53 past events with the alternative music tag

DC-based indie rock band Broke Royals perform at Be Here Now. Featuring ex-Dreams of University guitarist Colin Cross, Broke Royals.

While they’re on their own sonically, their musical choices are very “DC.” From the get-go, their output has had all the nuance, raw emotion, accessibility and directness of their neighbors in the legendary Go-Go and Hardcore scenes.

With “Saint Luxury,” the first single off their forthcoming album of the same name, uncertainty has never sounded so sure-footed. They’ve taken their urgent, anthemic guitar rock and soulful melodies in as many directions as they’ve got songs, and their latest is another major leap forward. 

The Ex-Bombers TV Moms

The Ex-Bombers are a sinister psychedelic blues duo who play suspiciously resonant songs harnessing the thunder of electric 8-string bass and drums, a pair of wrecking ball voices, and a delightful kaleidoscope perspective of a world on fire. Since 2010 they have been amassing a cult following through their scintillating live shows and five electrifying vinyl releases on Cavetone Records.

with TV Moms (Minneapolis)

TV Moms is a loud, grungy, guitar-drums, guy-guy rocknroll two-piece band. Ok, not all the songs are loud. There’s some singing in there, but not vocal gymnastics. Bummer rock is a thing? But a little more sarcastic. Riff-based guitar stuff that is really fun to play, even if you don’t play guitar that much. And Dave plays drums. He broke a stick a couple times.

Secondhand Denim Man of the Flood Incas

Secondhand Denim

• Indie rockers from Muncie
• Instagram & sample music: https://www.instagram.com/secondhand.denim/channel/
• Kind of music your mom likes

Man of the Flood

• Indie rock band with a twist of alt pop and drum grooves
• Out of Fort Wayne
• Website: https://manoftheflood.com/index.html
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/manoftheflood/
• Sample music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEHqiYNq5SqGQFjUlLL1BDQ
• All about that DIY artistry
• Latest EP: "Vessel"

Incas

• Alternative/acoustic group from Marion, Indiana
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CeEf5hIOWcS/
• Sample music: https://incasmusic.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR3WiQJGUcLC7UYHFkbRFecBgjxZvd6JU60PfDL1uCwq9PuFlTNwOuBYKww
• Chill, psychedelic math rockers all about BLM

Take on some relaxed indie music with some experimentation thrown in!

Let the music of The Breakes wash over you in cascading guitar riffs! Check out their acoustic and electronic sounds with an open mind.

• Funky indie rockers from Indianapolis, IN
• Website: https://www.thebreakes.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreakes/
• Sample music: https://soundcloud.com/thebreakes
• #Burger Rock

• Acoustic rock singer/songwriter from North Carolina
• Website: https://bryanssuperhappyfuntime.com/home
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bryanbielanski/?fbclid=IwAR2Re02E41RqBgn5dflIx23LOXGaG0hokAwVs5ngvpsBuiTHxE55MUqUshQ
• Sample Music: https://bryanssuperhappyfuntime.com/music
• Beatles, Nirvana, Tom Petty, REM influenced
• Cinematographer and world traveler
• Latest album: "Bryan's Super Happy Fun Time II"

Having toured the U.S. and countries like Austria, Canada, China, and Hungary (among many more), this artist has built a following over the last 10 years and shows no sign of slowing down.

Golden Alley Homage

This time we're getting hit with a mix of poetry and guitar riffs! Guest poet Katya Zinn is joined with musical enhancement from Golden Alley, Mushroom Teeth, and Homage.

Golden Alley

• Alternative group from Muncie, IN
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_golden_alley_/
• Sample music: https://goldenalley.bandcamp.com/
• Influenced by funk, metal, pop punk, and rock
• A bright spot in the universe

Mushroom Teeth

• Indie rockers from Muncie, IN
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mushroomteethband/
• Brand new up-and-coming band

Homage

• Meticulous progressive rockers from Indianapolis, IN
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homage.indy/
• Sample music: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/hmage1/cyclical-live
• Influences: The Mars Volta, Tool, The Fall of Troy, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Santana
• Post hardcore sound

The Muncie Three Trails Music Series is thrilled to present the 9th season in which the series presents critically acclaimed national recording artists in four FREE concerts at Canan Commons in Downtown Muncie. All shows begin at 7 PM and are all ages. And this season, we will also be presenting a special “Bonus” concert at Cornerstone Center for the Arts. Complete information on the series and all artists, including samples of their music, can be found at www.munciethreetrails.com.

Americana artist James McMurtry will open our series on Saturday, July 30th. With eight albums, including American Music Awards’ “Album of the Year” winner Childish Things, a Grammy nomination, and having one of his songs, “We Can’t Make It Here” named by famed music critic Robert Christgau in 2010 as “Song of the Decade,” McMurtry’s list of accolades is impressive. His latest release, The Horses and the Hounds, continues his tradition of writing hardscrabble songs about good people at bad extremes and the disintegration of small towns in flyover America. Muncie native Mike Martin and the Beautiful Mess will open the show.

The Muncie Three Trails Music Series is a non-profit partnership between Muncie Downtown Development Partnership, Muncie Arts and Culture Council, and Rick Zeigler, series founder and organizer. The mission of the series is to bring critically acclaimed, national recording artists to perform at Canan Commons, Muncie’s premier outdoor performance venue, located in the heart of Downtown Muncie. A second mission is to promote the many recreational, artistic, and cultural attractions located along, or in close proximity to, Canan Commons and Muncie’s popular “Three Trails” -- The White River Greenway, Cardinal Greenway, and Muncie Arts and Culture Trail. We hope attendees will heed our slogan, “Explore the Trails, Enjoy the Music”.

#MTTMS

#LiveMusic

#MuncieArts

#Summer2022

Gool Missing Fingers Audio Discrepancies Kitty Kondo

Gool

• Basement rockers from Columbus, OH
• Website: https://www.goolband.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gool.band/?hl=en
• Sample music: https://soundcloud.com/howie-bruss
• Garage and punk influences
• Latest EP: “Soft Spot”

Missing Fingers

• Punk rockers from Indianapolis, IN
• Website: https://www.facebook.com/MissingFingers.Music
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/missing_fingers.band/
• Sample music: https://missingfingersband.bandcamp.com/
• Indianapolis' least favorite punk band
• Latest album: “One Man's Trash"

Audio Discrepancies

• Eclectic Rock band from Muncie, IN
• Website: https://sites.google.com/view/audiodiscrepancies/home
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audio.discrepancies/
• Sample music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ZhhhR2DyY
• Influences: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Grateful Dead, RATM, Tool, Primus, Black Sabbath, Kendrick Lamar and Stars Hollow
• Latest EP: “One Step Forward; Two Steps Back”
• Roknrol!

Kitty Kondo

• Alternative group from Indianapolis, IN
• Website and sample music: https://www.kittykondoband.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kittykondo/
• Not defined by any one genre, inspired by everything
• Latest album: “Fabula Amoris"

The last installment of 4 separated summer days in the Kondorama music festival. Rock an alternative punk themed night with many a head bang!

Secondhand Denim Daisychain

Secondhand Denim

• Indie rockers from Muncie, IN
• Instagram & sample music: https://www.instagram.com/secondhand.denim/channel/
• A little of mom's chill music

Daisychain

• Blues and psych rock band based in Chicago
• Website: http://daisychainmusic.net/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daisychainchicago/
• Sample Music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4EBZwe3YvBq3Snb5q2imAw/videos
• Influenced by Patti Smith, The Melvins, and Jack White

Having toured the U.S. and countries like Austria, Canada, China, and Hungary (among many more), this artist has built a following over the last 10 years and shows no sign of slowing down! Think of his talent 

• Acoustic rock singer/songwriter from North Carolina
• Official website
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Sample music
• Just like if Nirvana and the Beatles had a child together
• Cinematographer and world traveler
• Latest album: “Bryan's Super Happy Fun Time ll”

The Muncie Three Trails Music Series is thrilled to present the 9th season in which the series presents critically acclaimed national recording artists in four FREE concerts at Canan Commons in Downtown Muncie. All shows begin at 7 PM and are all ages. And this season, we will also be presenting this special “Bonus” concert at Cornerstone Center for the Arts. Complete information on the series and all artists, including samples of their music, can be found at www.munciethreetrails.com.

On September 24th, the Muncie Three Trails series will present a special “bonus” fifth concert at Cornerstone Center for the Arts’ E.B. Ball Auditorium. This show will feature Wales- born and London-based solo acoustic guitarist Gwenifer Raymond. Raymond’s specific field of solo guitar is known as “American primitive,” a term coined by acoustic guitarist John Fahey in the late 50’s to describe his own music, intended to somehow convey an ineffable and ever-evolving amalgam of influences. For Gwenifer, this means she melds Appalachian folk, Southern pre-war country blues, Indian ragas and drone-based music, along with hints of vintage gothic horror films and a good dose of Welsh folkloric strangeness. The sound she makes is so cavernous, evocative and frenetic it seems as though at least two more guitarists must be hiding somewhere in the wings. Be prepared for a completely unique and spellbinding experience when Gwenifer Raymond takes the Cornerstone stage. Lonesome With Company will open the show.

The Muncie Three Trails Music Series is a non-profit partnership between Muncie Downtown Development Partnership, Muncie Arts and Culture Council, and Rick Zeigler, series founder and organizer. The mission of the series is to bring critically acclaimed, national recording artists to perform at Canan Commons, Muncie’s premier outdoor performance venue, located in the heart of Downtown Muncie. A second mission is to promote the many recreational, artistic, and cultural attractions located along, or in close proximity to, Canan Commons and Muncie’s popular “Three Trails” -- The White River Greenway, Cardinal Greenway, and Muncie Arts and Culture Trail. We hope attendees will heed our slogan, “Explore the Trails, Enjoy the Music".

#MTTMS

#LiveMusic

#MuncieArts

#Summer2022

A Very Metal Independence Day Celebration featuring:

Mantra of Morta
Cocaine Culture
Seventh Crown

Performances of fire by: The Cochran’s, Phantom Watson, and Slyfox

Table display and live videos (if you want) by Night Art Productions

$10 for 21+
$15 for 18+

Doors at 8pm
Music at 9:30pm

Be Here Now will post drink specials closer to the day of the event

Flyers by Sweaty Fingers Design

Opie Hendrix is back home from touring in Texas, and we'll have the smoker out for a barbecue event!  Cocktail specials and more!

REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND TO HEADLINE FREE CONCERT IN MUNCIE, INDIANA

Acclaimed country blues group The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band will be performing in a FREE outdoor concert as part of the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series. The concert will take place at 7:00 PM on Saturday, July 27th at Canan Commons (500 South Walnut Street) in the heart of Downtown Muncie! Muncie's own Lovesick Moan will open the show. Lawn chairs, picnic blankets, and dancing are always welcome! We encourage you to come early, and to come hungry and thirsty to enjoy local food and beverage vendors before the show. This concert is sponsored by DeFur Voran, thank you!

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The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band at the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series

There aren’t a lot of Warped Tour veterans who can claim proficiency in the use of bottleneck slides, washboards, and five-gallon buckets. Most didn’t spend their teens playing along to Charlie Patton and Bukka White albums. And just about none are fronted by a commissioned member of the Honorary Order of Kentucky Colonels. Say hello to Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, the greatest front-porch blues band in the world!

Reverend Peyton is recognized as one of the world’s foremost country blues finger-style pickers, playing the bass with his thumb while picking the lead at the same time. His prowess has been recognized with multiple Blues Music Awards nominations, including in 2021 for “Best Blues Rock Artist”, as well as being the cover subject for Vintage Guitar magazine. But the Big Damn Band isn’t just about the Reverend. Beside him on stage are his wife, “Washboard” Breezy Peyton, playing with all the nuance and percussive power of a New Orleans drum line, and keeping the train moving is Max Senteney on a lean drum kit that includes a 5-gallon maple syrup bucket. But one listen will convince you that there's nothing dusty or sentimental about Peyton's music. There's no songs about picking cotton. They aren't a museum piece. The Big Damn Band have taken nearly a century of country blues history and crafted a thing all their own. “I like songs that sound happy but are actually very sad,” Peyton says. “I don’t know why it is, but I just do.”

The Big Damn Band has built its reputation the long, slow, hard way. After 12 years of playing as many as 300 shows each year, in a total of 37 countries, the biggest little band in the country has pieced together one of the most dedicated followings out there. As audiences everywhere will tell you, there is not another band out there that sounds like this or has a stage show of this caliber. So get ready to celebrate, because that is what you will end up doing when Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band graces the Canan Commons stage!

The Muncie Three Trails Music Series is a non-profit partnership between Muncie Downtown Development Partnership, Muncie Arts and Culture Council, and Rick Zeigler, series founder and organizer. The mission of the series is to bring critically acclaimed, national recording artists to perform at Canan Commons, Muncie’s premier outdoor performance venue, located in the heart of Downtown Muncie. A second mission is to promote the many recreational, artistic, and cultural attractions located along, or in close proximity to, Canan Commons and Muncie’s popular “Three Trails” -- The White River Greenway, Cardinal Greenway, and Muncie Arts and Culture Trail. We hope attendees will heed our slogan, “Explore the Trails, Enjoy the Music!”

A BIG thank you to Ball State University for sponsoring the entire 2024 series! Complete information about the Muncie Three Trails Music Series can be found at our website here:

https://www.munciethreetrails.com

6 Guitars is a pitch perfect blend of music, comedy, and theater. Just 1 performer portrays 6 guitar-playing characters each representing their own style of music:

• Wes Tankerfield, a snobbish jazz master
• Michael Marsh, a 19-year-old rock prodigy
• Peter Winter-Jones, a sensitive folk musician
• Rupert Colt, a charming country songwriter
• Emmanuel Ortega, an eccentric classical wizard
• Tyrone Gibbons, a weary blues picking octogenarian

As each character shares the anecdotes and songs that define their relationship to music, the audience is treated to breathtaking musicianship, beautiful storytelling, and top-notch comedy. Audience interaction and improvised songs tailors each performance to any given crowd. 

World-class artists and musicians brought together in the Coffee and Cabernet Series. Experience these internationally renowned artists in the intimate setting of Pruis Hall and enjoy a selection of wine, craft beer or coffee while attending the performance. 

Seamlessly merging hits from Pop, Rock and Oldies to Americana and Country, the genre smashing, vocal/instrumental trio, TAKE3, lives at the intersection where art and pop culture collide.

Described by audience goers as a mini–Trans Siberian Orchestra experience, TAKE3 is nothing short of exhilarating and has electrified audiences at hundreds of venues and performing arts centers throughout the U.S. Known for their infectious and down to earth onstage personalities, this threesome leaves their indelible mark on captivated crowds around the country. 

TAKE3’s interactive lighting shows, comedic stories of their journey from scales in conservatory practice rooms to pop music in packed stadiums, come together in unforgettable experiences that have fired up concert goers all over the nation.

World-class artists and musicians brought together in the Coffee and Cabernet Series. Experience these internationally renowned artists in the intimate setting of Pruis Hall and enjoy a selection of wine, craft beer or coffee while attending the performance. 

Lost Bayou Ramblers

Acclaimed progressive Cajun band and GRAMMY winners Lost Bayou Ramblers (LBR) will be performing in a FREE outdoor concert as part of the 206 Muncie Three Trails Music Series. The Lost Bayou Ramblers will also be performing a special traditional acoustic set at 7 PM to open the show. 

Lost Bayou Ramblers’ evolution as a perversely progressive band rooted in Cajun traditions continues to excite, challenge, and redefine both genre expectations as well as cultural preconceptions. The band was formed in 1999 by brothers Andre and Louis Michot, performing the roots Cajun music they learned as members of Les Frères Michot, the family band their father and uncles formed in the 80's. The current LBR line-up is headed-up by Louis (fiddle and lead vocals) and Andre (accordion and lapsteel), now joined by Bryan Webre (electric bass), Johnny Campos (electric guitar), Eric Heigle (electronics and acoustic guitar), and Kirkland Middleton (drums). The group stands at the crosscurrents of Louisiana culture by inhabiting the gray area between Cajun and Creole, convention and innovation, mystery and a revelation, experimenting and growing the show to what it's become today: an eclectic mix of modern sounds and rhythms with ancient Cajun melodies and lyrics.  With eight albums, a GRAMMY win in the Best Regional Roots Music category for their most recent studio album, Kalenda, contributions to the score of the Oscar-nominated Beasts Of The Southern Wild, and touring with both Arcade Fire and the Violent Femmes, Lost Bayou Ramblers continue to swing wide from their Louisiana home base.