Greg Laswell and Cary Brothers take the stage tonight at Radio Radio, with Harper Blynn and, just added to the show, Isaac Russell! Isaac kicks off the night right as doors open at 8 pm, so get there on time cause you seriously don't want to miss this great up and coming artists! Tickets can be purchased for $15 at the door,starting at 8 PM. Brought to you by 92.3 WTTS.
Get a sneak peak by watching this video of Greg Laswell performing "Take Everything" off his new album "Take a Bow."
Live from Cafe 939 in Boston
We've got some old school Cary Brothers for you:
Live from the Vail Film Festival in 2007 - "Blue Eyes"
CULTSare coming to Radio Radio! If were diggin' the Warpaint show, chances are you just might lose your mind at this one. Fresh off a new 7" release on Gorilla vs. Bear's new label, Cults sexy, dreamy single "Go Outside" will get you hype for the show (Pitchfork Best New Music.) Chicago's Light Pollution will open. On a side note, we are switching over the majority of our ticketing to Eventbrite. We like all interactive features but most importantly, overall service fees will be reduced. You know we are always on a quest to give you the the best ticketing options without all the ridiculous service fees. We hope you like it. We sure do. Wanna use Eventbrite for your event? Click this link, you'll show MOKB some love in the process
Let's do this! Tonight! Radio Radio! Delta Spirit with special guests Ezra Furman and the Harpoons and The Romany Rye. Get your tickets online right now, or get them for $12 at the door. What better way is there to spend your Tuesday night? Doors open at 8 PM.
Tonight's show with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros is blowing up! We've got about 200 tickets left! You can still purchase online today or stop by The Vogue Box Office (Noon-5pm). Tickets will be $16 at the door starting at 7 PM. This is one we have been looking forward to for a long time. Recently the band has been on Letterman, WTTS and now on the new Ford Fiesta commercial. Doors open at 7 PM, music at 8PM. Dawes will open the show. Presented by WTTS Indy Underground.
92.3 WTTS & MOKB Present Greg Laswell/Cary Brothers on Wednesday, July 14 at Radio Radio- tickets are on sale now via Brown Paper Tickets. Get them here! Greg Laswell is out supporting his new album "Take A Bow." You can check out his newest song, "Take Everything," on the WTTS Spring 2010 New Music Sampler. Cary Brothers is touring in support of his new album, "Under Control." Opening will be NYC natives, Harper Blynn.
Are you ready for another MOKB marathon week? We are! We cant express how SERIOUSLY stoked for the White Rabbits/Here We Go Magic show Monday night at Radio Radio! We have been fans of theirs for a loooonnng time and to see them in such an intimate venue, will be epic. Tickets are still available for only $10 in advance (Ten bucks for White Rabbits in a small venue = the deal of the year) and $12 at the door. Doors open at 8 PM. Some other happenings this week (mark your calendars now and we will fill you in on more details this week):
Thursday April 29 @ Locals Only - Butler Scion Free Thursday feat:
Sean Bones, Amo Joy, Santa, Hermit Thrushes. As always this show is free! Saturday May 1 @ Earth House - (RE)Sonance - An Earth House Fundraiser
Mab Lab, Sarah Grain, Know No Stranger, Orkestra Projekt and more. We encourage everyone to come out and support this! Earth House very important venue in the quest for more all ages shows in Indy! Tickets are only $12 in advance. Saturday May 1 @ The Vogue - Otis Gibbs CD Release Show
Team MOKB is pretty geeked to grab Otis's new CD at the show. Gonna' hit the Earth House early and then head to The Vogue to support our old pal, Otis Gibbs. You should too, this is the stuff folk legends are made of.
Sean Bones - "Dancehall"
Otis Gibbs - "Caroline" - Live at Orlando House Concert
In case you missed it, we recently ran a couple very special Japandroids contests. We had a chance to spend some time with our winners at the show, and delivered the goods as promised. Special thanks to Japandroids and Polyvinyl Records for making this possible. And, thanks to Kehla West and Robert Wasson for supporting MOKB by purchasing advance tickets to our shows.
Fun Fact: We found out that our new friend, Robert Wasson, is actually a 6th grade science teacher who LOVES new music, garage rock, and vinyl. How cool is that?
Tickets for the Japandroids show at Radio Radio, this Thursday, are still available. Luna has sold out of their allotment, but plenty of tickets remain online. They are only $8 in advance or $10 at the door on Thursday.
Doors open at 8pm. Thunders and Avi Buffalo will open the show. Music starts at 9:15 PM.
Today is your last chance to enter the Japandroids contest to win a free CD/LP Package. Enter here until 5:30 pm today.
It's like Christmas morning over here at MOKB HQ. We have been waiting for this Thursday for weeks. Its finally here! Tonight we are pleased to present to you, the Indianapolis debut of Mayer Hawthorne & the County. Indianapolis Hip Hop legends, Mudkids will open the show with Twin Peaks spinning your favorite old soul records. Tickets are available online today until 4pm. Tickets will be available at the door for only $12. Doors open at 8 PM - Get there early! Indiana Vodka will be on hand conducting a free sampling of their tasty, Indiana-distilled Vodka.
About Mayer Hawthorne
Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving with his father and tuning the car radio in to the rich soul and jazz history the region provided. “Most of the best music ever made came out of Detroit,” claims the singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, who counts Isaac Hayes, Leroy Hutson, Mike Terry, and Barry White among his influences, but draws the most inspiration from the music of Smokey Robinson, Curtis Mayfield, and the legendary songwriting and production trio of Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, and Eddie Holland Jr.
After being introduced to Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf by mutual friend Noelle Scaggs of the Rebirth, even his current boss was skeptical. “He showed me two songs and I didn’t understand what I was listening to,” Wolf recalls. “I asked him if they were old songs that he did re-edits of – I couldn’t believe they were new songs and that he played all the instruments.”
And after meeting in person, it was even harder for Wolf to believe that Hawthorne was also the lead vocalist. Few expect such heartfelt sentiment to come from a 29-year-old white kid from Ann Arbor, but he has caught the ear of his family at Stones Throw, as well as BBC Radio 1 host Gilles Peterson and producer/DJ Mark Ronson. Expectations are high for the admitted vinyl junkie who never planned on taking his crooning public. Hawthorne’s hanging-by-a-string falsetto and breakbeat production on his first recorded effort, the tender “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out,” are simultaneously Smokey and J Dilla – equal parts “The Tracks of My Tears” and “Fall in Love.” “It’s soul,” he explains, “But it’s new.”
The seminal 2-tone ska band, The English Beat (featuring Dave Wakeling) will play an INTIMATE show at Radio Radio on May 21st. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10AM EST. Be sure to get yours quick, we have a feeling these are gonna go fast.
Tickets for Delta Spirit at Radio Radio go on sale this Friday (4/2) at 10 AM EST via Brown Paper Tickets. Delta Spirit was one of our favorite bands from Lollapalooza 2009!
Woodhands returns to Indy TONIGHT for the 3rd MOKB Presents show! If you have been to their show then you already know what is about to happen. If you have not, you best get ready to get your freak on. Doors open at 8 pm. Cover is $8 at the door. Oreo Jones will be opening the show.
MOKB would like to welcome our new (Indiana distilled) friends at Indiana Vodka to the MOKB family of partners. You're first peek (or taste) will come on April 1st at the Mayer Hawthorne show! We're workin' up a very special recipe that will be unveiled at the show. We had a chance to do our first taste-test at the Trampled By Turtles show and we have to tell you... this is some tasty goodness. Ask your favorite bartender for an Indiana Vodka cocktail. We love supporting Indiana-based companies (like our friends at Upland Brewery) and you should too.
We hate to keep making you pick between shows, but for Indianapolis - its a great problem to have. Half of our team will be hosting a good ole fashioned "git down" with Minneapolis-based Trampled By Turtles. They have been selling out venues all over the country with their raucous, explosive bluegrass shows. If you dig the Avett Brothers and Bill Monroe, your gonna love this! Spoon Joint will open the show. Tickets are $10 at the door starting at 8 PM.
The other half of our crew will be posted up at Locals Only for Dodge's 25th B-Day rewind (Another FREE Butler Scion Show) featuring John Rambo & the Vietnam Wars and Light Pollution. Enjoy those tasty PBR's for only $1.Check the full feature and get a free Light Pollution download on MOKB.
Don't forget:
Tickets for Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zero's w/ Dawes go on sale in the morning (3/26) at 10 AM. Get them at Ticketmaster.com, The Vogue Box Office, Luna Music and Indy CD & Vinyl.
Monday Night (3/29) Toronto's Woodhands return to Indy for a show at Radio Radio. Indy Hip Hop MC Oreo Jones will open the show. Tix are $6 in advance or $8 at the door!
Thanks to Eric Stine over at The Lodge Design for this sick poster art for the Mayer Hawthorne show. Look for these hitting the streets in the next week. We are pleased to announce that Indy hip hop legends Mudkids, have been added to this show. Tickets are selling extremely fast for this one, so get them quick.
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Past Shows
Amazing Baby America Owns The Moon Amo Joy! Andy D The Antlers Action Jackson Austin Lucas Backyard Tire Fire Bad Veins Band of Skulls Bear Hands Ben Sollee Blind Pilot Bonnie Prince Billy The Booze Bowerbirds The Builders & the Butchers Burnt Ones Chandeliers Crocodiles Cursive Cymbals Eat Guitars Dawes Dead Confederate Deastro Disappears Drug Rug Drummer Dutchess & the Duke The Dynamites Earl Greyhound Early Day Miners Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros The English Beat Ezra Furman & the Harpoons Emily Wells The Entrance Band Fiery Furnaces Freelance Whales Friendly Fires Glossary The Grates Gringo Star Here We Go Magic Hey Champ Holy F**k The Hood Internet Illinois Jenny Owen Youngs John Rambo & Vietnam Wars Jonathan Richman Jookabox Jukebox the Ghost Laura Veirs The Lonely Forest The Love Language Lucero Man Man Margot & The Nuclear So and So's Mayor Hawthorne & The County Meat Puppets Megafaun MGMT Miniature Tigers Mount St. Helens Vietnam Band Mudkids Nathaniel Ratliff & the Wheel Obits OK Go One Eskimo Oreo Jones Peasant Peter Wolf Crier Pomegranates Port O' Brien The Postmarks Pravada Pterodactyl Roadside Graves Royal Bangs Rural Alberta Advantage Sea Wolf The Seedy Seeds Sharon Van Etten Slothpop Soulove Universe Spider Bags Split Lip Rayfield SSION Suckers Sybris The Smith Westerns The Soft Pack These United States Those Darlins Thunders Titus Andronicus Trampled By Turtles Two Cow Garage Ty Segall & the Moonhearts Vic Chestnutt The Walkmen Warpaint Wendy Darling We Were Promised Jetpacks White Lies Woodhands Woodstove Flapjacks Yourself in the Air
