Sinnet holds court at Deep Cuts on Saturday, 11 January 2025.

The Gravel Project and Nick Prato open the triplestack bill at the Hinterlands Ball.

What is the Hinterlands Ball? Looks like a happening that happened at least ONCE before in 2022. Does that make it a thing now?

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Blame Shifters / Stress Balls / Westside Rats / Disqualifier

Jan 15

New year, new Wednesdays at the Sil!

Jan 18

A four-stack of indie rock served the right way at Midway Cafe.

Jan 29

Born Innocent makes the case for Redd Kross as the seminal West Coast band of the last half century.

Jan 30

Ani DiFranco on a wild road trip from her punk-folk past to her life today.

Feb 1

ONCE plants its flag at The 4th Wall in the Capitol Theater.

Feb 3

A triplestack of rock in Rat City, USA.

Feb 6

A tale of sex, LSD, and rock n roll with psych punk pioneers.

Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol / Lip Critic

Feb 7

The Austin, Texas band lays down the big dumb heavy riffs for all the party people.

Feb 8

A four-stack of indie rock served the right way at Midway Cafe.

Feb 21

Sensory overload at the Capitol! Bands, arcade, 360 degree visual projection & screening of Scott Pilgrim vs the World.

Feb 23

Matinees are punk rock. Doors at 3PM.

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The latest edition of Tami-Fest – Tami-Fest 4 – will take place at Lizard Lounge on Tuesday, January 21. Hit it up. And don’t try to order the drink of the month, which is a mocktail called “Cherry Pie,” because nobody at the bar has ever heard of it. Just as well. I’m breaking my Dry January as I type these very w o r d s.

Nick Prato led a quintet through its electrified folk rock paces at Deep Cuts, including a first-timer with the band on keys. The keyboardist was so confident she wouldn’t need the upper register of her instrument that she laid an open notebook along the keys. Likely a reminder about all the chord progressions for these brand new songs. That’s a scary prospect for some, piecing it together on the fly, but the production sounded smooth as silk.

A rootsy Americana sextet… with a Key West kind of flavor? The Gravel Project was one shot of rum away from installing a full-time steel drum player. As it stands, the group goes deep on percussion, with two drummers, lending the country overtones profoundly rhythmic undertones. Shout out to the solo on the Hammond organ – the guy was a hurricane of sound ready to roar whenever he got the nod from the fronter.

Veterans of the first Hinterlands Ball in 2022, which probably pegs them as lead organizers, Sinnet carries the torch into 2025. January is traditionally a “dead” spot on the music events calendar, so why not attack it head on? The Hinterlands Ball takes on the challenge. On Saturday night the five-piece built out bouncy indie rock numbers with cleanish guitars and literate, if not literary, lyrics. Dad-rock approved.