Super Sometimes book Howard's Club H for a February night in Bowling Green

The Southern California pop-punk trio, fresh off their Pure Noise debut, play the downtown BG institution on Friday, Feb. 19.

There are bigger rooms within driving distance of Toledo, but there aren't many that have been doing this as long as Howard's Club H. On Friday, February 19, 2027, the downtown Bowling Green bar gets a pop-punk band on the way up: Super Sometimes, the Southern California trio now on Pure Noise Records, have added Howard's to a winter run announced last week.

Ticket links run through the band's own site, which is the place to check for prices and door time once they're posted.

Super Sometimes are Gabriel Muñoz and Dylan Guzman, who split vocals and guitars, and drummer Matthew Ludwig. Their debut full-length for Pure Noise is SHOW THE WORLD WHAT'S UNDERNEATH, and the label has been pushing it hard this year. If you want a sense of where their heads are at, start with "Make Up Stories," a single the band framed as a sequel to their earlier song "Afterthought" — this time with a courtroom twist in the video. It's the sort of self-referential, slightly theatrical thing that pop-punk does best when the band is clearly having fun with its own story.

Howard's has been pouring drinks and booking bands since 1928.

Then there's the room. Howard's Club H is one of those places that a lot of Northwest Ohio has passed through at some point, whether for a band, a pool game or a night that ran later than planned. Bowling Green State University's archives date the club to 1928, and its owner has said it has been operating for more than 80 years. BGSU's digital gallery is full of old Howard's fliers — local stages for the Black Swamp Arts Festival back in 2000, a 2003 punk bill with a name we won't print here — and a few years ago WBGU-TV built a whole show around capturing the sound and atmosphere of the place.

That history matters for a band like this. Super Sometimes usually headline rooms around 300 capacity, so Howard's is right in their weight class: tight enough that the front row is the stage, loose enough that nobody's going to stop a singalong. For Toledo readers it's a straight shot down I-75, and Bowling Green on a February Friday is about as good a reason as any to get out of the house in the dead of winter.

What we don't have yet: the full bill, door time and ticket prices for the Howard's date. Keep an eye on the band's site and the club's own channels for those, and if you're thinking about going, don't wait on it — small rooms on a Friday with a band on a label push have a way of selling through.

For a bar that's outlasted nearly a century of scenes, one more young band with something to prove is exactly the point.

Sources: Super Sometimes — official site (tour dates and tickets) (supersometimes.com); Super Sometimes — Pure Noise Records (purenoise.net); Super Sometimes have shared 'Make Up Stories', a sequel to 'Afterthought' with a courtroom twist — Dork (readdork.com); Harboring History, Creating Legends: The Legacy of Howard's Club H — BGSU Elements (blogs.bgsu.edu); New WBGU-TV show captures sound, atmosphere of Howard's Club H — BG Independent News (bgindependentmedia.org); BGSU Digital Gallery — Black Swamp Arts Festival Local Music Stage, Howard's Club H, 09/09/00 (digitalgallery.bgsu.edu)