The OG’s & WannaBe’s of Comedy & Music
One of Omaha’s most popular local shows returns to The Waiting Room with: “The OG’s & WannaBe’s of Comedy & Music!” on Sunday, Dec 21, with doors at 5pm and show at 6pm. The show features some of Omaha’s best comics and musicians along with some of the up-and-comers in the area. This unique show has sold out The Funny Bone and packed Bushwhackers and the German-American Club. The comedy side will feature BARRY BARGER, an Omaha native living in Los Angeles and working in the entertainment industry as an actor and comedian. Also, performing will be STEVEN NELSON (yes, the boxer) with Host JIM SHEIL. Other comics to be added, please check the Host’s social media for updates. The bands include NEON SAINTS, a newer alternative rock cover band with some original music. Next up is MCM MAXX, an Omaha indie folk group on the local scene. Also, on the bill is NEXT WEDNESDAY, a newer band playing a wide spectrum of rock covers. Rounding out the music will be THE MEMPHIS PROJECT, a group of younger musicians focused on the blues. They are the recent winner of the Nebraska Blues Challenge and will represent Nebraska this winter in Memphis at the International Blues Challenge.
The Album Party
-formerly Rock & Roll Suicide- The Album Party is a band out of Omaha NE focused on covering albums in their entirety.
The Mary Ellen Carter
Vertical Mattress & Friends
Featuring Mary Margaret Bausch, Keith Navratil, Brent Beller, Clarence Nichols, Tom Brantley, Tyler Owen, Mark Ehrhart, Vic Padios, Aaron Filipi, TJ Twit, Cy Harrison, and Henry Wiedrich
Remember Sports
Remember Sports have always sounded like a band in motion—chasing a feeling, chasing each other, sometimes running from themselves. Over the past decade, the Philadelphia-based band has built a cult following on the strength of bruising live shows, emotionally honest lyrics, and an ever-evolving sound that refuses to be pinned down. With their newest album, The Refrigerator, out February 13, 2026 via Get Better Records, the band captures the messy, cathartic energy of transformation: it’s a record born from uncertainty, grief, growth, and ultimately, love—for the music, for each other, and for the many past selves colliding into the present.
The Traynr Band
Yurei
Houndmouth
Houndmouth is an American alternative blues band from New Albany, Indiana led by Matt Myers (guitar, vocals). Houndmouth formed in the summer of 2011. After playing locally in Louisville and Indiana, they performed at the SXSW music festival in March 2012 to promote their homemade self-titled EP. Geoff Travis, the head of Rough Trade was in the audience and offered a contract shortly after. In 2012, the band was named “Band Of The Week” by The Guardian. In 2013 Houndmouth’s debut album, From the Hills Below the City, was released by Rough Trade. This led to performances on Letterman, Conan, World Cafe, and several major festivals (ACL, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Newport Folk Festival). SPIN and Esquire.com named Houndmouth a “must-see” band at Lollapalooza, and Garden & Gun said, “You’d be hard pressed to find a more effortless, well-crafted mix of roots and rock this year than the debut album from this Louisville quartet.” On their latest album Good For You, Houndmouth share a collection of songs set in places as far-flung as the Alamo and the Hudson River, each populated by a motley cast of characters: fairy-tale princesses and vampires, parking-lot lovers and wanna-be beauty queens. The result is a lovingly gathered catalogue of those wild and fleeting moments that stay lodged in our hearts forever, taking on a dreamlike resonance as years go by. In a departure from the shambolic spirit of past work like Little Neon Limelight (Houndmouth’s 2015 breakout, featuring the platinum-selling “Sedona”), Good For You bears a hi-fi minimalism that beautifully illuminates its finespun storytelling. “From working with Brad and Jon we learned to go for the simplest parts that best support the melody, and to let the frequencies take up more space in the songs,” says Myers. On the album-opening title track, Houndmouth bring that approach to a sweetly languid breakup song set against the surreal backdrop of the Kentucky Derby (“I wrote that before Covid, but at the time I was sort of emotionally going through a pandemic,” Myers points out). On “Miracle Mile,” Houndmouth pay homage to the many misfits they’ve met on the road, including a woman they’ve nicknamed after the Greek god of wine and ritual madness (“Sweet Dionysus/She never really liked us/Hangs on and stays too long/And then supplies us all with vices”). And on “Cool Jam,” Houndmouth eulogize a doomed romance, embedding their lyrics with so much broken wisdom (e.g., “Ain’t no heaven when you’re having a good time”). On its closing track “Las Vegas,” Good For You shifts into a far rowdier mood, offering up a freewheeling anthem that once again reveals Houndmouth’s ability to build a novel’s worth of tension in just a few lines (“You wore makeup for three days straight/Half a Xanax for the holidays/By the look on your face/You’re rolling eights the hard way”). In assembling the tracklist for Good For You, Houndmouth nearly withheld the song due to its outlier status, but ultimately found its joyfully unhinged energy well-suited to a world waking up from a year of grief and isolation. For Houndmouth, the making of Good For You allowed for a major leap forward in their songwriting and sound while recalling the pure abandon of the band’s early days. “I remember the first time I ever came to the Green House and saw what was happening here and I thought, ‘I’m never leaving this place,’” says Myers. “This album felt like being back in that time again, only now everything’s a little more dialed-back and cared-for. It was like a return to the way we fell in love with playing music.”
Heated Rivalry Night
THIS EVENT IS AGES 18+ Omaha! The viral party @club90s_la takes over The Admiral on 3/6 for the ultimate Heated Rivalry Night. Dance all night to HR edits, pop throwbacks, queer anthems, and nonstop high-energy hits. Photobooth, giveaways, and more.
Damones New Years Party!
