Jon Wayne & the Pain
2025-10-03 20:00 - 23:30 (America/Chicago) | The Aquarium, 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
The return of Jon Wayne & the Pain once more to The Aquarium! Another time around the sun in Fargo with homies The Forefeathers.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3RD
8:00PM Doors | 8:30PM Music | $18ADV | $20DOS | 21+

Javi & The Brambled Hearts
2025-10-03 21:30 - 2025-10-04 01:30 | Dempsey’s Public House, 226 Broadway N, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States

*SOLD OUT* Citizen Soldier (Acoustic)
2025-10-04 18:00 - 22:00 | The Aquarium, 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
CITIZEN SOLDIER
Secret Songs Tour – An Acoustic Evening with Jake & Wonitta
at The Aquarium
6pm Doors
All Ages

Karaoke at Dempsey's
2025-10-04 21:00 - 2025-10-05 02:00, 2025-10-07 21:00 - 2025-10-08 02:00, 2025-10-11 21:00 - 2025-10-12 02:00, 2025-10-14 21:00 - 2025-10-15 02:00, 2025-10-18 21:00 - 2025-10-19 02:00, 2025-10-21 21:00 - 2025-10-22 02:00 | Dempsey’s Public House, 226 Broadway N, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
Dempsey’s has been named the Best Karaoke bar in Fargo for a reason!
Sing your heart out during our FREE Karaoke night, every Tuesday. It’s legendary!

*All Ages* Dying Remains, Maul, & More
2025-10-06 17:30 - 22:00 | The Aquarium, 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
Death Metal show of the year for Fargo takes place Monday, October 6th.
Dying Remains (Calgary) makes their way across the United States for the first time and hits our home turf at the @aquariumfargo. Ferocious, new school death metal with an early 90s obscure demo attitude.
Mutilation Barbecue (Cleveland) is along for the hellish ride and these little nasty gremlins have prepared an exquisite onslaught for your palate througu equal parts technicality and brutality.
Yotuma (Madison) also on tour makes a return visit to the 701. With a new full length album dropping in September, they look to spread the gospel their brand of precise and melodic grooving Death Metal across the Midwest.
Funerary Outlook (Green Bay) brings their brand of straight forward, chainsaw-like ripping HM2 death metal for the first time to North Dakota.
and Maul… you know em, you love em, you hate em. Real Rockers will unite for stage dives and mic grabs.
10/6. All Ages. 6pm.
$15 adv / $20 dos
Flier work by @christian_death

Clem Snide
2025-10-07 19:00 - 23:00 | The Aquarium, 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
Clem Snide at The Aquarium on Tuesday, October 7th
Tickets On Sale Now: https://holdmyticket.com/tickets/450013
7PM Doors | 8PM Music | $15ADV | 21+
The intersection of hope and resignation can be a disarming place but also incredibly beautiful. It’s where Oh Smokey, the tenth Clem Snide album, spends a lot of its time. Eef Barzelay, the songwriter behind the name since time immemorial, describes Oh Smokey as “slow, sad songs about God and death,” knowing full well that he’s being technically accurate but wryly incomplete. Like a sleepy late-night road trip conversation about a near-death experience, the record makes space for some intimate contemplation of what lies beyond.
Barzelay wrote these eight songs while upending much of his life. His 25-year marriage dissolved, he parted ways with his longtime manager, and he left his Nashville home after two decades. If you look at it one way, he’s been almost cosmically unlucky in the business, with a big break always around the corner that doesn’t exactly materialize. Seen from another angle, he’s built a dedicated fanbase person by person by creating an improbably timeless body of work, playing living rooms, and even writing personal songs for individual fans.
This collection of songs was brought to life with longtime Clem Snide fan Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman, Craig Finn, Hiss Golden Messenger). Kaufman added color and texture to Barzelay’s compositions, from the gentle sonic shrapnel of album opener “Free” to the organic hum that “At Your Command” rests on to the swelling expansiveness of title track “Smokey,” which was inspired by Eef’s fleeting collaboration with another Clem Snide fan: pop star YEBBA. With 30 years now of rising and falling Clem Snide emerges from the ashes, once again, with Oh Smokey. Still committed to loving the unknown, but with a more empathetic and mature appreciation for the bruises that come along with it.

“I look up to Eef with total respect and admiration…”— Scott Avett

“I look up to Eef with total respect and admiration,” says Avett, “and I hope to survive like he survives: with total love for the new and the unknown. Eef’s a crooner and an indie darling by sound and a mystic sage by depth. That’s not common, but it’s beautiful.”
Named for a William S. Borroughs character, Clem Snide first emerged from Boston as a three-piece in the early 1990’s, and the group would go on to become a cult and critical favorite, picking up high profile fans from Bon Iver to Ben Folds over the course of three decades and more than a dozen studio albums. NPR highlighted the Israeli-born Barzelay as “the most underrated songwriter in the business today, with a sneakily firm grasp on poignancy and humor,” while Rolling Stone hailed his songwriting as “soulful and incisive,” and The New Yorker praised his music’s “soothing melodies and candid wit.”
Barzelay currently resides in Nashville, TN.

Taco Night and Bingo!
2025-10-08 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-15 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Dempsey’s Public House, 226 Broadway N, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
Play FREE Bingo from 6 – 8pm!
Get $1 Tacos from 4 – 9pm!

Free Dog Night and Rock & Roll Bingo!
2025-10-09 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-16 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Dempsey’s Public House, 226 Broadway N, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
Play FREE Rock & Roll Bingo from 6 – 8pm!
$4 beer cheese soup
$9 Italian Beef (any style)
Free Vienna Beef hot dog (with drink purchase)

$3 without purchase
$3 each for additional hot dogs

Trivia with Michael Hansen
2025-10-10 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Dempsey’s Public House, 226 Broadway N, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
Trivia at Dempsey’s with legendary host Michael Hansen!

Timebomb Pro: Violence Is Forever
2025-10-10 20:00 - 23:00 | The Aquarium, 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
VIOLENCE IS FOREVER

The stakes are set … on October 10th at Violence Is Forever, The Reverend Ricky Noren and Diacide will put their Timebomb Pro careers on the line in the ultimate grudge match!

The Aquarium – 21+ – 8PM

Tickets available at: https://bit.ly/3XgYJHh

Robb Justice Band
2025-10-10 21:30 - 2025-10-11 01:30 | Dempsey’s Public House, 226 Broadway N, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States

Bindle Fest VI
2025-10-11 18:30 - 23:30 | The Aquarium, 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
The Night/Late portion of Bindle Fest returns to The Aquarium on October 11th! This folk punk inspired festival celebrates it’s 6th year with a huge night of music.
Artists will be announced soon!
Tickets are available right now for both Parachigo, The Aquarium, and a special all in price for both.
The Aquarium portion Info
6:30PM Doors | 7PM Music | $15ADV | $17DOS | $25ADV Combo Price | 21+

*All Ages* Terror & Combust
2025-10-13 18:00 - 22:00 | The Aquarium, 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
For the first time in 19 years Terror returns to Fargo! The hardcore legends hit The Aquarium on tour with Combust on October 13th!
+ Baltic to Boardwalk, No Divinity, & Frenzied State
Tickets on sale NOW!
L.A. Hardcore is back in Fargo.
https://sticktight.la/
Tickets available at AquariumFargo.com/event/terror

Sub:Culture presents Marc Rebillet After Party
2025-10-16 21:00 - 2025-10-17 01:00 | The Aquarium, 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
October 16 2025Official Afters for Marc Rebillet withDj Esp Woody McBrideGuy JeanDj EconDoors 9pm
$10 with ticket$15 WITH OUT
OPEN DECKS till 10pm
Techno, House, New Wave, Breaks, ElectroClash

Open Mic Jam Night
2025-10-16 21:30 - 2025-10-17 01:30 | Dempsey’s Public House, 226 Broadway N, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
Come out and sign up to play a few tunes on Dempsey’s stage!

The Beowulf Project (Reunion)
2025-10-17 20:00 - 23:30 | The Aquarium, 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
A return to the stage for the first time in 15 years is The Beowulf Project with Angry at Numbers. Their first out of town show was Fargo and they’re back!
8PM Doors | 9PM Music | $10 at the Door (Cash Only) | 21+ Only
Born in February 1990, Beowulf Project began in basements across Devils Lake, ND. Combining their love of AC/DC, Warrant, Anthrax, TPOH, and Jane’s Addiction – they created and perfected their own genre of music – Garbage Rock.
Their 1st show was the legendary Wood Lake Rock Festival in 1990. They would continue to write and record until they began their world tour at the Broadway Junktion (NOW The Aquarium) in May 1991.
They continued to write and record but had decided against touring in spite of the high demand. Top acts of the day like Spider Tiger, Crayzee Guts and of course Sly Guys.
With overwhelming demand, they returned to Fargo to play a club date at the Fargo Teamsters with very special guests VI and Full Fathom Five in January 1995.
After this, the band took a hiatus until 2002. When they came back it was a brand new band except for the lead screamer, Jeff Fox.
They took this new energy and in 2003 they released the multi platinum, mega selling album “One Man’s Justice” to critical and fan praise.
They did another world tour with acts such as White Centipede, Unholy Preachers and Sleez Beez.
In 2010 they decided to leave at the top of their game and played their last show.
Unfortunately, their beloved drummer and friend Matt “Muthaphuckin” Miles became sick and the band tried (with Matt’s permission) to organize a show for Matt. Sadly Matt passed away in December 2022 before this could be done. Talking of this show made the band more determined to recognize their friend and finish the show.
Now it’s come full circle with the band returning to it’s adopted home town of Fargo, ND to play the 1st venue they ever played outside of Devils Lake, ND – the Aquarium.
What can you expect? all the hits including Jet Ski Baby, Frontline, A Keel cover, and of course the #1 hit – Trashman. You will see violence, blood and possibly more blood, sweat and beers.

The Righteous Songs
2025-10-17 21:30 - 2025-10-18 01:30 | Dempsey’s Public House, 226 Broadway N, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States

The Quarterly
2025-10-18 19:00 - 23:30 | The Aquarium, 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
A special Fall/Halloween edition of The Quarterly as they play your favorite Grateful Dead songs with pals Darren Quam & Friends.
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW!
7PM Doors • 8PM Music • 21+ Event

Ada Lea w/ King Sage and Adam B
2025-10-20 19:00 - 22:30 | The Aquarium, 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
The Aquarium and Fish Tank Promotions are proud to present Ada Lea w/ support from King Sage and Adam B on Monday, October 20.
Update 10/16: Walker Rider and patchbaydoor are no longer able to join this bill.
“The hand knows best,” the painter Margaux Williamson says. “A shape produces itself, where I go toward what is intuitive, rather than logical.” The shapely, intuitive songs that comprise Ada Lea’s third album, “when i paint my masterpiece,” are surprising, imagistic, tactile. They stand before us and we feel their brushstrokes. Alexandra Levy holds her guitar against the backdrop of a sea of her paintings on the album cover, and it’s tempting to ask: is painting a metaphor here, for music or life? No! As ever, she resists tidy metaphors. She’s a master of this kind of thorny lowercase title that germinates and grows with time. In a real, profound way, music and painting go hand-in-hand as she unveils a new style of subversion and surrealism inspired by her transdisciplinarity.
Levy is a Renaissance woman, and Ada Lea’s albums have been swelling in scope alongside the evolution of her artistic life. Her recent turn toward pedagogy—teaching a songwriting course at Concordia University and co-facilitating a community-based group called The Songwriting Method—weaves another vivid thread into her multifaceted practice. Her debut LP, what we say in private, blurred the lines between interior and performative worlds. Her sophomore record, one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden, featured vignettes centered on Montreal. On this sprawling and ambitious album, written over three years and whittled down from over 200 songs, she asks: what happens when you… pause? How can a life be held suspended in song? The album is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the transformations art can bring: the vision of an uncompromising artist dancing bravely and freely between registers and across mediums.
The album marks a reset—a quiet revolution. After years of relentless international touring, Levy felt an urgent need for community and renewal. Gruelling road schedules with very little support left her wondering: who am I really doing all this for? The system was uncaring and broken, and so it was that she came to envision a new healthy and healing mode of musical genesis. “For me, that looked like resting, extending my creative reach, going back to school, studying painting and poetry,” she explains. “Taking a step away from music as guided by industry expectations. Simplifying things. Getting a job, starting to teach. Engaging with the process rather than the product.” This need for a more deliberate creative renewal was rejected by her existing systems of support, so she began the search for an alternative.
“when i paint my masterpiece” was largely recorded in rural Ontario in the waning weeks of 2023, and its warm harmonies and lush arrangements link back to a golden era of Canadian folk music. The core Ada Lea band—Tasy Hudson on drums, Chris Hauer on lead guitar, Summer Kodama on bass—recorded the album largely live-off-the-floor and acoustic in one room, off the grid in both senses, in the pocket, loose but in control and without a click in sight. Relinquishing the process to the whims of chance allowed for the sanctity of human error to rear its head. The album lives and breathes, produced with Here We Go Magic’s Luke Temple, who has lent his gently psychedelic sensibility to albums by artists like Adrianne Lenker and Hand Habits.
The album views the world through an unstable prism of imagination. “midnight magic” is set firmly in a shimmering dreamworld that could have been summoned by Judee Sill. “snowglobe” refracts a dinner scene later glimpsed through glass by a child. In “there is only one thing on my mind,” a series of magical transformations send the speaker soaring like a Chagall figure. These transformations also draw inspiration from mythical novelist Olga Tokarczuk’s honoring of otherness and inexplicability, and the surrealist painter-novelist Leonora Carrington’s engagement with mysterious forces of nature, and the self as an observed observer. “Just like in the museum/ We keep a little distance” Levy sings.
And by the end of these sixteen songs, it’s clear: “when i paint my masterpiece” isn’t chasing perfection, it’s comfortable in the magic of being. These songs are alive with poetic specificity and a wide-open heart—deeply felt, often strange, and always reaching. There’s an optimistic and plainspoken wisdom in the lyrics—which builds on Ada Lea’s singular songwriting style of surprising harmonic and melodic turns—now with a newly rich, organic sound that rewards slow listening. Let’s look more closely at the title. At first, the most charged words seemed to be “paint” and “masterpiece.” But look again at “when.” It’s becoming more and more unstable. And we now know it’s predicting something that’s already here. The masterpiece, not a product, is the process.
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7 pm doors ☆ 7:30 pm show21+ ☆ $12 advance, $15 DOS
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*All Ages* DNA Entertainment presents: BrokenCYDE
2025-10-22 18:00 - 22:30 | The Aquarium, 226 Broadway N Fl 2, Fargo, ND, 58102, United States
The Teach Me How to Scene Tour brings you back to your myspace html layout learning days for one night only!!!

DNA Entertainment & The Aquarium presentsBROKENCYDEDOT DOT CURVEFROM THIS DAY FORWARDGOOD MORNING GUILTY
6PM Doors | 6:30PM Music | $20 ADV | All Ages Event

Note: there is no alcohol sold or allowed inside of The Aquarium on this special all ages event. You are allowed to drink downstairs in Dempsey’s Public House with a valid ID during the event, but not allowed to bring it upstairs.
