Dayshift
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes – Femmeslandia Package Includes: • One Premium Balcony -OR- One General Admission Ticket • Early entry into the venue • Limited edition tour poster; autographed by Violent Femmes • Specially designed Violent Femmes beanie • Violent Femmes cinch bag • Exclusive merchandise item • Commemorative tour laminate and lanyard • Priority merchandise shopping • On-site VF host Violent Femmes formed in 1981 as an acoustic punk band playing on the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Their main influences at that time were Gene Vincent and the Blue Capsand The Velvet Underground. Their goal was to rock harder than any other acoustic act on the planet. After being rejected for an audition by a local nightclub, the Femmes set up outside a Pretenders gig and began to play. Pretenders’ lead singer Chrissie Hynde asked them to open that night’s show, which gave the young band a publicity boost and caught theattention of Richard Hell, who invited the Femmes to open for him in NYC. A rave review in the New York Times eventually led to a record deal, which in turn spawned worldwide touring. Violent Femmes eponymous debut album became the first and only album in Billboard history to enter the charts with a platinum certification-eight years after its release. Over the ensuing three decades, the Femmes became a mainstay of festivals, clubs, and theaters in more than 20 countries worldwide. MTV’s “Unplugged” show was inspired by the Femmes, although they never actually appeared on it. Their raw sound and honest lyrical perspective has been cited as an influence by artists as diverse as Pink, Keith Urban, The Smiths, The Pixies, John Cusack, Mark Morris, and Wim Wenders. More than 40years into their careers, Violent Femmes continue to attract young audiences on tour, create lasting music, and inspire people of all ages.
Failure
Magnified VIP Includes: -One General Admission Ticket -Early entry and watch soundcheck -Hang with the band -Professional photo and autograph -Laminate and lanyard -Exclusive lapel Pin -Exclusive Location Lost tote bag -10% off on merch, and first access. For a band so closely associated with weight, density, and mass, Failure have spent much of their career writing about what happens when those things fall away. Bodies drift. Memories fragment. Signals distort. Gravity fails. But even after 30 years, the hugely influential trio of Ken Andrews, Greg Edwards, and Kelli Scott are still following the sound wherever it leads, even when it’s uncomfortable, unfamiliar, or disruptive. Location Lost, the band’s seventh album and their fourth since improbably reuniting in 2014 after a 17-year-hiatus, doesn’t arrive as a victory lap or a nostalgia exercise. Instead, it sounds like a band actively negotiating where — and who — they are now. “It’s very different,” Edwards says plainly of the nine-song follow-up to 2021’s Wild Type Droid. “There are sounds and parts that really don’t have any precedence within the Failure world.” That sense of divergence is inseparable from how Location Lost came together. Following Wild Type Droid, Failure completed a long-gestating documentary (Every Time You Lose Your Mind) and concert film (We Are Hallucinations) that chronicled their history, drug-marred breakup, and improbable second life playing for a newfound younger and more diverse audience. Almost immediately after finishing the film, Andrews suffered a serious back injury that required surgery. The operation was technically successful; the recovery was not. “It kind of messed up my brain chemistry somehow,” he says. “It wasn’t just physical recovery.” By late 2024, Failure were finally able to begin recording in earnest. As with Wild Type Droid, Andrews, Edwards, and Scott rented a studio and spent weeks improvising together as a trio, recording hours of unfiltered material without overthinking where it might lead. When Andrews took the sessions back to his L.A. home studio and began shaping them into songs, something unexpected happened. “I had a burst of creativity—especially lyrically. Since we rebooted, Greg’s been the more dominant lyrical force. That completely flipped on this record,” but not before Edwards suggested the song “Location Lost” also serve as the album’s title. “It resonated with me immediately, because at the beginning of making the record, I was lost,” Andrews says. “I lost my tether of love for the band. By the time we finished it, I felt totally reconnected.” Throughout, Location Lost delivers dose after dose of Andrews, Edwards and Scott’s utterly unique creative and instrumental interplay, from the warning bell-like guitar chimes on propulsive opener “Crash Test Delayed,” to the elastic, bass-driven groove of “Halo and Grain” and the grinding, methodical wall of sound on “Solid State,” which wouldn’t have sounded out of place on 1996’s all-time-classic Fantastic Planet. Three decades after Fantastic Planet, Failure is not attempting to relive the past. They’re still improvising, still arguing, still trusting one another enough to risk uncertainty. And while Location Lost doesn’t pretend to offer easy answers, it documents a band in motion, untethered and searching — and, against all odds, still very much alive.
Brokencyde
Emarosa presents – High Horse Heaven Tour
Tim Kasher
Hey, you. Sponges of Experience was written over the 4-day weekend of Memorial Day, 2025. It was a challenge to myself: when I was a wee teenager, I heard Elvis Costello mention on some talk show (I’ve long forgotten which) that he could write an album over a weekend. It was an offhand remark, a throwaway line as he was promoting something or other. As I had already become a prolific writer myself, I was curious if I could pull off something of the sort.Fast forward to 35-odd years later, I decided to give it a shot. I offered myself FOUR days rather than just the two, and perhaps that’s a cheat, but since it was Memorial Day weekend I decided to allow it. As it turned out, I absolutely needed those extra two days.The other rules were simple: I just needed to write a complete composition and completed lyrics for enough songs to fill an album. At least… eight songs, though I would’ve been disappointed with just eight. I kept pushing myself to write as much as possible, as I wanted to have enough songs to be able to weed out one or two of the crappier contributions. All of the additional arrangements you hear were written and recorded after the fact, casually over the remaining year, no rush nor rules on those parameters.I have a nice little community online, a Patreon group called, “Tim Kasher’s home phone”, that I shared the weekend challenge with. They were incredibly supportive, helping keep me to task as I didn’t want to let them (nor I) down. As soon as I finished a song I went live online to perform it. ‘Receipts’, you might say.I started strong: four songs the first day and four songs the second day. Excellent, after two days I had already hit that minimum quota of eight songs! But as mentioned, I wanted more; more songs to be able to pick and choose from.The third day was rough. Unsurprisingly, I hit a wall and had to take the bulk of the day off as I simply could not muster any inspiration. I managed to eke out one more song that day. But the fourth and final day bore more fruit, including The Collapse and Don’t Hang Up, a couple of favorites. What a ride.Spurred on by many of the kind folk in the Patreon group, I decided not to cut any songs from the album and let it be released as a complete artifact of the weekend. I can’t claim to love all these songs, but I do love some of them, and certainly, all of them are endearing to me.This funny little trifle of a weekend project wound up meaning a lot to me. I love music and songwriting in a way I don’t think I’ll ever quite be able to explain, though I’m sure I’ll continue to try, and will continue to express this adoration for the rest of my days. I feel so incredibly thankful for being a songwriter, and I encourage all of you to become songwriters as well. They don’t gotta be good songs, it’s enough that they’re simply yours. With sincerity, Tim.
The Mezcal Brothers ft. Dave Gonzalez
The Mezcal Brothers – Final Farewell Show After 28 years of rock ’n’ roll, The Mezcal Brothers are preparing to say their final goodbye. The band will be releasing their final studio album, Bing Bang Boom, marking the closing chapter of a remarkable journey that helped define roots rock and rockabilly in Nebraska and beyond. This release, and the shows that follow, will stand as a celebration of the music, the memories, and the brotherhood forged over nearly three decades. Joining the Mezcals on stage for this historic Farewell Show will be guitar legend Dave Gonzalez of The Paladins. This final performance will also serve as a heartfelt tribute honoring their fallen brother, Benjie Kushner, whose presence, passion, and legacy remain forever woven into the soul of the band. One last album. One final night.
Mrs. Nezbitt
Orialus
Orialus – Orialus is an American heavy metal band based out of Omaha, NE formed in late 2020. This show will be in celebration of their album release for “The World Ends With You” on Sulairo Records! https://www.instagram.com/orialusofficial/ Jiblets – metalcore band from Lincoln, NE https://www.instagram.com/jibletmaster Petty Beige – post-hardcore/ math rock / Midwest emo from Omaha https://www.instagram.com/petty.beige.band/
AM/FM
Rewind AM/FM pressed play for the #Totally80s Dance Party in May 2013. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, the guys in AM/FM were excited to bring audiences all of the fun 80s music they grew up listening to and playing. In 2022, the band welcomed Jadyn Cree Olesen, who took over as Lead Singer. Jadyn’s versatile voice and style opened up the playlist options for AMFM. Pause In 2024, Jadyn auditioned for Season 27 of NBCs “The Voice.” Michael Buble saw and heard what we already knew and took Jadyn under his wing for what would become an incredible run on the show. Week in and week out, Jadyn wowed the judges and audiences with her powerful, spot on performances. After finishing 5th Overall in the competition, Jadyn is back performing with AM/FM, working on her first album of original material, and the band sounds better than ever! Fast Forward AMFM has performed at major area music festivals, including HEAR G.I., Capital City Ribfest, Celebrate Lincoln and FrogFest as well as Lincoln and Omaha clubs like The Royal Grove and The Waiting Room…and warmed up the stage for the likes of Gin Blossoms, David Cook, Blue Oyster Cult and Hairball.