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MAY 2012

1st Tuesday DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES
The Cryptics (NH Punk)
Decayed Future (Return Show!)
Ahab's Revenge

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Doors @ 9pm
2nd Wednesday 40oz SIDEKICKS
Seasonal
Vague Ocuplanes

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Doors @ 9pm
3rd Thursday HOLLYWOOD
THE HALL MONITORS
The Tough Shits
Pretty Monsters

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Doors @ 9pm
4th Friday BLINDING EYE DOG
The Silverhounds
Wrath Of Typhon
Bukkake Party Tonight

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Doors @ 9pm
5th Saturday PIPE SMOKING RABBITS
96 Ghosts
Trashkanistan
Invitational
One Watt Sun

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Doors @ 8pm
7th Monday Libyan Suite
Sean Micheal Wilson
Pallia
James Lane & The Shaky Leg Experience

Doors @ 9pm
8th Tuesday THEE LEXINGTON ARROWS
KILL, BABY... KILL!
Young Jaguars

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Doors @ 9pm
9th Wednesday AMONG FRIENDS
Bueno Crusher
Flowers By The Doors
Montpelier
When Skies Are Grey

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Doors @ 8pm
10th Thursday FOGHOUND
Orange Horse
Balor's Eye
Goodbye New Plans

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Doors @ 9pm
11th Friday REACTION!
featuring:
THE STENTS, DJ MAD SQUIRREL, DJ AMANDA OTTO
Baltimore garage great THE STENTS grace us with their presence this month alongside DJs MAD SQUIRREL (of DC's Party Lights) and your hostess cupcake AMANDA OTTO! Bring your dancing shoes and shake a tail feather to an all-vinyl set of sixties rarities from around the globe!
2 for 1 rail and domestic from 9 to 11 pm!

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Doors @ 9pm
12th Saturday MORE GORE #12
1 Year Anniversary!
featuring: Brain Damage and Gremlins
intermission by: In The Shit
Hey guys, this is the 1 year of doing this movie night and also the last one. Come party it out with us! There will be a vegan cake made by Elena Fox from Ace Of Cakes. Also Silvester Koorevaar, the vocal gnome behind Fondlecorpse has created this awesome poster for it. Come out and get slaughtered. First up we have: Brain Damage

Then grinding from Boston, MA IN THE SHIT

Then to finish up the evening we'll be showing everyone's favorite critters Gremlins

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Doors @ 8pm
13th Sunday WISDOM IN CHAINS
ENSIGN
Pleasant Living
Supreme Commander
Lashing Out
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Doors @ 7pm
14th Monday STANDUP OPEN MIC NIGHT

The Sidebar Open Mic is a comedy show open to comedic performers of all experience levels. The bi-weekly show features everything from nationally touring professionals working on new material to novice performers attempting comedy for the first time. If you are interested in performing, you can email Mike (finazzo.comedy@gmail.com) or sign up at the Sidebar starting at 8pm on show days. The show starts around 8:30 and there is no cover charge for comedians or audience members.

Doors @ 8pm
AGES 18+
15th Tuesday BOXELDERS
Pocket Vinyl
The Black Marks
Sea Couch
The Peasants

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Doors @ 8pm
16th Wednesday NIPPON MOTION
NIPPON MOTION is a brand new monthly DJ night featuring JAPANESE alt / indie / post-punk / rock and special video screenings. Hosted by Rob Perry, one of Baltimore's leading Japanophiles. PLUS: cold sake specials, Asahi specials and Japanese bar snacks! If you have even the slightest interest in Japanese music, or if you are already a fan, come out to this inaugural launch to hear some great music while you drink the night away.

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Doors @ 9pm
17th Thursday The Bad Scripts
Californiableeding
Walk The Plank
The Dead Women

Doors @ 9pm
18th Friday JOOST UP PROMO presents FIFTH OF BASS an ELECTRO/DUBSTEP BANGER

Joost Up Promo FIFTH OF BASS dubstep|electro|laser|party
featuring:GRAPE JOOSE and DEVIATION

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Doors @ 9pm
19th Saturday 3rd ANNUAL RAMONES TRIBUTE NIGHT!
THE PINHEADS (performing the entire "Rocket To Russia" Album)
The Quarantines
Rocksteady To Russia
The Firecrackers
The Nipsy Russell Experience

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Doors @ 8pm
20th Sunday FREE PIZZA!
Heaviness Of The Load
Radical Discharge
Most Heinous (NOLA)
Spoilage

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Doors @ 9pm
21st Monday DEAD WHALE RAMBLERS
Signs Of Iris
Crushed Purple
Turtle Tongue

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Doors @ 9pm
22nd Tuesday BET THE DEVIL
LIFESTYLE (Japan)
Brick
Dead Gods

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Doors @ 9pm
23rd Wednesday Xeukatre
Horde Of The Eclipse
Palkoski
Wolfnuke
Weed Warlock

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Doors @ 8pm
24th Thursday 4 DAY DJ WEEKEND!
We will be spinning Punk and Metal all weekend long! Stop in! NO COVER and TONS of drink specials all weekend long.

Doors @ 8pm
25th Friday 4 DAY DJ WEEKEND!
We will be spinning Punk and Metal all weekend long! Stop in! NO COVER and TONS of drink specials all weekend long.

...then at 11pm PLAGEDOGS from Philly will be doing a set!

Doors @ 8pm
26th Saturday 4 DAY DJ WEEKEND!
We will be spinning Punk and Metal all weekend long! Stop in! NO COVER and TONS of drink specials all weekend long.

...then at 11pm SKELTARSIS
DRESDEN
will be doing sets!

Doors @ 4pm
27th Monday 4 DAY DJ WEEKEND!
We will be spinning Punk and Metal all weekend long! Stop in! NO COVER and TONS of drink specials all weekend long.

Doors @ 4pm
28th Monday **SPECIAL** STANDUP OPEN MIC NIGHT!

The Sidebar Open Mic is a comedy show open to comedic performers of all experience levels. The bi-weekly show features everything from nationally touring professionals working on new material to novice performers attempting comedy for the first time. If you are interested in performing, you can email Mike (finazzo.comedy@gmail.com) or sign up at the Sidebar starting at 8pm on show days. The show starts around 8:30 and there is no cover charge for comedians or audience members.

Doors @ 8pm
AGES 18+
29th Tuesday UNSACRED
Distances
Instigate
American Womanhood
The Lives To Come
Discord

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Doors @ 8pm
30th Wednesday DOZER
Go Cozy
Teething Veils
The Sea Life

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Doors @ 9pm

 

JUNE 2012

1st Friday STOUT
Lifeless
Hardside
Outlast

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Doors @ 9pm
2nd Saturday Flock Baltimore Presents:

Expansive Eye
Blindtillnow
Chance You Take
Us Dismantlers

Doors @ 9pm
4th Monday US & THEM
Bamboo Forest
Denizens Of Washington
NiteOwl

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Doors @ 9pm
5th Tuesday OLD INDIAN
Sea Flower (NJ)
Manta Ray
Sun Buffalo

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Doors @ 9pm
6th Thursday THE RUMBLE
Team Rocket
Steel Chin Jimmy
Maitre D'

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Doors @ 9pm
7th Thursday Kabob o Taj

Doors @ 9pm
8th Friday REACTION!
Featuring: The Mirrors (VA), DJ Mojo Gogo (DC), DJ Amanda Otto

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Doors @ 9pm
9th Saturday DISETTE
Continent
Patience In Suffering
Illuminations
Bridges

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Doors @ 7pm
11th Monday STANDUP OPEN MIC NIGHT

The Sidebar Open Mic is a comedy show open to comedic performers of all experience levels. The bi-weekly show features everything from nationally touring professionals working on new material to novice performers attempting comedy for the first time. If you are interested in performing, you can email Mike (finazzo.comedy@gmail.com) or sign up at the Sidebar starting at 8pm on show days. The show starts around 8:30 and there is no cover charge for comedians or audience members.

Doors @ 8pm
AGES 18+
12th Tuesday FAILURE BY DESIGN
Annedel
Kalevra
Red Yeti

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Doors @ 9pm
13th Wednesday NIPPON MOTION
NIPPON MOTION is a brand new monthly DJ night featuring JAPANESE alt / indie / post-punk / rock and special video screenings. Hosted by Rob Perry, one of Baltimore's leading Japanophiles. PLUS: cold sake specials, Asahi specials and Japanese bar snacks! If you have even the slightest interest in Japanese music, or if you are already a fan, come out to this inaugural launch to hear some great music while you drink the night away.

Doors @ 9pm
14th Thursday THE MAY SEASON
Visit
Mr. Alligator
Shatter

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Doors @ 8pm
15th Friday Joost Up Promo presents: OMG! #LASTNIGHT
dubstep|electro|laser|party

Doors @ 8pm
16th Saturday It's a 2003 reunion, we've played in too many bands!

TRIAC (x-index, flowers in the attic)
HULL (Brooklyn, NY-crushing metal on THE END recs)
DRUGS OF FAITH (x-enemy soil)
MUSKET HAWK (x-karma payment plan, a warm gun)
OTHER GODS (x-pulling teeth, liars academy)

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Doors @ 8pm
18th Monday LUSHFARM
Sound & Shape
New Media
Max Zero

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Doors @ 9pm
19th Tuesday Wall Of Sleep
North
My America

Doors @ 9pm
20th Wednesday SEAN WILSON
Monteclair
Libyan Suite
Corpusle

Doors @ 9pm
21st Thursday NEXT TO NOTHING
Arrows Over Athens
Something Else
Chasing Morgan
Class Picture

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22nd Friday MONTPELIER
Fire Spoken By The Buffalo
Ghosts Of Mississippi
Au Revoir

Doors @ 9pm
23rd Saturday MUSICBAND
Swaggerin' Growlers
The Snallygasters

Doors @ 9pm
25th Monday STANDUP OPEN MIC NIGHT

The Sidebar Open Mic is a comedy show open to comedic performers of all experience levels. The bi-weekly show features everything from nationally touring professionals working on new material to novice performers attempting comedy for the first time. If you are interested in performing, you can email Mike (finazzo.comedy@gmail.com) or sign up at the Sidebar starting at 8pm on show days. The show starts around 8:30 and there is no cover charge for comedians or audience members.

Doors @ 8pm
AGES 18+
26th Tuesday STONECREEP
Burning Shadows
Tread The Tides
Fortress

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27th Wednesday Statue Of Liberty (CO)
Jon Garcia

Doors @ 9pm
28th Thursday TRASHKANISTAN
BENEDICT ARNOLD
88MPH
96 Ghosts
Todd Higgins & The Sporty Ace Sluggers

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Doors @ 8pm
29th Friday PIPE SMOKING RABBITS
Walk The Plank
Mostly Dead
Rodent Lord
The Johnnys

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Doors @ 8pm
30th Saturday KRISTI'S BIRTHDAY SHOW!
Thee Lexington Arrows
The Evokatones
When Embers Ignite

Doors @ 9pm

 

JULY 2012

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2nd Monday THE POLYGONS
The Disconnects
Crazy & The Brains
Let It Go

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Doors @ 9pm
3rd Tuesday Faith In Jane

Doors @ 9pm
5th Thursday NITE OWL
Wise Eyes
Dozer
The Brothers McGinnis

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Doors @ 9pm
6th Friday Joost Up Promo presents: OMG! #LASTNIGHT
dubstep|electro|laser|party

Doors @ 8pm
9th Monday STANDUP OPEN MIC NIGHT

The Sidebar Open Mic is a comedy show open to comedic performers of all experience levels. The bi-weekly show features everything from nationally touring professionals working on new material to novice performers attempting comedy for the first time. If you are interested in performing, you can email Mike (finazzo.comedy@gmail.com) or sign up at the Sidebar starting at 8pm on show days. The show starts around 8:30 and there is no cover charge for comedians or audience members.

Doors @ 8pm
AGES 18+
10th Tuesday SWEAT LIFE
Level Vibes
3 Second Lunchbox

Doors @ 9pm
11th Wednesday PINATA
Gloria Adios
The Pessimist Hangs The Optimist
Mr. Alligator

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Doors @ 9pm
12th Thursday BRACEFACE
The Firecrackers
The Sheckies
Trashkanistan
The Quarantines

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Doors @ 8pm
13th Friday REACTION!
More info to come!

Doors @ 9pm
14th Saturday CLOCKBREAKER
PostFreedom
Devil's Radio
AV Anxiety

Doors @ 9pm
16th Monday RF30 (NH)
UNION BOYS (MA)

Doors @ 9pm
17th Tuesday The Enders
Carrie & The Basement Cats
The Clamors

Doors @ 9pm
18th Wednesday NIPPON MOTION
NIPPON MOTION is a brand new monthly DJ night featuring JAPANESE alt / indie / post-punk / rock and special video screenings. Hosted by Rob Perry, one of Baltimore's leading Japanophiles. PLUS: cold sake specials, Asahi specials and Japanese bar snacks! If you have even the slightest interest in Japanese music, or if you are already a fan, come out to this inaugural launch to hear some great music while you drink the night away.

Doors @ 9pm
19th Thursday TIGER BITTER
Moon Furies
Lazerbitch

Doors @ 9pm
20th Friday SONIC CREEPS
Stillborn
Darrow Chemical Company
Dead N' Wasted
Without Warning

Doors @ 8pm
21st Saturday "Callie's Cause" Benefit Show
In 2009, when Callie Swintosky was just 4 yrs old, she suffered 3 debilitating strokes due to viral encephalitis. These strokes left Callie blind, and unable to speak. She is such a fighter, and continues to make progress everyday with the help of daily therapy, and the love and support of her parents, Eric and Heather. Callie is in need of a costly stem cell transplant not offered yet in the United States & a brain therapy program. Both of these treatments will aid in healing Callie's stroke areas & allow her to see & speak again! Callie's Cause does multiple fundraisers and is accepting donations to help with the cost of these programs not only for Callie but for other children & their families in similar Join us at the Sidebar Tavern in Baltimore, Md on July 21, 2012 as we try to raise money for this family- Bands so far include:

The Firecrackers
Final Transmission
Stillborn
The Prozacs (Springfield, MA)
Trashkanistan
Dead End Lane
Younger Years
The Snallygasters
Honkey Kong

Doors @ 4pm
23rd Monday STANDUP OPEN MIC NIGHT

The Sidebar Open Mic is a comedy show open to comedic performers of all experience levels. The bi-weekly show features everything from nationally touring professionals working on new material to novice performers attempting comedy for the first time. If you are interested in performing, you can email Mike (finazzo.comedy@gmail.com) or sign up at the Sidebar starting at 8pm on show days. The show starts around 8:30 and there is no cover charge for comedians or audience members.

Doors @ 8pm
AGES 18+
24th Tuesday See Rule Five
Soup Of The Day

Doors @ 9pm
25th Wednesday JUMPCUTS
Wardolphin
Radmartigan

Doors @ 9pm
28th Saturday YOUNGER YEARS
The Stereo State
Banquets
Pleasant Living
96 Ghosts

Doors @ 8pm
31st Tuesday CAIN
SACRIFICIAL BLOOD

Doors @ 9pm

 

AUGUST 2012

1st Wednesday RAW NERVES
STRIPMINES

Doors @ 9pm
2nd Thursday Electric Fireworks
Cafe LaMotta

Doors @ 9pm
6th Monday STANDUP OPEN MIC NIGHT

The Sidebar Open Mic is a comedy show open to comedic performers of all experience levels. The bi-weekly show features everything from nationally touring professionals working on new material to novice performers attempting comedy for the first time. If you are interested in performing, you can email Mike (finazzo.comedy@gmail.com) or sign up at the Sidebar starting at 8pm on show days. The show starts around 8:30 and there is no cover charge for comedians or audience members.

Doors @ 8pm
AGES 18+
9th Thursday NATIVES
Technicians
NiteOwl
Enemy At The Gate

Doors @ 9pm
10th Friday REACTION!
lineup and more info to come!

Doors @ 9pm
11th Saturday MARK WHISKEY & THE SOURS

Doors @ 9pm
15th Wednesday NIPPON MOTION
NIPPON MOTION is a brand new monthly DJ night featuring JAPANESE alt / indie / post-punk / rock and special video screenings. Hosted by Rob Perry, one of Baltimore's leading Japanophiles. PLUS: cold sake specials, Asahi specials and Japanese bar snacks! If you have even the slightest interest in Japanese music, or if you are already a fan, come out to this inaugural launch to hear some great music while you drink the night away.

Doors @ 9pm
18th Saturday Empire Of Rust
Dead Aces (NY)
The Snallygasters

Doors @ 9pm
20th Monday STANDUP OPEN MIC NIGHT

The Sidebar Open Mic is a comedy show open to comedic performers of all experience levels. The bi-weekly show features everything from nationally touring professionals working on new material to novice performers attempting comedy for the first time. If you are interested in performing, you can email Mike (finazzo.comedy@gmail.com) or sign up at the Sidebar starting at 8pm on show days. The show starts around 8:30 and there is no cover charge for comedians or audience members.

Doors @ 8pm
AGES 18+
24th Friday ASSHOLE FEST DAY ONE

Doors @ 9pm
27th Monday Decayed Future
Some Kind Of Nightmare (CA)

Doors @ 9pm