Name: DOLL FEST VOL II PRE PARTY! w/ SKIP THE NEEDLE
Start: 2026-03-27T19:00:00
End: 2026-03-28T01:45:00
Location: Ivy Room

Bang The Bay PresentsWEDNESDAY NOV 19TH—<h2>BANG THE BAY!</h2><h2>Feat.</h2><h2>OUTPATIENT X</h2><h2>CAN'T</h2><h2>CALICO</h2><h2>ELEGANT TRASH</h2><h2>KINDA GOOD</h2><h2>IRREVRIA</h2>—Every First and Third Wednesday at the Ivy RoomEarly show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LEE'S FUCKING BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!!!!!!Doors 6:00pm / Show 6:30pmPRESALE TIX AVAILABLE / $10-$20 DOOR(*VIP includes a grab bag full of cool stuff! incl A CD, pins, stickers, patches, T-shirts and other new monthly gifts)—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+

BANG THE BAY! OUTPATIENT X • CAN'T • CALICO • ELEGANT TRASH • KINDA GOOD • IRREVRIA 

ivy room presentsTHURSDAY NOV 20TH—<h2>Mutants</h2><h2>Dollar Store</h2><h2>The Angry Outlaws</h2>—Doors 7:00pm / Show 7:30pmAdvance Tickets Available / $15 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+ <h2>MUTANTS</h2>—Fronted by Fritz Fox, alongside fellow singers Sue White and Sally Webster, the Mutants' were formed in 1977 by seven local art school students. They found inspiration in the wildly diverse strains of punk rock emanating at the time, as well as Andy Warhol's Factory, John Waters' Dreamlanders, low budget filmmakers George and Mike Kuchar, and perhaps most intensely, San Francisco's glitter-and-makeup adorned performance art troupe, the Cockettes. The fledgling Mutants quickly built a fervent local following based on their energetic, art-damaged live shows. In 1980, the band's first two releases appeared on legendary Bay Area indie label 415 Records: the three-song The Mutants EP, and the 415 Music compilation which included "Baby's No Good." Two years later, the band's sole LP, Fun Terminal, was released by Mutiny Shadow International. The Mutants made frequent trips to Los Angeles throughout their existence to play such storied venues as the Whisky a Go Go, the Masque, the Starwood, and the Hong Kong Café. They also embarked on four east coast tours that included stops at Danceteria and Hurrah in New York City, the Rat and No Name in Boston, and the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. By the mid-80s, the band had splintered, although they have continued to reunite sporadically over the decades for live shows. Fun Terminal was reissued on CD in 2002 with 10 bonus tracks. They’re latest, Curse Of The Easily Amused, was released on July 15, 2022. They are joined by an ever-evolving lineup of new Mutants with histories in such groups as Tuxedomoon, Negativland, Frightwig, No Alternative, the Offs, the Next, and others. Like the title of the first song on their 2022 retrospective album, "PARTY!"<h2> Dollar Store</h2>—DOLLAR STORE is:Jeff Ott (Fifteen, Crimpshrine, Phone Bill, SAG, and Phallucide) - guitar voxDave Slaverave - bass voxLeda Gannon (Wire Graffiti) - vox sax guitarPhill Thee (Apogee Sound Club, The Big Forgive, Future Twin) - drums.

Mutants + Dollar Store + The Angry Outlaws

ivy room presentsFRIDAY NOV 21ST<h2>— ANNA HILLBURG</h2><h2>BRAD BROOKS</h2><h2>THE BYE BYE BLACKBIRDS</h2>----Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pmAdvance Tickets Available----IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<h2>ANNA HILLBURG</h2>—Anna Hillburg has spent several years making music in the Bay Area. As a singer, songwriter, trumpet, guitar, drum, and bass player she has contributed to acts such as Shannon and The Clams, The Dodos, The Moore Brothers, Will Sprott, Dream Date, Greg Ashley, Shannon Shaw and her All Star Buddy Band, and more. She spent her teenage years playing with the All American Band at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Hillburg graduated from the highly selective Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where she was awarded the Lew and Edie Wasserman Award as the school’s top instrumentalist. After graduating she came to the Bay Area to study music at UC Berkeley, where she was a member of the University’s symphony. She spent her 20’s and early 30’s touring with several different bands in the US and Europe before becoming a music teacher to students of all ages. After her 2013 self titled album, Hillburg went on to release “Really Real” in 2018, gaining even more accreditation and praise a songwriter on her own. She has once again joined Bay Area members of Extra Classic, The Dodos, Yea-Ming and the Rumours, and Chime School to release her third solo album, ironically entitled “Tired Girls.”In 2025, she released the lauded synth pop EP, Dangerously Impressionable, a collaboration with her partner Bill Rousseau. Drawing inspiration from Madonna to Moroder and everything in between.<h2>BRAD BROOKS</h2>—Brooks, beloved in the Bay Area as one of its finest vocalists and songwriters with 4 solo records under his belt since 2000, released “Harmony of Passing Light” in 2012, which drew comparisons to Elvis Costello, Wilco, Brian Wilson, Queen, and planned to head right back into the studio to record an immediate, even more ambitious follow-up.   Instead, he found himself fighting for his life.   Just as the songs for “God Save The City” started to take shape, a routine trip to the dentist revealed a lump in Brooks’ throat, which turned out to be cancer that could have robbed Brooks of his voice forever. Instead, Brooks made a full recovery and simultaneously mined the scariest moment in his life for the most honest and fiery record of his career.   “God Save The City” explodes with Brooks screaming “Come on!!!” and the record never loses that urgency. From the Hall and Oates slow burn of “Feel The Might” to the classic Hi Records groove of “Why Do You Hurt” and “The Chance,” this is Brooks’ soul album, one he has earned the right to make. Recorded with his longtime, devoted, and white-hot live band, the record is full of first and second takes with minimal overdubs, raw and vulnerable. Not surprisingly, Brooks’ journey and the country’s wild descent into partisan rancor over the last few years show up all over “God Save The City.” Brooks tackles wealth displacement in the title track (“they sang it like an angel with the devil’s rhyme”), his own mortality in “Sacred I Was ” (“Fear can change you, keep you from what’s true”), recalls a hilarious true encounter with the actor Lee Marvin on “Lee Marvin’s Uzi,”On “Strange Fruit Numb,” what started as a band jam evolves into a civil rights anthem for the 21st century in the grand tradition of other Bay Area politically musical visionaries like Sly Stone and Boots Riley. With “God Save The City”, Bay Area artist Brad Brooks made a triumphant return with the most direct, soulful record of his life. Since its release, God Save The City reached the ears of some legendary figures, including the MC5’s founder Wayne Kramer and producer Bob Ezrin. Kramer invited Brooks to join the “reanimated” MC5 as lead vocalist and toured with him in 2022 as well being co-writer of the new Ezrin produced MC5 album “Heavy Lifting” which will be released by Ear Music on Oct 18th 2024 and includes Tom Morello, Slash, Vernon Reid, Dennis Thompson, Don Was, Abe Laboriel Jr., Tim McIlrath, Stevie Salas, Vicki Randle, Winston Watson, Jill Sobule, and Joe Boyd. <h2>THE BYE BYE BLACKBIRDS</h2>—Torchbearers for harmony laden guitar rock in the 21st century, The Bye Bye Blackbirds' sound is a sparkling blend of country and roots influences, classic 60’s guitar pop, 70’s power pop, contemporary indie rock and the college radio heroes of the 1980’s.

Anna Hillburg • Brad Brooks • The Bye Bye Blackbirds

DONNA’S BIRTHDAY BASH!!!—SAT NOV 22ND—PUNK BAND KARAOKE - Sing punk rock with a live band!🧨 Free show 🧨—7:30 pm doors / 8:00 pm show—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—SPONSORED BY CAZCABEL TEQUILA<h2></h2>

Punk Band Karaoke - SING PUNK ROCK SONGS WITH A LIVE BAND!

ciderup shows XXV presentsSUNDAY NOV 23RD<h2>REVIK MEMORIAL SHOW</h2>—<h2>OPPRESSED LOGIC</h2><h2>UNITED DEFIANCE</h2><h2>ZERO BULL SHIT</h2><h2>JACK KILLED JILL</h2><h2>LAST THREAD</h2><h2>BITE</h2><h2>SCREAMING BLOODY MARYS</h2>— Doors 5pm / Show 5:30pm ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE / $15 Day of Show—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+

Revik Memorial Show - Opressed Logic + United Defiance + Jack Killed Jill

Sinister Sounds presents “Doomsday” at the IvyMON NOV 24TH—<h2>Storm The Gates</h2><h2>Missense</h2><h2>Against The Storm</h2><h2>iinarcs</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 7:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE / $15 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—<h2>Storm The Gates</h2>—Trash metal - San Jose, Ca.<h2>Missense</h2>—Groove/Thrash Metal | Berkeley, Ca<h2>Against The Storm</h2>—Original Hard Rock/Alt. Metal band from the S.F. Bay Area, California.<h2>iinarcs</h2>—progressive death

Storm The Gates, Missense, Against The Storm, iinarcs

IVY ROOM PRESENTSWED NOV 26TH—<h2>Brown Dog</h2><h2>April Magazine</h2><h2>11111angels</h2>—Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pmAdvance Tickets Available —-lVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<h2> Brown Dog</h2>—Brown Dog is a band from Berkeley, CA.<h2>April Magazine</h2>—April Magazine combines the talents of a handful of Bay Area indie pop notables into a collective that releases fragile and noisy songs that land right in the sweet spot between hum and warble with a heavy dose of slowcore static in the mix.<h2>11111angels</h2>—11111angels (Eleven Thousand One Hundred and Eleven Angels) is the songwriting output of Desi Valdez. Starting in 2023 in the Pacific Northwest region and currently San Francisco-based, the songs are often written in a studio apartment on the fourth floor in the Richmond District, then recorded there on 4track or in a studio in his hometown in Anacortes, Washington.

Brown Dog • April Magazine • 11111angels

IVY ROOM PRESENTSFRIDAY NOV 28TH—<h2>SMOKED OUT SOUL SWEATER FUNK</h2>— Doors 8:00 pm / Show 8:30 pmEARLY BIRD AND ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE / $20 AT THE DOOR — IVY ROOM 860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>SMOKED OUT SOUL</h2>— Old school taste/ new school bass. Smoked Out Soul is rooted in funk and looking into the future. Blending the classics with modern production, SOS features a high energy DJ set laced with live horns, analogue synths, guitar, drums and percussion. It’s Memphis meets California, dusty records and computer love with a heavy dose of future disco. What started out as a party at a premier night club in San Francisco’s Mission district where DJs would collaborate with a rotating cast of artists, has now become a touring act, record label and production team featuring Zebuel, Disco E, Paul Oliphant, B. Lee, Bliu, Chris Hoog and special guests. Along with Bay Area clubs, SOS has played festivals such as Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Lighting in A Bottle, Symbiosis, High Sierra and Joshua Tree Music Festival!<h2> SWEATER FUNK</h2>—Top shelf 80's funk, soulful boogie, and 2-step on original wax.San Francisco’s Sweater Funk DJ crew have been the city’s most dedicated purveyors of the funky subgenre known as BOOGIE since the summer of 2008.

Smoked Out Soul + Sweater Funk

IVY ROOM PRESENTSFRIDAY NOV 28TH—<h2>SMOKED OUT SOUL SPECIAL GUESTS TBD</h2>— Doors 8:00 pm / Show 8:30 pmEARLY BIRD AND ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE / $20 AT THE DOOR — IVY ROOM 860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>SMOKED OUT SOUL</h2>— Old school taste/ new school bass. Smoked Out Soul is rooted in funk and looking into the future. Blending the classics with modern production, SOS features a high energy DJ set laced with live horns, analogue synths, guitar, drums and percussion. It’s Memphis meets California, dusty records and computer love with a heavy dose of future disco. What started out as a party at a premier night club in San Francisco’s Mission district where DJs would collaborate with a rotating cast of artists, has now become a touring act, record label and production team featuring Zebuel, Disco E, Paul Oliphant, B. Lee, Bliu, Chris Hoog and special guests. Along with Bay Area clubs, SOS has played festivals such as Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Lighting in A Bottle, Symbiosis, High Sierra and Joshua Tree Music Festival!

Smoked Out Soul + special guests TBD! 

Bang The Bay PresentsSATURDAY NOVEMBER 29TH<h2>LEESTOCK 5</h2>bands, vendors, drink specialsFEAT.<h2>THE LEGENDARY STARDUST COWBOY</h2><h2>Elegant Trash</h2>PLUS MORE TBA!—Doors 12PM / Show 12PM-6PMJoin us for a music celebration ofsome of my favorite Musicians in the BayVendors, Live ArtADV TIX AVAILABLE / $20 GA - $30 VIP DOORTickets cash only at door or online at the Ivy's website(*VIP includes a grab bag full of cool stuff! incl Vinyl, shirts, CD's, pins, stickers, At least 10 pieces of band merch)—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+

LEESTOCK 5 - FEAT. THE LEGENDARY STARDUST COWBOY

ciderup shows xxv presents—SATURDAY NOV 29TH—MiSmiths (The Smiths &amp; Misfits Tribute)The Dancing Horses (Echo &amp; The Bunnymen)Almost Heaven (Just Like Heaven performing The Cure and 80’s classics)—8pm doors / 8:30 showAdvance Tickets AvailableIVY ROOM | 21+

MiSmiths (Smiths & Misfits) + Dancing Horses (Echo & The Bunnymen) + Almost Like Heaven   (The Cure + 80's)

ivy room presentsSUN NOV 30TH—<h2>The Great Other</h2><h2>Edgerunner925</h2><h2>Isolationist</h2><h2>Kaesid</h2><h2>The Devil Horns</h2>—6:00 pm doors / 6:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE / $15 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—<h2>The Great Other</h2>—The Great Other is an alternative prog metal act hailing from the East Bay Area of Northern California. Blossomed to life in 2019, this foursome has wanted nothing more than to create heartfelt, mind bending, goosebump inducing, ambient and heavy sounds, expressing that the music is an extension of themselves and their souls and to show that their songs, and every live performances should take one on an epic journey they’ll never forget.<h2>Edgerunner925</h2>—Bay Area Atmospheric Cyber ViolenceFFO: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Vein.FM">Vein.FM</a>, Loathe, Fromjoy, Frontierer, Bad Omens<h2>Isolationist</h2>—Metal from the Bay Area<h2>Kaesid</h2>—Prog Metal from Sacramento CA<h2>The Devil Horns</h2>—Metal with Brass up your Ass!

The Great Other • Edgerunner925 • Isolationist • Kaesid • The Devil Horns

Bang The Bay PresentsWEDNESDAY DEC 3RD—<h2>BANG THE BAY!</h2><h2>Feat.</h2><h2>SIMPLE SOLUTION</h2><h2>EXPERT PIE</h2><h2>ELEGANT TRASH</h2><h2>Z TRANE ELECTRIC BAND</h2><h2>CARDBOARD COFFIN</h2><h2>MC PATTY</h2>—Every First and Third Wednesday at the Ivy RoomEarly show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Doors 6:00pm / Show 6:30pmPRESALE TIX AVAILABLE / $10-$20 DOOR(*VIP includes a grab bag full of cool stuff! incl A CD, pins, stickers, patches, T-shirts and other new monthly gifts)—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+

BANG THE BAY! SIMPLE SOLUTION • EXPERT PIE • ELEGANT TRASH

ivy room presentsTHURS DEC 4TH—<h2>DANGERVERSE</h2><h2>FANCY DAD</h2><h2>DADIMÉ</h2><h2>THE AMERICAN COMA</h2>—Doors 7:00PM / 7:30pmADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE&nbsp;—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<h2>DANGERVERSE</h2>—DANGERVERSE is a indie-alternative rock band from Oakland, CA. With their genre-bending sound and pulse-pounding live shows that must be experienced to truly understand, they are quickly becoming one of the most exciting and talked-about bands in the Bay<h2>FANCY DAD</h2>—"Fancy Dad are a rare breed of musicians that cartwheel their vintage (as in 60s) instruments parallel to modern synthesizers and jazzy drums. Hailing from Oakland, California, and sounding like aural neon, Fancy Dad dabs mostly in jazz and funk, but fans of pop rock will get their kicks going with songs like “Lucky 33” and “Bee Line.” The party doesn’t stop with “Meanwhile Yesterday” or “Foam Carpet”. - Mindy McCall Indie Pulse Music<h2>DADIMÉ</h2>—Dadimé is a pop punk &amp; alternative duo from Richmond, CA. It consists of Chris Nolasco on vocals/guitar and Sandra Evans on drums. This musical project branched off from a previous band, Papers, which is on hiatus indefinitely. Inspired by various anime soundtracks &amp; early 2000s rock bands, Dadimé enjoys playing music that doesn't take itself too seriously, even when revolving around heavy topics. Their EP "Realign" can be found on Bandcamp.

DANGERVERSE • FANCY DAD • DADIMÉ • THE AMERICAN COMA

IVY ROOM PRESENTSFRIDAY DEC 5TH—<h2>DRUNK HORSE</h2><h2>HOT LUNCH</h2><h2>HYPNOTIC PATTERN</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 7:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE / $18 Day of Show—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>DRUNK HORSE</h2>—"Formed in 1998 by guitarist/singer Eli Eckert (formerly of local garage-punk outfit the Pants), drummer Chris Johnson (aka Cripe Jergensen), guitarist John Niles and bassist Cyrus Comisky, the Oakland quartet deals out a unique style of Southern-fried boogie that evokes the chugging tempos and muscular six-string heroics of early ZZ Top, the Allman Brothers, Foghat, and more obscure blues-rock bashers like Cactus.”- Dave Pehling KPIX-CBS<h2>HOT LUNCH</h2>—Hot Lunch is a punk ‘n’ roll band from the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area that specializes in getting loud, getting weird and getting rad. The quartet’s unique blend of brown-acid skate-rock and wah-fuzz proto-metal was born in the bowels of skatanic rituals, biker beer busts and wizard staff meetings.<h2>HYPNOTIC PATTERN</h2>—Heavy Psych, Stoner Doom, Psychadelic Rock Oakland, CAIntrusive thoughts plague your mind? Have our sorceress devour them and rest in eternal hypnotic bliss, thralls

DRUNK HORSE • HOT LUNCH • HYPNOTIC PATTERN

ivy room presentsSAT DEC 6TH—<h2>CHUM-A TRIBUTE TO PHISH (two sets going all night long!)</h2>—Doors 8pm / Show 9pmAdvance tickets available—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<h2>CHUM</h2>—Chum is among the most seasoned Phish tribute acts on the scene, wowing phans since 2010.

 CHUM: A Tribute to Phish

ivy room presentsSUNDAY DEC 7TH—<h2>ERIN MCKEOWN</h2>—6pm doors / 7pm showAdvance Tickets Available / $22 Door—IVY ROOM | 21+—<h2>Erin McKeown</h2>—Tired of holiday hype? Gritting your teeth until New Year’s Eve? Erin McKeown is too. Filled with profanity, irreverance, and just plain bad behavior, “F*ck That!” is the antidote to all that annoying holiday spirit. It’s the world’s first anti-capitalist, pro-queer, suspicious of christmas-as-patriotism, sex-positive, not safe for work, multi-ethnic, radical leftist Anti-Holiday show.There is nothing redeeming about christmas in any part of this show. Returning for the first time since 2013, Erin will perform all their signature anti-holiday classics plus new songs written (ahem) explicitly for 2024 along with a crowd-sourced choir of Cranky Carolers.*Please note this show contains adult language and themes completely inappropriate for children. On purpose.BioErin McKeown is a musician, writer, and producer known internationally for their prolific disregard of stylistic boundaries. Their brash and clever electric guitar playing is something to see. Their singing voice is truly unique —clear, cool, and collected. Over the last 20 years, they have performed around the world, released 11 full length albums, and written for film, television, and theater, all the while refining their distinctive and challenging mix of American musical forms.Erin’s first musical, Miss You Like Hell, written with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in 2018. It was nominated for 5 Drama Desk Awards, including Best Lyrics, Best Music and Best Orchestrations, and The Wall Street Journal named it Best Musical of 2018.Leading their own band, Erin has performed at Bonnaroo, Glastonbury, and the Newport Folk Festivals. A familiar presence on NPR and the BBC, McKeown’s songs have also appeared in numerous commercials and television shows. While a student at Brown University, Erin was a resident artist at Providence, RI’s revolutionary community arts organization AS220. A 2011-2012 fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center For Internet &amp; Society, they are also the recipient of a 2016 writing fellowship from The Studios of Key West and a 2018 residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. McKeown was a 2020-21 Professor of the Practice at Brown University and a 2022-23 fellow at The University of Chicago’s Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.Erin’s latest album KISS OFF KISS is out now. Their latest musical, OUT HERE, will have its world-premiere production at Court Theatre, Chicago in 2026.ARTist statementI am a multi-instrumentalist working primarily in American forms. I build my work from a knowledge of early American popular entertainment (minstrelsy, vaudeville, musical theater) plus a lived experience of folk music (blues, Americana, string band). I recast these historical antecedents into contemporary contexts, challenging listeners to look more closely at themselves and the world around them. Playfulness and pleasure are key aspects of my work. I believe in rhythm as a primary means of communication and joy, so all my work begins with the elemental engine of percussion and the interplay of vowels and consonants.

Erin McKeown

ivy room presentsTHURSDAY DEC 11TH—<h2>That Band Frank</h2><h2>Furious Tits</h2><h2>Extra! Extra!</h2>—Doors 6:30pm / Show 7:00pmAdvance Tickets Available / $15 Day of Show—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+THAT BAND FRANK—THAT BAND FRANK is a protest folk-punk ensemble from Oakland, CA and Valparaíso, Chile. As restless wanderers and critics of empire, KC, Nate, KXX and Will feel soul-rooted solidarity against all forms of systemic oppression. THAT BAND FRANK weaves together soaring melodies, driving rhythms, shimmering harmonies, and emotional narratives unafraid to reckon with our current dystopia and discuss the challenges and the beauty of sharing this world with our fellow humans and robots in peace.Furious Tits—The Furious Tits is a queer punk band with nothing to lose. Their lyrics are snarky, their bass lines are funky, their drum beats are rhythmic catnip, and their guitar solos will melt your face.If Rage Against The Machine and Chappell Roan had a musical musical baby, it would be The Furious Tits. These jaded punks will have you quitting your job and kissing a stranger by the end of their set. Call them Queercore, call them Climatecore, call them whatever you want, The Furious Tits bend genre like guitar strings.These four punks started playing together shortly after the pandemic and they exploded out of lockdown with a high energy set has been fueling (tender) mosh pits across the Bay Area.Extra! Extra!—Read all about it: High-energy electric-disco septet seeking an elusive sound that, once woven into a beat of danceable proportions, leaves all audiences wanting more.Described by some as more addictive than painkillers, Extra! Extra! hails from the streets of San Francisco’s East Bay area and champions a sound whose influences include all the great disco, post-punk, and synth-driven hits of the last 50 years.WARNING: Liking and subscribing to Extra! Extra! on social media may lead to the following: a groovy attitude, spontaneous dancing, dizziness, or other symptoms of a good time. If left on repeat for more than 4 hours, call friends immediately for a dance party.

That Band Frank • Furious Tits • Extra! Extra!

ivy room presentsFRIDAY DEC 12TH—<h2>Kehoe International</h2><h2>Modern Monsters</h2><h2>Alvie &amp; The Breakfast Pigs</h2>—Doors 8:00 pm / Show 9:00 pmADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE / $15 Door----IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+— <h2>KEHOE INTERNATIONAL</h2><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://thehottakes.bandcamp.com/">—</a>Kehoe International at Ivy Room Hello my name is Bryan Kehoe, leader and founder of the band Kehoe International. I am really good at pickin' that guitar, and sangin' my kooky songs, but not so good at writing boring, lame bios about my music. From the ashes of The Kehoe Nation: Over the last few years I recorded and self-released 2 LPs "Music for Livers" and "Devil's Acre Overture" under this moniker. These recordings were co-produced by, recording legend Oz Fritz (Tom Waits, The Ramones, Primus). I never really liked the name of the band; it was kind of a joke, So... I changed it! Kehoe Int'l sounds more... authentic. Like it could be traded on the NYSE. I spent a good amount of time playing in the esoteric SF independent band M.I.R.V. We toured all over the world and even got on the MTV, when they actually played music. I toured with Jerry Cantrell Band (Alice in Chains) for a couple of years. I also have been in and out of my friend Les Claypool's band The Frog Brigade. Les and I and few other friends did a movie and album "National Lampoon's Electric Apricot", and the last couple of years we toured all over in Les Claypool's Duo de Twang. The "Duo" recorded an LP called "4 Foot Shack" that got high reviews on NPR that my Mom heard on the radio, and all of of sudden... I am legit in her eyes! Ha! Only took decades... The sound and style of Kehoe Int'l can be explained as a unique pastiche of elements; the bombast of guitar hero Rock, the rebellion and aggressiveness of Punk and Metal, the whimsy of Oompah and Polka, with just a pinch of Avant Garde, all honoring the Roots of Americana music. I call it Garage-Twang!<h2>MODERN MONSTERS</h2>—Modern Monsters is a Bay Area, California heavy rock band established in 2019. They elude a mix of greasy heavy, down-and-dirty rock with raw energy.Straying away from being buried in day-to-day mainstream music, the monsters thrive in the rock culture and maintain the power of being face melters. With drive and tenacity, this renowned and talented group enjoys the challenge of being a modern day rock band.Drummer Keenan Tuohy's thunderous performance, paired with massive temper from Brody Bass and fierce riffs by guitarists Wyatt Lennon and Rich Wells collectively and sonically match with the tortured lyrics of vocalist Josh Weaver. <h2>ALVIE &amp; THE BREAKFAST PIGS</h2>— Alvie &amp; the Breakfast Pigs are loud, raw, and unapologetically real. They’re here for those who wake up with last night’s eyeliner still on, who find poetry in the chaos, and who turn the volume up instead of toning it down.For anyone craving driving riffs, punchy lyrics, and the kind of energy that makes you wanna kick over a trash can, this is the right place. Blending alt and punk with a no-BS attitude, they deliver just the right mix of grit and melody to keep hearts pounding.Crank it up, sing along, and join the madness. For those who love bands that don’t hold back, Alvie &amp; the Breakfast Pigs have something to offer. They don’t chase trends, they carry the torch!

Kehoe Intl' • Modern Monsters • Alvie & The Breakfast Pigs

UC Theatre &amp; Ivy Room presentSAT DEC 13TH—<h2>Lou&nbsp;Hazel</h2><h2>Alexa Rose</h2>—7 pm doors / 8 pm showAdvance Tickets Available / $18 Day of Show—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+—<h2>LOU HAZEL</h2>—Lou Hazel grew up along the Allegheny River, where New York meets Pennsylvania and Northern Appalachia slips into quiet obscurity. In a landscape of cold towns, blue-collar fatigue, and early brushes with hardship, music wasn’t inherited—it was uncovered. There were no venues, no mentors, no real sense of a scene... only what you could scrape together with curiosity and a cassette deck.That absence—of direction, of mentors, of art—shaped Lou’s songs as much as any influence. His music echoes the loneliness of those forgotten towns and the strange resilience it takes to create something where nothing was planted. Blending folk, indie, and an eye for the overlooked, Lou writes like someone who’s learned to pay attention. His songs are spare, vivid, and weathered with warmth.After years of solo touring and home recording, Lou found grounding in Durham, North Carolina, where a vibrant music scene and chosen community have helped shape his recent work. His latest record, Riot of the Red, captures the urge to get away from all of it—the news, the noise, the weight of a world gone sideways—and find stillness in the simplest things: a long drive, a bare sky, a familiar chord.Lou Hazel makes music for those who had to teach themselves how to listen.<h2></h2><h2>ALEXA ROSE</h2>—A few summers ago, on a sweltering August day, Alexa Rose found herself chasing a particularly disheveled-looking cloud. “Like a bruise,” she recalls, “a swirl of black and red and yellow, the angriest looking sky I’ve ever seen.” This was somewhere in the Midwest, in between towns on tour. She sat in a parking lot, marveling, until the cloud broke open and poured the rain and resolved itself into a glorious, weeping mess of a sunset.“Why are we drawn to such a thing, as the weather alert on our phone advises us to seek shelter?” Rose asks. “Are we just looking for ourselves, longing to take the lid off our own darkness, to find the mercy of softer colors waiting?” Her third studio album, ‘Atmosphere’ explores that question, attending to the symbiosis of joy and grief, terror and hope, heaviness and lightness in our daily lives.Rose recorded the album at Betty’s, a studio created by Sylvan Esso nestled in the North Carolina woods. Shortly after the session, Hurricane Helene hit the western part of the state, washing away lives and landscapes in the hometowns of half the band. The storm’s wake, eerie and desolate and decisive, cast a new light upon the record. “I related to the music in a different way,” says Rose. “I had just moved into a new place after losing access to my house, and felt a little tossed around the way everyone did. The experience deepened my love for my home and my belief in the resilience of the land and communities in Appalachia.” Rose spent the harsh winter to follow revisiting the album and re-recording certain songs in her cabin outside Asheville, replacing studio shimmer with intimate sparsity, a deliberate bareness to better express her feeling at the time. “Stripping the songs down felt truer: nothing to hide behind anymore, but believing the roots are strong enough to hold.”Rose has spent her life in small Appalachian towns. On album standout “Lilacs,” she pays heartfelt homage to a backroad that winds through the hills of Alleghany County, Virginia, land that once belonged to her family. She shares, “There’s an old black and white photo of my grandmother as a girl along this road, holding a pint glass of milk in her hand, dirt on her knees.” Rose’s voice comes through pure and piercing as golden light over a gravel path, illuminating a heartbreaking wistfulness for a home one’s never known. “The farm and all the land was sold long before I was born, but in the springtime when the lilacs are in bloom, I imagine my great great grandmother planting them. I always cut a few and place them in a mason jar. Did you know lilacs can live for over a hundred years? I think it’s so lovely that you can plant something that can long outlive you, and I wonder if that very thought ever crossed her mind, as she clipped blossoms for her own bedside table a hundred years ago.”Rose embraces the pangs and pleasures of every place, reveling and wrestling with what it means to belong. She wrote “Anywhere, OH” on tour, about a town she stopped in for coffee. “I was only there for half an hour passing through, but I felt homesick when I left. I remember the way the colors of houses and old oaks poked out from the fog, a line of kids dressed up for Halloween, waiting to go into some church party.” The song has an autumnal moan, evoking the visceral melancholy of seasons changing, when a shift in the air sets a thousand different memories alight. “There’s a bittersweetness in making small talk with the person behind the coffee counter, who assumes you know about whatever local news is going on—and you just nod along, knowing you’ll likely never stop there again.” That sense—of simultaneous wonder and mourning—pervades ‘Atmosphere,’ a spiritual tension that builds until it precipitates, offering listeners their own catharsis.Rose’s collaborators comprise a masterclass of unrelenting, sonic emotion. Produced by Ryan Gustafson of The Dead Tongues and mixed by Grammy-winning Matt Ross Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price, John Prine), ‘Atmosphere’ features pedal steel from Mat Davidson (Twain, Big Thief), percussion from Dom Billet (Dr. Dog, The Weather Station), bass from Jeff Ratner (Langhorne Slim), cello from Hilary James (Matt Pond PA, Esmé Patterson), banjo from Helena Rose (Holler Choir), and truly haunting harmonies from Josh Oliver (Watchhouse, Tyler Childers). Once praised by NPR as “the soul child of Bob Dylan and Dolly Parton,” here Rose dwells between the shimmering falsetto of Alison Krauss and the supernatural tone of Adrianne Lenker, classic and modern at once.“This album is all about tenderness,” Rose says. “It’s about going out on a limb to feel the full swirl of what life throws at you.” Each song has a companion: one for feeling at home and one for when you’re completely lost, one for grieving the violent nature of the world and one for the gentler, kinder days. Ten songs flow like a gradient, centered around the idea that our experiences move through us like storms, and if we don’t hide from them, we can watch the skies unfold beautifully.

Lou Hazel & Alexa Rose

ivy room presents—record release party!SUNDAY DEC 14TH—<h2>NASHVILLE HONEYMOON</h2><h2>MAURICE TANI</h2><h2>THE DOGWEEDS</h2>—Doors 2pm / Show 3pm$12 Advance / $15 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+ <h2>NASHVILLE HONEYMOON</h2>—Born in Berkeley and nurtured in live music venues on both sides of the Bay, Nashville Honeymoon is a honkytonk band that plays their own special brand of California country.&nbsp;Hank and Lynne started performing together almost accidentally - a happy accident, as it turns out, because it sparked a musical collaboration that has produced three albums and brought them to venues ranging from the iconic Ivy Room to San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall.&nbsp;&nbsp;Together with their bandmates Tim Wagar and Leor Beary, they offer original tunes that build on country, rockabilly, and honkytonk traditions.&nbsp;Nashville Honeymoon’s songs run the gamut from desire to domesticity, and in classic country style explore the nooks and crannies of the human heart through the drama of everyday life.&nbsp; <h2>MAURICE TANI</h2>—MAURICE TANI is widely known as a sophisticated singer-songwriter with a dozen albums (the latest three on the Little Village record label), but his roots are deep in the bedrock of the rough &amp; tumble world of the California country bar scene. For this special show, Tani will be presenting a program of the original, original electric honky tonk material that made his bands Calamity &amp; Main and 77 El Deora the first choices of boisterous voices and drunken hoots on the Bay Area Americana landscape.<h2>THE DOGWEEDS</h2>—The Dogweeds (Oakland, Ca) are an Americana Roots Music band with sister-style vocal harmonies, sweet retro grooves and red hot musicianship. Blending classics from Western Swing to 70's country with heart melting originals, the band features Joan Wilson Rueter on fiddle, guitar and vocals, Rosie Steffy on harmonies and suitcase drums, Dawn Ellerbeck on upright bass, Jared Altura on hollowbody and slide guitar, and virtuosic Jamie Duncan on the telecaster. Their debut EP Honeymoon (released 2024) “embodies all the best traits of dance music: lyrics to make you think, but music to make you move, and a sense that, good or bad, life is still a party.”-Rachel Cholst, Adobe and Teardrops

NASHVILLE HONEYMOON • MAURICE TANI • THE DOGWWEDS

Bang The Bay PresentsWEDNESDAY DEC 17TH—<h2>BANG THE BAY!</h2><h2>Feat.</h2><h2>WESTERN CONFLICT</h2><h2>BLUNT FORCE KARMA</h2><h2>ELEGANT TRASH</h2><h2>VILLA NOIZE</h2><h2>MC PATTY</h2><h2>PLUS TBA</h2>—Every First and Third Wednesday at the Ivy RoomEarly show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Doors 6:00pm / Show 6:30pmPRESALE TIX AVAILABLE / $10-$20 DOOR(*VIP includes a grab bag full of cool stuff! incl A CD, pins, stickers, patches, T-shirts and other new monthly gifts)—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+

BANG THE BAY! WESTERN CONFLICT • BLUNT FORCE KARMA • ELEGANT TRASH

ivy room presentsTHUR DEC 18TH—<h2>Back Alley Nebula</h2><h2>Ketam</h2>—Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pmAdvance Tickets Available / $15 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>Back Alley Nebula</h2>—Back Alley Nebula is a band by longtime Bay Area musicians strongly influenced by the likes of Funkadelic and John Coltrane. The members are: Nick Burke-Tenor Sax;FX, Scott Jacobs-Bass;FX, Jesse McMilin- Piano, Evan Williams- Drums Nick Burke is a longtime Bay Area Tenor Sax player who played with such artists as John Tchicai, Pete Escovedo, Howard Wales, Mike Olmos and many more. Scott Jacobs was the longtime Bass player for Snake Jacobs' Church of the Bearded Skeptics. Evan Williams is a seasoned SF session Drummer and Jesse McMilin is an incredible Santa Cruz Piano player. Check our latest release on Bandcamp, Spotify and all streaming platforms. <h2>KETAM</h2>—KETAM is and experimental funk thrash psychedelic trio out of the Bay Area featuring Xavier Prospero, Hector Larios and Sam Molmud.

Back Alley Nebula • Ketam

Winter Williams presents—FRI DEC 19TH—<h2>Tony Glaser and The Party</h2><h2>Space Heater</h2>—7:45pm doors / 8:30pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE / $25 DOOR—IVY ROOM | 21+-Winter Williams Presents feel good funk with Tony Glaser and The Party and Space Heater on Friday, December 19th at the Ivy Room in Albany, CA. Whether you're looking for a joyful outing with friends &amp; family or a solo adventure, this is it. All Quality Vibes welcome!<h2>Tony Glaser and The Party</h2>—Known for shredding solos, choice grooves, rocking vocals and infections energy, Tony Glaser and The Party will be bringing their unique blend of mutt funk jam rock that’s sure to get you dancing, singing, and embracing the joy of the moment. This powerhouse of talent features Tony Glaser (bass, vocals), Jimmy Leslie (guitar), Kevin Coleman (drums), Simon Rochester (keys) and Taccarra Burrell (vocals). Prepare to have your earholes funked righteously!<h2>Space Heater</h2>—Space Heater is a Santa Cruz-based band with one foot planted firmly in the foundations of funk, while the other foot prefers a galaxy far, far away. With an expanding roster of sultry originals and the occasional cover song, you won't have much choice but to shake that thang. Featured band members include Cole Berry (drums), Mason Hicks (guitar, vocals), Jeff Meyer (tenor saxophone), Ben Neville (alto saxophone), Steve Rogers (bass), Mike Spooner (percussion, vocals), Caitlin Wild (keys, percussion, vocals) and Ron Work (guitar, vocals).

Tony Glaser and The Party • Space Heater

Cider Up Shows XXV presentsSATURDAY DEC 20TH20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY REUNION SHOW - BIG D’S BDAY!—<h2>HARRINGTON SAINTS</h2><h2>ULTRA SECT</h2><h2>RALLY CRY</h2><h2>THE FIT</h2>—8pm doors / 8:30pm show—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>HARRINGTON SAINTS</h2>— “…arguably the biggest band in Oi!” <h2>ULTRA SECT</h2>— Bay Area - Featuring members of the Beltones, Suede Razors and Hounds &amp; Harlots <h2>RALLY CRY</h2>— Bakersfield, CaliforniaBattle hymns to fan the flames of discontent.<h2>THE FIT</h2>—Santa Cruz, CA

HARRINGTON SAINTS - 20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY REUNION SHOW - BIG D'S BDAY! 

IVY ROOM PRESENTSSUNDAY DEC 21ST—<h2>Polly Genius</h2><h2>Conspiracy of Beards</h2><h2>Trillian Welch</h2>—5:00 pm doors / 6:00 pm showAdvance Tickets Available / $15 Doors—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+ <h2>Polly Genius (PJ Harvey)</h2>— East Bay 90’s era Vaccination Records recording artists, local art rockers tribute to PJ Harvey<h2>Conspiracy of Beards (Leonard Cohen)</h2>—San Francisco’s Conspiracy of Beards is a 30-man choir that performs gritty, original arrangements of the songs of Leonard Cohen. Formed in 2003 through the inspiration of the late Peter Kadyk, this a Capella group has become known for their live performances at Bay Area venues such as the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Cafe du Nord, The Great American Music Hall, and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as in bars, bookstores, hospices and various other community centers. The choir has also been featured on National Public Radio’s “West Coast Live,” on KFOG, KPFA, WFMU and on PBS television station KQED-TV, and made its East Coast debut in Spring 2008 at the Highline Ballroom and Bowery Poetry Club. The Beards now make an annual spring pilgrimage to New York for a whirlwind of shows around Manhattan and Brooklyn.Transforming Cohen’s simple melodies into complex 4- and 5-part harmonies, the group achieves a sound that is both robust and tender, with influences of indie rock, jazz, gospel, barbershop, classical and doo-wop in the unique arrangements the choir creates. Using the genius of Cohen’s words, the Beards inspire audiences to ponder romance, politics, sex, longing and spirituality, all amid laughter and cheers.“Like its inspiration, the group is deeply sincere, humble and humorous.”—Las Vegas Sun“Chelsea Hotel #2,” as performed by the somber San Francisco all-male choir, is perfect in every way.”—San Francisco Chronicle“…the troupe breaks Cohen’s haunting warbles into multi-part harmonies, exploring the dark edges with complex, expertly rendered vocal interpretations.”—Andrew Phillips, flavorpill (NYC)<h2>Trillian Welch (Gillian Welch)</h2>—Jill Rogers, Meredith Edgar, Margaret Belton...tribute to the songs of Gillian Welch, with gorgeous three-part harmonies and an all-star band.

Polly Genius • Conspiracy of Beards • Trillian Welch

Ivy Room PresentsWEDNESDAY DECEMBER 31ST - NYE——<h2>FLEETWOOD MACRAMÉ</h2>(the ultimate fleetwood mac experience)——Doors 8:00pm / Show 9:00pmAdvance Tickets Available(vip booths available: see info below)——IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany •&nbsp;21+ We’re excited to celebrate the end of another year with our friends in Fleetwood Macramé, as they play two sets of classic Fleetwood Mac all night long for your drinking and dancing pleasure, with a late night dance party after midnight as well. We'll have NYE Decorations, Drink Specials, a Midnight Champagne Toast and more... <h2>FLEETWOOD MACRAMÉ</h2>—Fleetwood Macramé has become one of the Bay Area's most exciting tribute bands. What began as a simple exercise in fun has turned into an awe inspiring live experience complete with show stopping renditions of Fleetwood Mac's greatest hits. Audience participation is encouraged, and Bay Area crowds are coming in droves to sing along with Fleetwood Macramé. What's more, they sound so much like Fleetwood Mac, if you closed your eyes, you would think it was the real thing. Only it's better, because you are in the front row!&nbsp; <h2>VIP PRIVATE BOOTHS AVAILABLE</h2>Celebrate the New Year in style in a VIP Private Booth... VIP BOOTH #1: $450Includes a private reserved booth with view of stage, admission for up to 6 people, and bottle of sparkling wine. Additional bottle service available upon request... VIP BOOTH #2: $360Includes a private reserved booth with partial view of stage, perfect spot for your home base for your party for the night. Admission for up to 6 people, and bottle of sparkling wine. Additional bottle service available upon request...Disclaimer: Booth #2 has a very partial view but is a great space to hang with you party all night long.

The 8th Annual Fleetwood Macramé New Years Eve PARTY!

ivy room presentsFRIDAY JAN 2ND—<h2>The Mike Dillon Band featuring Brian Haas&nbsp;</h2>—Doors 7:30pm / Show 8:30pmAdvance Tickets Available / $22 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<h2>MIKE DILLON </h2>—Mike Dillon’s latest album ‘Rosewood’ musically signifies transition and transformation. The 13-track collection was written and recorded during a period of profound change. Dillon found himself relocating from his fourteen year base in New Orleans to his current residence in Kansas City. This coincided with the beginning a new relationship that would result in marriage. Recorded intermittently between January 2018 and September 2019, its 13 majestic tracks swirl with the tangled and bittersweet emotions of one chapter ending as another began. Dillon created the album solely with vibraphone and percussion instruments and titled the record ‘Rosewood’ after the type of lumber used to make marimba bars.“I started spending time in Kansas City in August 2017, where I’d previously lived in 1997,” explains Dillon. “My friend of twenty years, Peregrine Honig, invited me to see her beautiful art studio converted from an old church building called Greenwood Social Hall. By December, I brought my marimba there and would play for hours. The songs on this record wrote themselves in that sonically sacred space.”Furthering this metamorphosis, ’Rosewood’ also finds Dillon, who’s been hailed “a punk jazz provocateur,” shifting from the freewheeling, anything goes aesthetic that informed his primary touring unit, The Mike Dillon Band, to a more conceptual and compositional approach. He’d hinted at this side of his musical personality with the 2016 album release ‘Functioning Broke,’ as well as, three performances with his 23-piece New Orleans Punk Rock Percussion Consortium at The Music Box Village. The introspective ‘Functioning Broke,’ however, relied heavily on outside material, including songs by Elliott Smith, Neil Young and Martin Denny, while the latter performance experiment required the massive energy generated by two dozen musicians on percussion and mallet instruments. On ‘Rosewood,’ Dillon boils down the essence of those two projects into a focused auditory journey, drawing almost exclusively on his own compositions with exception of two additional Elliott Smith songs, “Talking To Mary” and “Can’t Make A Sound,” along with the ghostly take on Johnny Cash arrangement of the classic Trent Reznor / Nine Inch Nails’ song “Hurt.” Dillon performed all of the parts himself with exception of contributions by drummer and frequent collaborator Earl Harvin and the guiding hand of Dillon’s old friend, recording engineer Chad Meise.“When I decided to record in Kansas City, I immediately recruited Chad. He and I made several Malachy Papers’ records, the Go Go Jungle album ‘Battery Acid’ and the Mike Dillon Band record ‘Urn.’ Our chemistry in the middle of a really bittersweet time for me simplified the process. We layered the songs on 24-track, 2-inch tape. Some songs I would start on the vibes, other times I put on a marimba first before fleshing out the rest. My old pal, the incredible drummer Earl Harvin, visited KC from his home in Berlin during the summer of 2018 and played drum kit on several of the tracks. By recording to tape, we captured the warm relationship of the percussion/mallet family.”<h2>BRIAN HAAS</h2>—Brian Roy Haas is an internationally celebrated, award-winning pianist, composer, producer and arranger with almost 40 albums of original compositions under his name. Starting piano at age 4 and winning his first International Piano Concerto Competition at 16, he knew his life’s mission early on. Haas received a full ride to the University of Tulsa and graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. While at TU, he founded Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey. In the last 31 years JFJO has toured Europe 13 times and the Americas on a constant loop, played many of the world’s biggest music festivals such as North Sea, Berlin, Tampere, Montreal and sold out prestigious clubs like Bimhuis, Snug Harbor, Yoshi’s and The Blue Note. His illustrious career has seen Haas touring, composing and recording with Nikki Glaspie, George Porter Jr., Helen Gillet, The Funky Meters, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Nolatet, Rebirth Brass Band, Johnny Vidacovich, James Singleton, Matt Chamberlain, Les Claypool, Charlie Hunter and Punkadelick, a trio comprised of Haas, Nikki Glaspie and Mike Dillon. Punkadelick’s critically acclaimed album, Inflorescense, was released Winter of 2023 on Sony Red and the 17 month tour sold out multiple venues in America. When off the road, Haas has has worked within public schools as an improvisational music instructor for Arts and Humanities through National Endowment of The Arts.“Brian Haas paints with his fingers. In a flurry, his joyful digits add color to 88 black and white keys. He plays with the assured abandon of an artist in complete control of his craft.”– Keyboard Magazine“His embrace of the Music’s History is undeniable: strains of Ellington, Earl Hines and the post-modernists share space. He is a celebrated composer and fearless musical warrior, pulling together the sound sources of Nolatet with brash clusters, stinging high-register accents and thick, alluring harmonies.”— New York City Jazz Record“Brian Haas can play with the finesse of Keith Jarret, but still get across to the ecstasy generation.”— New Orleans Gambit

The Mike Dillon Band featuring Brian Haas 

ivy room presentsSATURDAY JAN 3RD—<h2>Glow Scout</h2><h2>Fuzz Kit</h2><h2>Sad Dads Anonymous</h2>—Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pmAdvance Tickets Available / $22 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<h2>Glow Scout</h2>—Glow Scout belongs to a classic DIY-rock tradition that stretches back to the jangly college rock of the '80s and the underground sounds of the '90s, but their rich, vibrant, restless sound belongs to the present.Formed in the wake of their departure from Southern California in 2010, founding members Rob Jackson , Angela Rizk and Long-time collaborator Mike Calvert recorded Glow Scout's lo-fi debut We're Lost but Making Good Time in a farmhouse in the Central Valley on their way to the S.F. Bay Area, where the band is now headquartered. Glow Scout's ethos is to not be constrained by genre, the one continuous element being the DIY spirit. Between 2010 and 2016 they released 9 albums with a rotating cast of contributors. The stand out album, Art, was released in 2014 on Ductape Records. Following a 7-year hiatus, a new wave of inspiration struck in 2023. Long-time collaborator Mike Calvert joined as a permanent member and Glow Scout hit the garage to record what would become the album The Big Let Down. Recorded DIY by the band, it was then mixed by Bill Stevenson and mastered by Jason Livermore @ The Blasting Room. This new direction goes back to their beginning, with a stripped-down urgency. Joined by new member Miguel Gomez, Glow Scout is ready to embrace their rebirth with amps turned up to 11.<h2>Fuzz Kit</h2>—Elaine Blakeley (vocals, guitar)Anne Martin (drums, vocals)Fuzz Kit are a post-punk band from the SF Bay Area. With vulnerable lyrics and overdriven guitars, they have compressed their sonic explorations into tight, hard-hitting songs. Harnessing the energy of feeling the world intensely, they set moody vocals over a landscape of fuzzy guitar hooks and powerful beats.<h2>Sad Dads Anonymous</h2>—Three sad dads making music in Oakland, CAI started hosting a Monday night music jam back in 2024. It was mostly as an excuse for fellow sound nerds to get out of the house, meet new folks, and try making music with other human beings... two guys in particular [James &amp; Brian], kept showing up regularly... and I jokingly dubbed the nights we'd get together 'Sad Dads Anonymous.' We'd stumble through cover songs and jams... and slowly but surely those jams started turning into songs! I've never been great at starting lyrics, so I was stoked when Brian sent me the start of some lyric ideas that turned into 'Waiting' and was BLOWN AWAY when he sent me a phone recording and lyrics his 8 year old daughter wrote for what turned into 'Out Of My Mind.'

Glow Scout • Fuzz Kit • Sad Dads Anonymous

ivy room presentsSATURDAY JANUARY 10TH—<h2>SWINGIN' UTTERS</h2><h2>M.U.T.T.</h2><h2>STRANGELIGHT</h2><h2>LUNCH</h2>—Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pmAdvance Tickets Available—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+ THE SWINGIN' UTTERS—While its origin story has gone through more reboots than Batman, Superman and Spider-Man combined, punk rock has been a consistent presence on the musical landscape for more than 40 years. You might be surprised to know, however, that the Swingin’ Utters have been around for nearly as long —the band celebrated their 30th anniversary with a greatest-hits collection in 2019. Hell, this Bay Area street-punk band is so well-respected among their peers, there’s even a whole tribute compilation dedicated to their extensive catalog, including covers by the likes of Dropkick Murphys, Fucked Up and Teenage Bottlerocket. Since that comp came out in 2010, the Utters have issued four more full-lengths, each more fiery than the last, with the latest being their ninth proper LP. Recorded at Nu-Tune Studios in Pittsburg, California, by Chris Dugan (Green Day, Iggy Pop), the album is titled Peace And Love, but don’t let that fool you: This isn’t some Haight and Ashbury hippie shit. In fact, according to guitarist/vocalist Darius Koski, Peace And Love’s content is as politically outspoken as the Utters have ever been.“This is, by far, our absolutely most political record we’ve ever done,” Koski says. “We don’t generally write very pointedly political songs. We tend to be a little more vague and abstract. But this one is pretty pointedly disgusted and pissed off and really directly attacking these fuckin’ people in office.”"I agree it is our most political record," remarks singer Johnny Bonnel. "When sexism, racism, and nationalism is the agenda, it’s time to speak up.”Peace And Love certainly pulls no lyrical punches—we’ll give you three guesses as to who “Yes I Hope He Dies” is about, and the first two don’t count—but the Utters also keep things interesting from a musical perspective, whether it’s the Ramones worship of “E.C.T.” (think of it as the long-gestating counterpoint to “Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment”), the surprisingly melodic, Beatles-esque “Seeds Of Satisfaction” (which Koski lovingly refers to as his “surf-goth song”) or the gorgeous, haunting closing track H.L.S., written and performed by guitarist/vocalist Jack Dalrymple and inspired by the sudden death of his former One Man Army bandmate Heiko Schrepel, who passed away in 2015.“Jack actually emailed me that song several years ago, right after Heiko died,” Koski recalls. “Immediately, I knew this is the last song on the record. My only suggestion was that it started with him acoustic, then the band joins in. You don’t really hear Jack that naked ever. That song gives me chills when I hear it.”The rebellious spirit of the Swingin’ Utters is as present as ever on Peace And Love, although the band looks and sounds a little bit different this time around, thanks to their new rhythm section of Tony Teixeira on bass and Luke Ray on drums.“Both Luke and Tony are stellar musicians who study their work,” says Bonnel. “Luke has amazing ability, but all his drumming is tasteful—it’s never overkill. Tony managed to come up with classic bass lines that made every song a little bit stronger.”Koski echoes Bonnel’s praise, commenting, “We love having these new dudes in the band. Tony is a really melodic, pretty player, whereas Luke is a fucking monster. Tony and Luke are best friends, and they’ve been playing together for years in other bands like Cobra Skulls and Sciatic Nerve, so that really helps.”It’s been four years since the Utters’ last full-length, so all three songwriters in the band had a stockpile of material when they headed into the studio. That means what you’re getting on Peace And Love is the cream of the crop.“We usually abandon songs if we think they’re shitty or filler,” Koski admits. “I still have tons of songs; Johnny does too. But we try not to make records super-long.”Given that the last time the Utters came off a prolonged hiatus, the band ended up cranking out three full-lengths in four years, one has to wonder if Peace And Love is going to be the start of another extended burst of creativity for these punk lifers. Koski isn’t thinking that far ahead, though. In fact, he finds it hard to even enjoy the present. Even though his band has achieved three decades and nine albums together—two feats nearly impossible for most bands—Koski wrestles with his legacy a bit.“We just keep on going,” he says. “I’m glad we’re still doing it. Johnny’s 50; I’m in my late 40s. I don’t think anything particularly new is gonna happen—we’re not gonna be on TRL any time soon. That’s fine. It’s a total accomplishment to stay together this long, but I’m a total pessimist. I should be totally grateful—and I am! But it’s hard to be a plumber when you wanna be a full-time musician. But wah wah wah—I still get paid to travel and play my songs all over the world. I’m not a millionaire, but who cares? I get to make records, and someone out there cares about them.”

Swingin' Utters

ivy room presentsSATURDAY JAN 17TH—<h2>CODEFENDENTS</h2><h2>SPIDER</h2><h2>LOUD GRAVES</h2>—Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pm $25 Advance / $30 Day of Show— IVY ROOM 860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+ <h2> CODEFENDENTS</h2>—Fat Mike of NOFX's newly launched project, Codefendants, are the breath of fresh air and the steel-toe-cap kick in the nuts music has needed for too long. Get Dead vocalist Sam King’s graffiti crew were giving tattoos and making flash art to raise money to help rapper Ceschi Ramos when he was in prison. Months later they met at the Gilman Street Project in Berkeley, California. They bonded, talking about their love of hip-hop and punk rock, over a bottle of Jameson. They didn’t know it yet, but they had just started Codefendants. Impossible to define by traditional standards, Codefendants were forged out of a desire to make an album that sounded like nothing else; a completely genre-fluid album, a cross between hip hop, new-wave, flamenco, and the Beatles. They call the genre 'Crime Wave'.<h2>SPIDER</h2>—An atmospheric visceral mix of eerie Southern California grit, snarling raw power rock and a lexicon vortex of vocals.<h2>LOUD GRAVES</h2>—Music to be murdered by from Oakland, California.Featuring members of The Applicators, Tsunami Bomb, and The Hammerbombs. If you like any of those, you'll probably like this. Maybe.

CoDefendents

Ivy Room presentsFRIDAY JAN 23RD—<h2>HAUNT INTRANCED</h2><h2>TRENCHER</h2>—Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pm$12 Advance / $15 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+ <h2> HAUNT</h2>—Haunt was originally formed by Trevor William Church as a musical project to be worked on alongside his existing band Beastmaker. The project was intended to take on a traditional metal sound as opposed to Beastmaker's doom metal style.In 2017, Church wrote and recorded Haunt's debut release, the extended play Luminous Eyes, with Daniel Wilson playing drums for the recording. It was first released digitally as an independent release, but it later received physical releases from the Shadow Kingdom Records label.In 2018, Church wrote and recorded the single "Ghosts" for Haunt. Later that same year, Haunt released their first full-length studio album, Burst into Flame. Daniel Wilson returned to play drums for the album, this time as an official band member. Joining Church and Wilson for the album were Matthew Wilhoit on bass and John Tucker on guitar. Both Wilson and Tucker would stay as permanent members, but Wilhoit would be replaced by Taylor Hollman on following releases.In 2019, Haunt released their second EP, Mosaic Vision, their second studio album, If Icarus Could Fly, and two split albums: A Fool's Paradise / On the Streets Again and Sea of Dreams / The Crystal Temple. The following year, they released their third and fourth studio albums, titled Mind Freeze and Flashback respectively, as well as the Burst into Demos compilation.Haunt has been featured on the cover of Decibel magazine (February 2020), featured in Rolling Stone magazine, and has made numerous "top" lists, such as Rolling Stone’s top 20 metal albums of 2018 (with Haunt at number 12). The band has toured with Municipal Waste and Toxic Holocaust, as well as fellow metal travelers such as Hell Fire and Idle Hands. Haunt’s Spotify plays for 2020 reached 1 million streams.<h2>INTRANCED</h2>—LA-based metal/hard rock band feat. singer James-Paul Luna (Holy Grail), guitarist Fili Bibiano (Fortress) and drummer Ben Richardson (Wild Eyes). Building on their celebrated musical pasts, the trio were united by the goal of mining the deep, rich seams of classic heavy metal, with a premium on songwriting and a focus on the epic themes of real life: triumph, tragedy, and heartbreak. <h2>TRENCHER</h2>—Uncompromising Speed Metal. OAK, CA

Haunt

ciderup shows XXV presentsSATURDAY JAN 24TH<h2>“XX ATTACK FEST VOL 3”</h2>—<h2>SECRET HEADLINER - TBA</h2><h2>The Inciters</h2><h2>Hot Laundry</h2><h2>Bad Ass (LA)</h2><h2>Damage Party</h2><h2>Romper (OXNARD)</h2><h2>Beneath You</h2>— Doors 6pm / Show 6:30pm ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE—-IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+

XX Attack Fest Vol 4 Feat. SECRET HEADLINER TBA

ivy room presentsWEDNESDAY JAN 28TH(partially seated show)—<h2>Amendola/Frith/Dimuzio/Goldberg/Ochs</h2>akaStrolling Gnomes—Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pm$22 Advance / $25 Day of Show--IVY ROOM<h2>860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+ </h2><h2>Strolling Gnomes</h2>—Thomas Dimuzio - electronicsFred Frith - guitarBen Goldberg - clarinetLarry Ochs - tenor and sopranino saxophonesScott Amendola - drums/percussion/electronicsIt was bound to happen. These fine musicians and deep improvisors have shared the stage in various forms for the past 4 decades. It's about time they got together and explored the possibilities. Fred Frith has taken the guitar into new territory for decades. Thomas Dimuzio's use of electronics has the ability to create sounds unimaginable, and capture sounds of those he's playing with to create more of the unimaginable. Ben Goldberg will find himself in just about any kind of musical situation and come through as a unique voice and is more than up for the adventure. Larry Ochs has one of the most interesting voices on the saxophone. For decades he has pushed its limits. Scott Amendola knows drums and electronics, knows space and density, knows groove and soundscapes. Together, this evening will become an exciting foray into the realm of what's possible, imaginable, unimaginable, and memorable. SCOTT AMENDOLA—“If Scott Amendola didn't exist, the San Francisco music scene would have to invent him.” - Derk Richardson, San Francisco Bay Guardian “...drummer/signal-treater Scott Amendola is both a tyrant of heavy rhythm and an electric-haired antenna for outworldly messages (not a standard combination).” Greg Burk, LA Weekly For Scott Amendola, the drum kit isn’t so much an instrument as a musical portal. An ambitious composer, savvy bandleader and capaciously creative foil for some of the world’s most inventive musicians, Amendola applies his rhythmic virtuosity to a vast array of settings. His closest musical associates include guitarists, Nels Cline, Jeff Parker, Charlie Hunter, Hammond B-3 organist Wil Blades, violinists Regina Carter and Jenny Scheinman, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, players who have each forged a singular path within and beyond the realm of jazz. As a sideman, Amendola has performed and recorded with a vast, stylistically varied roster of artists, including Bill Frisell, John Zorn, Mike Patton, Mondo Cane, John Scofield, Cibo Matto, John Dieterich from Deerhoof, Wadada Leo Smith, Bruce Cockburn, Madeleine Peyroux, Joan Osborne, Jacky Terrasson, Shweta Jhaveri, Phil Lesh, Sex Mob, Kelly Joe Phelps, Larry Klein, Carla Bozulich, Wayne Horvitz, Johnny Griffin, Julian Priester, Sonny Simmons, Pat Martino, Jim Campilongo, Bobby Black, Larry Goldings, Paul McCandless, Rebecca Pidgeon, and the Joe Goode Dance Group. Visit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.scottamendola.com">www.scottamendola.com</a> for more info.

Amendola/Frith/Dimuzio/Goldberg/Ochs aka Strolling Gnomes

IVY ROOM PRESENTSSATURDAY FEB 7TH—<h2>ALTAR DE FEY</h2><h2>SCARLET’S REMAINS</h2><h2>EGRETS ON ERGOT</h2><h2>NORMAL WEIRDS</h2><h2>DJ ALLEY SHIVER</h2>—8:00 pm doors / 8:30 pm showAdvance Tickets Available&nbsp;—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>ALTAR DE FEY</h2>—Altar De Fey originated in San Francisco in the early 1980s as part of the emerging musical form that would come to be known as Deathrock.Out of the Zeitgeist flash of ’70s Punk Rock the new sound took the darkest elements of the counter culture into ever deeper gloomier and more mature territory.<h2>SCARLET’S REMAINS</h2>—Based out of Los Angeles, California, Scarlet's Remains formed in 2003 by founding member Tony Havoc (drums, formerly of Fear Cult, Horrorshow, Hatesex, Voodoo Church) who recruited Johann Schumann (bass and ex Christian Death, Shadow Project, Mephisto Walz) and Brian Elizondo (guitar ex Sludgeclot, Resulles)<h2>EGRETS ON ERGOT</h2>—LA based post punk, deathrock, experimental<h2>NORMAL WEIRDS</h2>—Normal Weirds are a dynamic punk band from the San Francisco East Bay, blending hardcore punk, heavy, post-punk, and deathrock into a sound uniquely their own.<h2>DJ ALLEY SHIVER</h2>—NYC Darkwave / Goth / Industrial / Post-Punk DJ and Promoter

ALTAR DE FEY x SCARLET'S REMAINS x EGRETS ON ERGOT

ivy room presentsTUESDAY FEB 9TH—<h2>NAIMA BOCK</h2><h2>MILDRED</h2>—Doors 7pm / Show 7:30pm ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE / $22 Door —IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<h2> NAIMA BOCK</h2>—Most of the writing of Naima Bock’s second album, Below A Massive Dark Land (out 27 September via Sub Pop), was a solitary affair. It may not sound it – it’s made up of strong, purposeful arrangements with a huge host of musicians; filled with cradling space and warm light. This will also come as a surprise to anyone who has seen Naima perform in the time since the release of her 2022 debut Giant Palm, undoubtedly a communal experience.With a band of ten, three, or even just solo, when Naima plays there’s a rare bond between the musicians on stage and the audience. In their interview with her, The Quietus declared “after every song the applause and cheering is immense, so immense in fact that it seems to be coming from a different place than the usual formalities of a live show, a link between performer and artist forged somewhere deeper and more personal.”It was in Giant Palm’s music too, a record that sweeps and swells, a chorus of voices and instrumentation that rises and falls as one alongside Naima’s own somersaulting voice.It’s true though, most of Below…’s songs started life very simply; Naima alone, living in her grandmother’s shed in South London, writing just with her voice, guitar and violin. She’s no violin virtuoso but had taken it up as a songwriting exercise for its ability to draw melodies from her – a trick that undoubtedly worked, these are songs that drift into the back of your mind and settle there like fallen leaves, songs you wake up singing. The remainder was written on the road after those moments of audience connection, in the quiet that follows.There’s power in the solitary too. Giant Palm was arranged with collaborator Joel Burton but going it alone in search of something truly hers, Naima found she was capable of more. “After me and Joel stopped working together”, she remembers, “it was an impossibility to even fathom doing arrangements myself but then I started learning violin. Playing it isn’t easy but writing melodies on it is”. Finding that she could go it alone was incredibly powerful for Naima, “I think I needed it, to be able to feel proud of something. Like, that’s me! That feels good.”Once that writing portion is over though, this ends. The record is not a stark, stripped back affair. Below… still has that majesty that made Giant Palm so remarkable. Tugging the first record down from the skies and spreading it across the earth; there’s a newfound vocal power and confidence born from hundreds of hours on stage and the music sounds fuller, more tangible, but no less enveloping.This can be found in the album’s lead singles. ‘Kaley’ feels fresh and surprising in its rug-pull choppiness but is distinctly Naima in its swinging, jubilant choruses. The accompanying ‘Further Away’ takes a different tack, drawing you irresistibly near in its simplicity. Finally, the hazy, luxurious beauty of ‘Feed My Release’ draws on the sepia-toned traditions of The Roches, John Prine and Loudon Wainwright III but imbues them with the kind of stark confessional songwriting of Mount Eerie. Lyrically reaching deeper and darker than Giant Palm, these are ambitious, rich arrangements.‘Kaley’ and ‘Age’ were produced by Naima herself and ‘Feed My Release’ was produced by Naima and caroline’s Oliver Hamilton who also helped in various places with arrangement. For the bulk of the record however, Naima brought her arrangement ideas into The Crypt Studios in London where she worked with Bristolian duo Jack Ogborne (aka Bingo Fury) &amp; Joe Jones who were working together and producing for the first time outside of Ogborne’s own album, alongside a core band of Clem Appleby (Bass, Backing vocals), Meitar Wegman (Saxophone), Oscar De Guardans (Backing vocals, Electric Guitar, Harmonium) and Cassidy Hansen (Drums, Backing vocals) alongside and expansive choir, horn and string section. “I put my foot down slightly more this time but that’s not to detract from how much everyone put into it,” Naima says, “it shouldn’t be understated their contribution to the record”.Having not gelled with slicker, more experienced producers, Naima found the duo a production team who were able to take her ideas and apply a boundless enthusiasm and meticulous attention to detail in executing them. They had a remarkable knack for knowing exactly how to record Naima’s less-concrete ideas and a flexibility in getting what she needed particularly when it came to recording her voice. “I do still struggle with singing in the studio”, Naima recalls, “we had to figure it out. I kept having to put myself in different places like in the hallway, or in another room just to be able to access something”.During the release of Giant Palm, Naima spoke about how she left previous bands and went it alone due to difficulty enjoying touring. However, with headline tours including London’s EartH and support shows for artists such as A. Savage, J. Mascis, Squid, Rodrigo Amarente, Arab Strap, and This is the Kit, Naima’s feet have hardly touched the ground since 2022. Instead, what she found is her place in touring, largely entirely alone. “I managed to find my favourite little safe spaces”, she says, “its nice compiling spots like that in every city, now every time I circle back to the place, there's like at least five or six people I know”.This is touring at its most romantic. “Traipsing around and playing music”, staying with artists, friends, or just friendly people and finding the artistic pockets in every city. Naima has always been slightly nomadic – living as a child between Brazil, Greece, and all over London – and that background has now led to a place where she’s truly fallen for touring and travel. This appears in the album title which comes from Olga Tokarczuk’s book Flights, a description of the view from an aeroplane. It’s a title that initially may sound imposing but in its context this vastness, dimpled with the weak glow of city lights, is a form of comfort.These safe spaces bleed into the writing; songs written hiking the wide horizons of Tucson, Arizona or inspired by the residents of one particular Amsterdam hotel with a penchant for swimming naked in the canal behind. ‘Further Away’ meanwhile was written on a rare non-musical holiday in Greece, “after about four days without an instrument, I start getting itchy. So, I went to the shop and bought a tiny bouzouki and wrote it on that”. This became the album’s starkest moment, one of those rare songs that arrived so tender and fully-formed it didn’t need to be touched.It’s not all grand vistas and clear waters though. There were lonely, difficult moments and clarifying conversations in these places around things like depression, family and abortion, relationships and break-ups and growing old that melded with Naima’s own experiences, bringing them into view for her, working their way into her lyrics and finding release.It's these types of conversations that mean the lyrical content of Below… often yearns for more stability. ‘Gentle’ wrestles with ideas of settling more. “It's something I'd like to do one day but my tendency is to move, I find myself unable to feel fully at home in the world”, she says, “I just feel like it would be difficult to bridge that gap”. The album elsewhere is often interested in the process of ageing. This comes in the reckoning that “gravity is just kind of slowly pulling us down” in ‘My Sweet Body’, a song where sweetness is gently tinged with a creeping unease as she sings “I cannot seem to look after this body”. “It’s beautiful” Naima says, “but emotional to think about and a burden sometimes”. The traps we can fall into as we age appear in the wry good time of ‘Age’. Naima saw this first-hand on a less pleasant touring experience staying with someone whose “things were better in my day” mindset consumed and warped otherwise well-intentioned beliefs.This results in a record that may occasionally appear to contradict itself; communal but solitary, rooted in place but free, intimate but spacious. This, however, is what makes Below… comforting and familiar. Who doesn’t contain within them these contradictions, who doesn’t want things that are directly at odds with each other. Like the safe spaces Naima has found the world over, Below… doesn’t require all the answers, not yet, but provides a safe place to look.<h2>mildred</h2>— mildred is a band from Oakland, CA of four equal parts: four singers, four songwriters. Their debut EP 'mild' released via Memorials of Distinction / Dog Day Records.mildred were first friends, then roommates, then a band. Their songs are the result of living room sessions before and after dinner. The border between the living/practice room and kitchen was open and porous.Jack and Henry grew up in Portland, Oregon at rival schools. Henry and Will met in their mid-20s and discovered they were third cousins (their grannies were best friends). Matt met Henry many years back after spending summers on the same farm in Southern Oregon.The songs that make up mild were recorded over the course of a couple weekends in the living room, Will and Jack had amassed enough janky microphones and working knowledge of the recording process to duct tape their way through a recording session.released October 3, 2025

Naima Bock • Mildred

CIDERUP SHOWS XXVI PRESENTSSATURDAY FEB 14TH—<h2>ULTRA MODE&nbsp;</h2><h2>JUST LIKE HEAVEN&nbsp;</h2><h2>DJ CHAT NOIR</h2>—8:00 pm doors / 8:30 pm showAdvance Tickets Available&nbsp;—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2></h2>

ULTRA MODE - LIVE TRIBUTE TO DEPECHE MODE

ivy room presentsSATURDAY FEB 21ST—<h2>MAMA’S BROKE</h2><h2>plus special guests</h2>—Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pm $20 Advance / $25 Day of Show— IVY ROOM 860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+ MAMA’S BROKE—Mama’s Broke have spent the past ten years in a near-constant state of transience, pounding the transatlantic tour trail. They've brought their dark, fiery folk-without-borders sound to major festivals and DIY punk houses alike, absorbing traditions from their maritime home in Eastern Canada all the way to Ireland and Indonesia. Nowhere is the duo's art-in-motion approach more apparent than on their long-awaited sophomore record Narrow Line (May 13, 2022 on Free Dirt Records); it's the sound of nowhere in particular, yet woven with a rich synthesis of influences that knows no borders. It earned them a JUNO nomination for Traditional Roots Album of the Year 2022. The eleven songs on Narrow Line burrow deeply, with close harmony duets, commanding vocals, and poignant contemplations on cycles of life, including birth and death. Tinges of Americana stand side-by-side with the ghosts of Eastern European fiddle tunes and ancient a cappella ballad singing, melding into an unusually accessible dark-folk sound. A careful listen of Narrow Line invokes an ephemeral sense of place—whether real or imagined—inviting us to take comfort in the infinite possibilities of life, whether or not we ever choose to settle down. For a group defined by constant touring, it’s not surprising that the two artists that make up Mama’s Broke, Lisa Maria and Amy Lou Keeler, met on the road. As Lisa remembers it, “Amy was driving her old Mercedes from Montreal to Nova Scotia and I was looking for a ride. We spent the 17 hours in the car talking almost exclusively about music. By the time we reached Halifax we started playing together, and within a week or two became a band.” Both coming out of traveling communities that are focused on music and protest, the two owe the way in which they move through the world to the integrated and self-sustaining nature of DIY culture and activism. It was a busy life that took them on a roundabout annual touring schedule running between Canada, the United States, Ireland, the UK, and Europe. In each country, they built grassroots DIY communities to support their music or moved along the pathways of communal organizing that sustained other touring artists. The driving force behind this band is – and has always been – the commitment to challenge borders between people, places, and traditions; while encouraging freedom of expression and community through music.

Mama's Broke

SATURDAY MARCH 7THartdontsleep, the uc theatre and ivy room presents—<h2>JAZZ IS DEAD</h2><h2>A LIVE PERFORMANCE BY COCHEMEA</h2>—Doors 7pm / Show 8pmAdvance Tickets Available / $30 Day of Show—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA • 21+—<h2> COCHEMEA</h2>Music is in multi-instrumentalist and composer Cochemea Gastelum’s blood—he comes from a long line of musicians on both sides of his lineage. For over 25 years, Cochemea has built a distinct career as a soloist, section player, and composer/ arranger, collaborating with artists across genres— from his long tenure with Sharon Jones and the Dap- Kings to work with Kevin Morby, Run The Jewels, Jon Batiste, Amy Winehouse, The Roots, Archie Shepp, Mark Ronson, and Quincy Jones, among many others.His forthcoming album on Daptone Records, Vol. 3: Ancestros Futuros, is the third volume in a series that includes All My Relations (2019) and Vol. 2: Baca Sewa (2021). Across his body of work, Cochemea interweaves the past, present, and future, engaging with time as speculative history— one that moves fluidly between memory and possibility.For Vol. 3: Ancestros Futuros, he gathered a core group of longtime collaborators—a powerhouse octet of New York City percussionists and members of Daptone’s famed rhythm section. Gabriel Roth (aka Bosco Mann) returned as producer and mixing engineer, capturing the band live to 8-track analog tape. Accompanied by a 9-minute film mixed in Dolby Atmos, this volume also marks Cochemea’s evolution into visual storytelling.Cochemea’s previous releases have been praised by DJs and critics alike. His Daptone debut, All My Relations, was a family reunion of sorts, uniting spirits, musicians, and melodies across time and place. Leading a nine-piece ensemble, he recombined ancient elements— drums, winds, and voice—into a deeply personal meditation on the interconnection of all things. Vol. 2: Baca Sewa directed this exploration into the archives of family history, mythology, and the cultural imaginary. Pitchfork called All My Relations “equal parts spiritual journey and irrepressible funk.” Mojo awarded the album four stars, noting “its message of harmony and oneness is universal,” while Downbeat described Vol. 2: Baca Sewa as “radiating like a flower from beginning to end.”Vol. 3: Ancestros Futuros is anchored in the cultural fabric that has nurtured Cochemea from the beginning. A California native of Yaqui ancestry, Cochemea describes a central part of his work as “accessing ancestral memory that comes in different forms—sometimes when you visit a place, sometimes in dreams... it’s in our DNA. For me, it’s about seeking wholeness in these zones of fracture.”Dreams play a vital role in his creative process. “A lot of melodies come to me through dreams,” he shares. “I’ve kept a record of them for years, shaping the language into dream scores as foundations for compositions that connect the conscious and unconscious realm.” One such score appears on the back cover of Ancestros Futuros, reflecting the intuitive and layered nature of his work. This dream- guided approach informs the album’s opening track, Transmisión del Soñar, which serves as a portalbetween dimensions.The album is also shaped by stories of survival and resistance. The title track, Ancestros Futuros, draws from a story of a Yaqui midwife who would bury the navels of newborns in the ground so that future generations would rise and reclaim the land. “I was thinking about survival as a continuum connecting past and future generations,” Cochemea explains, a theme that echoes throughout his compositions.Cochemea’s musical and spiritual synthesis is made possible through his reverence for the horn and the music and traditions that precede him. His distinct voice as a saxophonist and flutist places him within a lineage of players who honor the past while blending dexterity with invention. Inspired by heroes like Eddie Harris, Yusef Lateef, Jim Pepper, and Gato Barbieri, he coaxes his instruments into intimate and expressive realms, bridging ancestral rhythmic traditions with forward- looking vision, creating a signature sound that is both deeply rooted and expansive.Vol. 3: Ancestros Futuros finds Cochemea building worlds of sound, blending past, present, and future into a ritual offering —an evolving sonic fiction carried across space-time, where memory, survival, and imagination converge.

JAZZ IS DEAD - A LIVE PERFORMANCE BY COCHEMEA

DOLL FEST PRESENTSFRIDAY MARCH 27TH—<h2>SKIP THE NEEDLE</h2><h2>LAST MINET</h2><h2>BENEATH YOU</h2><h2>WONDERLAND REJECTS</h2>—6:30 pm doors / 7:00 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE / $25 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2> DOLL FEST VOL II PRE PARTY!</h2>Doll Fest 2026 kicks off with a pre-show of Bay Area femme-fronted bands.—Doll Fest is a celebration of the feminine energy, friendship, and gathering together of a community in support of one another. We recognize that femme-dom is a powerhouse feeling, emotion, and revolution in action. Following the footsteps of previous incarnations of feminine fests such as Lilith Fair and She Shreds, Doll Fest aims to be the next femme music and arts festival, showcasing two full days of all femme-fronted bands and artists, including pioneering bands that brought the Riot Grrl movement to life and active bands today that are paving the legacy of grrl power.We are still battling for true equality against the archaic non-values of patriarchy, still fighting for the power over our own bodies, and still proving our worth as voices to be heard. Doll Fest intends to bring together like-minded folx who embody the true spirit of Doll Fest - through empowerment, resilience, and nurturing of communities. We are anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, anti-racist, anti-police violence and strictly anti-fascist. Let’s rise up the dolls every March!<h2>SKIP THE NEEDLE</h2>—Skip The Needle is an Oakland-based queer female quartet made up of Bay Area superstars; Vicki Randle, Shelley Doty, Kofy Brown and Katie Cash who fashion punk, funk and soul influenced rock they like to call black dyke rock. As the name implies, they are musically diverse and bring a biting, socially conscious message, delivered with radical joy. Formed in 2014, Skip The Needle has released two full-length albums and an EP - Octavia Of Earth, Volume 2, inspired by black feminist icon Octavia E. Butler, released by Soulectric - A division of Little Village Foundation and digitally released by Side Hustle Records in July of 2024. They are honored to have received the Local Sirens Residency grant from Women’s Audio Mission, writing and producing their upcoming EP.Though playfulness and exuberance are an integral part of Skip The Needle’s performances, reflections on issues of justice and equity, especially black, queer and women’s rights are the driving force behind much of their collective writing. The songs on Wake Up Wake Up Wake Up reflect the idea that socially conscious music can edify, inspire and rejuvenate. Four distinctly different voices and musical styles coming together as one spawned the name Skip The Needle and their messages of hope and inspiration, delivered with driving, infectious funk, rock and soul.<h2>LAST MINET</h2>—Last Minet is an all-female alternative rock band from CA/NJ/NY that has been commanding attention since 2006 with their bold, high-energy sound and unique fusion of power-driven rock. Known for their raw intensity and captivating stage presence, the band has carved out a distinct musical identity that blends unique riffs, emotional vocals, and dynamic rhythms.Currently performing as a trio, Last Minet is fronted by Zuri Fadul (vocals/guitar), whose powerful and evocative performance is backed by the relentless rhythms of Jovanna Cedeno (drums) and the driving bass lines of Lola Vieira-Sullivan (bass/vocals). Together, they delivers an unmissable live experience, pushing the boundaries of alternative rock with every performance.<h2>BENEATH YOU</h2>—Forged in 2021 during the COVID-19 shutdown, Beneath You started when the bassist Serge Verkhovsky (Limp, Year Of The Fist) met the singer Mary Diridon (Mary Diri, Bitter Pearl). What started as a casual conversation about their mutual love of songwriting quickly turned into a collaboration blending Serge's pop punk sensibilities and Mary's melodic vocals.In true pandemic style, they recorded in their Bay Area home studios and worked remotely with session musicians around the world on their debut EP Unhinged and follow-up singles Better Days and Misunderstood.When the world opened back up, Mary and Serge enlisted the Hammon brothers of Dance Hall Crashers, with Gavin on drums and Jason on guitar. Gavin and Jason each brought their own kind of punk, plus touches of ska and alt-rock to mix in with Beneath You's pop-punk/emo sound. The result is an eclectic and ever-changing sound paired with thoughtful and complex lyrics.<h2>WONDERLAND REJECTS</h2>—Queercore riot girl punk trio from Oakland

DOLL FEST VOL II PRE PARTY! w/ SKIP THE NEEDLE

IVY ROOM PRESENTSSUNDAY NOV 16TH—<h2>M.U.T.T.</h2><h2>PRIMITIVE HEADS</h2><h2>FALSE FLOWERS</h2><h2>RED WOOD</h2>—6:00 pm doors / 6:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $15 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—<h2></h2><h2>M.U.T.T.</h2>—Formed from the ashes of Culture Abuse, M.U.T.T. features John Jr., Matt Walker, Isa Anderson, and Shane Plitt, four seasoned punks with nothing to prove and nothing to lose. Their 2022 debut Bad To The Bone was praised for its stripped-down, four-chord fury and no-frills attitude. M.U.T.T. proudly carries the torch of San Francisco’s underground rock lineage, from the swagger of The Flamin’ Groovies to the emotional grit of Jawbreaker. 'Bad To The Bone' delivered everything John Jr. wanted Culture Abuse to be—but never was: fast, loud, and unapologetically punk. Gone were the polished radio hooks and slowing tempos, replaced by raw, four-chord rippers that barreled forward with reckless energy. Equal parts Ramones-style minimalism and sleazy California glam, M.U.T.T. is the sound of four friends tearing through the night, looking for trouble—and maybe a parking lot to party in.<h2>PRIMITIVE HEADS</h2>—Call it punk. Call it art rock. Call it a panic attack with a backbeat. Primitive Heads crash between styles with no interest in genre obedience. It's all jagged structure, searing wit, and a voice that doesn’t sing as much as it detonates.<h2>FALSE FLOWERS</h2>—FALSE FLOWERS musical offerings beguile you with the enchantingly darkened atmospheres of stark post-punk, driving death rock, and bleak dark wave.<h2>RED WOOD</h2>—Red Wood is a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area. The band formed in 2014 and currently has 6 members. Red Wood went on hiatus in 2017 and reunited after the covid pandemic.

Primitive Heads - Record Release w/ M.U.T.T. x False Flowers x Red Wood

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PRIVATE EVENT

ivy room presentsFRIDAY NOV 14TH—<h2>PARTY FORCE</h2><h2>THE VAXXINES</h2><h2>TOUCH ME HOOKER</h2><h2>DJ TERRIBLE TIMMY</h2><h2>AND SPECIAL GUESTS NEON KROSS</h2>—$6.66 ADV TICKETS AVAILABLE7PM Doors / 8PM SHOWIVY ROOM | 21+<h2>PARTY FORCE</h2>—Party Force have been working to offend the Bay Area for years and have a couple of self-published singles, another one coming, to show for it. Fast, ugly punk, just the way we like it.<h2>THE VAXXINES</h2>—The Vaxxines. Loud rocknroll singalong anthems from Oakland, CA!!<h2>TOUCH ME HOOKER</h2>—Legendary San Francisco glam punk n’ roll powerhouse featuring ex-members of Black Athletes, Free Beer, The Afflicted and Mordred<h2>NEON KROSS</h2>—Post-Punk from Los Angeles, CA. since 2007, featuring Daniel deLeon (Rezurex)

PARTY FORCE • THE VAXXINES • TOUCH ME HOOKER • NEON KROSS • DJ TIMMY TERRIBLE 

ivy room presentsTHURS NOV 13TH—<h2>SILVER SHORES</h2><h2>DON’T TELL KATE</h2><h2>PAPERFACE</h2><h2>DELTA WAVE</h2>—Doors 7:00 pm / Show 7:30 pmAdvance Tickets Available—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<h2></h2><h2>SILVER SHORES</h2>—Emerging from the vibrant indie scene of Oakland, Silver Shores is an indie rock band that blends shimmering guitar riffs, introspective lyrics, and dynamic rhythms into a sound that’s both timeless and refreshingly modern. Formed in 2022, the band is currently composed of Andrew Magcale, Mario Amanzio, Jon Andrews, and Haley Shevener—each bringing their own unique influence, from indie and alternative to shoegaze and folk.<h2>DON’T TELL KATE</h2>—Don't Tell Kate sound like a mixtape from your favorite 90s dive bar—fuzzy guitars, anthemic vocals, and hooks that stick. Formed after a BBQ jam session, the band—Kate, Brick, Nick, and Mark—found instant chemistry and never looked back.Their debut record, Magic Villain, is now spinning on vinyl and streaming everywhere.<h2>paperface</h2>—paperface is a 3 piece band from the east bay. Their first album (paperface) was written, mixed, recorded, and produced 100% independently. They are influenced by punk and alternative rock. <h2>DELTA WAVE</h2>—Sometimes we play fast. On occasion we play slow. We will eat your soul.<h2></h2>

SILVER SHORES • DON'T TELL KATE • PAPERFACE • DELTA WAVE

IVY ROOM PRESENTSWEDNESDAY NOV 12TH—<h2>SASHA DOBSON</h2><h2>FRANCO NERO</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 7:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE / $20 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>SASHA DOBSON</h2>—a home coming for the girl next door…Sasha Dobson returns to her hometown with a plentiful and heartfelt body of original music as well as 25 years of experience touring and performing on the NY jazz and singer songwriter scene. Sasha tours under her own name and numerous times with Norah Jones , as her guitarist and back up vocalist but also with their collaboration band, Puss n Boots ( a three piece vocal group consisting of Sasha, Norah J and Catherine’s Popper). Sasha has opened for Willie Nelson, Neil young and also plays drums for the legendary Pi power Trio lead by B52s guitarist Pat Irwin.Dobson says her greatest most profound influence in art and in life were her parents, bay Area jazz royalty, Smith and Gail Dobson. Her father Bay Area Jazz legend, Smith Dobson and mother, San Francisco native music educator and jazz vocalist Gail Dobson. Sasha brother and hero, multi-instrumentalist, Smith Dobson Jr will be a featured artist on this show.Sasha will be sharing a hybrid of original music and a few jazz standards. Trading instruments with her brother Smith Dobson and even debuting some of the newest songs written for her forth coming album.<h2>FRANCO NERO</h2>—Franco Nero Pays tribute to Don Drummond and his compositions, helping to keep Ska alive. Bandleader and trombonist Scott Larson founded the band out of a long standing love and respect for traditional Jamaican music. Franco Nero combines the music of Ska, Rock Steady and Reggae to provide a wide range of musical traditions. Franco Nero is comprised of some of the finest Bay Area musicians who bring their improvisational skills, along with hard-driving beats, to push the traditions of Ska.

SASHA DOBSON • FRANCO NERO

House of Chaos Productions—TUES NOV 11TH—<h2>TREASURE’S 50TH BIRTHDAY ROAST!</h2>—6pm doors / 7pm show—IVY ROOM | 21+—<h2>Join us for an evening of laughter and community as we celebrate Treasure turning 50!</h2>House of Chaos Productions presents this epic 50th birthday roast with performances by some of your favorites!There will be music, burlesque, drag, pole performances and more!Join us as we show our resistance through queer joy. All are welcome.

TREASURE'S 50TH BIRTHDAY ROAST! 

IVY ROOM PRESENTSSUNDAY NOV 9THpartially seated—<h2>JEFFREY FOUCAULT</h2><h2>PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS</h2>—6:00 pm doors / 7:00 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $25 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>JEFFREY FOUCAULT</h2>—In two decades on the road Jeffrey Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed studio albums – “Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” (The New Yorker), "Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection” (Uncut), “Songwriting Brilliance,” (Irish Times) – he’s built a brick-and-mortar international touring career and a devoted following, one that includes hard to please luminaries like Van Dyke Parks, Greil Marcus, and Don Henley.In September 2024 Jeffrey Foucault will release THE UNIVERSAL FIRE (Fluff &amp; Gravy, 9/6/24), his first album of entirely new material since 2018. A series of high-voltage performances cut live in one room, the album is both a working wake – Foucault lost his best friend and drummer Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 – and a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss.Augmenting Foucault's all-star band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver (drummer John Convertino and producer/saxophonist Mike Lewis), THE UNIVERSAL FIRE sets Conway’s death against the massive 2008 fire at the Universal Studios lot in California that destroyed the master recordings of some of our bedrock American music, to interrogate ideas about mortality, legacy, meaning, and calling.

JEFFREY FOUCAULT

IVY ROOM PRESENTSSUNDAY NOV 9THpartially seated—<h2>JEFFREY FOUCAULT</h2><h2>Erik Koskinen</h2><h2>Marco Baroz</h2>—6:00 pm doors / 7:00 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>JEFFREY FOUCAULT</h2>—In two decades on the road Jeffrey Foucault has become one of the most distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed studio albums – “Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape of his native Midwest” (The New Yorker), "Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to dolorous perfection” (Uncut), “Songwriting Brilliance,” (Irish Times) – he’s built a brick-and-mortar international touring career and a devoted following, one that includes hard to please luminaries like Van Dyke Parks, Greil Marcus, and Don Henley.In September 2024 Jeffrey Foucault will release THE UNIVERSAL FIRE (Fluff &amp; Gravy, 9/6/24), his first album of entirely new material since 2018. A series of high-voltage performances cut live in one room, the album is both a working wake – Foucault lost his best friend and drummer Billy Conway, to cancer in 2021 – and a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss.Augmenting Foucault's all-star band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver (drummer John Convertino and producer/saxophonist Mike Lewis), THE UNIVERSAL FIRE sets Conway’s death against the massive 2008 fire at the Universal Studios lot in California that destroyed the master recordings of some of our bedrock American music, to interrogate ideas about mortality, legacy, meaning, and calling.<h2>Erik Koskinen</h2>—Erik Koskinen is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, whose music is not categorized by sub-genres. Stylistically he is on his own while heavily influenced by American roots music. The rhythmic integrity and musical tone is as important as the lyrical content and the artistic intent. Koskinen has reverently entered the anthology of uniquely crafted wry songs with the likes of Woody Guthrie and Ry Cooder while speaking as plainly as your neighbor. The Minneapolis Star Tribune calls Koskinen “the real deal” and “The Best country songwriter in Minnesota”

ivy room presents—SATURDAY NOV 8TH—BOOT JUICETHE GOLD SOULS7:30 pm doors / 8 pm showAdvance Tickets Available—IVY ROOM | 21+<h2></h2><h2>BOOT JUICE</h2>—The evolution of Boot Juice has been a magnificent phenomenon to behold over the past few years. This seven-piece band from Davis has done things the old-fashioned way – earning everything they have with blood, sweat and tears shed on stages throughout the region. It’s been more sweat than anything else based on the practically inhuman volume of energy output they generate throughout the course of their relentless performances.Boot Juice defies the typical assumption that a big band with horns is sticking to the well-worn path of funk and jazz. They certainly infuse those genres into the mix. More than anything though, this is an unabashed cosmic rock band intent on taking audiences into an alternate dimension of pure freedom and dance euphoria where the outside world ceases to exist. Their three-part vocal harmonies carry major impact with intoxicating doses of soul, blues and sultry appeal. The passionate musicianship and group synergy resonates in their pure sense of joy. Drawing favorable comparisons to the sound of The California Honey Drops and the spirit of the Talking Heads, you’ll have no doubt that the refreshing originality of Boot Juice always has a firm grip on the wheel.<h2>THE GOLD SOULS</h2>—The driving grooves of funk, rich textures of soul, and the compelling storytelling of the blues converge through The Gold Souls’ unique brand of boogie. Captivating lyrics tell modern tales, while fresh arrangements propel a classic sound, inspiring audiences everywhere with positive messages straight from the heart to the dance floor.Led by the dynamic Juniper Waller, the group is made up of young talent hailing from the Bay and Sacramento areas, and boasts the region's first all women horn section. With Alex Severson on the keys, Billy D. Thompson on the drums, Madison Armstrong on saxophone, Liliana Moore on trumpet, Kari Anne Estrada on trombone, Chris Paisley on guitar, and Avery Jeffry on bass, each member has a hand in writing and song composition, making The Gold Souls a truly collaborative effort.

BOOT JUICE + THE GOLD SOULS

ivy room presentsFRIDAY NOV 7TH—<h2>WESTERLY</h2><h2>AARON SKILES BAND</h2><h2>TRAVIS HAYES</h2>—Doors 7:00 pm / Show 8 pmAdvance Tickets Available / $15 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<h2> WESTERLY</h2>—Americana Rock &amp; RollWesterly is an indie-folk, rock band formed around the songs of singer and guitarist Sterling Spence. Originating in the San Francisco Bay Area, the five-piece has spread across the state and performs regularly in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Storytellers at heart, Westerly writes about spirituality, love, and the state of the world. Though they integrate roots influences, the band is expressly not a retrospective. Their sound brings contemporary flourishes that often give nod to the R&amp;B, punk, and indie rock scenes that have characterized the West Coast musical landscape of free love, passion, and protest.With three EPs and three full-length albums under their belt, Westerly has actively played live and toured, gracing clubs, bars, coffee shops, radio stations, old folks homes and circus tents. The band’s original songs and dynamic performances are known to get a crowd on their feet and dancing, melt faces with screaming guitar solos and deliver crowds to tears with its intimate songwriting and heartfelt performances.Westerly’s lineup includes Sterling Spence (lead vocals, guitar), Scott Wilson (lead guitar), Mike Bond (drums), Shiva Garshasbi (vocals), Jeff Peck (bass), and Jake Nickless (keys). The band has been featured extensively on Bay Area radio stations including KPFA, KALW, KALX, and Mutiny Radio and are beloved regular performers in both the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles scenes.<h2> AARON SKILES band</h2>—Rock 'n' Roll with an Americana SplashBased out of Oakland, CAAaron Skiles creates music for the good times...and the bad. His guitar-driven, anthemic songs are designed to give you a boost before you go out, or give you something to retreat to should you decide to stay home instead.In 2022, Aaron released a rock album featuring members of the Drive-By Truckers and others, WRECKAGE FROM THE FIRE. According to Jason Warburg of The Daily Vault, WRECKAGE is "a vibe of brash, loud, slightly ragged but ultimately majestic indie-rock that draws heavily from the classics."In 2023, Aaron released his follow-up album, WHISTLE PAST THE GRAVE, which was voted by Americana Highways readers as Album of the Year for 2023. The album follows a similar raw, rocking tone as his previous release, and again features Taylor Hollingsworth on lead guitar. It’s a fast-paced tour of introspective songs taking on themes of justice, or the lack thereof, in the way that one lives their life. Jon Worley, of Aiding &amp; Abetting, says about the record, "Skiles is one hell of a songwriter, and he's just as skilled and charismatic in his recording. What a wonderful, spiky breeze."<h2>TRAVIS HAYES</h2>—Travis Hayes has shared the stage with Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio, blink-182), Graham Coxon (Blur), John Nolan (Taking Back Sunday, Straylight Run), Nathaniel Rateliff (The Night Sweats), The Band Perry, Langhorne Slim, Blitzen Trapper, John Moreland, The Record Company, Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music), Lucero, Tim Barry (Avail) and more.In addition to traveling the country (10+ cross-country tours, SXSW x3, Rockwood Music Hall NYC, Hotel Cafe LA, Off Beat Music Festival Reno), Travis Hayes has performed locally at The Fillmore, The Warfield, The Mountain Winery, Bimbo’s 365 Club, Rickshaw Stop, The Chapel, August Hall, Sweetwater Music Hall and has headlined Great American Music Hall, The Independent and Bottom of the Hill for the Noise Pop Music Festival.

WESTERLY • AARON SKILES BAND • TRAVIS HAYES

ivy room presents—THURSDAY NOV 6TH—<h2>SHANE HALL</h2><h2>J BROCK AND THE SHAKEDOWNS</h2><h2>FAIL SALON</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 8 pm showAdvance Tickets Available—IVY ROOM | 21+<h2></h2><h2>SHANE HALL</h2>—Shane Hall is an award-winning singer-songwriter based in Oceanside, California, whose electrifying presence is redefining the Indie music scene. With his signature “Fuzz Funk Voodoo Blues,” Hall masterfully blends elements of Blues, Soul, Funk, Americana, Rock, and Alternative into a captivating and one-of-a-kind sound that resonates with authenticity.Shane Hall’s larger-than-life voice has led him to standout performances at iconic venues and festivals. From electrifying shows at Colorado’s legendary Red Rocks with the reggae-rock band Pepper, to opening for Mike Campbell of Tom Petty &amp; the Heartbreakers, and gracing major stages at Coachella, Burning Man, Electric Forest, and Lightning in a Bottle, Shane Hall has made a significant impact on the music scene.In 2021, his track “Under My Voodoo” won the San Diego Music Award for Best Americana, Jazz, or Blues Song. His latest album, Howl &amp; Sway (LAW Records), released in 2023 through Pacific Records and produced by two-time Grammy-nominated Joe Marlett, has achieved notable success.In 2024, Howl &amp; Sway reached #1 on the Apple iTunes Blues chart, won Best Blues Album at the San Diego Music Awards, and received recognition from the Grammy® Academy. This album represents the culmination of Shane Hall’s dedication and artistic evolution over the past two decades.Shane has recently released his residency album, collaborating on tracks with Kaleo Waksman of Pepper and Rymo from Slightly Stooped. He also released the first single froim a new project with Hawaii’s groundbreaking artist Tavana and legendary percussionist Lopaka Colon.<h2>J BROCK AND THE SHAKEDOWNS</h2>—New band featuring (Darwin of The Helltones)<h2>FAIL SALON</h2>—Oakland CA Trailer-Park Punk (Featuring Simone from Hypnotic Pattern)

SHANE HALL

Bang The Bay PresentsWEDNESDAY NOV 5TH—<h2>BANG THE BAY!</h2><h2>Feat.</h2><h2>SILICON HEARTS (EX CASUAL VIBES)</h2><h2>EVERYTHING BUT THE EVERYTHING</h2><h2>LOWLIFE COACH</h2><h2>ELEGANT TRASH</h2><h2>CRETINS</h2><h2>SEND THE VEKTORS</h2><h2>MATTHEW DUNEHOO/MARY CHICKEN SOUP AND RICE</h2>—Every First and Third Wednesday at the Ivy RoomEarly show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Doors 6:00pm / Show 6:30pmPRESALE TIX AVAILABLE / $10-$20 DOOR(*VIP includes a grab bag full of cool stuff! incl A CD, pins, stickers, patches, T-shirts and other new monthly gifts)—IVY ROOM | 21+

BANG THE BAY! SILICON HEARTS (EX CASUAL VIBES) • EVERYTHING BUT THE EVERYTHING • LOWLIFE COACH 

Speakeasy Studio presentsSUNDAY NOV 2ND—<h2>Andrés Miguel Cervantes Noelle &amp; The Deserters</h2><h2>Andy Cabic (dj set)</h2>—Doors 6:00pm / Show 7:00pmADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+— <h2>Andrés Miguel Cervantes</h2>—Andrés Miguel Cervantes is a folk/country singer-songwriter and a finger-picking guitar player who is bringing back his western noir desert soundscapes on November 1st with the release of his second full-length album,Songs for the Seance.Born and raised in San Diego, while calling the SF Bay Area home, Cervantes' music is influenced by songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, and Fred Neil, and singers such as Vicente "Chente" Fernandez, George Jones, and Merle Haggard.His debut album, The Crossing, was released in 2022 by Speakeasy Studios SF, an independent label owned and operated by the producer Alicia Vanden Heuvel. Andrés has sold out venues such as Pappy and Harriet's in Pioneertown and Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, and he performs regularly at venues in California and the Southwest.Cervantes' lyrics and songcraft are distinctly his own, with beautiful, haunting images of landscapes both internal and external delivered with his virtuosic folk guitar finger-picking style. His songs are suffused with a dreamlike atmosphere and performed with a unique vocal range. His latest album, Songs For The Seance, is a meditation on the collection of memories that live inside all of us, whether they are experienced, dreamed, or inherited from our ancestors. It touches on themes of identity, the need for belonging, loss, isolation, and hope.Like his debut, The Crossing, this new album was recorded to Otari ½" 8 track with collaborator and producer Alicia Vanden Heuvel. There is a warmth present in his recordings, and the sonic landscapes he creates break new ground in the tradition of American western country folk music. The album takes the listener on a poignant, poetic, thoroughly relevant, and well-crafted musical journey.<h2>Noelle &amp; The Deserters</h2>—Noelle &amp; The Deserters bring South-Western honky tonk from the high deserts of New Mexico to the golden hills of California. Fronted by singer-songwriter Noelle Fiore, their music draws inspiration from the likes of Emmylou Harris, Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, J.J Cale, Gene Clark, Townes Van Zandt, and the great outlaw country players. The Deserters include seasoned players Graham Norwood (guitar), Alicia Vanden Heuvel (The Aislers Set)(bass), David Cuetter (Tarnation)(pedal steel), and Jerry Fiore (Sonic Love Affair)(drums), all based in the Bay Area and Sacramento. Noelle was raised in Taos, New Mexico. As a guitar player and vocalist, she was a founding member of Sweet Chariot, singing and playing guitar/ banjo. Later, she and Tim Cohen (The Fresh &amp; Onlys) founded the band Magic Trick, recording four full length albums for labels Hardly Art and Captured Tracks. Noelle is also a current member of the Shannon Shaw Band, on guitar and vocals.High Desert Daydream is Noelle &amp; The Deserters debut album, out on Speakeasy Studios SF. The songs on the album touch on life in the west, growing up in Taos, living in California, songs of love, memory, marriage, work, good times, and bad times. Like all classic country music, the songs are infused with a sense of real-life struggles and living life in the everyday. Noelle’s incredible voice carries the album, and her songs are at once moving, powerful, tender, humorous, and intimately relatable.<h2>Andy Cabic</h2>—Andy Cabic of Vetiver’s musical being is, like many curious 21st-century musicians, shaped and sustained by divergent tangents. If he’s not crafting a melancholy folk rock diamond in his Northern California studio, he’s moving a dancefloor with bossa nova or house DJ sets, or helping curate a compilation of Japanese City Pop.

Andrés Miguel Cervantes 'Songs For The Seance' Record Release 

ivy room presentsSATURDAY NOV 1ST—<h2>THE ZEROS VERY PARANOIA</h2><h2>THE CONTROL FREAKS</h2><h2>DJ TOPHONE</h2>—Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pmADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE / $18 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1306509607674589/">(rsvp on facebook)</a>— <h2>THE ZEROS</h2>—The Zeros, aka "the Mexican Ramones", are a punk band that formed in 1976 in Chula Vista, California, by Robert Lopez, aka El Vez, the "Mexican Elvis", Javier Escovedo, Hector Penalosa, and Baba Chenelle. Like many groups, they were heavily influenced by The Stooges, New York Dolls, and The Velvet Underground. One of their earliest shows was played alongside California punk greats The Germs and The Weirdos.<h2></h2><h2>Very Paranoia</h2>—Very Paranoia is a crude San Francisco unit operated by five veterans of the Psychic Wars. Founded by members of Lecherous Gaze, Annihilation Time, Hot Lunch, and Assemble Head, the band spews raw mechanical violence alternately described as “aggro-hooch metal,” “amphetamine pub rock,” and “scuzz-crud boogie.” Classifications aside, Very Paranoia’s sound is shaped by the cult-artists and underground characters found in multiple sub-genres throughout the twisted history of rock ‘n’ roll. May interest fans of MC5, Pink Fairies, Status Quo, Dr. Feelgood and Flamin’ Groovies. Very Paranoia has shared stages with The Zig Zags, Earthless, MC5, Drunk Horse, Feral Ohms, Smokers, Detroit Cobras, Subsonics, Mondo Drag, The Avengers, J. Mascis &amp; Witch and legendary proto-punkers The Dogs<h2>The Control Freaks</h2>—After years of clenching our fists and throwing tantrums like they were hand grenades, Greg Lowery of The Rip Offs, Supercharger and some other jerky combos finally granted us our wish and slapped us silly with his latest no-count crew Control Freaks. Be careful what you wish for, indeed! This is snot-caked Bay Area slime by abusive maniacs with the teen-beat on lockdown, and they will C.O.N.T.R.O.L. your last remaining brain cells!

The Zeros

The UC Theatre &amp; Ivy Room present—FRIDAY OCT 31ST—<h2>Madeline Kenney as Tom Petty</h2><h2>Joel Robinow as Paul McCartney</h2>—Doors 7pm / Show 8pmAdvance Tickets Available—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA • 21+—<h2> Madeline Kenney</h2>—Oakland’s Madeline Kenney bounds toward the unknown on her iridescent third album, Sucker’s Lunch, the follow-up to 2018’s critically acclaimed Perfect Shapes. The songs swell and lament, expanding the idea of a love song into something more grounded in self-awareness and philosophy than blind devotion. Her sonic world is that of colorful harmonies, dramatic lyrics, and thick layers of guitar.Kenney has a history of fostering collaborative recording and touring relationships. Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak) and Kenney first collaborated on Perfect Shapes in 2018, and they teamed up again for Sucker’s Lunch. Chaz Bear of Toro y Moi produced Kenney’s Signals EP and debut record Night Night At The First Landing, putting both out on his label, Company Records. Kenney has also lent vocals on multiple Toro y Moi projects, including 2017’s Boo Boo. In 2019 she released the split EP, The Sisters / Helpless in collaboration with Flock of Dimes (Wasner’s solo project).With every project Kenney pursues, she continues to shine in her ability to speak the strange, ambiguous, impossible truths — and Sucker’s Lunch is no exception.<h2>Joel Robinow</h2>—Joel Robinow is an accomplished performer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and writer, was the frontman of Once and Future Band , and former member of Bay Area's Howlin Rain, Drunk Horse, East Bay Grease, and Total B.S. Born and raised in Oakland, he continues to call it home, but also made residence in Santa Cruz for several years where he performed in placentor and Bakersfield. He displays a profound intuition for myriad manifestations within music. Joel also appreciates stimulating ideas and the comforts of home, and has a great wit and entertainer.

Madeline Kenney as Tom Petty • Joel Robinow as Paul McCartney

IVY ROOM PRESENTSTHURSDAY OCT 30THpartially seated—<h2>Dayna Kurtz</h2><h2>VICKI RANDLE</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 7:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>DAYNA KURTZ</h2>—Over the past decade, the New Jersey born, now New Orleans (and seasonal Vermont) resident vocalist/writer/musician/producer has been bestowed with many awards and praises, including being named the Female Songwriter of the Year by the National Academy of Songwriters. Norah Jones and Bonnie Raitt have raved about her in interviews, and she’s performed on such high-profile radio shows as World Cafe, Mountain Stage and NPR’s Morning Edition and Tell Me More. She’s toured and opened for the likes of Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson, Mavis Staples, Rufus Wainwright, B.B. King, Dr. John, Richie Havens, Keren Ann, Chris Whitley, and the Blind Boys of Alabama.<h2>VICKI RANDLE</h2>—Randle was born in San Francisco, California. She began her career as a singer-songwriter/guitarist, playing in such venues as the Bla-Bla Cafe, McCabe's and The Ice House. She also recorded and toured with several women's music artists, such as Cris Williamson, Ferron, June Millington and Linda Tillery.She has recorded and/or toured with Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples, George Benson, Lionel Richie, Kenny Loggins, Celine Dion, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Branford Marsalis, Jeffrey Osborne, Laura Nyro and Lyle Mays. She appeared in the HBO documentary Mavis!.Randle became the first female permanent member of the Tonight Show Band with Branford Marsalis, starting in May 1992 and continuing through May 2009. She continued her association with Jay Leno under his five-nights-a-week primetime The Jay Leno Show on NBC as a musician with Kevin Eubanks' renamed "Primetime Band". The show premiered September 14, 2009. She returned to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno with the primetime show's cancellation on February 9, 2010, and continued until May 2010.In 2006, Randle released her first solo album titled Sleep City: Lullabies for Insomniacs. The album was produced by Bonnie Hayes and included Hayes, Cris Williamson Nina Gerber, Barbara Higbie, Teresa Trull, Linda Tillery, Freddie Washington, Herman Matthews, Stephen Bruton with a track produced by Val Garay.Randle plays in Skip the Needle, an Oakland-based queer female quartet that fashions punk, funk, and soul-influenced rock they call "Black Dyke Rock." She is also a part of Greg Loiacono's band Stingray and has toured with the MC5, which was led by the late guitarist Wayne Kramer and featured singer Brad Brooks, guitarist Stevie Salas, and drummer Winston Watson.

DAYNA KURTZ • VICKI RANDLE

ivy room presentsWEDNESDAY OCT 29THpartially seated show—<h2>Scott Amendola’s Floating Parade</h2>—Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pmAdvance Tickets Available / $20 Day of Show--IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+ <h2>Scott Amendola’s Floating Parade</h2>—Scott Amendola: drums/percussion/electronicsNate Brenner: electrical bassRobert Lopez: percussionMark Clifford: vibraphoneRyan Schaeffer: electrical guitarGet ready for a vibe-y, grooving, sonically fun and rad experience. Floating Parade is about an unknown journey of bumpin' beats and soothing sounds. It will be hypnotic and engaging. Come join the parade. We'll go where we go and know when we get there, and know when it's time to move on.For Scott Amendola, the drum kit isn't so much an instrument as a musical portal. As an ambitious composer, savvy bandleader, electronics explorer, and first-call accompanist, he is a creative foil for some of the world's most inventive musicians. His closest musical associates include guitarists Charlie Hunter, Nels Cline, and Jeff Parker, Hammond B-3 organist Wil Blades, violinist Jenny Scheinman, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, and bassists Trevor Dunn and Todd Sickafoose. Amendola possesses a gift for twisting musical genres in unexpected directions.Nate Brenner is a bassist, composer, and producer best known for his work with the acclaimed project tune-yards. With Merrill Garbus of tune-yards, he has toured the world, released celebrated albums on 4AD, and recently co-scored Boots Riley's Amazon Prime series I'm a Virgo. Brenner also records under the moniker Naytronix, releasing four solo albums, and has collaborated with Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Ben Goldberg, and Thao &amp; The Get Down Stay Down.Mark Pascucci-Clifford is a vibraphonist, composer, percussionist, pianist, educator, and producer based in Oakland, CA. A much sought-after performer and improviser, he is deeply involved in new music, jazz, free improvisation, classical music, and indie rock. He composes for and leads his own group, The Dirty Snacks Ensemble, whose 2022 release You Would Do Well was named "One of the Best of 2022" by Andy Gilbert of the Classical Voice and which headlined the 2024 Outsound Summit.Robert Lopez is a percussionist, educator, and researcher. His background in various types of music such as folkloric traditions of Brazil, Ghana, and Cuba, alongside contemporary chamber music and free improvisation, allows a malleable approach to sharing musical ideas. Since 2011, he has been an active member of the Bay Area music community working with groups like SO AR, the Red Room Orchestra, Grex, and Jordan Glenn's BEAK, among others.Ryan Schaeffer, guitarist, is an Oakland native who has played all around the Bay Area and across the globe. Ryan's unique musical background has influenced his instrumentation, creating a fusion of funk, jazz, and gospel that allows him to transcend genre.

Scott Amendola’s Floating Parade

mr hat presentsTUESDAY OCT 28TH —<h2>THE CROOKED STUFF</h2><h2>EMPLIFIER</h2>—Doors 7pm / Show 7:30pm Advance Tickets Available—-IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA •&nbsp;21+<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1894413554672944/">(rsvp on facebook)</a> <h2>THE CROOKED STUFF</h2>—Electro vibes, thumping and a bit of the dark side… The Crooked Stuff is a cross-pollinated hybrid of electronic rock, heavy soul and sub bumping beats. With doses of influential DNA from The Doors, Devo, Daft Punk, The Headhunters, Prodigy, Talking Heads and an array of other psychedelic synth punk experiences—the band’s music was born at a twisted intersection between the modern electronic and deep analog worlds.Having shared the stage with Tank &amp; The Bangas, Fishbone, The Nth Power, Lyrics Born, Dumpstaphunk, Monophonics, Turn Me On Dead Man and Papa Mali… the San Francisco keys + bass + beats + vox 4-piece is honed, fully operational and on the rise into deeper space.<h2>EMPLIFIER</h2>—Long time collaborators, saxophonist Marcus Stephens and trumpeter Henry Hung have been making music together for two decades, performing and recording with seminal groups such as the Souls of Mischief, Tune-Yards, Myron &amp; E, Thao, and Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo. Emplifier's music challenges the intersection between live performance and samples, composition and improvisation, acoustic horns and effects, while being informed by the indomitable spirit that links jazz to hip hop, intentionally finding the space where musically, Joe Henderson and J Dilla meet. Incorporating the use of samplers, synthesizers, horn effects processing, their compositions weave improvisation and through composed melodies into music that expresses their exploratory spirit and musical kinship honed by the many years they have been playing music together.Marcus Stephens: sax/efx/samplerHenry Hung: trumpet/efx/keysw/ special guest Michael Mitchell

THE CROOKED STUFF + EMPLIFIER

Sinister Sounds Booking presentsMON OCT 27TH—<h2>Hidden Daggers</h2><h2>Marrower</h2><h2>Enthrall</h2><h2>All To The Grave</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 7:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—<h2></h2><h2>ALL TO THE GRAVE</h2>—Born out of the Covid-19 pandemic, All To The Grave is a thrash/punk band consisting of current and former members of local San Francisco Bay Area punk, metal and psychobilly bands including Cut Up, Flakbait, Hellbillys, The Kegels, Plan 9 (Misfits Tribute), Run Your Pockets, Ruleta Rusa, Vietus Mortuus. Each member has had years of experience in the local San Francisco Bay Area music scene as well as extensive world tour experience including the US, Mexico, South America, Canada, and Europe. With their collective experience brought together, and focused energy, original songs have been honed and crafted into lethal weapons ready to massacre everyone’s ears. Songs of despair, suicide, war and death are reminiscent of classic thrash, punk and crossover bands such as Exodus, Slayer, Metallica, Testament, Suicidal Tendencies, DRI, Bad Religion, and Propagandhi, to name a few.<h2>HIDDEN DAGGERS</h2>—Five Bay Area idiots thrashing out of Oakland by way of Hell.Dystopian chaos, nuclear fire, the last party before it all burns.Who will survive, and what will be left?<h2>MARROWER</h2>—Marrower is a progressive blackened doom metal band from Oakland, California.<h2>ENTHRALL</h2>—BAY AREA METAL

All To The Grave • Hidden Daggers • Marrower • Enthrall

IVY ROOM PRESENTSSUNDAY OCT 26TH—<h2>The Freak Accident</h2><h2>Crash Outfit</h2><h2>BRNR</h2><h2>HRIF</h2>—Doors 2:30 pm / Show 3:00pmAdvance tickets available / $12 Door —-lVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+—<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1309163240833599/">(rsvp on facebook)</a><h2>The Freak Accident</h2>—The Freak Accident is a Punk/Math/Garage/Pop/Surf/Rock collision founded by guitarist-vocalist Ralph Spight (Victims Family/Jello Biafra and GSM, many others) . In 20 years and through numerous line-up changes they’ve cranked out 3 LP’s and 2 EP’s of genre-hopping smart-ass punk and rock, equal parts comedy and tragedy.<h2>Crash Outfit</h2>—Crash Outfit is a post-punk band from Santa Rosa CA featuring former members of Disastroid and Greenlight the Bombers.<h2>BRNR</h2>—BRNR ("burner") is a 3-piece heavy rock band from Oakland, California comprised of Steve Lee on vocals and bass, Mat Dahms on guitar, and Danny Stevenson on drums.<h2>HRIF</h2>—HRIF play an infectious brand of bass-forward rock that sounds like cracking open the wrong door at a house show and seeing Sasquatch dancing furiously to Queens of the Stone Age. They're based in Oakland, California. Welcome to the party.

The Freak Accident + Crash Outfit+ BRNR + HRIF 

Winter Williams presents—SAT OCT 25TH—<h2>JARS (Justin Purtill, Anna Elva, Reed Mathis &amp; Scott Guberman)</h2><h2>Andy Coe Band</h2>—8:00pm doors / 8:30pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE / $25 DOOR—IVY ROOM | 21+-Winter Williams Presents a trip fantastic journey through Greatful Dead-inspired jams featuring JARS (Justin Purtill, Anna Elva, Reed Mathis &amp; Scott Guberman) and Andy Coe Band on Saturday, October 25th at the Ivy Room in Albany, CA. It'll be close to Halloween so feel free to dress up if that brings you joy, or simply come as you are. All quality vibes welcome!<h2>JARS</h2>—JARS (Justin Purtill, Anna Elva, Reed Mathis &amp; Scott Guberman) is a collective of veteran improvisers exploring the psychedelic Grateful Dead &amp; Jerry Garcia extended songbook with fearless creativity. Featuring bassist/guitarist Reed Mathis (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Tea Leaf Green, Electric Beethoven), keyboardist Scott Guberman (Phil Lesh &amp; Friends, The Gilmour Project), bassist/guitarist Justin Purtill (Residente, Stu Allen, Steve Kimock), and drummer Anna Elva (a Bay Area mainstay known for her deep grooves and improvisational fire), JARS blends jazz, rock, folk, and experimental traditions into boundary-pushing, exploratory performances rooted in the spirit of the Grateful Dead and beyond.Justin Purtill is a dynamic and genre-blending bassist, guitarist, and songwriter known for his improvisational style and expressive musicianship. A seasoned collaborator and performer, he has toured internationally with Residente and appeared at major festivals including the Latin Grammys, Austin City Limits, and Vive Latino. As a sideman, he has performed with artists across the jazz, folk, and jam scenes—including Stu Allen, Melvin Seals &amp; JGB, Steve Kimock, Reed Mathis, and Leo Genovese, among others. He has also shared the stage with artists such as Hassan Hakmoun and Esperanza Spalding, further reflecting his versatility across genres. In addition to his rich solo discography, Justin continues to balance a vibrant career as both a performer and an educator, blending latin pop, jazz, folk, and experimental music into a singular artistic voice.Anna Elva (drums) brings dynamic energy and deep-pocket grooves to the mix, with a knack for psychedelic improvisation. Born &amp; raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Anna is a versatile percussionist with a relentless sense of rhythm. She is known for her ability to drive a jam into uncharted territory. Anna can be found on stage with some of the Bay Area's most notable jam/improvisational rock musicians like Reed Mathis, Stu Allen, Matt Hartle, Mark Karan, Joe Craven, Scott Guberman, Jon Chi, Alex Jordan and bands such as China Dolls, American Beauties, Smokedaddies, Like a Rose, Lovin' Dead, Jenerator and many others. Anna also performs the music of Phish, Zappa and Grateful Dead across the country with Marcus Rezak. She is the proud mother to Levon and honored to be director/drum instructor at Music Time in Livermore.Reed Mathis is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser whose career spans straight-ahead jazz, jam rock, classical reinterpretation, and beyond. With a foundation in classical training and a career rooted in adventurous collaboration, he continues to push musical boundaries. Over the years, he has been a central force in Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Tea Leaf Green, and Electric Beethoven, while also performing with projects such as 7 Walkers and Billy &amp; the Kids, both of which featured Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, alongside a wide range of musicians from the jam and jazz worlds.Scott Guberman broke into the Grateful Dead scene at the turn of the millennium. He first gained recognition as a Hammond organist performing heavily with Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer and former Grateful Dead keyboardist, Tom Constanten; and touring with Grateful Dead’s final keyboardist, Vince Welnick. Scott began playing with Phil Lesh and Friends in 2015, most notably during the re-creation shows that celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. Guberman was also a member of Lesh’s band Communion. Now a staple of the Bay Area's thriving music scene, Guberman has played with just about every band and musician that’s a part of it. When not touring and playing across the U.S. with almost every professional band that plays the music of the Grateful Dead and more, Guberman tours internationally with The Gilmour Project and Live Dead and Brothers.<h2>Andy Coe Band</h2>—Originally formed to pay tribute to guitar hero and folk legend Jerry Garcia, the Andy Coe Band has evolved into the liveliest psychedelic jam band to come out of the Pacific Northwest in years. Guitarist Andy Coe, with Gary Palmer on keys, Chris Jones on bass, and Scott Goodwin on drums, deliver stellar improvisational tunes in mystical proportions.With a rich background in jazz and a joyful enthusiasm for blues and psychedelic rock, Andy Coe is recognized as a deeply intuitive, emotive guitarist. As an architect of sound and style, Coe draws in listeners, making collective exploration and resolution accessible across genres. Based in Seattle, guitarist Andy Coe has performed in festivals around the world and with many bands throughout the years including Rashied Ali Quintet, McTuff, Clinton Fearon and Boogie Brown Band, Skerik’s Bandalabra, Skerik Band, Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, Andy Coe Band, Tuatara, Barrett Martin Group, Wil Blades Trio and many more.

JARS (Justin Purtill, Anna Elva, Reed Mathis & Scott Guberman) + Andy Coe Band"

IVY ROOM PRESENTS—FRIDAY OCT 24TH—<h2>TAMMY’S CAMARO</h2><h2>(AN EVENING WITH)</h2>—7:00 PM DOORS / 8:00 PM SHOWAdvance Tickets Available / $20 Door—IVY ROOM | 21+<h2>TAMMY’S CAMARO</h2>—Forged in Oakland by a devotion to deep tracks, Tammy's Camaro is a group of friends committed to playing the bitchenest underground rock for a discerning dance crowd.

An Evening w/ Tammy's Camaro

IVY ROOM PRESENTS—FRIDAY OCT 24TH—<h2>TAMMY’S CAMARO</h2><h2>(AN EVENING WITH)</h2>—7:00 PM DOORS / 8:00 PM SHOWAdvance Tickets Available—IVY ROOM | 21+<h2>TAMMY’S CAMARO</h2>—Forged in Oakland by a devotion to deep tracks, Tammy's Camaro is a group of friends committed to playing the bitchenest underground rock for a discerning dance crowd.

ivy room presentsTHURSDAY OCT 23RD—<h2>Kassi Valazza</h2><h2>Dominique and the Diamonds</h2><h2>Sean Forth</h2>—Doors 7pm / Show 7:30pm ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE / $22 Door —IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<h2> KASSI VALAZZA</h2>—"Sometimes it takes four or five tries to realize something just isn't working," says Kassi Valazza. "I wrote this after my thirteenth try." She's referring to the song "Roll On" specifically, but the stagnating pull of repeating patterns — and the brutalizing work of breaking them — inform every song on her new album From Newman Street. "In songwriting and in life, you can't keep expecting the same thing to work every time."Valazza grew up between Prescott and Phoenix, Arizona. She penned her first song at age ten but in those early efforts to perform, found herself halted by stage fright of a clinical level. "I've gone to therapy for it," she says, half-laughing. She didn't stop writing music but she let less paralyzing means of expression lead the way, eventually enrolling in arts school for painting, an illustrative instinct that inevitably reveals itself in her vivid songwriting. It wasn't until she relocated to the Pacific Northwest as an adult that Valazza picked back up the proverbial — and actual — guitar."Zach Bryson was kind of like the honky tonk ambassador of Portland when I got there," Valazza says. "He was so welcoming and encouraging." She discovered an inspiring, supportive artistic community, a less rigid relationship with musical output, and then — vocal nodules. "It was actually kind of the best thing that could have happened, because I learned about the crossover of physical and mental that takes place in performance." Recovery entailed recognizing the reflexive functions of the voice in response to anxiety; as is the case throughout the human body, stress reactions can be damaging. "Because I suddenly understood what was happening with my voice, I could handle it, wield it. I felt more confident." Valazza recorded an album with Bryson in an old-house-turned-studio. It was an informal, friendly endeavor, though not at all small. "I think probably thirty people contributed," she says. "I listen back to that album and I think 'this was me learning how to do this.' I can hear that moment in time."Valazza's debut Dear Dead Days fused the Southwest's rustic romance with the Pacific Northwest's rocky realism and garnered Valazza a cult following. She landed a deal with Fluff &amp; Gravy, a label known for launching earthy, emerging treasures like Anna Tivel and Margo Cilker, and toured with folk favorites including Melissa Carper and Riddy Arman. Her sophomore album Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing followed, a glimmering set of sonic talismans among Ann Powers' Favorite Songs of 2023 for NPR and Bandcamp's Best Country Music of 2023, with praise from KEXP, Uncut, MOJO, and Brooklyn Vegan to boot.By the time Valazza was ready to record her third album, she had spent a decade in Portland — and that, she realized, was enough. "As someone with anxiety, I always want to know what's going to happen," she says. "But knowing can be limiting. Getting comfortable with the uncomfortable, that's growth. That's what this album's about, really."On "Weight of the Wheel," a weepy slide guitar underscores Valazza's listless lament: All things look the same / From the pillow on my bed / I'm stressed out I'm far away / There's dizzy dancing in my head. The song sounds like urgency, grief, surrender, and embrace — all at once. It's feeling like some kind of fight to outgrow / The way I fear slowing down before I'm old. By 2022, that dizzy demise of cyclical living had set Valazza still — in a basement apartment there in Portland. "You're going to be a different person after every album," she says. "And you have to keep moving forward."Sights set on Nashville, Valazza landed in New Orleans. "It wasn't the plan. I spent three months there between tours, and it just kind of happened." The bright newness of The Big Easy illuminated fresh inspirations and unexpected love. But it also cast a stark light on Valazza's sense of self; in a new place, you can see more clearly what you want to be, as well as what you haven't been. "I discovered the less likeable parts of myself in that time," Valazza says. Album standout "Your Heart's a Tin Box" encapsulates precisely this, with a cynical-yet-sunny likeness to Joni Mitchell and lyrical acuity: I moved down to New Orleans / Thinking love would reappear / But people tell you everything / but what you wanna hear / You relied on fixated company / Now you're drowning in your ego's gluttony. The patterns of her Portland life had stalled Valazza. It wasn't the city's fault so much as the natural consequence of complacency, the stagnance that comes with too much of the same. Valazza knew she was due for a personal evolution, and when faced with those innate, bristling pangs of change, could soothe herself with that certainty.The track sequence on From Newman Street is audibly intentional — from a deep lull and dull itch, to a barbed clash with cognitive dissonance, to humble submission, and an ultimate, open-armed acceptance of new life. Poetically enough, half the songs on the upcoming album were written in Portland, the other half in New Orleans. Valazza returned to her former hometown to record with Matt Thomson at Echo Echo Studios, and titled the release From Newman Street in tribute to an apartment she lived in deeply and left with heavy heart. The album is as much a fond farewell as it is a fervent step forward.Valazza made the official move to New Orleans in February of 2024. "Coming from placid, wintry Portland straight into Mardi Gras — I would not recommend it." She recalls the time with humor, grace, and sensitivity for her past self, qualities that shine through the album. "I've always been a believer that music is only good if it's really raw, really honest — probably coming from a place of hurt," Valazza admits. "But I'm trying to embrace chaos these days, and bring a little more light into my life." <iframe-embed src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yk6aAxQSsPU?si=UgneA3TCSiBdLV5U" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" height="315" width="560" style="" metaposition="flex-start" metatype="youtube"></iframe-embed><h2>Dominique and the Diamonds</h2>— From late-night desert drives to the dusty trails that seem to stretch into eternity, Dominique and the Diamonds capture the rawness of country music that’s as untamed as the California wilderness itself. With a voice, powerful and raw, Colombian-American front woman Dominique Gomez carries the grit of the open range, while her Diamonds channel the soul of classic country.<h2>Sean Forth</h2>—Sean Forth is a singer-songwriter and guitar player currently residing in the Santa Cruz mountains. Sean started his musical journey in 2014, forming the Oakland Ca. based garage rock-boogie band, "The Skookum Brothers" along side his three older brothers. His debut record "Only For Today" streaming now on all platforms.

Kassi Valazza

WEDNESDAY OCT 22ND6:15PM DOORS / 7:00PM SHOW<h2>BANDWORKS</h2>---The BandWorks Adult Band Workshop is an 8-week session offering adult musicians a chance to play in a rock band and perform live on-stage.

BandWorks

WEDNESDAY OCT 21ST5:45 PM DOORS / 6:30 PM SHOW<h2>BANDWORKS</h2>---The BandWorks Adult Band Workshop is an 8-week session offering adult musicians a chance to play in a rock band and perform live on-stage.

mr. hat presentsMONDAY OCT 20TH —<h2>TOM PETTY BIRTHDAY BASH - PETTY ROCKS</h2>CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF TOM PETTY—Doors 6:30pm / Show 7:30pm Advance Tickets Available / $20 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA •&nbsp;21+<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/801089639110047">(rsvp on facebook)</a>— Mr. Hat Presents a very special show celebrating the iconic music of Tom Petty on what would have been his 75th Birthday at the Ivy Room.Petty Rocks is a tribute to the music of the one-of-a-kind rock and roll icon, Tom Petty. Composed of five top-notch, seasoned musicians performing both top hits and "deep cuts" from Petty's catalog, performed in expert, high energy fashion. Expect detailed, faithful versions of Tom Petty's amazing brand of American Rock and Roll. You will hear all of Petty's biggest hits, such as Breakdown, I Won't Back Down, Free Fallin', Don't Do Me Like That, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and Refugee, (just to name a very few), as well as amazing lesser known gems such as Room at The Top, Out in the Cold, You Get Me High, in addition to hits from The Traveling Wilburys. Whether you are a Tom Petty fanatic or a more casual fan, PETTY ROCKS will keep you entertained and dancing.

TOM PETTY BIRTHDAY BASH - PETTY ROCKS

ivy room presentsSUNDAY OCTOBER 19TH—THE METEORSSTIGMA 13THE PENDLETONSDJ TOPH ONE—Doors 7:00 pm / Show 7:30 pm$15 Advance* / $20 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+— <h2>THE METEORS</h2>—The Meteors are back!The Meteors are an English psychobilly band formed in 1980. Originally from London, England, they are often credited with giving the psychobilly subgenre — which fuses punk rock with rockabilly — its distinctive sound and style.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://About.com">About.com</a> calls the Meteors "the first true psychobilly band," noting their blend of the "themes of horror, punk and rockabilly". They were the second band to use the term 'Psychobilly' as a description of their music. Formed in South London in 1980, they are considered the first verifiable psychobilly band. Their albums In Heaven (1981) and Wreckin' Crew (1983) are considered landmarks of the early years of the genre."Starting in the neo-rockabilly scene, the Meteors were initially shunned for being too different. Excuses for exclusion from rockabilly concerts varied from the band having too extreme of a sound to their drummer having green hair. "The Meteors blended elements of punk rock, rockabilly, and horror film themes in their music. The Meteors articulated psychobilly's apolitical stance, a reaction to the right- and left-wing political attitudes which divided other British youth cultures.They have 25 official albums and countless singles and continue to record using their own studios based in an old church all overseen by original member, P. Paul Fenech.<h2>STIGMA 13</h2>—Stigma 13 is a rocknroll outfit from the east bay area of California.

The Meteors + Stigma 13 + The Pendletons + DJ Toph One

ivy room presentsSUNDAY OCT 19TH—<h2>DYLAN AND THE DEAD</h2>as performed by:<h2>LOVIN’ DEAD</h2>w/ special guest<h2>PAT NEVINS</h2>(shakey zimmerman)—Doors 3:00pm / Show 3:30pm $15 Advance / $20 Door(limited reserved seating available)—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+—Dylan &amp; The Dead, performed by Lovin' Dead with very special guest Pat Nevins (Shakey Zimmerman).Two sets celebrating the iconic 1980's tour and album by Bob Dylan &amp; The Grateful Dead.

Dylan and the Dead

House of Chaos Productions—FRI OCT 17TH—<h2>Hypnotic Pattern</h2>Soothsayerplus more TBD—7pm doors / 8pm showADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE / $20 Day of Show—IVY ROOM | 21+—<h2>Hypnotic Pattern</h2>—Hypnotic Pattern weaves together the crushing weight of stoner doom, the iconic heaviness of Sabbath-inspired riffs, and the raw edge of '90s grunge to create a sonic journey drenched in mysticism and power.Formed in the heart of Oakland, CA, the band came to life in the living room of bassist Alex. The lineup solidified when drummer Mike, from local psychedelic surf outfit The Helltones, joined forces with Milin, a psych professional by day and psych rocker by night, on guitar. Simone, the band’s magnetic frontwoman, brought them all together through her local music school and delivers spellbinding vocals while also handling booking for the band.Hypnotic Pattern explores deep, hypnotic themes of mysticism, interstellar conflict, and witchcraft as a vessel to touch on mental health, love, and loss. Their haunting and heavy sound is grounded by Simone’s powerful voice, making them a standout in the doom and heavy rock scene as a female-fronted band.<h2></h2>

Hypnotic Pattern - Album Release Party

IVY ROOM PRESENTSTHURSDAY OCT 16TH—<h2>Gold Band</h2><h2>Lay Lie</h2><h2>Aux Meadows</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 7:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $15 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—<h2>GOLD BAND</h2>—<h2>LAY LIE</h2>—<h2>AUX MEADOWS</h2>—

Gold Band + Lay Lie + Aux Meadows

Bang The Bay PresentsWEDNESDAY OCT 15TH—<h2>BANG THE BAY!</h2><h2>Feat.</h2><h2>Reaper</h2><h2>A Murder For Crows</h2><h2>Reflector Pool</h2><h2>ELEGANT TRASH</h2><h2>TEETH ON WHEELS</h2><h2>THE ETTIQUETTE</h2>—Every First and Third Wednesday at the Ivy RoomEarly show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Doors 6:00pm / Show 6:30pmPRESALE TIX AVAILABLE / $10-$20 DOOR(*VIP includes a grab bag full of cool stuff! incl A CD, pins, stickers, patches, T-shirts and other new monthly gifts)—IVY ROOM | 21+—<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1053178603416105/">(rsvp on facebook)</a>

BANG THE BAY! Reaper • A Murder For Crows • Reflector Pool • ELEGANT TRASH

IVY ROOM PRESENTSTUESDAY OCT 14TH—<h2>JEFFREY MARTIN</h2><h2>ANNA TIVEL</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 7:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $25 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>JEFFREY MARTIN</h2>—On a small corner lot in southeast Portland, Oregon, Jeffrey Martin holed up through the winter recording his quietly potent new album Thank God We Left The Garden. Long nights bled into mornings in the tiny shack he built in the backyard, eight feet by ten feet. What began as demos meant for a later visit to a proper studio became the album itself, spare and intimate and true. Recorded live and alone around two microphones, Jeffrey often held his breath to wait for the low diesel hum of a truck to pass one block over on the busy thoroughfare. During the coldest nights, he timed recording between the clicks of the oil coil heater cycling on and off.Martin's fourth full length album, Thank God We Left The Garden comes out on Portland's beloved Fluff and Gravy Records Nov __. He produced and engineered it himself, recalling, "There was a magic quality to the sounds I was getting in the shack with these two cheap microphones, some lucky recipe of time and place that allowed my voice and the way I play guitar and the shape of these new songs to come together with the kind of honesty I was craving."So much has happened in the world since the release of his previous album One Go Around (heralded by No Depression as 'the poetry of America'), and Jeffrey has filled the time doggedly, but happily, touring the US and Europe, watching it all unfold in a stream of small town conversations and city sprawl. In a moment where depth is so often traded for the instantaneous, where tech billionaires are building rockets to escape the planet, where the dead-eyed stare of artificial intelligence is promising to existentially upend our world, and where divisiveness in our culture is breeding delusional levels of certainty, Jeffrey Martin's new record feels like a hopeful and fully human antidote.There are holes in all the side walls where the wind it brings the rain in And the gold crowns have been found out to be brass that has been painted There are holes in all our bibles where we make secret compartments To hide the broken treasures we smuggled out of the garden -Quiet ManThe sounds feel warm, close, and refreshingly real, all held up by the richness and rare candor of Jeffrey's voice. Production is restrained mostly to his guitar and vocals, with flashes of classical guitar for a tumbling wash of melody and low end color. Martin's voice sits high above everything, reaching into new melodic territory that goes beyond his earlier work. "I feel like I've only just learned how to sing," Martin said. "Like I've been chasing this record since my very first recordings. I wanted to really see what I could do, just my guitar and my voice and little else. I don't think it was conscious. I think maybe it was a reaction to the pace of life these days. The churning news and entertainment and politics and violence of it all. I needed to know that even in this day and age, just a few simple ingredients still hold up."Beloved Portland-based guitarist Jon Neufeld added electric guitar to three tracks. Sticking to the same less-ismore approach, his playing skillfully and subtly elevates the lyrical intention. Neufeld's touch is best displayed on Red Station Wagon, a searing story about one man's transformation from a narrow-minded bigot into a person who feels deep remorse for the ugliness of his youth. In his transformation he discovers the clarity of empathy and compassion. The devastating and redemptive four minute song contains the emotional arch of an entire film, and each turn is beautifully punctuated by Neufeld's guitar. In addition to his guitar work, Neufeld mixed and mastered the album, and was such a crucial part of the final feel of the record that Martin also credited him as a producer."Jon and I really produced this album together," he said. "Me in the shack, and then him in his studio working with what I brought him as he mixed and mastered. It was such a treat to work with him. I brought this pile of rough songs and he was able to dial it in and make up for my complete lack of recording know-how. I love the performances I got, but Jon's magic is what helped them breathe and truly come to life."No less lyrically weighty than his previous work, Thank God We Left The Garden holds a new kindness and easy solace that feels timeless and full of generosity. The title is a paradoxical nod to Martin's own spiritual conclusions, a theme that is subtly woven throughout the album. The son of a pastor, he touches on his religious upbringing then carries us well beyond his past where the weight of his deepest questions are free to unfold."It's always bothered me how uptight religion gets around the messiness of our human natures, always trying to tell people they're broken and flawed from the get go. The only God I can imagine is one who is overjoyed with the mess. Who revels in the edgeless mystery. I imagine hanging around with angels all day gets boring pretty fast. So maybe we got the story wrong. Maybe we were supposed to leave the Garden all along. Maybe that was the first good thing we ever did. After all, I can't think of anything that has an ounce of meaning or dimension that doesn't come from failure."This is an album that craves your full attention, best experienced as a whole. Each song further illuminates the scene until you find yourself resting in the strangely comforting tangle of aliveness and meaning (and full spectrum of being alive./what it means to be alive.). At its core Thank God We Left The Garden is an album made of questions, humble and nuanced, a reverent celebration of the asking.In my mind there's a garden, full of beauty and darkness Full of sorrow and sweet things where my heart can be honest In that garden there's a fruit tree and I eat from it daily The same that Adam and Eve ate / what does that make me? -GardenWhether singing about his own internal landscape, telling a story of someone else's, or reflecting on the elusive relationship between scarcity and contentment, Martin's writing never pushes the listener away, never points a finger. He sings of things we can all pin a memory on, holding the rough shorn gem of human experience up to the light.There's a treasure that we all know but we can't have it / It's a place beyond the measure of our minds It is where we go when we forget we're living / It is where we go when we forget we die . . . And all the tools we use to feel important / they are useless as a sailboat in the sky Where old bones and heart aches are forgotten / It's a place we don't have words to describe The sun will rise like it always does on the day that I die The world will spin, the sun will go on burning Never even knowing I was alive -There Is A TreasureThank God We Left the Garden will be released on Fluff and Gravy Records in the fall of 2023. Subsequent touring will carry Jeffrey Martin through all of the US, Canada, and Europe.<h2>ANNA TIVEL</h2>—Anna Tivel is a Portland, Oregon-based, internationally touring songwriter who is forever drawn to the quiet stories of ordinary life. The characters and imagery that populate her writing are full of breath and vivid color. With six full-length albums out and a seventh on the way, Anna has been likened to a short story writer and praised by NPR, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and others for her keen observations of the human condition. In fact, Ann Powers of NPR Music had this to say, "Anna Tivel is just one of my absolute favorite living songwriters. Her writing on [Outsiders] is at the same level as Paul Simon when he wrote 'The Boxer' and 'American Tune.'"

JEFFREY MARTIN 

IVY ROOM PRESENTSTUESDAY OCT 14TH—<h2>JEFFREY MARTIN</h2><h2>PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 7:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $25 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>JEFFREY MARTIN</h2>—On a small corner lot in southeast Portland, Oregon, Jeffrey Martin holed up through the winter recording his quietly potent new album Thank God We Left The Garden. Long nights bled into mornings in the tiny shack he built in the backyard, eight feet by ten feet. What began as demos meant for a later visit to a proper studio became the album itself, spare and intimate and true. Recorded live and alone around two microphones, Jeffrey often held his breath to wait for the low diesel hum of a truck to pass one block over on the busy thoroughfare. During the coldest nights, he timed recording between the clicks of the oil coil heater cycling on and off.Martin's fourth full length album, Thank God We Left The Garden comes out on Portland's beloved Fluff and Gravy Records Nov __. He produced and engineered it himself, recalling, "There was a magic quality to the sounds I was getting in the shack with these two cheap microphones, some lucky recipe of time and place that allowed my voice and the way I play guitar and the shape of these new songs to come together with the kind of honesty I was craving."So much has happened in the world since the release of his previous album One Go Around (heralded by No Depression as 'the poetry of America'), and Jeffrey has filled the time doggedly, but happily, touring the US and Europe, watching it all unfold in a stream of small town conversations and city sprawl. In a moment where depth is so often traded for the instantaneous, where tech billionaires are building rockets to escape the planet, where the dead-eyed stare of artificial intelligence is promising to existentially upend our world, and where divisiveness in our culture is breeding delusional levels of certainty, Jeffrey Martin's new record feels like a hopeful and fully human antidote.There are holes in all the side walls where the wind it brings the rain in And the gold crowns have been found out to be brass that has been painted There are holes in all our bibles where we make secret compartments To hide the broken treasures we smuggled out of the garden -Quiet ManThe sounds feel warm, close, and refreshingly real, all held up by the richness and rare candor of Jeffrey's voice. Production is restrained mostly to his guitar and vocals, with flashes of classical guitar for a tumbling wash of melody and low end color. Martin's voice sits high above everything, reaching into new melodic territory that goes beyond his earlier work. "I feel like I've only just learned how to sing," Martin said. "Like I've been chasing this record since my very first recordings. I wanted to really see what I could do, just my guitar and my voice and little else. I don't think it was conscious. I think maybe it was a reaction to the pace of life these days. The churning news and entertainment and politics and violence of it all. I needed to know that even in this day and age, just a few simple ingredients still hold up."Beloved Portland-based guitarist Jon Neufeld added electric guitar to three tracks. Sticking to the same less-ismore approach, his playing skillfully and subtly elevates the lyrical intention. Neufeld's touch is best displayed on Red Station Wagon, a searing story about one man's transformation from a narrow-minded bigot into a person who feels deep remorse for the ugliness of his youth. In his transformation he discovers the clarity of empathy and compassion. The devastating and redemptive four minute song contains the emotional arch of an entire film, and each turn is beautifully punctuated by Neufeld's guitar. In addition to his guitar work, Neufeld mixed and mastered the album, and was such a crucial part of the final feel of the record that Martin also credited him as a producer."Jon and I really produced this album together," he said. "Me in the shack, and then him in his studio working with what I brought him as he mixed and mastered. It was such a treat to work with him. I brought this pile of rough songs and he was able to dial it in and make up for my complete lack of recording know-how. I love the performances I got, but Jon's magic is what helped them breathe and truly come to life."No less lyrically weighty than his previous work, Thank God We Left The Garden holds a new kindness and easy solace that feels timeless and full of generosity. The title is a paradoxical nod to Martin's own spiritual conclusions, a theme that is subtly woven throughout the album. The son of a pastor, he touches on his religious upbringing then carries us well beyond his past where the weight of his deepest questions are free to unfold."It's always bothered me how uptight religion gets around the messiness of our human natures, always trying to tell people they're broken and flawed from the get go. The only God I can imagine is one who is overjoyed with the mess. Who revels in the edgeless mystery. I imagine hanging around with angels all day gets boring pretty fast. So maybe we got the story wrong. Maybe we were supposed to leave the Garden all along. Maybe that was the first good thing we ever did. After all, I can't think of anything that has an ounce of meaning or dimension that doesn't come from failure."This is an album that craves your full attention, best experienced as a whole. Each song further illuminates the scene until you find yourself resting in the strangely comforting tangle of aliveness and meaning (and full spectrum of being alive./what it means to be alive.). At its core Thank God We Left The Garden is an album made of questions, humble and nuanced, a reverent celebration of the asking.In my mind there's a garden, full of beauty and darkness Full of sorrow and sweet things where my heart can be honest In that garden there's a fruit tree and I eat from it daily The same that Adam and Eve ate / what does that make me? -GardenWhether singing about his own internal landscape, telling a story of someone else's, or reflecting on the elusive relationship between scarcity and contentment, Martin's writing never pushes the listener away, never points a finger. He sings of things we can all pin a memory on, holding the rough shorn gem of human experience up to the light.There's a treasure that we all know but we can't have it / It's a place beyond the measure of our minds It is where we go when we forget we're living / It is where we go when we forget we die . . . And all the tools we use to feel important / they are useless as a sailboat in the sky Where old bones and heart aches are forgotten / It's a place we don't have words to describe The sun will rise like it always does on the day that I die The world will spin, the sun will go on burning Never even knowing I was alive -There Is A TreasureThank God We Left the Garden will be released on Fluff and Gravy Records in the fall of 2023. Subsequent touring will carry Jeffrey Martin through all of the US, Canada, and Europe.

JEFFREY MARTIN

Sinister Sounds Booking presentsMON OCT 13TH—<h2>PHANTOM HOUND</h2><h2>Idol Lord</h2><h2>Mystic Majesty</h2>—6:30 pm doors / 7:00 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—<h2>IDOL LORD</h2>—Fuzzed out stoner rock from the southern california high desert.<h2>Mystic Majesty</h2>—Mystic Majesty is an Italian psychedelic stoner rock band known for blending catchy riffs with deep, concept-driven music.

PHANTOM HOUND • Idol Lord • Mystic Majesty

IVY ROOM PRESENTSSUNDAY OCT 12TH—<h2>KATE VARGAS⁠</h2><h2>Record Release show!</h2><h2>with</h2><h2>Eric McFadden, Scott Amendola &amp; Angeline Saris</h2>—7:30 pm doors / 8:00 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $18 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—<h2>KATE VARGAS</h2>—Junkyard folk artist, Kate Vargas, is in a musical world all her own, her lyrics on par with Bob Dylan and her unforgettable voice with Janis Joplin. Vargas’ uniquely bold and gritty style has received praise from a variety of respected outlets including Billboard, NPR, Noisey, SPIN, and American Songwriter, the latter hailing her most recent album, Rumpumpo, “this year’s most unconventionally intoxicating and intricate album."Kate Vargas / Golden Hour In The House Of Lugosi"Golden Hour in the House of Lugosi is rich in mood, steeped in mystery, and threaded with a performer’s instinct to both reveal and withhold, always leaving us slightly unsure what will come next. With it Vargas invites us into her haunted house of song, offers us a drink, and dares us to stay past sunset."=

KATE VARGAS with Eric McFadden + Scott Amendola + Angeline Saris

ivy room presentsSUNDAY OCT 12TH"Dot’s Sunday Hoedowns”—<h2>POI ROGERS</h2><h2>LAURA BENITEZ AND THE HEARTACHE</h2><h2>THE KATE BURKART BAND</h2>----Doors 2pm / Show 3pmADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE / $15 DOOR----IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+—<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1118917426584474/">(rsvp on facebook)</a><h2>POI ROGERS —</h2>Somewhere in-between the tropical lounges of 1930s Los Angeles and the honky tonk beer joints of rural 1950s California, you'll find Poi Rogers.Hailing from Santa Cruz, CA, the duo performs original and vintage American roots music, with Gerard Egan doubling on acoustic guitar and triple-neck steel and Carolyn Sills on standup bass, their timeless harmonies anchoring the show.Carolyn and Gerard have been nominated for many national awards over the last few years with their other group, The Carolyn Sills Combo, including winning the 2018 and 2024 Ameripolitan Award for Western Swing Group, Carolyn being named the Academy of Western Artists' Western Swing Female Vocalist of 2020 and the couple both being inducted into the Sacramento Western Swing Hall of Fame. Carolyn’s reputation for creative and clever storytelling got her writing published in the 'Lyrics as Poetry' chronicles.What began as a fun way for the couple to explore the vintage musical styles they love turned into an in-demand touring act, with Poi Rogers ‘accidentally’ playing almost 300 shows since 2023. Their debut album, Twilight Blues, was dreamt up over the course of numerous dog walks throughout the duo’s sleepy seaside town in California; the collection of eight songs are both cinematic snapshots from the couples’ life together and witty odes to their antiquated passions.Poi Rogers debut album, Twilight Blues, was released in June of 2025, and hit #2 on the US alt-country charts <h2>LAURA BENITEZ AND THE HEARTACHE</h2>—Laura Benitez and the Heartache use the three chord tools of country music to tell the simple, unvarnished truth about love, too much whiskey, and the call of the road. Their new album, "California Centuries," finds the band delving deep into themes of collective denial ("Bad Things"), gaslighting ("Invisible" and "Gaslight") and romantic lessons learned ("I'm the One" and "Are You Using Your Heart"). Their twangy honesty shines through in straightforward arrangements, crystalline harmonies, and spare instrumentation. Beware their catchy hooks and sweet melodies - these stray puppy tunes will follow you home and become your most steadfast companions.Laura Benitez, songwriter, lead singer and founder of Laura Benitez and the Heartache, has been making her mark on stage and screen since 2000. She spent several years appearing in soap operas and commercials in Los Angeles before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004, diving into the region’s rich Americana and Roots music scenes. Taking her musical cues from the heavily rock influenced Bakersfield sound, and her lyric inspiration from her favorite songwriters Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn, Laura began writing songs in 2008. She released her first album, "For Duty or for Love" on her own label, Copperhead Records, in 2010.In 2012 she recruited the multi-talented singer, songwriter, and drummer Michele Kappel-Stone (Kirby Grips/Tippy Canoe/Heartache Sisters) into the band, and was lucky enough to secure the talents of Bob Spector (The Spectones) and Ted O'Connell (The GoldDiggers, Moonshine Maybelline) on twang guitar and bass. These four joined together with Ian Taylor Sutton (Vincent Neil Emerson, Logan Ledger, Jesse Daniel) on pedal steel to record their critically acclaimed full length album, "Heartless Woman," which was released in 2014.2015 saw the band touring to festivals in Southern California and Nashville, but also saw some changes in personnel, with Michele Kappel-Stone and Ted O'Connell turning their full-time attention to other projects. Members of The Heartache in this time period included Steve Pearson (Secret Town, Kate Burkart Band), Mike Anderson (77 El Deora), Jim Goodkind (Whiskey Pass), Patti Maxine (Island Breeze, Henhouse), Chris Weinress (Mojo Mix), and Russell Kiel (Secret Town, Crying Time, Muddy Roses). Benitez won an honorable mention for the song "Our Remember Whens" in American Songwriter Magazine's lyric contest for January of 2016. The band released the much-praised album "With All Its Thorns" in 2018.Laura took time off of recording and touring for the birth of her daughter, Ada, in 2019, and the global pandemic shut down any hope of touring in 2020 or 2021. The band spent the pandemic working on demos of new material, and those demos became the album "California Centuries," recorded at 25th St. Studios in Oakland and released in September of 2022.The end of the global pandemic saw more personnel changes to the band, with Bob Spector and Russell Kiel leaving to pursue other projects. New band members Ian Michell (Bitter Diamonds) and Jamie Duncan (Aaron Burnham and the Brushfires, Dogweed String Band) have reinvigorated the Heartache with their talent and energy.<h2></h2><h2>THE KATE BURKART BAND</h2>—Kate Burkart has been writing, singing, and playing in the San Francisco Bay area for over a decade. She released “Faith To Fall”, her debut album, in 2010. The six-song EP “Save Me a Seat” followed in 2015, and she’s released several singles since, including “Last” and the Blaze Foley cover “Moonlight,” as well as her latest single, "Twisted Wind.The Kate Burkart Band is a true Americana blend of rock, twang, and some quiet introspection. The common thread? Lyrics that tell a story and draw the listener in. Most often compared with Lucinda Williams, Kate was recently called “Neil Young with a dash of Karen Carpenter”… shows are everywhere throughout the San Francisco Bay Area!

Poi Rogers + Laura Benitez & The Heartache + Kate Burkart Band

ivy room presentsSATURDAY OCT 11TH—<h2>affectionately</h2><h2>PLUM</h2><h2>SUVER</h2>----Doors 7:30 pm / Show 8 pmAdvance Tickets Available----IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<h2></h2> <h2></h2>

AFFECTIONATELY + PLUM + SUVER

ivy room presentsFRIDAY OCTOBER 10TH—APPLESAUCERRED PLANETCHANTIGS—Doors 7:00 pm / Show 8:00 pmAdvance Tickets Available / $15 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+—<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/779387508343650/">(rsvp on facebook)</a>Who agrees WE ALL NEED THIS SHOW!…Let’s party like it’s 1998!

Applesaucer + Red Planet + Chantigs

ivy room presentsTHURSDAY OCT 9TH—<h2>Choas Fiction (Record Release)</h2><h2>Witch Dick (Record Release)</h2><h2>The Stratospheres (Record Release)</h2><h2>Deborah Crooks (Bay Station)</h2>—Doors 7:00pm / Show 7:30pmADV TICKETS AVAILABLE / $14 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—<h2></h2><h2>Chaos Fiction</h2>—Chaos Fiction is an indie noise pop trio from San Francisco, California. Steady Nerves is the band's debut album, released in 2025. The band includes Linda Moody on vocals and guitar, Tori Fulkerson-Jones on bass and Steve Landey on drums.<h2>Witch Dick</h2>—Witch Dick is the two-headed brainchild of Annie Kendall and Sasha Soukup. The two friends bonded over their mutual love of 60s garage rock and alternative guitar noise. Fans of Television, PJ Harvey, and fuzzy West Coast surf rock will be turned on by their witchy, mystical vibes.<h2>The Stratospheres</h2>—The Stratospheres' songs explore the timely and timeless matters of heat waves and train tracks, laundromats and love. Their sound is a mix of retro rock n roll, surf and astro, twang and proto-punk, Lucinda Williams meets Lou Reed.<h2>Deborah Crooks (Bay Station)</h2>—Deborah Crooks makes the case for a return to the roots of rock"- Consequence of SoundCalifornia-based songwriter Deborah Crooks' music draws on folk, rock, and the Blues. Her diverse, ever-evolving artistic path has included studying writing and poetics at The Naropa Institute, voice in India, co-founding the band Bay Station, and gigging throughout the Western US.

Choas Fiction + Witch Dick + The Stratospheres + Deborah Crooks (Bay Station)

WEDNESDAY OCT 8TH6:15PM DOORS / 7:00PM SHOW<h2>BANDWORKS</h2>---The BandWorks Adult Band Workshop is an 8-week session offering adult musicians a chance to play in a rock band and perform live on-stage.

THE UC THEATRE &amp; IVY ROOM PRESENTSTUESDAY OCT 7TH—<h2>Jembaa Groove</h2><h2>Damma Damma</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 8:00 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $20 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1602945943702497/">(rsvp on facebook)</a><h2>Jembaa Groove</h2>—After garnering massive support from the international media world (KEXP, BBC6Music, Gilles Peterson, Soulection, KCRW, FIP and many more) of the back of their firsttwo albums, "Susuma" and "Ye Ankasa/We Ourselves", and selling out numerous showsacross Europe, with Festival appearances at Supersonic Jazz (NL), JazzOnze+ (CH)London Jazz Festival (UK), and many more, Jembaa Groove embarked on their 2025 tourwith a fresh line-up and brand new songs that are set to release in Fall 2025. On theirnewest undertaking, Jembaa Groove are strengthening ties to Lagos and London's vibrantAfro-Fusion scenes. Joining forces with "premium highlifers" The Cavemen (NIG), theband got together for another contemporary take on Highlife, Jazz and Afrobeats, alsofeaturing legendary Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara and Nigerian vocal sensation TimLyre.The new wave of Afro-Jazz is flourishing around the globe, and Jembaa Groove is on theway to becoming one of the most important ambassadors of this aspiring genre. Thenewest additions to the line-up include two highly acclaimed members of the Europeanjazz scene who are successful bandleaders themselves. Szabolcs "Àbáse" Bognar (HUN)on keys and Peter Somuah (GHA) on trumpet will join the band on their upcoming worldtour, which will take them through Europe, the UK, the US, and South Africa.<iframe-embed src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9jqx9pVKLLA?si=WlKmTWIXMe9xRMmH" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" height="315" width="560" style="" metaposition="flex-start" metatype="youtube"></iframe-embed><h2>Damma Damma</h2>—Damma Damma is a musical collective of cinematic soundscapes rooted in psychedelic jazz-inspired rock music. Based in California with members hailing from Pennsylvania, Lousiana and Northern California, their musical influences are as varied as the places they were raised. Their influences educate their unique variety of rock music with a cinematic feel that is retro and modern at the same time. Raised on the evolving landscape of rock, R&amp;B, soul and punk rock, they manage to blend instruments of jazz such as vibraphone, flute, saxophone and piano together with the rock blueprint of drums, bass, guitar and keys that recall elements of late 60's and early 70's musical adventures that explored mixing genres freely. Born out of rhythm and percussion, drummer Adam Weaver enlisted the help of Robin Livingston on keyboards, production and engineering (el Radio Fantastique, Mykal Rose, Mickey Hart) and Jacob Landry on guitar (Caravan 222, Lee Gallagher) to bring the music of Damma Damma to life. The core group was rounded out with Camilla Saufley on bass (Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Golden Void), Patrick Byers on flute and saxophone, (Monophonics, Phil Lesh &amp; Friends, Ernest Ranglin), Darren Nelson on rhythm guitar (San Geronimo), Shen Hunt on congas and percussion (Zansa, Zach Deputy Band) and Jordan L. Blumling on 2nd percussion (Flash Hits, Gondola, Sapphire Slugs).

Jembaa Groove

ivy room presents—MONDAY OCT 6TH—<h2>Ryan MacNeill and The Big Deal</h2><h2>Trans-Pecos Department Of Dust &amp; Wire</h2><h2>Wooden Bells</h2>—7:00pm doors / 7:30pm showFREE SHOW!—IVY ROOM | 21+<h2>Ryan MacNeill and The Big Deal</h2>—Cosmic Country from Oakland, California.<h2>Trans-Pecos Department Of Dust &amp; Wire</h2>—Born of the low roads and the high desert…from the Sangre de Cristos to the San Joaquin Valley…we are the Trans Pecos Department Of Dust And Wire

Ryan MacNeill and The Big Deal • Trans-Pecos Department Of Dust & Wire • Wooden Bells

DJ SID PRESLEY, ALAMEDA ROCK 'N ROLL FLEA MARKET AND IVY ROOM PRESENTSUNDAY OCT 5TH—<h2>MESSER CHUPS</h2><h2>THE CREEPY CRAWLIES</h2><h2>GARRAS SUCIAS</h2><h2>DJ SID PRESLEY</h2>—6pm doors / 7pm showAdvance Tickets Available / $25 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1960247721396737/">(rsvp on facebook)</a>—<h2>MESSER CHUPS</h2>—While Messer Chups’ mostly instrumental sound is hard to neatly categorize, it’s safe to say that it would be embraced by fans of rockabilly, horror punk, vintage surf records, Italian slasher films, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Pulp Fiction, lounge music, the theremin, The Cramps, and the theme song from The Munsters. Their catchy music combines surf, vintage Russian melodies, rare film samples from the 50s and 60s, scratchy historical recordings, and lounge loops. Live, they explode with garage-punk intensity, all played against a video-collage backdrop of mid-century trashy cult and horror movie clips featuring Russ Meyer and Ed Wood, and superstars like Vampira and Bela Lugosi in a zombie mash-up.Messer Chups&nbsp;is&nbsp;Oleg “Guitaracula” on guitar, Svetlana “Zombierella”&nbsp;on bass and vocals and&nbsp;Signor Mattia on drums.&nbsp;Through their constant touring and steady music releases, the band has now amassed a huge and passionate global fan base. In 2022, the band signed with USA-based label Hi-Tide Recordings, global leader in ‘Surf, Lounge &amp; Exotic Sounds"<h2>The Creepy Crawlies</h2>—The Creepy Crawlies will stir your soul with female fronted garage punk led by the brilliant Sarah Coykendall!! The debut EP "We are the Creepy Crawlies" was released this year.<h2>Garras Sucias</h2>—Garras Sucias was born in 2021 during the pandemic that hit the world. The band takes garage and punk rock beyond their genres. Latin, garage, surf, and punk sounds at play. This high-energy music includes Spanish lyrics, strumming guitars, raw emotions, and riffs.

MESSER CHUPS

ivy room presentsSATURDAY OCT 4TH—<h2>LOS STRAITJACKETS</h2><h2>THE CHUCKLEBERRIES</h2><h2>DJ SID PRESLEY</h2>—7pm doors / 8pm showAdvance Tickets Available / $32 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/754671427430582/">(rsvp on facebook)</a>—<h2>LOS STRAITJACKETS</h2>—Mike Campbell knocked on the dressing room door and brought in a friend to meet Los Straitjackets. It was the late 1990s and through a chance encounter with Campbell, the band found themselves opening a series of shows for Tom Petty &amp; The Heartbreakers. Mike introduced his friend: “You gotta meet these guys. They sound like the early Beatles… if they didn’t sing.”It was a high compliment because everyone in the band understood exactly how to take it. He wasn’t calling them the equal of Lennon &amp; McCartney and company, just acknowledging that the band were high practitioners of the ‘combo’ sound: an early sixties line up of two guitars, bass and drums playing rock n’ roll music best exemplified by the Cavern Club-era Beatles.Constantly tagged with a slightly reductive “surf music” label, Los Straitjackets are better characterized as “instrumental rock n’ roll,” and have been since founders Danny Amis and Eddie Angel met and watched drummer Jimmy Lester play drums with Webb Wilder at a Nashville club. Their influences range from the double-picking-surf-attack of Dick Dale, to the proto-rock of Link Wray, the hooks of The Ventures, to the groove of Booker T. &amp; The MG’s, all played with an energy that acknowledges The Cramps and punk rock. And past the golden age of instrumentals of the 1960s, one could argue they have brought this music to more fans than any other band, having done it for more than 30 years.They have taken their combo sound around the world, mostly making instrumental records, but also backing vocalists along the way, most notably for over a decade with Nick Lowe. It’s that collaboration that fuels this latest album, Somos Los Straitjackets. The lineup that has been touring since founder Danny Amis had to drop out of day-to-day operations because of his (winning) battle against multiple myeloma is Eddie Angel, longtime bassist Pete Curry, drummer Chris Sprague (The Sprague Brothers, Deke Dickerson) and Rochester guitar hero Greg Townson (The Hi-Risers, John Ellison). Playing hundreds of songs with and without Lowe, this four-piece has coalesced into an incredibly tight, rockin’ combo. “Playing behind a master like Nick Lowe makes you laser-focused on your playing. It has also made us very adept at coming up with twin guitar parts that complement each other,” says Eddie Angel.After recording with Lowe at Alex Hall’s Reliable Recorders, the band knew they had met the man who could capture the sound of this group.&nbsp; Angel elaborates, “We trusted Alex’s instincts and we were fans of some of the studio’s other outputs like JD McPherson and The Cactus Blossoms.”He continues, “The recording process we used this time was different. We got together numerous times at Pete Curry’s Powow Fun Room studio in LA to work up the songs, then we recorded demos to listen back to. Having some time to tweak the songs, and in some cases play them live, really helped when it came time to record.” They booked a session with Hall at bassist Pete Curry’s Marina Del Rey-adjacent studio, the Powow Fun Room, and followed up with a couple of sessions in Chicago. This list of songs built the first album of original material the band would record since Jet Set (2012). They worked on them at soundchecks and even peppered them into live sets. Somos is rounded out with two re-recordings of pandemic-era remote compositions (Townson’s “Genesee River Rock” and Angel’s “April Showers”) as well as revisiting “Spinout,” a track recorded by Eddie’s other band The Neanderthals (bolstered by some guest vocals from voice-over king Tom Kenny).&nbsp;From Townson’s thrilling “High Wire Act” to Angel’s down and dirty “Numbskull” to the beautiful “Polaris,” Somos Los Straitjackets pulsates with wit, twang and thunderous rock n’ roll. On “Cry for a Beatle,” drummer Chris Sprague strapped on a rickenbacker, Pete Curry moved to his original instrument (the drums!), and Eddie Angel picked up a bass. Paying explicit tribute to the combo sound of the Beatles and evoking The Fab Four’s nod to The Shadows (“Cry for a Shadow”), this song closes the circle.Somos Los Straitjackets demonstrates why Los Straitjackets have reigned as the kings of modern instrumental rock for over thirty years; with shimmering tremolo, relentless drum grooves, and hooks so catchy they don’t need lyrics to get stuck in your head. Produced with a vintage touch but packed with fresh intensity, Somos Los Straitjackets is both a love letter to rock and roll’s past and a declaration of purpose with feet firmly planted in the present: “We Are Los Straitjackets.”

LOS STRAITJACKETS + THE CHUCKLEBERRIES

IVY ROOM PRESENTSFRIDAY OCT 3RD—<h2>True Blue - A Madonna Tribute</h2><h2>Pale Shelter - Tears For Fears Tribute</h2>—7:30 pm doors / 8:00 pm showAdvance Tix Available / $20 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—<h2>True Blue: A Madonna Tribute</h2>—EST: 2025 San Francisco Bay Area based tribute to Madonna featuring members from <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/retrospekt80s/?hl=en">Retrospekt 80s</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/faithanddevotiondm/?hl=en">Faith And Devotion: A Depeche Mode Tribute</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/thischarmingband/?hl=en">This Charming Band - tribute to The Smiths &amp; Morrissey</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/bloodflowerssf/?hl=en">Bloodflowers - A Tribute to The Cure</a><h2></h2>

TRUE BLUE - MADONNA TRIBUTE + PALE SHELTER - TEARS FOR FEARS TRIBUTE

ivy room presentsTHURSDAY OCT 2ND—<h2>Willy Tea Taylor &amp; The Fellership</h2><h2>The Montvales</h2>—7pm doors / 7:30pm showAdvance Tickets Available / $20 Door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+—<h2>Willy Tea Taylor &amp; The Fellership</h2>—There is no question that Willy Tea Taylor’s life as a singer/songwriter was predetermined - his role realized the moment he wrote his first song. In it for the song, the hang, and the sounds he draws from his little, tenor guitar, Willy drew his inspiration from grainy videos he watched of the true visionaries of his genre: Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Steve Young and Guy Clark, sitting around Clark’s little kitchen table loaded down with ash trays full of butts and half-smoked cigarettes, food, and booze on one Christmas Eve in 1975. Those guys, swapping songs without pretense, was what lit Willy Tea’s fire. Ever since, that’s been his passion - finding that hang and curating relationships through musical friendships that get him to his version of that night.Willy Tea Taylor, the son of a cattleman, was born and raised in the “Cowboy Capital of the World”, Oakdale, California. In the past year or so, after thousands of miles driven and countless songs written and played, he has suddenly and rightfully found himself standing shoulder to shoulder in the ranks of today’s great Alt-Country musicians. From his early days co-fronting The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit, to singing solo in countless cowboy bars, Willy Tea has never lost the vision of what he knew could be. And now with The Fellership or solo, Willy Tea Taylor, he has taken his version of that hero hang on the road.<h2>The Montvales</h2>—Born and raised in Knoxville, TN, Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson of songwriter duo The Montvales spent much of their formative years busking amidst the Elvis impersonators and musical saw players of the town’s Market Square, honing their uniquely boisterous harmonies and driving, joyful sound. Eventually they graduated to playing indoors on the local Americana radio station, WDVX, and found community in old-time circles around town. A local fiddler’s dairy cows were among the first intrepid listeners of their early DIY recordings. After moving away for several years to seek their fortunes separately, Molly and Sally finally reunited in 2019 to write and record their first album, Heartbreak Summer Camp. The two now make their home in Cincinnati, OH, spending their days touring extensively and crafting intimate, storytelling-driven songs that explore the joys and perils of self-determination. Their latest album, Born Strangers, is produced by Mike Eli LoPinto (producer and co-writer of Emily Nenni’s “On the Ranch”, guitarist for Chris Stapleton) and recorded in Sean Sullivan’s Tractor Shed Studio in Nashville. The twelve songs careen recklessly across the whole folk-country spectrum, showcasing The Montvales’ distinctive harmonies and building a sonic world just expansive and surprising enough to hold the wide-eyed existentialism of the stories and questions raised by the lyrics.

Willy Tea Taylor & The Fellership

Bang The Bay PresentsWEDNESDAY OCT 1ST—<h2>BANG THE BAY!</h2><h2>Feat.</h2><h2>Caribbean Allstars</h2><h2>Paper Face</h2><h2>ELEGANT TRASH</h2><h2>Eclipsing Eden</h2><h2>Da Pupz</h2>—Every First and Third Wednesday at the Ivy RoomEarly show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Doors 6:00pm / Show 6:30pmPRESALE TIX AVAILABLE / $10-$20 DOOR(*VIP includes a grab bag full of cool stuff! incl A CD, pins, stickers, patches, T-shirts and other new monthly gifts)—IVY ROOM | 21+—

BANG THE BAY! Caribbean Allstars • Paper Face • ELEGANT TRASH • Eclipsing Eden • Da Pupz 

IVY ROOM PRESENTSTUESDAY SEPT 30TH—<h2>Kelsey Waldon</h2><h2>KRISTINA MURRAY</h2>—7 :00pm doors / 7:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $20 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—<h2>Kelsey Waldon</h2>—In the six years since she signed to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records, Kelsey Waldon has earned wide praise for her “self-penned compositions [with] the patina of authenticity” (Rolling Stone). On her new album, Every Ghost, she confronts addiction, grief, generational trauma, and even herself — and comes through it stronger and at peace.“There’s a lot of hard-earned healing on this record,” Waldon says of the nine-song project, recorded at Southern Grooves studio in Memphis with her band, The Muleskinners. As she sings in the record’s title track and first song, “Ghost of Myself,” she’s put in the work not only to better herself and leave behind bad habits, but also to learn to love her past selves. Doing so wasn’t easy, Waldon admits. “It took time and experience,” she says, adding that she can now find compassion for her younger self. “I think you’ve gotta respect her,” Waldon says, “because she was trying as hard as she could for where she was at, and she was doing a damn good job.”Compassion is a throughline on Every Ghost, whether it’s for Waldon herself, for the person in the throes of addiction in “Falling Down,” or for a suffering world in “Nursery Rhyme.” The people in Waldon’s songs aren’t irredeemable — they’re struggling.“You’ve got to have compassion; you gotta stay humble and have gratitude,” Waldon says. However, she’s learned that you also can’t let people take advantage of an empathetic heart. “Comanche” — which Waldon jokes is her very own truck song — finds Waldon grappling with the loss of a loved one, not to death but to boundaries she’s set for her own good. Waldon owns a 1988 Jeep Comanche, and driving it serves as a kind of therapy for her.“I love the whole aspect of when design mattered,” she says, “and owning your car was an expression of yourself.”“Comanche” is deeply personal, but Waldon’s most introspective reflections bookend My Ghost. Its penultimate song, “My Kin,” extends the idea of loving yourself in spite of yourself beyond the choices she’s made and the circumstances she’s put herself in, to reckon with both the good and the bad that come from her family tree. Those traits, Waldon concludes, make her who she is.“As the song says, ‘I’m the best and worst of my kin,’ and I love that for myself,” says Waldon, who was born and raised in a hunting lodge at the end of a dead-end road in the rural, unincorporated community of Monkey’s Eyebrow, Ky. “And I’m also at a point where I’m willing to break these cycles, I’m willing to grow, I’m willing to evolve.”Among those best parts of her lineage is Waldon’s grandmother, who died in June 2024. “She was a remarkable woman. The women in my family have been rocks, and they’ve all been colorful and full of character,” Waldon says.“Her garden and her yard, that might have been one of the things she took the most pride in,” Waldon adds, recalling how her granny would often stop to dig up roadside flowers, then transplant them into her yard. A display of tiger lilies, some of which now grow in Waldon’s yard in Tennessee, was a particular point of pride.“Transplanting is such a tradition — it can teach you a lot,” Waldon says. “Life goes on, beauty can grow from anywhere, and as long as a person is remembered, they’re never gone.”Waldon honors her granny with the song “Tiger Lilies.” She didn’t want an over-the-top sentimental song, so she instead leaned into the idea of traditions as a way to remember loved ones. “I’m sure Granny would love it,” Waldon says.Every Ghost concludes with a Hazel Dickens cover, “Ramblin’ Woman.” Waldon covered two Dickens songs on 2024’s There’s Always a Song and had added “Ramblin’ Woman” to their live sets as well. While Waldon didn’t originally intend to include their cover on this album, it served as “a sonic star” during the recording process and has a message Waldon feels is still relevant decades after Dickens wrote it.“Hazel was ahead of her time,” Waldon says. “Our existence is more than just what society expects of us. We’re more than just somebody’s girlfriend or wife or mother, and those are all beautiful things, but we can have our own independence, and we don’t have to do it for anybody else. We’re beautiful, magical, and powerful creatures.”That’s certainly how Waldon sees herself after completing Every Ghost. “It feels like there’s a spirit of fearlessness throughout this album,” Waldon says, “and I’m really proud of that.”Waldon’s fearlessness is among the reasons she landed at Oh Boy Records in 2019, as the independent label’s first new signee in 15 years. It’s attracted fans to her headline tours and her festival sets, and prompted artists including Tyler Childers, Charley Crockett, Robert Earl Keen, Margo Price, and Lucinda Williams to invite her on tour. It helped earn her both the title of “Kentucky Colonel” — an honor recognizing goodwill ambassadors of Kentucky’s culture and traditions — and a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s annual American Currents exhibit in 2024.“True outlaw shit is sticking to your guns, and I feel like I’m doing that,” Waldon says. “I’m not saying I’m unbreakable, but I feel almost unbreakable. I’ve already hurt the worst that I could and lived to tell the story. We can be thankful for our ghosts."<h2>Kristina Murray</h2>—Kristina Murray is a Nashville-based country singer-songwriter known for her steadfast dedication to traditional country music. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, she fell in love with the genre at age five after hearing Patsy Cline’s Greatest Hits in her mother’s car. After a formative stint in Colorado’s bluegrass scene, she moved to Nashville in 2014, where she became a fixture in the East Nashville honky-tonk circuit, helping to establish the now-legendary Honky Tonk Tuesdays and becoming one of the first women to front a band at Santa’s Pub .Murray self-released her debut album, Unravelin’, in 2013, followed by Southern Ambrosia in 2018, which earned critical acclaim and landed her on Rolling Stone’s “Artists You Need to Know” list. Her latest album, Little Blue, released on May 9, 2025, via Normaltown/New West Records, showcases her evocative songwriting and blends classic country with southern rock and Americana influences.With a voice reminiscent of Emmylou Harris and George Jones, and a songwriting style that captures the complexities of everyday life, Kristina Murray continues to be a torchbearer for authentic country music.

Kelsey Waldon

IVY ROOM PRESENTSTUESDAY SEPT 30TH—<h2>Kelsey Waldon</h2><h2>Plus Special Guests</h2>—7 :00pm doors / 7:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $20 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—<h2>Kelsey Waldon</h2>—In the six years since she signed to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records, Kelsey Waldon has earned wide praise for her “self-penned compositions [with] the patina of authenticity” (Rolling Stone). On her new album, Every Ghost, she confronts addiction, grief, generational trauma, and even herself — and comes through it stronger and at peace.“There’s a lot of hard-earned healing on this record,” Waldon says of the nine-song project, recorded at Southern Grooves studio in Memphis with her band, The Muleskinners. As she sings in the record’s title track and first song, “Ghost of Myself,” she’s put in the work not only to better herself and leave behind bad habits, but also to learn to love her past selves. Doing so wasn’t easy, Waldon admits. “It took time and experience,” she says, adding that she can now find compassion for her younger self. “I think you’ve gotta respect her,” Waldon says, “because she was trying as hard as she could for where she was at, and she was doing a damn good job.”Compassion is a throughline on Every Ghost, whether it’s for Waldon herself, for the person in the throes of addiction in “Falling Down,” or for a suffering world in “Nursery Rhyme.” The people in Waldon’s songs aren’t irredeemable — they’re struggling.“You’ve got to have compassion; you gotta stay humble and have gratitude,” Waldon says. However, she’s learned that you also can’t let people take advantage of an empathetic heart. “Comanche” — which Waldon jokes is her very own truck song — finds Waldon grappling with the loss of a loved one, not to death but to boundaries she’s set for her own good. Waldon owns a 1988 Jeep Comanche, and driving it serves as a kind of therapy for her.“I love the whole aspect of when design mattered,” she says, “and owning your car was an expression of yourself.”“Comanche” is deeply personal, but Waldon’s most introspective reflections bookend My Ghost. Its penultimate song, “My Kin,” extends the idea of loving yourself in spite of yourself beyond the choices she’s made and the circumstances she’s put herself in, to reckon with both the good and the bad that come from her family tree. Those traits, Waldon concludes, make her who she is.“As the song says, ‘I’m the best and worst of my kin,’ and I love that for myself,” says Waldon, who was born and raised in a hunting lodge at the end of a dead-end road in the rural, unincorporated community of Monkey’s Eyebrow, Ky. “And I’m also at a point where I’m willing to break these cycles, I’m willing to grow, I’m willing to evolve.”Among those best parts of her lineage is Waldon’s grandmother, who died in June 2024. “She was a remarkable woman. The women in my family have been rocks, and they’ve all been colorful and full of character,” Waldon says.“Her garden and her yard, that might have been one of the things she took the most pride in,” Waldon adds, recalling how her granny would often stop to dig up roadside flowers, then transplant them into her yard. A display of tiger lilies, some of which now grow in Waldon’s yard in Tennessee, was a particular point of pride.“Transplanting is such a tradition — it can teach you a lot,” Waldon says. “Life goes on, beauty can grow from anywhere, and as long as a person is remembered, they’re never gone.”Waldon honors her granny with the song “Tiger Lilies.” She didn’t want an over-the-top sentimental song, so she instead leaned into the idea of traditions as a way to remember loved ones. “I’m sure Granny would love it,” Waldon says.Every Ghost concludes with a Hazel Dickens cover, “Ramblin’ Woman.” Waldon covered two Dickens songs on 2024’s There’s Always a Song and had added “Ramblin’ Woman” to their live sets as well. While Waldon didn’t originally intend to include their cover on this album, it served as “a sonic star” during the recording process and has a message Waldon feels is still relevant decades after Dickens wrote it.“Hazel was ahead of her time,” Waldon says. “Our existence is more than just what society expects of us. We’re more than just somebody’s girlfriend or wife or mother, and those are all beautiful things, but we can have our own independence, and we don’t have to do it for anybody else. We’re beautiful, magical, and powerful creatures.”That’s certainly how Waldon sees herself after completing Every Ghost. “It feels like there’s a spirit of fearlessness throughout this album,” Waldon says, “and I’m really proud of that.”Waldon’s fearlessness is among the reasons she landed at Oh Boy Records in 2019, as the independent label’s first new signee in 15 years. It’s attracted fans to her headline tours and her festival sets, and prompted artists including Tyler Childers, Charley Crockett, Robert Earl Keen, Margo Price, and Lucinda Williams to invite her on tour. It helped earn her both the title of “Kentucky Colonel” — an honor recognizing goodwill ambassadors of Kentucky’s culture and traditions — and a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s annual American Currents exhibit in 2024.“True outlaw shit is sticking to your guns, and I feel like I’m doing that,” Waldon says. “I’m not saying I’m unbreakable, but I feel almost unbreakable. I’ve already hurt the worst that I could and lived to tell the story. We can be thankful for our ghosts."<h2>Kristina Murray</h2>—Kristina Murray is a Nashville-based country singer-songwriter known for her steadfast dedication to traditional country music. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, she fell in love with the genre at age five after hearing Patsy Cline’s Greatest Hits in her mother’s car. After a formative stint in Colorado’s bluegrass scene, she moved to Nashville in 2014, where she became a fixture in the East Nashville honky-tonk circuit, helping to establish the now-legendary Honky Tonk Tuesdays and becoming one of the first women to front a band at Santa’s Pub .Murray self-released her debut album, Unravelin’, in 2013, followed by Southern Ambrosia in 2018, which earned critical acclaim and landed her on Rolling Stone’s “Artists You Need to Know” list. Her latest album, Little Blue, released on May 9, 2025, via Normaltown/New West Records, showcases her evocative songwriting and blends classic country with southern rock and Americana influences.With a voice reminiscent of Emmylou Harris and George Jones, and a songwriting style that captures the complexities of everyday life, Kristina Murray continues to be a torchbearer for authentic country music.

IVY ROOM PRESENTSSUNDAY SEPT 28TH—<h2>Scott H. Biram</h2><h2>Sasquatch and the Sick-A-Billys</h2><h2>douglas benson (stigma 13)</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 7:30 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $25 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2531175583909569/">(rsvp on facebook)</a><h2>Scott H. Biram</h2>—Years of compulsive touring, along with a steady diet of down and dirty blues, rock, punk, country, and hillbilly have developed Scott H. Biram's signature concoction, attracting a hefty array of fans who dig the bizarre and twisted sides of the rock and roll spectrum. His live shows, performed all over the world, deliver a take no prisoners attitude, a stomping, pulsing John Lee Hooker-channeling, and cockeyed tales of black water baptisms and murder, all while romanticizing the on-the-road lifestyle. SCOTT H. BIRAM IS THE DIRTY OLD ONE MAN BAND<h2>Sasquatch &amp; The Sick-A-Billys</h2>—Sasquatch &amp; The Sick-A-Billys is a band known for its high-energy, psychobilly, country, and rockabilly sound. They are recognized for their powerful live performances, with Dave's vocals described as "fighting a demon," Johnny's bass playing as a blur of speed, and Natalie's drumming as ferociously energetic.<h2>douglas benson</h2>—music from the california wild west and arizona sonoran desert<h2></h2>

Scott H. Biram + Sasquatch and the Sick-A-Billys

Marco Baroz PresentsSUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28TH—WAY OUT WEST - A Summer Concert Series<h2>Lisa Marie Johnston</h2><h2>Secret Emchy Society</h2><h2>Maddie Carpenter</h2>—1:00 pm doors / 2:00 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $13 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2></h2><h2></h2>

WAY OUT WEST: Feat. Lisa Marie Johnston • Secret Emchy Society • Maddie Carpenter

IVY ROOM PRESENTSSATURDAY SEPT 27TH—<h2>The Recyclists</h2><h2>Super Greens</h2><h2>Manic Meditations</h2>—7:30 pm doors / 8:00 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $20 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+—<h2>THE RECYCLISTS</h2>—The Recyclists are known for their own brand of funky, soulful, rock &amp; roll, rhythm and blues. Their original music is eclectic, danceable and full of energy. While they usually throw in a few cover tunes, they put their own spin on every selection. The Recyclists have played events, parties, festivals and bars from Petaluma to San Jose over the past 10 years. With a solid following of dedicated "Recyclistas" - every performance is a party! The current lineup: Larry Stewart on saxophone, John Malamut and Mark Williams on keys, Anthony May on bass, Steve Healey on drums and Diana Niemoeller singing with guitarist Stace Wright.<h2>SUPER GREENS</h2>—Super Greens is a funk/rock group based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their sound is an eclectic mix of funk, soul, blues and rock inspired by artists such as Bill Withers, The Meters, Led Zeppelin, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Revivalists, and Goose.The high-energy Super Greens sound is driven by the powerhouse vocals of Dave Combs and blistering guitar of Andrew Harris. The band’s rhythm section, consisting of Bill Croughan (bass) Noel Butta (keys), and John Spencer (drums), delivers a bedrock of catchy grooves. Their band members have played to large crowds at many prestigious California venues and festivals such as The Independent, Great American Music Hall, Sweetwater Music Hall, Terrapin Crossroads, as well as High Sierra Music Festival, and Hangtown.<h2></h2><h2>Manic Meditations</h2>—members of Space Goat

The Recyclists + Super Greens + Manic Meditations

IVY ROOM PRESENTS—FRIDAY SEPT 26TH<h2>— CLEM SNIDE</h2><h2>RYE VALLEY</h2><h2>PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS</h2>—7 PM DOORS / 8PM SHOWADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE / $25 DAY OF SHOW—<h2>CLEM SNIDE</h2>—“The last ten years have been a rollercoaster of deep despair and amazing opportunities that somehow present themselves at the last possible second,” says Eef Barzelay. “During that time, the band bottomed out, I lost my house, and I had to declare bankruptcy. The only way to survive was to try to transcend myself, to find some kind of deeper, spiritual relationship with life. Once I committed to that, all these little miracles started happening.”‘Forever Just Beyond,’ Barzelay’s stunning new album under the Clem Snide moniker, may just be the most miraculous of them all. Produced by Scott Avett, the record is a work of exquisite beauty and profound questioning, a reckoning with faith and reality that rushes headlong into the unknown and the unknowable. The songs here grapple with hope and depression, identity and perception, God and the afterlife, humanizing thorny existential issues and delivering them with the intimate, understated air of a late-night conversation between old friends. Avett’s production is similarly warm and inviting, and the careful, spacious arrangement of gentle guitars and spare percussion carves a wide path for Barzelay’s insightful lyrics and idiosyncratic delivery. “I look up to Eef with total respect and admiration,” says Avett, “and I hope to survive like he survives: with total love for the new and the unknown. Eef’s a crooner and an indie darling by sound and a mystic sage by depth. That’s not common, but it’s beautiful.”Named for a William S. Borroughs character, Clem Snide first emerged from Boston as a three-piece in the early 1990’s, and the group would go on to become a cult and critical favorite, picking up high profile fans from Bon Iver to Ben Folds over the course of three decades and more than a dozen studio albums. NPR highlighted the Israeli-born Barzelay as “the most underrated songwriter in the business today, with a sneakily firm grasp on poignancy and humor,” while Rolling Stone hailed his songwriting as “soulful and incisive,” and The New Yorker praised his music’s “soothing melodies and candid wit.”<h2>RYE VALLEY</h2>—Rye Valley is an Americana band from Northeast Ohio. Founding members Brett Auerbach and Landon Kearns met at an iconic NEOH open mic hosted at the Silver Swan Tavern. After nearly a decade of casual collaboration, Auerbach and Kearns joined forces in 2021 to create Rye Valley. Rye Valley showcases Auerbach’s original songwriting and Kearns talented multi-instrumentalism. They released their first EP in 2023 titled “Greetings from Rye Valley”. Additionally, Rye Valley released a live recorded album in 2023 titled “Rye Valley Live at Plastic Dino Records”. In Spring of 2024, Rye Valley dropped their first full length studio album with producer Tuck Mindrum titled “Miss River”. Many guest appearances are on the album including Tyler Lobdell (Ray), Jono Yowell, Erik Diaz, Jen Maurer, and Leigh Ann Merrill.

Clem Snide

UC Theatre &amp; Ivy Room present—THURS SEPT 25TH<h2>BRASS AGAINST</h2><h2>Babes Against The Machine</h2>7 pm doors / 8 pm show—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+—BRASS AGAINST VIP EXPERIENCEBrass Against is hosting a VIP meet and greet prior to the show, giving a chance for fans to get together and celebrate good music in an intimate setting!VIP EXPERIENCES INCLUDE:-Early entrance and crowd-free merchandise shopping-A commemorative piece of merchandise-Individual photo opportunity with Brass Against-Autograph session with Brass Against-Group question and answer session with Brass Against -- ask your most burning question!-Private performance by Brass AgainstMusic has always been a weapon for change—and right now, it sounds like Brass Against.This band fuses the raw power of heavy rock with the fire of a brass section and soul-shakingvocals to make music that demands your attention.Brass Against isn’t just a band. They’re a movement. Fueled by rage, purpose, and community,they bring energy that’s impossible to ignore and a message that’s impossible to forget.Never heard them? There’s no better time than now.Catch them live on the What Better Time Than Now Tour and experience songs from Tool, RageAgainst the Machine, Led Zeppelin and more.—<h2>BRASS AGAINST</h2>—Originally starting out as covers of their favorite bands like Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Soundgarden and Black Sabbath, the group has also released five recorded albums featuring Sophia Urista on vocals, as well as Liza Colby, Michael Cunio, Samuel Hope and others.The electric mix of curated seminal heavy rock songs plus original music brings audiences together around the world. From Copenhagen to Cologne, Manchester to Milan, New York to LA, Brass Against is playing the songs that audiences grew up with–and keeping fans enthralled throughout the whole set.Since its inception, Brass Against has had the goal of creating music that resonates with people’s emotions and encourages them to act. The music itself is edgy and empowering, but it’s also about escapism from the chaos and turmoil of everyday life, especially as life imitates some of the same patterns that prompted the band’s founding. Shows regularly include calls to love, understanding and peace through mindfulness.Rage. Energy. Motivation. Community. Acceptance…Brass Against is providing the sound of the times…and a magnetic soundtrack to daily life.<iframe-embed src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_X0Fy9_40-Y?si=MgnTmWvr0zrrXu1T" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" height="315" width="560" style="" metaposition="flex-start" metatype="youtube"></iframe-embed><h2>BABES AGAINST THE MACHINE</h2>—All four band members of BABES AGAINST THE MACHINE are seasoned, professional musicians who share a passion for the unbridled fiery intensity of Rage Against The Machine’s in-your-face and the powerful universal messages spread throughout their lyrics.Babes Against The Machine brings crunching metal riffs and machine-gun rapping to effectively recreate RATM's familiar massive all-out sonic assault, from the intricate, groove-laden drum and bass lines of "Wake Up", the band's "how did they do that?"-frenetic guitar work in "Testify", to the angry, passion-filled roars during the anthemic chorus of the crowd favorite, "Killing in the Name".Empowered and unstoppable - Babes Against The Machine delivers the instantly-recognizable tunes, driving rhythms, and authentic hard rock-metal-funk style of Rage Against The Machine wrapped up in a mesmerizing stage show that keeps both casual viewers and the most hardcore RATM fans dancing and singing along all night long.

BRASS AGAINST - WHAT BETTER TIME THAN NOW

mr. hat presentsMONDAY SEPT 22ND —<h2>Marcus Rezak's&nbsp;Shred is Dead</h2>High Octane Grateful Dead Night featuring Anna Elva the dancing drummer and Scott Guberman (Phil &amp; Friends)—Doors 6:30 pm / Show 7:00pm Advance Tickets Available—-IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA •&nbsp;21+<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1452342559332683/">(rsvp on facebook)</a>Mr. Hat Presents Grateful Monday at Ivy Room featuring a very special out-of-town guest!Marcus Rezak is an eminent force in the world of modern guitar.He is known as a road warrior, playing over 200 headlining shows throughout the US every year, and for his prowess as a bandleader, fronting a bountiful roster of projects ranging from original compositions to his high-octane Grateful Dead tribute Band Shred is Dead and the recently established Gumbo paying homage to Phish’s 1.0 era on an authentic 90s rig on Languedoc Guitars and coveted gear used by Trey Anastasio during the band’s formative years.The culmination of accolades has found him collaborating with the likes of GRAMMY-award-winning producer Paul Nelson (Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy); Kris Myers (Umphrey’s McGee), Joel Cummins (Umphrey’s McGee), Ike Willis (Frank Zappa), Arthur Barrow (Frank Zappa); Erik Lawrence (Little Feat); and countless others.Having a commanding stage presence, Rezak takes the euphoric freedom of live music and directs its path into a unique approach with sensibilities of taking comprehensive mental notes on what works, what to improve, and fostering an environment for all collaborators to exceed their full potential in any configuration with any lineup.This innate skill set has led him to form once-in-a-lifetime super groups such as SHRED IS DEAD - a high energy take on the Grateful Dead Songbook with plenty of shreddy jams and with the Bay Area's own Anna Elva the dancing drummer, plus more special surprise guests TBA!

Marcus Rezak's Shred is Dead - High Octane Grateful Dead Night featuring Anna Elva the dancing drummer and Scott Guberman (Phil & Friends)

ivy room presentsSUNDAY SEPT 21ST—<h2>The Living Daylights</h2><h2>Build Them To Break</h2><h2>Casino Youth</h2><h2>Pinoles</h2>—5pm doors / 6pm showAdvance Tickets Available / $15 Door—IVY ROOM | 21+—<h2>THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS</h2>—Melodic punk rock and roll from the San Francisco Bay Area.<h2>BUILD THEM TO BREAK</h2>—Emerging from the depths of a moldy Tenderloin basement some time ago, pop-punk powerhouse Build Them To Break continues to thrive among the ranks of the Bay Area DIY punk rock scene. With their heavy melodic guitar tones, gritty bass lines, drums punching at breakneck speeds and distinct growling vocals, one gets a sense of their shared love for 90s punk influences and Midwest roots.<h2>CASINO YOUTH</h2>—Pop-Punk straight out the Bay Area!<h2>PINOLES</h2>—East Bay punk rock band

The Living Daylights + Build Them To Break + Casino Youth + Pinoles

ivy room presentsSATURDAY SEPT 20TH----<h2>MID-COURSE CORRECTION</h2><h2>MIND THE CHORD</h2><h2>THE LIGHTING SECTION</h2><h2>UNRESOLVED</h2>----Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pmADVANCE TIX AVAILABLE / $15 DOOR----IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<h2></h2><h2>MID-COURSE CORRECTION</h2>—Hailing from the deep east bay, mid-course correction is a rock and roll trio with a strong emo punk rock influence. the band originally started out as a solo acoustic project, which then morphed into a fuller sound to expand on its potential. forming in 2022, the band has only just begun to make its mark on the bay area scene by playing at local bars and backyard shows. with piercing lyrics and catchy melodies, mid-course correction creates a sense of nostalgia but also delivers a fresh sound which leaves the listener hungry for more.<h2>MIND THE CHORD</h2>—hailing from the east bay, midcourse correction is a trio band with heavy emo punk rock influence. the project originally started out as an acoustic format which then morphed into a fuller sound to expand on its potential. forming in 2022, the band has only just begun to make its mark on the bay area scene by playing at local open mics and backyard shows. the bands piercing lyrics and catchy melodies create a sense of nostalgia but also delivering a fresh sound which leaves the listener hungry for more.<h2>THE LIGHTING SECTION</h2>—San Francisco shoegaze/alternative<h2>UNRESOLVED BAND</h2>—Just a few strangers in the Bay who found each other fatefully

Mid-Coursecorrection + Mind The Chord + The Lighting Section + Unresolved

ivy room presentsFRIDAY SEPT 19TH—<h2>CHUM-A TRIBUTE TO PHISH (two sets going all night long!)</h2>—Doors 8pm / Show 9pmAdvance tickets available / $20 at the door—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/756584490484321/">(rsvp on facebook)</a><h2>CHUM</h2>—Chum is among the most seasoned Phish tribute acts on the scene, wowing phans since 2010.

Winter Williams presents—THURS SEPT 18TH—<h2>Instrumental Funk Session</h2><h2>Featuring Chanelle Ignant (guitar), Danielle ""drummagurl"" Wansley-Strong (drums), Jewell McMilon (bass) and Richelle Scales (keys)</h2>—7:30pm doors / 8:00pm show$10 ADV / $20 DOOR—IVY ROOM | 21+"Winter Williams Presents an all-female Instrumental Funk Session on Thursday, September 18th at the Ivy Room in Albany, CA. Featured will be Chanelle Ignant (guitar), Danielle ""drummagurl"" Wansley-Strong (drums), Jewell McMilon (bass) and Richelle Scales (keys) with surprise guests sitting in.Join us for another unique music experience curated especially for lovers of instrumental Funk influenced by Afrobeat, Jazz, R&amp;B and more!Doors open at 7:30 and downbeat is 8pm.Tickets are $10 in advance and $20 at the door (cash only).More about the musicians:Chanelle Ignant is a sought after guitarist and music educator based in Oakland, CA. Playing alongside artists such as Artelia Green and the Bandanas, Be Steadwell, Jay Marie is Holy, and countless others, she has developed a style that blends elements of jazz, R&amp;B, funk, and acoustic soul. In her solo work she uses layered guitar loops to create sonic landscapes exploring the depths of grief, self-transformation, and Black joy. When not playing or writing music she loves teaching guitar and piano to the next generation of music makers. As a 2025 Next Jazz Legacy Awardee she has the honor of apprenticing with Meshell Ndegeocello.Danielle ""drammagurl"" Wansley-Strong is a skilled and passionate drummer from the Bay Area, recognized for her versatility, endorsements, and active presence in the drumming community. Sharing the stage with musical greats such as Dwayne Wiggins, Lenny Williams and a lot more great artists. Danielle is currently a member of Girls Play Too, A Different World, Westones, Vibemuzik and Bay Area Blues society bringing a solid foundation and pocket to every stage she steps on.Jewell McMillon is a bassist, vocalist, and composer from the Bay Area, California, rooted in the groove-rich traditions of funk and soul. She has performed extensively across genres of the African Diaspora, including jazz, gospel, R&amp;B, hip-hop, and more. Her playing has led her to share the stage with artists like Fantastic Negrito, Y La Bamba, and a range of Bay Area acts. As a bandleader, Jewell blends deep-pocket bass with genre-bending arrangements and an open-hearted approach to every performance.Richelle Scales, is a classically trained pianist with a love and passion for all styles of music. Since the age of 5, Richelle has developed an intricate relationship with the 88s, and as the instrument of choice, uses the piano to express her love for afrobeat, hip hop, classical, rock n roll, reggae, and just down right jammin'. She currently plays keys with Girls Play Too, The Back To Black Band ft. Victoria Wasserman ( Amy Winehouse tribute band), Somos Uno We Are One, and American Beauties (All Women Grateful Dead Tribute Band).Background:Started in June, 2023, Instrumental Funk Sessions at the Ivy Room showcase local and touring musicians collaborating in unique combinations that highlight the musicality and virtuosity of each performer. All Sessions feature a core group of musicians joined by surprise guests sitting-in throughout the night. For more information about this one-of-a-kind series please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:winter@winterwilliamspresents.com">winter@winterwilliamspresents.com</a>."

Instrumental Funk Session featuring Danielle "Drummagurl" Wansley.....

Bang The Bay PresentsWEDNESDAY SEPT 17TH—<h2>BANG THE BAY!</h2><h2>Feat.</h2><h2>STEP UP</h2><h2>MADAPAKA</h2><h2>OUTPATIENT X</h2><h2>ELEGANT TRASH</h2><h2>SPARKLE PLENTY</h2><h2>CHEAT THE REAPER</h2>—Every First and Third Wednesday at the Ivy RoomEarly show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Doors 6:00pm / Show 6:30pmPRESALE TIX AVAILABLE / $10-$20 DOOR(*VIP includes a grab bag full of cool stuff! incl A CD, pins, stickers, patches, T-shirts and other new monthly gifts)—IVY ROOM | 21+

BANG THE BAY! STEP UP • MADAPAKA • OUTPATIENT X • ELEGANT TRASH 

ivy room presentsMONDAY SEPT 15TH—<h2>GREG NORTON, original bass player of Minneapolis punk legends Hüsker Dü and Büddies with KEVIN SECONDS, SCOTT REYNOLDS of ALL, JON SNODGRASS, DAVID JARNSTROM, plus local vocal legends &amp; YOU!!!, playing songs and celebrating 40 years of Hüsker Dü!</h2>—Doors 6:30 / Show 7:30pmAdvance Tix Available / $18 Door----IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1764895987727900/">(RSVP ON FACEBOOK)</a>if you love these tunes &amp; want to sing or shred guitar email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:scorpiosmusic@gmail.com">scorpiosmusic@gmail.com</a>it's more fun this way! trust me.- your büddies 💜from the guttargetdo you remember?never talkin' to you againdon't wanna know if you're lonelyflip your wiggreen eyesbooks about UFOSback from somewheremakes no sense at ALLit's not funny anymore2541terms of psychic warfarepink turns to blueI apologizegirl who lives on heaven hillsomething I learned todayin a free landnew day risingcelebrated summercould you be the one?powerlinethese important yearsdead set on destruction

Greg Norton, of Minneapolis punk legends Hüsker Dü and Büddies -- playing songs and celebrating 40 years of Hüsker Dü!

ivy room presentsSUNDAY SEPTEMBER 14TH"HANK WILLIAMS 102ND BIRTHDAY BASH"—Feat.<h2>Aaron Burnham</h2><h2>Leigh Crow with Ruby Vixen</h2><h2>Meredith Edgar</h2><h2>Maurice Tani</h2><h2>Jill Rogers and Myles Boisen</h2><h2>Cindy Emch</h2><h2>Johnny Dilks</h2><h2>Micah Warren</h2><h2>Jody Richardson</h2><h2>Geoffrey Miller</h2><h2>plus the band:</h2><h2>Nashville Honeymoon</h2>----Doors 2pm / Show 3pmAdvance Tickets Available /$15 Door----IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+

Hank Williams Birthday Bash!

IVY ROOM PRESENTSHAVOC FESTSATURDAY SEPT 13TH—<h2>Infirmities</h2><h2>Plan 9</h2><h2>Violent Coercion</h2><h2>Can’t</h2>—7:00 pm doors / 8:00 pm showADV TIX AVAILABLE - $18 DOOR—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+<h2>INFIRMITIES</h2>—PLAN 9—VIOLENT COERCION—CAN’T—