Event Location: Brewbakers Cafe

Heavy weird based out of Boston, RONG make health goth jock jams for your neoliberal hellscape, “good to scrub basement mold to”. SPACE CAMP is an experimental two piece from South Windsor, Connecticut. With a rowdy mix of punk rock, grunge, metal, and early 2000’s emo, OZIEM is...

THE REAR DEFROSTERS are essentially the house band here at Nova Arts, and we couldn’t be happier about it. Come and see what all the fuss is about as the band, led by Michael Roberts, explores a wealth of country and western, classic honkytonk, and bluegrass. We are asking for a suggested donation...

Tim Eriksen is internationally known as one of the great living exponents of traditional American folksong and an innovative multi-instrumentalist (banjo, fiddle, guitar, fretless bajo sexto) whose solo acoustic performances push the boundaries of minimalism while tracing human experience from the...

Up until this point, Western Massachusetts musician Stephen Pierce’s solo vehicle Gold Dust has materialized slowly and maneuvered in a series of strange trickles. The songs first incubated in the quiet, internal spaces of solitary home recording sessions during the especially bleak winter of 2020,...

QWANQWA IS A SUPERGROUP OF MUSICIANS FROM THE BADDEST ENSEMBLES OF ADDIS ABABA. Brought together by a shared passion for the power of Ethiopian music, this group shines an experimentalism based in the virtuosity of rooted traditions. With swirling masinko (one-stringed fiddle), wah-wah-violin, bass...

Our Heavy Sounds series will be exploring electronic music, art rock, and the avant garde, among other far corners of underground music. Come and hear something new. Greg Davis is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums created from a diverse palette of sound sources, including guitar,...