Club d'Elf featuring Amy Bellamy, Lyle Brewer and Mister Rourke Late Show
2025-08-22 22:00 - 23:30 (America/New_York) | Lizard Lounge, 1667 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Event is 21+
$30/$35 GA
Doors 9:30
Club d’Elf returns to the Lizard Lounge August for two shows for a complete midsummer night’s dream…The line up for this
show features Amy Bellamy (keys), Lyle Brewer (guitar), Mister Rourke (turntables), Mike Rivard (bass & sintir), Dean Johnston (drums).
Club d’Elf has been helping audiences lose track of time for twenty six years with its mesmerizing synthesis of Moroccan traditional music and electronic, dubbed-out funk. Circling about bassist/composer Mike Rivard, each performance features a different line-up, drawn from a constellation of some of the most creative improvisers from the jazz,
DJ, rock & world music scenes of Boston, NYC and beyond. Named Jazz Act Of The Year in the 2023 Boston Music Awards, the band’s music defies easy categorization, and draws from hip hop, electronica, avant garde, prog-rock and dub as well as jazz. Through the influence of Brahim Fribgane, the band absorbed Gnawa music from Morocco. This
element is now an essential part of the Club d’Elf sound, featuring Rivard’s commanding playing of the sintir, a three-stringed bass lute used by the Gnawa in their trance-healing ceremonies. Trance forms the central core of the Club d’Elf aesthetic, weaving together the band’s various influences.
https://clubdelf.com/

Sinnet/JJ Slater/Savoir Faire
2025-08-23 20:00 - 23:30
Sinnet, JJ Slater and Savoir Faire live at the Lizard Lounge August 23rd!

$15 adv/$20 door

Artisanal, domesticated, indie-rock-soul, lovingly crafted by Aaron Spransy & pals in Island Town, MA. Sinnet celebrates a love of songwriters like Paul Simon and Elliott Smith and combines it with the rhythm and swagger of bands like Spoon and Booker T & The MGs. Sinnet also pulls from the cupboard bits of Motown, surf, pop, psychedelia and spookiness.
The band has collaborated with members of Lady Lupine, Guster, Karate, The Promise Ring, Pansy Division, Rebuilder and more. Recently the band contributed a track to Starstruck: A Tribute To The Kinks, a compilation featuring tracks by Wheatus, The Fatal Flaw, Plus Ones and more.

http://www.sinnetsongs.com/
Usually when folks describe JJ Slater’s music, words relate back to nature, the outdoors, the warm sun and the cool breeze. His UMASS Amherst psych-rock band Humble Digs was a mainstay at Stockbridge School of Agriculture events, and ten years later tours are often routed with ulterior, National Park-related motives.
Based in New England, he has toured much of the US, playing festivals, basements, and club gigs, at times opening for artists like Kat Wright, NRBQ, Johnny A, and David Wax Museum. In 2022, he completed a residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, where he wrote his new record “The Silver Key”. It was recorded with a Mass Cultural Council grant in 2023, released at the end of 2024, and you’ll find him touring and playing the full record in 2025. He’ll also be touring with his Americana-Blues road-dog project Signature Dish, co-fronting the band with partner Lexi Weege and lending his songs to a dynamic, soul-journey set.
https://www.jjslatermusic.com/

With a voice straight out of the jazz age, Savoir Faire brings the modern existential crisis into a realm of retro-noir. Born to an American mother and an Iranian father, Savoir Faire was absorbing the influences of everything from classic 60s rock to Persian pop at an early age. It was during her pre-teen years that she was inspired by the 90s wave of female songwriters to pick up the guitar. Eventually, she studied jazz guitar in college, where she would discover the duets of Joe Pass and Ella Fitzgerald. The artistry of both musicians would greatly influence Savoir Faire’s approach to both guitar and voice. She would spend years performing as a lounge singer and jazz guitarist before adding the last few ingredients that would form the aesthetic of Savoir Faire: lush and syrupy vocals, biting lyricism, and searing guitar parts that float between the genres of jazz, rock, and chamber pop. The result is a Lynchian rumination on the present in the debut album Hopeless Nostalgic, combining wistful nostalgia and modern rage to answer the question “What if a torch singer had a Riot Grrl heart?”
Savoir Faire

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-Meghan LaFleur
2025-08-24 19:00 - 22:30
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam August 24th with featured poet Meghan LaFleur!

$10
Meghan is an emerging writer from New Hampshire with a deep passion for helping others. Since 2012, she has worked in the education field, committed to creating supportive spaces for learning and growth. Her love for poetry began in high school, and after stepping away from it for a while, a close friend reintroduced her to the power and energy of slam poetry—rekindling her creative fire.Meghan is proud to represent the 2025–2026 Mill City Speaks Slam Team. Through her writing, she explores themes of healing, identity, and resilience, often informed by her work as a passionate mental health advocate. Outside of poetry, she finds joy in dancing, caring for her plants, and spending time with the people she loves. Her life and art are rooted in creativity, self-expression, and a commitment to community well-being. The best way to keep up with Meghan’s work and journey is through Instagram: @fleur_ishmeghan.
https://www.lizardloungepoetryjam.com/

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2025-08-25 - 2025-08-26, 2025-08-26 - 2025-08-27, 2025-09-01 - 2025-09-02, 2025-09-02 - 2025-09-03, 2025-09-08 - 2025-09-09, 2025-09-09 - 2025-09-10, 2025-09-15 - 2025-09-16, 2025-09-16 - 2025-09-17 and 2 more dates

Tequila Sirens, Daughter of the Vine, Headband
2025-08-28 20:00 - 23:30
Tequila Sirens, Daughter of the Vine and Headband live at the Lizard Lounge August 28th at 8 oclock!

$15 adv/$18 door
Doors 7
Tequila Sirens formed in Somerville, Massachusetts when Shaun Curran (keys, vocals) and former Soft Pyramids frontman Dwight Hutchenson (guitar, vocals) began collaborating remotely during the Covid lockdown. What started as a creative outlet during a difficult period eventually grew into a full band with the addition of Whit Love (bass) and Matt Masuzzo (drums).
The band’s earliest releases—the “Redesigner” EP in 2020 and “Fast Clouds” in 2021, followed by the single “Shame” in 2022—showcased their evolving sound. Since 2022, with their lineup finally solidified, Tequila Sirens began writing and recording what would become their album “Imposters.”
Drawing from a wide range of musical influences, Tequila Sirens creates a sound built around organ, guitars, and electronic percussion. Their music balances memorable melodies with sonic textures that invite repeated listening, with a direct and honest approach to songcraft.
“Imposters” reflects both their position as outsiders in the Boston music scene and their experiences with imposter syndrome. Lyrically, the band tackles anxiety, grief, family relationships, and the absurdity of everyday life with genuine emotion and occasional dark humor.
With Curran and Hutchenson sharing vocal duties over Love’s bass and Masuzzo’s drums, Tequila Sirens creates music that prioritizes feeling and atmosphere, crafted by four musicians who are more interested in making something real than something perfect.
Tequila Sirens

Daughter of the Vine is a Psych-pop-avant-garage band from Boston. The band consists of Margaret Garrett, formerly of Mr. Airplane Man, on guitar and vocals, Gregg Porter, of The Concerns, on guitar and vocals, Chris Lohring on bass, and Kurt Davis, formerly of Bullet Lavolta, Kustomized and The Konks, on drums.
The music sometimes glimmers, sometimes drones, is often melodic, but always atmospheric. The goal is a sort of communal transcendence, an escape from the here-and-now hum drum of our daily existence…Daughter of the Vine is taking off and you can come along.
Their full length l.p. Mystic Valley PKWY, ( named after a road they travel to practice every week ) came out in 2024. New material is in the pipeline, stay tuned!
Hypnotic and groovy, calling to our higher angels, Daughter of the Vine will lead you by the silver cord, onward, ever onward…

Daughter of the Vine

headband – buzzard rockgrandmasters of verse and chorus,authors of the 3 sweetest words ever spoke, “I told you so” come see us while we still have hair.
headband

Melo Green/Sunburned Sharks
2025-08-29 20:00 - 23:30
Melo Green and Sunburned Shards live at the Lizard Lounge August 29th

$18/$20 door
Doors 7
New England’s own Melo Green is a musical chameleon whose debut album Laminar Flow has garnered attention for its fluid mix of psychedelic soul and introspective lyricism. Drawing inspiration from eclectic acts like Moses Sumney and Shuggy Otis, Melo crafts a sound that resonates with themes of mindfulness, love, and ease. His connection to his birthdate, detailed in the book Colorstrology, imbues his music with a grounded, meditative energy that invites listeners to find grace in life’s movement.https://www.melogreen.com/

The Blue Ribbons/Jen Kearney
2025-08-30 21:00 - 23:30
The Blue Ribbons return to the Lizard Lounge August 30th with Jen Kearney!

$15/$20
Doors 8

“The Blue Ribbons’ latest album, 2024’s “Forever, But Not For Long,” has plenty of pop hooks. Or rather, it had plenty of them before the band took sledgehammers and scalpels to most of the pretty bits.
“It took a while to get the bones of some of the tunes down just so we could break them,” bandleader James Rohr told Herald with a laugh.
Local champs the Blue Ribbons are a pop band in the same way that the Beatles or Steely Dan or Television are pop bands in that they like pop but “aren’t too precious about the songs,” Rohr said.
Jed Gottleib – Boston Herald

The Blue Ribbons

Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Jen Kearney has spent some time seasoning her particular style of original music. Her sound is truly an amalgamation of musical styles including Soul, R&B, Funk, Rock, and Latin. Kearney’s music and attention to lyrics and has met critical acclaim nationally and internationally.
Kearney tours both as a solo act and with a full band. She spent 2018-2020 living in London touring the UK/ Europe with her own act and with the legendary Snowboy & the Latin Section. She has shared the stage with the likes of Maceo Parker, Los Lobos, Daryl Hall, Mavis Staples, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, The Derek Trucks Band and more.

https://jenkearney.com/home

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-Ashley Wonder
2025-08-31 19:00 - 22:30
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam August 31st Ashley Wonder!

$10
Ashley Wonder has been writing for over ten years. She performs with dynamic passion to give hope to her audiences.She started out performing in black churches in Worcester.She became a part of the Slam Community in 2014. Repping Worcester, her hometown, in Oakland, 2015, Decatur, GA, 2016.Ashley Wonder has had the honor and privilege to be a part of the “Still I Rise” Toni Morrison tribute Festival, the annual Langston Hughes Reading in Providence, RI, and participated in the “Wheatley 250” Reading in honor of Phillis Wheatley in Worcester, MA. She has also participated in many rallies throughout the years in support of Black Lives Matter, in education, and Women’s Rights.She won the International Award for Best Spoken Word Artist, London, England, 2023, and Best Saxophonist, 2024, with her website “Miraculous Wonder.” She was nominated for Best Spoken Word Artist of 2023 for the Boston Music Awards!She has had the opportunity to perform at the National Education Support Professional Conference (a part of the Massachusetts Teacher Association) in 2021, which had an audience of 2,000 people!She has participated in the discussion “Black Creative Voices in Worcester 2021” and performed at the 2019 “Women of Consequence” event at City Hall in Worcester.She has performed in Troy, New York, at Poetic Vibe, throughout Massachusetts, Boston (Hard Rock Cafe), Rhode Island, and at numerous colleges and universities, including Holy Cross and Wheelock, among others.She enjoys teaching poetry workshops to youth of all ages, showing them how fun and interactive Spoken Word can be.She also believes in the power of tea and naps.https://www.lizardloungepoetryjam.com/

The Duppy Conquerors
2025-09-03 20:00 - 23:00
The Duppy Conquerors bring their celebration of the music of Bob Marley to the Lizard Lounge Sept 3rd!

EVENT IS 21+
$12/$15 DOOR
The quintessential Bob Marley tribute band – the Duppy Conquerors – is a rich collection of high-caliber musicians playing in tribute to the music of Bob Marley. Nominated for a Boston Music Award, this 10-piece ensemble of veteran musicians embodies a soulful authenticity that honors the artist and his timeless collection. With nearly 80% of Marley’s repertoire under their belts, the Duppy Conquerors are equipped to provide hours of entertainment and positive vibrations.

Featuring:
Errol Strength
Jonas Kahn
Tariq Nicholsan
Jake Pardee
Mark Ferranti
Kit Holliday
Sarah Mendelsohn
Jeff Robinson
Dave Szebeda
Clayton De Walt

https://duppyconquerors.band/
https://www.instagram.com/duppy.conquerors/

Four Piece Suit/The Eisenhower Brothers
2025-09-04 20:00 - 23:00
Four Piece Suit return to the Lizard Lounge with The Eisenhower Brothers Sept 4th!

$10/$15 door
Doors 7
Four Piece Suit is “a highball of sea-foam-soaked guitar and squalling tenor sax, shaken—not stirred—with surf tangos, Battista-era mambos, beach blanket boppers, spy music, crime jazz, and movie themes.” The predominantly instrumental group brings humor, romance and a pulsing rhythm to the category-defying range musical styles they reinvent. Heard on soundtracks for Sex and the City and Dexter, Four Piece Suit puts on a sizzling live show.
The sexy, sophisticated, yet tongue-in-cheek music of FOUR PIECE SUIT is frequently featured on the highly acclaimed HBO series Sex and the City, Telemundo, NBC’s Ed, Dexter on CBS, and cable shows such as Keeping Up with the Kardashians, America’s Top Model, Run’s House, and many others. Film work includes Our Lips are Sealed (Olsen Twins), In the Weeds (Molly Ringwald), Stag (HBO films), Psycho Beach Party, Along Came Polly (Jennifer Aniston), and others.

Four Piece Suit

From The early days , when Milt was producing and playing “coloring” guitar on Dwight&Nicole’s first album, the whole crew living in the house over Rear Window Studio, Dwight and Milt noticed they had a natural “weave” when the two guitars played together. That’s a word Keith Richard uses to describe what happens with him and Ron Wood. It’s a sympatico conversation between guitars, finishing each other’s thoughts, creating a whole, just a wee bit larger than the sum of its’ parts. Turns out this is kinda rare to find, and when you do find another player who hears it the same way you do, then you’re onto something. The instruments can be the same, or different, f’rinstance a guitarist and a drummer. It’s a feel thing. Hard to describe, but you know it when you feel it. So for years, these two, now living in different states, still get the weave going whenever they can. We can’t say exactly what’s gonna happen at an Eisenhower Bros. session, uncharted territory, but it’ll probably feel pretty good. Why Eisenhower? Well, Milt’s long run with Four Piece Suit digs deep into influences from the 1950s-60s, somebody called it Eisenhower music. That era has become even rosier, as it represents a decency in public life that has become increasingly elusive. Plus one of the guys is named Dwight, and guess what! …”Ike” had a brother named Milton. And by an even more unlikely auspicious synchronicity, Milton Eisenhower, during his tenure as president of Johns Hopkins University, was a mentor to a fledgling Freshman, playing bass in an Acid Jazz band (before the term had been coined) for strippers on Baltimore’s notorious “Block”… Milt Reder. So full circle. Could be good…ya never know.

Abbie Barrett Band, Adi Sun, & The Quahogs
2025-09-05 20:00 - 23:30
Abbie Barrett returns to the Lizard Lounge with Adi Sun and the Quahogs Sept 5th at 8pm!

Event is 21+
$18/22 door
Doors 7
Fueled by a pop-rock sensibility, Abbie Barrett’s songwriting is unique and unpredictable—but always something you can sing along to. Her music has been featured in Magnet, American Songwriter, the Boston Herald, Vanyaland, and on CMT’s Cool Album Cuts. In 2015 she received a Boston Music Award for Best Singer-Songwriter. Her band plays regularly in the New England area and has opened for notable acts including the B-52s, Juliana Hatfield, The Motels, Will Dailey, and Rhett Miller.
https://abbiebarrett.com/

Adi Sun: Singer-songwriter and Boston Music Awards nominee Adi Sun was the creative force behind alt-indie shoegaze band Phenomenal Sun, whose appearance on the Boston music scene in 2017 brought five singles and multiple live performances including a semi-finals appearance at the 2019 Rock & Roll Rumble. In summer 2019 Adi Sun left Phenomenal Sun to pursue a solo career, which kicked-off the release of her debut single “Bella Sun Lever” in July 2020. Adi Sun blends elements of alt-rock, indie, and psych-pop for a unique cocktail of emotion and intrigue.
Adi Sun

The Quahogs are DelMonico on vocals and guitar, Steve Donovan on lead guitar, Mike Murdock on the drums and Joe Princepe on bass. “It’s difficult to define a band like The Quahogs by a genre,” the band writes today. (We’re) equal parts tender and heavy rock.”
“Providence rock act The Quahogs walk a fine line between a variety of styles. Some of their songs showcase the sensibility and intimacy often associated with folk. Some have a rough and rowdy garage rock vibe. Still others have a country twang.”-Rob Duguay, Warwick Beacon
The Quahogs

MC Kabir with Krush Factory
2025-09-06 21:00 - 23:30
MC Kabir and Krush Factory continue their monthly residency Sept 6th

$15/$20
Doors 8Emcee, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Kabir Sen is a veteran musician, hip hop artist, producer, and music teacher who has released songs with a wide range of established artists (Blackalicious, J-Live, Esoteric, Mr. Lif, Akrobatik, Lyrics Born, EDO G, Ryan Montbleau and many others).
Originally from London, he has been a staples of Boston’s music scene, and, with the steady releases of new songs each month his momentum is currently stronger than ever. Listen to his new songs here:
KABIR SEN – MUSICIAN/PRODUCER | Instagram, YouTube, Spotify | Linktree
Kabir will be joined by members of the Krush Factory – a talented group of musicians from the Boston area featuring members of Morphine, Vapors of Morphine, The Slip, Pressure Cooker, Pop into the Chemist and Duppy Conquerors. This night will be a continuation of a long-running monthly show on the first Saturday of every month! http://www.kabirsen.com

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-M'Shairi The God
2025-09-07 19:00 - 22:30
The Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam with featured poet M’Shairi The God Sept 7th!

$10
M’shairi The God is a powerhouse poet, author, and media host whose voice and presence captivate both stage and screen. As a featured host on GBH Amplifies and co-host of Show and Tell Boston, M’shairi uses the art of storytelling to spark truth, healing, and vulnerability. Known for her raw honesty, lyrical dexterity, and spiritual depth, she fuses poetry with purpose – uplifting voices often left in the margins. A published author and intuitive performer, M’shairi The God brings soul, power, and undeniable grace to every mic she touches.

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam

Suitcase Junket Live at the Lizard Lounge WSG Ciarra Fragale
2025-09-12 20:00 - 22:30
Suitcase Junket live at the Lizard Lounge with special guest Ciarra Fragale September 12th!

$25 adv/$30 door
Doors 7
For two intimate and wide-ranging nights at the Lizard Lounge, The Suitcase Junket will be trying out new songs in anticipation of going into the recording studio later this fall. Love to have you there to be part of the process. There’ll be plenty of songs from the six previous albums as well, including writing from Lorenz’ last album, The End is New from Renew Records/BMG. Two different nights. Come for one or both.The Suitcase Junket developed in the tension between the grand and the solitary. Grand in imagery, sound, and staging. Solitary in thrift and self-reliance. NPR calls Matt Lorenz a “master of musical imagination.” What instruments he requires, Lorenz builds from scratch and salvage. What parts five players would perform, he performs alone. The spectacle of his one-man set bears comparison to legends of showmanship, brilliance, madness, and invention. While audiences are captivated by that solitary form and the show itself, Lorenz, who homesteads in Western Massachusetts, is most serious about the songs. Over the course of six full-length releases, the latest from Renew Records at BMG, he has written a world into existence, crowded with characters, narratives, voices, imagery, sounds as wide and varied as mountain throat singers and roadhouse juke boxes, plus newsreels of the planet’s destruction and salvage. More songs are coming.
“A living, breathing, throat-singing, road-tested, avant-garde, one-man-band who is in a state of perpetual motion… gutsy, fuzzed-out, groove-laden psych rock.” – National Public Radio
“Now this is the shit I’m talking about, Jack. The Suitcase Junket is a lo-fi, low-tuned, low-down blast of end-times folk blues. It’s crude; it’s magnificent. With a stage set-up that resembles a junkyard foley stage or Fred Sanford’s living room, The Suitcase Junket — one man band leader Matt Lorenz — incants and intones like a cross between Hound Dog Taylor and a Tuvan throat singer who has swallowed a bird. Take the singer-songwriter idiom, give it a low grade fever and a guitar and this is what you get. Captivating, mesmerizing, and gone … real gone.” – Rochester City Newspaper
“Jaw-dropping… It’s the biggest sound I’ve ever heard come from a solo performer. Matt is definitely his own thing and it is something. The live experience is pretty, darn unforgettable.” — Beale Street Caravan
“Bluesy guitar riffs, tenacious melodies and a singing voice both weathered and nimble. You don’t need to witness his physics-defying performance to be captivated; the music stands on its own… astonishing.” – WBUR Boston
Suitcase Junket

Ranging from heartbreak pop to cinematic indie rock, Ciarra Fragale’s music has been described as “atmospheric and aspirational, precisely the sort of emotive sensibility we are collectively yearning for.” Known for her soaring vocals and live looping arrangements, the Hudson Valley-native and Western MA-based musician often draws comparisons to artists like Kate Bush, Beach Fossils, and The Japanese House. More info about her new album Get What You Want at ciarrafragale.com.

Suitcase Junket Live at the Lizard Lounge WSG Cloudbelly
2025-09-13 20:00 - 22:30
Suitcase Junket live at the Lizard Lounge Sept 13th with Cloudbelly!

$25 adv/$30 door
Doors 7
For two intimate and wide-ranging nights at the Lizard Lounge, The Suitcase Junket will be trying out new songs in anticipation of going into the recording studio later this fall. Love to have you there to be part of the process. There’ll be plenty of songs from the six previous albums as well, including writing from Lorenz’ last album, The End is New from Renew Records/BMG. Two different nights. Come for one or both.The Suitcase Junket developed in the tension between the grand and the solitary. Grand in imagery, sound, and staging. Solitary in thrift and self-reliance. NPR calls Matt Lorenz a “master of musical imagination.” What instruments he requires, Lorenz builds from scratch and salvage. What parts five players would perform, he performs alone. The spectacle of his one-man set bears comparison to legends of showmanship, brilliance, madness, and invention. While audiences are captivated by that solitary form and the show itself, Lorenz, who homesteads in Western Massachusetts, is most serious about the songs. Over the course of six full-length releases, the latest from Renew Records at BMG, he has written a world into existence, crowded with characters, narratives, voices, imagery, sounds as wide and varied as mountain throat singers and roadhouse juke boxes, plus newsreels of the planet’s destruction and salvage. More songs are coming.
“A living, breathing, throat-singing, road-tested, avant-garde, one-man-band who is in a state of perpetual motion… gutsy, fuzzed-out, groove-laden psych rock.” – National Public Radio
“Now this is the shit I’m talking about, Jack. The Suitcase Junket is a lo-fi, low-tuned, low-down blast of end-times folk blues. It’s crude; it’s magnificent. With a stage set-up that resembles a junkyard foley stage or Fred Sanford’s living room, The Suitcase Junket — one man band leader Matt Lorenz — incants and intones like a cross between Hound Dog Taylor and a Tuvan throat singer who has swallowed a bird. Take the singer-songwriter idiom, give it a low grade fever and a guitar and this is what you get. Captivating, mesmerizing, and gone … real gone.” – Rochester City Newspaper
“Jaw-dropping… It’s the biggest sound I’ve ever heard come from a solo performer. Matt is definitely his own thing and it is something. The live experience is pretty, darn unforgettable.” — Beale Street Caravan
“Bluesy guitar riffs, tenacious melodies and a singing voice both weathered and nimble. You don’t need to witness his physics-defying performance to be captivated; the music stands on its own… astonishing.” – WBUR Boston
Suitcase Junket

At once intimate and cinematic, Western MA based indie folk band Cloudbelly has been recognized by the Kerrville New Folk Competition, New Song at Citizen Vinyl, WBUR tiny Desk Roundup, Signature Sounds Record Label, and their most recent release I know I know I know was hailed by the Boston Globe as one of the best records of 2024. Cloudbelly is singer songwriter Corey Laitman, electric guitarist Sam Perry, producer, singer songwriter and bassist Ciarra Fragale, and polymath producer and drummer, Nate Monschein.
Cloudbelly

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-Abioseh Cole
2025-09-14 19:00 - 22:30
The Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam with featured poet Abioseh Cole Sept 14th!

$10
Abioseh Cole is a six-time member of the Connecticut National Slam Team, Verbal Slap, as well as a hip hop MC, producer, and sound engineer. He is the author of the children’s book I Am Not Food! (2019) and, most recently, A Deposition Before God and Heaven: The Hidden Book of Judea — a 50,000-word deconstruction of imperial religions and the racial, cultural, and species hierarchies they uphold. A lifelong activist for both animal and human rights and a 24-year vegan, Abioseh’s work spans social, spiritual, and cultural themes, challenging audiences to rethink justice and liberation across all boundaries.
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam

Which Side?: A Protest Music Teach Out
2025-09-17 19:00 - 22:30
A concert and discussion series celebrating and exploring protest music continues September 17th!

Pay What You Want
Doors 7, Music 8

Which Side?: A Protest Music Teach-Out is a concert and discussion series celebrating and exploring protest music. The events will use James Sullivan’s book, Which Side Are You On?: 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs, as a starting point for the presentation of songs that ask listeners to consider how music gives voice to resistance, advocacy, and change. While the series will anchor itself to the book, collaborators will also contribute 21st-century music, both originals and covers.
Scheduled to perform on September 17 are Haasan Barclay, David Champagne (Treat Her Right), Ezra Furman, Bob Pernice, Veronica Robles, and Ryan Walsh (Hallelujah the Hills)
They will be backed by the house band, The Paid Protesters, led by Ed Valauskas, Paul Buckley, Magen Tracy, and Mike Oram. Each performer will do a song inspired by Sullivan’s book, and a song of their own.
The 90-minute show will also feature commentary by Sullivan, and a short panel discussion at the end.
The show is scheduled to begin promptly at 8 p.m.
Admission is pay-what-you-want, with all proceeds going to the musicians and other direct expenses. Tickets can be reserved, but a reservation does not guarantee entry unless you are in the room by 7:30 p.m. If there are people waiting for entry, reservations will be released starting at that time.
If there are any profits after workers are paid, they will be donated to an appropriate non-profit fighting for intellectual freedom in our nation’s courts.
This series is produced by Joyce Linehan, Jon Lupfer, James Sullivan, and Ed Valauskas, with the help of many generous friends. Artwork by Joanne Kaliontzis.

High Tea/Chris Walton/Prateek
2025-09-18 20:00 - 23:30
High Tea, Chris Walton and Prateek live at the Lizard Lounge Sept 18th at 8pm!

$15 adv/$20 door
Doors 7

High Tea, the folk-punk “story-yelling” duo hailing from Massachusetts, is what happens when a yarn-spinning blues guitarist meets a harmony-obsessed punk. Isabella DeHerdt and Isaac Eliot have come together to fill spaces with homegrown tales and booming vocals. Their songs are ripe with existential angst, weaving narratives of growing up, going wild, and always coming back to the ones you love.

Their previous releases, Scuba Diving, Old Cowboy, and The Wick And The Flame were featured on playlists, radio shows, and publications like The Boston Globe, The Greenfield Recorder (among others). The title track of Old Cowboy led them to be chosen as one of WBUR’s top 4 Massachusetts Tiny Desk entries of 2022. They toured The Wick And The Flame on the West Coast, in New England, and throughout other US States and received write ups from Atwood’s Magazine, The Boston Herald, and more. They were nominated for the New England Music Awards Best Americana Act in 2023, and were selected to perform in the Grassy Hill Emerging Artist Showcase at Falcon Ridge Folk Festival in 2025.

Despite its name, there’s nothing little about High Tea’s upcoming album, A Small Notion. Listeners are led through an inspiringly personal journey, from the disoriented yearning of loss, to an appreciation of the brutal realities of rough living, to tender reflections on past mistakes, to an ultimate acceptance of the all-too-human need for community and care. As ever, the Massachusetts duo is heavily committed to marrying intensely beautiful lyrical storytelling with congruent and energetically contagious instrumental arrangements. Without a doubt, A Small Notion is some of High Tea’s most honest, eye-opening, and cathartic work yet.
https://www.highteaband.com/

Chris is a singer-songwriter who holds down lead guitar/vocals for his 5-piece band, but can easily strip it down and perform solo. Chris can go from getting you into your feels with heartfelt lyrics, to making you groove with funky, soulful beats. His jazz-kissed folk music is inspired by the likes of Cory Wong, early John Mayer, and Tom Misch.www.chriswaltonmusic.com

With his heartbreakingly powerful voice and incisive lyrics, Prateek (pruh – TEEK) has been described as “Not just any guy with a guitar…” by The Boston Globe. When you hear his music, you’ll believe it too. Evolving away from the spare, Dylan-esque sound of his first EP, Prateek’s latest album “‘Til June” adds gritty electric guitars, silvery backing vocals, and a driving rhythm section, all in service of his tightly written, evocative songcraft. Prateek has been a Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Finalist and has been nominated for Singer-Songwriter of the Year at both the New England Music Awards and the Boston Music Awards. His music has seen rotation all over the radio including Sirius XM, 98.9 WERS, and 92.5 The River. Listen to “‘Til June” now wherever music is sold or streamed.
Prateek

Ghosts of Jupiter
2025-09-19 20:00 - 23:30
Led by Nate Wilson of Percy Hill fame, Ghosts of Jupiter will delight with a blend of 60s heavy psychedelia.

$18/22 Door
Doors 7

Ghosts of Jupiter is a psychedelic rock band based out of the Boston area, previously known as the Nate Wilson Group. Led by former Percy Hill keyboardist Nate Wilson, the band features a loud, riff-heavy sound inspired by classic rock groups such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Cream.
Nate Wilson: Keyboards, Lead Vocals, Flute
Pierre Aleksi: Guitar
Thomas Lada: Bass, Keyboards
Barrett Goeman: Drums
Ghosts of Jupiter

Pressure Cooker at the Lizard Lounge!
2025-09-20 21:00 - 23:30
Pressure Cooker bring a mix of reggae and ska to the Lizard stage Sept 20th!

$15 adv/$20 door

Pressure Cooker is a nine piece reggae/ska/rocksteady band from Boston. The group writes, records, and performs original songs in the styles of 1960s and 1970s Jamaican music. The group formed in 1997.
Pressure Cooker has released seven full-length CDs. Fronted by lead singer Craig Akira Fujita and backed by a core of Boston-area musicians, the band has played to audiences at clubs and festivals spanning from New England to Chicago. Over the years, Pressure Cooker has opened locally for notable artists of roots reggae music including Toots & the Maytals, Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, The Wailers, Prince Buster, Derrick Morgan, The Skatalites, Culture, Laurel Aitken, Eek-A-Mouse, Julian Marley, and Sister Carol.

Pressure Cooker

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-Rohan Nijhawan
2025-09-21 19:00 - 22:30
The Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam with featured poet Rohan Nijhawan Sept 21st!

$10
Rohan Nijhawan is a 35-year-old Cambridge-born poet and activist. Born with a one-of-a-kind, unknown disease, Rohan has experienced the ups and downs in life. Although he has a disability, Rohan does not let that disability define him. He has been skydiving twice in California, mountain biking in Colorado, snorkeling in Jamaica, and most recently, meeting His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. He is a self-described life of the party, as many of his friends can attest to. Rohan gave his friends and family a challenge: describe his poetry in one word. Some of the words that came up were: revolutionary, smooth-truths, insightful, and introspective. Rohan tells a powerful story through his poetry and activism. His biggest influence in his poetry, and, for that matter, his life is The Legend himself, Robert Nesta Marley. Rohan just published his first book titled Tick Tock Tempestuous: Poems of Love, Death, Angst & Humanity in the fall of 2023.
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam
