If you have been listening all day to the Mueller hearings, you need to cleanse your ears somehow. Good thing there is amazing live music in our immediate area and throughout the city every single night of the week! Here are a few highlights:
LA quintet Lily is playing tonight at the Pie Shop. Tickets
Friend of the blog Jim Havard and the Co-Conspirators are playing at Trusty’s Thursday night. More info/tickets.
If you like your guitars with distortion and angst, you can catch Anxious at Songbyrd on Friday, July 26. Tickets/suggested donation. Listen.
How about some cool, chunky guitars laced with evocative vocals, all of it steeped in Middle Eastern structure? Psychedelic rock Turkish band Altin Gün is coming to Rock and Roll Hotel this Saturday, July 27 and if you buy your tickets in advance, you get $3 off! Listen.
Upcoming
The ethereal power anthems and harmonies of Of Mice and Men are coming to The Anthem on September 4. Hey, that’s my birthday! Listen. Tickets.
Ritt Momney is coming to Songbyrd on September 18. Sad, heartfelt, quick tracks full of emotion that have a homemade feel? Check. Tickets/suggested donation. Listen.
Rachel Bloom is coming to The Anthem on October 18 for a night of comedy and song. Tickets.
Want to go see Chaka Khan? She’s coming to the Warner Theater on November 16 and you can buy tickets starting at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 26 here.
New stuff
Joy Again released “Couldn’t” today and it’s the kind of happy, jangly track to help you unlisten hours and hours of testimony. Listen.