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+

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+

https://dustcityopera.com

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+

blank body

release show at Roulette Intermedium

JUST SING AS YOU WANT!

21+

8p-midnight

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

ANOTHER TRIVIA NIGHT HOSTED BY ANDY PAUL

theme: tba

team sign-up at 5:30, game starts at 6

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!

JUST SING AS YOU WANT!

SPRING BREAK KARAOKE!

21+

8p-midnight

ANOTHER TRIVIA NIGHT HOSTED BY ANDY PAUL

theme: tba

team sign-up at 5:30, game starts at 6

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

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

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!

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+

ANOTHER TRIVIA NIGHT HOSTED BY ANDY PAUL

theme: lovers

team sign-up at 5:30, game starts at 6

JUST SING AS YOU WANT!

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

a stellar night of noisecore with Zurich Cloud Motors (Louisville) and Iota (Indy)

doors 8p/sounds around 9p

$10/pwyc

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+

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

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 rock it out on the Spot stage with alternative/new wave/indie vibes, both original music and covers

Doors 8pm $7/pwyc

ANOTHER TRIVIA NIGHT HOSTED BY ANDY PAUL

theme: into the future

team sign-up at 5:30, game starts at 6

NO COVER! join us for an evening of tunes with DJ Kyle Robert Paquin + Friends

Ugly Sweater contest at 10pm

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!

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

ANOTHER TRIVIA NIGHT HOSTED BY ANDY PAUL

theme tba

team sign-up at 5:30, game starts at 6