(18+, 7PM, $16/$18)

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti has begun. A new pink dawn is caressing the earth’s body as you read this professionally written bio. Legions of imitators of that well revered Haunted Graffiti sound will now have to go on back to their respective drawing boards. Ariel has written the book, and now he’s lighting it on fire and with that fire he has cooked up a new record. It tastes perfect. It’s as if the band had been dining in the fanciest of restaurants and they got food poisoning and wrote the songs that will eventually be on this new album that you will soon be listening to whenever you get it.

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(1PM, FREE, ALL AGES)

Imagine if Harry Potter quit the quidditch team and started a punk rock band. Take that one step further and imagine that he stole a time-turner and decided to start that band with himself from a different point in time. Imagine that they will be playing a FREE – All Ages concert on the Congress plaza… This is not a dream, see you there!

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ATTENTION ZAPPAPHILES! Four legendary former members of Frank Zappa’s “The Mothers of Invention,” Napoleon Murphy Brock, Roy Estrada, Bunk Gardner, and Don Preston are headed to Club Congress to give you all the Zappa fix you have been craving. Join us for this special event as we come together to celebrate one of America’s most innovative rock ‘n’ rollers, Frank Zappa.

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w/ Houses, D33J ($12/$14, 8PM, 18+)

Three years ago, Baths dropped his startlingly beautiful debut, Cerulean. Released on Anticon, the record blurred the line between post-modern pop and the LA beat scene with devastating emotional clarity. Its tone was as celestial as its album title, taken from a shade of blue typically used to describe the sky. Fast forward three years and Baths has lived up to the hype and we could never be more pleased to have him back here at Hotel Congress.

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w/ Wet & Reckless (8pm, $8/$10, 21+)

Radar Brothers just finished up their 8th album, “Eight” with Merge Records. It may very well be Radar Brothers’ darkest, hardest rocking, most psychedelic, and yet most intensely personal album to date. Come see this super group rock the Club for this 21+ show.

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w/ Voodoo Organist (21+, 8PM, $11/$13)

During performances, he plays old silvertone archtop guitars, wears a full body cannonball man suit and a helmet wired to a telephone which allows him to devote his hands and feet to guitar and drums. The spectacle has been described as a guitar dance party, full of sweaty smiles, jumps and kicks. Touring over 150 shows a year in more than 30 countries, Log and his guitar never, ever quit. Bob Log’s version of quick Delta blues is a continuation the sound that Bob Log and Thermos pioneered in the duo, Doo Rag. The major differences are: greater emphasis on guitar showmanship, and drumming -one man band style-with his feet. It sounds like three drummers, two guitar players, and one sort of singer. Based in Tucson, Arizona, and Melbourne, Australia, he has made frequent tours of North America, Europe, Japan and Australia, Mexico, and Iceland.

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with Acorn Bcorn

On tour for his Sophomore album, MCII, singer-songwriter Mikal Cronin comes to Club Congress for a 21+ event.

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Twenty three years after their T-Bone Burnett produced debut Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams led them to win a Rolling Stone reader’s poll as “Best New American Band,” The BoDeans are still rocking and harmonizing gracefully, touring the U.S. and stopping in Tucson on this July Saturday night, we cannot wait!

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