the sydney

See how much Benson First Friday — still less than a year old — has grown in its 11th month as purveyor of arts and music. Check out photos of BFF including bands Kill County and Plack Blague.

Bandmates traded punches before playing Sweatshop Gallery on Friday. The blood only added to the start of a good night of Benson First Friday, captured here.

Watch and listen as The Mynabirds' Laura Burhenn covers a mist-filled story by O+S, a story that finds a fox in the woods.

If the packed house at The Sydney last Friday obscured your view, here are some closeups of Take Cover performers. See photos of the night's musicians who paid homage to fellow Nebraskans.

December's BFF saw to a few expressive faces onstage at The Sydney and Sweatshop, captured here with photos of HERS, Pleasure Adapter, Goon Saloon and Rock Paper Dynamite.

HN photographers Chevy Anderson and Nicholas O'Bradovich broke stuff at The Sweat Shop, joined throngs for Simon Joyner and were touched by Lincoln at this month's BFF.

An intimate show June 14 at The Sydney in Benson featuring arguably two of America's greatest living songwriters ended with them on stage together playing a Neil Young song. See photos here.

Here's a two-ticket giveaway for the fastest electronic hand: See folk and soul singer Caleb Hawley's show at the Sydney on Wednesday.

Watch former drummer for Norman Bailer, Doug Kabourek, perform a new Fizzle song, acoustically, here.

I found myself amid a mob of folks packed into that little Benson bar to see Ideal Cleaners, The Fucking Party and Little Brazil.