Lizard Lounge Club

Van Gordon Martin
2024-12-05 20:00 - 23:30 (America/New_York) | Lizard Lounge, 1667 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Van Gordon Martin trio comes to the Lizard Lounge!

Van Gordon Martin is a sonic chameleon and deeply creative artist.
Performing a wide range of musical styles.
VGM is a multi-instrumental producer and powerhouse on lead guitar,
an has toured nationally and internationally with a unique mix of artist including;
Current projects Organically Good Trio, Dub Apocalypse
G Love and Special Sauce, Big Daddy Kane, The Skatalites, and many more.
The current line up of VGM trio ft Nate Edgar & Tommy B (JBB)
Van Gordon Martin

Billy Wylder/Emily Haviland
2024-12-06 20:00 - 23:30
Event is 21+
$20/$25 door GA
$50 reserved tables
Doors at 7
From the front-lines at Standing Rock to the archaic streets of Jerusalem, the Sahel Desert to Carnegie Hall, music has been the source of strength for Billy Wylder. The band features Avi Salloway (Bombino/Hey Mama) joined by an inspired cast of singular artists who have performed across five continents including concerts at Coachella, Newport Folk Festival, New Orleans Jazz Fest, Montreal Jazz Fest, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center.
Billy Wylder released their seminal third album, Trying to Get Free (Sand & Gold Records), on August 25, 2023. The music weaves together American folk and rock with sensibilities from the Sahara Desert, exploring new musical space akin to Devendra Banhart, Beck, and Tinariwen. Billy Wylder’s new recordings evoke musical evolutions built on grooves informed by ancient African rhythms, art-rock textures, expansive guitars, violins, synths, and drum machines. Salloway’s lyrics flow with inspiration from mythical songwriting hero Leonard Cohen, while threading together more abstract imagery reminiscent of Thom Yorke.
On the new record, Billy Wylder grapples with some of the most critical questions of our time. What is freedom? Has the American dream died? What is truth and what is truly important to us? The band knows that it takes courage to follow your dreams, to create your own sense of purpose and meaning while living in a society where the media and politics relentlessly project fear, hatred, division, and consumerism. Billy Wylder’s live shows are known for bringing together diverse audiences and building community through uplifting performances, movement, and a sense of universal goodwill. The global band includes musicians from Vermont, Cuba, Peru, and Chicago.
Billy Wylder has toured extensively, performing and collaborating with renowned artists including Jack Johnson, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Bombino, The Low Anthem, and Pete Seeger.
“A sense of mystery and majesty.” â€“No Depression
“Songs that sound impossibly up-to-minute while remaining steeped in tradition.” â€“PopMatters
Touring band:
Avi Salloway (vocals, guitar), Rob Flax (violin, synth, vocals), Jennifer Giammanco (bass, vocals), Ricardo Guerra (drums, vocals)
billywlder.com

As a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a double major in fiddle performance and music therapy, Emily Haviland studied everything from American Roots and its rocky history to how music can alter brain chemistry. Throughout her career, Emily has shared the stage with some of the greats, like Darol Anger, the late Emy Phelps, Bruce Molsky, Aoife O’Donovan, Margot Price, Abigail Lapell, Twisted Pine and Cold Chocolate, and has been showcased on records released by Alisa Amador and Kaiti Jones, among others. Emily released her debut solo album, “Not Who You Think”, in February 2024, showcasing her vast musical repertoire—modern folk music with roots in jazz and americana. World-renowned fiddler Darol Anger aptly describes her as the “Realest Deal in a long time,” praising her genuine voice, profound reflections, and songs that boldly articulate the unspoken truths we all harbor. “Real voice, real thoughts, real songs that say – with pungent power – what everyone’s really thinking. Glad to welcome her work into the world.”
https://www.facebook.com/emilyhavi/

MC Kabir Sen with Krush Factory Monthly Residency
2024-12-07 21:00 - 2024-12-08 00:00, 2025-01-04 21:00 - 2025-01-05 00:00
MC Kabir Sen continues his monthly residency at the Lizard Lounge with the Krush Factory

An Evening With Lyle Brewer
2024-12-11 20:00 - 22:30
$20 adv/$25 door
Lyle Brewer is a guitarist and songwriter from Massachusetts. He has released several instrumental guitar albums and has performed all over the country with such artists as Neighbor, Ryan Montbleau and Lori McKenna. For the last decade Brewer has been a professor of guitar at The Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has released three transcription books and maintains a hearty teaching schedule through his Patreon site. His solo show will consist of instrumental music from his albums Juno, Get It Together and Hold On.
Lyle Brewer

Rich Hinman Quintet
2024-12-12 20:00 - 23:30
Rich Hinman’s Christmastown Dec 12th at the Lizard Lounge!

$15 adv/$18 door

On December 12, Rich Hinman finishes off his fall residency with a holiday spectacular featuring Sam Kassirer, Zachariah Hickman, Dan Drohan and special guests. They’ll play Rich’s 2022 Christmas classic “Christmastown” all the way through and then back up some of the best singers in town as they croon various Christmas classics and obscurities.

The Family Township/Ex-Hyena
2024-12-13 21:00 - 23:30
The Family Township and Ex-Hyena live at the Lizard Lounge December 13th!

Event is 21+
$15/$20 Doors
Doors at 8
The Family Township, AKA Township, has been making their unique Boston-bred brand of vintage rock and roll for nearly 2 decades. With 7 studio albums, 2 live albums, 3 EPs, 2 double singles, and 1 collection, the band has never stopped progressing, evolving, andperfecting. Initially known for their heavily mustached brand of driving rock, the band has steadily grown their sound and writing to reflect these days rather than “those days.” Their most recent album, 20th Century Wasters, and double single, Rosie Come Back /Autumn Bell, have earned the band some of the highest praise of their career. Live shows burn with energy,heart, melody, and sweat, celebrating an ever-growing catalog, depth, and fanbase.
https://township.bandcamp.com/

Ex-Hyena is a Boston-based dark electronic duo consisting of Bo Barringer and Reuben Bettsak. The band debuted in 2021 with “Artificial Pulse” and continued to expand their sound with “Moon Reflections” (2022) and “A Kiss of the Mind” (2024). Their music blends elements of synthpop, darkwave, and trip-hop, with a distinctive dual-vocal approach that contrasts deep, dark tones with brighter, higher-pitched melodies.
https://linktr.ee/Exhyenah

Closed for Private Event
2024-12-14 - 2024-12-15

Poetry Jam-A Celebration of Douglas Bishop
2024-12-15 20:00 - 23:30
A celebration of the life of longtime Poetry Jam collaborator Douglas Bishop.

It is with a heavy heart that Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam announces the passing of our dear longtime collaborator, Douglas Bishop, who left us several weeks ago.. Douglas was originally scheduled to perform at his traditional “December birthday” feature, and we will now dedicate that evening to honoring his memory and celebrating his poetry. He was a cherished presence, and will be deeply missed by everyone in our community who had the privilege and pleasure of knowing him.
“Douglas Bishop has been jamming and slamming at the Poetry Jam since it got going – which means he’s been a regular at the Lizard for more than 20 years. As a teacher, he has worked with classrooms ranging from early childhood to university, but now mostly teaches online for Mill City Speaks and Lowell Poetry Wheel. As a poet, he has performed in venues from Glasgow to Guatemala, but now primarily appears as one of the hosts of the Untitled Open Mic in Lowell. His doctoral study on the development of literate identity in young writers continues in his work for Freeverse!, Lowell’s youth poetry group. He also works as a visual artist, as well as performing vocals, flute, and percussion with his jazz-poetry band, Dr. Dougie’s Dangerous Delight (4D). For more, see douglasbishoppoet.com.This feature will involve a special collaboration between Douglas and Blake Newman to present a poem and song cycle, “Requiem for the Trees,” which will include live video recording and special guest musicians along with the Trio.”

Skunk Jesus/CLAMB
2024-12-18 20:00 - 23:00
Skunk Jesus and CLAMB return to the Lizard Lounge Dec 18th!

Event is 21+
$15/$20 door
Doors at 7

Skunk Jesus
Experience the sounds of Skunk Jesus, a band that emerged from the creative minds of Riley Stockwell and Mike Dettorre in 2015. Together with a rotating cast of top musicians from New England, they create an improvisational art form that delves into the unknown, transforming initial ideas into fully formed pieces of music on the spot. Drawing inspiration from free jazz, psychedelia, and experimental grooves, Skunk Jesus offers a dark and whimsical journey into uncharted musical territories.
https://m.facebook.com/skunkjesus/

CLAMB was born out of a Dadaist desire to create music free from societal norms of perfection. They dig deep into the groove of soulful American music from the infinite James Brown and Alice Coltrane to the aether of seventies European krautrock pioneers like Cluster and Harmonia to patiently sketch foreign landscapes from the ground up. Clamb are devoted to keeping an attitude of acceptance in their largely-improvised songs, choosing a direction and exploring its corners and nuances to tell stories without words.

Clamb’s tonal palette features Peter Danilchuk’s synths blissfully wiggling through the air, Jameson Stewart’s mythical gold-glitter-encrusted fretless bass sending terrestrial energy rippling through a rogue’s gallery of cheap pedals, Joshua Merhar’s playful drumming that constantly eggs the band onward to new hemispheres of groove, and in 2022 Clamb introduced guitar hero and best friend Sam Crawford whose tonal character and improvisational voice have propelled the band’s ensemble playing further into the fever-dream-realm than ever expected. Clamb hopes they have cornered the market on the Venn diagram intersection of 60s psych nerds raised on Soft Machine Volume 2 and their kids who have spent the past decade gorging on Brainfeeder and Meshuggah. It is Clamb’s distinct wish that each performance function as a Polaroid of the exact moment of its creation, never to be repeated quite the same way ever again, remaining both pensive yet hard-grooving all the same.https://www.facebook.com/clambband?mibextid=LQQJ4d

Legends of Mary: All Star Tribute to Legion of Mary
2024-12-19 20:00 - 23:00
Legends of Mary return to the Lizard Lounge Dec 19th!

Event is 21+$15/$18 door
Doors 7
Legends of Mary is an all-star tribute to the Jerry Garcia side project: legion of Mary. The group brings together some of the foremost Grateful Dead musicians in the Boston music scene to pay tribute to the fiery spiritual predecessor of the Jerry Garcia Band. Legends of Mary features: David Rubin of Diamond Blues, Dan Crea of the Garcia Project, Justin Lopes formally of Bearly Dead, Kade Parkin of Bella’s Bartok and Chris Belden of Diamond Blues. With a deep love of the repertoire and many years of experience under their belt this crew will deliver an incredible night of music for fans of the Grateful Dead and Legion of Mary!

The Lights/Erik White
2024-12-20 21:00 - 23:30
The Lights and Erik White live at the Lizard Lounge December 20th!

Event is 21+
$15/$20 Door
Doors at 8

Formed in 2021, The Lights are an indie folk band known for their eclectic sound, layered vocals, and dynamic performances. With five talented members, each bringing their own unique flair and instrumental versatility, The Lights create a rich tapestry of music that resonates with a wide audience. Their collaborative writing process ensures that every song is a fusion of diverse influences and creative ideas, resulting in a distinct and captivating style.
The Lights

Anngelle Wood's 12th Annual Spectacular Gift Drive For DOF Wonderfund
2024-12-21 19:30 - 23:00
Event is 21+
$15 adv/$20 door
Anngelle  Wood’s 12TH Annual Spectacular Gift Drive For DOF Wonderfund with Old Jack, Airport and Adi Sun!

Since their first show way back in 2008, critics and fans knew there was something unique about OldJack. Hailed as the most underrated band in Boston, with three guitars, bass, drums, organ/keys, a female background singer, and a front man from yesterday, OldJack belts out their original material with lots of harmonies, big vocals, and guitar solos galore.
OldJack’s catalog includes multiple EPs since its creation, Union Glory and Gone Before You Know, a Maxi-Single and the While Label Single Series. In 2014, they put out their first full-length album since the band’s debut, What Is Home To You. The collection of eight tracks pays homage to the band’s influences and styles that have had critics wondering where to classify them for years.
Old Jack

Airport’s Music is Jangly, hooky, kinda yacht rock-y, 70’s-inspired rock. It’s AM Gold.
Airport

“On the pop forward indie rock “Twin Flame”, Boston based Adi Sun injects 70’s genre agnostic tones, 90’s soul pop with their lush rock sound and laces it with touches of 80’s romance wave while still feeling proggy. The musicality is top notch and Sun’s vocal aesthetic provocative and passionate. Adi Sun helmed the 2017 born shoe gaze / alt rock band Phenomenal Sun and in 2019 embarked on a solo career / project and maybe a point of self-discovery and realization. As press notes indicate it was a journey that included falling in love, suffering heartbreak, contracting shingles, coming out as transgender, while writing and recording new music for her solo career.”-Robb Donker Curtius, American Pancake
Adi Sun

Poetry Jam-Marlon Carey
2024-12-22 20:00 - 23:30
The Lizard Lounge with featured poet Marlon Carey!

$10
Poet. Educator. Actor. Communicator. Entertainer… and StorytellerHe’s a Man of many hats and many words.He’s been Lizard Lounge King and Cantab Lounge Slam Champion. Father of 3 wonderful children. Etc

Closed For Christmas
2024-12-25 - 2024-12-26

Hi-Fi Monk/Yoni Gordon/Julia Mark
2024-12-27 21:00 - 23:30
Hi-Fi Monk,Yoni Gordon and Julia Mark live at the Lizard Lounge December 27th!

Hi-fi Monk is an original, live hip-hop/funk/reggae outfit based in Boston, MA. Featuring Toussaint the Liberatorhttps://www.facebook.com/HiFiMonk/
A traveling salesman of song: Yoni Gordon has a song for every occasion. Pop wordsmith, dance jams for English majors, guitar riffs for days, and a showman’s ability to weave it all together.https://linktr.ee/Yonigordon
Julia Mark is a singer-songwriter-pianist interested in wordplay, wit, and the weight of being human.https://www.juliamarkmusic.com/

Jake Manzi/Jack Demeo
2024-12-28 21:00 - 23:30
Singer songwriter Jake Manzi returns to the Lizard Lounge with Jack Demeo December 28th!

Event is 21+
$15/$20 door
Doors at 8

Hang on and let go, Here She Comes is heading out. Ride with the fine melodies of this new Jake Manzi album. Seek the exuberance of his pop. Float in the shuffle and caress of thirteen dreamy tracks that jangle and twang against the shores of your heartland. Let yourself go there, beyond the cool sand, where tenderness can find you where it’s fun to pretend. Lose those heavy burdens. Be a fool, move your feet. You’re welcome to all you find here, courtesy of Jake.
With a subtle touch for turning up pure song-stuff out of life, channeling the likes of Marshall Crenshaw and Tom Petty, of Lucinda Williams and Bruce Springsteen, of the Wallflowers and Keane, Manzi offers you his singular take on what contemporary pop-rock can be. Hear richly layered vocal, guitar, and keyboard harmonies impressed on thumping and elastic grooves from locked in drums and bass. Be transfixed by high-strung Gibson acoustics that weave enchanting moments with the mellotron and clavinet, with the farfisa, the organ, and twelve-string accompaniments.
Recorded live over four days at Spirithouse in Western Mass, Here She Comes sees the return of Griffin Goldsmith on drums, Jacob Rosazza on bass, and Caleb Rosazza on guitars and keys, with engineering by Danny Bernini and production by C. Rosazza and Manzi. Lush in tones of longing after all that’s left unsaid, Here She Comes with a wry smile and honest charm to bring the magic of the quiet moments we get caught up in and the hope in expectation for the joys of dreaming big.
Opening for acts like Ron Sexsmith, NRBQ, Lori McKenna, Tomberlin, and Chris Collingwood, and collaborating with artists like Don Was and Mikaela Davis, Madison Cunningham and Dawes’s Griffin & Taylor Goldsmith, Jake Manzi is a songwriter to be reckoned with and a unique talent to be enjoyed.
https://www.jakemanzi.com/

Jack Demeo is a singer-songwriter hailing from Western Massachusetts now based in Los Angeles. He grew up playing local venues like The Yellow Sofa and Flywheel (and later, Pearl Street and the Iron Horse) with his band Goat Boy. Since then he has pursued a music career in Los Angeles, lending his guitar and songwriting chops to artists like Remi Wolf, Trousdale, and Eliza McLamb. His debut record, Soon, will be released in the new year.

Jack Demeo

Speak Easy Drag Brunch
2024-12-29 12:00 - 15:00
An iconic afternoon of local drag performances!

Doors 12
Show 1
What do wigs, eggs benedict, pop mixes & mimosas have in common? They’ll all be in the Lizard Lounge the last Sunday of every month! We’re hosting our very own Drag Brunch, an iconic afternoon of performances from some of our favorite local drag queens scrumptious brunch favorites & fun cocktails!

21+
Doors lock once show starts
General Admission $20, with bar stools first come first serve
Tables for $45, comfortably seats 2 guests

Poetry Jam-Silent E
2024-12-29 20:00 - 23:30
The Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam with featured poet Silent E!

$10

Eunice Belacy aka Silent E has been a Poet and Spoken Word artist in the Greater Boston area for over 10years. She grew up in North Cambridge, MA to Haitian immigrant parents and was raised in the church. She started writing poetry at 16 years old and began performing at 24 while attending Bridgewater State University , where she joined the Spoken Word group ‘ The Seeds of Poetry’
She has performed at various open mics at churches, colleges, art galleries, barsrestaurants etc.She has graced stages in Boston , New York , St Louis , Atlanta and Los Angeles, as well as online via Instagram. Not only has she shared her pieces in multiple locations , she has also co-hosted a few open mics as well. The written and spoken word have always been her safe place. Silent E wishes to use her poetry to uplift, inspire and share wisdom , as well as be vulnerable with her audience. She believes that anyone can be a poet , as long as they are willing to bare their souls and be honest first with themselves and then with the reader and listeners.
A Quote she lives by:Ephesians 3:20Now all Glory to God who is able to through his mighty power at work within us do exceedingly , abundantly , above all we can ask or imagine.

Dub Apocalypse
2024-12-31 20:00 - 23:30
Ring in the New Year with the echo drenched sounds of Dub Apocalypse!

MUST BE 21+
Dub Apocalypse is an instrumental dub reggae band from Boston, MA. Band members are Tommy Benedetti-drums,Van Martin-guitar,Johnny Trama-guitar,Aaron Bellamy-bass,and Timo Shanko-sax/bass. The band came together in 2007, led by drummer Tommy Benedetti and guitarist, Johnny Trama.Tommy Benedetti is one of the founding members of American Reggae Pioneers,John Brown’s Body. He brings a wealth of experience from the reggae/dub scene to the table,having recorded albums for the legendary Shanachie Label,John Zorn’s Tzadik Label (mixed by Bill Laswell),and is currently with John Brown’s Body on Easy Star Records. This history is combined with almost 2 decades of International touring,as well as backing some of the giants of Jamaican music,including The Meditations and Justin Hinds.
Guitarist Johnny Trama adds a soulful blues touch to the Dub Apocalypse signature sound.Trama has spent time on the road with the great Ron Levy, BB King’s organ player, as well as many other regional rock and soul/r&b acts. Not long after Dub Apocalypse came together, longtime friend Timo Shanko entered the fold.A dual threat on both bass and saxophone,Shanko is a veteran of the blues and free jazz scene.He spent many years on the road with Blues legend, Eddie Kirkland, as well as with G. Love and Special Sauce. Shanko is also a prolific composer,and his improvisational stylings are an integral part of the Dub Apocalypse sound. Although DA started out as more of a collective,in the past few years the lineup has solidified with the addition of bassist Aaron Bellamy and guitarist Van Martin. Bellamy is a longtime fixture in the Boston funk scene,and in combination with Benedetti ,they form the deep,militant sound at the core of Dub Apocalypse.
Originally hailing from Chicago,Van Martin rounds out the lineup on guitar. Martin has much touring experience as well, including appearances with Bernie Worrell and Big Daddy Kane. His sonic textures,adventurous playing and songwriting have helped Dub Apocalypse take their sound to a new level. The DA sound is an evolving mix of original compositions and their own interpretations of classic Jamaican and UK songs and dub plates. Heavy hitting drum and bass grooves set the table. A twin guitar attack, with Trama’s rhythmic anchor,and Martin’s dub sonics, swirl in and out in tandem. These pieces, combined with Timo Shanko’s Coltrane inspired sax approach, give Dub Apocalypse a

Ward Hayden & the Outliers Presents: A Celebration of Hank Williams
2025-01-01 16:00 - 19:00
Ward Hayden and the Outliers celebrates 100 years of the life, legacy and music of Hank Williams on a special New Years Day matinee.

Event is 21+
$25 adv/$35 Door
Doors at 3

“Boston is one of America’s great music towns. But among the various styles the city is known for that have launched many musical acts to success and stardom, country music wasn’t a truly thriving genre there, that’s until singer, songwriter and guitarist Ward Hayden and his band The Outliers (formerly known as Girls Guns & Glory) sang and played their distinctive take on C&W with a rock’n’roll kick to the top of the Boston scene and a thriving, critically-acclaimed and highly-awarded career across America and in Europe.Beginning in 2010 Ward and his collection of bandmates & musician friends began gathering together on Jan 1st to kick off every new year and honor the life and legacy of one of their biggest musical influences: Hank Williams.Hank Williams lived for just 29 short years, but what a lasting and meaningful legacy he left behind. Hank left this world on Jan 1, 1953 and for the last fifteen years Ward has assembled an incredible collection of songs from Hank’s catalog, with new surprises, country classics, & deep cuts added every single year.In addition to performing a full set of Hank’s music, each year the band performs a set of Ward Hayden & The Outliers original songs. For fans of Hank, fans of Country Music, & fans of Ward & The Outliers, it doesn’t get much better than this. And it’s a rare chance to catch the band in the intimate environment of the Lizard Lounge, a venue where the band really cut their teeth & have returned to every year for this very special show.”
https://www.wardhaydenandtheoutliers.com/

Ward Hayden & the Outliers Presents: A Celebration of Hank Williams
2025-01-01 19:30 - 22:30
Ward Hayden and the Outliers celebrates 100 years of the life, legacy and music of Hank Williams on a special New Years Day matinee.

Event is 21+
$25 adv/$35 Door
Doors at 7

“Boston is one of America’s great music towns. But among the various styles the city is known for that have launched many musical acts to success and stardom, country music wasn’t a truly thriving genre there, that’s until singer, songwriter and guitarist Ward Hayden and his band The Outliers (formerly known as Girls Guns & Glory) sang and played their distinctive take on C&W with a rock’n’roll kick to the top of the Boston scene and a thriving, critically-acclaimed and highly-awarded career across America and in Europe.Beginning in 2010 Ward and his collection of bandmates & musician friends began gathering together on Jan 1st to kick off every new year and honor the life and legacy of one of their biggest musical influences: Hank Williams.Hank Williams lived for just 29 short years, but what a lasting and meaningful legacy he left behind. Hank left this world on Jan 1, 1953 and for the last fifteen years Ward has assembled an incredible collection of songs from Hank’s catalog, with new surprises, country classics, & deep cuts added every single year.In addition to performing a full set of Hank’s music, each year the band performs a set of Ward Hayden & The Outliers original songs. For fans of Hank, fans of Country Music, & fans of Ward & The Outliers, it doesn’t get much better than this. And it’s a rare chance to catch the band in the intimate environment of the Lizard Lounge, a venue where the band really cut their teeth & have returned to every year for this very special show.”
https://www.wardhaydenandtheoutliers.com/

Troy Mercy/Gregg Perry and the Strange Berries
2025-01-03 21:00 - 2025-01-04 00:00
Troy Mercy and Gregg Perry and the Strange Berries live at the Lizard Lounge

$15 adv/$20 door
TROY MERCY & HADLEY LLOYD (Winners of The 2024 Boston Blues Challenge) bring the raw sound of Electric Blues into the 21st Century… A power-duo that plays BRAVE NEW BLUES.
(Troy: vocal/guitar/harmonica, Hadley: drums/vocal).
Troy toured as guitarist with The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Booker T. Jones. Hadley is fresh on the scene with surprising grooves. She heats up the stage like a spike of lightning.
Pushing boundaries with fearless performance, artful lyrics, hooks and melody, they extend the tradition and create the future. “This duo is like Lightnin’ Hopkins playing with The Small Faces while David Lynch films it.” -Alan Smithee
Troy Mercy

Gregg Perry, a Boston area musician and Berklee School of Music alumni has been playing guitar professionally for over 20 years, sharing stages with legendary musicians such as The Nighthawks, Bob Margolin, Jimmy Thackery and Canned Heat among others. Gregg originally formed The Strange Berries— a classic psychedelic rock and blues power trio— in 2018 with bassist Bob Abruzese and drummer Garik Bagdagyulyan. While The Strange Berries now features a rotating cast of talented musicians, both their original tunes and tributes to favorite artists of the past never fail to take their fans on a uniquely positive and spiritual musical journey.
https://www.facebook.com/GreggPerryandtheStrangeberries/

MVP Most Valuable Poet Slam Semifinal #1
2025-01-05 20:00 - 23:30
The Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam Most Valuable Poet Slam Semifinal #1

A Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam tradition! Each year, from September through December, our slam poets compete to qualify for the Most Valuable Poet (MVP) Slam events, which take place every January. Sixteen Poets qualify for the two semi-final slam events, followed by the MVP Finals.
This first MVP Semifinal Slam will feature Art Collins, Finn Flood, Michael Warrior Bonds, Mike Savadian, Myles Taylor, Navah the Buddaphliii, Tru Kwene, and Will Leonard.
These slams are super-popular and always showcase phenomenal spoken word talent. The top four poets from tonight and the top four from the second semifinal will move on to the finals on 1/26/25.
Not to be missed!!
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam

Four Piece Suit
2025-01-09 20:00 - 23:00
Four Piece Suit return to the Lizard Lounge!

$15/$18 door
Doors at 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

Job Creators with Christina Lacoste and Elisabeth Hoffman
2025-01-10 21:00 - 23:30
Job Creators with Christina Lacoste and Hall Monitor and Elisabeth Hoffman

MUST BE 21+
$15/$20 door

Job Creators is a psychedelic math rock duo based out of Boston/Brooklyn. The dynamic pair consists of Blaise Lucey on bass guitar and audio samples and Tim Winslow on drums and synthesizer. For 10 years they have been plying their own high-energy improvisational music across the Northeast. Releasing their 2nd full LP, Love Monster, in October of 2023 has made big waves for the band. Venerable online music magazine Fecking Bahamas has said they are, “Embedding new-wave texture and groove with math rock, indie, and psychedelic prog, it’s a ship on a current all its own.” Job Creators spent 2024 on tour in America and Canada and are looking forward to 2025.

Elisabeth Hoffman is a Folk-rock artist from Boston, Ma who also known as the front woman of the Boston-based progressive rock band Verdegree. Hoffman got her start writing music at a young age and continued to write, sing, and perform in many different genres and in many different settings. Going back to her roots, Hoffman now plays solo performances, showcasing her unique songwriting abilities that tell stories to her captivated audience. Hoffman’s music is saturated with melodic intricacy while drawing reminiscent notes of 1960s folk music.

Kit Orion/Talk Chalk/Clamb w/ Visuals by Digital Awareness
2025-01-11 21:00 - 23:30
Kit Orion live at the Lizard Lounge with Talk Chalk, Clamb and featuring visuals by Digital Awareness Jan 11th!

$15 adv/$20 door
Introducing Caitlyn O’Brien (she/her/hers), a Cambridge-based singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and DJ. ​Caitlyn became dedicated to her exploration of music and musical community starting with studying classical voice at a young age, and later, getting involved in her local music community performing in original projects, bands and studio sessions.
​She has only just recently started publicly writing and producing her own music under the name Kit Orion with her first EP released in February of 2021.
The majority of the songs from her self-titled EP and upcoming record Bottle Grin, released in October of 2024, were written as responses to personal loss and exploration of self, through prompts given in a songwriting club led by dear friend and collaborator, Jessica Kion (Justice Cow).
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The creation of the album Bottle Grin strived to sonically collage her self-produced bedroom soundscapes to the live musical contributions of friends and collaborators in the studio.
https://www.kitorion.com/

Talk Chalk is a five piece band from Boston focusing on spooky rock with writing done by singer/synth player Crystal Araiza. Araiza is a MassArt alumni who has been playing music in Boston for years as well as designing album art for local musicians. The members, Dylan Sullivan (bass), Nicholas James Stewart (guitar), Mark Damon (guitar), Steve Aliperta (drums)and Crystal all know each other through many years of playing together. The music is recorded/engineered by Aliperta at Kennedy Studios in Burlington, MA. They are currently working on their full length “Dance, and You Shall Receive!” Set to be e re released in early 2025.

Talk Chalk

“Clamb treats each musical moment, be it live or on record, as a snapshot of an exact moment in time, free from the concept of mistake, instead reinterpreting mistakes as compositional tools to bring a piece of music to a new emotional level. The choices Clamb makes in its live show have evolved in the year since this performance was recorded, but as it was the band’s first club show since the pandemic forced its members apart for 15 months, it was an intense time for musicians eager to enter back into a world they were previously shut out from, and Clamb were bursting at the seams with ideas to share together.”- Blood Makes Noise

Clamb

MVP Most Valuable Poet Slam Semifinal #2
2025-01-12 20:00 - 23:30
The Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam Most Valuable Poet Slam Semifinal #2

The second of our MVP Semifinal Slams and a Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam tradition! Slam poets have competed from September through December to qualify for the Most Valuable Poet (MVP) Slam events, which take place every January. Sixteen Poets qualify for the two semi-final slam events, followed by the MVP Finals.
The eight extraordinary poets featured in this second MVP Semifinal Slam are Brother D, Jeannie Nunes, Lawrence Nunes, Lexi Wight, Mr. Orange, Sandy Levy, Toni Rose, and Written In Pain.These slams are super-popular and always feature extraordinary spoken word artistry. The top four poets from tonight, along with the top four poets from the previous semifinal, will move on to the finals on 1/26/25.
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam

Dela and the Steady Rock Easy
2025-01-15 20:00 - 23:30
Dela and the Steady Rock Easy live at the Lizard Lounge January 15th!

$12/$15
After spending years on the road with long time friend and mentor Karl Denson, Slightly Stoopid’s saxophonist Daniel “DELA” Delacruz, along with Denson and Los Angeles’ own The Aggrolites, collaborated to create a jazz influenced reggae record. The final product would be called “Opening Night,” and was released in 2017 on Stoopid Records. Since leaving California and moving back to the Northeast, DELA has reconnected with some of Boston’s finest musicians to form his new band called DELA & Steady Rock Easy. He is joined by trombonist Brian Thomas (John Brown’s Body/Bt ALC Big Band), trumpet player Mark Berney (The Skatalites/Soul Shot), guitarist Steve Fell (Marco Benevento/BTALC), bassist Aaron Bellamy (The A-Beez/The Sam Kininger Band), drummer Jesse Hayes (The Toasters/The Attractors), and keyboardist Cameron Greenlee (The Skatalites/Naya Rockers). With their deep catalog of reggae influenced originals and top notch musicianship, DELA & Steady Rock Easy are definitely not to be missed!

City of Four/Bubble Wave
2025-01-16 20:00 - 23:30
City of Four and Bubble Wave live at the Lizard Lounge Jan 16th at 8 pm!

City of Four’s original brand of groove-based jazz fusion has been called a “cornucopia of jazz melodies,” (The Big Takeover) where “each member brings something unique to the table.” (Stamish Malcuss, Jazz Sensibilities)
The music collective features equally the original compositions and improvisations of its four members in an electrified instrumental jazz combo format, merging modern jazz, funk, jazz-rock fusion, hip hop, and progressive rock. “When the jazz, funk and progressive styles come together it can be a beautiful thing.” (Rob Duguay, Rock n’Heavy)
City of Four is Mike Caudill on saxophone and EWI, Cat Tremblay on keys and synths, Eric Falter on bass, and Steve Wilkinson on drums.

City of Four

Bubble Wave is a Boston based Reggae band playing covers and originals based on reggae and roots reggae artists like Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.
The band is made up of a traditional reggae instrumentation consisting of vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass and drums and the band has performed at festivals, parties, private events and more.
Bubble Wave
