AS ALWAYS, RESIDENT DJS NASTIQUE AND CHARLES III WILL BETHERE AND KEEPING YOU ON YOUR TOES! AND THE ATF DANCE SQUAD WILL BE KEEPING OFF YOUR A**!!

MUSIC STARTS AT 9PM
18 +
ONLY $5!! ALWAYS!

Come out to George Ward Park on Tuesday, July 7th for the Bad News Bearons final game of the season and then come out to Bottletree for drinks with the hometown heroes!

Drink specials all night! Alright!

Birmingham Bullies Rescue brings you an evening of "Beer, Bands and Bullies".

Well mannered bullies are allowed on the patio with their owners.

This event begins at 6pm with an educational forum to begin. Music will begin at 8pm.

This event is for ages 18 and up. Tickets for this show are $9.

Doors at 8pm
18 and up
$6

As many of you know, a certain city institution has sadly left our dear friends at Bottletree high and dry. Lest we hipsters find ourselves without a venue to lord our status in, let us all band together and bid on silent auction items with proceeds going to Bottletree!

From sublime art to surreal interactions with some of the most notable of notorious notables in the Greater Metro area, everything you never knew you wanted will be available! Bid and bid heavily!

PS: There's a rummage sale in the afternoon and a benefit show that evening. You will be sure to enjoy the drunken tomfoolery that will spring forth from the stage as you are harassed into bidding higher and higher!

Doors at 3pm, show at 4pm.
Tickets for this show are $10.

This show is for all ages.

Torche unfurled their self-titled debut in 2005 via Richmond, Virginia’s Robotic Empire. The glorious half-hour of blissed-out power-grooves, triumphant vocal harmonies and cosmic resonance within was variously hailed as “stoner pop,” “thunder rock,” and “doom pop,” but a consensus was quickly reached within the Fourth Estate: Both the underground and mainstream press had their hands halfway down their pants just thinking about listening to Torche. The band was immediately lauded as giants among men, leaders among sheep, and powerbrokers of a deadly new sonic idiom founded upon Brooks’ signature “bomb-string” detonation-detune. As Decibel magazine so righteously pointed out in May of 2005, Torche “carries on in the dizzying Sabbathian tradition of Floor, only potentially more bottomless and epic.” Seven months later, the same publication would declare Torche as the # 7 album of the year in its annual top 40.

Tickets for this show are $10/12.
This show is for ages 18+. Doors at 8pm.

Sworn Enemies is the Birmingham-based foursome of Adam Edwards, Wes Frazer, Jason Burns, and Byron Sonnier, a cajun transplant from Lake Arthur, Louisiana. Using a simple drum kit, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, clawhammer banjo, upright bass and a zydeco rubboard, Sworn Enemies calls upon their roots in the sounds of Alabama and Louisiana to deliver songs that range from upbeat, honky tonk slap-rhythm numbers to quiet, longing, frailing tunes. The band has been rambling their way across the Southeast, performing songs off of their self titled EP and rousing audiences into a footstomping, dancing frenzy!

Tickets for this show are $8. This show is for ages 18+.

Joel Madison Blount /Jon Vogel will open.
VULTURE WHALE is headlining!

Castanets is American music drowned then reborn clear-eyed and wet with sea spray. Castanets is murderous nights and the 10 west sunset and crying gulls. Castanets is Raymond Raposa. Castanets is Raymond Raposa alone, walking through the dark and crowded dancefloor, singing bare voiced (rangy, high, cracked and real) with acoustic guitar. Castanets is a four-piece or a five-piece, six-piece, seven-piece, all-of-us-everywhere-piece stomping out electric tombstone chants or something that sounds like Pink Floyd with more heart. Castanets is delta heart, Nashville hands, outer space brain.

Castanets is banjo and strings of bells and howling feedback and high plains drifting and horn sections and brother folk-rock riding in a beater Datsun with sister free-jazz. What's on their radio? Harmonia? Dirty Projectors? Waylon and Willie?

The truth is in the breeze and in the agate blue sky and under the earth. Keep your eyes open. Keep your back strong.

This show is for ages 18+; Tickets are $8.

Dance Gavin Dance is a six-member post-hardcore/experimental band from Sacramento, California. They were formed out of the dissolution of several other bands including Farewell Unknown, Ghost Runner on Third and Atherton. Jonny Craig and Sean O'Sullivan joined in 2005 and early 2006 to complete the line-up.

Tides of Man, the progressive rock group hailing from Tampa Bay Florida, released their debut full-length album, Empire Theory in early 2009. The band’s ultimate goal is to conquer the rock and roll scene, incorporating intense communication lyrically and sonically, yet still in a style that is familiar enough to capture the hearts of the masses.

This show is for ages 18+; Tickets are $10.

The Prayers and Curses that were once known as songs continue to rise from the meditations of our hearts, and out of the crushed skull of North Alabama comes the Pine Hill Haints.

The sets never repeat, the songs always evolve and change, and the sound forever continues to adapt. The haints strive to capture the dark pulse that was once known and feared among people's, communities, and culteres, and this rambling, broken, and dead outfit seek to harness the madness of train jumping, lonesomeness, depression, ever lasting joy, and the final mystery of life and death.

Come out and celebrate with the Haints for their second full lenght album due out on K Records. APT will be filming and friends Taylor Hollingsworth and K. will be joining.

This show is for ages 18+; Tix $8.

Teenagers. Those punk kids are nothing but trouble. Except when they help you write and record a great album. Myriad forces influenced Eleni Mandell in the making of her seventh full-length Artificial Fire: A long trek via two-lane, tree-lined highways through Oregon and Northern California; a dear friend with a hard-to-find shoe size; a pile of vintage T-shirts at a flea market. But an even bigger factor was the grownup artist getting back in touch with her Inner Teenager.

That youngster has been popping up a lot lately. You'll see her tearing up the floor when Mandell slaps 'Jessie's Girl,' the Cars, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 'Maps' on the stereo, and throws one of her living room dance parties. And she is a prime source of the enthusiasm coursing through these fifteen new originals, crafted by Mandell with assistance from her regular bandguitarist Jeremy Drake, bassist Ryan Feves, and drummer Kevin Fitzgeraldand co-producer Dave Trumfio.

This show is for ages 18+; Tickets are $10.

With little musical experience among them and none a traditionally trained musician, Yourself and the Air began with one goal and one expectation: make music and feel better. The idea was, is and always will be chivalrous as artists, there is no other choice than to make art and share it. It’s about connection, about linking and about knowing that we’re never alone as long as we wake up to the same sun and sleep under the same moon. In 2006, it became evident that if we really are the humans we believe we are, we must become the people we know we are and treat each other as such. It was immediate, beyond words and thoughts, and what used to be the individual and solitary catharsis of a small family had become Yourself and The Air.

This show is for ages 18 and up. Tickets are $8 Advance / $10 day of.

THIS MONTHS GUESTS WILL HAVE YOU DANCING, LAUGHING AND TAKING YOUR CLOTHES OFF!! IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN GMPD YET YOU'RE IN FOR A RARE TREAT!! AND FOR ONLY $5!! WHAT A DEAL!

AS ALWAYS, RESIDENT DJS NASTIQUE AND CHARLES III WILL BE THERE KEEPING YOU ON YOUR TOES!

AND THE ATF DANCE SQUAD WILL BE KEEPING OFF YOUR A**!!

MUSIC STARTS AT 9PM
18 +
ONLY $5!!

"The Graves' seamless integration of guitars with electric piano and organ (courtesy of Mike DeBlasio's versatile Korg), along with Gleason's intense vocals (and the group's Jersey roots), often leads to comparisons to Springsteen, although the Band and the Grateful Dead hit the mark as well. What all those groups share, of course, is a dedication to timeless melodies, riveting harmonies and vivid, memorable songwriting. Yes, the Roadside Graves love America; now it's only a matter of time until America returns the favor."
Star-Ledger

This show is for ages 18+; Tickets are $8.

Growing up is never easy, but when you're in a band it often seems impossible. Make the same record twice and you're chastised for being repetitive, but if you make too large of a sonic shift your fan base will desert you. Luckily Naples, Florida's Fake Problems have never had to deal with this dilemma because with each release they've not only organically reinvented their sound, they've also successfully redefined who they are as musicians and human beings in the process. The culmination of this is the band's SideOneDummy debut It's Great To Be Alive, which shows Fake Problems' unique brand of indie rock finally shaking off the insecurity and soul-searching of adolescence and sees the band embracing a sense of perspective that can only be gained by spending countless months on the road touring, laughing and writing music they believe in.

Tickets for this show are $10.
This show is for ages 18+.

Ghost Rock is the new album from the Michigan-based collective NOMO. The album, produced by Warn Defever, sheds light on the way forward for a band that has been forging its own vital sound. This is not the Afrobeat of Fela, nor the revivalist funk of a forgotten decade. This record owes as much to Can, Eno, and MIA as it does Kuti, Francis Bebey, and Funkadelic. On Ghost Rock, NOMO arrives in a new place. There's no loss of steam as they incorporate new influences, instead NOMO breaks through with a matured and developed sound that is fully its own.

This show is for ages 18+. Tickets are $10.

If not the first, then surely the most common question we are asked is how
we came to name ourselves Drakkar Sauna. We want to tell you. We want
you to know, if only so that you’ll stop asking. It makes us feel vulnerable,
it makes us feel judged.

We thought it sounded like a palindrome. What it comes down to is we didn’t have any scratch paper handy and our understanding of what a palindrome is wasn’t accurate. But that’s what happened. ‘Drakkar’ sounded like a palindrome. So did ‘Sauna’. We thought that two palindromes would make one bigger palindrome. Obviously, we were, in part, mistaken. I hope now your curiosity is satisfied and you will not think too poorly of us for our incomplete command of the language.

Tickets for this show are $8/10.
This show is for ages 18+. Doors at 8pm.

So where'd the name come from? The Duke & The King are Simone Felice (The Felice Brothers) and Robert 'Chicken' Burke (George Clinton/Drugs, Sweet Honey and the Rock/Toshi Reagon)are the two roving charlatans from The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, a couple classic American grifters who's lay was to masquerade as European royalty, put on bad accents, find a bandstand, dress up like Romeo and Juliet, stage on an obscene parody and skip town after the first act, ultimately getting them tarred and feathered. And so the name is a reminder, a sort of scarlet letter they'll happily paint over their hearts to help them keep it honest, the music, the poetry.

This show is for ages 18+; Tickets for this show are $10.

Since they came on the scene with their self-titled album on Young God Records in 2005, Akron/Family has been difficult for critics to pin down stylistically. What can be agreed upon, though, is that Akron/Family gives one of the most exciting and dynamic interactive live performances of any band touring today. Fresh from their European tour with Wilco, Akron/Family tours in support of their newly released, third full-length record, Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, their first on Dead Oceans. This show is for ages 18+; tickets are $12.

Bowerbirds' debut album, Hymns for a Dark Horse, was nearly one hundred percent focused on the thesis that the earth is a sacred place with merit beyond us, and that humans are just visitors here. Its contrapuntal harmonies documented a moment in the life of the songwriter and the life of the band - Beth Tacular and Phil Moore living in an airstream in rural North Carolina, building a cabin of reclaimed boards by hand in the woods - but did so without, as far as we could tell, delving into their lives at all. While these weren't protest songs, per se, they had the wry anger of a 'Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.' The songs were interconnected, both musically and thematically, a musical whitepaper of the very best, most listenable kind.

This show is for ages 18+; Tickets for this show are $10.

Doors at 8pm / Show at 9pm
18 and up
Tickets are $10

Actress/Comedienne/Activist Janeane Garofalo, the petite woman with the acerbic wit, has been consistently working in film and television since she got her start in 1992. This season she appears in the television show "24".

In addition to a demanding shooting schedule, Janeane continues to perform spoken word and stand-up comedy around the country. Known for her earlier television and movie roles on "The Larry Sanders Show", "The Ben Stiller Show" and "Mystery Men", Janeane has become known a smart, cynical woman with a razor wit and continues to make appearances on political talk shows such as Fox News Sunday, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

This show is for ages 18 and up.
Tickets for this show are $20.

Comedian Al Madrigal is scheduled to perform.

Actress/Comedienne/Activist Janeane Garofalo, the petite woman with the acerbic wit, has been consistently working in film and television since she got her start in 1992. This season she appears in the television show "24".

In addition to a demanding shooting schedule, Janeane continues to perform spoken word and stand-up comedy around the country. Known for her earlier television and movie roles on "The Larry Sanders Show", "The Ben Stiller Show" and "Mystery Men", Janeane has become known a smart, cynical woman with a razor wit and continues to make appearances on political talk shows such as Fox News Sunday, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

This show is for ages 18 and up.
Tickets for this show are $20.

Comedian Al Madrigal is scheduled to perform.

'the Living & the Dead' is a work between worlds, of moving on and finding something new, of missed chances, and promises on distant horizons. From the past (the haunting simplicity of 'Love Henry,'which Bob Dylan tells us pre-dates the Bible) to the future (the stunning emotional complexity of her song,'The Future'), the Texas-bred singer-songwriter navigates a new rock approach that is built upon the folk, blues and jazz spectors that populated her three acclaimed previous albums.

This show is for ages 18+. Tickets for this show are $12/14.

As anyone who caught one of their many shows quickly learned, to observe Ra Ra Riot on stage is to observe a joyful experience in progress, somehow both intensely fun and just plain intense; it's a joy that's always aware that darkness and despair may be just around the corner, that life is both beautiful and terrible, and it’s a joy that is in fact amplified by this awareness.

Ra Ra Riot skillfully melds elements of new wave and classic indie with sweeping orchestral chamber pop to startling effect. Epic and eloquent, dramatic and graceful, Ra Ra Riot's is inventive, ambitious and consistently conveys the passions of its creators.

Special guests Maps & Atlases and Princeton will be playing.

TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY AT 1AM.
This show is for ages 18+; Tickets for this show are $12/14.