CULTURE Pick: Grouplove
May 17
Grouplove w/ Reptar
Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St.
8 p.m., $15, onepercentproductions.com
Chances are "Tongue Tied" has found its way into your ears by now. Grouplove's signature song has traveled across the country in commercials and television shows. But that song's ubiquity shouldn't overshadow the strength of their debut album, Never Trust a Happy Song. The album jumps with energy, though they...
entered on 05/14/12 at 11:08 PM | read more »
Pick: Xiu Xiu
May 21
Xiu Xiu w/ Dirty Beaches
Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St.
9 p.m., $10 in advance/$12 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com
Jamie Stewart continually bends, shapes and reforms Xiu Xiu at his in-the-moment stylistic whims, always keeping a foot in his experimental indie rock wheelhouse, but always seeming on the brink of letting his running-wild ideas run completely away. That makes each of his...
entered on 05/14/12 at 11:06 PM | read more »
Pick: Deer Tick
May 20
Deer Tick w/ Turbo Fruits
Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St.
9 p.m., $13 in advance/$15 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com
On Divine Providence, 2011's booziest batch of rock 'n' roll, Rhode Island's Deer Tick shambled beautifully and blurry through songs that went from barroom rally cries to overly-creepy first-person imaginings of John Wayne Gacy. What pulls it all together is the band's...
entered on 05/14/12 at 11:04 PM | read more »
Pick: Bemis Center FEA$T
May 19
Bemis Center’s FEA$T
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 724 S. 12th St.
6:30-9:30pm, $10
bemiscenter.org, 341.7130
It was a quick two-week turnaround when Bemis announced their call for proposals for FEA$T a type of community-driven crowd funding event that will give all proceeds to the most popular arts projected presented that evening. According to Underground curator Joel Damon, they received...
entered on 05/12/12 at 01:32 PM | read more »
Pick: Quintron
May 16
Quintron & Miss Pussycat w/ Vickers, Solid Goldberg
The Waiting Room Lounge, 6212 Maple St.
9 p.m., $10, onepercentproductions.com
If your knowledge of New Orleans keyboardists only extends to Dr. John, then you need to make an appointment with Quintron, the cult-hero nightclub organist who truly embodies all of the weird, shamanistic vibe of New Orleans underground culture. Quintron plays a bank of...
entered on 05/07/12 at 11:12 PM | read more »
Pick: Full-Time: Struggle and Satisfaction in Working America
May 11-20
Full-Time: Struggle and Satisfaction in Working America
Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library, UNO, 60th and Dodge St.
Performances Fri-Sats, 6:30pm, Suns. 12:30pm, exhibit open during library hours
Performance tickets $10-30, exhibit FREE
Apollonomaha.com
The Apollon, “a multi-genre arts and entertainment hub” based in Omaha, produces its first hometown multi-media event with Full-Time: Struggle...
entered on 05/06/12 at 07:50 AM | read more »
Pick: The Pines
May 3
The Pines w/ Midwest Dilemma, Matt Cox
The Slowdown, 729 North 14th St.
9 p.m., $8, theslowdown.com
The Pines came together around the songwriting duo of David Huckfelt and Benson Ramsey, while they both were in Arizona. Their roots led them back to Iowa and then onto Minneapolis, where they built a buzz behind their elegant, but humble take on indie-folk. The band released their third album, Dark So...
entered on 04/30/12 at 03:13 PM | read more »
South Omaha native son David Krajicek’s crime writing has branded him Mr. Murder, so it’s only apt he looks the heavy ... more »
Stop by the PS Collective at 6056 Maple Street this Thursday, August 4th at 7 p.m. for the Omaha Poetry Slam Team ... more »
*Fans of horror, monsters and strange illustrations take note: artist Michael Bukowski is illustrating every monster ... more »
Booked: Pigs, Poetry and Prognostication
