Roster McCabe
Thursday, July 19th
Doors 8pm  Show 9pm
$8 Advance $10 Day of Show
All Ages

Roster McCabe likes to stay one step ahead. Musically, people know they love it, but they can't fully describe it. The bands coined phrase “Funky Reggae Dance Rock” gives a good hint of what you can expect from the 5 piece rock band, but speaks nothing to the depth and sincerity of the music. Professionally, the band is leading the way in the independent music world. Giving away all of their music for free, Roster McCabe has built a large, loyal following eager to share their music and bring friends to the live shows.


Brendan Benson
w/ Young Hines & Howling Brothers
Thursday, August 30th
Doors 7pm  Show 8pm
$15 Advance $17 Day of Show
All Ages

Brendan Benson is a genuine American voice. A co-founding member of The Raconteurs, Benson has released critically-acclaimed albums throughout the past decade. The songs come rough-hewn but charged with hooks and wit on 1996's One Mississippi. 2002's Lapalco brought perfect pop ripeness. On The Alternative to Love in 2005, there was something quite brilliant, quite burnished about his songwriting. This year's offering, My Old, Familiar Friend, gathers all of these influences -- the Americanness, the Anglophile twist, the geography, the rock and the pop -- and creates something truly exceptional.


Girlyman
Sunday, September 23rd
Doors 7pm  Show 8pm
$12 Advance $15 Day of Show
All Ages

“Really good, really unexpected, and really different” is how Village Voice describes Girlyman’s lyric driven folk-pop. But that can also describe the year that inspired their fifth studio album Supernova, available June 19th. “A supernova is a dying star,” explains Girlyman member Doris Muramatsu, who was diagnosed with leukemia in late 2010. The three founding members of Girlyman (Muramatsu, Nate Borofsky, and Tylan Greenstein) had spent ten years playing and singing harmony together, from early days in tiny coffeehouses, through long opening runs with the Indigo Girls and Dar Williams, all the way to festival main stages and the country’s premier acoustic venues. The band, now a quartet with the addition of former Po’ Girl drummer JJ Jones in 2009, suddenly feared for its future.



Steve Forbert
The Listening Room Series
Friday, October 19th
Doors 7pm  Show 8:30pm
$25 Reserved $17 General Admission
All Ages

Steve Forbert is a romantic. The same wry, funny, anecdotal Steve Forbert that we’ve enjoyed over the years is also the songwriter who penned the poignant line “meet me in the middle of the night, let me hear you say everything’s alright, let me smell the moon in your perfume” in his 1981 hit single “Romeo’s Tune.”  And even though these types of songs have lived somewhat in the shadow of his other material, Steve has now written a collection of tender, mature songs about love and relationships.

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