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Surprise Me Mr. Davis	Tuesday, July 7th Doors 7:30pm/Show 8:30pm $15 21+over Surprise Me Mr. Davis plus Marco Benevento plus Big Light Surprise Me Mr. Davis is an electro-folk band comprised of Brad Barr [guitar, vocals], Andrew Barr [drums] and Marc Friedman [bass] of The Slip, and poet/songwriter Nathan Moore [guitar, vocals]. This will be their third tour with this ensemble, which hatched as a studio project during a 2003 blizzard. This tour is also the group's first tour on the West Coast after three successful years playing California's High Sierra Music Festival. The result of the snowed-in sessions was the record Surprise Me Mr. Davis, named after a candid answering machine message from a wrong number. Combining the adventurous musical visions of The Slip with the songwriting and delivery of Nathan Moore has resulted in a rolling and tumbling musical dice game; a vaudeville rock band gone mad.

Acoustic Duo with Alejandro Escovedo	Friday, July 10th Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm $25 21+over In June 2008, Alejandro Escovedo released his 9th solo album Real Animal. Produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T.Rex, Thin Lizzy), Real Animal is a collective journey through Escovedo’s various musical incarnations from punk rock to string quintets and is as introspective as it is retrospective. Recalling the people, places and influences that helped shape his career, Real Animal represents the primitive aspect of Escovedo’s music - the instinct, the urgency and a survivor mentality that fuels his musical passion.

The Feud plus Stiff Dead Cat	Saturday, July 11th Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm $15 21+over The Feud plus Stiff Dead Cat Paulieeee's 50th Birthday Party! Stiff Dead Cat, a four piece band emerging from the hills of Northern California, have distilled a combination of Bluegrass, Jazz, Blues, Jug-Stomp, and Funk into what they call- Porch Punk. Whatever you want to call it, it’s raw, freight-train poundin’ power, full of blazing licks and high-spirited improv, is bringing audiences to new heights with acoustic music. Stiff Dead Cat tears through their roots of mountain and swamp music with wood and wire to push the limits and show what they think music is made for. Stiff Dead Cat’s music conjures up tragic and comedic images of the backwoods and it is a window into a lifestyle both wayward and contagious.

Mystic Roots	Friday, July 17th Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm $15 21+over Mystic Roots plus Top Shelf plus Natural Incense WINNER of the 2005 Los Angeles Music Award for Best Pop/Reggae Album, Mystic Roots Band is serving up an original style based in reggae, hip-hop, and dancehall, with overtones of rock, funk, and ska. The list of bands that they have shared the stage with reads like a "who's who" of reggae music, including The Wailers, Pato Banton, Gregory Isaacs, Jimmy Cliff, as well as Jurassic 5, Long Beach Dub All Stars, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Ozomatli, and Digital Underground to name just a few. Having independently sold close to 10,000 albums, topping Amazon.com's chart of independent artist sales, and killing music download sites with their underground hit "Pass" (go check for yourself right now!), it's no wonder why Mystic Roots is Playboy Magazine's #1 party college town, Chico California, and was TOP RANKED in both Reggae and Hip-Hop categories on myspace.com with over 30 million members for over six months - and still going strong.

Arc Angels	Sunday, July 19th Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm $25 21+over Arc Angels, the Austin, Texas-based all-star group formed in the wake of Stevie Ray Vaughn's death, are ready to take full flight again. After playing together periodically during the past seven years, the band plans to release a DVD this year, tour extensively -- including two appearances during this month's South By Southwest music festival and a May run with Eric Clapton in England -- and start work in its first album in 17 years. "We feel like we have unfinished business here, and it always feels right when we're together," guitarist Doyle Bramhall II tells Billboard.com. "The chemistry is sort of undeniable when we get together. We really enjoy playing with one another."

The Donnas	Thursday, July 23th Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm $20 21+over The Donnas plus Luv Planet & Sticks and Stones Like obvious inspirations the Ramones and AC/DC, the Donnas couldn't care less about reinventing themselves with every album. They're four sugar-and-spite femme fatales cruising for boy toys in their lemon-scented rides and pretending they're mini-mart punk's answer to Kiss, circa Destroyer, over and over again. At their best, the Donnas offer a guileless take on adolescent alienation; they traffic in kicks, not catharsis, fun rather than rage, and they absolutely, positively, do not do ballads.

Luciano	Friday, July 24th Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm $22 adv./$25dos 21+over Luciano plus Lumanation Luciano is an award-winning artist and although his object is to stay humble, he has received numerous awards including 'Most Spiritual and Educative Singer' and Mandela's 'Most Cultural Artist'. He even received a plaque from the Jamaican government to encourage him in the work he is doing. Doing good works are not confined to just music for Luciano, as he is a firm believer that he should be a positive role model. He says "I've never stooped low and I'm not gonna bow to Babylon and no matter how much me angry bout certain tings, me nah come pon stage and express myself inna no negativeness". As a messenger, Luciano always strives to be true and righteous as he delivers the word of Jah. He says, "I cannot become egotistical about it". He was awarded the Order of Distinction in the rank of Officer on October 15, 2007, in recognition of his contribution to reggae music.

John Corbett Band	Saturday, July 25th Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm $18 21+over John Corbett Band plus Alex Woodward An esteemed actor known for his naturalness in off-beat roles, John Corbett accepts that his first album will be met with excitement by some, skepticism by others. He wants both camps to put aside preconceptions—and put on the music. “Music has always been central to my life, much more so than acting,” he says. “Acting is how I make my living. Music has always been a passion—it’s something I love, something I can’t live without.” Recorded in Nashville, Corbett’s self-titled debut blends concise, straightforward Nashville song craft with tight, combustive Southern rock arrangements that allow his fiery band to stretch out. His material—written by top songwriters like Hal Ketchum, Jon Randall, Darrell Scott, Tim Nicoles, Rivers Rutheford, Bernie Taupin and Mark Selby—takes country music’s earthy emotionalism and gives it a rowdy, rocking kick.

An Evening with The Mermen	Friday, July 31st Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm $12 adv/ $15 dos 21+over "The best rock and roll is poetry in motion, with or without words — and some of the best records of the year came without. The Mermen play an extreme brand of surf music; the trebly turbulent and black minor chord moods of guitarist Jim Thomas are like a rough ride on the icy seas of the mid-Atlantic. Hints of Dick Dale filter through the cracked sidewalk wave forms of Sonic Youth. Thomas sounds more like Neil Young at the wheel of the good ship Crazy Horse." --David Fricke, Rolling Stone "The Mermen inject gravitas into the camp-added surf genre like spiritual beach bums searching for that elusive last wave. Tracing the 11 year span from KRILL SLIPPIN to the recent AMAZING CALIFORNIA HEALTH & HAPPINESS ROAD SHOW, the Mermen have gotten increasingly open ended and jammy but remain as narcotic as the bends." Andrew Lentz, LA Weekly "Jim Thomas may well be the best psychedelic surf guitarist in the world." San Francisco Bay Guardian, BEST OF THE BAY awards Aug, 2002

Johnny Winter	Thursday, August 06th Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm $27adv./$ 21+over For over 30 years, Johnny Winter has been a guitar hero without equal. Signing to Columbia records in 1969, Johnny immediately laid out the blueprint for his fresh take on classic blues a prime combination for the legions of fans just discovering the blues via the likes of Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton. Constantly shifting between simple country blues in the vein of Robert Johnson, to all-out electric slide guitar blues-rock, - Johnny has always been one of the most respected singers and guitar players in rock and the clear link between British blues-rock and American Southern rock (a la the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.) Throughout the '70s and '80s, Johnny was the unofficial torch-bearer for the blues, championing and aiding the careers of his idols like Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker.

Y & T	Friday, November 20th AND Saturday, November 21st Doors 7:00pm/Show 8:00pm $35 21+over Before Motley Crue, before RATT, even before there was a Metallica, when Y&T formed in the early 1970s, they set the standard for hard rock bands that trailed. Many of the most popular heavy rock bands of the '80s, at the birth of their careers, opened shows for headliners Y&T; and they all cut their teeth on Y&T, as evidenced by the Y&T mentions in the tell-all books by acts such as Metallica and Motley Crue.