Upcoming Funhouse Events
Mr. Smalls Presents
Glotaku: Gotta Rave Em’ All
Obi-Wan Shinobi/Glotaku Cosplay Rave with special guests Crazy8TheGreat, Local DJs TBA
Friday, March 07, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Get ready, PGH —Glotaku is bringing the ultimate cos-rave experience to the city for one unforgettable night! Whether you’re a fan of anime, video games, or just a good party, this is your chance to immerse yourself in the ultimate fusion of pop culture and nightlife.
What’s in Store:
🎤 Featured act: Crazy8theGreat – This incredible nerdcore artist is ready to light up the stage with high-energy performances full of anime, gaming, and pop culture references.
🎧 Resident DJ Obi-Wan Shinobi and special guest DJs spinning anime remixes, Club, VGM, and hip-hop.
🛡️ Cosplay Encouraged – Show off your creativity and step onto the dancefloor as your favorite character!
💫 Immersive Atmosphere – With themed visuals, drinks, and more, it’s a night designed for otaku, gamers, and music lovers alike.
🎟️ Presale Tickets: $15-$25
🎟️ At the Door: $25
Don’t miss your chance to party with Glotaku and experience a night of epic performances, music, and community.
Want to be a cosplay guest, vend, perform, or get involved with Glotaku? Join our discord and put in an application here: GLOTAKU!
*Early Bird tickets available for 2 weeks only (E.B. sale ends Monday 2/17 @ 12PM EST). Limited to 30 tickets -- if those 30 tickets sell before 2/17, the early bird sale is over!
This Event Is 18+
Mr. Smalls Presents
Kokoko!
Special Guest: Jellyfish (DJ set)
Saturday, March 08, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Pioneers of Kinshasa’s sonic revolution, KOKOKO! have captivated global audiences with their striking sonics and energetic performances since 2017. Their accolades include best live band award by AIF, NPR Tiny Desk and Boiler Room slots, appearances at festivals including All Points East, SXSW, Green Man and Pitchfork Festival, and a placement on the Grand Theft Auto and FIFA soundtracks. Fongola achieved near universal praise, with DJ Mag labelling it “quite unlike anything else you’ll hear”, while The Guardian called the group a “commanding new voice”.
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Yet To Be Gold
Special Guest: Beach Boise, ID
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Yet To Be Gold circles around the songs of Gregor Bone (guitar and vocals) who has spent over two decades exploring and nurturing the art of songwriting, and who has recorded over 20 albums under various pseudonyms. His heavily lyrical songs combine elements of folk and rock’ roll, and shine little lights down the linear side trails of the human condition, often turning the camera inward and narrowing the aperture, focusing on the little lives in the dark recesses of the mind. Recently he has worked closely with Ric Robertson and Aaron Lipp of Sam Grisman Project, to write and produce their solo albums. Together with the enigmatically brilliant Jeb Puryear (electric guitar) of the folk-rock staple Donna The Buffalo. Jonas Puryear (Bass) from the High-octane-poetical-punk band Vicious Fishes. And multi-talented artistic autodidact Luca Greenspun (drums) making wooden sticks sound like bird feathers."
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Cellar Dwellar x Powerviolets
With Special Guest: James Castle, Street Prophets
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Cellar Dwellar is an art-rock sextet from Columbus, Ohio. Mixing the theatrical with the ethereal, the band's goal is to perform with as much personal conviction as humanly possible.
Powerviolets is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Violet Hetson, who is currently based out of New York. After several false starts bouncing around the east and west coast recording music and performing with several lineups, Hetson has finally released her debut album ~No Boys~ titled after a sarcastic sign she hung up on her suburban Connecticut teenage bedroom door after being tormented by puppy love. Violet Hetson grew up mostly listening to punk and hardcore and uses elements of these genres with influences from bands such as X and Suburban Lawns. ~No Boys~ takes a softer, melodic approach to Hetson’s punk roots. Powerviolets’ music is linear, unconventional, and dark, airy with a sense of humor.
This Event Is All Ages
Powerviolets is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Violet Hetson, who is currently based out of New York. After several false starts bouncing around the east and west coast recording music and performing with several lineups, Hetson has finally released her debut album ~No Boys~ titled after a sarcastic sign she hung up on her suburban Connecticut teenage bedroom door after being tormented by puppy love. Violet Hetson grew up mostly listening to punk and hardcore and uses elements of these genres with influences from bands such as X and Suburban Lawns. ~No Boys~ takes a softer, melodic approach to Hetson’s punk roots. Powerviolets’ music is linear, unconventional, and dark, airy with a sense of humor.
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
SamJAMwich
Friday, March 14, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
This Event Is All Ages
Opus One Presents
Lilly Hiatt – Forever Tour
With Special Guest: Katy Guillen & The Drive, Vinny Palese
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Funhouse Film Club: March BADness
Double Feature Screening
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Join us for the next iteration of the Funhouse Film Club, a free monthly curated series where we will screen a themed mystery double feature! For this March edition, we have "March BADness" - a celebration of movies so bad, they're good!
Also in the mix: shorts and vintage trailers, drink & concession-style food specials, themed cocktails, free popcorn and fun movie facts!
Each month we will have suggested donations for different charities, with this edition being new and used sporting equipment going to the Boys & Girls Club.
Also! We are accepting submissions for short films, music videos and trailers to be shown during intermission! We would like to showcase the work of budding local filmmakers! SUBMIT HERE!
This event is 18+.
Also in the mix: shorts and vintage trailers, drink & concession-style food specials, themed cocktails, free popcorn and fun movie facts!
Each month we will have suggested donations for different charities, with this edition being new and used sporting equipment going to the Boys & Girls Club.
Also! We are accepting submissions for short films, music videos and trailers to be shown during intermission! We would like to showcase the work of budding local filmmakers! SUBMIT HERE!
This event is 18+.
Mr. Smalls Presents
Aliquid Novi Album Release Party
Special Guests: Travis Dodge, Thick Magician
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
aliquid novi is the name given to a new musical adventure formed by Pittsburgh, PA songwriter and producer Adam G. Levine. Adam formed the concept of aliquid novi in a quarantine fever dream with one singular directive - to try to find small moments of beauty and unrestricted joy in a period of isolation and confusion, and then stretch them out to a universal scale for further exploration. Inspired by well-known acts such as Radiohead, Jose Gonzalez, Mac DeMarco, St. Vincent, Local Natives, and just about everything else he sees & hears, the aliquid novi mission is to seek out clever lyrics and poppy hooks and combine them with energizing, imaginative music that takes the listener on a journey.
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Randall Baumann’s Ramble at Mr. Smalls
2025 Spring Edition
Friday, March 21, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
TICKETS ON-SALE 2/17 @ 12PM!
A great, great night out. Randy assembles some of the best, and biggest names in Pittsburgh Rock n Roll to regale you with hit after hit.
This Event Is All Ages
A great, great night out. Randy assembles some of the best, and biggest names in Pittsburgh Rock n Roll to regale you with hit after hit.
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Mixtape Madness #8
ft. Garage League, Glass Caps, Z-Nemo and the Big Slime, Catatoneya, Slobberknockers, The Redlines, Giddyup, and Panic Landing!
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
8 Bands! Two 10 minute sets each! Madness!
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Midamerican Elevator
Special Guests: Pitter Patter, Bella Figlia
Friday, March 28, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Midamerican Elevator promises a unique blend of indie-rock dynamism and ethereal dream-pop. Hailing from Chicago, their sound lifts harmonies into the stratosphere, with guitars that sparkle and drive with irresistible force. Think Alvvays meets The Cranberries, with a little Strokes flair—if Julian Casablancas were two women in a trench coat. With their next release on the horizon, their live show is not to be missed. This is an event for fans of indie rock, dream-pop, and heartfelt songwriting.
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
The 3rd Annual Business Meeting
ft. MASON. & Mr. Business and some Very Special Guests
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
The folk-rock, genre bending MASON. & Mr. Business are back again at the Funhouse and are proud to announce the 3rd Annual Business Meeting benefiting the Mac Miller Foundation! Come out for a night of great music, great friends, all in support of a great cause. Benefiting The Mac Miller Foundation.
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
New Translations
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
GENERAL ON-SALE FRIDAY, FEB. 21 @ 10AM!
Biting, genuine, thoughtful, playful, joyful, and sincere, Nashville's New Translations embrace contradictions and exist to confound—a band that captures the dizzy surreality of being alive in confusing times. After a series of singles and EPs like 2023’s The Business, New Translations—singer Oliver Pierce, multi-instrumentalists Isaac Middleton and Andres Ahogado, bassist and producer Ben Dunn, and drummer Philip Walker—have settled into a new era that finds them doubling down on their complexities, while writing some of their most vulnerable songs to date.
The group’s new single “Vacation,” is a dynamic and dreamy song with shimmering neon keys, glassy guitars and breathy, delicate vocals. It also continues the idea of being an outsider—a concept that has become a throughline in the group’s latest work. With their new music, the members of New Translations stand confident in their role as boundary pushers and leaders of a non-country music vanguard in Nashville. Their mission remains: “I want us to find the outsiders and create a community that celebrates the strange,” Pierce says.
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Downhaul
Special Guests: Naked Spirit, king blue heron, Secret Tunnel
Friday, April 04, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Downhaul's third record How to Begin is not the work of a new band, but it does feel like the start of something. The Richmond, VA-based group expertly blend college rock jangle, emo urgency, and alt-country twang into an instantly satisfying strain of indie rock that manages to be both welcoming and unencumbered by anything but the desire to write the best songs possible. The result is Downhaul’s most flat out accessible output yet, combining the loquacious catchiness of songwriters like John K. Samson or Blake Schwartzenbach with the vitality and idiosyncrasies of bands like Piebald or The Wrens, and it's sure to catch the ears of longtime fans and new listeners alike.
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
With Special Guest: Larval State
Sunday, April 06, 2025
Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Aesthetically, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat hates to tread water. At the same time, the Baltimore-based two-piece of vocalist Ed Schrader and bassist Devlin Rice won’t force their songs to fit a preconceived style. “The next album’s always gotta be different from the last one.
We’re different people from record to record. So, writing authentically to ourselves will always bring our work to a place that we haven’t been to yet,” Rice said. Schrader added, “We’re terrified of turning into AC/DC. We never want to be married to one scene or time or sound. We want to be the Boba Fett of bands! Constantly altering the way in which we make records has been pretty key in that process.”
For Orchestra Hits, the band’s latest, that alteration was welcoming longtime musical comrade Dylan Going into the fold as a co-writer and co-producer. A songwriter in his own right, a guitar sideman for ESMB on their last two tours, and a collaborate with Rice in the noise riffage band Mandate, Going had both a unique vision and an intimate familiarity with the ESMB vibe.
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Melt
Special Guests: Fuck Yeah, Dinosaurs, Sad Bulldog
Friday, April 11, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Melt is a three-piece multi-sensory, visceral rock band with mission control located in Pittsburgh. Formed in 2020, the flight crew includes Joey Troupe, J.J. Young, and James May - three seasoned musicians and cosmonauts with a diverse range of experience in the music industry.
In July 2021, Melt released their self-titled debut and performed live for the first time, quickly developing a reputation in the Pittsburgh music scene for their lively and engaging stage presence, heavy rhythmic sound, and unique extraterrestrial aesthetic.
In July of 2023, melt released their follow-up LP, Replica of Man, which received critical acclaim across the blogosphere and throughout the known galaxy, including mentions on websites such as doom charts, podcasts including Fuzz Club, and other celestial outposts. The album was promoted with three singles (Problem Child, Sight to See, and Diviner), two music videos (Diviner and Skeleton Girl), and several concert videos documenting Melt's electrifying live performance.
Melt continues to promote Replica of Man with an active show schedule and touring, being booked as headliners, support for national acts (including Silver Synthetic, Lightning Bolt, and more), and at festivals. Melt has been named the WYEP Artists of the Week twice, has been covered in several print features, and vinyl copies of Replica of Man can be purchased online or in record stores regionally.
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In July 2021, Melt released their self-titled debut and performed live for the first time, quickly developing a reputation in the Pittsburgh music scene for their lively and engaging stage presence, heavy rhythmic sound, and unique extraterrestrial aesthetic.
In July of 2023, melt released their follow-up LP, Replica of Man, which received critical acclaim across the blogosphere and throughout the known galaxy, including mentions on websites such as doom charts, podcasts including Fuzz Club, and other celestial outposts. The album was promoted with three singles (Problem Child, Sight to See, and Diviner), two music videos (Diviner and Skeleton Girl), and several concert videos documenting Melt's electrifying live performance.
Melt continues to promote Replica of Man with an active show schedule and touring, being booked as headliners, support for national acts (including Silver Synthetic, Lightning Bolt, and more), and at festivals. Melt has been named the WYEP Artists of the Week twice, has been covered in several print features, and vinyl copies of Replica of Man can be purchased online or in record stores regionally.
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
mssv
mike baggetta + stephen hodges + mike watt
with special guests Ed Crawford Band, Crush Curl
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
mssv, composed of guitarist Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges on drums and mike watt on bass, creates music that is a heretofore unimagined hybrid of a punk power-trio and a dreamy experimental rock band, though they prefer the term “post-genre.” Their last full-length album, Human Reaction, finds the oddly memorable hooks of their noir-tinged adventure music with a lot more vocals from Main Steam Stop Valve leader Baggetta, adding more personality than ever before, alongside his bandmates, Hodges and watt, who also share in the vocal duties throughout the album.
With inventively churning drum textures from Hodges (an instantly identifiable sound honed in his days with Tom Waits and David Lynch) and the full-steam-ahead all-in attitude from watt, (as he’s displayed throughout his storied career with MINUTEMEN, fIREHOSE, and The Stooges), there is the impression of “pressure, combustion, power, and hissing clouds of sonic poetry,” as Premier Guitar said. Also evident is the more fearless exploring that comes from a band that has spent a lot of time together crafting their vision, as well as making room for guests like J Mascis, Petra Haden and Nels Cline on some of their previous releases.
Even though Baggetta, who has also worked with David Torn, Jim Keltner, Psychic Temple, Jeff Coffin, Henry Kaiser, Rev. Fred Lane, and Viktor Krauss among many others, wrote all the songs specifically for these bandmates to play, there’s no telling which way the band will turn at any given moment, a proposition that becomes a promise when they break down and reassemble these songs live, with an instinct for restraint and an openness to anarchy.
mssv's 3rd full-length studio album comes out Spring 2025 on BIG EGO Records.
This Event Is All Ages
With inventively churning drum textures from Hodges (an instantly identifiable sound honed in his days with Tom Waits and David Lynch) and the full-steam-ahead all-in attitude from watt, (as he’s displayed throughout his storied career with MINUTEMEN, fIREHOSE, and The Stooges), there is the impression of “pressure, combustion, power, and hissing clouds of sonic poetry,” as Premier Guitar said. Also evident is the more fearless exploring that comes from a band that has spent a lot of time together crafting their vision, as well as making room for guests like J Mascis, Petra Haden and Nels Cline on some of their previous releases.
Even though Baggetta, who has also worked with David Torn, Jim Keltner, Psychic Temple, Jeff Coffin, Henry Kaiser, Rev. Fred Lane, and Viktor Krauss among many others, wrote all the songs specifically for these bandmates to play, there’s no telling which way the band will turn at any given moment, a proposition that becomes a promise when they break down and reassemble these songs live, with an instinct for restraint and an openness to anarchy.
mssv's 3rd full-length studio album comes out Spring 2025 on BIG EGO Records.
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Sadurn
Special Guests: Vireo
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Intimacy is manifested in every moment of “Radiator,” the debut album from Philadelphia’s Sadurn. This feeling of closeness, of being able to lend your every sense to one’s confessions of internal conflict, has carried over from the band’s origins as the solo bedroom-folk project of frontperson Genevieve DeGroot.
Now emerging as a four-piece with the addition of members Jon Cox, Tabitha Ahnert, and Amelia Swain, Sadurn delivers emotive indie rock on “Radiator” that explores the struggles and eventual beauty of grappling with multiple emotional realities, particularly when it comes to relationships. The album is a fleeting, impactful glimpse at one’s whole heart, and its sweeping, special nature is evident from the moment it opens.
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Mr. Smalls Presents
Windchimes EP Release Show
Special Guests: Riparian, xMutiny, Final Witness, Moisty
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Windchimes returns home to the Steel City from their two week tour with Maul to celebrate the release of their new EP "Enveloping Retribution" as well as their vocalist's birthday on this star aligning day of metal mayhem you don't want to miss out on.
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Endless Mike
Special Guests: Tin Can Collective, The Ghostwrite
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Endless Mike is a folk singer from western Pennsylvania. Sometimes he plays with a band. Sometimes he plays solo (he's playing solo at this show). It's always punk as fuck.
Tin Can Collective post-punk band from NYC.
The Ghostwrite is a DIY acoustic band from Pittsburgh PA.
This Event Is All Ages
Opus One Presents
The Bright Light Social Hour
With Special Guest: Glass Caps
Friday, April 18, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Presale 11/13/2024 @ 1pm
On Sale: 11/15/2024 @ 1pm
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Mr. Smalls x West Egg Presents
Sister. X Villagerrr
Special Guest: Benny Benji
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Sister. is an NYC-based indie trio composed of Hannah Pruzinsky (they/she), Cecil Sturman (she/her), and James Chrisman (he/him). The band released their first LP Abundance on Mtn Laurel Recording Co. in October 2023.
Villagerrr is an indie band from Columbus who has played shows supporting acts such as Horse Jumper of Love, Greg Mendez, and Tanukichan. They released their newest album Tear Your Heart Out on Darling Recordings in March of 2024.
This Event Is All Ages
Villagerrr is an indie band from Columbus who has played shows supporting acts such as Horse Jumper of Love, Greg Mendez, and Tanukichan. They released their newest album Tear Your Heart Out on Darling Recordings in March of 2024.
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Keep Flying
With Special Guest: Old Neon, East Coast Envy
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Keep Flying is a New York based 6 piece punk rock band with horns, thats right, horns. The band mixes a combination of sounds from emo to pop punk to punk.
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
The Consortium + Mr. Smalls Presents
Rosegarden Funeral Party
With Special Guests: Trigger Discipline, Muzzle Tung
Friday, April 25, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Rising from the inferno of heartbreak with a determination towards gentility, humility, graciousness, and kindness, Rosegarden Funeral Party takes influence from life’s tragedies and spins chaos into beauty. Leah Lane fronts the band with a voice like that of the lovechild between Morrissey and Siouxsie Sioux and her guitar playing has been compared to that of Daniel Ash. with bass playing that takes obvious inspiration from Peter Hook. With synths trapped in the loving arms of the 1980’s, rhythmic percussion and drums inspired by dark dance floors, Rosegarden Funeral Party prove to be the second-coming of traditional goth.
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Lady Beast – Album Release Show
Special Guests: Sanhedrin (Brooklyn), Olathia (Cleveland)
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Since 2009, Lady Beast have been flying the flag for redefined heavy metal. The band hail from the Steel City of Pittsburgh, forming with firm influences ranging from Motorhead, Dio, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest. Join us to celebrate our 7th album release, The Inner Alchemist.
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
The BellRays
Special Guests: TBA!
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Doors: 6:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Blues is the teacher. Punk is the Preacher. It’s all about emotion and energy. Experience and
raw talent, spirit and intellect. Exciting things happen when these things collide.
Bob Vennum and Lisa Kekaula made The BellRays happen in 1990 in Riverside, California but
they weren’t really thinking about any of this then. They wanted to play music and they wanted
it to feel good. They wanted people to WANT to get up, to NEED to get up and check out what
was going on. Form an opinion. React.
So they took everything they knew about; the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, the Who, the Ramones Billie Holiday, Lou Rawls, Hank Williams, the DB’s, Jimmy Reed, and Led Zeppelin (to name a very few to whom “BLUES IS THE TEACHER”) and pressed it into service.
Those bands and artists have since become “buzz words”, things to imitate and sound like. That was never The BellRays intention. The BellRays were never about coming up with a “sound”, or fitting in with a scene. It was about the energy that made all that music so irresistible. The BellRays’ influences learned from the Blues and then learned how to to make it their own. The Beatles wanted to play R&B, converted that energy and invented “Rubber Soul”. The Ramones were trying to be Del Shannon or Neil Sedaka and out came “Rocket to Russia”.
The BellRays believe combining Rock and Soul is not meant to be a conscious effort. You shouldn’t have to force them together because they’ve never really been separated in the first place. It’s an organic trail that flows through Bob and Lisa and the current rhythm section of Bernard Yin (Fur Dixon, Par Avion ) on bass and Dusty Watson (the Sonics, Dick Dale) on drums, and comes out honest and urgent. You will learn and you will feel. Blues is always teaching and Punk is always preaching.
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So they took everything they knew about; the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, the Who, the Ramones Billie Holiday, Lou Rawls, Hank Williams, the DB’s, Jimmy Reed, and Led Zeppelin (to name a very few to whom “BLUES IS THE TEACHER”) and pressed it into service.
Those bands and artists have since become “buzz words”, things to imitate and sound like. That was never The BellRays intention. The BellRays were never about coming up with a “sound”, or fitting in with a scene. It was about the energy that made all that music so irresistible. The BellRays’ influences learned from the Blues and then learned how to to make it their own. The Beatles wanted to play R&B, converted that energy and invented “Rubber Soul”. The Ramones were trying to be Del Shannon or Neil Sedaka and out came “Rocket to Russia”.
The BellRays believe combining Rock and Soul is not meant to be a conscious effort. You shouldn’t have to force them together because they’ve never really been separated in the first place. It’s an organic trail that flows through Bob and Lisa and the current rhythm section of Bernard Yin (Fur Dixon, Par Avion ) on bass and Dusty Watson (the Sonics, Dick Dale) on drums, and comes out honest and urgent. You will learn and you will feel. Blues is always teaching and Punk is always preaching.
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Olive Klug
Special Guests: TBA!
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Olive Klug refuses to be put in a box. Working out who you are in front of an ever-growing audience is no small task, but one that the Portland-born, Nashville-based singer/songwriter is up for and thriving.
Olive graduated with a liberal arts degree shortly before the 2020 pandemic derailed their plans of pursuing a career in social work. Though they'd recorded and self-released the 2019 EP "Fire Alarm" from a childhood friend's bedroom, up until early 2021, Olive categorized their music as either a hobby or a pipe dream, depending on who was asking. However, after being laid off of a teaching job in late 2020, Olive starting working as a barista and decided to commit all of their extra energy to an ever-growing community of fans online.
Olive can't help but be unapologetically themselves, something their community of fans (dubbed the "Klug Bugs" on Instagram and Discord) appreciate most about them. Their debut LP ranges from a playful Americana romp about "watching all the rules disintegrate" to folk-punk anthem "Coming of Age," which somehow manages to reference both pop singer Taylor Swift and existential philosopher Kierkegaard in one song, to "Parched"'s haunting modern ballad about a doomed relationship, to an indie rock closer about learning to take up space as a person with a marginalized identity. Through this no-holds-barred documentation of the struggles of their early adulthood, Klug embraces all their inner contradictions with reckless abandon.
Artist pre-sale: Jan 22 @ 10am (pre-sale ends Jan 23 @ 11am)
General on-sale: Jan 24 @ 10am
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The Consortium + Mr. Smalls Presents
Calabrese
Special Guests: Zombeast, The Cheats
Thursday, May 01, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Steeped in a hard rock swing, brash punk energy, metallic bombast, and a healthy helping of death rock, these three musicians—Jimmy Calabrese [vocals, bass], Bobby Calabrese [vocals, guitar], and Davey Calabrese [drums]—established a diehard following and garnered immense critical praise outside of the traditional system, emerging as underground luminaries from their native Phoenix, AZ.
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Shallow Alcove
With Special Guest: Lighthearted
Saturday, May 03, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Shallow Alcove is a band of friends fronted by Grace Krichbaum and Dan Harris, with Peter Groppe, Jack Harrington, and Noah Dadaris. They combine stacked vocal harmonies, catchy guitar riffs, and diary-like lyrics to form a tender soundtrack to young adulthood. Shallow Alcove’s music is based in their love of DIY folk music and colored with narratives of friendship, the changing of the seasons, bad haircuts, and the ache of growing up. What started as friends writing songs in the bedrooms and basements of Upstate New York has since shifted to the apartments and studios of New York City and Philadelphia, but Shallow Alcove’s roots have remained the same: story-telling with the people they love.
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
Maya de Vitry (TRIO)
Friday, May 09, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Originally from Lancaster, PA, Maya de Vitry is a Nashville-based artist whose music blurs the lines of folk, indie rock, and Americana. An admirer of the dedicated song craft of writers like John Prine, Gillian Welch, and Townes Van Zandt — and of the stirring vocals of artists like Bonnie Raitt and Nina Simone — Maya de Vitry’s music invites listeners into a space of openness and connection.
This Event Is All Ages
Opus One Presents
Shayfer James
With Special Guest: Sparkbird
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
This Event Is All Ages
Opus One Presents
Matthew Logan Vasquez
With Special Guest: Jacob Alan Jaeger
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
This Event Is All Ages
DrLeef Ent + Mr. Smalls Presents
LUMEO
Featuring:
M?stic
Flipswitch
Noki
QuackDaddy
Arekusa
Namira
Friday, May 30, 2025
Doors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:30 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
DrLeeF presents "Lumeo"- Evoking light and future energy: A night of EDM and PLUR... where reality bends and the bass takes control.
This Event Is 21+
This Event Is 21+
Mr. Smalls Presents
Alison’s Halo
With Special Guest: TBA!
Tuesday, June 03, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
ARTIST PRE-SALE WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26 @ 10AM!
GENERAL ON-SALE THURSDAY, FEB. 27 @ 10AM!
Alison's Halo was formed in Tempe, Arizona during the fall of 1992 by Catherine Cooper (Vocals/Guitar), Adam Cooper (Guitar), David Rogers (Bass/vocals) and Roger Brogan (Drums/Percussion). Within months of formation the band burst onto the local scene and immediately began securing shows with national acts (The Verve, Ultra Vivid Scene, Curve, The Boo Radleys, Stereophonics, Medicine, Lovesliescrushing, Bailter Space and many others) as well as being invited to perform at numerous music festivals around the country.
The Dozen/Calendar single was released by the legendary Independent Project Records in 1995 to wonderful national reviews and extensive college radio airplay. The single's beautiful blend of chiming guitar noise and Catherine's breathtaking melodies perked many an ear and led to the band loading up the van and heading out for a successful string of tour dates around the country.
Their debut full-length, Eyedazzler, was recorded to various 2, 4, & 8 porta-studio cassettes from 1992-1996 and released on Detroit's Burnt Hair Records in 1998. This stunning collection of songs has only grown in popularity since its original release and has been ranked among the top shoegaze and dreampop records from the golden eras of both genres.
This Event Is All Ages
Mr. Smalls Presents
worlds greatest dad
Special Guests: Mighty, Wasted Space
Thursday, June 05, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
worlds greatest dad is an emotive indie band from Atlanta, GA. We make music that we like and we hope you like it to.
This Event Is All Ages
This Event Is All Ages
Directions
Parking
Street parking is available along Lincoln Ave and on the surrounding streets. Valet parking will be available for select shows in the future. Check back for more info.