DNA Rock Cafe
Est. 2014 · Downtown
Lineup Updated Weekly
280+ live shows a year across six weekly stages — from touring headliners to the city's longest-running Monday open mic. Pick a night. Pick a sound. We'll have a stool and a cold IPA waiting.
Seven Days, Four Headliners
The four biggest acts hitting our stage in the next seven nights. Doors at 7pm on weekdays, 8pm on weekends. Kitchen stays open through the headliner set.
Headliner · Main Stage
Friday, Mar 14
South-bred garage soul meets late-night torch song. Their third record hit #4 on the indie charts and this is the only PNW tour stop.
Support · Mezzanine Stage
Headliner · Acoustic Room
Headliner · Main Stage
The Next Six Weeks
Six stages, six nights a week, every sound from the city and the road. Pick a genre and find the next show that matches the mood you're chasing.
Touring headliners, regional buzz bands, and the loudest Tuesday night in the city. Volume checked, eardrums optional.
Jangly guitars, bedroom-pop hooks, and the bands your algorithm keeps recommending. Most nights on the Mezzanine Stage.
Tuesday nights in the Acoustic Room. Seated, intimate, the kind of set where the room goes quiet between songs.
Banjo, pedal steel, three-part harmonies, and the kind of songwriting that holds up after a couple of whiskeys.
10pm to 1:30am on the Mezzanine Stage. Kitchen stays open late. Dance floor opens up between bands.
Eleven straight years of the city's longest-running open mic. Sign-up at 6:30, first set at 7. Free, all-ages, all welcome.
Show Night Logistics
The Main Stage anchors the front of the room — a 1,200-capacity standing floor with a stage-front rail for diehards and a reserved mezzanine above. The Acoustic Room sits in the back: 80 seats, candles on the tables, Tuesday-night quiet. The Mezzanine Stage rotates weeknights for touring indie acts and late-night DJ sets.
Weeknight doors at 7pm, weekends at 8pm. Support acts run 45 minutes, headliners 75–90. The kitchen stays open through the headliner set, and on Fridays and Saturdays it runs until 1:30am — two hours later than anything else on this block.
The room was tuned by the same acousticians behind three Billboard-ranked venues. There's a reason touring acts put us on their routing: monitors are dialed, the PA fills the room without flattening it, and you can hold a conversation at the bar during the opener without shouting.
Main Stage shows are standing; reserved mezzanine seats are available by request at the bar. Acoustic Room shows are fully seated, first-come-first-served within the ticket. Late-night DJ sets are standing throughout. If you need a chair for accessibility reasons, ask at the door — we'll make it work.
By The Numbers
Named "Best Live Music Venue" by the Downtown City Press in 2023 and 2024. Average Google rating of 4.7 across 9,400+ reviews.
On The Road
"We route through DNA twice a year because the room sounds right, the crowd actually listens, and the promoter treats the band like a guest — not a line item. There aren't a lot of rooms left like that."