A basement venue dripping with character and run by people that love music. Shows are cheap and there's usually not so much a cover as a basket that gets passed for donations to the traveling bands. If you want to go to a show, find someone who knows, such as that one friend that goes to five shows every night. If they don't know where it is, call them a poser.

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