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THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON!
Baltimore Rock Opera Society presents the 2026 Rock Opera Big Bang!
Four teams of local visionaries have spent tweeks writing, composing, and building explosive new rock opera masterpieces. Since 2023, the Big Bang has encouraged new creators within the BROS universe to bring their ideas to life, using a collaborative hackathon format that emphasizes speed, ingenuity, and bold ideas.
Join us to experience the galactic premiere of these new works, root for your favorite creative teams, and party with the BROS!
Doors are at 1pm, shows from 2-4pm. Admission is $5, with donations encouraged on a sliding scale.
Great stuff coming up, Baltimore!
What`s on YOUR list!?
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JUST ANNOUNCED!
BEACH WEATHER
special guests TBA
Sept 24th- 7pm- All Ages
TICKETS ONSALE FRIDAY 10am at theottobar.com and fee-free AT Ottobar!
(A special Ottobar presale goes live THURS at Noon using passcode BWOTTO)
Do YOU have your tickets yet?!?!
August 6th-
@pinkshift celebrates the 5 Year Anniversary of "Saccharine" right here!
Remaining tickets are available NOW at theottobar.com and at Ottobar (fee-free)
Truly an honor to be chosen by the people, as the @baltmag 2026 Best of Baltimore Reader’s Poll Winner for Best Live Music Venue.
We love YOU even more- come see us and some great bands soon!
FRIDAY NIGHT!
Don`t sleep on your @emonite tix-
special guest DJ @armanibroken!
9pm doors- 18+
Get `em NOW at theottobar.com and fee-free AT OTTOBAR
JULY 27th Ottobar OUTSIDE!
9pm
THE FREAK FAMILY ROADSHOW rolls into Ottobar...
Part roadside attraction. Part art installation. 100% MUST SEE!
Artist Jo Cunningham spent two years bringing The Freak Family Roadshow to life—a traveling sculptural installation inspired by the underground comics her father created in the 1980s.
Step inside the canned-ham trailer and meet the family: a gorilla mother, an alien father, and their wonderfully bizarre love child, forever trapped in an endless time loop somewhere between 1950s suburbia and another dimension.
After a year on the road leaving audiences equal parts amazed, bewildered, delighted, and asking, "What did I just experience?"... the Freak Family has finally landed at Ottobar.
IG@the_freakfamily
www.thefreakfamily.com/
Sharp Spikes & Spurs
21+
Sunday, August 02
Doors: 9 pm
Upstairs @ Ottobar
Bringing Industrial and Wave from DJ Deadsteps!
@deadsteps
80’s Dance Party w/ DJ Fun Billy
21+
Saturday, August 01
Doors: 9 pm
Upstairs @ Ottobar
Dress up in your best costume and dance the night away to Fun Billy’s mix of all your favorite music from the 80’s. Expect to hear the best from New Order, The Cure, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Human League, Erasure, A-Ha, Talking Heads, The Smiths, Duran Duran and many more! Never a cover charge!
@80s_dance_party_djfunbilly
u+n booking presents
Home Star with Smirk
All Ages
Friday, July 31
Upstairs @ Ottobar
Home Star (PA power pop, Evan of Marietta)
Smirk (Oakland rockers, new LP out on Smoking Room)
Early show! Doors at 6, over by 9
@unbooking
$15/18, all ages
Trivia & Karaoke Night
Wednesday, July 29
Doors: 6 pm
Upstairs @ Ottobar
Ottobar trivia, play as teams or solo!
@showtimetrivia
Trivia at 7:00!
Karaoke at 9:30!
Hosted by the "Researched The Fuck Out of This" @pstorbmore 😍
Quoth @s.dotmusic Heyy Yall!!!
I’m back outside w/ another Sound Exchange 🥵
This time with @_____iloveusomuch & @mx.messiii
Sound Exchange w/ DJ SDOT
21+
Thursday, July 30
Doors: 9 pm
Upstairs @ Ottobar
BOUNCE
21+
Friday, July 31
Doors: 9 pm
Upstairs @ Ottobar
Feeding Seahorses is the Baltimore-based DJ project of Ali, a queer Palestinian artist who’s played Brooklyn, Barcelona, and London. Expect global club, left-field dance, groovy house, jersey club beats, and rhythmic drums, all in service of one thing: shaking ass.
@feeding_seahorses27
@bounce_baltimore
Quoth @spiritworldpresents GOT ANOTHER JAMMER HAPPENING THIS UPCOMING TUESDAY WITH @scott_not_astronaut UPSTAIRS AT OTTOBAR. SPINNING VINYL ONCE AGAIN, AND CURATING AN INCREDIBLE DANCE VIBE, IM EXCITED TO BE BRINGING SCOTT BACK TO FW THE TEAM ONCE AGAIN.
KEEP FWM YALL. I NEED YOU. YOU SHOULD BE HERE. ITS AWESOME.
FLIER BY @craig_phreaq
...Really? You`re committed to this? This is the name of your night? There`s no going back... Once I hit post.... but... you know what... it`ll be fine. It`ll be fine. It`s kind of on brand for us, right? It`ll be fine. It`ll be fine.
DRENCHED IN STENCH
w/ DJ Pants
CAUST//METAL//ANARCHO//D-BEAT
Monday, July 27
Doors: 9 pm
Upstairs @ Ottobar
@toxic_planet
HEAR MUSIC FROM OUR UPCOMING SHOWS
Guided By Voices by David LaMason / The Kills by Josh Sisk