Upcoming events.
The Jackies // GPD // Feed the Flame
local punk/hardcore night with The Jackies, and GPD with Feed the Flame
doors 8p//show 9p
$10/PWYC
21+
SPOT PATIO FRIDAY
SPOT PATIO FRIDAY
MAY 3 // $5 COVER // 21+
It’s almost patio season & we’re excited to bring back our SPOT PATIO FRIDAY series for the second year. Curated by resident DJ @kyrobpaq, SPF takes place on the first Friday of the month from May to September. Join us for patio hangs, Snuggs pizza, live DJs (open-close), and dancing!
ON THE PATIO (5-11p): Nico Miguel, Tico Barber, Zernack, and Kyle Robert Paquin
IN THE SHOWROOM (11p-?): Ritmos Calientes
BANANA DAY w/ DJ CIRCLE T
Come early, stay late for our annual BANANA DAY party hosted by DJ CIRCLE T
ALL VINYL, multiple DJs
banana cocktails, banana tunes, banana games
NO COVER!
21+
SPIN CLASS: workout 006
BREAK A SWEAT ON THE DANCE FLOOR
a monthly DJ series/dance party curated by Kyle Robert Paquin (SPF) November - April
WORKOUT 006:
doors 8 / music 9
warm-up: DJ DING
spin instructor: DJRAM100
cool down: GRIMEY KIDS
recovery: KYLE ROBERT PAQUIN
21+ $5
DUST CITY OPERA: SADNESS, MADNESS, & MAYHEM: AN UNEXPECTED ALT-ROCK ORCHESTRA EXPERIENCE
This unexpected alt-rock orchestra materialized out of Albuquerque, but they might as well have slipped through an intergalactic portal or stowed away on a derelict spacecraft before crashlanding in the desert.
Dust City Opera—Paul Hunton [vocals, guitar, songwriter], Clara Byom [clarinets, accordion, keys], Travis Rourk [trombones, vocals, synth], Scott Brewer [bass], and Jesse Culberson [drums, sampler]—tell harrowing tales of sadness, madness, and mayhem. With each performance illuminating the space between death and humor, this quintet becomes the soundtrack to stories steeped in cosmic horror and transcendence.
In many ways, it fulfills frontman and sonic ringmaster Paul Hunton’s destiny. Under the influence of everything from H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King to Tom Waits and Soundgarden, he founded Dust City Opera at the top of 2018.
DOORS 8P / SHOW 9P
$10/PWYC
21+
DREW WESLEY - Blank Body
Drew Wesely is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, and improvisor focused on relationships between noise, timbre, and duration using various preparations and amplification systems to expand the sonic potential of the instrument. Their practice draws from the fractal scales of form that emerge in improvisation as well as the spatial and physical aspects of sound perception.
Recent works include ‘blank body’ an intermedia solo work released via Infrequent Seams, and ‘hypersurface’ an improvising trio with Lester St. Louis and Carlo Costa.
Drew has performed at The Stone, Roulette Intermedium, Offene Ohren, Fire Museum, and many other venues nationally and internationally throughout Europe and Asia. Drew was recently a recipient of Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant in support of an extended tour in mainland Japan.
DOORS 8P / SHOW 9P
$7/PWYC
21+
Jason Roebke Quartet
Chicago-based bassist and composer Jason Roebke leads a new quartet, featuring his original compositions and a stellar lineup. Equal parts Art Ensemble of Chicago and Luc Ferrari, Roebke's graphic scores are rich and flexible, concentrating on exploring multifarious ways of stopping, something that's been a feature of the bassist's improvisation for decades. Roebke’s music bridges the worlds of jazz and experimental music and the compositions lead the listener through twists, turns, and returns. The band is composed of veteran reed player Edward Wilkerson Jr., whose own bands Eight Bold Souls and Shadow Vignettes were among the great ensembles of eighties/nineties Chicago, extending the AACM tradition and spotlighting Wilkerson's sensitive improvising. Here, wielding tenor saxophone and alto clarinet, Wilkerson is a commanding – but also supremely collaborative – voice, joining the younger pianist Mabel Kwan and drummer Marcus Evans. Investigating the interrelationships between flow and cessation, the quartet is at once organic and halting, Roebke and Evans playing together with great assurance, but occasional interruptions of metronomes or Roebke's lo-fi cassette recordings pushing against the fluidity and expressiveness in revelatory ways. Roebke's bass playing has been a feature of scads of ensembles, both working and ad hoc, including Tomeka Reid Quartet, Jason Stein Trio, Jeb Bishop Trio, James Falzone’s KLANG, Jorrit Dijkstra’s Flatlands Collective, Pillow Circles, The Whammies, Keefe Jackson, and Mike Reed’s People, Places, and Things. The quartet’s new recording “Four Spheres” was recently released by Corbett vs. Dempsey.
https://www.jasonroebke.info/
https://corbettvsdempsey.bandcamp.com/album/four-spheres
https://corbettvsdempsey.com/
EDWARD WILKERSON JR.
tenor saxophone, alto clarinet, cassettes, metronome
MABEL KWAN
piano, cassettes, metronome
JASON ROEBKE
double bass, cassettes, metronome
MARCUS EVANS
drums, cassettes, metronome
doors 7 / music 8
$10/pwyc
SPOT TRIVIA
ANOTHER TRIVIA NIGHT HOSTED BY ANDY PAUL
theme: tba
team sign-up at 5:30, game starts at 6
Monthly Jazz Night
Jazz night at the Spot is a monthly showcase of some of the incredible musical talent in the Greater Lafayette Area. With a slightly different cast of house band members each month, and surprise appearances by other area musicians, this is not an event to be missed!
No cover!
SPOT TRIVIA
ANOTHER TRIVIA NIGHT HOSTED BY ANDY PAUL
theme: tba
team sign-up at 5:30, game starts at 6
ROADHOUSE + DREW DAVIS
Ryan Davis (State Champion, Cropped Out, Equipment Pointed Ankh) rolls through town with his solo project ROADHOUSE - “bizzaro acid house sampler/synth workouts w/ tape loops, etc. — not sexy laptop shit”
Drew Davis (Laf, IN) opens the night - solo sound poetry / stumbling block glossolalia with visual resonance and real-time interpretation by gumaeliusart
doors 8p / sounds around 9p
21+
$7/pwyc
SPIN CLASS: workout 005
BREAK A SWEAT ON THE DANCE FLOOR
a monthly DJ series/dance party curated by Kyle Robert Paquin (SPF) November - April
WORKOUT 005:
doors 8 / music 9
warm-up: DEITY
spin instructor: SAMARO
cool down: DAVID PECK
21+ $5
Frank Hurricane - SPIRITUAL MOUNTAIN SHRYMP BLUES AND FOLK
The positivity that spins throughout Life is Spiritual oozes an off-kilter charm — Frank Hurricane just wants to love someone, and that includes a batch of juggalos in this winding and weird Appalachian blues tale. Honestly, some of the most open-hearted songwriting I've heard in a long time. - NPR
Frank is on his ALWAYS SHRYMPIN TOUR! and stopping here at The Spot
Don’t miss this exceptional performance of Appalachian folk and story telling
DOORS 6 / MUSIC 7
$7/pwyc
Monthly Jazz Night
Jazz night at the Spot is a monthly showcase of some of the incredible musical talent in the Greater Lafayette Area. With a slightly different cast of house band members each month, and surprise appearances by other area musicians, this is not an event to be missed!
No cover!
Dopplepopolis / Please Her / The Lunar Diamonds
WINTER LOCALS SHOW!
long-time Lafayette favorite pop-punk group Dopplepopolis brings up-and-coming Purdue bands Please Her (scorpion core) + The Lunar Diamonds (alt-rock) to the Spot stage.
doors 8 / tunes 9
$10/pwyc
21+
SPOT TRIVIA
ANOTHER TRIVIA NIGHT HOSTED BY ANDY PAUL
theme: lovers
team sign-up at 5:30, game starts at 6
Go Heart Yourself | A 4-course Self Love Brunch with live ambient jazz to accentuate each course
Our most precious love must be with ourselves. To truly take part in “love” in this world, we must hold ourselves most dearly. We must forgive ourself. We must embrace our cracks and crevices. We must exultant each in our own decadent inner joy. Against a world that begs us to hold self-critique as most vital, to forgive ourselves our own trespasses against us is daring and beautiful.
“Go Heart Yourself” is for you to love you. Each course is imbued with aphrodisiatic bites and sips and slurps and gulps. And you will be guided through a menu aphorisms and immersion music to hone this big love energy inward. Come as you are, in singles, couples, throuples… and prepare to be in love, alone together.
While enjoying this intimate Valentine's meal, Clockwork and Dee will perform an original ambient jazz score, written to accentuate each course. As the food on your plate changes, the music will change to match.
Tickets are required and available for purchase until Feb 1. Limited capacity, so don't wait!
menu and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/go-heart-yourself-tickets-793854288547?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios&fbclid=IwAR3YvECDMsRweuWt0qoFt68KBexYQS1DZoQl79NNWi4p9XXYc0UeU0btHtc
SPIN CLASS: workout 004
BREAK A SWEAT ON THE DANCE FLOOR
a monthly DJ series/dance party curated by Kyle Robert Paquin (SPF) November - April
WORKOUT 004
$5/PWYC DOORS 8/MUSIC 9
warm-up: Jake Asbury
spin instructor: GNZ
cool down: Zarra
ZURICH CLOUD MOTORS + IOTA
a stellar night of noisecore with Zurich Cloud Motors (Louisville) and Iota (Indy)
doors 8p/sounds around 9p
$10/pwyc
THE SLADS / THE JACKIES / PAINT JöB / WET DENIM
SPECIAL SUNDAY EVENT!
THE SLADS - PHILLY PUNK + OI! / THE JACKIES - LAFAYETTE PUNK / PAINT JOB - INDY HARDCORE / WET DENIM - INDY ROCKERS
DOORS 7 / MUSIC 8
$10/PWYC
21+
SPIN CLASS: workout 003
BREAK A SWEAT ON THE DANCE FLOOR
a monthly DJ series/dance party curated by Kyle Robert Paquin (SPF) November - April
WORKOUT 003
$5/PWYC DOORS 8/MUSIC 9
Monthly Jazz Night
Jazz night at the Spot is a monthly showcase of some of the incredible musical talent in the Greater Lafayette Area. With a slightly different cast of house band members each month, and surprise appearances by other area musicians, this is not an event to be missed!
No cover!
The Ballistics
The Ballistics rock it out on the Spot stage with alternative/new wave/indie vibes, both original music and covers
Doors 8pm $7/pwyc
SPOT TRIVIA
ANOTHER TRIVIA NIGHT HOSTED BY ANDY PAUL
theme: into the future
team sign-up at 5:30, game starts at 6
UGLY SWEATER PARTY
NO COVER! join us for an evening of tunes with DJ Kyle Robert Paquin + Friends
Ugly Sweater contest at 10pm
Monthly Jazz Night
Jazz night at the Spot is a monthly showcase of some of the incredible musical talent in the Greater Lafayette Area. With a slightly different cast of house band members each month, and surprise appearances by other area musicians, this is not an event to be missed!
No cover!
ritmos calientes
doors 8 / dancing 9
$7/pwyc
🔥 DJ duo spinning a rare collection of tropical music in vinyl from the 1950s to the 1990s 🔥
https://chiguiro.org/radios/?name=2022-04-11_ritmos_colombianos.mp3
SPOT TRIVIA
ANOTHER TRIVIA NIGHT HOSTED BY ANDY PAUL
theme tba
team sign-up at 5:30, game starts at 6