Variety, all-ages venues
mark local music scene
By Jason Hardy
Staff writer
A staple of any college town
is a thriving local music scene.
Not only do local bands con
tinually provide outlets for live
entertainment, they’re often in
contact with other lesser- known
bands from around the country
that come through on tours and
bring variety to the local scene.
Luckily for University of
Nebraska-Lincoln students,
Lincoln has a very eclectic local
music scene, with groups in
styles as diverse as tradi
tional blues, folk,
pop, rock ’n’ roll,
punk, ska, hard
core and experi
mental.
Generally
the only prob
lems that arise
are ones per
taining to where
these bands play.
Nebraska law pro
hibits any minor from
being in a bar alter y p.m., so
when bands play shows in local
bars, they are usually for audi
ences 21 and over.
While downtown bars like
Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 0 St., the
Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St., and
Knickerbockers, 9th and O
streets, continually offer quality
music with impressive stage
sound, they don’t offer it to
everyone continually. The only
exception is Knickerbockers,
which usually puts on shows
during two different time slots.
The first slot, from 6 to 9
p.m., is for all ages, and the sec
ond is from 9 p.m. until whenev
l———
er the show is over (or when the
bar closes at 1 a.m.). These
shows are for people age 19 and
over.
Knickerbockers’ policy
gives those students under 19 an
outlet to see bands that are sort
of big, but not big enough for the
Bob Devaney Center or Pershing
Auditorium. Also, by making its
9 p.m. shows for ages 19 and
over, Knickerbockers allows
some of the younger students the
possibility of hanging out with
older
friends and meeting people they
wouldn’t have an opportunity to
meet otherwise.
Knickerbockers is able to do
this because the bar side basical
ly is separated from the show
side, and it is easy to monitor
underage concert-goers.
While Knickerbockers is the
only bar to offer all-ages shows
consistently, it is not the only
game in town. Many of the local
bands and campus chapters of
organizations, like Amnesty
International, organize shows at
various all-ages venues and pro
mote quality musical entertain
ment as well as social aware
ness.
The main venues for these
shows are the Culture Center,
located a block south of the
Nebraska Union, the Havelock
Social Hall, 6136 Platte Ave.,
Van Dorn Park shelter, 10th and
Van Dorn streets, or Antelope
Park shelter, located in Antelope
Park, near 28th and A streets.
Because these venues aren’t
full-time music venues, they
don’t have listings of shows
being held there, so it is up to
whoever rented the venue for a
show to put up fliers around
town.
The best way to
keep informed of
upcoming shows is
to check the union’s
announcement
areas for fliers and
to stop in at local
record stores like
Homer’s, 1339 O St.,
Zero Street Records, 120
N. 14th St., and Recycled
Sounds, 12110 St., all of
which put up fliers about
upcoming shows.
There is also a locally coor
dinated e-mail ring at starcity
hardcore@yahoo.com that
sends updates on underground
music in Lincoln. People who
wish to join simply need to send
an e-mail to the aforementioned
address and wait for the replies.
Other than that, there are
usually some large all-ages
shows throughout the course of
the year, but those are fairly
inconsistent, so the best way to
find exciting local music is to
look for the fliers.
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