and on his forthcoming studio album\, Donovan takes that a ste p further. Honest and unflinching\, on Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now\, his upcoming seventh studio album\, Woods takes a long loo k inside and isn’t necessarily thrilled with what he sees. For an artist who isn’t afraid to bear his soul\, this is as emotionally gritty as he has ever been.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Coffins DTSTART:20241106T010000Z DTEND:20241106T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010744Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nCOFFINS\nCoffins is a Japanese doom-death band\, formed in 1996\, that has scavenged the depths of evil and darkness throughout t heir decade-plus existence as they slowly work toward a flawless refinemen t of all the things we love about the genre. A refreshing and mind-bending amalgamation of doom and death metal’s greatest moments\, Coffins are h ere to destroy souls.\nhttps://coffins.bandcamp.com/album/sinister-oath\n  \nOUTER HEAVEN\ndeath from Douglassville\, PA\nhttps://outerheaven.bandc amp.com/album/infinite-psychic-depths\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Blitzen Trapper DTSTART:20241107T010000Z DTEND:20241107T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010746Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nBLITZEN TRAPPER\nThere are numbers so vast they exceed the scope of human reckoning\, concepts so immeasurable they surpass our c apacity to understand. On their radiant new album\, 100’s of 1000’s\, Millions of Billions\, Blitzen Trapper make peace with the unknowable\, su rrendering themselves to forces beyond their control as they explore the i nfinite with a broad mind and an open heart. Inspired by singer/songwrite r Eric Earley’s fascination with Buddhist texts and meditation (the titl e comes from a phrase that appears over and over in the Mahayana sutras)\, the album offers a captivating take on rebirth and transcendence\, and th e circularity of existence\, navigating its way through the space beyond d reams and reality\, beyond gods and mortals\, beyond life and death. The s ongs here are as sincere as they are surreal\, rooted in rich character st udies and deep reflection\, and unfolding like a riddle-filled journey tha t asks many questions and offers no answers. The production is intoxicatin g to match\, blending lo-fi intimacy and trippy psychedelia into a mesmeri zing swirl of analog and electronic sounds. Add it all together and the re sult is a gorgeous\, sprawling collection wrapped in lush layers of synthe sizers and washed out electric guitars–a poignant\, expansive exploratio n of perception and purpose that manages to look both forwards and backwar ds all at once. “This whole project grew out of a box of old four-track tapes from the ’90s that I found recently\,” Earley explains of 100 ’s of 1000’s\, Millions of Billions. “The tapes were full of songs I ’d written and recorded back when I was 19 or 20 years old\, and the sou nd and the spirit of those recordings got me excited to start writing musi c again\, to go back to working the way I did when I was first starting ou t.”\nLOUISA STANCIOFF\n“There are times in life when you’re so prese nt\, so fully immersed in the moment that you can catch a glimpse of anoth er universe\, of a realm beyond our own\,” says Louisa Stancioff. “It might last for a second or an hour\, it might come in the midst of bliss o r sadness\, you might be alone or with a lover\, but when it happens\, the re’s nothing quite like it.” When We Were Looking\, Stancioff’s stu nning debut\, is full of those moments. Written and recorded through a tra nsitional\, transient period filled with heartbreak and uncertainty\, the collection is raw and unflinching\, holding nothing back in its bitterswee t reckonings with pain\, healing\, acceptance\, and growth. Stancioff writ es with a cinematic eye\, conjuring up richly detailed stagings for her em otionally- charged character studies sung with a silvery resonance. The so ngs’ guitar-and-synth-focused arrangements are immersive and nuanced to match\, thanks in part to the evocative sonic landscaping of producer/keyb oardist Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter\, Craig Finn)\, who proves to be an idea l creative foil on the record. Add it all up and you’ve got a dreamy\, n ostalgic\, snapshot-filled album that blurs the lines between indie stoici sm and folk sincerity–a lush\, cathartic work that hints at everything f rom Phoebe Bridgers and Arlo Parks to Big Thief and Waxahatchee as it lear ns to find the beauty in grief and rebirth.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Philadelphia Tom Petty Appreciation Band – “Wildflowers” 30th Anniversary Celebration DTSTART:20241109T020000Z DTEND:20241109T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010746Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8PM – Do ors9PM – Show\nTHE PHILADELPHIA TOM PETTY APPRECIATION BAND \nIf there was ever a record worth celebrating twice\, it’s Wildflowers.\nJust as t hey did in 2019 to mark the 25th anniversary of the record that firmly est ablished Tom Petty as one of the great American songwriters\, the Philadel phia Tom Petty Appreciation Band will plug in again to celebrate the album ’s 30th anniversary by performing Wildflowers live\, in its entirety\, o n Friday\, Nov. 8\, at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia.\nThe band will p lay a Wildflowers set\, followed by a second set of choice tracks from P etty’s deep\, enduring catalog. 2024 also marks the 25th anniversary of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ Echo album — a record many true heads recognize as one of the best\, if not the best\, of Petty’s career — so expect a few songs from that record. \nThe Philadelphia Tom Petty App reciation Band features musicians who’ve played with many of your favori te bands of the last 20 years (The War on Drugs\, Dr. Dog\, Strand of Oaks \, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah\, Low Cut Connie\, Pernice Brothers\, Son Litt le). Pat Finnerty (of What Makes This Song Stink?\, Live Band Karaoke\, an d Pat Finnerty and the Full Band fame) fronts the operation.\n \n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Hunter Root DTSTART:20241110T020000Z DTEND:20241110T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010747Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nHUNTER ROOT\nFew artists embody the spirit of creative exploration as seamlessly as Pennsylvania-based multi-instrumentalist Hunt er Root. His journey is a tale of passion and resilience\, and his success is a testament to his intuition and his unique musical vision.Raised in a n environment steeped in classic rock\, Hunter’s musical foundation was built alongside his older brother who introduced him to guitar\, and opene d his eyes to the power of songwriting. As a founding member of the psyche delic rock outfit Medusa’s Disco\, Hunter honed his skills on stage\, an d gained invaluable insight into the labyrinthine workings of the music in dustry.Embracing a genre-fluid approach\, Hunter’s music weaves together elements of acoustic rock\, folk\, grunge\, and more. His approach to son gwriting has evolved over the years\, shifting from a lyric-centric proces s to a music-first methodology. This shift has allowed Hunter to match emo tive soundscapes with the narrative potency of his songs\, yielding compos itions rich in both meaning and emotion. He employs a similarly immersive approach to music production. He writes\, records\, mixes\, and produces a ll his albums\, an uncompromising process that is both demanding and grati fying.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Orla Gartland DTSTART:20241112T010000Z DTEND:20241112T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010748Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nORLA GARTLAND\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gardens & Villa DTSTART:20241113T010000Z DTEND:20241113T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010749Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nGARDENS & VILLA\nSome band names take on a talismanic q uality\, revealing mystical depths the musicians may never have intended. For Gardens & Villa\, the name became downright prophetic. The quartet of Chris Lynch\, Adam Rasmussen\, Shane McKillop\, and Dustin Ineman\, took t heir moniker from Villa Avenue\, where they first shared a home – and a garden – in Santa Barbara\, California. A decade and a half later\, the band is set to release Ultra Terrestrial\, a record that highlights Garden s & Villa’s expansive growth and familial bonds.\n3V3RY1\nJahsh Banks & Raays come together to form 3V3RY1 (pronounced ‘everyone’). Illuminati ng universal truths\, lessons\, & experiences which tie us all together. 3 V3RY1 is an ever-evolving being that moves from\, with & of love. A concep t realized by 2 but understood by many. With their song “WAY OUT” feat ured in the recent Paramount feature film “Sweet Dreams” and a full le ngth due next year via Leaving Records\, Jahsh and Raays continue to expan d their collective catalog even while they’re based in North Carolina an d Los Angeles\, respectively.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Finom DTSTART:20241114T010000Z DTEND:20241114T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010750Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nFINOMNot God is the new album from Chicago’s beloved two-headed monster\, Finom (fka Ohmme). You can ask them to go into more d etail about the boring reasons why they changed their name\, but for now\, the answer is going to be polite refusal. No.Co-fronted by Sima Cunningha m and Macie Stewart\, Finom’s influences run vast and varied\, and they put a premium on change. Produced by Jeff Tweedy in the Wilco Loft\, Not G od is a marvel of growth\, a progression from the roots of this collaborat ive band whose history can be traced back to its improvised conception. Th is is owed in no small part to their hometown of Chicago\, the life raft t o so many persisters in musical adventurosity. That energy combined with F inom’s dramatic vocal and musical gifts puts them in the peripheries of the legacies cemented by The Roches\, Roxy Music\, the B52s\, Kate Bush\, Cate Le Bon\, and Wilco.Cunningham and Stewart are brilliant harmonizers\, but harmony doesn’t equate to a utopia. In Finom’s maws harmony can a lso be a fight\, holding the line until the volcano erupts. This realistic depiction of a creative relationship jolts throughout the songs of Not Go d\, and brings the whole damn thing to life. Finom are more than one perso n with more than one dream. But still\, they grow together\, harnessed by their shared love of pop songwriting\, control\, chaos\, and being general ly freaky-deaky. Freaky in that way that is only really fun when you’re doing it with a friend. As the globe spins and advancements advance\, it c an feel essential to return to relationships that make us feel whole\, tha t generate energy of strength and relief. Which puts double the weight on the reality that Sima and Macie continue to pledge allegiance to each othe r\, at the base of the volcano\, in the front seat of the car as it pulls off the highway.\nMEG ELSIERMeg Elsier is an indie rock artist from New En gland\, who blends abrasive texture with a sweet voice that rusts througho ut her songs. Her wit and (often debilitating) self-awareness emerge throu gh her lyrics\, which are seamlessly woven into the fabric of ethereal-sho egaze pop. Now based in Nashville\, Meg’s live performances foster an in timate connection with listeners\, stirring up a sense of shared experienc es while exploring new emotional territory together. Meg’s debut album s pittake will be out in 2024.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Illiterate Light DTSTART:20241115T020000Z DTEND:20241115T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010751Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nILLITERATE LIGHT\nIt’s dangerous to put Illiterate Li ght in a box\, especially with the release of their new album\, Arches. Ar e they a guitar-driven indie rock duo? Kaleidoscopic neo-psychedelia? Synt h-kissed\, harmony-laden folk? What does one do with an album beginning wi th “fake tits and diet coke\,” then pivoting to train derailments in r ural Ohio and never-ending black holes? These prolific farmers-turned-rock ers have captured the energy of their live shows—fans crowd-surfing\, mo shing\, crying\, and crooning—and infused it into their latest release. “We’ve always been shape shifters\, moving between heavy\, dark distor tion and gentle sweet fingerpicking\, writing aggressive songs\, introspec tive songs\, and love songs\, exploding and embracing\,” reflects singer -guitarist Jeff Gorman. “Smashing it all together used to feel strange\, but now there’s a glue between everything we do. Our fans get it. They care less about genre. All they care about is feeling. And that’s all we care about. Are you alive or not?”Illiterate Light’s third album\, Ar ches\, is not a passageway but an arrival. “We’re no longer striving t o define a sound\,” said drummer Jake Cochran. “We’re leaning into s ides of ourselves that have felt off-limits\, sticking to what feels right rather than concerning ourselves with comparison.” Out November 1 via T hirty Tigers\, the record is bursting with thunderous anthems\, biting lyr ics\, and lush harmonies.\nPALMYRA\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Six Organs of Admittance DTSTART:20241116T020000Z DTEND:20241116T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010753Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nSIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCEWith Time is Glass\, Six Organs of Admittance is captured once again in the intricate tangle of the fretb oards\, soaring in open skies above. Like lens flare cutting through the s peakers\; spiderwebs cracking the windshield that holds back all the onrus hing reality. Blowing the dust away\, cutting a new path for cognition. As is always endeavored…. After 20 years of living on the road in differe nt places\, Six Organs of Admittance had returned home to Humboldt County — a far country\, to some\, but still part o f the world through which c reatures of all kinds are moving through and contributing to. And some of them are human. Alone together — forming connection and exchange out of thought and expression — no different from the people on the other side of the Redw ood Curtain. It was there\, where Six Organs had long ago emer ged\, in the name of everything cycling\, of circles that spiral concentri cally and remain unbroken\, the new music was conceived. In moments\, it was as if the future had some – how wrapped around 360 degrees\; elsewhe re\, the systems and patterns inside the writing and recording only became evident later — like a recognition that cumulus and nimbus clouds which passed through the sky the day before contained familiar shapes. Informin g the songs accordin gly as he went\, Ben picked up on modes both musical and lyrical\, threading backward through the time of Six Organs of Admitta nce. Almost marinating in it as a way of life. Working on the music and th e vocals\, then spending some time with them while steppin g away from the m. Walking the dog and coming back to them. Time is Glass is made of that kind of time. Alone time. Recorded in the visceral environs of home\, Tim e is Glass is sharply focused\, even as misty impressionist mountains floa t through the background. Sweet and spiny\, “ The Mission ” sings its purpose\, before turning abruptly to the orchestral rumble of “ Hephaest us ”: rural industrial psychedelia\, ecosystem goth\, synths arcing to l ift a helplessly earthbound community into the firmament above. Winding al most imperceptibly back into song with “ Slip Away ”\, the time of the record becomes clear\, moves fluidly\, relaxed but aware\, from event to event. People and things coming around again. The intuit\, passing through wormholes and time\, sounding deep then dissolving into the universal. Th e acoustic sounds ringing\, layered suddenly\, then clear again. Explosion s of a new kind of distortion. Ecstatic melodies. Communing. The space of a day. The space of a season. Time is Glass\, and Six Organs of Admittanc e is here and will be here\, again.\nTASHI DORJITashi Dorji  is a Bhutane se guitarist and improvisational musician known for his avant-garde and ex perimental approach to music. Tashi’s own skewering of guitar traditions has developed an idiosyncratic take on the instrument\, one defined by mo vement and profound openness to technique. \n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Octave Cat DTSTART:20241117T020000Z DTEND:20241117T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010754Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nOCTAVE CAT\nOctave Cat is a trio of Eli Winderman (Dopa pod – keyboards)\, Jesse Miller (Lotus – bass/modular synth) and Charl ie Patierno (drums). The music ranges from stripped down jazz-grooves to a nalog synth dance music. Influences such as Herbie Hancock jazz-funk and F our Tet electronica can be heard. Octave Cat pushes the jazz and jam bound aries by incorporating elements of electronica and in doing so they have c arved out their own unique musical space.\nQWAY\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sam Greenfield DTSTART:20241118T010000Z DTEND:20241118T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010755Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nSAM GREENFIELD\nMulti-instrumentalist and composer Sam Greenfield has made a name for himself in the music industry playing along side some of the biggest names in the biz. He has toured extensively with Vulfpeck’s Cory Wong\, Joss Stone\, Dave Koz\, and Thank You Scientist.  But he’s not just a hired gun – Sam made waves with his latest relea se “Sam Greenfield Rules\,” blending the sophistication of jazz with t he lively spirit of pop and funk to create a sound that is uniquely his ow n. He has built a loyal following\, drawing in listeners with his irresist ible melodies\, grooves\, vibrant energy and infectious personality. And he’s no stranger to the recording studio either\, having worked with the likes of Ed Sheeran\, John Legend\, Mariah Carey\, Queen Latifah\, and mo re. With his fourth album on the horizon for early 2025\, Sam Greenfield i s sure to cement his place as one of the most exciting musicians on the sc ene today.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Futurebirds DTSTART:20241119T010000Z DTEND:20241119T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010756Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nFUTUREBIRDS\n“I’m movin’ on\,” Daniel Womack si ngs during the first minute of Easy Company\, an album that finds Futurebi rds — once the best-kept secret of Athens\, GA’s music scene\, now a b eloved act on a national scale — back in the driver’s seat\, speeding together toward some new horizon.Momentum. Evolution. Expansion. Those are important traits for a critically-acclaimed group that recently celebrate d its 15-year anniversary. “When you’ve been a band for as long as we have\, there’s a lot of moving on\,” says Thomas Johnson. “We just k eep going\, because that’s how you keep things fresh. That’s how you k eep the spark.” By matching the sharply-written songs of three distinct frontmen with a progressive mix of rock & roll\, electrified folk\, and co smic American roots music\, Futurebirds have built an audience that’s as wide as the band’s own sound. With Easy Company\, Futurebirds’ fifth studio album\, that sound reaches a new peak.Featuring four songs apiece f rom singer/songwriters Womack\, Johnson\, and Carter King\, Easy Company f eels like a celebration of the tight-knit bonds that have held Futurebirds aloft since 2008. Back then\, the guys were college students at the Unive rsity of Georgia\, building a buzz around town with shows at fraternity ho uses and local bars. Years later\, they’ve become headliners at bucket-l ist venues like The Ryman and The Fillmore\, collaborating with fellow gen re benders like My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel along the way. They tea m up with new partners on Easy Company\, which was recorded with producer Brad Cook in the border town of Tornillo\, TX. The guest list includes Wax ahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield\, who trades verses with King on the album ’s title track\, and Drive-By Truckers co-founder Patterson\, who delive rs a spoken-word monologue during “Soft Drugs.” A brass section even m akes a brief appearance. The result is a bold blend of old and new\, deliv ered by a band of brothers who’ve never sounded so invigorated. Easy com pany\, indeed.\nCOLOR GREEN\nFor the California-based quartet Color Green\ , playing music together is all about stepping into the unknown. “When w e play live\, I don’t really know what’s going to happen\,” says Noa h Kohll\, one of the band’s two guitarists and four vocalists. “You re ally have no idea what you’re going to get with this band\, which keeps things fresh for us and maybe makes the live experience special.” In a v ery short time\, they have developed a word-of-mouth reputation as a dynam ic and unpredictable live act\, grounding their cosmic jams in earthy melo dies and drawing from ’60s SoCal folk-r0ck\, ’70s classic rock\, ’80 s underground rock\, ’90s psychedelic dance-rock\, and any other sound t hat catches their ears.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sam Burchfield DTSTART:20241120T010000Z DTEND:20241120T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010757Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nSAM BURCHFIELD\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Twen & Eric Slick DTSTART:20241121T010000Z DTEND:20241121T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010759Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nTWEN\nERIC SLICK\nEric Slick is a singer\, songwriter\, and multi-instrumentalist from Nashville\, TN. He’s performed and recor ded with Dr. Dog\, Taylor Swift\, The War On Drugs\, Waxahatchee\, Kevin M orby\, Ruston Kelly\, Adrian Belew\, Ween\, and many more. Eric has severa l studio albums\, including 2020’s acclaimed Wiseacre.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sun June DTSTART:20241122T020000Z DTEND:20241122T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010800Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nSUN JUNE\nThe first two minutes of Sun June’s third a lbum\, Bad Dream Jaguar\, is a reverie – Laura Colwell’s voice floats above a slow-burn\, sparse synth\, conjuring a tipsy loneliness\, a hazy r ecollection\, a disco ball spinning at the end of the night for an empty d ance floor. Sun June’s music often feels like a shared memory – the de tails so close to the edge of a song that you can touch them. And as an Au stin-based project\, their music has also always felt strangely and specif ically Texan – unhurried\, long drives across an impossible expanse of o penness\, refractions shimmering off the pavement in the heat.But on Bad D ream Jaguar\, Sun June is unmoored. The backdrop of Texas is replaced by l onging\, by distance\, by transience\, and a quiet fear. The only sense of certainty comes from the murky past. It’s a dispatch from aging\, when you’re in the strange in-between of yourself: there’s a clear image of the person you once were and the places you inhabited\, generational curs es and our families\, but the future feels vast\, unclear – and the pres ent can’t help but slip through your fingers.\nDAN WRIGGINS\nDan Wriggin s is a Philadelphia-based songwriter\, musician\, and poet. He grew up in the town of Yarmouth\, Maine\, and on Islesford\, a small island community near Bar Harbor. In high school\, he started playing piano and guitar\, a nd met bandmates Michael Cormier and Peter Gill. He worked on lobster fish ing boats before moving to Philadelphia and starting the alt-country band Friendship in 2015\, now signed to Merge Records\, with whom he has toured the US and Canada extensively. He lives and sometimes tours with his dog\ , Roy.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Horse Jumper of Love DTSTART:20241124T013000Z DTEND:20241124T033000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010801Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors8:30 PM – Show\nHORSE JUMPER OF LOVE\nHorse Jumper of Love thrive on patient and uncompromising songs. Thanks to frontman Dimitri Giannopoulos ’ evocative lyrics and arrangements that suddenly turn from delicate to blistering\, their music is full of intensity. While the Boston trio\, whi ch also includes bassist John Margaris and drummer James Doran\, has stret ched the fringes of indie\, their latest is their most immediate yet. Out August 16 via Run For Cover Records\, Disaster Trick tackles self-destruct iveness with healing and heart.\nSPENCER RADCLIFFE AND EVERYTHING\nSpencer Radcliffe and Everyone Else’s Hot Spring is a treatise on being present . It’s something sun bleached and clothbound\, forever warmed on the das hboard\, “a sequel of sorts\,” Radcliffe says\, referring to 2017’s Enjoy The Great Outdoors. And they’re heading back out with him\, Everyo ne Else is\, Radcliffe’s trustworthy companions: Ben Austin (cello)\, Gr ant Engstrom (lead guitar)\, Tina Scarpello (vocals)\, and Jack Schemenaue r (percussion)\, with the addition of Pat Lyons playing the pedal steel gu itar. Recorded by the band and handed off to JJ Golden\, to safely wedge t he message in the wire\, a modern day telegraph affair. Hot Spring gives u s space to see where we are\, to clean up with a sound that is cleanly con sistent in itself\, coming back on some familiar-enough seeming things as the landscapes and seasons have moved past and with everyone. Look. Take a few steps in that direction. Get a closer view to be sure. Listen with o ne eye open.\nPRIMAL RAT SCREW\nPrimal Rat Screw pushes a lot of boundarie s around extreme music (punk\, metal\, avant-garde\, performance art\, no- wave\, and noise)\, as well as introducing techniques\, songwriting styles \, and lyrical content that is unique to its own. A complete mix of perfor mance\, swag\, harmony\, dissonance\; designed to express the cultural rel evance of spiritually heavy subject matter.\nBOO BOO SPOILER\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Salami Rose Joe Louis DTSTART:20241126T010000Z DTEND:20241126T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010802Z DESCRIPTION:\n\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – Doors8 PM – Show\nSALAMI ROSE JOE LOUIS\n\nSalami Rose Joe Louis is an genre traveler multi-instrumentalist female producer and a signee to Flyin g Lotus’s Brainfeeder label. She produces and records pretty much exclus ively on her beloved Roland MV8800\, nicknamed “Funfunfun”. Her debut record with Brainfeeder\, ‘Zdenka 2080’\, is a critically acclaimed\, conceptual sci-fi epic that earned a nomination for Giles Peterson’s Wor ldwide Awards Best Album of 2020. Since then\, she has toured supporting g enre-bending luminaries Flying Lotus\, Cinematic Orchestra\, Toro y Moi\, TuneYards\, Clairo\, and MNDSGN. Recent collaborations include a feature o n Toro y Moi’s ‘Mahal’\, a remix for Hiatus Kaiyote’s Ninja Tune/B rainfeeder release\, and the 2024 collab album extravaganza”Sarah” wit h Philadelphia legend\, Flanafi. More music coming very soon<3\n\n \nANDY LOEBS\n\nAndy Loebs is a philadelphia based multi instrumentalist / produ cer. Combining zoinked out sound design\, hyperactive techno\, & prog rock inspired song structures into a fun live electronics stew.\n \n\nMORGAN GARRETT\n\nMorgan Garrett has long been a stalwart presence in independent American experimental music. The 2024 release of Purity on Orange Milk Re cords\, his acclaimed fifth full length and first vinyl release\, undersco res his commitment to his craft and to the wider world of challenging elec tronic music. Purity is a response to finding a neighbor’s dead body. Wh ile processing this trauma and his own relationship with suicidal ideation \, Morgan Garrett created an album of dissonance and fragile voice\, oscil lating between dense electric guitars and anxiety ridden whispers. This me sh of avant-garde electronics\, rock instrumentation and hi-fidelity produ ction is a new assertion in underground music.\n \n\n\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:High Reeper DTSTART:20241130T020000Z DTEND:20241130T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010803Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nHIGH REEPER\nHigh Reeper is a heavy metal band from Del aware/Philadelphia. Shortly after forming in 2016 they were signed to Heav y Psych Sounds Records and have since released two full length albums alon g with one split EP.\nSupporting their first two releases with almost 90 d ates over three tours in Europe alone\; including stops at HPS Fests Rome and Innsbruck\, Desertfest Berlin and Antwerp\, headlining their venue at Desertfest London\, Esbjerg Fuzztival and many other killer shows abroad a nd in the US.\nOriginally with a sound deeply rooted in modern stoner meta l while still giving a nod to classic heavy metal records\, High Reeper’ s sound has continued to evolve with each LP and through lineup changes. T he result of which helped produce their upcoming 2024 full length “Renew ed By Death” which is a 35 minute assault of brand new metal that finds the band looking clearly forward while at the same time exploring their in fluences from the 80s and early 90s.\nWITCHING\nWITCHING have emerged as o ne the underground’s most exciting bands to watch out for. The band’s sound has evolved into genre-bending\, nightmarish\, blackened melodic dea th metal that embraces and embodies the fusion of pitch-black intensity th rough black metal\, sludge\, post-metal\, and more.\nHONEY\nSouth Philly h ardcore/thrash/crossover unit Honey pulverizes their way into the undergro und heavy-music spotlight with eight crushing thrash anthems on their debu t full-length\, “Forever Fire.” Honey channels the grit and brutality of “Kill ‘Em All”-era Metallica and early ’90s Slayer with the cut throat riffs and raw power of modern crossover masters such as Power Trip\ , Mindforce\, and Iron Reagan.\nDJ SETS BY RIFF MOUNTAIN\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Bret Tobias Set DTSTART:20241201T010000Z DTEND:20241201T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010804Z DESCRIPTION:\n\nTHE BRET TOBIAS SET \nBret cut his teeth co-fronting the Bigger Lovers\, a Philly guitar pop group that swung for the fences in the aughts. Dude re-emerged in 2023 with a set of flinty\, sharply observed n umbers that have deeply resonated with dozens. Bret’s songs are typicall y 1) dyspeptic 2) tender\, or 3) self-immolating\, at times simultaneously . His deep bench of talent includes Krista Umile (harmonies/keys)\, Tracy Stanton (bass)\, Jeff Tanner (skilled guitar)\, Mike Kennedy (tubs) and\, occasionally\, Patrick Berkery (also tubs). \n\n \nMANDY VALENTINE\nNeve r taking themselves too seriously\, Philadelphia-based 6+ piece Mandy Vale ntine brings a new approach to some classic country and rock & roll themes . With galloping rhythms\, close harmonies\, and lyrics like\, “I see a whippoorwill\, oh\, start to fly and feel so lonesome\, baby\, I could cry ”\, Mandy Valentine evokes mid-century country icons such as Hank Willia ms\, Elvis Presley\, and the Everly Brothers while treble-drenched guitars \, female-forward vocals\, and catchy hooks recall 60s pop like The Shangr i-Las and The Orlons. Put together\, Mandy Valentine is “a little bit co untry and a little bit rock n roll”. \n \nALL THE LIVING AND THE DEAD\ nAll the Living and the Dead is a five-piece\, Philly-based indie pop rock band that blends the energy of rock with multi-layered vocal harmonies. F ormed in 2022\, the members have played in and around the Philly scene in bands such as The Bigger Lovers\, Mason Porter\, Missing Palmer West\, and Space Ate Mafia. \n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Uniform + Pharmakon DTSTART:20241205T010000Z DTEND:20241205T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010806Z DESCRIPTION:\nAll events are 21+ valid ID required for entry\n7 PM – Doo rs8 PM – Show\nUNIFORM\nSince their inception over a decade ago\, Unifor m has pushed its work in all kinds of directions\, unafraid of dismantling what they built and starting again. Their explorations have always come f rom a natural bent to keep on trying and to realize their ideas more purel y each time\, often bringing the darkest of nightmares into life in the pr ocess. Intimidatingly prolific\, the band continues to move like a shark\, never stopping for fear of creative death.\nPHARMAKON\nTRUE BODY\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Christopher Owens DTSTART:20241206T020000Z DTEND:20241206T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010807Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nCHRISTOPHER OWENS\nChristopher Owens – the celebrate d singer-songwriter and former frontman of beloved indie rock band Girls – announces I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair\, his first new albu m in seven years and his return to True Panther Records\, out October 18\, 2024.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Black Celebration – 9 Year Anniversary Depeche Mode Party! DTSTART:20241207T020000Z DTEND:20241207T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010808Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n9PM Doors\ nA BLACK CELEBRATION – PHILLY’S FAVORITE DEPECHE MODE DANCE PARTY!\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrating 9 years of ABC.\nDJ Baby Berlin + Speci al Guest: Patrixia (Chicago)\n \nPatrixia (pronounced Patricia) is a DJ b orn and bred in Chicago\, specializing in darker genres ala darkwave\, got h\, and industrial\, but never afraid to showcase and mix in her Latine ro ots. Influenced by the sounds of the city she grew up in\, Patrixia starte d DJing in 2017\, playing many clubs and festivals around the city and bey ond. \nBlack Celebration is the fifth studio album by Depeche Mode. This album further cemented the darkening sound and style of DM. ABC the part y celebrates this darkening depeche mood as well. This event is an inclusi ve safe space goth party. Homophobia\, misogyny\, transphobia\, racism\, x enophobia\, physical violence or hate of any kind will not be tolerated.\n Expect to hear:TONS OF DEPECHE MODENEW WAVEDARK WAVEPOST-PUNKDEATH ROCKEAR LY INDUSTRIALWAX TRAXGOTH CLUB HITSFACTORY RECORDS\nDepeche Mode\, New Ord er\, Ministry\, Sisters Of Mercy\, Bauhaus\, Front 242\, Cabaret Voltaire\ , Siouxsie and the Banshees\, The Cure\, The Cult\, Xmal Deutschland\, Pet Shop Boys\, Tears for Fears\, Erasure. INXS\, Love and Rockets\, Soft Cel l\, Killing Joke\, Tones On Tail\, Visage\, NIN\, Skinny Puppy\, Nitzer Eb b\, Kate Bush\, Cold Cave\, Joy Division\, She Past Away\, Visage\, Lords Of The New Church\, Lebanon Hanover\, Front Line Assembly\, and more!\n#ab cphilly #ablackcelebration #ablackcelebrationphilly #darkwavephilly #goth #gothnight #gothphilly #newwave #darkwave #depechemode #postpunk #synthpop #tradgoth\nLet’s have a black celebration…9PM Doors / $7-$10 / 21+\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BASIC: Chris Forsyth\, Douglas McCombs\, Mikel Patrick Avery DTSTART:20241208T020000Z DTEND:20241208T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010809Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nBASIC: Chris Forsyth\, Douglas McCombs\, Mikel Patrick Avery \nBASIC\, a mind-meld between Chris Forsyth\, his frequent running partner (and formidable 6-string thinker) Nick Millevoi\, and Mikel Patric k Avery presents This Is BASIC\, a complex and entrancing instrumental LP recasting forgotten scraps of guitar history into a moving mosaic of strin gs\, skins and electronics.\nTHE EARLY\nFormed in north Jersey in 2004\, T he Early is Alex Lewis (guitars\, synthesizers) and Jake Nussbaum (drums\, electronics). Their music metabolizes the textural grandeur of post-rock\ , the communicational intimacy of jazz improvisation\, and the patient gro oves of minimalism. The Early’s latest release is Impatient (Ruination Record Co). Record Crates United describes Impatient as an album that c ontains “sprawling tundras of white noise\, rumbling guitar fuzz and hy pnotic beats.” \nTOTALLY AUTOMATIC\nTOTALLY AUTOMATIC was formed by Ann e Ishii\, Eugene Lew and Matthew Smith Lee in the summer of 2021. They pla y unarranged music with each other\, on drums\, saxophone and electronics\ , and can be found around Philadelphia.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Work Drugs – Holiday Spectacle DTSTART:20241222T020000Z DTEND:20241222T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010810Z DESCRIPTION:\n\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – Doors9 PM – Show\n \nWORK DRUGS\nWork Drugs specialize in cocktails-co mpatible indie pop inspired by the soft rock era of artists like Christoph er Cross and Donald Fagen\, but with a lo-fi spark uniquely their own.  E mbracing the label “smooth-fi\,” Work Drugs are purveyors of all thing s palatable to lovers of yacht rock\, quiet storm r&b\, and 80’s synth p op. \nWinner of the Beijing Film Festival’s coveted Crying Monkey Award and runner of recipients of the Nantucket Regatta’s Golden Seahorse Pri ze\, Work Drugs have stayed humble and hungry throughout the past decade\, touring with Two Door Cinema Club\, Peter\, Bjorn & John\, and Kings of C onvenience among many others and continuously recording and releasing stud io efforts.  The band was recently featured in \n \nTHE TISBURYS\nThe T isburys are an indie rock band from Philadelphia\, PA led by singer-songwr iter Tyler Asay. The band has released three full-length albums\, most rec ently 2022’s Exile On Main Street\, which combines influences of heartla nd rock and power pop hooks with jangly guitars and gritty lyrical storyte lling. Their music has received praise and radio play from NPR\, Little St even’s Underground Garage\, and 88.5 WXPN\, where they played the XPoNen tial Music Festival. They have shared the stage with national acts (Gin Bl ossoms\, Jenny Lewis\, Drive-By Truckers\, Old 97’s) and local Philadelp hia heroes such as The War On Drugs\, Baroness\, and Dave Hause. The band recently completed their first East Coast tour and finished recording thei r new album (due out next year).\n \nTHE COORDINATORS\nThe Coordinators a re Robert Pino and Tim W. Smith\, lifelong best friends living and recordi ng from home in South Philly. On their new EP “Yeah\, Well…”\,  the y try their hand at fuzzed out garage rock with jazzy harmony and buzzy sy nths. As BuffaBlog writes\, “fans of the Strokes and Arctic Monkeys woul d find a lot to enjoy here not just for the similarities but some of the r isks an up and coming band is willing to take”.\n\n \n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Friends Of Jerry DTSTART:20250101T010000Z DTEND:20250101T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010811Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nFRIENDS OF JERRY\nFriends of Jerry is a Grateful Dead c over band that sounds very little like the Grateful Dead. Drawing from pun k\, post rock\, shoegaze\, krautrock\, and jazz\, FOJ uses the Dead catalo g as a springboard for trance-inducing improvisation and dance-friendly gr oovecraft. By purposely eschewing the tired tropes of the Dead cover band world\, they have created a sound and a community as unique and varied as their influences\, while remaining true to the Dead’s rambling\, wanderl usty ethos. Founded in 2021 by guitarist Sean Reilly (Mumblr) and drummer Kevin Paschall (Roof Doctor) as an offshoot of their long running psychede lic two-piece Brown Rainbow\, they soon enlisted Tommy Fala (Half Thought) on keys\, Andrew Meagher (VVeed VVolf) on bass\, Danielle Zabielski on vo cals\, and Zach Coleman (Witch Bomb) on guitar. Their music inhabits a vas t universe\, flirting with spacious and effected landscapes\, tight and fo cused speed metal riffage\, and deep exploratory jazz excursions\, all fra med by a deep reverence for the Dead songbook.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Geordie Greep DTSTART:20250117T020000Z DTEND:20250117T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010812Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nGEORDIE GREEP\nIs The New Sound a tonic for these times ? Let’s ask Geordie Greep. “Music can be so much more than learning to play the same as everybody else. It can be anything you want. With reco rding The New Sound\, it was the first time I have had no one to answer to . Being in a band (black midi)\, we often have this ‘we can do everythin g’ feeling\, but you are also kind of limited in that approach\, and som etimes it’s good to do something else\, to let go of things.”Geordie ’s debut solo album boasts a brand of high quality\, all-embracing alter native pop fun not heard in a very long time\, walking the line between th e ridiculous and brilliant with a teflon-coated aplomb.\nNNAMDÏ\nNNAMDÏ has never been able to stay in one place. The Chicago multi-instrumentalis t and songwriter set a blistering pace in 2020 with his critically acclaim ed genre-fusing LP Brat\, a punk EP Black Plight\, and Krazy Karl\, a full -length tribute to Looney Tunes composer Carl Stalling. Add in his role as co-owner of label Sooper Records\, as well as recent tours with Wilco\, S leater-Kinney\, black midi\, and Jeff Rosenstock and it’s an overwhelmin g schedule. However\, his latest album\, Please Have A Seat (out 10/07/22 via Secretly Canadian / Sooper Records)\, is the result of a much-needed p ause.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Geordie Greep DTSTART:20250118T020000Z DTEND:20250118T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010813Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nGEORDIE GREEP\nIs The New Sound a tonic for these times ? Let’s ask Geordie Greep. “Music can be so much more than learning to play the same as everybody else. It can be anything you want. With reco rding The New Sound\, it was the first time I have had no one to answer to . Being in a band (black midi)\, we often have this ‘we can do everythin g’ feeling\, but you are also kind of limited in that approach\, and som etimes it’s good to do something else\, to let go of things.”Geordie ’s debut solo album boasts a brand of high quality\, all-embracing alter native pop fun not heard in a very long time\, walking the line between th e ridiculous and brilliant with a teflon-coated aplomb.\nNNAMDÏ\nNNAMDÏ has never been able to stay in one place. The Chicago multi-instrumentalis t and songwriter set a blistering pace in 2020 with his critically acclaim ed genre-fusing LP Brat\, a punk EP Black Plight\, and Krazy Karl\, a full -length tribute to Looney Tunes composer Carl Stalling. Add in his role as co-owner of label Sooper Records\, as well as recent tours with Wilco\, S leater-Kinney\, black midi\, and Jeff Rosenstock and it’s an overwhelmin g schedule. However\, his latest album\, Please Have A Seat (out 10/07/22 via Secretly Canadian / Sooper Records)\, is the result of a much-needed p ause.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Jessica Lea Mayfield DTSTART:20250129T010000Z DTEND:20250129T030000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010815Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nJESSICA LEA MAYFIELD\nJessica Lea Mayfield is singer so ngwriter hailing from rural Ohio\, she’s been active since age 15 as a s olo artist and grew up living in a bus and traveling around playing bluegr ass festivals with her parents family band starting at the age of 8. She w rites ominous Appalachian folk rock depicting love and relationships and h uman dynamics. Her 4th studio album is set to be released end of this year (produced by Daywave) and she is announcing east and west coast fall and winter tour dates.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ollie Wride DTSTART:20250222T020000Z DTEND:20250222T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010816Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nOLLIE WRIDE\nBritish Singer/Songwriter Ollie Wride (FM- 84) returns to the stage announcing his biggest tour yet in support of his highly anticipated sophomore album “The Pressure Point”\, marking his first major release with M3 Recordings.His US-solo debut in 2023 saw sold out performances at West Hollywood’s legendary Troubadour and Brooklyn ’s Elsewhere. Now\, Wride takes his unique brand of showmanship and mode rn nostalgia embarking upon a 23-date tour stretching across the UK and No rth America.Having burst onto the scene as part of FM-84 in 2016\, Wride h as continued to pen some of synthwave’s most popular tracks including: “Running in The Night”\, “Never Stop” and “Stranger Love”\, wh ile his live performances have been proven to be energetic and mesmerising .\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Bevis Frond DTSTART:20250302T020000Z DTEND:20250302T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010817Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nTHE BEVIS FROND\nIf there is any artist who could be co nsidered as having followed a tangential path from Hendrix to Big Star to Spacemen 3\, that would be The Bevis Frond… and that’s not hyperbole\, the evidence is to be found in countless albums over 30 years of thrillin g musical innovation that few have matched. Filtered through The Groundhog s\, The Who\, Neil Young\, Captain Beefheart and Kevin Ayers\, this is an iconoclastic collision of distinctly British psychedelia\, space-rock\, gr unge\, slow-burning soulful laments\, even grizzled folk and more than occ asional moments of sublime pop genius. Yet\, he remains the best kept secr et in Rock ‘n’ Roll – isn’t it about time you discovered one of En gland’s finest songwriters and insightful lyricists. The Bevis Frond is guitarist and songwriter extraordinaire Nick Saloman who’s prolific outp ut has seen him hailed as “a Hendrix devotee ever bit as tough and conte mporary as the serrated guitar chorales of Sonic Youth and Pixies” by Ro lling Stone’s David Fricke and become a cult figure in his own right.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Andrew Belle DTSTART:20250307T020000Z DTEND:20250307T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010818Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nANDREW BELLE\nBlack Bear LIVE (Acoustic) \nAndrew Bell e writes songs by feel. The composition first – lyrics and melody eventu ally follow. Only after Belle has an internal reaction to the composition do his words finally come forth – finding the right way to express what has always been there but is only now being fully realized. When it came t ime to record his fourth full-length album\, the Chicago-based singer-song writer\, chose to take his trusted collaborators to the vaunted Sonic Ranc h Studios\, located on the US-Mexico border in Tornillo\, Texas. The studi o compound\, which sits on a 1\,700-acre pecan orchard\, boasts the world ’s largest residential recording studio complex and has been the birthpl ace of albums by Bon Iver\, Beach House and a slew of other notable artist s.
A large portion of Nightshade takes on a subject that has more and mo re become part of our cultural zeitgeist – mental health. Specifically\, how we deal with life itself and why so many seem to be drawn toward unhe althy coping mechanisms. While a few tracks address these themes head on – ‘Spectrum’\, ‘Inside Voices’ and ‘Surprise Surprise’ – t he album as a whole serves as a soundtrack for anyone driving out of a sea son of perpetual midnight in their life and toward a sunrise that’s mayb e a little more hopeful – through a desert just north of the border.\nAM Y STROUP\nSelf-proclaimed “song farmer\,” Nashville-based singer/songw riter Amy Stroup creates the kinds of songs that transport listeners with their simple\, yet emotionally expansive lyrics. If you have streamed a sh ow or movie in recent history you have undoubtedly heard her songs in doze ns of on-screen moments. Stroup cites This Is Us\, Grey’s Anatomy\, and Disney’s Willow as stand outs among her list of sync placements. Accordi ng to Billboard Magazine\, she is one of the most licensed females today w ith her work in campaigns for British Airways\, Google and Nike to name a few. Her voice has provided the backing to nearly one thousand TV/film mom ents.\n\nVIP PACKAGE\n\n\n \n\n– General admission ticket\n\n\n– Priv ate meet & greet 1 hour before doors\n\n\n– Chat/Photos/Autographs\n\n\n – 10% merch discount\n\n\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Warmduscher DTSTART:20250309T020000Z DTEND:20250309T040000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010819Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n8 PM – D oors9 PM – Show\nWARMDUSCHER\nWhen most bands get round to releasing alb um number live their sound\, weighed down by expectation or having resorte d to formula\, has generally ossified. It might still sound good and fans will probably lap it up\, but the days of adventure and exploration are qu ite often long gone.Warmduscher are not most bands. Rather than closing up shop\, on album number five – the magical Too Cold To Hold – they are most determinedly opening up. Taking on board the repetitive and polyrhyt hmic grooves of gqom (an alluring South African take on house music)\, add ing in a dash of hip hop flavours and even jazz\, and then harnessing that to their punk-funk\, disco pogo\, it’s a spellbinding mix that results in their best and most ambitious album to date. You could say they – the wonderful 12-legged groove machine comprised of Clams Baker Jr.\, Benjami n Romans Hopcraft\, Adam J. Harmer\, Marley Mackey\, Quinn Whalley\, and B leu Ottis Wright – were\, in fact\, just getting started.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Orions Belte DTSTART:20250324T000000Z DTEND:20250324T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010820Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nORIONS BELTE\nThere are some places and moments that ti e people together forever\, whether it be a place\, a song or something yo u can’t quite define through words. The origins of Orions Belte stemmed from one of those mystical moments in time\, which spawned a lasting creat ive connection. Øyvind Blomstrøm (guitar) and Chris Holm (bass) first me t while playing in a touring band for another Norwegian artist. During tha t time\, they bonded over their love for instrumental music and began talk ing about trying their hand at it themselves. After their work as touring band ended\, they recruited drummer Kim Åge Furuhaug\, one of Holm’s lo ngtime friend and collaborators\, to join their new project.The three met in Bergen\, located along the west coast of Norway\, to start working on i deas and demos. Instead\, within just a few days\, they ended up recording their entire first album\, Mint. From there\, the universe propelled them forward\, resulting in a record deal\, their live debut as a band at Norw ay’s biggest pop festival Øyafestivalen and the release of their debut record all happening within the following year. Mint drew international in terest and praise from outlets including Atwood Magazine\, who called the record “an eclectic fusion of disparate styles and exciting sounds that says what it wants to say through memorable melodies\, ambient drones\, an d a stockpile of wicked guitar riffs.”\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nanocluster (Immersion | SUSS) DTSTART:20250402T000000Z DTEND:20250402T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010821Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nNANOCLUSTER (IMMERSION | SUSS)\nIn celebration of the r elease of Nanocluster Vol.3\, Immersion (Colin Newman & Malka Spigel) in c ollaboration with ambient country masters SUSS bring their Nanocluster ser ies to North America. One performance comprising a set each from Immersion & SUSS followed by a collaborative set.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gyedu-Blay Ambolley DTSTART:20250630T000000Z DTEND:20250630T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010822Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nGYEDU-BLAY AMBOLLEYGyedu-Blay Ambolley is a musical lum inary hailing from Ghana\, West Africa\, with a staggering 29 albums under his belt. Known affectionately as the “Simigwa Do Man\,” Ambolley’s musical journey began in the vibrant port city of Sekondi-Takoradi\, in t he Western Region of Ghana. His early fascination with music blossomed int o a lifelong passion. From mastering his father’s flute at the tender ag e of eight\, to honing his guitar skills under the mentorship of “Uncle Bonku”\, Sammy Lartey and Ebo Taylor\, Ambolley’s musical odyssey has been nothing short of extraordinary. This all led to Ambolley becoming a m usical life force and exploding on the scene in 1973 with a jazzy highlife sound called ‘SIMIGWA-DO’. His name has become synonymous with Simigw a music and dance.Coming of age amidst the zenith of Ghana’s highlife er a\, Ambolley emerged as a pivotal figure in its evolution\, lending his ta lents to esteemed bands such as Houghas Extraordinaires\, Meridians Of Tem a and Ghana Broadcasting Band. It was during this time that he caught the attention of his compatriot and friend\, Ebo Taylor\, who recruited Amboll ey to be a member of the Uhuru Dance Band. This all lead to a transformati ve journey to Nigeria in 1973\, where they shared the stage with the legen dary Fela Kuti at his renowned Shrine venue.1975 Debut Album Simigwa: Gyed u Blay Ambolley’s groundbreaking debut solo album\, released in 1975\, s tands as a cornerstone of Ghanaian music history – with one of the most iconic album covers! Simigwa stands as Ambolley’s magnum opus\, a master piece fusing together the rich tapestry of highlife\, afrobeat\, folk and funk. The album is a true testament to Ambolley’s unparalleled artistry written and produced in collaboration with the legend Ebo Taylor.Ambolley not only embraces his musical roots but also pioneers the fusion of Ghanai an highlife with soul and funk influences from across the Atlantic. With S imigwa\, Ambolley seized the opportunity to showcase his own musical prowe ss and embark on a journey of experimentation. A main inspiration for this album was the work of the mighty Mr. James Brown\, something that is evid ent from the rhythm section\, horns\, vocal stabs and percussion breaks th roughout the record.\nPerformance: For the first time in the US\, Gyedu Bl ay Ambolley will be performing his 1975 debut album in its entirety! Bring ing his 8 piece band from Ghana\, they will perform the pioneering masterp iece Simigwa.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Little Wings DTSTART:20250724T000000Z DTEND:20250724T020000Z DTSTAMP:20241005T010824Z DESCRIPTION:\n*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry*\n7 PM – D oors8 PM – Show\nLITTLE WINGS\nKyle Field is a visual artist and the son gwriter behind the 25-years-running group Little Wings. Over the course of more than a dozen albums\, he has written a classic cannon of songs that continues to gain listenership to this day. Working without the help of po werful record companies\, the songs have earned their place viscerally\, p erson by person\, creating a cherished and loyal following around the worl d. Little Wings continues to release records at an incredible clip and sho ws no signs of slowing\, the songs keep growing. His latest and greatest H igh on the Glade was recorded with legendary producer Kramer. It’s due o ut June 7th on Perpetual Doom. October’s Yankee Charms IV is Little Win gs’ fourth tour with the New England rhythm section of bassist Nat Baldw in and drummer Peter McLaughlin.\n LOCATION:Johnny Brenda’s END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR