The Goddamn Gallows are currently ravaging the states with their unique sound of furious, twanged-out, punk rock gutterbilly. Watch for them on corners, clubs and city jails in your town. On this dark evening you can catch them at Annabells! Misery Jackals and The Most Beautiful Losers open this beer swilling show. MORE INFO HERE...
Even though the hard-rock hair band hasn’t released a record in over six years, it doesn’t mean they aren’t ready to rock. One of two bands that later merged to form Gun ‘N’ Roses, L.A. Guns has been drawing crowds for the last three decades. MORE INFO HERE...
Local heavy metal grunge rockers Groove Pipe will be releasing their newest, long awaited cd. Come out for an awesome evening full of some of the best local music you could hope to hear! Be part of the festivities and help Groove Pipe celebrate all evening! MORE INFO HERE...
Local legends Party of Helicopters are headlining a rare Thursday's show Friday the 13th. The band are known from the early 2000s when they were destroying eardrums at Akron's Lime Spider and other venues. This is one of the few reunion shows they've played since officially disbanding back in 2004. Duunes and As If open. MORE INFO HERE...
To say this show will be bananas is an understatement. Mr. California will kick it off, accompanied by a Pickle Fight-performed puppet show. Cleveland garage rockers The Prisoners will follow, with Detroits’ Party Stompers and Indiana natives Apache Dropout afterwards. The ‘60s rock legends The Alarm Clocks wrap things up. MORE INFO HERE...
Though often connected with garage rock, U.K. band Holly Golightly is more a mixture of pre-rock electric country blues, folk and less frantic rock ‘n’ roll. It brings to mind a bourbon-soaked honky-tonk bar, cracked hearts and foot-stomping good times. MORE INFO HERE...
Blue October is on acoustic tour to promote their album, “Ugly Side: An Acoustic Evening with Blue October,” set for release the day of their Cleveland show at House of Blues. Expect a packed house. MORE INFO HERE...
New Zealand award-winning folk star Brook Fraser has been making major waves with her successful third album, “Flags.” The record hit number one in her native land and scored a top-60 spotin the Billboard 200 stateside. MORE INFO HERE...
Bringing folk rock with some serious soul-stretching pipes behind it, this Milwaukee-based group features a strings section and smart lyrics that makes you want to testify, brother. MORE INFO HERE...
The caustically hilarious host of VH1’s “That Metal Show,” Jamieson is combining standup comedy with a set of acoustic death metal from his band, Gunfire-N-Sodomy. He’s joined by Southern-tinged Akron rockers Junkman. MORE INFO HERE...
Buzzbin presents another in our ongoing First Friday and Last Friday concert series. This time the featured acts are Canton high school sensations The Big Sweet and Akron/Kent melo-rockers The Singular. Expect big things from both bands in the future. MORE INFO HERE...
The band considers their show a “dance extravaganza for all ages” so you know this will be fun. Koo Koo incorporate sing-along verses and audience-participation choreography; you’ll have to battle your urge to shake your booty! MORE INFO HERE...
Louisiana’s own dark star and Orpheus of the underground, Dax Riggs – the fool in your tarot deck – trippin’ over his own tombstone, reaching into the atmosphere and pulling spirits from the air. An alchemy of all roots music, doom metal and glam-punk poetry. It sounds like voodoo, feels like redemption and puts off heat like a burning oil rig. In the service of tears and the ghost of all sorrows…say goodnight to the world. Ex-deadboy and the Elephantmen and ex-Acid Bath’s Dax Riggs released his sophomore solo album Say Goodnight To The World August 2010, on Fat Possum Records ...
Most high school friends lose contact and drift apart when they graduate from high school. But what would happen if two crazy friends who loved metal went on to create a metal band? Not just any metal band, but a metal band with a crazy sense of humor? The result is Psychostick: a comedy metal (self-proclaimed "humorcore") band with a reputation for having hilarious lyrics, heavy riffs, notorious stage antics, and a high energy performance. The music successfully crosses a level of heaviness and aggression foundin bands such as Chimaira, Machine Head, and Hatebreed with the wit and humor of...
Five homemade robots accompany vocalist JBOT, the only human member of the band, in this bizarre show out of San Francisco that’s part performance art, part comedy and part classic rock. MORE INFO HERE...
The annual March Of Dimes Donation show is back with a vengeance this year when local heavy hitters take the stage on April 30th! Leading the way are alternative metal savages Goldplated Hollowpoint! Show starts early so come on out and support a great cause! Also on the bill are Gunt Punchers, State Your Cause, Relinquish The Throne and The Most Beautiful Losers! MORE INFO HERE...
Head out to Annabells for the Akron Deathfest 2011, featuring two days of shredding guitars and hate-filled screams. Carpathian Funeral and many, many more bands will be delivering the doom for the masses. MORE INFO HERE...
Screaming with vengeance, Akron’s own takes the stage at his rock ‘n’ roll eatery on Waterloo. He’s just come back from touring eastern Europe and is ready to rock on home turf. Eat some wings and meet the metal superstar. MORE INFO HERE...
Though it may seem like gentle pop at first, the brilliance of Pinback is slowly revealed upon repeated listens. Buoyant and lively at times, melancholy and dark at others, the songs always resonate with an underlying intensity. MORE INFO HERE...
London band The Joy Formidables’ singer Ritzy Bryan has a voice similar to Kim Deal; the band ravages listeners with their primal epic grunge rock. Don’t miss it! MORE INFO HERE...
