Johnny Brenda's Venue Calendar

*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM – Doors 9 PM – Show MIKAELA DAVIS Every universe begins with a singular point, a quiet corner where instinct speaks loudest, where existential imagination can stretch its limbs. For acclaimed harpist and songwriter Mikaela Davis’ new album, Graceland Way (due TK via Kill Rock Stars), that singularity was a hillside home in Chevy Chase Canyon, a spot nestled in Los Angeles County where time slowed, the world fell away, and Davis could create from a sense of warmth and deep attentiveness. The “canyon country” epic born of that care ties a neo-western future back to the lineage of Laurel Canyon, the mythos of Elvis’s Graceland, and Paul Simon’s restless reinvention—a place where Davis can explore the fragile balance of light and dark, grace and struggle, rose and thorn, as well as the mystical power found at their nexus. NIC PANKEN Born in Brooklyn and living in Kingston, NY, Nic Panken has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, performing on NPR’s Tiny Desk, at Newport Folk Festival and Austin City Limits as lead singer in NYC band Spirit Family Reunion. His debut solo record Near Divine or Merely Rhyme came out in April 2026, co-produced with multi-instrumentalist Jared Samuel (Kevin Morby), and featuring guest musicians Mat Davidson (Twain) and Austin Vaughn (Cass McCombs) among others.

*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM – Doors 8 PM – Show BABY’S FIRST RODEO SARAH GROSS MERCY BELL

*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM – Doors 8 PM – Show COLA C.O.L.A. is sort of a self-titled album. It’s an acronym for Cost of Living Adjustment, a fitting conceptual framework for the band’s third record. Why? Because C.O.L.A. considers, among other things, socialism vs. hell. It considers: rolling the dice of life. The eerie and sweet pangs that nostalgia can provoke. This is not new territory for band members Tim Darcy, Evan Cartwright, and Ben Stidworthy. It is, in Cartwright’s words “a deepening of what we’ve been doing.” C.O.L.A. is an intricate, beautiful, and sometimes strange record. It is the band’s most refined offering. A perfection of carefully honed aesthetic impulses. Cola, as a band, says Darcy is defined by its “tasteful minimalism.” A deep appreciation for making music that is romantic, subtle, and deceptively intense. C.O.L.A., however, is the band’s most maximalist work to date. This is a little tongue and cheek (“We were so worried,” says Cartwright, “About all the songs on this record being too different”). In practice, this maximalism means that a song like “Hedgesitting,” has both live drums and a sample drum loop. “Hedgesitting,” is a gorgeous, lush song. It’s like a deconstructed, chopped & screwed b-side from the Cure’s Disintegration. It’s also a little indebted to Sarah Records. “When you were young,” Darcy sings at the song’s start, “you came to make it.” C.O.L.A., like everything written by the band, is inherently collaborative. The band writes everything separately, then comes together and works in the studio. Look again to “Hedgesetting,” to see this in action, which started out with chords that Darcy had sent, then the band expanded it together, with Stidworthy remixing it right before heading to the studio. This division of labor works intuitively. It is a part of the band’s DNA to say, take an arrangement Stidworthy wrote, and then have Darcy and Cartwright build upon it. Take “Favoured Over the Ride,” as an example. “I wanted to create a dusky, melancholy palette for Tim to write lyrics for,” says Stidworthy. The song starts with a lonely, dreamy guitar riff. Then there’s a crisp line of bass and it all comes into focus: “What’s on the ceiling that’s caught your gaze?” sings Darcy. It’s a moment of clarity on a record that is interested abstraction. C.O.L.A. is full of these clarifying moments: where a whole swirl of feelings become so clear that it almost hurts a little bit. PARKiNG

*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM – Doors 8 PM – Show DOWNTOWN BOYS Downtown Boys have pushed relentlessly forward as an artistic and political project since their founding. Singer Victoria Marie and guitarist/singer Joey La Neve DeFrancesco first met at union meetings while working together at a hotel in Providence, RI, writing many of the band’s early songs about their organizing efforts and exploitative workplace conditions. The quintet is completed by saxophonist-synthesist Joe DeGeorge, bassist Mary Jane Regalado, and drummer Joey Doubek. Through years of creating and touring, Downtown Boys continued to grow as artists, musicians, and organizers. Now, Downtown Boys have arrived with Public Luxury on Sub Pop Records, an enthralling new record that keeps politics front and center while summoning the band’s most urgent and powerful sound to date. POP MUSIC FEVER DREAM Pop Music Fever Dream is a post-punk/no wave band from New York City. Their sound is wildly invigorating and deeply sobering, harkening back to the 1970s NYC no wave movement and American post-punk stylings of the 1980s. Their live show is equally as chaotic.

*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM – Doors 8 PM – Show FAT, EVIL CHILDREN Fat, Evil Children is a Southern California rock band. The name comes from a series of 1994 drawings done by Jack Logan, a musician / artist the band bonded over at their inception. The band consists of Nic Skrabak (vocals and guitar), Truman Sinclair (guitar), Sebastian Peters (bass), and Diego Fernandez (drums). Their music is sensitive, honest and is all produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by the band. Their second EP, Can’t Stop released on November 28th, 2025. NEW NOT SHAMEFUL

*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM – Doors 8 PM – Show LOCAL HONEYMOON Local Honeymoon is an indie rock band from South Philadelphia. They play catchy, punk-tinged songs for fans of the Wonder Years and the Menzingers while dressing like dads on vacation. Although their songs are influenced by punk and emo, their live shows embrace a tongue-in-cheek Jimmy Buffett aesthetic, where band and audience alike dress up in Hawaiian shirts to sing along to songs about heartbreak and the miserable state of the world. HIT LIKE A GIRL Queer heartache is a unique experience, and one that Hit Like a Girl knows well. Drawing influence from pop, emo, indie and even hardcore, the band channels yearning, love and loss into intimate yet catchy music that may resonate with fans of Tigers Jaw, Future Teens, or Indigo De Souza. Hit Like a Girl is the songwriting project of Nicolle Maroulis (they/them), joined by a rotating live lineup that now features Mol White (they/them) on synth and backing vocals, Mike Davis (he/they) on drums, Nat Lopatine (they/them) on bass, and rotating members on guitar. Hit Like a Girl strives to represent trans and queer artists, and inspire them to follow their creative pursuits. In 2016 Maroulis founded No More Dysphoria, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization created with the goal of helping transgender individuals pay for major aspects of their transition. Maroulis is a masterful and prolific songwriter. In the eight years since Hit Like a Girl’s inception in 2017, Maroulis has released 4 full length records (You Make Sense (2017), What Makes Love Last (2018), Heart Racer (2021)) and one EP (Becoming (2022)). The band has performed alongside the likes of Mom Jeans, Kississippi, Origami Angel, Pool Kids, and Prince Daddy and the Hyena, and has toured with acts including John-Allison Weiss and The Iron Roses. ELEPHANT JAKE Elephant Jake is a band based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Originally based in New York, the band consists of Colin Harrison, Sal Fratto, Andrew Demarest and Carson Hyde. The band formed in late 2014, and the next year saw the release of their debut EP. Since then, the band has kept a busy show schedule and have released 3 full length albums, an EP, a Split EP, and their two newest singles, “Give Flight” and “Sustain.” ‘98 releases 5/1/26.

*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM – Doors 9 PM – Show CORY HANSON The biography of one Cory Thomas Hanson should be an easy tale to tell, right? Kid’s been in the business about 15-16 years now… that’s not much, even if you’re a crazy-busy All-American psycho like our Cory. Easy to run down the deets on that. And he’s been noted by no less than guitar hero John Frusciante as an engrossing, inspired guitarist. Okay, pigeonholed as guitarist. Plus, he’s been in a band steadily for the last twelve years! So…a careerist! Easy peasy. Alas, it’s complicated beyond such simple formulations — for this is a tale of two Corys — at the very least. Let’s get the roots uncovered quick: Cory’s a California Boy, come up in the 90s and aughts, an art school vet (CalArts, yo), and a musician since back in his youth. It runs in the family. He debuted back in the late aughts under the solo alias White Horses In Technicolor Everywhere. After that, he played a bit with Chad and the Meatbodies and Together Pangea before founding Wand in 2013. He’s written and lead-sung with them, rocking up six LPs with them to date. But here — on the last one, he played keyboards in all the tracks! So… not just a guitarist/singer, then. He does a bit of producing on the side too. And visual art. And of course, the reason you’re reading this right now is not because of no Wand, but rather, Cory Hanson! In addition to his steady-rolling discography with Wand, he’s been putting out solo LPs too since 2016. And those aren’t really like the Wand records at all. They have totally non-rock things like string orchestration and electronics as well as rock things like heavy guitar jams and they may be the best things he’s ever done. It’s not really up to us to say, though. Following 2021’s sophomore Cory album Pale Horse Rider and 2023’s “Cory-III” release, actually called Western Cum, he and Wand got one in — the insane Vertigo — and now Cory’s ready to release his latest solo effort, I Love People. Cory has toured the country with himself as well as Wand, and made videos and jokes and stirred the pot on social media, which may be some form of modern art (again, not for us to say). In fact, who’s to say that he won’t be writing poetry or comic books in the years to come? It’s hard to see all that he does (false equivalence: the forest) behind his dazzling musical efforts (lame comparison: the trees) but not as hard as it is to see the future. Otherwise, a lot more of us would be billionaires or America’s next top Models, etc. Unfortunately these things take real doing. Fortunately for the (at least) two Corys, the doing of it all just comes natural. As for us, we look forward to seeing and hearing etc what they come up with next. mICROgOBLET

*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM – Doors 8 PM – Show J.D. WEBB & THE GOOD GOD DAMN “Good God Damn…now that’s a f#%ing band!”* principal songwriter and frontman J.D. Webb exclaimed upon hearing his songs come alive with a full ensemble. Emerging from the Delaware and Philadelphia roots scene after Webb’s time fronting the bluegrass-Americana band Apache Trails and the release of his 2023 solo EP *Royal St. Ann Burgundy*, JD Webb and The Good God Damn have quickly established themselves with a sound that is both fiery and dynamic. Their music blends gritty storytelling with soulful Americana. Together, the band crafts a darkly charged force where fiddle, rhythm, keys, and guitars all collide into a visceral wall of sound. Their latest singles, “Nightshade” and “The Champ,” highlight this evolution: While the blues-infused “Nightshade” rides a swaggering bass line leading into Tom Waits–inspired dives and wet shadowy streets, “The Champ” charges in with restless and defiant energy, a Ronnie Hawkins – style roar of survival and resilience.” SUG DANIELS & THE CHOSEN FAMILY BAND Sug Daniels is a Delaware born, Philadelphia based, ukulele player, singer-songwriter, story teller, and producer and coach who is using the tools around her to capture the emotions of an era. Daniels’ work is as colorful, vulnerable, and charismatic as her personality. She thoughtfully combines elements of folk, rock, and soul alternatives to create personal and tender music interlaced with messages of truth and positive change. Her single release with Don Giovanni Records “When I’m Gone” garnished well deserved attention from local and regional radio and venues and opened new paths. After years of touring with The Black Opry, playing official showcases in SXSW 2022, and supporting acts such as The Indigo Girls, Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, Molly Tuttle, Adeem The Artist, Buffalo Nichols, Daniels released her debut studio album “I Believe In You” on September 23, 2025.