We're unveiling our full May schedule, and it's a thing of beauty!🤩🌸🌼
Prepare yourself for a month-long thrill ride of awesome events! Get your tickets at xbklive.com, and we'll see ya at the show!
⛓️ TONIGHT AT XBK ⛓️
Rizzy Productions and xBk present
Iced Wrist / Nyhilist / Crucifilth / Wrath of Sanity
Tonight, xBk becomes a pressure cooker of hardcore fury. Four bands. Zero chill. Just riffs sharp enough to split concrete and enough energy in the room to rattle the ceiling tiles. 🔥 Maximum chaos from the first note to the last.
SUNDAY, MAY 17TH
Doors: 6 p.m. | Show: 7 p.m.
All Ages
🎟 Tickets available at the door or online at xbklive.com!
Back by popular demand, 80s kids returns to xBk on Sunday, May 24!!
What *is* 80s kids? 🤔
It’s a-ha & Erasure & Pet Shop Boys &
Depeche Mode & Alphaville & OMD 🖤
And it’s YOU in a room full of FRIENDS …
Singing our hearts out together ⚡️🕺🏻
🎫 Secure your tickets now at xbklive.com
🌾 TONIGHT AT THE ANNEX 🌾
xBk presents Beggars' Bargain
Tonight, the Annex hosts an evening of heartfelt folk and Americana from Des Moines duo @the_beggars_bargain . Blending soulful storytelling, bluesy warmth, and back-porch honesty, Joe Bach and Micah Spurlock craft songs shaped by hard roads, hopeful spirits, and the belief that music can still pull people a little closer together. 🎸✨
With influences stretching from Amos Lee and Ray LaMontagne to Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Beggars' Bargain delivers songs that feel lived in, weathered, and deeply human.
SATURDAY, MAY 16
Doors: 7 p.m. | Show: 8 p.m.
All Ages
FREE SHOW
🪩 TONIGHT AT XBK 🪩
xBk presents
The Request Line: A Crowd-Curated Dance Party🎶⚡
The Request Line turns xBk into a living, breathing jukebox where YOU help shape the soundtrack all night long. Grab a request sheet at the door, throw your favorite dance-floor bangers into the musical cauldron, and see where the collective DJ brain takes us.
Pop classics? Guilty pleasures? Unexpected heaters from 2007? If it makes people move, it belongs here.
SATURDAY, MAY 16
7:30 - 11:30 p.m.
18+
FREE SHOW
Come dance. Come sing. Come risk hearing your song followed immediately by somebody else’s chaotic masterpiece. 🌙💃
💀 JUST ANNOUNCED 💀
First Fleet Concerts and xBk present
Six Feet Under
w/ Fuming Mouth and Wormhole
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13
Doors: 6 p.m.| Show: 7 p.m.
All Ages
Death metal legends Six Feet Under are bringing their crushing riffs, blood-soaked brutality, and decades of extreme metal history to xBk. Fronted by genre icon Chris Barnes, the band continues to deliver the kind of relentless sonic punishment that helped define death metal for generations of headbangers. ⚰️🔥
Joining the carnage are Fuming Mouth and Wormhole, plus Indianapolis horror-metal wrecking crew Flesher, whose grotesque old-school death metal attack has already earned praise across the underground scene.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now at xbklive.com!🤘
🖤 JUST ANNOUNCED @ XBK ANNEX 🖤
xBk presents
Illusion of Safety / Karl J. Palouček / Eager Green
@ the xBk Annex
FRIDAY, JULY 10
Doors: 7 p.m. | Show: 7:30 p.m
All Ages
The xBk Annex wades into the beautifully strange this July with a night of immersive experimental sound, industrial atmospherics, and avant-garde sonic exploration. ⚙️🌑
For more than four decades, Illusion of Safety has pushed the boundaries of industrial and sound art, crafting hypnotic worlds from fractured samples, analog synths, metallic textures, and surreal noise collage. Joining the bill is Milwaukee experimental artist Karl J. Palouček, whose haunting performances blend repurposed machinery, pipe organ, piano, and found objects into something both unsettling and strangely pastoral.
Featuring support from Eager Green.
Get ready for a transmission from the edges of sound itself.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now at xbklive.com!
🎸 TONIGHT AT XBK 🎸
xBk presents Jackie Venson
Tonight, Texas guitar powerhouse @jackievenson brings her electrifying fusion of blues, rock, soul, and funk to xBk for a night of jaw-dropping musicianship and unstoppable energy. Praised by Rolling Stone as one of Austin’s rising stars, Venson has built a reputation as a fearless live performer whose soaring guitar work and magnetic stage presence can turn any room into a full-blown eruption. ⚡🔥
From smoky blues grooves to cosmic funk excursions, Jackie Venson’s music moves with total freedom, powered by dazzling guitar lines and pure emotional fire.
FRIDAY, MAY 15
Doors: 7 p.m. | Show: 8 p.m.
All Ages
🎟️ Grab tickets at the door or online at xbkilive.com!
🎷 TONIGHT AT THE ANNEX 🎷
Jazz Night with the Austin Brown Trio @ The xBk Annex
Tonight, the Annex fills with improvisational sparks as the Austin Brown Trio brings an evening of live jazz. Led by guitarist Austin Brown alongside Mark Grimm on drums and Eric Krieger on bass, the trio blends classic jazz tradition with modern energy and free-flowing musical conversation. ✨
THURSDAY, MAY 14
Doors: 7:30 p.m. | Show: 8 p.m.
All Ages
FREE SHOW
Donations suggested.
DES MOINES…
we’re bringing the Black Leather Middle Finger to @xbklive next Thursday, May 21st wsg: @thebandparabola and Psycho X 🔥🖤
dirty riffs.
glam chaos.
unapologetic rock n roll.
5/21 — xBK LIVE
come see the most over-the-top band on today’s touring circuit 🔱
#rocknroll #glamrock #shockrock #heavymetal #desmoines
🌟 TONIGHT AT XBK 🌟
First Fleet Concerts and xBk present
Ingrid Andress w/ Jake Simon
Tonight, multi-GRAMMY nominated singer-songwriter @ingridandress takes the xBk stage for an evening of fearless songwriting, powerhouse vocals, and country-pop anthems that cut straight to the heart. From “More Hearts Than Mine” to “Wishful Drinking,” Andress has become one of Nashville’s most compelling voices by turning vulnerability into something unforgettable. ✨🎶
Featuring support from @jakesimonmusic .
THURSDAY, MAY 14
Doors: 6 p.m. | Show: 7 p.m.
All Ages
🎟️ Tickets available at the door or at xbklive.com!
