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Free Energy
w/ Touch People
Wednesday, June 19th - 9pm
TICKETS: $10 ADV / $12 DOS
There are certain bands that demand to be listened in a certain way: Pink Floyd might require a bong & lazer light show; Led Zeppelin benefits from giant, wood-paneled speakers, and FREE ENERGY—a band responsible for having crafted some of the finest guitar-filled power pop this side of Weezer or Cheap Trick—should be played on a cassette deck in a Camaro screaming down the highway; stereo cranked, feather roach clip dangling from the rearview.
“Being from the Midwest definitely informed our aesthetic,” says Free Energy vocalist Paul Sprangers.
Mt Eden
w/ Buckhunter, Elephantz, & AMPliFLY
Thursday, June 20th - 9pm
TICKETS: $15
As dubstep production duo Mt Eden (formerly Mt Eden Dubstep), Jesse Cooper and Harley Rayner are truly putting New Zealand dubstep on the map. You could write that off as industry hyperbole, but in this case a little braggadocio is entirely apt: to date the New Zealand based act can claim over 100 million collective plays of their tracks on YouTube – more than any other New Zealand act, ever.
The Cave Singers
w/ Mount Moriah & Jesse Sykes
Friday, June 21st - 9pm
TICKETS: $13.00
There’s no tomorrow / Set a place at the table
If every story is a story about love, what of suffering, surrender, and redemption? Life says they’re in there too. Along with traffic jams and dishes, jobs and sunsets and spilling all the red wine on the floor.
The Whipkey Three
w/ Moses Prey, Jessica Errett and Tara Vaughan, & Fizzle Like a Flood
Saturday, June 22nd - 9pm
TICKETS: $7 at the door
“Penny Park: Omaha, NE: Summer 1989” Album Release
Penny Park is a person. Peony was an amusement park.
Cursive
w/ Digital Leather
Sunday, June 23rd - 9pm
TICKETS: $13 ADV / $15 DOS
I Am Gemini is the surreal and powerful musical story about Cassius and Pollock, twin brothers separated at birth. One good, one evil: are they two halves of one whole? An unexpected reunion at a house that is not a home ignites a classic struggle for the soul, played out with a cast of supporting characters that includes a chorus of angels and devils, and twin sisters conjoined at the head.
Stereofidelics
w/ All Young Girls Are Machine Guns & Ghostship Battlecat
Monday, June 24th - 9pm
TICKETS: $5 at the door
Ever go to a show just to have your mind blown? This is one of those shows, phenomenal is an understatement. This is a night you will NOT want to miss!
Four instruments, two dynamic voices, and a record of relentless touring have earned virtuosic, funky indie rock duo the StereoFidelics their reputation as a superb, high-energy live act.
Cayucas
w/ JBM
Tuesday, June 25th - 9pm
TICKETS: $10.00
No one knows summer like Santa Monica’s Zach Yudin, a man of leisure who recognizes “the epic” in something as simple as a twilight bicycle ride or a short drive up the coast. As Cayucas, Yudin has set about creating an impressionistic portrait of summer’s long, bittersweet dazzle.
OK Party Comedy Battle Royale IX
Wednesday, June 26th - 9pm
TICKETS: $5.00 at the door
The battle is baaaaaaaaaack!
16 competitors take to the stage to compete with their jokes for the coveted championship. How do we determine the winner? We don’t, YOU do with your applause.
Well Aimed Arrows
w/ The Dad & Co-axed
Thursday, June 27th - 9pm
TICKETS: $7.00
Well Aimed Arrows craft dynamic, no-nonsense pop songs. .
The End In Red
w/ Forever Endeavor, Pinwheel, Friday's Waiting, & Break Maiden
Saturday, June 29th - 8pm
TICKETS: $8.00
Midwest Elite Concerts’ Three Year Anniversary Show
It only comes once a year, and this year it is one mega night of super rock! One of the most talented modern rock lineups ever assembled by us and all in celebration for 3 Years of Midwest Elite Concerts and it’s Dave Campbell’s 36th birthday bash!
Gorilla Music
Sunday, June 30th - 4pm
TICKETS: $8 ADV / $10 DOS
Gorilla Music is a cutting edge national production company based out of the Rock ‘N Roll capital city, Cleveland, Ohio. Gorilla Music was designed to foster independent talent through educating artists about music promotion while gaining exposure to fans and industry executives.
Canada Day
w/ The Whipkey Three, Vago, All Young Girls are Machine Guns, The Electroliners, Korey Anderson, Midwest Dilemma, Southpaw Bluegrass Band, 24 Hour Cardlock, & Castor
Monday, July 1st - 7pm
TICKETS: $8.00 at the door
All of the bands are doing short sets of Canadian songs. The event is a benefit for Heartland Family Services.
James McMurtry
w/ The Bottle Rockets
Tuesday, July 2nd - 8pm
TICKETS: $20
“The simple fact is that James McMurtry may be the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation…”
Stephen King | Entertainment Weekly
The son of acclaimed author Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment), James grew up on a steady diet of Johnny Cash and Roy Acuff records. His first album,Too Long in the Wasteland (released in 1989), was produced by John Mellencamp and marked the beginning of a series of acclaimed projects for Columbia and Sugar Hill.
The Uncluded (Aesop Rock with Kimya Dawson)
Hokey Fright Tour w/ Hamell On Trial
Wednesday, July 3rd - 9pm
TICKETS: $15 ADV / $18 DOS
In 2007, while on tour supporting his album ‘None Shall Pass,’ indie rapper/ producer Aesop Rock wrote a fan email to folk singer/songwriter Kimya Dawson. A few years later they reconnected during the creation of arts-and-oddities blog 900Bats, which in turn sparked the pair’s collaborative musical efforts.
The Tara Vaughan Band
w/ John Klemmensen and The Party & Tenderness Wilderness
Friday, July 5th - 9pm
TICKETS: $7.00 at the door
Tara is a bushy-eyed songstress from Omaha (by way of Boston) who loves to hold babies and help old men (no women plz) across streets. Once Chuck E.
Screaming For Silence
w/ Blameshift & The Zero Sum
Saturday, July 6th - 9pm
TICKETS: $7.00
Since October 2012, Screaming For Silence has been hitting the road hard touring the country non-stop. Hooking up with bands while on tour such as 12 Stones, Prospect Hill, 3 Years Hollow, Landsdowne, SuperBob, Parabelle, Daybreak Embrace, and Eye Empire.
Dessa
Monday, July 8th - 9pm
TICKETS: $12.00
From its first track, Dessa’s new full-length Parts of Speech (6.25.
Maha Music Festival Showcase
w/ Purveyors of the Conscious Sound, Funk Trek, & Midtown Maurauders
Tuesday, July 9th - 9pm
TICKETS: NO COVER CHARGE
In a collaboration of different styles mashing underground hip hop with thumping dance beats and soulful vocals, the Purveyors of the Conscious sound have formed one of the most unique and untouched fusions of raw and gritty lyrics over crowd hyping instrumentals. With the members hailing from the midwest to the east coast, this four member crew brings a live hip-hop show that is unrivaled.
402 Rock Academy presents: Skypiper
w/ Northern Lights, Midnight Pacific, The Downcast Perfumes, & Jessica Vogt
Wednesday, July 10th - 7pm
TICKETS: $5 at the door
Here at the 402 Arts Collective we have a desire to see our community actually live as a community. Over the past decade or so the word community has been thrown around so much it has arguably lost all meaning.
Dick Dale
Thursday, July 11th - 9pm
TICKETS: $20
Dick Dale wasn’t nicknamed “King of the Surf Guitar” for nothing: he pretty much invented the style single-handedly, and no matter who copied or expanded upon his blueprint, he remained the fieriest, most technically gifted musician the genre ever produced. Dale’s pioneering use of Middle Eastern and Eastern European melodies (learned organically through his familial heritage) was among the first in any genre of American popular music, and predated the teaching of such “exotic” scales in guitar-shredder academies by two decades.
Josh Rouse
Friday, July 12th - 9pm
TICKETS: $18 ADV / $20 DOS, available May 17th
“Songwriting for me is something I have to do to stay on the sunny side of life. It’s my therapy.
Snake Island!
w/ Universe Contest, Plack Blague, & Eric In Outerspace
Saturday, July 13th - 9pm
TICKETS: $8.00 at the door
Snake Island! is Loud Psychedelic Rock n Roll without the faux flower-child gimmickry; Blues for pissed off teenagers; Fuzzed out sonic destruction.
The band formed in the spring of 2010 as a collaboration between guitarists and friends Allan Schleich (Omaha) and Garrett Schmelzel (Portland) who had been jamming and exchanging song ideas through email and video chat.
Freedy Johnston
w/ Reina Del Cid
Tuesday, July 16th - 9pm
TICKETS: $10 ADV / $12 DOS
As a boy growing up in the farming community of Kinsley, Kansas, Freedy Johnston was drawn to a sign in the town’s tiny business district. It showed two arrows pointing in opposite directions.
(the) Melvins
w/ Honky
Wednesday, July 17th - 9pm
TICKETS: $17
Dang! It’s been damn near 30 years since these Melvins started and they still have yet to find the common decency to die or break up. The core-band of King Buzzo and Dale remains intact and they’ve had the same bass player since 1998! Hailing from the Minneapolis Cows is pioneering slide bass pervert Kevin “Rutmanis”.
Plain White T’s
Thursday, July 18th - 8pm
TICKETS: $17
Over the course of the band’s last three major label release, the Plain White T’s have sold over 9.1 million songs starting with Every Second Counts which spawned three hits: the platinum plus “Our Time Now,” the gold selling “Hate (I Really Don’t Like You)” and “Hey There Delilah,” the mega-hit single which rocketed to No.
OK Party Comedy Presents: Rory Scovel
w/ Ian Douglas Terry, Mike Perry, Ryan de la Garza, & Cody Wayne Hurd
Saturday, July 20th - 9pm
TICKETS: $8.00 at the door
Rory Scovel is hands down one of our favorite comedians, and it is a huge honor to be able to bring him to Omaha this year for Omaha Comedy Week. Rory has performed at Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, Vancouver Comedy Festival, Seattle Comedy Competition, Del Close Improv Marathon, Bumbershoot Festival, Sasquatch Music Festival and Chicago Improv Festival.
William Tyler
Sunday, July 21st - 9pm
TICKETS: $8.00
William Tyler is a native of Nashville, Tennessee, a town where guitarists are as common as television sets or pigeons. At an early age, he began playing and recording with artists that resided at the fringes of the country and folk vernacular, such as the Silver Jews, Lambchop, and Cortney Tidwell.
Wayne Hancock
Monday, July 22nd - 9pm
TICKETS: $12
Wayne Hancock is that rare breed of traditionalist, one who imbues his retro obsessions with such high energy and passion that his songs never feel like museum pieces he’s trying desperately to preserve. Hancock is most often compared to Hank Williams, and he can indeed be a hardcore honky tonker, but there’s more to him than that: he also displays a genuine affinity for stomping rockabilly, Western swing, blues, and old-timey country à la Jimmie Rodgers.
Omaha’s 5th Annual Pizza Review
Tuesday, July 23rd - 6pm
TICKETS: $12.00
Omaha’s 5th Annual Pizza Review will take place at The Waiting Room July 23rd at 6:00 p.m.
Trash Talk
w/ Ratking & Bent Life
Tuesday, July 23rd - 10pm
TICKETS: $8.00 at the door
Trash Talk is an American hardcore punk band from Sacramento, California, formed in 2005. They have toured all around the world including Japan, Australia, Europe, as well as performed in many festivals in support of their releases.
Bob Log III
Wednesday, July 24th - 9pm
TICKETS: $10.00
Bob Log III is an American, Slide Guitar, One Man Band. During performances, he plays old silvertone archtop guitars, wears a full body cannonball man suit, and a helmet wired to a telephone which allows him to devote his hands and feet to guitar and drums.
The Lonely Biscuits
w/ More Machine Now Than Man
Thursday, July 25th - 8:30pm
TICKETS: $12 ADV / $15 DOS
The Lonely Biscuits, formerly known as Gravy and the Biscuits have been together since September of 2011. Founding members Grady Wenrich and Sam Gidley were random roommates at Belmont University, in Nashville, where they started jamming and making music out of their dorm room.
The Millions
w/ UUVVWWZ
Friday, July 26th - 9pm
TICKETS: $10.00
In 1989, The Millions formed out of the ashes of two popular groups from Lincoln, Nebraska. Greg Hill and Harry Dingman III came from the recently disbanded For Against, while Lori Allison and Marty Amsler joined from The New Brass Guns.
The Decatures / Travelling Mercies
w/ Rock Paper Dynamite & Matt Cox
Saturday, July 27th - 9pm
TICKETS: $7 at the door
The Decatures are a blues rock band from Omaha, Nebraska with influences including Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Black Keys, Jack White and The Beatles. Their sound and stage presence will leave you shocked and needing more.
MC Chris
w/ Dr. Awkward, Jesse Dangerously, & Tribe One
Sunday, July 28th - 8pm
TICKETS: $13 ADV / $15 DOS
Pioneer of the nerdcore genre (of which he is proud to be a part,) mc got his start on adult swim as an animator, writer, voice actor and song writer on ATHF, The Brak Show, Sealab 2021, Welcome to Eltingville, Cheyenne Cinnamon and Tight Bros. Since leaving the Cartoon Network in 2004 mc has toured the US countless times as well stops in Canada, Scotland and England.
Gregory Alan Isakov
w/ Jeffrey Foucault
Wednesday, July 31st - 9pm
TICKETS: $12
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and calling Colorado home, Gregory Alan Isakov has been traveling all his life. Songs that hone a masterful quality beyond his years tell a story of miles and landscapes, and the search for a sense of place.
The Appleseed Cast
w/ Heartscape Landbreak
Wednesday,August 7th - 8pm
TICKETS: $10 ADV / $12 DOS
It is an amazing feat that over the course of 14 years and various line-up changes that The Appleseed Cast have never faltered, continually improving and maintaining a cohesion throughout their discography despite the contributions of many musicians through the years. Every The Appleseed Cast album is always measured by fans beside their earlier works, particularly the Low Level Owl albums, while other fans prefer works like Two Conversations or Mare Vitalis.
The Plurals
w/ Congruency
Thursday, August 8th - 9pm
TICKETS: $7.00 at the door
The Plurals are from Lansing, Michigan and they’ve been touring and putting out records since 2007. The Plurals all enjoy listening to and playing music.
Narcotic Self
w/ DirtFedd, The Matador, Byleth, & Blessed are the Merciless
Friday, August 9th - 8pm
TICKETS: $8.00
With Momentum gaining Narcotic Self continues to push the boundaries and branch out into places completely unexpected for a band with such a intense live performance and heavy metal sound.
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre presents: Always Patsy Cline
Saturday, August 10th - 1pm
TICKETS: $35
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre is a non-profit company organized to share the art of theatre by producing plays and musical theatre of superb quality and richness for audiences of diverse ages and cultures. It also provides a source of theatre education and working opportunities to the theatre artists to learn and practice the craft of acting.
The Spirit Of Rush
w/ Through The Stone, Black On High, & Knife Fight Justice
Saturday, August 10th - 9pm
TICKETS: $8.00
Formed in Denver in 2009 and premiering in 2010, The Spirit of Rush has already gained recognition and acclaim throughout Denver and beyond.
Known for their attention to detail, both in the studio and on the stage, SOR’s debut performance prompted one reviewer to write, “I guarantee that this band will go farther, faster than any tribute act we’ve seen in years.
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre presents: Always Patsy Cline
Sunday August 11th - 1pm
TICKETS: $35
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre is a non-profit company organized to share the art of theatre by producing plays and musical theatre of superb quality and richness for audiences of diverse ages and cultures. It also provides a source of theatre education and working opportunities to the theatre artists to learn and practice the craft of acting.
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre presents: Always Patsy Cline
Sunday, August 11th - 5pm
TICKETS: $35
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre is a non-profit company organized to share the art of theatre by producing plays and musical theatre of superb quality and richness for audiences of diverse ages and cultures. It also provides a source of theatre education and working opportunities to the theatre artists to learn and practice the craft of acting.
Iration's Automatic Tour
w/ special guests Through the Roots, Fortunate Youth, & Micah Brown
Tuesday, August 13th - 8pm
TICKETS: $15.00
VIP includes: one general admission ticket, VIP early entry into the venue, an exclusive Iration tour shirt, an autographed CD copy of Iration’s new album Automatic, a collectible, autographed album poster (limited edition),a specially designed Iration tote bag, water bottle, beach towel, sunglasses & drink koozie, and an official VIP laminate!!
Iration is an alternative/reggae group of musicians formed in Isla Vista, CA. The group is made up of members Joseph Dickens (drums), Joseph King (Engineer), Cayson Peterson (Keyboard/Synth), Micah Pueschel (Guitar/Vox), and Adam Taylor (Bass).
Twiztid
w/ Jelly Roll, Lil Wyte, & AquaLeo
Thursday, August 15th - 7pm
TICKETS: $23 ADV / $25 DOS
JAMIE MADROX AND MONOXIDE, THE MINDSICK MASTERMINDS BEHIND TWIZTID, HAVE BEEN IN THE ENTRAINMENT BUSINESS SINCE 1993. THEY STARTED IN A GROUP CALLED HOUSE OF KRAZEES AND MADE THEIR IMPRINT IN THE DETROIT MUSIC SCENE.
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre presents: Always Patsy Cline
Saturday, August 17th - 1pm
TICKETS: $35
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre is a non-profit company organized to share the art of theatre by producing plays and musical theatre of superb quality and richness for audiences of diverse ages and cultures. It also provides a source of theatre education and working opportunities to the theatre artists to learn and practice the craft of acting.
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre presents: Always Patsy Cline
Saturday, August 17th - 5pm
TICKETS: $35
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre is a non-profit company organized to share the art of theatre by producing plays and musical theatre of superb quality and richness for audiences of diverse ages and cultures. It also provides a source of theatre education and working opportunities to the theatre artists to learn and practice the craft of acting.
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre presents: Always Patsy Cline
Sunday, August 18th - 1pm
TICKETS: $35
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre is a non-profit company organized to share the art of theatre by producing plays and musical theatre of superb quality and richness for audiences of diverse ages and cultures. It also provides a source of theatre education and working opportunities to the theatre artists to learn and practice the craft of acting.
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre presents: Always Patsy Cline
Sunday, August 18th - 5pm
TICKETS: $35
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre is a non-profit company organized to share the art of theatre by producing plays and musical theatre of superb quality and richness for audiences of diverse ages and cultures. It also provides a source of theatre education and working opportunities to the theatre artists to learn and practice the craft of acting.
Rawkzilla presents: American Battle Live
Monday, August 19th - 7pm
TICKETS: $10 at the door
American Battle is a nation wide battle of the bands competition featuring up and coming local artists of all genres trying to make it big! Come out and support your city’s local artists as they compete for BIG cash and a chance at a record deal. They will be competing in the largest nationwide Battle of the Bands competition “American Battle.
Gaelic Storm
Wednesday, August 21st - 9pm
TICKETS: $22 ADV / $25 DOS
Gaelic Storm steps back into the ring with the dazzling #1 Billboard World Album Chicken Boxer, a heavyweight record that comes out swinging with a mix of empowering anthems and traditional ballads. With catalog sales of more than 1 million, the group has now had three albums debut at #1 on the Billboard World Albums Chart, 2008′s What’s the Rumpus?, 2010′s Cabbage, which remained parked in the top slot for three consecutive weeks, and 2012′s Chicken Boxer.
Witness Tree
w/ Moses Prey, The Whipkey Three, & The Decatures
Friday, August 23rd - 9pm
TICKETS: $7.00 at the door
Since 1992, Witness Tree has seen changes. Personally and musically.
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre presents: Always Patsy Cline
Saturday, August 24th - 1pm
TICKETS: $35
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre is a non-profit company organized to share the art of theatre by producing plays and musical theatre of superb quality and richness for audiences of diverse ages and cultures. It also provides a source of theatre education and working opportunities to the theatre artists to learn and practice the craft of acting.
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre presents: Always Patsy Cline
Saturday, August 24th - 5pm
TICKETS: $35
Performing Artists Repertory Theatre is a non-profit company organized to share the art of theatre by producing plays and musical theatre of superb quality and richness for audiences of diverse ages and cultures. It also provides a source of theatre education and working opportunities to the theatre artists to learn and practice the craft of acting.
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Sunday Roadhouse presents:
Sunday, August 25th - 5pm
TICKETS: $20 ADV / $25 DOS
As a music lover of impeccable taste, odds are that you’re already looking forward to spending the better part of the next hour – and several more after that – getting rather obsessively familiar with this latest serving of song and groove from Ray Wylie Hubbard. Having no doubt played his last album, 2010’s A.
We Be Lions CD Release Show
w/ Purveyor's Of The Conscious Sound, Sidewise, & Artillery Funk
Friday, August 30th - 9pm
TICKETS: $8
We Be Lions is an original band with a collaboration of artists who have different musical tastes and backgrounds.
We Be Lions was formed to create what many believe to be a completely new and original sound that is built to both move your feet and bang your head all at the same time.
Yesterday and Today
Saturday, August 31st - 9pm
TICKETS: $10.00
There’s no denying that everyone has a Beatles song attached to an event in their life. Through laughter and personal stories, Yesterday & Today connects the audience and performers in a way like none other.
One More Round: A Tribute To Johnny Cash
Friday, September 6th - 9pm
TICKETS: $12.00
Midwest Elite Concerts presents: A theatrical tribute to the Man In Black with a Look, Sound, and Feel of a real Johnny Cash Show.
Best Coast
w/ Bleached
Thursday, September 19th - 9pm
TICKETS: $20.00
The Only Place is Best Coast’s follow-up to their 2010’s acclaimed album Crazy For You, and it finds the proudly Southern Californian duo of Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno maturing in both their sound and perspective. While Crazy For You was a nostalgic tribute to teenage feelings, The Only Place finds front woman Cosentino starting a transition into adulthood.
An Evening with Yo La Tengo
Saturday, September 21st - 9pm
TICKETS: $18.00
Fade is the most direct, personal and cohesive album of Yo La Tengo’s career. Recorded with John McEntire at Soma Studios in Chicago, it recalls the sonic innovation and lush cohesion of career high points like 1997‘s I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One and 2000’s …And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out.
Desaparecidos
w/ The So So Glos
Tuesday, October 22nd - 9pm
TICKETS: $25.00
Desaparecidos is a rock band featuring Conor Oberst (vocals,guitar) Landon Hedges (bass guitar, vocals), Matt Baum (drums), Denver Dalley – (guitar) and Ian McElroy (keyboards). The band formed in 2001, released one album (2002’s Read Music/Speak Spanish), and broke up shortly thereafter.
Toro Y Moi
w/ Classixx (live)
Monday, November 4th - 9pm
TICKETS: $15 ADV / $17 DOS
Since his first offerings began making the Internet rounds in 2009, Toro Y Moi’s Chaz Bundick has proven himself to be not just a prolific musician, but a diverse one as well, letting each successive release broaden the scope of the his oeuvre. The funky psych-pop of 2011’s Underneath the Pine evinced an artist who could create similar atmospheres even without the aid of source material and drum machines.
