Upcoming Funhouse Events
KKS + Mr. Smalls Presents
System Freeze ft. Dack Janiels
Special Guests: Mushroom Cloud, Krystal Klarity, DSK
Local Support TBA!
Friday, January 16, 2026
Doors: 8:30 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
*Early Bird tickets available until BLACK FRIDAY (ending 11/28 @ 11:59PM)
**Advance tickets available until the WEEK OF SHOW (ending 1/10 @ 11:59PM)
***Week of Show tickets. This is also the Day of Show price at doors.
SYSTEM FREEZE is a high-voltage Riddim experience designed to overload your senses and melt the mainframe. Expect bone-rattling bass, filthy drops, and a lineup engineered to push the limits of sound. As the system locks in and the frequencies surge, the only rule is to move.
Join us as KKS and Mr. Smalls Funhouse present a night of pure bass energy featuring Dack Janiels with support from Mushroom Cloud and Krystal Klarity. Get ready to dive deep into the underground — where the rhythm glitches, the lights pulse, and the crowd moves as one.
SYSTEM FREEZE initiated. Brace for impact.
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SYSTEM FREEZE is a high-voltage Riddim experience designed to overload your senses and melt the mainframe. Expect bone-rattling bass, filthy drops, and a lineup engineered to push the limits of sound. As the system locks in and the frequencies surge, the only rule is to move.
Join us as KKS and Mr. Smalls Funhouse present a night of pure bass energy featuring Dack Janiels with support from Mushroom Cloud and Krystal Klarity. Get ready to dive deep into the underground — where the rhythm glitches, the lights pulse, and the crowd moves as one.
SYSTEM FREEZE initiated. Brace for impact.
This Event Is 21+
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Mr. Smalls Presents
Don’t Panic! Go Back to the 90s
Featuring: The Dang Bang, Action Camp, Favorite Band, Everybody Gets Laid
Saturday, January 17, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Come celebrate Dan Yost turning 42! Each band will perform a collection of 90s songs spanning genres/artists/styles.
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Mr. Smalls Presents
Funhouse Film Club: Derek January month
Double Feature including the 1979 Who-inspired mod classic, Quadrophenia
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Doors: 6:30 pm / Show: 7:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Celebrate birthday boy and co-host Derek January's month with a screening of the 1979 Who-inspired mod classic, Quadrophenia, along with a mystery feature. As always, shown on VHS!
Also in the mix: shorts and vintage trailers, themed drinks, snacks and fun movie facts!
Each month we have suggested donations for different charities, orgs or local businesses, with this edition being clothing items to Light of Life to help the homeless and those in need.
18+
Also in the mix: shorts and vintage trailers, themed drinks, snacks and fun movie facts!
Each month we have suggested donations for different charities, orgs or local businesses, with this edition being clothing items to Light of Life to help the homeless and those in need.
18+
Mr. Smalls Presents
Beach Boise, ID performs Hi, How Are You: The Unfinished Album by Daniel Johnston
Special Guests: Scrum Force, Westinghouse Atom Smasher
Friday, January 23, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Beach Boise, ID is performing Daniel Johnston’s notable album, Hi, How Are You? in full sequence with support from local bands, Scrum Force and Westinghouse Atom Smasher, and The ‘Hi, How Are You?’ Project, a non-profit organization that aims to educate young people worldwide about the importance of mental health and well-being through creative content, events and community-building programs.
This live performance as well as its compositions are an act of appreciation for Daniel’s extensive body of work and are respectfully designed to reflect the experience of mental atrophy and reprieve from mental pratfall. This performative interpretation of Daniel’s work is intended to encourage fans of music to understand how much of a song sits under the surface of what some may be apt to quickly judge due to its fidelity or characteristics unique to an artist.
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Mr. Smalls Presents
Sunburst School of Music Band Program Showcase
Featuring:
Korok
Radio Nemo
Thundershark
Ampersand
Sunburst House Band
Mega Sea Cows
and more...
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Doors: 2:30 pm / Show: 3:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Students from Sunburst School of Music’s Band Program take the stage at Mr. Smalls Funhouse for their end-of-term showcase. These bands have been working on their own curated sets of covers and originals and prepping for this moment! Featuring Korok Radio, Nemo, Thundershark, Ampersand, Sunburst House Band, Mega Sea Cows, and more.
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This Event Is All Ages
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Mr. Smalls Presents
The Conspiracy Theory: Single De-classification Party
Special Guests: Zinnia's Garden, Patton
Friday, January 30, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
The Conspiracy Theory Single De-classification Party!
Join us as we officially de-classify and release to the general public the first single from the upcoming The Conspiracy Theory album!
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Mr. Smalls Presents
BASIC
Special Guest: The Garment District
Thursday, February 05, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
The new BASIC EP “Dream City” is a minimalist fusion of taut, experimentally-minded funk: think Bo Diddley with a chorus pedal, Yo La Tengo on a Congotronics bender, or The Pop Group gone chill. The trio of Chris Forysth (guitar), Mikel Patrick Avery (percussion, drum machine, electronics), and Douglas McCombs (Fender Bass VI), BASIC produced this three-track, 25-minute release over a two-day recording session in December, concluding an eventful 2024 for the group. The recordings were done fast and live, the three members cutting them together in a room at Philly’s Kawari Sound with minimal overdubs. And although just a trio these tunes sound like more than that. Ample detail is provided by the interlocking guitars and Avery’s unique combination of electronic beats and acoustic percussion that he treats and manipulates live with various self-built electronic processors.
Shortly after the release of their debut album “This Is BASIC,” OG Tortoise bassist McCombs joined the group, and along with Philly-based core members Forsyth (Solar Motel Band) and Avery (Natural Information Society), BASIC toured the record up and down the West Coast and throughout the Northeast and Midwest US.
The chemistry between the three resulted in the development of new material almost immediately, built around their propulsive, lyrical, and strongly rhythmic improvisations (rather than songs, they call them “fields”). The results of these thematic excursions are apparent on “Dream City,” a vision of pasts and futures firmly expressed in an ecstatic state of presence, embracing and accepting changes and fusing influences to create a powerful and dynamic sound.
“Dream City” is out March 7, 2025.
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Mr. Smalls Presents
John Kolar Album Release Show
Special Guest: Mother of Earl, Poster Child
Friday, February 06, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
From the hills of Morgantown, WV, John Kolar is an indie artist with rock, pop, country, and jazz influences. On November 28, 2025, John released "Color Blind" - his debut album.
On his growing social media platforms, John regularly posts educational music theory, audio engineering, and music performance content that is related to his music.
John works as an audio engineering professor at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, where he teaches production, mixing, acoustics, electronics, and performance classes to undergraduate students in the School of Music. John’s teaching inspires his music, as mentoring his students to find their own musical voices helps him to find his own. Before teaching at Ball State, John studied Music & Technology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
John enjoys growing vegetables in his garden and riding his bicycle without training wheels.
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On his growing social media platforms, John regularly posts educational music theory, audio engineering, and music performance content that is related to his music.
John works as an audio engineering professor at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, where he teaches production, mixing, acoustics, electronics, and performance classes to undergraduate students in the School of Music. John’s teaching inspires his music, as mentoring his students to find their own musical voices helps him to find his own. Before teaching at Ball State, John studied Music & Technology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
John enjoys growing vegetables in his garden and riding his bicycle without training wheels.
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Acousticafe + Mr. Smalls Presents
AcoustiCafe – For the Love of the 80s
Hosted by Shawn MacIntyre
Featuring
Erika June
Sean Enright
Amy Mmhmm
Happy Hour
Adam Levine (From Aliquid Novi)
Travis Dodge
Maleena Dominick
Kylie Koch
Jessie Prentiss
Derek January
Samantha Aerin
Eddie Brown
Mike Marquis
and more!
Friday, February 13, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Join us as regulars from our popular Monday night open stage, AcoustiCafe, celebrate the music of 1980s!
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This Event Is All Ages
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Mr. Smalls Presents
badluv
Special Guests: Eddie Erwin, Carmela Donna
Saturday, February 14, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Badluv, a pop artist from Ambridge, PA, started writing raps as a teen to cope with life’s struggles. After winning his high school’s talent show and receiving the overwhelming amounts of applause, badluv discovered his passion for songwriting, performing, and sharing his story with others. Having gone through several personal hardships, badluv’s goal is to continue sharing his story through songs that provide those going through similar struggles with peace, security and strength.
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Mr. Smalls Presents
MEG-A-FEST (A reunion of a scene that never died)
Featuring The Turpentiners
with special guests
Becky & The 67s
DJ Sets from Business Jazz
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
MEG-A-FEST
(A reunion of a scene that never died)
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(A reunion of a scene that never died)
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Mr. Smalls Presents
Hudson Freeman
Special Guest: Brian Gerald Bulger
Tuesday, March 03, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Hudson Freeman is a brooklyn-based Lofi-folk artist, inspired and forged by the DIY midwest. The 27-year-old Freeman continues to record and perform songs equal-parts resonant, reflective, and poignant. He has quickly emerged as one of indie's most enthralling new voices. His recent full-length, is a Folk Artist, helped solidify his presence as the kind of songwriter unafraid to tackle life's most draining contradictions: modern identity, digital disconnection, and faith.
Born to Evangelical missionaries, Hudson started writing songs upon a radical break at the age of thirteen when his family suddenly moved from the suburbs of Dallas to The Kingdom of Eswatini. The profound influence of indie big-hitters like Sufjan Stevens and Bon Iver as well as college years spent in Springfield, Missouri made a do-it-yourself midwesterner out of Hudson. Now, his new song "If You Know Me" has recently started drawing in attention from the masses, catapulting Freeman into a wider spotlight than ever. It's a moody blend of bedroom pop, folk, slowcore, and post-emo, stitched together by a singular guitar riff and mantra-style lyrics, confirming Hudson's undeniable knack for melody.
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Mr. Smalls Presents
Pentagram String Band
Special Guests: Yes Ma'am, Little Foot
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 7:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
The Pentagram String Band are a satanic bluegrass band from KCMO. They are suspicious of traditional bluegrass and play a style of gothic folk, punk, and thrash metal. Often involving cannibalism and murder, their lyrics focus on themes of satan, misery, and the joys of death.
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Mr. Smalls Presents
Coyote Island
Thursday, April 02, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
TICKETS ON-SALE FRIDAY 12/12 @ 10AM!
Mike O’Hehir, the man at the heart of Coyote Island, is an old soul, but the music he’s crafted with his band and growing collection of diverse collaborators is as fresh as anything going today. From the breezy and bouncy mix of Caribbean beats and contemporary pop production that blasted “Here Before” into the post-pandemic public consciousness to the meditative and moody organ that makes “Shine through the Darkness” a glimmering beacon for lost souls, his songs are mood enhancements and attitude adjustments — perfect for a generation of music lovers looking for a path forward.
Now, to follow the breakout success of their 2023 album “Holy Illusion,” Coyote Island have released a string of singles highlighted by “Trust the Path,” featuring the Hip Abduction, in anticipation of the release of the full-length “Shadow Magic,” coming August 15.
Like Khruangbin or Father John Misty, Vampire Weekend or Talking Heads, they take authentic traditions and spin them into the future, bringing you along with them as they follow their own path, trusting that they’ll figure everything out along the way. Or won’t. It’s that sort of curiosity about the world that turns clubs into tent revivals, festivals into mystical experiences.
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Mr. Smalls Presents
November Blue
Special Guests: Zoe Jean Fowler, Kevin Daniel
Friday, April 03, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
November Blue blends harmony-rich 60s/70s-inspired rock with modern country and roots energy, delivering powerful performances and emotionally compelling songwriting that resonate across generations. Originally from Pennsylvania and now based in Nashville, the band’s recent rise earned national recognition when Rolling Stone named them one of its “10 New Artists to Watch.” From working with Grammy Award–winning producer Michael Omartian to playing the Ryman Auditorium, November Blue continues to build momentum with new releases, unforgettable live shows, and a sound that feels both timeless and boldly current.
Known for her honest songwriting and genre-blending sound, Zoe Jean Fowler captivates audiences both online and onstage. With over 600,000 streams on her own music and over half a million streams from songwriting cuts, Zoe is carving out her place as a standout independent country artist and songwriter. In the summer of 2025, released a 15 track deluxe album, Cry Baby (Deluxe), which received 28 editorial playlist placements, was featured on Tidal’s Country Rising: Best of 2024, and premiered on WSM Radio at The Grand Ole Opry. Zoe has recently been featured on CMT and has opened for Kix Brooks, Randy Houser, Flatland Cavalry, and Sam Barber.
A dynamic performer, playing 100-150 shows per year, Kevin Daniel’s music has been described as “radio ready with enough darkness creeping in around the edges to appeal to fans of Jason Isbell & Tyler Childers.” On his two early EPs, his 2019 debut album Things I Don’t See, and his 2021 follow-up, Been Here Before, Daniel showcases a masterful ability as a songwriter to seamlessly incorporate bits of rock, soul, country, blues, roots and Appalachia into thoughtful examination of pain and awakenings, visceral and spiritual. A big-voiced crooner with a heart of gold, Kevin strikes a chord with “his raw and soulful, Chris Stapleton-esque timbre.” [Music Connection] Kevin is currently working on his next album with Grammy-nominated producer Bobby Holland at Nashville’s Pentaverit Studios.
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Known for her honest songwriting and genre-blending sound, Zoe Jean Fowler captivates audiences both online and onstage. With over 600,000 streams on her own music and over half a million streams from songwriting cuts, Zoe is carving out her place as a standout independent country artist and songwriter. In the summer of 2025, released a 15 track deluxe album, Cry Baby (Deluxe), which received 28 editorial playlist placements, was featured on Tidal’s Country Rising: Best of 2024, and premiered on WSM Radio at The Grand Ole Opry. Zoe has recently been featured on CMT and has opened for Kix Brooks, Randy Houser, Flatland Cavalry, and Sam Barber.
A dynamic performer, playing 100-150 shows per year, Kevin Daniel’s music has been described as “radio ready with enough darkness creeping in around the edges to appeal to fans of Jason Isbell & Tyler Childers.” On his two early EPs, his 2019 debut album Things I Don’t See, and his 2021 follow-up, Been Here Before, Daniel showcases a masterful ability as a songwriter to seamlessly incorporate bits of rock, soul, country, blues, roots and Appalachia into thoughtful examination of pain and awakenings, visceral and spiritual. A big-voiced crooner with a heart of gold, Kevin strikes a chord with “his raw and soulful, Chris Stapleton-esque timbre.” [Music Connection] Kevin is currently working on his next album with Grammy-nominated producer Bobby Holland at Nashville’s Pentaverit Studios.
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Mr. Smalls Presents
The Antlers
Special Guest: Tōth
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
The follow-up to 2021’s rustic, folk-tinged Green to Gold, Blight asks many questions without offering easy answers. Over the course of nine new songs, the Antlers’ founder and primary songwriter Silberman reckons with our passively destructive tendencies – absentminded pollution, unwitting wastefulness, and the inadvertent devastation of the natural world. But despite its heavy themes, Blight is far from a punishing listen. With its adventurous arrangements and persistent momentum, it plays more like an iridescent odyssey.
The album was recorded over the course of a few years, with the lion’s share tracked and produced in Silberman’s home studio in upstate New York, a compact outbuilding perched at the edge of a neighbor’s sprawling hayfield.
“So much of the record was conceived while walking these massive fields,” he says. “I felt like I was wandering around an abandoned planet.”
And in a sense, Blight does feel like science fiction, sounding as if it were delivered from the near future. The album is a work of meticulous world-building, teeming with ear candy and surprising stylistic shifts. While many songs begin with sparse elements— a fingerpicked guitar, hypnotic organ stabs, or a nimble piano melody — they rarely remain tethered to their foundations. They often reimagine themselves partway through, shifting mid-track from gentle ballad to throbbing electronica, only to land somewhere entirely different by the end.
Silberman has been confronting weighty matters ever since The Antlers’ 2009 breakthrough Hospice, an unrelentingly heavy concept album about a child cancer patient and her caregiver that addressed psychological abuse and post-traumatic stress with explicit detail and unflinching vulnerability, resonating equally with those grieving loved ones and rocky relationships. The album’s ambitious sonics— an unlikely amalgam of intimate folk confessionals, haunted soundscapes, and sky-scraping post-rock— belied its modest origins: Hospice was mostly recorded alone in Silberman’s Brooklyn bedroom, with an economy of equipment and hardly any expectant audience. The surprise popularity of Hospice placed the Antlers on a rapid ascent, touring globally, playing major festivals, and supporting such luminaries as The National and Explosions in the Sky.
The music that followed grew The Antlers’ sizable following while resisting the impulse to rehash their initial success. The electronic pop of 2011’s Burst Apart, the aquatic psychedelia of 2012’s Undersea EP, and the brass-laden soul of 2014’s Familiars all embraced the band's ingenuity while simultaneously subverting expectations, expanding the band’s emotional palette beyond the morose rage and desperation that characterized Hospice to reveal a playful expansiveness. The Antlers further pushed the boundaries as a live entity, trading the lush orchestration of their ambitious recordings for wall-of-sound maximalism and thunderous dynamics.
Sadly, Silberman was forced to scale back after an unexpected hearing incident left him temporarily deaf in one ear and hypersensitive to sound. Putting The Antlers on pause, he made 2017’s Impermanence, a meditative and minimal solo album, pairing his then-fragile voice with gentle guitar and an abundance of silence. After regaining his hearing and recovering from vocal cord surgery, Silberman and longtime drummer Michael Lerner revived The Antlers for 2021’s Green to Gold, a collection of songs notably devoid of the darkness that characterized the band’s previous work.
Following Green to Gold, Silberman honed his collaborative chops, including co-producing Wild Pink’s critically-acclaimed breakout ILYSM. Shortly thereafter, he released the debut album from Cowboy Sadness, his instrumental band with David Moore (Bing & Ruth) and Nicholas Principe (Port St. Willow).
During these intervening years between Antlers albums, Silberman and Lerner kept busy as well, releasing a series of free-standing singles unified by The Antlers’ gift for acid-dipped timbres, shape-shifting production, and impressionistic imagery.
“These singles were metaphysical songs about connection with nature, which in turn put me in touch with all the ways that nature is under threat,” he says. “The smell of wildfire smoke on a sunny afternoon, the sound of chainsaws on a hike through the woods — these contradictions became impossible to ignore.”
Whereas The Antlers have previously dealt in extended metaphors, Blight now takes a more direct approach. In “Calamity,” for instance, Silberman asks point-blank: “Who will look after what we leave behind?” The final and perhaps fundamental question posed by Blight appears in the penultimate track, the tragically relevant futuristic hymnal “A Great Flood”, in which he wonders: “Will we be forgiven should there come a great flood to drown out our decisions?” This question hangs in the air unanswered. Blight invites listeners to consider it for themselves, as if the survival of the natural world is in their hands, slowly slipping through their fingertips.
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Mr. Smalls Presents
Igor and the Red Elvises
Special Guest: The Yeggs
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls
Millvale,
PA
Igor Yuzov was born in Germany, raised in Ukraine and studied in Russia. He grew up in the former Soviet Union, where folk music was the norm and rock’n’roll was illegal. A rebellious streak, led him to seek out the forbidden music. As soon as it became possible, Igor left Russia for America with his “Folk’n’Roll” band Limpopo, and was personally greeted by Ronald Reagan. In 1993, Limpopo won Ed McMahon’s Star Search and their popularity began to blossom. In 1995, Igor dreamed that Elvis Presley came to him and told him to start playing rock’n’roll. Igor and his Russian friends became Red Elvises and gave street performances on Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade. As their crowds grew larger, the City of Santa Monica ordered them to discontinue their street performances. Evolving over the years, Igor’s music has been labeled “Siberian Surf Rock” which contains humorous lyrics and grooves that forces his audience to dance. Over the past 20 years, Red Elvises have constantly toured all over the world with occasional breaks to record new music and to participate in film and television projects.
As an independent band, Red Elvises have produced 12 studio albums, two live albums, a live concert DVD, and a Greatest Hits compilation. Some of their most notable film contributions include music and or performances in “Six String Samurai”, “Mail Order Bride”, “Armageddon”, “Skippy”, “Melrose Place”, “Fastlane”, “Penn and Teller’s Sin City Extravaganza”, “VH-1 Behind the Music”, and “MTV”. Red Elvises have performed for large festivals, private parties, and played on massive stages such as 2005’s Live 8 Benefit Concert. No matter where they perform, Igor & Red Elvises always bring the party with them.
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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.