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                                <title>PWP WrestleVania</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 day ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/pwp-wrestlevania/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[PWP returns to The Waiting Room Lounge in Omaha, NE on Thursday night October 22nd with&#160;our annual spooky season tradition, WrestleVania!! &#160; Full reserved tables, individual front row seats, and individual General Admission tickets available online&#160;at Etix.com &#160; General Admission tickets also available at both Ted and Wally's Ice Cream locations (Benson &#38; Old Market) for just $10 cash while they last! &#160; Limited General Admission tickets will also be available at the door on 10/22 for $15 cash while capacity allows. &#160; Doors open at 7:00 PM, action kicks off at 8! &#160; Come on out and see why PWP Live has been setting the bar for independent professional wrestling in this area since 2005!!! &#160; BE THERE!!!www.Patreon.com/PWPLivewww.Facebook.com/PWPLivewww.TikTok.com/@PWPLivewww.Instagram.com/PWPLivewww.Twitter.com/PWPLivewww.YouTube.com/@PWPLive]]></description>
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                                <title>The Lemonheads: The Love Chant Tour</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/the-lemonheads-the-love-chant-tour/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[The Lemonheads returned in 2025 with Love Chant (out via Fire Records, October 24th), their first studio album in nearly two decades - a bold, melodic reaffirmation of Evan Dando&#8217;s singular songwriting voice. Written across continents and recorded primarily in S&#227;o Paulo, Brazil, where Dando now resides, Love Chant finds the frontman reconnecting with longtime collaborators while introducing new creative voices. It&#8217;s a record of fresh starts and familiar sounds - emotionally raw, melodically rich, and unmistakably Lemonheads. The new album features contributions from J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Juliana Hatfield, Tom Morgan, Bryce Goggin, Erin Rae, and Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond. It&#8217;s a diverse but coherent work - from the full-throttle hooks of &#8220;Deep End&#8221; to the spectral softness of &#8220;The Key Of Victory,&#8221; and the Modern Lovers-like drive of the title track. Co-released alongside Dando&#8217;s forthcoming memoir Rumours Of My Demise (via Faber, November 6th), Love Chant marks both a return and a reckoning - the sound of an artist who&#8217;s lived, lost, and located the thread once again. Formed in Boston in 1986, The Lemonheads have long thrived on that intersection between chaos and charm. With a revolving cast built around Dando&#8217;s melodic instincts and ragged charisma, their early punk roots were forged across three scrappy albums on local label Taang! before signing to Atlantic Records and releasing 1990&#8217;s Lovey. It was on tour for that record in Australia where Dando connected with Tom Morgan and future bandmate Nic Dalton - a meeting that reshaped the band&#8217;s songwriting and sound. Their commercial breakthrough came with 1992&#8217;s It&#8217;s A Shame About Ray and 1993&#8217;s Come On Feel The Lemonheads, both records that married punk energy with melodic pop, and established Dando as one of alternative rock&#8217;s most compelling figures. National TV appearances followed, and so did the tabloid glare - by the late &#8217;90s, the music sometimes took a backseat to Dando&#8217;s unpredictable, chaotic public persona. He disbanded The Lemonheads in 1997 following a turbulent performance at Reading Festival. In 2003, he released his acclaimed solo album Baby I&#8217;m Bored - quieter and more introspective, it hinted at a new phase. But it wasn&#8217;t long before The Lemonheads were reborn. In 2006, a self-titled album marked a head-on collision of wordy &#8217;70s punk and cosmic country, followed by Varshons (2009) and Varshons 2 (2019), two mixtape-like collections of cover versions that spanned Townes Van Zandt to GG Allin, Leonard Cohen to The Bevis Frond - always with the same emotional clarity and melodic magnetism that defines Dando&#8217;s output. Over the years, The Lemonheads&#8217; shape has shifted - Descendents, Dinosaur Jr, Blake Babies and members of Fuzzy have all passed through the ranks - but at its core has always been Dando&#8217;s songwriting: wry, vulnerable, catchy, and true. With Love Chant, that core burns brightly once more. Recent years have only deepened the band&#8217;s influence. Artists like Courtney Barnett, Waxahatchee, Phoebe Bridgers and MJ Lenderman cite The Lemonheads as touchstones, covering their songs and praising their emotional candor and melodic economy. As Record Collector noted, &#8220;The Lemonheads have always been recognised as purveyors of grade-A pop punk.&#8221; Or, in Rolling Stone&#8217;s words: &#8220;Few bands have been able to walk the line between the angst of grunge and the warmth of folk quite as elegantly as The Lemonheads.&#8221;]]></description>
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                                <title>**SOLD OUT** Bright Eyes</title>
                                <eventupdate>6 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/bright-eyes/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[MISSED YOUR CHANCE FOR TICKETS? Catch Bright Eyes at The Admiral on October 20th: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/34890537/]]></description>
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                                <title>Midwest Masquerade NYE</title>
                                <eventupdate>7 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/midwest-masquerade-nye/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[THIS EVENT IS AGES 18+&#160; VIP includes 1 ticket entry, 1 hard copy ticket memorabilia, early entry at 7pm / express entry, backstage access until 9pm, reserved booth/table, &#38; exclusive masquerade mask and merch.]]></description>
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                                <title>Damones play ROCKY HORROR!</title>
                                <eventupdate>13 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/damones-play-rocky-horror/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Kick off your Halloweekend right with the Damones &#8212; performing a two special sets of The Rocky Horror Picture Show music AND the classic Damones songs you know and love. Joined by special guest Benn Sieff.&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Citizen&#8217;s Ball 13</title>
                                <eventupdate>13 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/citizens-ball-13/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[M&#38;G tickets include a ticket to the show, autographed show poster, photos with the band, and 3 song acoustic set.&#160; Limited to 100 M&#38;G attendance.]]></description>
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                                <title>Kurt Deimer&#8217;s Hellbilly Hollow</title>
                                <eventupdate>15 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/kurt-deimers-hellbilly-hollow/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Watch the Hellbilly Hollow movie premiere followed by a performance by Kurt Deimer. Get your FREE tickets now. Hellbilly Hollow in theaters September 25th.]]></description>
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                                <title>Primustache: A Tribute To Primus</title>
                                <eventupdate>20 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/primsutache-a-tribute-to-primus/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                <title>Anders Colsefni (Original Slipknot Vocalist)</title>
                                <eventupdate>27 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/anders-colsefni-original-slipknot-vocalist/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                <title>Emo Nite</title>
                                <eventupdate>29 days ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/emo-nite-12/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[THIS PERFORMANCE IS AGES 18+&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Auslander &#8211;  Rammstein Tribute</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/auslander-rammstein-tribute-playing-mutter-25-year-anniversary/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                <title>Gimme Gimme Disco</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/gimme-gimme-disco-2/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[THIS EVENT IS AGES 18+&#160; &#160; If you can&#8217;t get enough of ABBA, boy do we have THE dance party for you! We are a DJ based dance party playing all your favorite ABBA tracks, plus plenty of other disco hits from the 70s &#38; 80's like The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Cher, &#38; so much more. So honey honey, take-a-chance and you&#8217;ll be dancing all night long. Grab tickets, put on your best disco attire, bring your friends, and have the best night of your life!]]></description>
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                                <title>Authority Zero</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/authority-zero/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Authority Zero has never been called &#8220;negative.&#8221; Even during a pandemic, they kept their collective chin up, put their heads down and wrote what could be called their career album. Released in June 2021, Authority Zero&#8217;s album &#8220;Ollie Ollie Oxen Free&#8221; takes a line from hide and seek to encourage fans to leave the COVID-19 depression behind and celebrate life. During the pandemic, singer Jason DeVore saw families torn apart by political views and COVID-19. Now that the divide has somewhat subsided, it&#8217;s time to come out and be yourself again. &#8220;The phrasing in the title track stems from the idea of &#8216;come out, come out, wherever you are,&#8217;&#8221; says DeVore, who co-writes with bassist Michael Spero. &#8220;It encourages a focus on the positive side of 2020, while still maintaining awareness of the hardships and detriment of it all. People have been trapped within themselves, depressed inside of their houses and otherwise. We&#8217;ve been separated both politically and mentally between the left and right, which is very apparent. It&#8217;s a focus of come out, feel free and feel a sense of confidence to live with an unheavy heart and mind again.&#8221; The title track rattles those cages with DeVore&#8217;s encouraging lyrics, the frenetic blur of Christopher Dalley&#8217;s urgent drumming and Spero&#8217;s bass, coupled with guitar licks true to the playing style of returning guitarist Brandon Landelius. With its updated sound, &#8220;Ollie Ollie Oxen Free&#8221; fits in with Authority Zero&#8217;s catalog, DeVore says. &#8220;It&#8217;s more of the times of 2020,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We really tried to focus more on the positive side of things that came from the pandemic, rather than the negative that came out of it. &#8220;We inflect lyrics and music in an uplifting manner. We wanted to shine a light at the end of the tunnel.&#8221;]]></description>
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                                <title>King ISO &#8211; Ghetto Psycho Tour</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/king-iso-ghetto-psycho-tour/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[VIP includes early entry, meet and greet, signed poster and picture with the tour package]]></description>
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                                <title>Congress The Band</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/congress-the-band/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Congress The Band is one of the Southeast&#8217;s most exciting emerging rock acts bring a new&#160;wave of rock music out of the Carolinas. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, the band&#160;has built a fast-growing reputation for turning every stage - whether a packed venue, a&#160;college town, or a full festival field into an all-out rager. With vocals from William Bennett, guitar work from Daniel Guy and Lukas Mishustin,&#160;locked-in grooves from Rob Farmer on bass, and explosive drums from Jett Seawell,&#160;Congress delivers a dynamic performance that feels both modern and timeless. Their&#160;music pulls from indie rock, Americana, and classic Southern roots, creating an anthemic&#160;sound that resonates across generations. In just a short time, Congress has grown from a local Charleston favorite into a regional&#160;touring force. Selling out venues from Athens to Charlotte to Chicago to New York City. The&#160;concerts have become known for heartfelt crowd connections, big-chorus singalongs, and&#160;a level of passion that leaves audiences lined up hours before each show After releasing their debut record, Wasted While I'm Young, Congress The Band has&#160;continued to build a loyal following on the road. With a packed touring schedule and no&#160;signs of slowing down, the band is poised for their biggest year yet.]]></description>
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                                <title>HALOCENE</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/halocene/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                <title>Broadway Rave Dance Party</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/broadway-rave-dance-party/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Calling all Musical Theatre nerds, drama geeks, actors, actresses, theatre lovers, and more! Welcome to Broadway Rave, a Broadway Dance Party celebrating the best in show-tunes and musical theatre. Come sing along to all of your favorite broadway hits while dressed up as your favorite character. We&#8217;ll have surprise guests from some of your favorite Broadway stars! Live out your Broadway fantasies at Broadway Rave &#8212; the most POPULAR Broadway Dance party around. &#160;🎭🤩💐🎤✨🎚️]]></description>
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                                <title>Zepparella</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/zepparella-2/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Zepparella is the Led Zeppelin Powerhouse. Vocalist Anna Kristina, Guitarist Gretchen Menn, Bassist Holly West, and Drummer Clementine have brought their passion for the sacred music of the greatest band in the world all over the world. Zepparella shows replicate the nuance and detail of Zeppelin's catalog while honoring the powerful improvisational journeys for which Zeppelin shows were renowned.]]></description>
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                                <title>The Haunt</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/the-haunt-the-ghost-tour/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                <title>Catsclaw</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/catsclaw/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                <title>Blade Rave</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/blade-rave-2/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[THIS PERFORMANCE IS AGES 18+&#160; Step into the Vampire underworld as Blade Rave turns our venue into a reimagined night inside the iconic Bloodbath rave scene from the film Blade. Arrive early, stay late, just be on the lookout for Vampires. This event includes: DJS playing a mix of goth / techno / house and additional sub-genres of EDM, GoGo Dancers dressed to impress and ready to bite Themed cocktails and limited Blood Bags Event photos + video recap posted on&#160;bladerave.com Cosplayers Customized visuals created by @deadeyesart A midnight bloodbath Suggested Attire: goth / industrial / steampunk / vampire / super hero cosplay Please note, if you are in the crowd during the blood bath, you may get wet. &#8220;Blood&#8221; is washable, but there&#8217;s always a small chance it may leave a stain. &#160; For a refresher on the iconic scene from the original 1998 Blade Movie:&#160;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZd7eptgdfQ &#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>2025 Induction Ceremony</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/2025-induction-ceremony/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Celebrate Nebraska Wrestling History! Join us for an unforgettable evening as the Nebraska Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame proudly welcomes the Class of 2025. Honor the legends, pioneers, and contributors who helped shape professional wrestling in Nebraska and beyond. 2025 Hall of Fame Inductees • Joe Stecher • Jack Pesek • Gorgeous Alex Gretzky • [&#8230;]]]></description>
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                                <title>Digable Planets</title>
                                <eventupdate>1 month ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/digable-planets-celebrating-30-years-of-blow-out-comb/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Digable Planets burst onto the music scene in 1993 with their Grammy-winning single, &#8220;Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat).&#8221; Made up of Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler, Craig &#8220;Doodlebug&#8221; Irving, and Mary Ann &#8220;Ladybug Mecca&#8221; Vieira, the pioneering trio carved out a uniquely appealing style of jazz-informed hip hop that catapulted their first single to the 15th spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.&#160; Shortly after, Digable Planets followed up with their debut album, Reachin&#8217; (A New Refutation of Time And Space), an ambitious offering that Pitchfork praised as &#8220;a world within a world, complete with its own language and monuments.&#8221; Melding jazz samples, and complex rhymes that touched on everything from the nuances of city life ("Where I&#8217;m From") to abortion rights ("La Femme Fetal"), Reachin&#8217; was a rich and vibrant artistic statement as well as a huge commercial success (RIAA certified gold). The group celebrated the 30th anniversary of Reachin&#8217; in 2023.&#160; Digable Planets quickly followed up in 1994 with Blowout Comb, a bold and colorful meditation on Black liberation. While the album did not initially attain the immediate commercial successes of Reachin&#8217;, the 13-track sophomore opus has gone on to age beautifully, influencing future generations of hip hop heads, young jazz musicians, and Afrofuturists. In celebration of the three decades passed since the release of the landmark second album, Digable Planets, once again, takes their full five-piece band on the road for the Blowout Comb 30th Anniversary Tour, now touching North American cities from coast to coast. "Together, we're able to take all of the music, which is, you know, a bunch of disparate samples from here and there, and really represent that era of music in an updated way with one foot in the past, but another foot firmly with a sneaker on sprinting into the future with a lot of new sounds and a lot of new concepts," said Digable Planets founder Butterfly.]]></description>
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                                <title>Deerhoof</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/deerhoof/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                <title>CONVICTIONS</title>
                                <eventupdate>2 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/convictions-the-horizon-we-seek-tour/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Hailing from Fremont, OH, the five-piece metalcore act Convictions is making a significant impact on the global stage. Self-described as "Aggressive Worship," Convictions sets themselves apart by crafting lyrical content rooted in their own deeply held beliefs. Their music boldly pushes boundaries, tackling topics often left untouched within the Christian music scene. Their fourth studio album,&#160;The Fear of God, debuted at #1 on the iTunes Metal Albums Chart and has solidified their presence in the genre. Currently, Convictions is actively touring worldwide, bringing their powerful message and intense performances to audiences across the globe.]]></description>
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                                <title>Born of Osiris</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/born-of-osiris/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                <title>2000&#8217;s Rave</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/2000s-rave-2/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[CALLING ALL 90s BABIES: We're throwing a 2000s rave! Come experience a night of limewire classics remixed for the dancefloor by the hottest artists in EDM. Party like it's 2003!]]></description>
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                                <title>Giovannie and the Hired Guns</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/giovannie-and-the-hired-guns-2/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Since their inception in 2015, Giovannie and The Hired Guns have made a blockbuster&#160; career out of wildly defying expectations. With a visceral sound that merges alt-metal, Red Dirt country, Latin pop, Americana, and much more, the Stephenville, Texas-based five piece have ascended from playing local honky-tonks to taking the stage at major festivals&#160; and arenas across the country, drawing an ardent crowd ranging from cowboys to metalheads to skate punks. As they continue their colossal rise&#8212;a journey that&#8217;s included&#160; scoring a No. 1 radio hit with their smash single &#8220;Ramon Ayala&#8221; and winning the 2023&#160; iHeartRadio Music Award for Best New Artist in Alternative &#38; Rock&#8212;Giovannie and The&#160; Hired Guns now return with their new album Quitter: a body of work that pushes the&#160; boundaries with even more intensity, matching its explosive riVs and unforgettable hooks&#160; with the band&#8217;s most brutally honest songwriting to date.&#160; Produced by Johnny K (Megadeth, Sevendust, Plain White T&#8217;s), Quitter marks the fourth full length from Giovannie and The Hired Guns (frontman Giovannie Yanez, guitarists Carlos&#160; Villa and Jerrod Flusche, bassist/tuba player Alex Trejo, and drummer/pianist Milton Toles)&#160; and second LP since signing with Warner Music Nashville through a first-of-its-kind&#160; partnership with Warner Music Latina. While the band have always brought a powerful&#160; emotionality to their lyrics, the album embodies an unfiltered urgency that has much to do&#160; with Yanez&#8217;s processing a number of life-altering troubles in real-time, including the death&#160; of a close friend and his own relapse into addiction.&#160; The follow-up to 2022&#8217;s Tejano Punk Boyz, Quitter finds Giovannie and The Hired Guns&#160; doubling down on the freewheeling attitude they first embraced in their earliest days as a&#160; band, back when Yanez was working the counter at a nearby pawnshop. &#8220;From the beginning I told the guys not to worry about sounding too rock or too country on this&#160; record,&#8221; Yanez recalls. &#8220;We just went in there and had fun and didn&#8217;t let anything hold us&#160; back, and because of that the album shows the full range of what we can do as a band.&#8221;&#160; Immediately delivering on that promise, Quitter opens on the galvanizing rhythms and&#160; throat-shredding vocals of &#8220;Cheap Tequila&#8221;: a ferocious yet fun-loving track that speaks an&#160; unvarnished truth about their shared life experience. &#8220;I wrote that song thinking about us in&#160; our younger days, when we were all broke and working these mid-paying jobs,&#8221; says Yanez.&#160; Looking back on the making of Giovannie and The Hired Guns&#8217; most personal album yet, Yanez reveals that Quitter helped to clarify his overall mission and vision for the band. &#8220;This&#160; record made me want to keep putting out songs that are fun and serious at the same time,&#8221;&#160; he says. &#8220;I want to show everyone that it&#8217;s okay to feel sad and out of place, but that&#160; doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t have a good time&#8212;it&#8217;s all a part of being human. We just want to be&#160; real with our fans and let them know we&#8217;re all diVerent and a little oV-the-wall too. And&#160; when they come out to the shows, I try to make them feel like they&#8217;re just as much a part of&#160; the band as my guys are. We&#8217;re all connected, and without them we&#8217;d never be where we are now.&#8221;]]></description>
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                                <title>Nevertel</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/nevertel/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[THE OTHERS EXPERIENCE VIP PACKAGE includes:&#160; One standing GA ticket with early entry to the floor&#160; Exclusive production Q&#38;A with the band Professional photo opportunity with Nevertel A VIP exclusive Nevertel merchandise pack One exclusive propaganda poster autographed by Nevertel One commemorative laminate and lanyard Tour merchandise shopping opportunity before doors VIP check-in and priority lane into the venue before doors &#160; THE TRAVELER EXPERIENCE VIP PACKAGE includes:&#160; One standing GA ticket with early entry to the floor&#160; Professional photo opportunity with Nevertel A VIP exclusive Nevertel merchandise pack One exclusive propaganda poster autographed by Nevertel One commemorative laminate and lanyard VIP check-in and priority lane into the venue before doors &#160; Leading with an emphasis on quality in everything they do, Nevertel - Jeremy Michael (vocalist), Raul Lopez (rapper/guitarist/producer) and Alec Davis (guitarist) - have honed a distinctly modern genre-blending sound that fuses elements of hip-hop, nu-metal and alternative rock. Touting influences from established acts such as Linkin Park and Bring Me The Horizon, the group draws in listeners with riveting melodic choruses, hip-hop infused verses and bombastic EDM-style breakdowns.&#160;&#160; Even before they were Nevertel, they were just a bunch of childhood pals bonded by their shared love of music. &#8220;We&#8217;ve all been best friends since high school and have been in and out of bands together,&#8221; Jeremy explains.&#160; However, as often happens with school-aged friendships, they eventually drifted apart &#8211; until music intervened yet again. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t until years later, after seeing Linkin Park at the 2014 Carnivores Tour, Raul called me and Alec about starting another band.&#8221; Though the trio is long past their high school days, they still bond over the interests they shared as kids. &#8220;What brought us together was our love for music and video games. We would play video games to stay close and keep in contact about the band. Music and gaming have been instrumental to our growth and bond as brothers.&#8221;&#160; Now, after two albums, two EPs, and a slew of singles out in the world, Nevertel has racked up over 60 million global streams to date (and over 900K a week) while fostering an online community of over 600K social media followers. A testament of their dedication to their craft and commitment to their fans, the band has performed at festivals like Welcome To Rockville, seen radio support from SiriusXM and earned recognition across all major DSPs, with a placement on Spotify&#8217;s All New Metal, Kickass Metal, and Hard Rock playlists.&#160; &#8220;Our mission is pretty simple: to make music that saves and inspires people to make great changes in their lives.&#8221; While they pour their hearts into their work, at the core of it all, they do it for the tight-knit group of childhood best friends they once were. &#8220;If we could inspire that same 13-year-old kid we once were to follow their dreams and chase their passions then I'd say our mission is being accomplished.&#8221;&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>REVOCATION</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/revocation/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Revocation creates extreme music for extreme times. On New Gods, New Masters, their fifth record for Metal Blade, the quartet--spearheaded by founder/vocalist/guitarist Dave Davidson--delivers nine potent and portentous songs of brutal lyrical and musical significance. Produced by Davidson mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren (The Haunted, Spiritbox), tracks including "Cronenberged" (feat. Jonny Davy of Job for a Cowboy), "Sarcophagi of the Soul," "Confines of Infinity" (feat. Travis Ryan of Cattle Decapitation) and "Dystopian Vermin" thematically explore AI and its impact on humanity. "I've been very fascinated with the development of Artificial Intelligence, and I'm deeply concerned where this could lead humanity," says Davidson, "whether it's the slow march towards a technological dystopia or the all-out annihilation of our species." New Gods, New Masters marks the band's 20th anniversary. Revocation debuted with 2008's Empire of the Obscene and subsequently released seven critically acclaimed albums and toured over 25 countries, bringing their technically charged, high-energy extreme metal to North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. New Gods follows up 2022's Netherheaven, where Davidson's lyrics took hard looks at Catholicism, hypocrisy, politics, the occult and demonic symbolism. Critics raved about Netherheaven, calling it "Revocation's best record in a decade" and praising the "darkest, heaviest songs of their career." That album set a high bar, but an even sharper musical and lyrical focus was achieved on New Gods, New Masters, which is deftly captured in the album artwork by Paolo Girardi. "He did an incredible job of bringing the lyrical themes of a bleak techno-nightmare to life," Davidson says. "The 'New God' being birthed from the abyss of teeth and wires was even better than what I envisioned. I absolutely love the color palette he used. He even included some easter eggs from our first demo and first full-length album cover, which adds even more depth and meaning to the artwork for me." Titling the album New Gods, New Masters reflects his belief about humans' need to worship various gods. "It seems as if that desire is encoded in our DNA. As science and our understanding of nature and the universe as a whole, increases, the religions of the old gods start to become obsolete," believes Davidson. "However, I believe we've replaced our old gods with new ones, worshipping technology and creating a cult-like idolatry of innovators." Revocation, unafraid to upend musical and lyrical tropes with forward-thinking and sounding approach, with songs that excoriate society's addiction to phones ('Sarcophagi of the Soul") and animal experiments that illuminate/replicate societal issues ("Dystopian Vermin"), Davidson's science-backed observations all the more terrifying for their reality. If technological advances create worse problems alongside "solutions," Revocation forge ahead, four guys plugged in, fighting existential threats with metal, "waiting to see what the next trial of the human experiment brings." Music grounds and uplifts the band members-and fans. "I'm proud that I've been able to evolve as a musician and songwriter with every release. I never want to stagnate, and I think we've achieved real growth with every album," says Davidson. "I'm also extremely proud that I've been able to keep this band going after all these years; it's crazy to think of how far we've since the beginning."]]></description>
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                                <title>In Her Own Words x Every Avenue</title>
                                <eventupdate>3 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/in-her-own-words-x-every-avenue/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[For the last decade, In Her Own Words have quietly become one of the most beloved and consistent voices in modern pop punk, building a dedicated fanbase through brutally honest songwriting, massive singalong choruses, and the kind of emotional connection that only comes from lived experience. In 2026, the band celebrates the 10 year anniversary of their breakthrough album Unfamiliar, the record that helped define a generation of emotionally charged pop-punk and introduced fans to songs that still hit just as hard today. From bedroom speakers to packed clubs around the world, Unfamiliar became more than just an album. It became a soundtrack for growing up, falling apart, and figuring yourself out along the way. To celebrate the milestone, the band will be performing Unfamiliar in full on a special anniversary co-headline tour alongside longtime scene favorites Every Avenue. Bringing together two bands whose songs helped shape the soundtrack of the late 2000s and 2010s emo and pop punk scene, the tour is designed as both a nostalgic celebration and a reminder of why these songs continue to resonate with fans years later. While the anniversary tour celebrates the album that changed everything for the band, In Her Own Words aren&#8217;t simply revisiting the past. Behind the scenes, the band has spent the last year working on a brand new full-length album, one they describe as their most ambitious and emotionally honest material to date. With new music expected in 2026, this tour marks both a celebration of where the band came from and the beginning of an entirely new chapter. ---- Every Avenue&#160;is a Michigan-born alternative rock/pop punk band known for the nostalgic anthems that helped define the late-2000s Warped Tour era. After multiple years performing on Warped Tour and worldwide touring alongside Boys Like Girls, The Summer Set, New Found Glory, Secondhand Serenade, and Yellowcard.&#160; The band built a loyal international following through fan-favorite tracks like &#8220;Tell Me I&#8217;m a Wreck&#8221; and &#8220;Mindset.&#8221; Now returning with renewed momentum, Every Avenue is making their official comeback in 2026 with plans to release new music and launch a six-week U.S. legacy tour alongside In Her Own Words &#8212; bringing the energy, emotion, and nostalgia of the golden pop punk era back to stages across the country. ---- Public Works came ripping out of New Jersey this past year. After years of releasing music and content under different names and genres, Public Works fell back into his roots. His single &#8220;Long Island&#8221; took the internet by storm and launched his name around the world overnight. Public Works has not slowed down since, releasing a song a month, along with a 5 track EP titled, &#8220;Pocket Knife&#8221; in June 2025. His shows are.. let&#8217;s just say eccentric. After his first run of shows in the north east in April of 2025, Public Works found a new obsession in connecting with fans through performing. It&#8217;s something you have to see in person. ---- FELICITY is an Orlando-based &#8220;trash rock&#8221; band formed in 2013, blending pop-punk, hard rock, and metalcore]]></description>
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                                <title>Pokey LaFarge</title>
                                <eventupdate>4 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/pokey-lafarge-2/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[For two decades, Pokey LaFarge has walked his own effortlessly cool road as an exceptionally iconoclastic troubadour &#8211; forthright, genuine, and markedly keen to put it all out there. Rent Money now sees him pushing forward yet again in what can be safely declared his finest collection to date, both as an heartfelt expression of personal experience and as no-nonsense social commentary. With its twanging guitars, plucky rhythms, and undeniably captivating melodies, the album soars and swings, its joyous refrains belying the inescapable undercurrent of constant worry and angst that permeates these troubled times. As always, the Illinois native deftly traverses the genre boundaries, seamlessly integrating the myriad strains of 20th-century American music with a freewheeling command of earnest songcraft, inspired performance, and subversive creativity. Rent Money stands tall as an indisputable high-water mark for Pokey LaFarge &#8211; a defining collection from a one-of-a-kind artist of rare ingenuity and uncommon candor, now as ever, determinedly crafting a sure-footed brand of deeply human music all his own.&#160; &#8220;People are always going to tell you what they think you should play,&#8221; says Pokey LaFarge, &#8220;what you should sing about, how you should sound, how you should look, how you should act. And I&#8217;ve always just been like, nah. Nope. I&#8217;ve just completely gone my own way, and hopefully I&#8217;ve been honest and authentic in the process. &#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to make music that AI can&#8217;t replicate. Things are so homogenized right now. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m really, really, really resistant to, especially when it comes to music. I&#8217;m not going to do it. I&#8217;m not going to conform.&#8221;]]></description>
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                                <title>Failure</title>
                                <eventupdate>4 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/failure-the-rising-skyline-tour/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Magnified VIP Includes:&#160; -One General Admission Ticket -Early entry and watch soundcheck -Hang with the band -Professional photo and autograph -Laminate and lanyard -Exclusive lapel Pin -Exclusive Location Lost tote bag -10% off on merch, and first access.&#160; &#160; For a band so closely associated with weight, density, and mass, Failure have spent much of their career writing about what happens when those things fall away. Bodies drift. Memories fragment. Signals distort. Gravity fails. But even after 30 years, the hugely influential trio of Ken Andrews, Greg Edwards, and Kelli Scott are still following the sound wherever it leads, even when it&#8217;s uncomfortable, unfamiliar, or disruptive. Location Lost, the band&#8217;s seventh album and their fourth since improbably reuniting in 2014 after a 17-year-hiatus, doesn&#8217;t arrive as a victory lap or a nostalgia exercise. Instead, it sounds like a band actively negotiating where &#8212; and who &#8212; they are now. &#8220;It&#8217;s very different,&#8221; Edwards says plainly of the nine-song follow-up to 2021&#8217;s Wild Type Droid. &#8220;There are sounds and parts that really don&#8217;t have any precedence within the Failure world.&#8221; That sense of divergence is inseparable from how Location Lost came together. Following Wild Type Droid, Failure completed a long-gestating documentary (Every Time You Lose Your Mind) and concert film (We Are Hallucinations) that chronicled their history, drug-marred breakup, and improbable second life playing for a newfound younger and more diverse audience.&#160; Almost immediately after finishing the film, Andrews suffered a serious back injury that required surgery. The operation was technically successful; the recovery was not. &#8220;It kind of messed up my brain chemistry somehow,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t just physical recovery.&#8221; By late 2024, Failure were finally able to begin recording in earnest. As with Wild Type Droid, Andrews, Edwards, and Scott rented a studio and spent weeks improvising together as a trio, recording hours of unfiltered material without overthinking where it might lead.&#160; When Andrews took the sessions back to his L.A. home studio and began shaping them into songs, something unexpected happened. &#8220;I had a burst of creativity&#8212;especially lyrically. Since we rebooted, Greg&#8217;s been the more dominant lyrical force. That completely flipped on this record,&#8221; but not before Edwards suggested the song &#8220;Location Lost&#8221; also serve as the album&#8217;s title. &#8220;It resonated with me immediately, because at the beginning of making the record, I was lost,&#8221; Andrews says. &#8220;I lost my tether of love for the band. By the time we finished it, I felt totally reconnected.&#8221; Throughout, Location Lost delivers dose after dose of Andrews, Edwards and Scott&#8217;s utterly unique creative and instrumental interplay, from the warning bell-like guitar chimes on propulsive opener &#8220;Crash Test Delayed,&#8221; to the elastic, bass-driven groove of &#8220;Halo and Grain&#8221; and the grinding, methodical wall of sound on &#8220;Solid State,&#8221; which wouldn&#8217;t have sounded out of place on 1996&#8217;s all-time-classic Fantastic Planet. Three decades after Fantastic Planet, Failure is not attempting to relive the past. They&#8217;re still improvising, still arguing, still trusting one another enough to risk uncertainty. And while Location Lost doesn&#8217;t pretend to offer easy answers, it documents a band in motion, untethered and searching &#8212; and, against all odds, still very much alive.]]></description>
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                                <title>Emarosa</title>
                                <eventupdate>4 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/emarosa-presents-high-horse-heaven-tour/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                                <title>Saturn Ascends: A Tool Live Tribute Experience</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/saturn-ascends-a-tool-live-tribute-experience/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Omaha, it has been several years since we have seen this now legendary show, but it is finally returning for one night only at The Waiting Room Lounge. The phenom known as Saturn Ascends makes their triumphant return to their Omaha home to once again bring you the show that thousands of fans have come to know and love and heralded as one of the very best tribute shows in the Midwest. This is by far one of the most in demand and requested shows that we host. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you close your eyes and just listen or watch the spectacle taking place on stage. You will swear you are watching and hearing the real thing. Please get your tickets on Etix ASAP as this show always sells out in advance. We look forward to making the pieces fit with you one more time!]]></description>
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                                <title>Kurt Vile And The Violators</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/kurt-vile-and-the-violators/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Released in God&#8217;s year of 2026, the 250th anniversary of the founding of America in Kurt Vile&#8217;s&#160;fine city of Philadelphia, Philadelphia&#8217;s been good to me finds one of our nation&#8217;s greatest&#160;songwriters staking a claim on his hometown. &#8220;This is my &#8216;bringing it all back home to Philly&#8217;&#160;record,&#8221; Vile says. &#8220;I&#8217;m treating it like my last one. I put everything into it. It&#8217;s my best vocal&#160;record. It&#8217;s my best electric guitar record. It&#8217;s my most organic record, made in the comfort of my&#160;own zone.&#8221; Largely self-produced, with assists from Adam Langellotti, keys wiz Matthew Jugenheimer,&#160;drummer Kyle Spence, guitarist Jesse Trbovrich, and longtime Violators boardsman Rob&#160;Schnapf, the record embodies Vile&#8217;s understanding of music as a conversation between people&#160;across time and space. The title track is an ode to his hometown that doubles as an homage to&#160;Tom Petty&#8217;s homage to California. The barn-burning &#8220;Chance to Bleed&#8221; features guest spots&#160;from Memphis OGs Natalie Hoffman and Greg Cartwright but boasts a music video proudly shot&#160;at the Philly venue Kung Fu Necktime and features a cameo by local legend Schoolly D. &#8220;You&#160;Don&#8217;t Know Cuz It&#8217;s My Life&#8221; is Kurt&#8217;s take on a stadium anthem, building up to a laid-back yet&#160;triumphant chant of &#8220;I&#8217;m from Phil-a-del-phiaaaaaaah!&#8221; that you can imagine a crowd of Eagles&#160;fans screaming along to, Twisted Teas pointed towards the heavens. Make no mistake: Philadelphia&#8217;s been good to me is the sound of Philly&#8217;s constant hitmaker&#160;coming back to kick ass, son the haters, and put on for the City of Brotherly Love &#8212; and in true&#160;Kurt Vile fashion, doing so while sounding more relaxed than ever. Between the 250th&#160;anniversary of America and its hosting of select World Cup games, 2026 is shaping up to be a&#160;big deal for Philadelphia. &#8220;And then there&#8217;s one other thing,&#8221; Vile says. &#8220;I gotta be that third&#160;thing. Because I am Philadelphia. I gotta own it. I gotta rise to the occasion.&#8221;]]></description>
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                                <title>Akeem Ali</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/akeem-ali-the-texture-tour/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[VIP PACKAGES INCLUDE:&#160; ONE (1) GENERAL ADMISSION TICKET INCLUDED Invitation to Pre-show Meet &#38; Greet Experience with Akeem Ali Photo and Autograph Opportunity One (1) Collector's Item Early Entry into Venue &#160; Boasting himself as &#8220;The Greatest Rapper Alive&#8221; Akeem Ali&#8217;s reputation often precedes him with his artistry and heavy metaphor based lines. Coming in with the third installment of his &#8220;Texture Tape&#8221; series Akeemblends the comparison of clothing textures with the sounds of sultry production and witty lyricism creating the perfect synesthesia. His style has evolved from a backpack rapper and singer, to a 70s exploitation maestro, and to what now is a perfect mixture of both. His continuous growth and style rebranding sets him apart from many and puts him in the rankings to be a household name and generational talent.&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>The New Pornographers</title>
                                <eventupdate>5 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/the-new-pornographers-the-former-site-of-tour/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Over the past 20+ years, The New Pornographers have proven themselves one of the most excellent bands in indie rock. They have released nine studio albums, including their classic debut Mass Romantic and their latest 2023&#8217;s Continue as a Guest. The band&#8217;s new album The Former Site Of will be out via Merge Records on 3/27/26 and new single &#8220;Votive&#8221; is out now.They&#8217;ve constantly offered new sonic surprises with every album, and have established themselves alongside modern luminaries like Yo La Tengo and Superchunk when it comes to their ability to evolve while still retaining what made them so special in the first place. Of the 2023 record, New York Magazine lauded, &#8220;The New Pornographers are a massive unit bursting with unique and intersecting talents&#8230;the band&#8217;s ninth album serves another helping of their signature dish.&#8221;Critical acclaim for The New Pornographers:&#8220;Over the course of their 20-plus-year career, the New Pornographers have often specialized in catchy ambiguity. If leader Carl Newman was just a machine cranking out power-pop tunes, it would get boring. But there&#8217;s also a lot of mixed emotions going on under the surface of their studiously nuanced pop-rock formalism&#8212;like if Cheap Trick was as quick-witted as Steely Dan, or the Romantics were as thoughtful as R.E.M.&#8221;- Rolling Stone&#8220;Pure, blissfully irresistible power pop&#8221;- NPR Music&#8220;[The New Pornographers] make catchy, sophisticated alternate-universe hits.&#8221;- Stereogum]]></description>
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                                <title>Deer Tick</title>
                                <eventupdate>6 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/deer-tick/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Deer Tick VIP Pre-show Experience Includes:&#160; One (1) General Admission ticket Hear Deer Tick play a few songs not featured in the night&#8217;s setlist! VIP-exclusive tour poster, signed by the band Specially designed Deer Tick tote bag Commemorative VIP laminate and lanyard Merchandise shopping prior to doors opening to the public Early entry to the venue &#160; The ninth studio album from Deer Tick, Coin-O-Matic casts a bright light on a little-known facet of the American mythos: the hidden histories of the band&#8217;s home state of Rhode Island, where the everyday dramas of working-class families long collided with the menace of the mafia underworld. As they tapped into their infinite fascination with that strange duality, singer/guitarist John McCauley, guitarist/singer Ian O&#8217;Neil, drummer/singer Dennis Ryan, and bassist Christopher Ryan assembled a batch of songs exploring desperation, grief, redemption, and resilience with both cinematic detail and lived-in emotionality. A sharp new turn from one of indie-rock&#8217;s most enduringly vital forces, Coin-O-Matic arrives as a complicated love letter to a way of life slowly slipping from the collective memory.&#160; The follow-up to Emotional Contracts (hailed by Uncut as one of 2023&#8217;s best albums), Coin-O-Matic takes its title from a cigarette-vending-machine company that served as the headquarters of Raymond Patriarca&#8212;a legendary mobster who ran one of the most ruthless crime families in U.S. history. &#8220;If you grew up in Rhode Island years ago, you&#8217;d see all these mobsters on the news and then run into them at a restaurant on Federal Hill,&#8221; says McCauley, referring to Providence&#8217;s version of Little Italy. &#8220;They were criminals but also very colorful characters, and I wanted the album to partly reflect a certain nostalgia for that kind of seediness.&#8221; In its soulful contemplation of recklessness and consequence, longing and devotion, Coin-O-Matic ultimately joins the canon of rock albums whose geographically rooted storytelling reveals deeper truths about the human experience. &#8220;I think there&#8217;s something universal in stories of regret and loss and poor decisions, even if they&#8217;re told through the lens of all the odd characters in this little state of ours,&#8221; O&#8217;Neil points out. &#8220;One of the reasons I wanted us to make this album is that I think Rhode Island deserves to be a contender for a place that people sing about,&#8221; McCauley adds. &#8220;Sonically there&#8217;s nothing country about it, but to me it almost feels like a country record set in an urban environment&#8212;there&#8217;s definitely some outlaws in there. I hope that people see themselves in it, and that they understand a little more about the place that we come from.&#8221;&#160;]]></description>
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                                <title>Bahamas</title>
                                <eventupdate>6 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/bahamas/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Afie Jurvanen does not spend too much time in cities these days. For nearly two decades, Jurvanen was a fixture of the Toronto scene, both as a valued multi-instrumentalist and producer for friends like Feist, The Weather Station, and Kathleen Edwards and as the architect of one of his country&#8217;s most celebrated artists, Bahamas. Jurvanen came of age across Bahamas&#8217; first six albums, the restlessness of jumpy early hits like Pink Strat and Barchords slowly shifting into the generous domesticity of 2023&#8217;s Bootcut. But Jurvanen has long been drawn to open spaces, to a quieter life. In 2009, the year of his aforementioned debut, he began visiting Nova Scotia, the Atlantic Ocean. Over the next decade, his trips became more consistent, then more frequent, and then longer, until, in 2019, Jurvanen and his family of four finally made the move&#8212;nearly 2,000 kilometers northeast, to Nova Scotia. They live a lifestyle, Jurvanen half-jokes, that is &#8220;close to Mennonite.&#8221; The kids are homeschooled. No one has an iPad. Text messages can feel like miracles. Despite his extended r&#233;sum&#233;, Jurvanen has never been much of a tech guy or studio hound, never one for making his own records. In 2021, however, producer and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Van Tassel had also left Toronto, moving back to Nova Scotia and building a little studio, called DreamDate, in a backyard shed there. It was just small enough to skirt inspections, just big enough to house everything. Jurvanen had once rented Van Tassel&#8217;s space back in Toronto to listen to his Earthtones album on someone else&#8217;s speakers, to decide if it was ready for release. He&#8217;d been impressed by the place&#8217;s minimalism and tidiness, by the studio rarity of everything working. So Jurvanen began driving the 20 minutes from his cottage to Van Tassel&#8217;s spot via a winding ocean road, passing his days hanging out with his local friend and recording some songs. There was no real agenda but to work and play. And that&#8217;s how two people in a little shed made what may be the most effortlessly magnetic record in the entire Bahamas catalogue, My Second Last Album. Van Tassel and Jurvanen played every sound on My Second Last Album, from the buzzing acoustics of &#8220;Shadows&#8221; to the Mellotron ostinato of &#8220;Play the Game.&#8221; This self-dependence allowed them to do anything they wanted, to follow musical enthusiasms into any space they favored. Jurvanen wrote &#8220;The Bridge&#8221; via text with Hiss Golden Messenger&#8217;s M.C. Taylor, and he and Van Tassel turned it into an infectious country-funk tune, the strutting refrain closing the gap between Little Feat and Canned Heat. There is charging indie rock, hazy piano, and pastoral folk-rock. Again, My Second Last Album is anything Van Tassel and Jurvanen wanted it to be.&#160; For a long time, Jurvanen didn&#8217;t know what to do with My Second Last Album. After cutting a legitimate country record in the city where the genre lives, was it a too-weird left turn to put out a loose-limbed indie-pop set cut in a shed? He thought about slicing it into singles or splicing it as a bonus onto some sort of future Bahamas compendium, maybe even shelving it altogether. But then he put the record back on after not hearing it for several months and had the simplest and most profound realization possible: He loved these songs, the way they sat together, the story they told about who he was at that moment&#8212;a married father content to live in the country alongside the very ocean where he surfs, a musician who often goes to his buddy&#8217;s house to casually make some music. It became My Second Last Album, one of Bahamas&#8217; truly indispensable works.]]></description>
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                                <title>Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers</title>
                                <eventupdate>7 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/roger-clyne-and-the-peacemakers-2/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[&#8220;Here&#8217;s to life!&#8221; Fans around the world can be found singing the chorus of the Roger Clyne-penned fan favorite &#8220;Mekong&#8221; and toasting their glasses in unison to celebrate life through rock-n-roll. But the inspiration for the song dates back to the time Roger went to Taipei, Taiwan, as a college student to teach English during the day and busk with his guitar at night for money. Today, as Clyne prepares to release his 11th studio album, he continues to transform his life experiences, inspirations, observations and his own muses into timeless music. And whether he&#8217;s wearing his Converse high tops, boots or sandals, Clyne&#8217;s blend of punk rock, americana, indie-pop and mariachi influences have made him, drummer PH Naffah, guitarist Jim Dalton and bassist Nick Scropos &#8211; collectively known as Roger Clyne &#38; The Peacemakers &#8211; one of America&#8217;s best live rock-n-roll bands. Starting with the seminal Tempe quartet, The Refreshments, Clyne and Naffah put the fun in rock &#38; roll during the 90s grunge era with a sense of humor. They also started what would become a trademark sound on all future albums by adding mariachi horns, something Clyne was influenced by while in college studying Cultural Anthropology with an ethnography study of mariachis during a three month Spanish-immersion stay with a local family in Ensenada, Mexico. The Refreshments&#8217; debut album, &#8220;Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big &#38; Buzzy,&#8221; became a cult classic.&#160; Changes within their record label and internal band issues resulted in Clyne and Naffah going on a vision quest of sorts in the Whetstone Mountains near the Clyne Ranch in Southeastern Arizona. It was there that Clyne found inspiration in the rolling hills and the jukeboxes of small town taverns that still played Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash &#8211; music he had shed from his youth in favor of bands like Camper Van Beethoven &#38; They Might Be Giants. But after reconnecting with those old country records, Clyne and Naffah wrote and recorded under a new moniker what would become Roger Clyne &#38; The Peacemakers&#8217; debut album, &#8220;Honky Tonk Union.&#8221; The album was the perfect combination of classic rock and twang, and fans immediately connected with it. Their independent release, &#8220;Honky Tonk Union,&#8221; debuted at No. 1 on Billboard&#8217;s Internet Album Sales chart in 1999 prompting a call from a Billboard exec to their Manager demanding, &#8220;Who the hell is Roger Clyne and why is he #1 on my chart?!&#8221; beating out much better known artists that week like Santana, Creed, Nine Inch Nails, Melissa Ethridge and 311. RCPM released eight more albums that landed in the top ten of Billboard&#8217;s Internet Album Sales chart, including a No.1 debut for their third album, &#8220;&#161;Americano!&#8221; &#8211; all without the backing of a major record label and while flying under the radar of commercial radio. Currently, they just finished their next album, &#8220;Hell to Breakfast.&#8221; The first single hit streaming on November 21st, 2025, the second single will drop Jan 9th, 2026 and the album launches March 6th, 2026. Roger Clyne &#38; The Peacemakers have toured all over the US and achieved a faithful following through hard work and great music. They have done this all while being independent, without the safety net of a label or a label&#8217;s radio promotion department. Dubbed &#8220;The Springsteen of the Southwest,&#8221; by the Asbury Park Press the band delivers exciting live performances that garner declarations like the one from emcee Jay Peterman of the Seinfeld TV show at Alice Cooper&#8217;s annual Christmas Pudding event, &#8220;Young man, you light that stage a-flame!&#8221;]]></description>
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                                <title>Dad Rock Night (2000s Rock Tribute)</title>
                                <eventupdate>7 months ago</eventupdate>
                                <link>https://waitingroomlounge.com/event/dad-rock-night-2000s-rock-tribute-presented-by-council-hill/waiting-room-lounge/omaha-nebraska/</link>
                                <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[Join us for a night of covers of all your favorite dad rock hitsincluding:&#160; &#160; 3 Doors Down, Creed, Nickleback, Audioslave, Three Days Grace, Shinedown, Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd, Matchbox Twenty, Hoobastank, and more!!!&#160;]]></description>
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