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Feb 23 - Mar 1, 2026
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Moe's Alley Presents: Ronnie Baker Brooks w/ Alternative Zen Blues Trial
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Moes Alley presents Chicago blues legend Ronnie Baker Brooks with special guests Alternative Zen Blues Trial!Tuesday, February 24, 2026Doors: 6pm / Show: 7pm$30 in advance / $35 day of the show21+*All sales are final*Avoid scammers! Only purchase tickets from moesalley.com or ticketweb.com====RONNIE BAKER BROOKSChicago guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and multiple Blues Music Award-winner Ronnie Baker Brooks is one of the citysand the worldsmost undeniably talented and electrifying bluesmen. Ronnie was born into Chicago blues royalty as the son of legendary multiple GRAMMY Award nominee, Hall Of Famer, and longtime Alligator Records recording star Lonnie Brooks. He is among the few contemporary blues artists who learned his craft directly from many of the genres icons, including Albert Collins, B.B. King, Willie Dixon, Koko Taylor and, most significantly, his father. Im blessed to have played with and learned from the best. Im carrying them within me, he says of all the legends he knew growing up and the journey hes been on.ALTERNATIVE ZEN BLUES TRIALComprised of Christopher Watkins (Preacher Boy), Etienne David Franc (Papiba The Alternative Zen Blues Trial is an improvisational power trio with a DNA string equal parts Band of Gypsys, R.L Burnside, and Johnny Winter. The band cooks down its telegraphic drum-bass-guitar musicality with rough-hewn vocals and a street-zen lyrical style to extract their signature brand of blackstrap funk.
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NOT.GREENDAY w/ Tess & The Details
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Moes Alley presents NOT.GREENDAY, a tribute band to the one and only Green Day! East Bay pop punker Tess & The Details open the show! Wendesday, February 25, 2026Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm$15 in advance / $20 day of the show21+*All sales are final*Avoid scammers! Only purchase tickets from moesalley.com or ticketweb.com===NOT.GREENDAYFounded January of 2022 in Spokane WA, by four friends who all share a love for Green Day. We appreciate this opportunity to celebrate the music of our favorite band with like minded fans all over the country.Join us in celebrating Pop Punk legends, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees, and 20 time Grammy Nominees, GREEN DAY, with the nations premiere tribute act, NOT.GREENDAY. Performing hits and deep cuts from every era of Green Days catalog spanning over four decades, including songs from; 39/Smooth, Kerplunk, Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod, Warning, American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown, UNO!/DOS!/TR!, and Revolution Radio!. As 4 die-hard, lifelong Green Day fans, NOT.GREENDAY brings a high energy, non-stop performance that is guaranteed to have you dancing and singing along in a sea of nostalgia. TESS & THE DETAILSTess ve been active since 2023, with the release of their debut album Runaway via Double Helix Records. Theyve also appeared on compilations for Punk Rock Saves Lives, Attention! By Wiretap Records, Distort The Bay by Destroy Art Inc. Pee Approved by Pee records AU and others.The band has toured all over California, Portland and more, establishing themselves as a regional touring band with more plans to expand in 2025.The Details have notably played alongside Fishbone, Swingin Utters, The Meteors, The Last Gang, The Drowns, and many more.The band pride themselves on their work ethic, advocacy for mental health awareness, and just being a really solid rock band with a lot of attention to details.For their 2025 cover of Maniac and new original music, The Details have partnered with Wiretap Records and have plans to work harder than ever and tour extensively.
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(((folkYEAH))) PRESENTS: KISSER, MEERNAA
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(((folkYEAH))) PRESENTS: BOLERO! (ALBUM RELEASE)
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Summer Salt w/ Boyscott
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Santa Cruz Warriors vs San Diego Clippers
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Moe's Alley Presents: B-Side Players w/ DJ Wyze 1
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Moes Alley presents an evening with the B-Side Players with DJ Wyze 1!Friday, February 27, 2026Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm$25 in advance / $30 day of the show21+*All sales are final*Avoid scammers! Only purchase tickets from moesalley.com or ticketweb.com*Tickets requested by email will be delivered 3 days prior to the event*Will Call tickets will be available at the door on the day of the event====B-SIDE PLAYERSThe B-Side Players are a 9-piece band part of a new movement in popular music. A band that honors the international cross-pollination that has always made music the universal language. They use any beat that catches their ear, regardless of geography or genre, to create a compelling, horn driven, polyrhythmic groove. They continue exploring the multifaceted grooves of Latin America and the Caribbean, incorporating the sounds of Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico and Brazil with the funk, rock, jazz and hip-hop rhythms of their homeland, dropping bits of Cumbia, Salsa, gritty street Samba, Son Montuno, Jarocho and Boogalo into the mix.The B-Side Players have been laying down their own inimitable latin global funk since they came together in 1994. Their incendiary live shows have defined them as local favorites with 10 San Diego Music awards. Meanwhile their albums showcase a band with restless musical intelligence, effortlessly blending genres to fashion their own forward looking, latin flavored soul music. As an eight piece band the players are known for igniting crowds with their fierce rhythms and uplifting message of unity and consciousness. Meanwhile always keeping their focus on the political climate of the world and nation. The B-Side Players are a living and breathing cultural art experience for the mind body and soul.
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SKIP THE NEEDLE, TRIANNA FERUZA AND THE HEAVY HITTERS
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Moe's Alley Presents: The Itals w/ The Baytals
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Moes Alley presents reggae icons The Itals, featuring legendary singer Keith Porter with special guests The Baytals!Saturday, February 28,2026Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm$25 in advance / $30 day of the show21+*All sales are final*Avoid scammers! Only purchase tickets from moesalley.com or ticketweb.com*Tickets requested by email will be delivered 3 days prior to the event*Will Call tickets will be available at the door on the day of the event=====THE ITALSLong before the Itals were a spark in their producers eye, Keith Porter recorded his first hit single, Hitey Titey, with the Westmorelites on the Studio One label in 1967. Around 1969, Keith became lead singer for a band named Soul Hermit, backed by Eugene Gray and Wignal Henry on guitars, and Reginald Seewell and Nash on base and drums. They played in numerous entertainment sectors of Jamaica until Owen Sinclair put together a new band in 1971. Called Future Generation, the band was composed of Dalton James and Roy Hilton on drums, Devon Henry on keyboards, Eugene Gray, guitar, Scott on sax, and Keith on vocals. They performed all over Jamaica for X amount of years, singing all styles of music, American R&B and love songs and native Jamaican songs.Tiring of the club scene around 1975, Keith ran into Ronnie Davis on Orange Street in Kingston and asked him who was auditioning. Ronnie gave him a cassette with a rhythm hed just had a hit on. I was so happy with that rhythm I didnt look any further, says Keith. In less than a week I had written Ina Dis Ya Time and came back to Kingston to record it for Lloyd Campbells SpiderMan label. Lloyd felt it needed some harmonies with my lead, so Ronnie and I both added harmony parts. There was no intention of forming a group called the Itals; the record first came out as Keith Porter. After the song was on its way to becoming a hit in Jamaica, we all went out to do some promotion. Lloyd, Ronnie, myself and Brian Thomas of RJR were sitting out back in the cantina, when Brian said why not call them the Itals, because now there was more than one person singing. Everyone liked that name. It sounded good, so all of a sudden, Itals was a group. It was never intentional. Ive always wondered if the name was the result of Brian noticing how strict I was about the food I ate, strictly Ital.THE BAYTALSThe Baytals are a soulful Reggae & Ska band based out of The Bay Area of Northern California.Drawing influence from artists such as Sublime, The Maytals, Gregory Isaacs and Half Pint, the band first stepped onto the local scene in 2018 and have been steadily building a grassroots reputation of delivering uplifting renditions of Reggae and Ska favorites infused with a unique Blues style from frontman Safaa Modir on guitar and vocals.The Baytals perform their brand of energetic live music with the intention of encouraging a communal sense of compassion, peace & joyfulness.
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Santa Cruz Warriors vs San Diefo Clippers
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