Events
We promote events in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, especially gigs with bands, DJ nights and film screenings. If you have a venue that we don't know about which you think would work well for our events, please get in touch!
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Friday, November 1, 2024
Love's Devotee and WMUH present...
Chris Cohen (on tour from Los Angeles, Hardly Art Records)
Sun Bus (a mélange of surf rock, psychedelic music and 60s garage)
Wyatt Davidick (mini indie-pop orchestra)
at National Sokol's #93
613 Hillside Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18015
Doors at 7:00pm, show ends at 10:00pm
ALL AGES // 21+ with ID to drink
Advance tickets: $16 (plus fees and tax)
Day of show: $20
Stick around afterwards for First Friday DJs at National Sokol's til late!
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Tuesday November 26, 2024 at 6:00pm
Bethlehem Area Public Library
11 W. Church Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018
Free admission - register at bapl.org
Love's Devotee & the Bethlehem Area Public Library present
a conversation with writer and podcaster Daniel Ralston
Daniel Ralston's new podcast The True Story of The Fake Zombies explores the wild story of American musicians who posed as the British Invasion group The Zombies and toured the U.S. in 1969. Featuring interviews with rock critic Ben Fong-Torres, musicians like Susanna Hoffs and Mike Campbell (of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) as well as The Zombies themselves, the podcast is a culmination of years of research. Join us for an in-depth discussion of Ralston's research process, the joys and challenges of producing a podcast and this fascinating footnote in rock music history!
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Saturday December 14, 2024
Love's Devotee & LVAC present...
Uniform (NYC industrial/metal/noiserock purveyors, new album on Sacred Bones Records)
Pharmakon (NYC power electronics/death-industrial dirge, new album on Sacred Bones Records)
Lunacy (dark electronics, the pride of the Lehigh Valley)
True Body (gothic post-punk from Richmond)
at National Sokol's #93
613 Hillside Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18015
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 7:30pm
ALL AGES // 21+ with ID to drink
$20 (plus fees)
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Saturday October 12, 2024 at 7:00pm (films start at 7:30pm)
Bethlehem, PA – email for address
Free admission
LV Cinema Club brings the cinema to our friends' backyard in Bethlehem, PA for a fun screening of sci-fi short films from the 1920s–1970s, projected right onto the side of a freshly painted garage. While we are keeping the lineup a surprise until the evening, you can expect some vintage European animation, an inventive silent-era sci-fi and even an unclassifiable oddity produced right here in Eastern Pennsylvania. All films will be projected from 16mm prints!
Join us for a fun, casual screening — send over an email and we'll share the address. Folks will start gathering around 7pm and we will start the projection at 7:30pm. The program will be 60-70 minutes long. Bring a chair, a blanket, snacks.
Thank you to Amy Schaefer & Bill Schaefer, and to Lightbox Film Center (Jesse Pires) and The Secret Cinema (Jay Schwartz) for loaning film prints for this screening.
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Friday, September 13–Sunday, September 15, 2024
Lehigh Valley Cinema Club presents... Séance Film Festival
A weekend film festival celebrating cinema as séance and portal to the afterlife, and the parallels between film projection and reincarnation. Combining contemporary and archival short and feature films, live soundtracks and performance, the first Séance Film Festival will be an utterly unique, one-time-only, unrepeatable cinematic event.
- Fri 9/13 at 7:00pm: Opening Program
- Fri 9/13 at 9:00pm: Man Ray: Return to Reason
- Sat 9/14 at 7:00pm: Soda Jerk / Herb Shellenberger / Garden Gate
- Sat 9/14 at 9:00pm: Morgiana
- Sun 9/15 at 7:00pm: Nature Intended the Abstract: Films by Célia Hay and others
- Sun 9/15 at 9:00pm: Closing Program
Tickets: $10 per night
Weekend pass: $18
Supporter pass: $40
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Friday September 6, 2024
Love's Devotee presents an album release party for the new D. Spaulding cassette release Jilt Matrimonial Turkey Heartland Desert Classic Jubilee
D. Spaulding (softly poetic, elegantly minimal folk, Maryland)
Tara Toms (existential love songs, Harrisburg)
Karson Meckeler (soporific pop confections, PA/NJ borderlands)
at Apport Used Books
12 S. Fourth Street, Emmaus, PA 18049
7:00pm
ALL AGES
$10 suggested donation
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Saturday August 10, 2024
Love's Devotee presents... experimental music under the stars
GSGA (Lehigh Valley experimental improv synth excellence)
Family Underground (Copenhagen, Denmark – psychedelic drone noise duo)
Religious Knives (Brooklyn – cosmic love drone duo)
Elaheh (vocal chant + shruti box from LV-based Iranian artist)
at Connexions Gallery (in the courtyard)
213 Northampton St, Easton, PA 18042
doors: 6:30pm // starts at 7:00pm
ALL AGES
Tickets: $10–20 sliding scale (no advance, tickets at the door only)
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Thursday July 25, 2024
Love's Devotee presents...
Tyvek (legendary garage punk band on tour from Detroit)
with local support
Small Mess (high energy indie rock trio)
RA!D (moody post-punk//deathrock)
at National Sokol's #93
613 Hillside Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18015
doors: 7:00pm // starts at 7:30pm
ALL AGES // bar 21+ with ID
Tickets: $12–$$15 sliding scale (no advance, tickets at the door only)
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Saturday June 1, 2024
Love's Devotee presents...
Gwenifer Raymond (Welsh solo fingerstyle guitarist on tour from the UK)
with local support
William H. Travis (indie-folk combo from Travis + co.)
Ms. Honey (sweet indie folk from over the river in NJ)
Systolic Murmurs (drone maximalism from this Philadelphia trio)
at National Sokol's #93
613 Hillside Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18015
doors: 7:00pm // show: 7:30pm – 11:00pm
ALL AGES // 21+ with ID to drink
Tickets: $15
Lehigh Valley Cinema Club presents...
Warm Blood, dir. Rick Charnoski, 2022, US, 86 mins, DCP
followed by Q&A with filmmaker Rick Charnoski
and live performance by Wipes
Emmaus Theatre
19 South 4th Street, Emmaus, PA 18049
Tickets: $10 from Emmaus Theatre
Saturday May 4, 2024
Love's Devotee presents...
Jason Anderson (intimate and anthemic indie-folk from NH/New Brunswick, Salinas Records)
Christina Giacoletti (local singer-songwriter with soaring vocals, solo set)
Lit Coffee Roastery & Bakeshop (26 E 3rd St., Bethlehem PA 18015)
doors: 7:00pm / show: 7:30pm
All ages
$10 suggested donation — no advance tickets, pay at the door
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Wednesday April 17, 2024
Love's Devotee & WMUH present...
Wolf Eyes (noise/free improv/trip metal legends from Detroit)
with local support
Orphan Donor (grindcore/metal from the Lehigh Valley)
Chelsea Smarr (harp + effects)
subservientdominance (power electronics)
at National Sokol's #93
613 Hillside Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18015
doors: 7:00pm // show: 7:30pm – 10:15pm
ALL AGES // 21+ with ID to drink
Tickets: $20 + fees
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Sunday March 10, 2024
Love's Devotee and The HEI Network present a live watch party of...
The 11th Annual On Cinema Oscars Special
aka AMATOCON 2024
"It's Movie Time!"
at National Sokol's #93
613 Hillside Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18015
***note updated schedule***
5:30pm – doors
6:00pm – On Cinema trivia spectacular
7:00pm – AMATOCON/On Cinema Oscars Special LIVE
ALL AGES // 21+ with ID to drink
$10 (plus fees)
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Landis Cinema (Buck Hall), Lafayette College
219 N 3rd St, Easton, PA 18042
Lehigh Valley Cinema Club and Lafeyette College Department of Film & Media Studies present:
Gabbeh, dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996, Iran/France, 75 mins, digital
Free screening
A poetic, dreamlike vision from one of Iran's most celebrated filmmakers, Gabbeh portrays the traditionally nomadic Qashqai people of Southern Iran. Makhmalbaf Film House describes the film's narrative: "On the banks of a stream, an old woman and her husband are washing their Gabbeh [a type of traditional Persian rug]. From this carpet comes forth a beautiful young woman—aptly named Gabbeh—who shares her epic tale: she is desperately in love with a mysterious horseman who follows her clan from [behind]. Though her father has agreed to let her marry the man, season after season, the horseman follows Gabbeh—always present, always waiting, howling songs of love after nightfall."
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Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 7:30pm
Theatre 514 (Civic Theatre of Allentown)
514 N 19th St, Allentown, PA 18104
Lehigh Valley Cinema Club presents:
Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
Lehigh Valley Cinema Club presents the Pennsylvania premiere of Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You, the visual album of Bonnie "Prince" Billy's 2023 album of the same name, a collaboration between filmmaker Ryan Daly & musician Will Oldham.
Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You, dir. Ryan Daly & Will Oldham, 2023, US, 47 mins
Free screening
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Thursday November 16, 2023
Love's Devotee & LVAC present...
Neil Hamburger (America's Funnyman, Drag City Records)
with special guest Major Entertainer
at National Sokol's #93
613 Hillside Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18015
Doors: 7:30pm
ALL AGES // 21+ with ID to drink
$25 (plus fees)
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Saturday September 30, 2023
Love's Devotee Soul Sound System
sweet soul music dance party
DJs spinning vinyl from 1959–1976
with guest DJs Niteliters LLC
at National Sokol's #93
613 Hillside Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18015
7:30–11:00PM
All ages welcome
21+ with ID to drink
$5
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Friday June 9, 2023
Love's Devotee presents...
PURLING HISS (Philly shredders, Drag City)
Brother JT (the legendary)
Catatonic Suns (LV space-rockers)
at National Sokol's #93
613 Hillside Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18015
Doors: 7:30pm
ALL AGES // 21+ to drink
$12
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Purling Hiss is the longtime project of Mike Polizze (Birds of Maya, Watery Love), currently joined in power rock trio formation by drummer Ben Leaphart and bassist Pat Hickey. From their first self-titled LP, released in 2009 on Permanent Records, the group has explored the outer fringes of rock cutting a piste across albums and live sets that place in equal measure the experimental and the accessible. Their newest album Drag on Girard (Drag City, 2023) encapsulates this approach: while the compositions are tighter and perhaps more "song-based" than some earlier approaches, the group left ample room for ideas to emerge: "It was an off-the-cuff process where the songs were mostly written but I told everybody don’t worry about it. Let’s have something loose."
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Lehigh Valley legend Brother JT has recently self-released his 29th(?) album "Shaky Jet Loner", yet another inventive collection of delectable psychedelia and psychedelic delectations. The project began 30+ years ago with two releases on the revered Twisted Village label: 1991's Descent, a snarling, free jazz-skronk inversion of John Coltrane's Ascensions and 1992's Meshes of the Afternoon, which documents the aftereffects of Maya Deren's avant-garde visions on the inner ear. Along the way, countless tunes dropped like manna from the heavens across 7"s, LPs and CD-Rs, including a number for his own imprint Bedlam Records. For this occasion, the Brother JT combo will be joined by bassist Bill Melcher, their first performance together in nearly 20 years!
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Allentown's Catatonic Suns bury their 90s indie sensibilities underneath blankets of psychedelia. Initially starting as a lo-fi recording project, the group soon blossomed into a full band performing live across the USA and recording their first two albums with producer Matt Molchany at Bethlehem's Shards Studios. Their most recent full-length, Saudade, shows a love for Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine, Stone Temple Pilots and all sorts of pre-millennial rock'n'roll mess across ten cuts.
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Friday May 19, 2023
Love's Devotee presents...
DJ HTSHELL (Love's Devotee honcho)
with special guest ANNO (Washington DC)
POST-PUNK | MUTANT DISCO | SYNTH | BOOGIE
PRE-RAPHAELITE FANTASTICORE
SOVIET FLOOR-FILLERS
and music to dance to...
at SEPARATIST BEER (101 Northampton Street, Easton, PA)
9PM – 12AM
NO COVER
21+
[Note: While Love's Devotee was launched in May 2023, we have previously booked events in Pennsylvania for artists like A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Acid House Kings, Allo Darlin', The Blow, Blues Control, Comet Gain, Dan Deacon, Deer Tick, Elf Power, Eternal Summers, Fred Thomas, Grass Widow, Hockey Night, The Karl Hendricks Trio, King Tuff, Las Robertas, Matt & Kim, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Pants Yell!, Pissed Jeans, Steve Moore, Strand of Oaks, Thanksgiving, Tullycraft, Tyvek, U.S. Girls, Veronica Falls, YACHT, The Yummy Fur, Zola Jesus and many more.]