Happy New Year, you absolute legend.
2025 just started and we’re already out here doing the most — like handing you free tickets to see jam-scene upstarts Dogs in a Pile on Jan 24. It’s groove-heavy, face-melty, noodle-fueled chaos (in the best way possible).

50 THINGS TO DO IN JANUARY

January’s coming in cold, but the shows are heating up — from Briscoe’s Southern soul to William Elliott Whitmore’s gravelly gospel and the high-energy praise of Elevation Rhythm. That’s just the start: we found 50 excuses to get out, get weird, and forget it’s pitch-black by 5pm.

• MORGAN FREEMAN’S SYMPHONIC BLUES @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

• NINAJIRACHI @ Holocene

• WILLIAM ELLIOT WHITMORE @ Mississippi Studios

• ALLEYCVT @ Roseland Theater

• ELEVATION RHYTHM @ Crystal Ballroom

• BRISCOE @ The Showdown

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