Nightspots
Elbow Room
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This Ypsilanti tavern features live music and/or DJs Mon.-Thurs., 9 p.m. a.m., and Fri. & Sat., 10 p.m. a.m. Also, occasional Sun., 8 p.m.-midnight. No cover ($5 suggested donation), dancing.
July 1: Child Bite.
Ferndale postpunk art-rock band. Opening acts are Deleted Scenes, a highly regarded Talking Heads-style pop-rock quartet from NYC and D.C., and The Ferdy Mayne, an Ypsilanti folk-rock trio.
July 2: "Mofo Karaoke."
With "the standard karaoke playlist crap plus 2,500+ obscure and awesome songs."
July 3: Misty Lyn & the Big Beautiful
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by singer-songwriter Lyn. Opening acts are Scarlet Oaks, a
Detroit quartet that plays soulful country-rock, and Black Lodge,
a Detroit band that plays melodramatic post-punk pop.
July 4:
TBA (possibly closed).
July 6: Laith Al-Saadi.
Soulful acoustic rock and blues covers and originals by this local singer-guitarist.
July 7: "Tiki Tuesday."
The Elbow Room Tiki Tuesday band plays surf music and various exotica. Also, performance by the belly dancer Aurora and magician Scarboni.
July 9: "Mofo Karaoke."
With "the standard karaoke playlist crap plus 2,500+ obscure and awesome songs."
July 10: Dirt Road Logic
Local 70s-style rock 'n' roll band fronted by singer-guitarist Eric Kelly. Opening acts are The Afternoon Round, a local Americana rock band, and Chef Chris & the Rump Shakers, a blues quartet led by vocalist and blues harpist Chef Chris Sirvinskis.
July 11: The Disregarded
Self-styled "dirt-hop" quartet from Oakville who blend American roots music with urban rap and gospel-tinged choruses. Opening acts are Devil Elvis, an Ypsilanti rockabilly singer-songwriter, and Las Drogas, an Ypsilanti band that plays loud, raucous, melodic, bluesy surf-guitar rockabilly.
July 13: Laith Al-Saadi.
Soulful acoustic rock and blues covers and originals by this local singer-guitarist.
July 14: Chris Bathgate.
Local singer-songwriter who writes heartfelt, poetic story songs in a variety of moods.
July 15: Wild Years.
Local electronic folk-rock band.
July 16: "Mofo Karaoke."
With "the standard karaoke playlist crap plus 2,500+ obscure and awesome songs."
July 17: Downtown Brown.
Detroit postpunk metal-funk trio. Opening acts are Cranberry Lincoln, an Ypsilanti acoustic folk-rock duo, and Nathan K, a local indie folk-pop band.
July 18:
TBA.
July 20: Laith Al-Saadi.
Soulful acoustic rock and blues covers and originals by this local singer-guitarist.
July 20: Colossus
Raleigh (NC) metal band.
July 21: "The Cycle"
DJs Blakguts and Joe Vargas spin funk, soul, and indie dance records.
July 22: The Goddamn Gallows
Lansing psychobilly quartet. Opening acts are Los Duggans, an L.A. psychobilly quartet, and Trace the Veins, an Ypsilanti punk-rock quartet.
July 23: "Mofo Karaoke."
With "the standard karaoke playlist crap plus 2,500+ obscure and awesome songs."
July 24:
TBA.
July 25: Gepetto Files
Idiosyncratic local marionette troupe that specializes in off-the-wall, postpunk explorations of American cultural archetypes that are simultaneously weird, hilarious, provocative, sophomoric, and haunting. Opening act is Jehovah's Witness Protection Program, a local acoustic pop-folk band.
July 27: Laith Al-Saadi.
Soulful acoustic rock and blues covers and originals by this local singer-guitarist.
July 28: "Elbow Deep"
Gay and lesbian gala with Detroit DJ Humanfly.
July 29: Neptune
Detroit experimental rock band. Opening acts are Orange Robot, a Detroit avant-rock band whose music suggests elements of Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, and Radiohead, and Elle & the Fonts, the stage name of Elle Sawa, a Ferndale emo singer-songwriter who bills herself as "a horrible guitar player [who] likes to think she makes up for it through her exceptionally amusing stage presence and vocal performances."
July 30: "Mofo Karaoke."
With "the standard karaoke playlist crap plus 2,500+ obscure and awesome songs."
July 31: Matt Jones
Local pop-folk singer-songwriter. Opening act is This Is Deer Country, a Houghton pop-folk acoustic quintet, led by singer-songwriter Kate Pote, that slowcoustic.com calls "music you drift along to and feel intoxicated by."
