Out of all of our minds music this Sunday night! As well as our local sonic lovebirds Bulle and Bunnybrains

Fans who have been following Charlie Parr through his previous 13 full-length albums and decades of nonstop touring already know that the Duluth-based songwriter has a way of carving a path straight to the gut. On his newest record, Dog, however, he seems to be digging deeper and hitting those nerves quicker than ever before. Opening support from Brad Armstrong and Lorkin O'Reilly

Yes, we’re doing it again. It’s the sort-of-annual one-night-only Spotty Dog Occasional International Short Film Festival! Festival Date: Sunday, October 8th, 7-10PM at the Spotty Dog. (Submission deadline: Friday, 09/29, 5pm.) Local and non-local filmmakers join us to show their short films. Highbrow and Lowbrow combined with alcohol and good cheer. Space will be limited, so arrive on time and join us!

Wes Swing is a singer, cellist, songwriter, and composer from Virginia. His new full-length album And The Heart [out June 2] is a blend of Swing's literary songwriting with production and analog electronics by Paul Curreri and backing vocals by Devon Sproule. The album is about darkness and light, sadness and joy, and looking for beauty and connection. Using deliberately sparse and stark instrumentation, sections of intimate and personal performance transition into electronic escapades and flourishing full-band crescendos. "The compositions, pieced together very carefully, are orchestral without orchestra. They are movements, and they are moving. They take place in that grey area between pop and symphonic." - No Depression.

Volume is a FREE reading & music series featuring prose, poetry and a short DJ set. Every second Saturday at 7:00 pm at The Spotty. Books are available for purchase and signing. This month includes: REBECCA WOLFF is the author of one novel and four poetry collections, including the recently released collection One Morning—. She is the founder of the renowned literary journal Fence, and the imprint Fence Books. She is a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute at UAlbany. A. BALKANO (rhymes with volcano) has published work in Fence, Harper's and American Poetry Review. He is the author of The Book of Dumb, a novel, and he lives with his family in the state of New York. Followed by book signing and a DJ set from JACKIE GOSS. LUCY IVES is the author of the novel Impossible Views of the World. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Vogue, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from NYU.

Diane Cluck is a singer-songwriter originally from Lancaster, PA. She describes her music as intuitive folk. She currently resides in Virginia. Cluck began performing her songs publicly in New York City in 2000. She self-released her first solo album, Diane Cluck, that same year. By 2001 she was appearing regularly at the Sidewalk Cafe in New York's Lower East Side, a venue that has featured such artists as Jeffrey Lewis, Regina Spektor, and Kimya Dawson. Massachusetts-based record label Important Records distributed Cluck's second and third albums, Macy's Day Bird in 2001 and Black With Green Leaves in 2002. Also in 2002, her song "Monte Carlo" was included in a compilation of New York Anti-folk music, Anti-folk Vol. 1, released by British label Rough Trade Records. She wrote most of her fourth album, Oh Vanille / ova nil, while staying at the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula, California in 2003. The album was distributed in 2004 by Important Records, and subsequently reissued on 180g audiophile vinyl pressed by 3 Syllables Records in 2010. Her fifth album, Countless Times, was distributed by Voodoo-Eros in 2005, and her sixth album, Monarcana, 2001-2004, was distributed in 2006 by Very Friendly. In December 2011 she announced a fan-funded "Song-of-the-Week" project, in which she has been writing and distributing a series of 24 new songs directly to subscribers. In March 2014, Cluck released her seventh album Boneset, her first in eight years, on 10" vinyl, CD, and digitally, laid out "Dark to light to dark, the album overends as a mobius strip, its songs seeded with connection and release, overcoming fear with heart...birds, bones, surrender..." In early 2014, Cluck embarked on a tour of the US, Ireland, the UK & Europe. She released and co-directed her first official music video for Boneset's first single, Sara. "She is likely one of the most refined and elegant songwriters in all of neo-folkdom. A brilliant idiosyncratic guitarist, a witty and wise lyricist, an imaginative melody writer with a powerful voice; her dark and introspective tunes are utterly captivating, sorta like an earthier Kate Bush. Watch her spellbind the room." --Shawn Bosler of The Village Voice __ Sam Moss is a musician living in Boston. His work rambles through various offshoots of Americana, from original and interpreted folk songs, to pastoral and occasionally jagged instrumental guitar. In 2016 he released Fable, his third release featuring voice. He is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Marble House Project, and his work has been featured in NPR, Paste, and Daytrotter, among others.