Lincoln indie venue Box Awesome is having some landlord issues it seems. Music promoter, writer, and Box Awesome employee Jeremy Buckley posted on Lincoln music message board the Star City Scene, “For reasons we’re not exactly clear of yet, the landlord for the building that acts as the home to Box Awesome is no longer interested in having us as a tenant. We’ve been asked to leave the building and the landlords along with their lawyers are trying to find ways of forcing us out. In recognizing that we’re still dealing with this as a legal matter I don’t want to speculate about a possible motive for the landlord’s decision, but I know that we have a court date within a few weeks and a judge will decide either then or at a later court date when and if we have to leave the building before the end of our lease.”

The Box Awesome has helped revitalize the Lincoln underground music scene doing shows with avant garde artists, local bands, DJs, and smaller indie touring acts. The venue had just scored what is probably their biggest show to date when they host Cursive on June 17. While Lincoln has plenty of other music venues, the Box Awesome is really on the cutting edge as far as bringing in acts that a lot of places would not book (including here in Omaha) and cultivating another music scene in that town. Look for many benefits and events in the coming weeks and months to help the club offset the legal costs involved with issue. The first scheduled event is a rummage sale being held at a home on 18th and Washington streets in Lincoln that will include many items donated by local music fans. Keep an eye on www.starcityscene.com for future events.

On Friday, May 29, the Omaha Entertainment & Arts Awards will be holding a fundraiser outside of Nomad Lounge at 1013 Jones St. The outdoor show is part of the Nomad on the Road weekend in which the lounge will be hosting a street party all weekend featuring many regional DJs. The OEAs fundraiser and live music portion on the weekend will start at 5 p.m. on Friday and continue until 9 p.m., leaving music fans plenty of time to get to the many other great shows that night. Performing at this event will be the Matt Cox Band, Rhythm Collective and Satchel Grande. If you need more live music after that event there is plenty going on in town on Friday. One of the big shows this week is Little Brazil headlining a night of music at the Sydney in Benson. Little Brazil is on a break in between their spring and summer tours and should have some pent up energy to get out on this night. The band has been touring in support of their latest album, “Son,” which is one of the most stunning albums to come out of Omaha in the past couple of years. Opening that show will be Kansas City sonic rock band and Omaha favorites the Life & Times.

If Satchel Grande got one in the mood for some more soul music and dancing, The Slowdown will be hosting live soul, funk and pop music from the 9′s and the Last Few on Friday night. Other happenings on Friday night include the Eye Heart Bullets CD release show at Club Roxbury, Turtle Moon and Davis Hurley at the Barley Street Tavern, and the Fergusens at the Saddle Creek Bar.

There is quite a bit of music happening on this Sunday through the start of the week. Sunday at the Slowdown is Candian indie popsters Sebastian Granger. The bands MySpace explicitly and humorously states “no texting in the front row” so one may not want to do that unless they really desire getting called out and embarrassed by a band. Whenever I am on a stage at a show it seems like the band is playing to a crowd of open cell phones these days rather than human faces. That has to be annoying and I hope more bands attempt to discourage that behavior.

Next Wednesday (June 3) is the do-not-miss-show of the summer. Alt-country songwriter Hayes Carll will be performing at the Waiting Room that night along with touring partner Scott Nolan. Carll was scheduled to perform in Omaha this past winter, but fell ill on the road and had to cancel his performance in town. The roots/alt-country scene became very saturated over the past decade with many artists either tweaking their sound to fit this “genre” or labels signing up every Americana act out there. Carll stands out as the best of best as far as breakout artists of the past few years. Often compared to Townes Van Zandt, the Texas songwriter has one of the most honest sounds out there and songs that require no hesitation when hitting the repeat button.