Bob Mould Band wsg Winged Wheel
2025 Bell’s Beer Garden Summer Concert SeriesThis is a 18 and over event. 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian Bob Mould is an American musician/singer/songwriter now in his fifth decade of making and performing music. Bob has released 15 solo albums since his 1989 solo debut Workbook, after forming and leading Minnesota punk rock innovators Hüsker Dü starting in 1979. Along with two albums in the group Sugar, Bob has redefined guitar driven rock across 23 studio albums over the last 40-plus years. In addition to a catalog of over 250 songs, Bob contributed the theme song to TV’s The Daily Show and has served as a creative north star to legions of musicians ranging from Dave Grohl to Billie Joe Armstrong. Bob’s most recent album was 2020’s Blue Hearts, released to continuing critical acclaim. Rolling Stone said “Blue Hearts gushes more piss and vinegar than Stanley Kubrick could fill a hallway with, but what makes it jaw-dropping is the precision with which Mould has focused his ire on conservatives, evangelicals, homophobes, while leaving room for some self-criticism as well.” “The fire in Bob Mould’s belly can’t be extinguished,” gushed Under The Radar. “Blue Hearts is Mould at his fiercest and most deliberate.” Bob Mould tours as both a solo artist and in the Bob Mould Band featuring Jason Narducy (bass) and Jon Wurster (drums). Bob has solo tours set for the remainder of 2024, with two runs in the USA in September and October, and his first visit to Australia and New Zealand in more than a decade in November.
The 1985 – Totally 80’s Mixtape LIVE!
18+ Standing Room Only Show 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian The 1985 is the Midwest’s Totally 80’s Music Tribute Band that features the best of the 1980s rock, pop, new wave, metal and club. While we just wanna have fun, we take our roles as performers seriously. We have a fine-tuned, super-charged technical show that combines lights, videos, costumes and more to create a totally immersive music experience. Our goal is to help you turn back time and party like it’s 1985.
The Weather Station: Humanhood Tour
This is a 18+ event with standing room only 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian It takes only 10 seconds for Tamara Lindeman to pull us to the floor on Humanhood, the seventh and most arresting album she has ever made as The Weather Station. “I’ve gotten used to feeling like I’m crazy—or just lazy,” she sings at the start of “Neon Signs,” her voice at once a soft whisper to a confidant and a full-throated confession to a crowd. “Why can’t I get off this floor? Think straight anymore?” If you don’t know this feeling, consider yourself blessed, because it seems these days like our true modern malaise, that unbound sense of not knowing how or what it is we’re supposed to contribute to this fractious world, or if we even have the energy or will to try. That disoriented sense is the emotional throughline of Humanhood, written during one of the most difficult periods of Lindeman’s life and rendered with a rock band with improvisational chops just as she began to recover by reckoning with a complicated truth: Sometimes, life simply tries to dismantle us, and we must accept that in order to survive. From the outside, 2022 likely appeared a banner year for Lindeman. Her 2021 album Ignorance—a deeply personal but widely resonant reflection on climate change, or how we’ve learned to live alongside our own existential undoing—was one of that year’s most celebrated records. 2022, then, was a time of touring, travel, and activism alongside the release of Ignorance’s more austere companion, the beautiful How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars. But at an ostensible new professional peak, she was also going through a mental health crisis she mostly kept hidden. As Lindeman has done for at least 15 years, she turned to songwriting, combining pain, confusion, and flickers of distant hope with ideas about advertising, capitalism, and how we’re meant to feel very specific ways into pages and pages of lyrics. In the past, Lindeman mostly wrote about her past, turning backwards to gain perspective. But for Humanhood, she worked with the present as she tried to endure it. Humanhood, then, radiates with new urgency—and emerges as a sort of tether, offered up here for any of us else feeling disconnected from the vertiginous reality of right now. In the fall of 2023, Lindeman gathered six musicians at Canterbury Music Company, where she had recorded Ignorance and How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars, alongside co-producer Marcus Paquin. Several of these players—drummer Kieran Adams, keyboardist Ben Boye, percussionist Philippe Melanson, reed-and-wind specialist Karen Ng, and bassist Ben Whiteley—had worked together but never in this specific arrangement or context. Lindeman, after all, wanted to hear the sudden sparks made by these new encounters, to witness everyone react in real-time to the songs and sketches she supplied.
TAUK w/ Chalk Dinosaur- Winter 2025 Tour
This is a 18 and over event with standing room only 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian TAUK has been painting with sound for nearly a decade now, pushing boundaries and reinventing themselves every chance they get. Founded by Dolan, Jalbert, and Carter, who began playing together as middle schoolers on Long Island, the band landed on its present incarnation in 2012, when college pal Teel joined full time. Since then, the quartet has gone on to tour with the likes of Umphrey’s McGee, Widespread Panic, and Lettuce, landed festival slots everywhere from Bonnaroo to Electric Forest, racked up millions of streams across platforms, and garnered extensive critical praise with a series of widely lauded studio and live albums. The Washington Post hailed the band’s music as “a hard-charging, often melodic fusion that—thanks to a penchant for improv—offers limitless possibilities,” while Keyboard Magazine declared that their sound “doesn’t adhere to a single genre but, instead, creates its own,” and Relix dubbed them “an incredibly impressive ensemble of talent.”
Kalamazoo Academy Of Rock
This is an all ages event. Kalamazoo Academy of Rock is back at Bell’s! These youth bands have been wow-ing audiences for years – come on down for a show like no other! For more information about KAR visit www.kzoorock.com
Kalamazoo Academy Of Rock
This is an all ages event. Kalamazoo Academy of Rock is back at Bell’s! These youth bands have been wow-ing audiences for years – come on down for a show like no other! For more information about KAR visit www.kzoorock.com
Kalamazoo Academy Of Rock
This is an all ages event. Kalamazoo Academy of Rock is back at Bell’s! These youth bands have been wow-ing audiences for years – come on down for a show like no other! For more information about KAR visit www.kzoorock.com
Reinventing Yesterday & If He Dies He Dies w/ Sissy Boys, Snakeout and Mouthful of Locusts
18+ Standing Room Only Show 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian Reinventing Yesterday hails from Kalamazoo bringing energy along with aggression to the stage. The band played a major role in the local Michigan Metalcore scene playing hundreds of shows through out the Midwest. Their diverse style included a mix of catchy fast paced metal riffs, brutal breakdowns, and hardcore two step making them a perfect fit for any line up in the scene. From 2005 through 2009 you could have found them playing a house party or a professional venue with national acts such as The Black Dahlia Murder, Unearth, Suicide Silence, and many others. The band will be sharing the stage with long time friends If He Dies He Dies and local heat seekers Snakeout and Mouthful of Locusts. The band hopes to see the familiar faces of the thriving Kalamazoo music scene from what they once knew and also make some new friends and fans. If He Dies, He Dies are a metal group from Muskegon, MI. Their latest release is a single titled “JUDAS,” which dropped in April. One year before the release of JUDAS, the 4 bandmates walked back into the practice space for the first time in over a decade. It wasn’t about rebuilding—it was about reunion. A whole 13 years passed before the band reunited on stage last November for a sold-out reunion show in Grand Rapids. Years before they were a hard-touring crew, zipping all over the US performing with acts like Mastodon, La Dispute and The Black Dahlia Murder. Things fell apart for the group and they disbanded in 2010. Fast forward to today and the band is older, wiser and better than ever
ZoSo: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience
18+ Standing Room Only Show 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian ZOSO Celebrates 28 Years as America’s Premier Led Zeppelin Tribute BandOver the 28 years and over 4500 shows since ZOSO came together as a group in the mid-‘90s, theseemingly tireless quartet has continued to earn its well-deserved reputation as being, in the words of TheL.A. Times, “head and shoulders above all other Led Zeppelin tributes.”ZOSO doesn’t cut corners on either the look or sound of Led Zeppelin. Instead, the band drawsliberally and meticulously from Led Zeppelin’s recorded live and studio output to present a vivid performancepicture of the classic live Zeppelin of 1968-1977. No wonder the St. Petersburg Times noted that, in additionto their virtuosity and spot-on visual presentation, ZOSO is also “the most exacting of all the Led Zeppelintributes.” The Chicago Sun-Times put it even more succinctly: “[ZOSO is] the closest to the original of anyLed Zeppelin tribute.”
Peach Jam: A Tribute to The Allman Brothers Band
This is a 18+ event with standing room only17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian Peach Jam is a collective of some of the best musicians Chicago has to offer. Together they celebrate the music of the legendary Allman Brothers Band. Formed in 2022, these players will transport you back in time to the days of the Fillmore East. Peach Jam brings together members of Chicago mainstays such as Cornmeal, Terrapin Flyer, Old Shoe, and The Brooklyn Charmers for a cosmic gumbo of hot jams, tight grooves, soaring vocal harmonies, and down-home blues that will make a believer out of any ABB fan. “People can you feel it? Love is everywhere!
