Dive of record. Punk, noise, DJ nights, benefit fests, live TV. If it's weird and it's east of downtown, it's here.

Indianapolis's longest-running punk bar. Punk Rock Night since forever. Low ceiling, high volume.

All-ages community stage bolted to the record shop. Buy the LP, watch the band, walk home with both.

All-ages art maze on the southeast side, '90s arcade up front. The calendar does not believe in nights off. Bring quarters.

Tiny standing-room stage on Prospect St. Punk, metal, hardcore, emo, most nights of the week. No seats, no barrier.

Keystone Ave bar with a stage and a kitchen, open to 3am. Jamgrass, funk, hip-hop and bass nights, wedged between the karaoke and the pool table.

Brewery taproom at 46th and Keystone with a stage at one end and pinball at the other. Metal, hardcore, doom and techno, most bills all ages.

Brewery taproom on Barth Ave in Fountain Square. Beer-hall bills, comedy and karaoke, plus the annual Hop Your Face music-and-hops blowout.

Retro duckpin lanes and a lounge under the Fountain Square Theatre Building. Bowling on one end, a bill on the other.

Record label, shop and performance space inside Hit City Recording.

Neighborhood bar on Virginia Avenue, open since 1954. Live music most nights of the week.

The neighborhood street festival, one Saturday a year at the corner of Lincoln and New Jersey. Free; $5 donation suggested.