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Wed jan 9
Air Devils Inn: open jam; 7:30 p.m.
Bearno’s (Highlands): open mic; 8 p.m.
Billiards Club: Shane Dawson; 11:30 p.m.
Clifton’s Pizza: Walker & Kays; 7:30 p.m.
Diamond Pub (Highlands): open mic; 7 p.m.
Gerstle’s: Kimmet & Doug; 9 p.m.
Headliners Music Hall: Father John Misty, Magic Trick; 9 p.m., $12
Hideaway Saloon: The Pranksters; 10:30 p.m., $3
Highlands Tap Room: open mic
Jack Fry’s: Ray Johnson, Dave Wilson & Jenna Mattingly; 7 p.m.
Jack’s Lounge: Carly Johnson & Craig Wagner; 7 p.m.
Jerry Green & Friends: Jerry Green, Freddie George; 7 p.m.
Jim Porter’s: open jam; 8:30 p.m.
Magnolia Bar: DJ Sleepy T; 11 p.m.
Meat: DJs Matt Anthony & Kim Sorise; 10 p.m.
Monkey Wrench: Relic; 9 p.m.
Mulligan’s: Mickey Clark; 7 p.m.
Nachbar: VAMP; 10 p.m.
Saints: Dorney & Friends; 7:30 p.m.
Theater Square Marketplace: The VoJazz Trio; 7 p.m.
Wick’s (Goose Creek): DJ Ace
Wick’s (Highlands): DJs Deuce Leader & Boombox Saints; 10 p.m.
ZaZoo’s: DJ Xybrium; 9 p.m.
THU jan 10
Baxter’s 942: The Bottom Sop; 10 p.m.
Bud’s Tavern: Mike Willett; 8 p.m.
Corbett’s: Carly Johnson & Craig Wagner; 6 p.m.
Dark Star Tavern: The White Russians; 10 p.m.
Diamond Pub (Highlands): DJ Goast, Glam Shell, Vancington, Dr. Dundiff; 11 p.m.
Dreamland: “Buster Vs. Charlie” with Your Neighborhood Big Band; 7:15 p.m., $10-$12
Flip Flop Jack’s: DJs Lady Carol & Fierce Tease; 10 p.m.
Gerstle’s: Strung Out Loud
Haymarket Whiskey Bar: Planets Around the Sun, Janane Tripp, R. Keenan Lawler, Douglas Lucas & Aaron West; 9 p.m., $5
Jack Fry’s: Ray Johnson; 7 p.m.
Jack’s (New Albany): Dev & Doug; 10 p.m.
Jerry Green & Friends: Jerry Green; 7 p.m.
KFC Yum Center: The Zac Brown Band, Blackberry Smoke; 7 p.m., $35-$65
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft: Daniel Knox; 8 p.m., $8-$10
Maple Inn Tavern: Kevin Grayson Sr.; 9 p.m.
Meat: DJ Woodrow on the Radio; 10 p.m.
Phoenix Hill Tavern: audition night; 10 p.m.
Saints: Cosa Seria; 9:30 p.m.
Stevie Ray’s: open mic; 9 p.m.
Theater Square Marketplace: Stein Stoess; 8 p.m.
Wick’s (Highlands): John Hawkins; 8 p.m.
Zanzabar: Bobby Bare Jr., Nikki Lane, Joe Fletcher, Ian Noe; 9 p.m., $8
ZaZoo’s: The Delta Saints, Quiet Corral, Discount Guns; 9 p.m., $10
FRI jan 11
Billiards Club: Dev & Doug; 11 p.m., $5
Bud’s Tavern: Hook Line & Sinker; 8 p.m.
Coconut Beach: Grupo Ache
Dillinger’s: City Grimm, Sidewalkers, Technology Vs. Horse, Smallhouse; 9 p.m., $5
Dreamland: “Buster Vs. Charlie” with Your Neighborhood Big Band; 7:15 & 10 p.m., $10-$12
Eddie Merlot’s: The Bobby Falk Group; 7 p.m.
Fix: DJs Amtrac, Black Matter & Stanislav; 10 p.m.
Gerstle’s: Butch Rice, KTO, Dawgs Playing Poker
Haymarket Whiskey Bar: Jason & the Punknecks, The Kentucky City Boys
Headliners Music Hall: “MS Society Benefit” with The Greg Foresman Band, V-Groove, Danny Flanigan, John Mann; 8 p.m., $10
Jack Fry’s: Steve Crews; 7 p.m.
Jazzyblu: Maestro J.; 8 p.m., $10
Jerry Green & Friends: Jerry Green, Freddie George; 7 p.m., $7
Jim Porter’s: Webb Wilder, Just Us; 7 p.m.; Soul Circus, The Over-Reactors, Five Below; 9 p.m.
Kentucky Center For the Arts: Louisville Orchestra; 8 p.m.
Maker’s Mark Lounge: Petar Mandic; 10 p.m.
Shepherdsville Music Barn: Kentucky Blue; 8 p.m., $12
Theater Square Marketplace: The VoJazz Trio; 7 p.m.
Third Street Dive: Mando Saenz, Doghouse Kitchen; 10 p.m., $5
Uncle Slayton’s: Harpeth Rising; 8:30 p.m., $10
Volare: Carly Johnson & Craig Wagner; 8 p.m.
WFPK: “Live Lunch” with Greg Foresman & John Mann; noon
Wick’s (Goose Creek): “Battle of the Bands”; 9 p.m.
Wick’s (Highlands): The Kevin Cummins Band; 8 p.m.
Wick’s (New Albany): In Joe & Arrow, Artie Dean Harris; 9 p.m.
Zanzabar: Mote, Decades, Jake Simmons and the Little Ghosts; 9 p.m., $5; OK Deejays; 11 p.m., $3
ZaZoo’s: Bitch Please; 9 p.m., $5
SAT jan 12
Against the Grain: Solid Rock-It Boosters; 8 p.m.
Alley Cats: Old School; 9:30 p.m., $5
Bard’s Town: Maddie Won’t Smoke, Lazy Sunday; 7 p.m., $5
Bud’s Tavern: Erin & Gene; 8 p.m.
Club 21: DJ KGee
Corydon Jamboree: Melissa Combs, Allen Hilbert; 7:30 p.m., $10
Dark Star Tavern: The Pranksters; 10 p.m.
Diamond Pub (Highlands): “Lane Goodwin Cancer Foundation Benefit” with Signal the Revolution, Code Red, Manfred, Two Pump Chump, Greg Huff; 7 p.m., $10
Dillinger’s: The Foxery, Jovian, The Protagonist; 9 p.m., $5
Dreamland: “Buster Vs. Charlie” with Your Neighborhood Big Band; 7:15 p.m. & 10 p.m., $10-$12
Eddie Merlot’s: The Bobby Falk Group; 8 p.m.
German-American Club: Rheingold Band; 6 p.m.
Gerstle’s: Headcase, Petar Mandic
Haymarket Whiskey Bar: Aladdin’s Castle, Falling Sky, American Werewolves; 9:30 p.m.
Headliners Music Hall: Same As It Ever Was: A Talking Heads Tribute; 8 p.m., $10
Hideaway Saloon: Nick Dittmeier, Calabash, Kent Eugene Goolsby; 10 p.m., $5
Impellizzeri’s (Downtown): Cosa Seria; 10:30 p.m., $7
Jazzyblu: Maestro J.; 8 p.m., $10
Jerry Green & Friends: Jerry Green; 7 p.m., $7
Jim Porter’s: Soul Circus, The Over-Reactors, Five Below; 9 p.m.
Kentucky Center for the Arts: Louisville Orchestra Pops with The Music City Hit-Makers; 8 p.m., $15
Magnolia Bar: Graffiti, The Delphines; 10 p.m., $5
Maker’s Mark Lounge: DJ DV8; 10 p.m.
Maple Inn Tavern: Hook Line & Sinker; 9 p.m.
Meat: DJ JP Source; 10 p.m.
O’Shea’s: Eight Inch Elvis; 10 p.m.
Phoenix Hill Tavern: Primer 55
Ross Country Jamboree: Natalie Berry, Mike Boughey, Billy Nett; $10
Rudyard Kipling: Doug & Telisha
Seidenfaden’s: DJs Sam Sneed & Narwhal; 11 p.m.
Shepherdsville Country: Roger Riggs, Laura Cook, Bobby Miller; 7:30 p.m., $8
Theater Square Marketplace: The VoJazz Trio; 7 p.m.
Third Street Dive: The Art Adams Band, MG & the Gas City Three; 10 p.m., $6
U of L (Comstock Hall): Anton Belov & Cliff Jackson; 4 p.m.
Volare: Carly Johnson & Craig Wagner; 8 p.m.
Wick’s (Goose Creek): Cadillac Shack; 9 p.m.
Wick’s (Highlands): Hot Brown Smackdown; 9 p.m.
Wick’s (Middletown): Dev & Doug; 8 p.m.
Wick’s (New Albany): Mike & Kyle, Kirby’s Dreamland; 9 p.m.
Zanzabar: Glitter Titz DJs; 11 p.m.
ZaZoo’s: The Instruction, Gully, Violet Knives; 9 p.m., $5
SUN jan 13
Bard’s Town: Classical Revolution; 7 p.m.
Belle of Louisville: “Bluegrass Cruise”; 2 p.m.
Dark Star Tavern: Alanna Fugate & Jonathon Bramer; 9 p.m.
Gerstle’s: The Pranksters; 10 p.m.
Highlands Tap Room Grill: Derrick Wade Manley; 8 p.m.
Monkey Wrench: open mic; 8 p.m.
Palace Theater: Yo Gabba Gabba!; 2 p.m. & 5 p.m., $25-$45 each
Rudyard Kipling: The Tyrone Wheeler Trio; 3 p.m., $5-$10
Spinelli’s (Downtown): Tuesday’s Too Late, They Promised Escape, For the Birds, Aim for the Skies; 6 p.m., $5
Stevie Ray’s: “IBC Benefit” with The Tarnations, Lamont Gillespie & 100 Proof, Joe DeBow & Danny Henderson, Da Mudcats, Toad Strangler, The Rib Tip Kings; 5:30 p.m., $5
U of L (Comstock Hall): Brett Shuster & Clint McCanless; 3 p.m.
Wiltshire On Market: Carly Johnson & Craig Wagner; 6:30 p.m.
MON jan 14
Decca: The Buzzard; 8 p.m.
Gerstle’s: Petar Mandic
Hideaway Saloon: Tom Boone & the Back Porch Pickers; 10 p.m., $3
Highlands Tap Room Grill: DJ Ghost
Irish Exit: Phil Regan
Stevie Ray’s: open mic; 9 p.m.
U of L (Bird Hall): The Jamey Aebersold Jazz Quartet; 7:30 p.m.
U of L (Comstock Hall): Honor Choir Festival; 7 p.m.
Wick’s (New Albany): open mic; 9 p.m.
TUE jan 15
Against the Grain: open mic; 8 p.m.
Baxter’s 942: Dev & Doug; 10 p.m.
Blu: The Doug Elmore Jazz Trio; 7 p.m.
Clifton’s Pizza: Danny Flanigan; 8 p.m.
Club 21: DJ Chaz C; 10 p.m.
Diamond Bar (Highlands): Petar Mandic; 10 p.m.
Gerstle’s: Nick Dittmeier; 9 p.m.
Haymarket Whiskey Bar: jazz jam; 8 p.m.
Irish Exit: Kacey Machir
Kingfish (St. Matthews): Big Poppa Stampley; 7 p.m.
Maple Inn Tavern: Erin & Gene; 9 p.m.
Monkey Wrench: Blunt Honey; 9 p.m.
Mulligan’s: open jam; 9 p.m.
Stevie Ray’s: blues jam; 9 p.m.
Wick’s (Highlands): Robby Cox; 10 p.m.