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Bronson Arm (Album Release) w/ Brother Wolf & Lucius Fox

18+ Standing Room Only Show 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian Bronson Arm are a two-piece band from Kalamazoo, Michigan, who take an interesting approach to their noisy rock. Guitarist/vocalist Blake Bickel plays a baritone guitar, which gives their sound a rather otherworldly feel. It’s dark, ominous, and also in-your-face. It’s stripped down and spiky, like your favorite post hardcore band merged with quality noise rock. It’s a unique sound, one that serves them well on their debut full-length. Bickel is joined by drummer Garrett Yates, and together they make a tension filled racket that will please fans of adventurous underground rock.

Desmond Jones wsgs. Flexadecibel

18+ Standing Room Only Show 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian Desmond Jones is an award-winning five-piece rock band from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their original music is centered around melodic guitar riffs, funky bass lines, groovy drum beats, and a big ole pile of saxophone. Desmond Jones puts on exciting and high-energy shows with a high level of musicianship and skillful improvisation, both wide open and acoustic. Each show, set list, and song is different from night to night. The group takes influence from Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Mingus, Phish, The Band, and Led Zeppelin, to name a few. Since 2012, the group has played 900+ shows across the country and has shared the stage with bands like Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Papadosio, Ripe, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, EOTO, Here Come the Mummies, Aqueous, Mungion, Dopapod, Nth Power, Kick the Cat, Joe Hertler, Eggy, and many more. Desmond Jones has released two EPs and four full-length studio albums. The band is currently touring, hitting every diner along the way. Get ready to dance, laugh and probably cringe.

KANIN WREN PRESENTS THE ULTIMATE TAYLOR SWIFT EXPERIENCE

This is a 18 and over event with standing room only 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian Imagine the harmonies of Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Adams, and Taylor Swift all converging in one room—that’s the enchanting magic Kanin brings to the stage. Whether she’s serenading an intimate audience or commanding the attention of thousands, Kanin possesses a rare ability to captivate her listeners and leave them spellbound by her undeniable talent. Her journey truly took off during her junior year of high school when a consultant suggested the idea of a tribute to Taylor Swift. Initially hesitant, this marked a turning point in her musical career. The tribute to Taylor Swift put her on stage in front of thousands of people and allowed her to reach an audience that would have taken years to accomplish. In 2023-2024, Kanin’s musical prowess led her to sell-out amphitheaters, perform at numerous summer music series, entertain audiences at performing arts centers, fairs, and established music venues across 15 states. Due to Kanin’s growing popularity, we are excited to announce that new shows have been added to the lineup in 2025. Audiences want more of Kanin, and we are here for it. Kanin Wren has transformed from a young girl with a guitar into a charismatic performer, enchanting audiences with her powerful vocals and authentic storytelling. Her musical journey has been characterized by a relentless pursuit of excellence and a deep connection with her craft.

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 wsg Sister Ray

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. Sister Ray: Born and raised in the Alberta prairies of Sturgeon County, and now based in Toronto, the25-year-old artist earned widespread attention with their acclaimed debut effort, Communionand follow up EP, Teeth. Backed by ginla’s Joe Manzoli and Jon Nellen, both of whompreviously played with Adrianne Lenker and Lorely Rodriguez (Empress Of), the record was anunvarnished portrait of heartbreak, and the mundane realizations of how the experiences thatcomprise your past instruct how you move through the world.

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.”