April Live Music Radness

I've already screwed the pooch on a few good shows so far this month (i.e., Henry Rollins @ Kent, Seabear @ the Grog, Shearwater @ Beachland, Electric 6/Hot Rails @ Grog, etc.) but there are still a bunch of good ones left in the month to celebrate, beginning with tomorrow's Japandroids/Avi Buffalo/Jaguar Love show @ the Grog. The month stays solid with shows by bands like Megafaun, The Dan Band (famous as the hilarious wedding band in Old School and (I think) Wedding Crashers), The Hold Steady, Apples in Stereo, and a month-ending Yeasayer show at the Grog.

As good as that sounds, May is stacking up to be even better, with a run of must-see shows at the Beachland in the middle of the month, and that doesn't even count can't miss gigs like Frightened Rabbit, Deer Tick, The Besnard Lakes, and the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

APRIL:
6 - Japandroids/Avi Buffalo/Jaguar Love @ Grog Shop
7 - Megafaun/Charlie Parr @ Beachland OR John the Savage @ Now That's Class
9 - The Dan Band @ House of Blues OR The Floor Walkers/The Modern Electric @ Beachland
10 - Lottery League show @ Beachland
11 - Drive-by Truckers/Langhorne Slim @ Beachland
13 - The Hold Steady @ Beachland
15 - Pissed Jeans (w/ This Moment in Black History) @ Grog Shop
16 - Blue Grass Barn Dance (w/ Heelsplitter, Hoots and Hellmouth, Hiram Rapids Stumblers) @ Beachland
17 - Dosh/White Hinterland @ Beachland AND Record Store Day gigs all day long at Music Saves & Blue Arrow Records including The Muttering Retreats, Tastycakes, and Cloud Nothings!
20 - El Ten Eleven @ Beachland
24 - Aloha/Pomegranates @ Grog Shop
26 - Horse Feathers/Cloud Nothings @ Beachland
27 - Apples in Stereo/Generationals/Laminated Cat @ Grog Shop
29 - Captured! By Robots/Beardo Bandini @ Grog OR Harlem @ Now That's Class
30 - Yeasayer (w/ Sleigh Bells) @ Grog Shop OR The Schwartz Bros @ Beachland

MAY:
1 - Backyard Tire Fire @ Beachland
4 - An Horse/Kaki King @ Beachland
5 - Frightened Rabbit @ Grog Shop
7 - Grant-Lee Phillips @ Beachland
8 - Deer Tick/The Magpies @ Beachland OR Murder by Death/Ha Ha Tonka @ Grog Shop
11 - Local Natives/Suckers @ Beachland (sponsored by Music Saves)
15 - Paleface/Todd Snider @ Beachland
16 - Reverend Horton Heat/Cracker @ Beachland
19 - Jessica Lea Mayfield @ Beachland
21 - Mumford & Sons/The Middle East @ Beachland
22 - Prisoners/Rainy Day Saints @ Beachland (North Collinwood Cat Project benefit)
26 - Besnard Lakes @ Beachland
31 - Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Beachland


JUNE:
2 - Morningbell @ Now That's Class
6 - Pains of Being Pure at Heart/Surfer Blood @ Beachland
8 - Stars @ Beachland
9 - Caribou/Toro y Moi @ Grog Shop
10 - She & Him @ House of Blues
17 - Beach House @ Beachland
21 - Tortoise @ Grog Shop
23 - Melvins @ Grog Shop

JULY:
15 - Wolf Parade @ Beachland