Below is a list of some of our favorite local acts. We’re constantly updating this list as the Birmingham music community shifts & changes!
If it is your first time playing in Birmingham, we recommend contacting any of these excellent local acts who are always welcome to play The Nick 🙂
Band Name |
Genre |
| (the) dead sea flowers | Rock / Psychedelic / Noise |
| Abounding | Metal / Progressive Black Metal / Death Metal |
| Abraham and the Old Gods | Rock /Americana, roots, Rocknroll |
| Adamadam | Rock |
| Alex Wilkerson | Folk, Rock, Indie |
| Alexa Rankin | Indie/Pop/Alternative/Folk |
| Amacio Favor | Rock / Hard Rock & Soul |
| Animala | Rock / Progressive, Psychedelic |
| Autumn Lords | Rock / Glam / Rock N Roll |
| Avavago | Metal / Thrash / Grind |
| Baak Gwai | Rock / Heavy / Psychedelic |
| 93 Beaters | Folk / Renegade Freedom Country |
| B. Snipes | Alt-folk, Singer / Songwriter |
| B.B. Palmer | Country, Honky-Tonk |
| Before Soma | Rock |
| Beitthemeans | Rock / Southern / Heavy |
| Bernie White & The Wily Greys | Ragtime, Blues, Country, Western, Rock |
| Bible Belt | Indie Rock |
| BILLIARDS | Rock |
| Bob Marston & the Credible Sources | Folk / Rock & Roll |
| Bobby Rocknrolls | Rock / Pop / Garage |
| Boss Rush | Punk/Hardcore, Rock |
| Brother Burch | Hip-Hop |
| Brother Husbands | Alternative Rock |
| Buffalo LemonPepper Project | Rock / Instrumental / Jam |
| Bunny Austin | Rock / All |
| Burley Starns – The Band | Folk Rock / Southern Shoegaze |
| Burning Vinyl | Psychedelic /Roots / Rock’n’roll |
| Caddle | Country/Alt Country/Southern Rock |
| Calliope Pettis | Singer Songwriter / Instrumentalist |
| Captain Kudzu | Rock |
| Carly Black/A Touch of Black | Folk / Rock / Indie / Blues |
| Carpool Kids | Alternative Rock |
| CBDB | Joyfunk |
| Chase Arrington | Rock / Pop |
| Cheyloe & Her Sleepless Knights | Alt Country Pop Rock |
| Chris Simmons Band | Rock / Blues / Rock N Roll |
| Crimson Mask | Metal |
| Dead Balloons | Rock |
| Desert Island Monster Mash | Dream Pop / Post-Punk |
| Dexx | Hip Hop |
| Dommel Mosel | Rock / Pop Punk Rock |
| Dree Leer | Rock / Indie |
| Dustin Price | Indie Folk |
| Electric Blue Yonder | Americana / Folk / Rock |
| Esther Kinsaul | Emotional Folk |
| Ferguson & The Copper Dogs | Rock / Blues, Rock ‘n’ Roll |
| Five Shot Jack | Americana / Rock |
| F R a N K |
Indie Folk Alt BOP
|
| G.W. Henderson | Country Blues |
| GreenLeaf Hustle | Rock N Roll |
| GT \\// | Rock / Punk / Psychedelic / Heavy |
| Ham Bagby | Rock, R&B, Country, Southern |
| Happy Lemmy | Rock |
| Headwires | Rock N Roll |
| Headcase | Indie Rock |
| Heath Green & The Makeshifters | Rock N Roll |
| Heath Green ( Solo / Duo) | Singer Songwriter / Rock / Folk / Americana |
| HelioHeart | Indie Pop Rock |
| Henry Dunkle | Indie Rock,FolkBlues, Folk, |
| Hexxus | Metal / Sludge / Rock |
| HighRule | Hip Hop / Rap |
| HotBed | Rock / Psych-Pop |
| Hurl Yeah | Alternative Rock |
| In Snow | Instrumental / Rock |
| Ingrid Marie | Singer/Songwriter |
| insignificant other | Rock & Pop |
| Early James and the Latest | Folk / Blues |
| Jack Thomason | Rock & Roll |
| Janet Simpson | Rock & Roll, Folk & Roll |
| Jasper Coal | Celtic folk-punk |
| Jezebel Dogs | Rock / Power Glam |
| Joell Regal | R & B / Singer Songwriter / Hip Hop / Pop |
| John Armstrong Feller | Singer Songwriter |
| John Thursday | Folk / Garage / Rock/ Singer-Songwriter |
| Jubal John | Beatlesque Americana Songwriter Folk-Rock |
| Juco | Indie Pop |
| Jupiter Missile | Indie Rock |
| Justin Cross | Americana Artist / Folk Rock |
| Kamikaze Zombie | Metal / Punk / Horror |
| KinZie | Rock / Noise – Pop Punk |
| Kyle Kimbrell | Rock / Folk / Pop |
| Lady Legs | Rock / Garage Rock |
| LEADERDOG | Rock / Hard Rock |
| Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires | The real Alabama rock-and-roll |
| Linnil | Hip-Hop / Neo Soul |
| Little Raine Band | Progressive Rock / Funk / Jazz Fusion / FunkJam |
| Lolas | Rock / Power Pop |
| Lolly and The Pops | Pop Rock / Dream Pop |
| Long Bony Arms | Rock and Roll |
| Loveislight | DJ Experimental |
| Love Moore | NeoSoul / Alternative R&B / New Jazz |
| Love Rat | Folk / Pop Rock |
| MarDe Brooks | Singer Songwriter |
| Matchi | Pastel Trash / Rock |
| Matthew DeVine | Jazz, Rock, Pop, Soul, Funk |
| Me and My Knife | Rock / Punk |
| Midmourner | Metal / Subterranean Dopesick Blues |
| Milk Jug | Rock |
| Moth Face | Rock / Heavy / Psychedelic Doom |
| MRYGLD | Indie Rock |
| Nerves Baddington | Hip-Hop, Rap |
| NOIR Band | Metal, Metalcore, Post-Hardcore |
| Nowhere Squares | Rock / Pop / Garage |
| Null | Gloom and Doom Rockers |
| Onehundreds | Rock Pop Roll |
| Outlier | Rock, Alternative / Grungefunk |
| Pace House | Rock / Math Rock |
| Participation Ribbon | Lo-fi / Indie / Pop /Psych / Folk |
| path Working | Rock / Folk-Fusion |
| Peasants | Folk/Â Indie / Acoustic |
| People Years | Rock / Dream Dream |
| Phantom Limb | Post Punk, Garage Rock |
| Phil Dudley | Folk / Indie Folk/Rock |
| Philos Moore | Americana / Folk / Rock |
| Probably the Tornado | Heavy Instrumental Thunder Jam |
| Primeval | Hip Hop |
| Q Dot Davis | Hip Hop / Rap / R&B |
| Rachael Roberts | Pop / Rock |
| Radio Decay | Pop Rock |
| Ramblin’ Ricky Tate | Singer / Songwriter |
| Rebecca Egeland | Singer / Songwriter / Folk-Pop |
| Red Harp | Rock |
| Resort Realism | Electronic, Experimental, Indie, Jazz, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock |
| Results of Adults | Psychedelic, Rock |
| Richard Daniel | Hip-Hop / Rap |
| Riverbend | Rock |
| Royal & Toulouse | Rock / Soul / Blues / Jam |
| Rude & True | Groovy Acoustic / Soulful Vocals |
| Ryan Sobb | Country, alt-country, acoustic |
| Sarah Green and The Sunday Lovers | R&B Soul |
| Sarah Lee Langford | Country / Rock / Americana |
| The SBGs | Bluegrass, Blues, Americana, Soul |
| SEA FIX | Rock / Sea Rock |
| Secret Midnight Band | Rock / Blues |
| Shaheed and DJ Supreme | Hip-Hop, Rap |
| Sister Sniffle | Pop / Rock / Folk |
| Skeptic? | Punk |
| Soul Karnival | Jazz, Rock, Rap, Funk, Reggae, Hip-Hop |
| Southern Phoenyx | Southern Blues, Rock, Hip Hop, Funk |
| Steel City Jug Slammers | Jug Band, Blues, Folk |
| Stoned Cobra | Rock / Metal |
| String Theory | String Ensemble performing Rock Genre |
| Suburban Love Junkies | Rock / Pop / Americana |
| Sunquakes | Rock |
| Sylvia Rose Novak | Americana |
| Taylor Hollingsworth | Rock / Folk Art Blues |
| Tenderly | Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock |
| The Audiovore | DJ |
| The Blips | Rock And Roll |
| The Bouquets | Rock’n’Rolln |
| The Brook & The Bluff | Indi Folk Rock |
| The Burning Peppermints | Psychedelic Garage Punk |
| The Dexateens | not americana |
| The Diamond Vehicle | Rock |
| The Dirty Lungs | Rock / Heavyish Garageish Psych |
| The Goddamn Rights | Punk / Noise Rock |
| THE GREAT BOOK OF JOHN | Rock / Singer Songwriter / Pop / Indie |
| The Green Seed | Hip-Hop, Rap |
| The LOOKDOWNS | Rock |
| The Lost Controls | Rock |
| The Magic Math | Pop / Rock / Folk |
| The Murder of Jane Crow | Classical Cabaret Gypsy Goth |
| The New Masters of Evil | Metal / Thrash metal/Speed metal |
| The Ouchies | Punk Rock |
| The Pearl | Heavy Improvisation, Funk, Rock, Drum and Bass |
| The Pollen | Indie Rock |
| The Prescriptions | Alt Indie Rock |
| The Primitive Talk | Rock / Indie / Alternative |
| the Starlings | Alternative Country / Pop / Rock |
| The Talismen | Rock / Jam |
| The Vorpal Sword | Alternative Story Rock |
| The Yellow Dandies | Old Time / Acoustic / Comedy |
| Through The Sparks | Rock / Alt |
| Timber | Rock / Singer Songwriter |
| Tonal Vision | Rock / Bluegrass / Jazz  / Hip Hop |
| Tragic City | Neo-Funk |
| Venture Boi | Dream Pop |
| Vulture Whale | Rock / Alt / Indie |
| Wave the Ocean | Prog / Indie / World /Rock |
| Will Stewart | Rock / Alt / Indie |
| Winston Ramble | Folk / Rock / Jam |
| Witch’s Wall | Dream Punk, Indie Rock |
| Wray | Rock |
| Yakuza Dance Mob | Rock (psychedelic scum punk, art punk) |
| Zach Austin & The Lonesome | Folk / Country / Rock / Singer Songwriter |
| Zach and Cheyloe | Country, alt-country, acoustic |
| Zarinah & The Zaratans | Voodoo Rock n Roll / Soul Surf |
| Zoo Culture | Indie Rock |
