Quaystions & Open Mic Tonight! Panked! on NEW YEAR'S EVE!

ZELAZOWA / LEMONGELLI SHOW TONIGHT (12/19) IS CANCELLED!

Snow. Snow. Snow. We'll reschedule both bands sometime soon!

Bog Swing Band! Tonight!

Wens. 12-16 The Bog Swing Band
10pm / $3

Then.....

Sat. 12-19 Zelazowa w/ Lemongelli

BINGO TONIGHT!!!

Wednesday 12/9 BOG BINGO
9pm / no cover / 50 Cents a game to play!

Pawnshop Roses w/ The Ends of the Earth! Tonight.

Sat. 12/5 Pawnshop Roses w/ The Ends of the Earth
10pm / $5

Jazz Assassins Tonight! .... This Wednesday! And The Moneynotes + Holy Ghost Tent Revival

Dec. 1 JAZZ ASSASSINS
10:30pm / FREE!





Dec. 2 AND THE MONEYNOTES + HOLY GHOST TENT REVIVAL
10pm / $5

Then.....

Dec. 5 PAWNSHOP ROSES + THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
10pm / $5

THANKSGIVING WEEK!

Thursday [11/26] PANKSGIVING!!!!
10pm / $5



Saturday [11/28] TOM PETTY APPRECIATION BAND
10:30pm / $5

THIS WEEKEND!

Friday [11/20] Hot Day at the Zoo
A special Friday night show!
10pm / $5





Saturday [11/21] THE MINOR WHITE! w/ Grammar Debate
That's right. The Minor White are reuniting for some shows this fall and winter and they're kicking it off here!
10pm / $5

THE SWIMMERS + FAMILY ANIMALS! TONIGHT!

“(the Swimmers) transcend comparisons and stake their own modest parcel of indie- pop bliss”.
-Magnet

10pm / $5

BOG SWING BAND RETURNS! 11/11/09!

Wednesday November 11
Bog Swing Band
Music at 9:30pm. $1 miller lite drafts 9 to 11. $3

Then........

Thursday November 12
Live Irish Session
Music at 9:30pm. $1 miller lite drafts 9 to 11. No Cover

Saturday November 14
The Swimmers w/ Family Animals
Music at 10:30pm. $1 miller lite drafts 9 to 11. $5

Quaystion Night / Open Mic This Evening!

Monday Night! 11/2 Quaystion Night (10pm), $1 to play, then.... Open Mic (10:30pm), signup early and it's Free!

Coming This Week:




11/3 - JAZZ ASSASSINS
10pm / No Cover



11/4 - BOG BINGO NIGHT Returns!
No Cover. 50 Cents a game to play.
Prizes and surprises.



11/5 - HATE YOUR FRIENDS DJ NIGHT
9pm / $2



11/7 - ROGUE CHIMP
10pm / $5

PANKED! HALLOWEEN! PANKED! HALLOWEEN!

Saturday 10/31 - The Bride of Pankenstein! Dance Party!
10pm / $5 / Costume Prizes!

PALEFACE + BOG SWING BAND! TONIGHT!

Wednesday - 10/28 PALEFACE w/ Bog Swing Band
10pm / $5

Quaystion Night / Open Mic This Evening

Monday Night! 10/26 Quaystion Night (10pm), $1 to play, then.... Open Mic (10:30pm), signup early and it's Free!

Coming This Week:
10/28 Paleface w/ The Bog Swing Band
10/31 Halloween w/ The Bride of PANKENSTEIN!

10/21 CMJ at the Bee Oh Gee w/ Floating Action & More!

Wednesday Night! 10/21 Floating Action, The High Strung & Giant Cloud
10pm / $8 / 21+

BIG WEEK!

Monday Night! 10/19 Quaystion Night (10pm), $1 to play, then.... Open Mic (10:30pm), signup early and it's Free!



Tuesday Night! 10/20 CMJ Week Begins w/ Blues Control, Agnes, Fulmarine Petrels



Wednesday Night! 10/21 CMJ Week continues w/ Floating Action, The High Strung & Giant Cloud



Thursday Night! 10/22 CMJ Week Continues w/ Brass Bed



Friday Night! 10/23 We're taking a break at The Bog! Go to Brooklyn and see AND THE MONEYNOTES play their first CMJ Showcase! 7pm Union Hall!



Saturday Night! 10/24 CMJ Week Finishes Up w/ Roadside Graves and special guest!

10/15 Cabinet!

10pm / $5

This week!! [Wens. - 10/14] First Night Fundraiser w/ Bog Swing Band • [Thurs. - 10/15] CABINET!!! • [Sat. - 10/17] The New Familiars w/ Greg Elliott

Wednesday 10/14 - "A Night Out with First Night!" Celebrity bartenders, music, prizes, giveaways, and more! $10 - 7-10pm,
Then, The Bog Swing Band 10pm - 1am. $3



Thursday 10/15 - The Return of CABINET!
Our great friends return for the first time in a long while.
10pm / $5




Saturday 10/17 - The New Familiars
"Blending influences ranging from Woody Guthrie and the Grateful Dead to Kings of Leon and Ryan Adams, the Charlotte band delivers a mix of acoustic folk, bluegrass, rock and blues with a visceral intensity to match their raucous live gigs."
- John Schacht reviewing The Storm EP for Creative Loafing - Charlotte, NC
10pm / $5 w/ Greg Elliott

BOG BINGO! WEDNESDAY, WOODY BROWNS PROJECT! SATURDAY!

Wens. 10/7 BOG BINGO NIGHT Returns!
No Cover. 50 Cents a game to play.
Prizes and surprises.




Sat. 10/10 WOODY BROWNS PROJECT
10pm - $5

9/29 - Drink Up Buttercup w/ And The Moneynotes

“Lumbering drums, jangling shakers, electronic squiggles, and lots of whimsical, ragged shouts accompany the strutting bass line and stomping guitar. As with, say, Chicago indie-rockers the M’s, it’s all just loose and playful enough to avoid coming across as overly nostalgic.” - Pitchfork

Tuesday, 9/29: Drink Up Buttercup + And The Moneynotes
9:30pm / $5 / 21+

9/22! ROCK PLAZA CENTRAL w/ The Ends of the Earth

Toronto’s Rock Plaza Central have been a band in some form for more than a decade, but they became indie world darlings when their unknown, self-released album Are We Not Horses? received the elusive Best New Music tag from Pitchfork. That album was confusing to some because, at its core, it’s a concept album about mechanical horses who think they’re alive and real. However, it was very hard to ignore for many because of its epic alt-country switching triumphant instrumentation and darkly woven tales. Now three years removed from that record, they return with ...At the Moment of Our Most Needing, or If Only They Could Turn Around They’d Know They Weren’t Alone, the band’s fourth official album.

This Tuesday! 9/22/09 - w/ The Ends of the Earth
10pm / $6

SATURDAY! 9/19!! CHARLES HAVIRA w/ DONOVAN ROBERTS!!

Havira has a quirky tenor that, oddly enough, sounds like Viggo Mortensen as hepcat killer, delivering lines like, “Check your machine for signs of life/go on and tell yourself you can make it through these heartaches I know all too well/let me show you a new way through happiness.”



Donovan Roberts give their acoustic blues more life than most such projects, avoiding by-the-numbers traditionalism while maintaining deep blues feeling. Are You Alone (Shelloy Sounds) crackles with energy even on such
oft-recorded songs as “Big Road Blues,” displays inventiveness in a country blues arrangement of Percy Mayfield’s “River’s Invitation,” and enriches the canon with Jeff Roberts’ lovely, jazzy “Wonderin’ About You.” Roberts’
guitar is augmented by occasional piano, harmonica, and mandolin, and Lori Donovan’s smooth, sultry vocals are simply perfect. Bold moves like the bossa nova “What You Need From Me” and a reworking of Tom Petty’s “You Got
Lucky” pay off neatly without interrupting the mood.
by Tom Hyslop, Blues Revue

Saturday 9/19
10pm / $5

BOG SWING BAND RETURNS! 09/09/09!

Bog Swing Band returns with a new schedule and start time.
9:30pm / $3

BOG BINGO NIGHT! This Wednesday 9/2!

Then.....
Thurs. 9/3 Hate Your Friends DJ Nite!
Sat. 9/5 The Mishaps
Sun. 9/6 Steamtown Original Music Showcase

8/29 - EARPLUG NIGHT!!!!! SW!MS w/ Federale - Tonight!

8/29 - SW!MS & Federale. 10pm. $5. 21+

THE HOWLIES TONIGHT! 8/26 w/ surprise guests AND THE MONEYNOTES

"HOWLIES are the first Rock 'n' Roll band of the 21st Century. Their debut album TRIPPIN' WITH HOWLIES is right up there with the earliest albums of the Ramones, The Sex pistols & The Trashmen. Howlies are fine actors, too. Imagine an unholy blending of the 3 Stooges and Betty Page. Their live show is: unexpected. Conjure up musical thugs/male cheerleaders running amok in a madhouse rubber room.
TRIPPIN' WITH HOWLIES was recorded in 42 hours at Lo-Fi Studios at the edge of the California desert in Babylon, USA. Maria Baglien engineered, Maria and Howlies mixed, Kim Fowley produced (and I helped on some of the mixes, too). I used my memories of producing adventures with Gene Vincent, Modern Lovers, The Seeds, Blue Cheer and The Runaways to get the noize right. TRIPPIN' WITH HOWLIES is a vinyl-inspired analogue raid on the ProTools present. The end result is: Nightmare Fun in the House of Pleasure.
Come on down to the American Southeast and join 'J.R.', 'Stingray', 'Brango' and '4-C' as they party with the Forces of Evil... in that Forbidden Planet of Inner Space. The Casanovas of Cabbagetown will blow your mind and change your life!
Rock on, people! The change has finally come."

--Kim Fowley

8/26 The Howlies w/ Surprise Guests And The Moneynotes
10pm - $6 - 21+

Don't forget PANKED! Tomorrow!! Yes the boogie, oh the boogie.

SATURDAY! 8/22!! DJ CADILLAC!!

One Night Only!! DJ Cadillac playing your requests!
10pm - $3

Wednesday 8/19 - A Blast From The Past w/ Cara Marie & Fud!

Oh yes, rewind the clock about 8 years and stop by for some nostalgia.
8/19 - Cara Marie and Fud
9pm - FREE

Nick Krill, Mike Quinn & Pappy! Tonight! 8/15

8/15 - Special Acoustic Sets from: Nick Krill (The Spinto Band), Mike Quinn ( And The Moneynotes) & Pappy Biondo (Cabinet)
9pm - $3 - 21+

Grammar Debate This Thursday 8/13! Mike Quinn & Friends this Saturday 8/15.

8/13 - Grammar Debate w/ Adam & Dave's Bloodline
10pm - $5 - 21+

Listen to Grammar Debate - Adam & Dave's Bloodline

Then on Saturday,
8/15 - Special Acoustic Sets from: Nick Krill (The Spinto Band), Mike Quinn ( And The Moneynotes) & Pappy Biondo (Cabinet)
9pm - $3 - 21+

Jazz Fest Part 1! Indigo Moon Brass Band! Tonight - 8/7!

Tonight 8/7 - Indigo Moon Brass Band
9:30pm - $5 or Free with Jazz Fest Pass

More Jazz Fest info.

Wens. 8/5 Phil Cody • Jazz Fest This Weekend

Wednesday, 8/5 - Phil Cody w/ Mike Quinn
8pm - $5 - 21+

"Cody sings like a cagey fighter punches; he holds back, waits for his moment, and then explodes." -No Depression

"It's Cody's workmanlike guitar playing, soaring harmonies
and twang-tinged voice that carry the day.
When he sings on City of Destruction
that he's gonna build himself a future,
it seems a sure bet he's right"-Performing Songwriter

Listen to Phil Cody

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Friday, 8/7 - Indigo Moon Brass Band
Saturday, 8/8 - Gyspsy Jazz Quintet

Part of The 2009 Scranton Jazz Festival



Jazz Fest info here