Tom Ballard’s Listening Party

Overview

'Listening': A rare and admirable quality, but not one that carries connotations of being uproariously fun. Things that do sound fun are 'Tom Ballard', 'Party', 'The Standard', 'comedy', 'live music', and 'Max Lavergne', who does constant funnies here and here.

All of these things will be colliding on Halloween Wednesday as the professionally hilarious Tom Ballard hosts his inaugural Listening Party. Each week will feature him interviewing three different interesting guests about their lives, their careers, and a song of their choice that they think is worth listening to. Then, if all goes according to plan, everyone who has paid the $15 ticket price shuts up and listens. Simple!

Each week will also feature the aforementioned Max Lavergne and live music from Shed Muzak, who do acoustic covers of popular songs that are approximately a million times more awesome than you would probably think from reading that sentence. The first session features the lives and tunes of Scott Dooley and Nina Las Vegas.