Greg Laswell Plays Congress

Greg Laswell was born in Long Beach, California in 1974. He moved to San Diego in 1993 and graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University. From 1998 through the early aughts, Laswell was frontman for the San Diego-based band Shillglen. Members of the band included Chad Lansford (backing vocals and guitar), Justin Skeesuck (guitar), Michael de Neve (bass), Marcel de Neve (drums) and Matt Mintz (lead guitar). The band released one album, titledSometimes I Feel, in late 1999 and had some moderate success when the band was nominated for Best Alternative Album and Best Alternative Band at the San Diego Music Awards in 2000. By mid 2001, Shillglen had over 400,000 downloads of their music through MP3.com. However, Shillglen quietly disbanded in October 2001 after Laswell suggested the band take a break. The band mutually agreed, but never regrouped.

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MyTown Music (Early Show)

MyTown Music is a multifaceted music empowerment organization that exists to inspire, enrich, and release musicians throughout the community.

FREE SHOW: Otherly Love and friends!

  Otherly Love    

FREE SHOW: Silverbell w/ Greyhound Soul and Ferrodyne

Doors: 9 pm FREE 21+

Signals CD Release Show w/ Adam & Aaron and The Gallery

Doors: 6:30 pm $5 ALL AGES

2012 Meet Me Downtown 5K Night Run/Walk After Party!

  Hotel Congress is proud to host 2012 Meet Me Downtown 5K Night Run/Walk After Party!!! FREE http://www.azroadrunners.org/races/detail/mmd  

MAPS & ATLASES w/ The Big Sleep & Sister Crayon

June 5th MAPS AND ATLASES The Big Sleep Sister Crayon 18+ 7pm doors 8pm show $12/ $14

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FREE SHOW: Chelsea Wolfe

  Chelsea Wolfe California native Chelsea Wolfe has always embodied both light and dark. Yet though her music is a raw strain of electric folk tinted by black metal and deep blues, it never wallows in despair. Instead, it wraps itself like a thick blanket around the human experience, encouraging uplift, seeking triumph. Her voice is a [...]

FREE Show: GLDNGHST w/ PC Party and Big Meridox!

Doors 8 pm FREE FREE FREE 21+

River City Extension w/ The Drowning Men

Stateside Presents: River City Extension / The Drowning Men All Ages $8ADV / $10 DOS

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Opti-Club presents: SMMR/PRTY w/ AEROPLANE!

AEROPLANE Matt McCoy $3 cover FREE for members $2 vodka/ $2 whiskey /$2 sessions

JP Harris and the Tough Choices w/ The Honkytonk Underground

Club Congress will transport itself back to the good ole days when the Rodeo Parade went right through downtown and several of the main bars were western themed.  It will be a night of classic country and pure honkytonk music, so bring on your cowboy hats and boots. From Nashville will be JP Harris the the [...]

Lose Your Clothes-The Underwear Party!

  Club Congress wants you to lose your clothes and invite you to our first Underwear Party! Hosted by MEOWmeow Productions https://www.facebook.com/meowmeowtucson Saturday, June 16th!        $3 FREE IF YOU COME IN UNDERWEAR COMPLIMENTARY CLOTHING CHECK PLEASE REMEMBER TO WEAR SHOES  

Blind Divine w/ Caught on Film

Blind Divine Music is more that just a technical moment. When you set up your own studio you have the convenience of being able to create at the spur of the moment. You capture the moment of creation. Honestly, we oftentimes keep our first take which is actually writing or creating the vocals, lyrics, or music [...]

Rumble in the Tumbleweeds w/ Greyhound Soul, Fourkiller Flats, Tramps & Thieves, and The Persuaders + many more.

Hotel Congress brings you our first Alt. Country Guitar Rock Festival! 8 pm $5 21+

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Madi Diaz and Harper Blynn

Madi Diaz “When I was a teenager,” Madi Diaz recalls, “my dad and I would hang out in the living room and learn songs by bands like the Eagles and Alice in Chains. We’d pick parts to harmonize and sing our way through them, over and over. My dad would get so excited when he figured [...]

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Rob Delaney

Stateside Presents: Rob Delaney with Pauly Casillas $12/$14 21+ 7pm doors shows is half seated half standing room

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Early Show with Bob Schneider!

Bob Schneider 7 pm doors 21+ $15/$17

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Happy Bastille Day: Marianne Dissard w/ Noah and The MegaFuna

Marianne Dissard Tucson chanteuse Marianne Dissard was born within sight of the Pyrénées mountains in the South of France but has been living in the American West since the age of 16. Singer, writer of lyrics and poetry, filmmaker and performance artist, Marianne Dissard tours extensively the world over, solo or backed by her American bandmates. [...]

Stephane Wrembel

  In addition to our Bastille Day Weekend we’re proud to bring you Stephane Wrembel! French-born guitarist/composer Stephane Wrembel is preparing to release his brand new studio album, Origins, on May 15, 2012. Anticipation is high for this new release by the young virtuoso. For his recent visit to WNYC’s “Soundcheck” Studios with John Schaeffer, Wrembel and [...]

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The Coathangers w/ Jaill

The Coathangers The Coathangers were a band before they were musicians. The Atlanta quartet started out as an excuse to hang out and play parties. Their jokey attitude ran deep, right down to their name–a self-admittedly crude abortion reference for an all-girl group. The whole knowing-how-to-play-an-instrument thing was just a minor hurdle in their musical mission. And to their credit, The [...]

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Stateside Presents: Jay Brannan

Jay Brannan Jay Brannan was born under a rock in the coldest part of the himalayas where he was raised by trappist monks who taught him to maintain his body temperature without the necessity of food and clothing through intense meditation and really hard drinking. shortly after his first birthday, he suffered a graphic and painful [...]

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Shonen Knife 少年ナイフ

Shonen Knife which transliterates as Shōnen Naifu, literally "Boy Knife," is an all-female Japanese pop-punk band formed in Osaka, Japan, in 1981. Heavily influenced by 1960s girl groups, pop bands, The Beach Boys, and early punk rock acts, such as the Ramones, the trio crafts stripped-down songs expressing infectious melodies and simplistic, exuberant lyrics sung both in Japanese and English. Despite their pop-oriented nature, the trio maintains a distinctly underground garage rock sound rooted in edgy instrumentation and D.I.Y. aesthetics, which over the course of their long career has earned them a solid, worldwide cult following and made avid fans out of seminal '90s alternative rock acts such as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Redd Kross. The band has been credited with making "the international pop underground more international" by "opening it up to bands from Japan". They have also performed as a Ramones tribute band under the name The Osaka Ramones.

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It's a Beautiful Day (Early Show)

  It’s a Beautiful Day It’s a Beautiful Day is a band formed in San Fransisco, California in 1967, the brainchild of violinist David LaFlamme. LaFlamme, a former soloist with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, had previously been in the band Orkustra, and unusually, played a five-string violin. The other members were his wife Linda (keyboards), Pattie Santos (vocals), Hal Wagenet (guitar), Mitchell Holman [...]

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Rasputina w/ Faun Fables

  Rasputina Long time Congress favorites return! The Rasputina group has existed for more than 20(0) years. Melora Creager founded it to meet like-minded young women (excellent cellists that wanted to play rock music and wear historical costumery).  Although often mistakenly lumped into passing fancies, Rasputina manages to survive and defy categorization by maintaining a child-like delight [...]

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