Date: Wednesday, April 21st
Time: 10PM
Place: The Shadow Room (170 Main St)
Cost: free

Time: 10pm
Date: February 17th
Place: The Shadow Room, 170 Main St
Cost: however much you decide to spend on booze…

Tonight that combination will be show in its ideal form at The Shadow Room on Main St, lead by a splendidly jammy set by The Last Minutes, who will be joined by several special musician-about-campus guests (you have to come down yourself to find out who).

If you have managed to never see The Last Minutes before and want to check them out before heading down to Main St, you can do so here: http://www.myspace.com/lastminutesthe

Also, did you know it’s groundhog day? Well, Aural Wes reminded me, and I realized that either outcome is a great motivator to come down and partake in the splendor of a musical bar night.  I don’t know whether the beast saw it’s shadow or what, but come down to either celebrate the imminent coming of spring or to attempt to forget that we have several solid weeks of winter ahead.

Date: February 3

Time: 10:30PM

Place: The Shadow Room, 170 Main St

Cost: nothin’

From the wonderful Barry Finder ‘09:

The Shadow Room starts a Wesleyan night on Wednesdays! This week there is buy one get one drinks for ANYTHING you want!! Also, there is a DJ and it’s just a different ambiance than Gatekeeper/Hair of the Dog. So check it out this week and enjoy the drink special!

Word. Another reason to celebrate Bar Night.

Date: every Wednesday night
Place: The Shadow Room, 170 Main St
Price: Buy one, get one free!

Located where Mega Wraps used to be (right on Main Street between College and William Streets), it has Mega Wraps’ sandwich menu for lunch and opens up the bar in the evening, with 6 craft beers on tap and film projections running along one wall.

As if that isn’t enough of a welcome bar night alternative to the Gatekeeper, there’s other stuff going on the rest of the week:

Hartford’s locally famous “Shag Frenzy” indie dance night (voted the Hartford Advocate’s best dance night) is moving to the Shadow Room, and will be on the third Saturday of every month starting this Saturday, the 19th, with no cover charge.

Check out their Facebook event.

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19 (and the 3rd Saturday of every month after)
Time: 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM
Place: The Shadow Room, 170 Main Street

The Shadow Room is also hosting “Twisted Tuesdays”, a weekly gay night. From Barry Finder ‘09 and Jegadish Guna ‘11:

If you like the following :
(a) Getting Drunk on Tuesdays
(b) Gays, gays and more gays
(c) Dance Music (of the Lady Gaga kind)

Then you’ll love Twisted Tuesdays! If you are looking for an alternative gay scene or just want to meet gays outside of Wesleyan, you’re in luck.

There are drink specials before 11 as well as midnight shot specials. Come down for $5 martinis and $1 draft beer from 9-11 with your WesCard! You only need to be 18 to enter, but you will be required to show ID at the bar when ordering.

Date: Tuesday, Sept. 22 (and every Tuesday after)
Time: 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM
Place: The Shadow Room, 170 Main Street

The Shade consists of Adam Tinkle ‘08, Josh Koenig ‘09 and Matt Paterson ‘09, and Jake Nussbaum ‘10 and Will Brant ‘10.

Precision Libido consists of Aliza Simons ‘09, and Rayna Edwards ‘10, Elissa Martel ‘10, and Emily Meyer ‘10.

Rayna says:

First, rock out with the steamy stylings of Precision Libido, Wesleyan’s only all-female post-punk band. P Lib’s original raunchy riot grrrl tunes and slightly pornographic stage antics are bound to make you hot and bothered. Next, cool down to the jazzy garage-rock jams of The Shade, whose stylistically sleek sounds will chill you out to the point where you forget spring break ended days before.

So come party with some Wes bands on the first bar night of spring and kick off the awesomefest that is post-spring-break Wesleyan.

When: Wednesday, March. 25th (bar night) at 10pm sharp
Where: Public Bar & Grill (337 Main St.)

Tonight at 10PM (or roughly barnight-o’c'lock), stalwart Wesleyan music-band/rock-group The Shade will perform at Public, the new Main Street bar and eatery that’s attempting to steal the Wednesday night thunder from Gatekeeper through some unbelievable drink specials.

The Shade, featuring Adam Tinkle ‘08, Josh Koenig and Matt Paterson 09, and Jake Nussbaum and Will Brant ‘10, were most recently seen at Earth House sharing a bill with Megafaun.

Expect grooves to wash over you like that apparatus at the waterpark that makes huge waves in the swimming pool, except this pool is steamy hot, and if you put on your undersea goggles, you would see all kinds of crazy and brightly colored corals growing out of the floor. Dance? Drink ridiculously cheap pitchers? Avoid the pink corona gimmick?

Date: Wednesday, October 22
Time: 10 pm
Place: Public (on Main Street)

Tonight at 10PM (or roughly barnight-o’c'lock), stalwart Wesleyan music-band/rock-group The Shade will perform at Public, the new Main Street bar and eatery that’s attempting to steal the Wednesday night thunder from Gatekeeper through some unbelievable drink specials.

The Shade, featuring Adam Tinkle ‘08, Josh Koenig and Matt Paterson 09, and Jake Nussbaum and Will Brant ‘10, were most recently seen at Earth House sharing a bill with Megafaun.

Expect grooves to wash over you like that apparatus at the waterpark that makes huge waves in the swimming pool, except this pool is steamy hot, and if you put on your undersea goggles, you would see all kinds of crazy and brightly colored corals growing out of the floor. Dance? Drink ridiculously cheap pitchers? Avoid the pink corona gimmick?

Date: Wednesday, October 22
Time: 10 pm
Place: Public (on Main Street)

I’m writing at the request of my middletown-ian friend, Rob Derosa. Rob runs a CT music label called Homegrown, and has a show on WESU (also called Homegrown) which features local CT artists. He also claims to have booked the first ever off-campus show for MGMT, for whatever that’s worth. maybe you’ve met him– he works at the Red and Black cafe and is often smiling.

Anyway, Rob is trying to organize a “Wesleyan bands” night of sorts at Public, the new bar down on Main Street. these would take place on Wednesday nights. He asked that i write to anyone who might be interested in playing gigs throughout the year. The gigs are potentially paying (although he didn’t specify how much) and will definitely be pretty fun. Anyone with a band/act who is interested should email thinmanmusic@sbcglobal.net.

- Mary Longley ‘10

I’m writing at the request of my middletown-ian friend, Rob Derosa. Rob runs a CT music label called Homegrown, and has a show on WESU (also called Homegrown) which features local CT artists. He also claims to have booked the first ever off-campus show for MGMT, for whatever that’s worth. maybe you’ve met him– he works at the Red and Black cafe and is often smiling.

Anyway, Rob is trying to organize a “Wesleyan bands” night of sorts at Public, the new bar down on Main Street. these would take place on Wednesday nights. He asked that i write to anyone who might be interested in playing gigs throughout the year. The gigs are potentially paying (although he didn’t specify how much) and will definitely be pretty fun. Anyone with a band/act who is interested should email thinmanmusic@sbcglobal.net.

- Mary Longley ‘10