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Lizard Lounge Cambridge

"An intimate, eclectic hot spot." –Rolling Stone
Live music. Full bar. Dinner. 21+. The Lizard Lounge has a full bar, cocktail list, and 30 brews on tap.
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With its subterranean location, sensuous red lighting, and welcoming staff, Lizard Lounge brings such a unique vibe to performances that Rolling Stone Magazine hailed, “Lizard Lounge is where it’s at – intimate, eclectic hot spot.”

Lizard Lounge features live performances seven nights a week (cover varies), ranging from the area’s hottest local bands to touring national acts. In addition to rock

and roots, you might also find opera, classical music or Balkan folk music dotting the Lounge’s diverse calendar. As ongoing series, every Monday night features The Lizard Lounge Open Mic Challenge hosted by Tom Bianchi, and every Sunday night, The Jeff Robinson Trio hosts the legendary Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam and Slam (14 years running!). In addition, the world renown groove collective Club D’Elf has called Lizard Lounge home for over 13 years and can be seen performing here once or twice a month. Our dinner menu is available every night until midnight. And talk about a great place for a party! The Lounge is available for private get-togethers from 20 – 100, from offbeat to swank. Please email [email protected] for details. Lizard Lounge is a 21+ club.

06/07/2026

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam tonight with featured poet Rachael Dubinsky! Tickets are $10 and available now on Eventbrite or at the door starting at 7! See you there!...🦎

Rachael Dubinsky is an author, poet, artist, and creativity enthusiast. Her work blends writing, printmaking, photography, collage, and watercolor to explore the beauty and messiness of daily life. Bridging written and visual art, her work reflects the “in-between” moments— those chaotic, luminous spaces that shape our journey.

Rachael is the founder of Wicked Writers, a storytelling platform that blends creative practice with civic life. She was recently selected as a featured exhibitor at MassCreative’s Creative Sector Day at the Statehouse. Her artwork has been featured on GBH's Community Canvas, at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), Hopkinton Center for the Arts, Framingham City Hall, TILL Wave Gallery, and Marlborough Makers. Her poetry appears in the Town of Franklin’s Healing Word Public Art Project, Art on the Trails in Southborough, and the Solitude, Community, Hope anthology in Framingham. She also publishes a monthly "Ideas in the Making" column for the Weston Observer.

She is a 2026 Leadership Metrowest Fellow, serves on the Framingham Library Foundation Board, and is a member of the Danforth Art Museum, New Art Center, Weston AIC, and Needham Artists Association. Learn more at www.rachaeldubinsky.com and subscribe to her newsletter at wickedwriters.substack.com.

06/06/2026

We'll be closed tonight (Saturday the 6th) for a private event tonight, Kabir and Krush Factory will be with us next Saturday the 13th. We'll see you tomorrow for the jam with featured poet Rachael Dubinsky! 🦎

06/05/2026

Charlie Marie celebrates the release of her latest album "Signs" tonight at the Lizard Lounge with Danielle Miller and the Highlife. Grab your tickets now on Eventbrite for $20 or at the door for $25 starting at 7. Daniel Miller kicks off the night at 8! See you there!..🦎

Charlie Marie's latest full-length album Signs, out June 5, is about her epic journey of self-discovery following profound loss. Embarking on a spontaneous journey across the US from Rhode Island to Alaska and back again, the songs reflect both the trials and tribulations she encountered and the signs she learned to recognize along her path, guiding and sometimes redirecting her to the truths she learned and answers she sought.

Daniel Miller is a singer-songwriter with a penchant for centering his music on locales that inspire him. “My goal is to take a region that I love and write songs about that place. My focus isn’t on limiting a record to fit into a specific bin on a store shelf; it’s to tell a story.” Born and raised in Knoxville, TN and currently living outside of Boston, MA, Daniel has been writing songs based off of his experiences on the road for the past twenty years. Those songs have provided Daniel and his country-rock touring band, The High Life, the opportunity to open for various national touring acts in some of America’s most beloved performance venues.

06/04/2026

Use The Force and Carboy tonight at the Lizard Lounge! Tickets are $15 advance and $20 at the door starting at 7! Use The Force kicks off at 8! See you there!...🦎

Use the Force boldly reimagines classic movie themes with funky grooves, jazzy harmony, and epic solos, inspired by the epic music of John Williams, but also featuring the music of other composers for cinema and television. Think Harry Potter wallowing in butterbeer in New Orleans and Darth Vader busting out the head spins at a dance party.

Though this juxtaposition sounds downright silly, the band is serious about their music. This accomplished quintet draws upon their deep reservoir of musical skills to transform cinematic masterpieces through the prism of groovy, soulful funky-jazz fusion.

With Rick Stone (sax), Nick Grondin (guitar), Sean Farius (bass), Giuseppe Paradiso (drums).

06/03/2026

Wailer Wednesday tonight at the Lizard Lounge with Duppy Conquerors! Grab your tickets now on Eventbrite for $12 or $15 at the door! See you there!...🦎

The quintessential Bob Marley tribute band – the Duppy Conquerors – is a rich collection of high-caliber musicians playing in tribute to the music of Bob Marley. Nominated for a Boston Music Award, this 10-piece ensemble of veteran musicians embodies a soulful authenticity that honors the artist and his timeless collection. With nearly 80% of Marley’s repertoire under their belts, the Duppy Conquerors are equipped to provide hours of entertainment and positive vibrations.

05/24/2026

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam with featured poet Vernon "VCR" Robinson! Tickets are $10 on Eventbrite or at the door starting at 7! See you there!...🦎

VCR (Vernon C. Robinson) is a Dorchester native born and raised in Boston. He has been writing, reciting, and performing poetry/spoken word for nearly 20 years and has performed at several local spots as a feature and participant. He has poetically graced the same stage and opened up for such acts as Dead Prez, S.O.S. Band, Amiri Baraka, Pharoahe Monch, Suheir Hammad, Lakeside, New Birth, Last Poets, Les Nubians, Saul Williams, Jessica Care Moore, Georgia ME, Michel’le, and other well-known artists. In addition to Massachusetts, he has taken his poetry to cities and states such as New York (including the famous Nuyorican Poets Café), Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Cleveland, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and, surprisingly, Cuba, where he met the legendary Assata Shakur. VCR is also the founder and cultural event organizer of BloodSkinLand Productions. From that umbrella, he has created many annual gatherings which include Devotion, Megacipher, InFRESHstructure, Afro-Cinema, Maylennium, Young Gifted & Black, BomBARDed, and the popular ongoing gathering called VerBaLizAtiOn, which is currently the longest-running open mic spot in the Boston area for over 25 years. VCR’s debut CD entitled “Poetic Insanity”, released in 2003. VCR has been nominated for Best Male Spoken Word Artist at the 2006 New England Urban Music Awards, twice for Best Spoken Word Artist at the 2006 & 2007 M.I.C. Hip-Hop Awards, and for Spoken Word Artist of the Year at the 2023 Boston Music Awards.

05/22/2026

Ward Hayden and the Outliers return to the Lizard Lounge for night two of their mini residency to celebrate Ward's birthday with Brady Dallas Jones! Presales have ended for tonight but we'll have tickets available at the door starting at 7 o'clock! See you there!...🦎

05/21/2026

Tonight at the Lizard Lounge... Ward Hayden and the Outliers kick off their two night stand with Nic Panken of Spirit Family Union! WHATO will be performing songs from "Little By Little" and "Piece By Piece" paying tribute to the music of Bruce Springsteen... done Outliers style! Just a couple of tickets remain to tonight's show so grab them up on Eventbrite for $25. We will have a handful of tickets available at the door for $30 starting at 7 o'clock. Nic Panken kicks off at 8! See you there...🦎

05/20/2026

Rich Hinman tonight with Kevin Barry, Zach Hickman and John Sands tonight at 8 o'clock. Grab your tickets now on Eventbrite for $15 or at the door for $20 starting at 7 o'clock. Music starts at 8! See you there!...🦎

On his recent LP "Memorial," on Colorfield Records, multi-instrumentalist and composer Rich Hinman creates an arresting collage containing elements of electronica, psychedelia, and searching improvisation, with Hinman's pedal steel as the (mostly) primary voice. Here he debuts a new band of like-minded explorers featuring local heroes Kevin Barry (Jackson Browne, Rosanne Cash) on guitar and lap steel, Zachariah Hickman (Josh Ritter, Ray LaMontagne) on acoustic bass and John Sands (Aimee Mann) on drums.

05/17/2026

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam with featured poet Tarishi "M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T.” Shuler!...🦎

Tarishi "M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T.” Shuler
Award-winning American Artist Tarishi "M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T.” Shuler altered the status quo of the spoken word art scene by presenting an ingenious style of delivery using clever metaphors and a dance between two-dimensional storylines.

Resonating with audiences nationwide, by 2011, Tarishi had begun dominating stages with his dramatic performances, taking home numerous awards year after year and raising the bar for his counterparts. Often abrupt, always gracefully delivered yet playfully unfiltered, his poetry hangs in an intrinsic balance of raw truth and art imitating life.

Among his many accolades, Tarishi has opened for notable individuals such as Saul Williams, Grammy-nominated Neo-Soul Artist Dwele, Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets, and former US President Bill Clinton. In 2020, he shared a stage with Omari Hardwick at Da' Poetry Lounge in Los Angeles, California. Def Poetry Jam Reunion in Martha's Vineyard. Tarishi is a member of the CT Slam Team VERBAL SLAP and was instrumental in their win at Southern Fried Poetry Slam. They are the current 2025 National Champions and 2026 Chicharra Poetry Festival Champions. He was the special guest host at the Legendary “Poet’s Passage” Poetry Open Mic in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Former Artistic Director for The Word, a nonprofit organization located in New Haven, CT. A native of Connecticut, you can find Tarishi modeling, acting, bodybuilding, teaching, or directing while also discovering new audiences in stages close to home, and as far as Tokyo, Japan.

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