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Wed. June 9
11th Frame: Karaoke with Allen; 9 p.m., free (R)
BBC 4th Street: Open Mic with Eli Rector; 7 p.m., free, (R)
Bearno’s Highlands: Open Mic with Chad Cheek; 8 p.m., free (R)
Brendan’s: The Wallings JR; 10 p.m., free
Buffalo Wild Wings, St. Matthews: The Emily Clark Band; 8 p.m. (R)
Chick Inn: Live music with Erin; 6 p.m. (R)
Comedy Caravan: Louisville Comedy Under-ground; 10 p.m., $5, 18+ (R)
Cosmic Charlie’s: DJ Selektro, Dr. Gram, Fair Heron, Milyoo
Dat Kjun: Karaoke with Wayne Johnson; 8 p.m., free (R)
Dutch’s Tavern: Kimmet & Doug; 11 p.m., $2 (R)
Headliners: Emery, Queens Club, Sent by Ravens; 6:30 p.m., $10
Highlands Taproom: Karaoke; 10 p.m., free (R)
Jack’s: Acoustic M.D.; 9 p.m., free (R)
Jack Fry’s: Ray Johnson, Ben Ingram & Dave Wilson; 7 p.m., free (R)
JazzyBlu: Mix Wednesdays with Maestro J.; 8 p.m. (R)
Jerry Green & Friends: Freddie George, Jerry Green & Friends; 9 p.m., free (R)
Jim Porter’s: Humparty with DJ Bach; 8 p.m., free; Karaoke with Steve; 9 p.m. (Melody Bar) (R)
Limestone Bay: Jim Dishman; 9 p.m., free (R)
Lisa’s Oak St. Lounge: Muji Fuji; 9 p.m., free (R)
Longshot Tavern: Merry Pranksters; 11 p.m., free (R)
Louisville Beer Store: Vinyl Night: Bring your own records to spin; 6 p.m., free (R)
The Lounge: Old School R&B jam with Steve Bradley; 9 p.m., free
Mag Bar: Get Down Wednesdays w/ Sleepy T.; 11 p.m., free (R)
Marriott Downtown: Big Poppa Stampley; 8 p.m. (R)
Monkey Wrench: Relic; 9 p.m., free (R)
Nachbar: VAMP; 10 p.m., free (R)
Onizim’s Barn: Phil Kelly; 7 p.m., free, (R)
Phoenix Hill Tavern: The Big Kahuna’s Karaoke Party (Living Room); DJ Tsunami’s Smokin’ Hot Dance Party (Deck Bar); 8 p.m., $3-$5
Ri Ra Irish Pub: The OverReactors; 8:30 p.m., free
R Place Pub: DJ; 10 p.m., free
Siggy’s Pizza: Bluegrass Anonymous Bluegrass Jam; 7 p.m., free (R)
Skull Alley: These United States, Yardsale, Genius File; 8 p.m., $7, all ages
Southgate House: Juney’s Lounge: Artist in Residence: Scotty Karate; 9 p.m., free; Parlour: Million Young, Okay London; 8 p.m., $10
Stevie Ray’s Blues Bar: Green Beans, August, Bob & the Dynamics; 8 p.m., $4
Theatre Square Marketplace: VoJazz Trio with Megan Gebert; 6:30 p.m., free
Varanese: Jeff Sherman Duo; 6 p.m., free (R)
Volare: Carly Johnson & Craig Wagner; 7 p.m., free (R)
Wick’s Pizza, Baxter: The Boombox Saints (R)
Thurs. June 10
930 Listening Room: Damien Jurado, Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground, The Parade Schedule; 8 p.m., $10 (adv.), $12 (door), all ages
America’s Best Inn: DJ Rob/Karaoke; 9:30 p.m., free (R)
Bistro 301: DJ Heather; 9 p.m., free (R)
Buffalo Wild Wings, St. Matthews: Butch Rice; 8 p.m., free (R)
Buster’s: The Dropkick Murphys; 8 p.m., $28
Capitol Plaza Hotel: The Shining; 7:30 p.m., free (R)
Check’s Café: Karaoke with Gary Summit; 6 p.m., free (R)
Clifton’s: Another Colour; 8 p.m., free
Club 21: John Damato & Friends; 7 p.m., free (R)
Comedy Caravan: Louisville Comedy Underground; 10 p.m., $5, 18+ (R)
Cosmic Charlie’s: Jamie McLean Band, The Other Brothers
Darkstar: Bluegrass Night: White Russians; 9 p.m., free (R)
Improv: Don DC Curry; 8 p.m., $15
Jack Fry’s: Ray Johnson; 7 p.m., free (R)
Jack’s Lounge: Scott Henderson Duo; 7 p.m., free (R)
Jeff Ruby’s: Fattlabb; 10:30 p.m., free (R every other Thursday)
Jerry Green & Friends: Freddie George, Jerry Green & Friends; 7 p.m., free (R)
Jim Porter’s: U-Call it Dance Party with Ron Wallace; 8 p.m. (Ballroom); Swing Dance Lessons Swing Dance Society; 7 p.m.; Karaoke with Steve; 9 p.m.
The Lounge: Open Mic/Karaoke; 9 p.m., free (R)
Mag Bar: Woodrow on the Radio; 10 p.m. (R)
Phoenix Hill Tavern: The Big Kahuna’s Karaoke Party (Living Room); DJ Tsunami’s Smokin’ Hot Dance Party (Deck Bar); Bobaflex and Through The Storm; 8 p.m.,
Rumball’s: Open Mic with Lady Maddox; 6 p.m., free (R)
Saints: Cosa Seria; 9 p.m. (R)
Skull Alley: Native, This Town Needs Guns, Mountain Asleep, Young Lions; 8 p.m., $7, all ages
Southgate House: Juney’s Lounge: Porter & the Backrow Baptists; 9 p.m., free
Stevie Ray’s Blues Bar: Self Inflicted; 8 p.m., $4
The Summit: Cosa Seria; 6:30 p.m., free
Varanese: Jeff Sherman Duo; 6 p.m., free (R)
Vernon: Joe West; 8 p.m., $5
Wick’s Pizza, Middletown: Joe Hanna; 8 p.m., free (R)
Zanzabar: Disappears, Woven Bones, DW Box; 9 p.m., $8
Zeppelin Café: Bluegrass Jam; 8 p.m., free (R)
Fri. June 11
11th Frame: Karaoke with Allen; 9 p.m., free (R)
930 Listening Room: Califone, Shedding; 7 p.m., $10 (adv.), $12 (door), all ages
America’s Best Inn: DJ Rob/Karaoke; 9:30 p.m., free (R)
Bearno’s by the Bridge: Mickey Clark; 9 p.m.
Bistro 42: Open mic with Jacob Adams, John Taylor; 8 p.m., free (R)
Clifton’s Pizza: Alan Rhody; 8:30 p.m.
Cosmic Charlie’s: Barry Mando Project, Eclipse
Dat Kjun: Karaoke with Wayne Johnson; 8 p.m., free (R)
Derby City Espresso: A Name for Ourself; 9 p.m.
Gaslight Tavern: DJ Chad; 9:30 p.m., free (R)
Gerstle’s: V-Groove; 10 p.m., $5
Glassworks Rooftop: Black Out Reception; 8 p.m., $7
Headliners: Eyes Vs. The Sky, Our Final Hour, From Her Last Breath; 7 p.m., $10
Highlands Taproom: Karaoke; 7 p.m., free (R)
Horseshoe Casino: (Legends) Pawnshop Guitar; 9 p.m., free
Improv: Don DC Curry; 8 p.m., 10 p.m., $18
Jerry Green & Friends: Freddie George, Jerry Green & Friends; 7 p.m., free (R)
Jim Porter’s: Jypsi; 7 p.m., $12
Longhead’s: Open Mic with Denny Wheatley; 6 p.m., free (R)
The Lounge: The Lounge Band; 9:45 p.m., $3
O’Shea’s: Jeff Grimm, Chad Graham; 10:30 p.m., $3
Phoenix Hill Tavern: Hellawicked’s The Takeover: Hot Action Cop, Through the Storm, Stallpoint, Lost in Eden, Poetry of The Dead, Shatterstone, Broke & Bleeding, Stripmind; 9 p.m., $10; The Big Kahuna’s Karaoke Party; 8 p.m. (Living Room); DJ Tsunami’s Smokin’ Hot Dance Party, 8 p.m. (Deck Bar)
The Riverstage: Eight-Inch Elvis; 7:30 p.m., free
Rudyard Kipling: Twisted Sister Family Band; 10 p.m., $5
Seelbach Bar: Dick Sisto Trio; 8 p.m., free
Skull Alley: Vampire Squid, We Be The Echo, Bu Hao Ting; 8 p.m., all ages
Smoketown: Billy Hower; 6 p.m., free (R)
Southgate House: Ballroom: The Dopamines, Mixtapes, Vacation, Till Plains, The Frankl Project; 8 p.m., $8 (18-20), $5 (21+); Parlour: Hot Cha Cha, 1,000 Arms, We Are Hex; 8:30 p.m., $8 (18-21), $5 (21+); Juney’s Lounge: Reduced to Ruin; 9 p.m., free
Stevie Ray’s Blues Bar: Marilyn Kington, 2 Looe; 6 p.m., $5
Theatre Square Marketplace: VoJazz Trio with Megan Gebert; 6:30 p.m., free
Uncle Pleasant’s: Goth DJ Night; 9 p.m.
Varanese: Jeff Sherman Trio; 6 p.m., free (R)
WFPK: Cabin, noon, free, first-come, first-served; members at the $120 level or above receive priority seating
Zanzabar: Black Diamond Heavies; 9 p.m.
Sat. June 12
America’s Best Inn: DJ Rob/Karaoke; 9:30 p.m., free (R)
Bearno’s by the Bridge: Clay Harned; 9:30 p.m.
Check’s Café: Karaoke with Gary Summit; 8 p.m., free (R)
Clifton’s Pizza: The Donnie Loessier Duo; 7:30 p.m, $12
Cosmic Charlie’s: Gypsy Revival, Starlume, Very Emergency
Cozza Osteria Enoteca: Weekend Jazz; 7 p.m., free (R)
ear X-tacy: Shadwick Wilde; 2 p.m., free, all ages
Gerstle’s: V-Groove; 10 p.m., $5
Headliners: Auditory Hallucination Part II
Hideaway Saloon: The Vessel; 10 p.m.
Highlands Taproom: Eddie & the Fuck Munkys; 10 p.m.
Horseshoe Casino: (Legends) Pawnshop Guitar; 9 p.m., free
Improv: Don DC Curry; 7 p.m., 9 p.m., $18
Jack Fry’s: Don Wagner, Reid Jahn; 7 p.m., free (R)
Jack’s Lounge: Scott Henderson Duo; 7 p.m., free (R)
Jazzyblu: Neo-Soul Saturdays with Maestro J.; 8 p.m., $10 (R)
Jerry Green & Friends: Freddie George, Jerry Green & Friends; 7 p.m., free (R)
The Lounge: The Retrobates; 9:30 p.m., free
Monkey Wrench: Shadwick Wilde, Kathleen Hoye, Sam Hadfield; 9 p.m., $5
Old Louisville Coffeehouse: Poster Boy for Pinatas, Someday Soon; 7 p.m., free
Phoenix Hill Tavern: Will Hoge, American Bang, J. Roddy Walston & The Business; 8 p.m., $12 (Saloon); DJ Tsunami’s Smokin’ Hot Dance Party; 8 p.m. (Outdoor Deck Bar); The Big Kahuna’s Karaoke Party (The Living Room); 8 p.m.
Riverfront Amphitheater: Kentuckiana Celtic Fest; 2 p.m., free
R Place Pub: DJ; 10 p.m., free
Rudyard Kipling: (Parlour) Melissa Combs Caberet; 7:30 p.m.; (Gazebo) Alan Semerdjian; 9:30 p.m.
Seelbach Bar: Dick Sisto Trio; 8 p.m., free
Smoketown: Billy Hower; 6 p.m., free (R)
Southgate House: Juney’s Lounge: Lance Whalen, Gabe Wright; 9 p.m., free; Parlour; Landon Pigg, Madi Diaz; 8 p.m., $12
Stevie Ray’s Blues Bar: D. Man & the Alley Hounds, King Sonic; 6 p.m., $5
Summit City Lounge: Clack Mountain Honky Tonk; 9 p.m.
Theatre Square Marketplace: VoJazz Trio with Megan Gebert; 6:30 p.m., free
Varanese: Jeff Sherman Trio with John Stowell; 6:30 p.m., (R)
Vernon: The Web (CD Release), Phantom Family Halo, Softcheque; 9 p.m., $6
Wick’s Pizza, Middletown: The Avalanche; 9 p.m., free
Sun. June 13
Clifton’s: Ron Hayden Jazz Band
Cosmic Charlie’s: Velvet Water
Dutch’s Tavern: Kimmet & Doug; 11 p.m. (R)
Gerstle’s: Open Mic with Mel Wiggins & Club Cardiere Band; 9 p.m., free (R)
Highlands Taproom: Tax Brandywine; The Shake-ups; 10 p.m., free
Improv: Don DC Curry; 7 p.m., $15
Jerry Green & Friends: Karaoke; 9 p.m. (R)
Le Relais: Pat Lentz & Dave Wilson; 6:30 p.m., free (R)
Limestone Bay: Jim Dishman; 9 p.m., free (R)
Longshot Tavern: Merry Pranksters; 11 p.m., free (R)
Monkey Wrench: Shake-It-Off Sundays: DJs Narwhal & CliffTones; 1 p.m., free (R); Church on the Rocks; 8 p.m., free (R)
Nachbar: Squeeze-bot; 8 p.m., free (R)
Rudyard Kipling: Battle of the Bands; 7 p.m.
Turtle Run Winery: Big Poppa Stampley; 1:30 p.m.
Varanese: Jeff Sherman Duo with John Stowell, Gene Bertoncini; 6 p.m., free (R)
Wick’s Pizza, Baxter: Open Mic with John Mark; 8 p.m. (R)
Wick’s Pizza, Goose Creek: DJ Dave Desitin; 9 p.m., free (R)
Zazoo’s: Chop Shop Open Mic: The Choppers; 7 p.m., free (R)
Mon. June 14
Bearno’s Highlands: LP’s Dance Party; 10 p.m., free (R)
Bearno’s by the Bridge: Swing Street Big Band; 5:30 p.m., $4
Bravo’s Italian Restaurant (Bullitt Ln.): An Evening of Mystery and Wonder; 7 p.m.
Cosmic Charlie’s: Bear Ceuse
Diamond’s: Slinky Jenkins; free (R)
Dutch’s Tavern: Amos Hopkins & Adam Flowers; 8 p.m., free (R)
ear X-tacy: The Happy Maladies; 7 p.m., free
Hideaway Saloon: Tom Boone; 10 p.m., $3 (R)
Highlands Taproom: Karaoke; 10 p.m., free (R)
Jerry Green & Friends: Karaoke; 9 p.m., free (R)
Southgate House: Ballroom: Ingrid Michaelson, Matt Morris; 8 p.m., $20; Juney’s Lounge: Open Mic Night; 9 p.m., free
Stevie Ray’s Blues Bar: Unplugged Open Mic with Alanna Fugate, Justin Lewis; 8 p.m., free (R)
Varanese: Jeff Sherman Duo; 6 p.m., free (R)
Tues. June 15
BBC 4th St.: Rachel Stump; 8 p.m., free (R)
Back Door: Open Mic; 7:30 p.m., free (R)
Blu: Doug Elmore, Dave Clark & Pat Lentz; 7 p.m., free (R)
Clifton’s: Danny Flanigan
Cosmic Charlie’s: Matt Woods
Dutch’s Tavern: Andrea Davidson & Friends; 9:30 p.m., free (R)
ear X-tacy: Nappy Roots; 6 p.m., free, all ages
Highlands Taproom: Doco
Jack’s Lounge: Scott Henderson Duo; 7 p.m., free (R)
Jerry Green & Friends: Karaoke; 9 p.m., free (R)
Jim Porter’s: Derby City Association Bop Night: DJ Bob; 6 p.m., $2 (R)
Lisa’s Oak Street Lounge:? Bluegrass jam; 7 p.m., free (R)
Onizim’s Barn: Big Pappa; 7 p.m., free (R)
R Place Pub: Big Rock Show; 10 p.m., free (R)
Sake Blue: Craig Wagner Trio; 6:30 p.m., free (R)
Skull Alley: Open Mic: Writer’s Retreat; 8 p.m., free, all ages
Stevie Ray’s Blues Bar: Open Blues, Jazz Band Jam; 8 p.m., free (R)
Varanese: Jeff Sherman Duo; 6 p.m., free (R)
This article appears in June 9, 2010.