r & beyond - a mutual seeking. nicholas is a band that expresses our displeasure with the world around us thru the radical rejoicing of music and transparency.

Your favorite alternative and new wave band is coming back to Spot Tavern!

3 hours packed with hits and deep tracks from all your favorite new wave and alt rock artists including: The Cure, U2, REM, The Smiths, Pixies, Nirvana, Weezer, and more!

DOORS @ 8 / SHOW @ 9 / $10 cover/pwyc

Wampus Milk Daddies is a 6 piece Rock/Jazz Fusion band from Indianapolis, Indiana. They write fast, melodic tunes that feature all of our members individual sounds and styles. Their goal is to create a groovy, fun, and engaging performance that'll rock your socks off and leave your sides split!

Joined by the Rodrigo Cotelo Trio, Rodrigo is a four-time Semi Finalist of the International Songwriting Competition (3 times in Jazz, and 1 in Blues), and two-time Graffiti Awards Nominee (Metal / Jazz) Rodrigo holds an extensive pedigree as a composer, producer, and musician. Not necessarily a virtuoso but with a refined taste and tone, he embraces musicality with unparalleled ease and sensitivity. A true natural.

DOORS @ 7 / SHOW @ 8 / $10 cover/pwyc

Thaddaeus McKee featuring Sam Rocha & Olivia May

DOORS @ 7 / SHOW @ 8 / $10 cover/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!

DOORS @ 8 / SHOW @ 9 / $10 cover/pwyc

Ethan WL (aka Ethan W. Olsen) is a Musician and Experimental Filmmaker from Boston, MA. 

His second solo album in the American Primitive Guitar style, "Blood Farm" is out July 26th on Carbon Records.

He also plays various instruments in the group Janet Fang, and is the guitarist and principal songwriter in the band Ataraxia Blues Militia.

DOORS @ 7 / SHOW @ 8 / $5 cover/pwyc

WORKOUT 011 | ONLY SATURDAY NIGHT SWEAT OF SEASON | 03/08/2025
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WARM UP: DJ CC
SPIN INSTRUCTOR: LIOT (CINCINNATI)
COOL DOWN: yum.yum
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$10/PWYC • DOORS @ 7:30p • MUSIC @ 9p

Led by drummer/organist Isaiah Keith, MOBIUS is a task force that specializes in funk, rock and soul music.

DOORS @ 8 / SHOW @ 9 / $10 cover/pwyc

Created out of necessity in the late nineties, Bubba Fontaine, the musical alias of Dr. Zach Burkle came to life.  He is an American experimental composer, artist, and maker from Indianapolis, IN.  He holds a Bachelor of Music from Ball State University, and a doctorate in audiology from Indiana, University Bloomington. After working in the hearing space for over twenty years, he left the field to become a full-time freelance artist and audio engineer.  Bubba Fontaine has been producing and self-releasing his music under the Squid King Production label since 2014. His current project utilizes his own custom made “noise box” instruments. He enjoys combining organic sounds with various analog synthesis techniques for a unique experience.

Fontaine’s music is eclectic and sometimes, deliberately, a little bizarre. No single musical genre encapsulates the entire Fontaine catalog. He has composed for rock/jam bands, jazz ensembles, chamber ensembles, orchestra, film, and various forms of electro-acoustic ensembles.

Local support from Earwicker

Earwicker is an experimental duo that plays with beats, noise, free improvisation and sound art. 

DOORS @ 7 / SHOW @ 8 / $10/pwyc

Tyler Damon (drummer) and Gerrit Hatcher (tenor saxophone)

DOORS @ 8 / SHOW @ 9 / $10 cover/PWYC

Gerrit Hatcher (USA 1991) is a Chicago-based tenor saxophonist, improviser, and composer. Hatcher's work typically engages with free jazz as a craft and set of practices that is as much historical as it is experimental. Gerrit has been involved in several working groups and other ensembles, based in Chicago and beyond. Without enumerating all of them, these have included collaborations with fellow Chicagoans Tyler Damon, Lia Kohl, Sam Wagster, Andrew Scott Young, Julian Kirshner, Paul Giallorenzo, Dave Rempis, Kent Kessler, Bill Harris, Eli Winter, Joshua Abrams, Peter Maunu, Katie Ernst, Ben Lamar Gay, Keefe Jackson, Marvin Tate and Mars Williams, as well as with artists based elsewhere including Jakob Warmenbol, Rob Magill, Patrick Shiroishi, Eli Namay, Erwan Keravec and Gaspar Claus. Hatcher founded his label Kettle Hole Records in 2019 and, in addition to his releases there, he has released work on Amalgam Music, Julian Kirshner’s imprint JAKI, Astral Spirits, No Index and The Bridge Sessions.

Tyler Damon (b. 1987, Cincinnati, Ohio) is a drummer, improviser and educator. He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.

In addition to solo work, Tyler’s contemporary outfits include a longtime duo with saxophonist Dave Rempis, as well as a quartet alongside Rempis, Jason Adasiewicz and Joshua Abrams. He is found frequently in duet with tenor saxophonist Gerrit Hatcher, expanded in trio with bassist Andrew Scott Young. Where Were We, a triad completed by Erez Dessel on keys and Beth McDonald on tuba and electronics, was formed in 2023. Tyler is also often seen and heard accompanying guitarist Eli Winter in the company of Sam Wagster on pedal steel.

Tyler has earned recognition previously for extended duo exhibitions with guitarist Tashi Dorji. Their trio Kuzu, also featuring Dave Rempis, formed in 2017, leading All About Jazz to insist that their work “is for audacious listeners and it isn’t like anything else.” He has also been recognized for his past work with bassist Darin Gray as Duo Oninbo, the Mars Williams-led Exit Plan (with Brian Sandstrom & Steve Marquette), and Haley Fohr’s chameleonic Circuit Des Yeux, among many others

THE BANDS:

GPD -- Heavy punk

Cheap Suitors -- Garage rock

Wet Denim -- Rock and roll

DOORS @ 8 / SHOW @ 9 / $10 cover/PWYC

Kyle Quass - Trumpet (Bloomington, IN) Damon Smith - double bass (STL) Jerome Bryerton - percussion, gongs (CHI)

This first time midwest trio will not have the sounds of a band who have found a single voice to speak from to identify themselves with, but a trio of individuals seeking to encounter one another through the vibrational space of sound.

DOORS @ 7 / SHOW @ 8 / $10 cover/PWYC

Slight Detour album release party with support from Ultimate Dog

DOORS @ 8 / SHOW @ 9 / $10 cover/PWYC

WORKOUT 010 PISCES PARTY 02/21/2025
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WARM UP: GIZA
SPIN INSTRUCTOR: WINNIE
COOL DOWN: SEBASTIAN WELCH (BROOKLYN)
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$10/PWYC • DOORS @ 8p • MUSIC @ 9p

Jonathan Pfendler featuring Daryl Hollonquest Jr. & Eric Sablan

DOORS @ 7 / SHOW @ 8 / $10 cover/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!

Come learn about astronomy in a fun, casual setting! Featuring informal talks by professional scientists, fun trivia, prizes, and beer!

RAT TALLY (Addy Harris) - writing sad music for sad people. Or happy people. Or whoever.

with support from WOOD STREET ALLEY

DOORS @ 8 / SHOW @ 9 / $10 cover/PWYC

DOORS @ 8 / SHOW @ 9 / $10 cover/PWYC

Concrete Bath is a trio that takes inspiration from off-brand mid 2000s 3d animation. This manifests differently every time they play and perform. When asked about Concrete Bath, Oscar from shark tale, played by Will Smith, said “This whale wash is now open for business.”

DOORS @ 8 / SHOW @ 9 / $10 cover/PWYC

DOORS @ 8 / SHOW @ 9 / $10 cover/PWYC

Under his moniker Orillia, Andrew Marczak follows the long tradition of country music’s more progressive stewards, commanding audiences with his unique bracing tenor and skeletal arrangements. His debut self-titled record, which was tracked completely live, acoustic, and straight to tape at Jamdek Recording Studios in his hometown of Chicago, marries the quotidian poetry of Sam Shepard with the direct, otherworldly twang of Sparklehorse. With his various projects, including the now-defunct Roof Dogs (Earth Libraries), Andrew has shared stages with artists like shame, dehd, Richard Lloyd (of Television), Lavender Country, Country Westerns, Tobacco City, Vundabar, Elizabeth Moen, hemlock, and comedian Fred Armisen. His song "No One" was featured on the soundtrack of the film Poser, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2021.

Lydia Cash grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She moved to Chicago on a whim in 2013, and her love for the city has since become a wellspring of inspiration for her music. Listening to Lydia Cash’s newest EP, “Blush,” feels almost like reading a secret– the five songs are beacons of authenticity where she reveals the innermost workings of her heart’s loves and losses. Each song is a unique confessional, a portrait of a moment in time, poured out of her like the best bottle of wine on a back porch. Heartache, new romance, and introspection are all common themes that are held together with threads of vulnerable moments– a shared cigarette, a head on a shoulder. Her delicate melodies, enrapturing voice, and a pedal steel twang showcase this native Alabamian/Chicago transplant’s dichotomy of grit and sweetness.

Indianapolis rock bands PILOTS and WET DENIM

DOORS @ 8 / SHOW @ 9 / $10 cover/PWYC

Fleshbore returns to The Spot to celebrate their new album, “Painted Paradise” one day before it’s released!

Joining them to pay tribute, Global Plague and Shoved Into Traffic

DOORS @ 7 / SHOW @ 8 / $10 cover/PWYC

DOORS @ 8 / SHOW @ 9 / $10 cover/PWYC

THE BANDS:

THE PRANNIES - pub rock from Lafayette/Indianapolis

PHYLLIS - indie rock from Indianapolis

WORKOUT 009 ❄️ MOSTLY DRY JANUARY EDITION ❄️ 01/17/2025
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WARM UP: DJ Whit
SPIN INSTRUCTOR: 5laphouse
COOL DOWN: Trung Ngo
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$10/PWYC • DOORS @ 8p • MUSIC @ 9p

January 16th The Spot Tavern welcomes comedian Adam Minnick!
Adam headlines comedy clubs all around the country including Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club and The Funny Bone. His special was released via Dry Bar Comedy in 2022.

Featuring is Indy's Funniest Winner of 2023 Aisha Brown.

DOORS @ 7 / SHOW @ 8 / $10 cover/PWYC

THIS WEDNESDAY is our monthly Jazz Night at the Spot!

Join us for some funk, fusion, and jazz while you sip on your favorite cocktail or other beverage of choice!

KYLA WILL BE MAKING HER DEBUT with us this Wednesday as she joins to sing a couple songs. We've also got Dan Fronczak back on drums, as well as Chad Downey on trumpet and Alex sliding over to trombone.

You won't want to miss this!

7-9 PM

The Spot Tavern (409 S 4th Street, Lafayette)

No cover!

Led by electric organist Isaiah Keith, GARM is a unit that plays an eclectic mix of fusion, funk and jazz.

DOORS @ 8PM / SHOW @ 9PM/ $10 cover/PWYC