EVENTS AT USED KIDS RECORDS

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2016 (going down)
THURS JAN 21st @ Used Kids Records | The Sports – bedroom pop Sun. Feb. 14th @ Used Kids Records 4pm - Bobb Hatt, Daddy  
Sat. Feb. 20th @ Used Kids Records 7pm - Psychic Wheels, Amy O. (IN), Kleinerwasserbar (IN) 
Sun. March 20th @ Used Kids Records 4pm - Larry Livermore reads from his new book: How To Ru(i)n A Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records (Don Giovanni Records).
3/31/16  @ Used Kids Records - Heart & Lung / Matt Umland / Randall Garbage
4/16/16 @ Used Kids Records - RECORD STORE DAY 201611:30 -- Nate Farely
  • 12:30 -- The Kyle Sowashes
  • 1:30 -- Motel Beds
  • 2:30 -- Nova
  • 3:30 -- J Rawls
  • 4:40 -- Betty Machete & the Angry Cougars
  • 5:30 -- Long Odds
  • 6:30 -- IPPS
  • 7:30 -- Time Out 
  • 8:30 -- Van Dale
  • 9:30 -- Messrs
SUN APRIL 24th @ Used Kids Records (At 1980 N. High till mid-May) Noon - 7pm 
  • The Turntable List -  7 DJ's celebrating the moving of this location +30 years of service to music lovers.  J RAWLS / DJ POS 2 / DJD BOOGIE / DETOX / BOMBEARDO / KRATE DIGGA / DJ O SHARP 
​Tuesday, May 31st 7pm @ Used Kids Records 2500 SUMMIT ST. COLUMBUS, OH 43202
  • $5 suggested donation
  • Andrew Graham Swarming Branch opens at 7:30
  • Simon Joyner - Joyner is touring in support of his new book, “Only Love Can Bring You Peace: Selected Lyrics 1990-2014” and his thirteenth album, "Grass, Branch & Bone," on Woodsist records. 
  • https://simonjoyner.bandcamp.com/
  • Simon Joyner tours rarely so don't miss this intimate in-store performance. 
  • A forefather of the Omaha, NE scene, Joyner has been appreciated and championed by Conor Oberst, Gillian Welch, John Peel. 
  • Dark, stark, minimal, lo-fi cuts.  Related in sound and aesthetic to Will Oldham, Peter Jefferies, the Mountain Goats, Smog, Alastair Galbraith, Jim Shepard.
WED - JUNE 15th 6-8PM
  • SHAWN WHEELER - Fronted the 90's band THROWRAG and in recent years he has been part of the duo SEAN & ZANDER w/ zander schloss. It's an acoustic/intimate duo that is sure to be a good time. Local Support by T.K. WEBB
THURS - JUNE 30TH 7PM SAT - JULY 16TH 8PM 
  • RAKTA -  "RATKA is an all-female band from São Paulo, Brazil, that seem to have come from out of nowhere to make most of the current post-punk/anarcho wave completely irrelevant. This is the next level in this style, borrowing elements from all the spooky classics, but adding something so undeniably new and unique that the game is permanently changed. RAKTA eliminates all sense of retro-ness to the style and come off like they just now invented the damn thing. The songs create an otherworldly atmosphere while still keeping your feet tapping. It transports you to this weird dimension that feels like it’s trying to keep you inside of it forever. It would have been the perfect soundtrack for a Maya Deren film. " - MAXIMUM ROCK AND ROLL 
  • VOICE CROSS 
  • ​DANA 
JULY 30th 
  • CANDACE 
  • A BEAM GELLING ROSE 
JULY 31st 
  • BLANK SPELL
  • DISCO 3000
  • BOBBIE BASHO
THUR- AUGUST 4TH 8PMTUES - SEPTEMBER 27 8PM 
  • TENEMENT - “Predatory Headlights,” Tenement’s first album in four years, expands his central talent — bright punk songs with counterintuitive lyric phrasing, jangling harmonies and effectively contrasting bridges — into other areas. Mr. Pitsch will write half of a song that could have been a modern-rock radio hit 20 years ago, then break through the three-minute barrier and move the ABA form toward C, D, and E sections, minimalism, drones and process music. About a third of the album uses a compositional palette of strings, out-of-tune pianos, household percussion instruments and outdoor recordings. None of it is haphazard; every song is a puzzle, an attempt to connect varied impulses, shaped with a beginning and an end." NY TIMES https://tenement.bandcamp.com/
  • DUSK - "Dusk's sound is the rock and roll of an earlier era, a time where musicianship and clarity reigned supreme as production methods were an after thought to genuine songwriting. A time when sultry country twang could provide the perfect soundtrack to a drunken saloon dust-up or your next joyous hootenanny. No matter the occasion, the easy going vibes of Dusk's big soul country tunes don't concern themselves with trends, their vision is clear and their execution is impeccable. The spirit of punk may be alive in Dusk, but their home-cooked country-fried roots shall overcome." - post-trash.com https://countrydusk.bandcamp.com/​
  • +TBA 
​SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th 3:30
  • SLAUGHTER BEACH, DOG 

2015 (going down) 
SAT JAN 24th 4pm - New Stage Kick Off Party
  • THE THREE SPEEDS / CHEATER SLICKS / OLD HUNDRED / THUNDER THIGHS / KIZZY HALL / DAY CREEPER 
SUN FEB 1st 2015 6PM SUN FEB 15th 1pm - 4pm
  • heartcure easy listening DJ sets by Noelsferatu / Musa Sesay / Ethan Eschelon
WED FEB 18th 6pm
  • ​Cretins of Distortion Issue No 6 zine release party
  • Strep Torso (local, wall of hellish noise)
  • Winston Hightower (lo-fi and high-fi and melodic)
FRI FEB 27th 9pm $5 MEISA OSU presents -  Local Uproar feat.  SAT MARCH 7th 5:30PM FREE THURS MARCH 19th 8pm - Living Poets Live - No. 1 Used Kids is hosting our first poetry reading. All ages. After hours FRI MARCH 20th 5pm SAT MARCH 21st 6pm FRI MARCH 27th 6pm SAT APRIL 18th RECORD STORE DAY 2015 @ Used Kids Records
  • 12 - 1 Dominique LaRue 
  • 1 - 2 J Rawls (DJ set)
  • 2 - 3 Plus 
  • 3 - 4 Egon Gone and the Sun Dogs 
  • 4 - 5 Reverbalines 
  • 5 - 6 EYE 
  • 6 - 7 Comrade Question 
  • 7 - 8 Stylestar 
  • 8 - 9 Red Feathers 
  • 9 - 10 The American Jobs
SAT APRIL 25th @ USED KIDS RECORDS 7 - 9pm  TUES APRIL 28th @ USED KIDS RECORDS 6 - 8pm SAT MAY 9th @ USED KIDS RECORDS 4 - 8pm TUES MAY 12th @ USED KIDS RECORDS  THURS MAY 21st @ USED KIDS RECORDS 6 - 9PM SUN MAY 31st @ USED KIDS RECORDS 1pm - 6pm
  • Restart House Music - dj set, duo from here. Expect some easy Sunday music.
THURS JUNE 11th @ USED KIDS RECORDS 6 - 8pm
  • Slugging Percentage - Local hc sludge punks bring baseball back to Used Kids. Tape release. Experience them live, they've changed the game. 
  • edchochuli - Unforgiving metallic post punk from PGH. Heavy riffers, road warriors, cavemen.
  • The Drip - Ripping hc punk from Philly
FRI JUNE 12th @ USED KIDS RECORDS 6 - 8pm 
  • Ted Prokash - Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones author of A Fool For Lesser Things / The Brothers Connolly  stops up to do a reading
  • Alex Mussawir - Yuze Boys lanky front man reads some of his latest work. Dry, insightful and funny gems from the mundane day to day. 
  • Will Foster and the Zero Patients
  • Kevin Failure - of Pink Reason
  • Casey Buhr - of Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones
MON JUNE 15th @ USED KIDS RECORDS
  • Chomp / Olivia Neutron-John / Street Eaters / Nervosas
SAT JUNE 20th @ USED KIDS RECORDS
  • GRRRLS ROCK COLUMBUS benefit - Used Kids will match what is fund-raised!  
  • All Dogs / Daphne
SAT JUNE 27th @ USED KIDS RECORDS 7pm
  • Bloody Show - Columbus punk n roll
THURS JULY 9th @ USED KIDS RECORDS 6 - 8pm
  • Acoustic in-store
  • Grandpa Egg - On the fringe psych-folk from PGH
  • J.R. Fisher - Crummy drunkard ballads for crummy drunkards
FRI JULY 10th @ USED KIDS RECORDS 6 - 8pm
  • A READING + bands!
  • Michael T. Fournier - writer/critic/musician, and the author of two novels: HIDDEN WHEEL and SWING STATE (both Three Rooms Press), as well as DOUBLE NICKELS ON THE DIME (33 1/3/Continuum), a book-length discussion of the 1984 Minutemen album of the same name. Founder and co-editor of Calbido Quarterly, a broadsheet literary journal. His writing has appeared in the the Oxford American, Vice, Pitchfork, and the Boston Globe. 
  • Mike Faloon - Author of The Hanging Gardens of Split Rock (Gorsky Press), co-editor of Fan Interference (Blue Cubicle), and co-founder of the zines Go Metric and Zisk. His work has appeared in The Zine Yearbook (Soft Skull), The Overrated Book (Last Gasp), The Rock Bible (Quirk), and David Shields’s best-selling Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf). 
  • all ages * all pizza * donation$ encouraged for touring readers
  • Betty Machete & The Angry Cougars - Rowdy ass hard rock from here
  • The Pools - lo fi fuzzy garage tones from here
SUN JULY 12th @ USED KIDS RECORDS 6 - 8pm
  • PMS - new Columbus punkroxers
  • Stench Consultants - Truly a stink of sound, hellish heavy hc punk
WED JULY 15th @ USED KIDS RECORDS 6 - 8pm SAT AUG 15th @ Used Kids Records - 6pm
  • Kyle Sowash - Local indie rock staple goes solo on the Used Kids stage
  • Skeleton Farm - Experimental post-punk from Tulsa, OK
  • Fizzed - New locals, glammed out and poppy rock 
SUN AUG 16th @ Used Kids Records - 6pm
  • CHUD - Straight ahead old school punk from our neighbors in Indiana
  • LAFFING GAS - sick and speedy hc punk, Indiana
  • YUZE BOYS - Punk band from Columbus
  • Cretins of Distortion No. 7 Zine Release!!!!!!
SAT AUG 22nd @ Used Kids Records - 6pm SUN AUG 23rd @ Used Kids Records - 6pm
  •  TTUM / BASCINETS 
FRI AUG 28th @ Used Kids Records - 6pm
  • Yohuna - The sweet sounds, spacious and beautiful indie-pop from Eau Claire, WI
  • Aye Nako - NYC melodic punk, deep cuts
  • The Daves - Columbus Grrrls Rock Camp band, now playing!
  • Daphne - Columbus, new cassette coming soon! 
SAT AUG 29th @ Used Kids Records - 4pm
  • Smitty from EYE will be doing a solo demo / performance / total pedal nerd out in light of amazing Ohio-based pedal wizard yielders, EARTHQUAKER DEVICES. Come and check out some killer pedals, ask questions, talk about fuzz, polyphonic arpeggiators, rainbow machines, and shop for sweet records too. Total nerd fest. Starts at 4 and ends at 5
  • EarthQuaker Devices stomp box demo
WEDS SEPT 2nd @ Used Kids Records - 6pm
  • Daphne - Local duo, serious finger work on guitar, melodic tapping and unearthly melody. Drumming favors an odd meter,  stops and starts, clever parts. 
  • Lydia Ad - NYC performing her new EP
  • Kid Naps - Kendall Martin
  • Oedipus - Move your feet 
THURS SEPT 3rd @ Used Kids Records - 6pm
  • Worst Gift - Heavy, driving post punk with a shard of metal from Toronto
  • Nuclear Moms - The shocking truth is they may save Columbus punk
  • Randall Garbage - Hip hop, shout outs, b-ball shorts, shabby shirt
FEMME FEST  SEPT 3rd - 6th FULL SCHEDULE 
Sunday, Sept. 6th Showcase @ Used Kids Records
  • 6:20 PM The Girls!
  • 5:45 PM Thunder Thighs
  • 5:05 PM TTUM
  • 4:35 PM Neombrella 
MON SEPT 14th @ USED KIDS RECORDS - 6pm
  • Bloody Show - Raw power! Local favorites playing relentless garage punk
  • Fake Surfers - Snotty and ripping garage punk from Detroit
SAT OCT 3rd * UK 29 * Our 29th Birthday!!! Still not real adults. @ USED KIDS RECORDS - 2 - 9PM - FREE !
  • VACATION 
  • (Cincy beached-bleached power-pop punk, new record out on Don Giovanni. It's hottt)
  • SHITBOX JIMMY 
  • (Cleveland lo-fi punk, super catchy, playing this LP (The Movie) a lot at the store)
  • BRAT CURSE 
  • (Melodic and snotty melodies over driving punk. From here) 
  • KIZZY HALL 
  • (The throne for the catchiest indie-punk band is in danger of being kizzed on. From here)
  • SEÑOR CITIZEN AND THE BORDER PATROL
  • (Punk R'N'R from here)
  • MATTER OF PLANETS 
  • (An outer galactic mash up of prog, metal, ambient, post rock, dub-reggae from here) 
  • dioses serpientes enroscados
  • (Mystical wanderings through folk and drone tones from here)
​MON OCT 12th @ USED KIDS RECORDS - 6pm
  • SHELLSHAG - Shellshag is a duo based in Brooklyn, true troubadours, carrying the torch of weird and lo-fi pop that gets stuck in your foggy head. 
  • didi - From Columbus, OH! Wandering post-punk with riffs sneaking out from everywhere, odd-rhythmic collab, makes me think of Breeders and Fugazi at times. Pretty. Heavy. 
SAT OCT 24th - First Annual Columbus Record Store Crawl ! INFO
WED OCT 28th 6PM @ Used Kids Records SAT OCT 31st 3PM - 6PM @ Used Kids Records - Nix Comics Quarterly # 8 Release Party 
​SUN NOV 8th 6pm @ Used Kids Records
  • Secret Tombs (PGH riffy n heavy stoner rock FFO AC/DC, Butthole Surfers, Dead Moon)
  • Casse-Tête (local hc punk) / Terrestrials (new local psych rock. mem. of Outer Spacist/Sweetheart)
WED NOV 11th 6pm @ Used Kids Records
  • Sex Tide : Vernacular Splatter 12" 45 release show w/ Modal_Logic (Columbus)
  • The Sueves (CHI)
  • Make-Overs (Pretoria, S. Africa) This psychedelic, garage-noise, two-piece from South Africa is here to make you sweat. First time in Columbus, don't miss it. 
  • ​all ages * all pizza * donation$ FACEBOOK EVENT 
Fri, Nov 27th Open : 10 AM Bands : 6pm
  • BLACK FRIDAY RECORD STORE DAY ! EXCLUSIVE RELEASES ! We will be stocked !
  • CHEATER SLICKS - Columbus. Tinnutus is the night. Mesmerizing and speaker rattling garage-punk, howled booze-ballads. 
  • UNHOLY TWO - Columbus. 12XU residents. Talk About Hardcore, Skum of the Earth, noise punk classicks. 
  • ARCHIE & THE BUNKERS - Cleveland. Organ driven punk rock. Greasy jazz influence, DEVO too. Awesome live. 
MON NOV 30th 6pm @ Used Kids Records
  • Three Man Cannon Scranton/Philly melodic punk that has the desperation of The Replacement's classic Let it Be. / Boxing local indie-rock,  huge sing along choruses, emo tinged for the delight of your angst
  • / Noble Vices Local indie, emo influences, vices unlisted but I bet coffee? Beer? Bad horror films? 
  • ​all ages * all pizza  * donation$ for touring band
  • FACEBOOK EVENT​
SAT DEC 5th 5pm @ Used Kids Records
  • Spirit Plots - catchy and melodic punk from DC FFO first Weakerthans, Thermals, Superchunk https://spiritplots.bandcamp.com/album/burnt-tapes-allison
  • Teenage Aviation - power-pop, indie-pop from Columbus http://teenageaviation.com/
  • ​FACEBOOK EVENT
FIGGY PRE-FEST SAT DEC 12th 6PM @ Used Kids Records 
  • Cheer, or Sneer? UKR has both covered! No silent night, our in-store party will have bands/DJ/pizza/deals.
  • Used Kids Records is a sponsor for Figgy Fest 2015 (https://www.facebook.com/events/448117028714311). 
  • We want to help get a jump on this year’s fund raising, so we will have a donation jar for Mid-Ohio Foodbank during the party. We will double your donation & then a Figgy Fest representitive will take it to the food bank on December 17th for “Double Your Donation Day.” So a dollar in the jar equals four dollars worth of food in local bellies that need it! 
  • EBENEZER BOOZE – Sterilles inspired Xmess irreverence. Members of Raw Pony & (((reverbalines))). They’ve got your “Xmas Bone.” Talk About Santacore!
  • PAUL & GINNY – Acoustic country/folk. Special Xmas set.
  • DJ RaymondTVinyl – Spinning from his extensive collection of Punk Xmas 7"s. Before, between & after the bands.
THURS DEC 17th @ Used Kids Records SUN DEC 20th 6pm @ Used Kids Records 
  • Max and Leanne DJ us into after-hours. Holiday cheer will spilleth o'er.  
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