There aren’t many live music options on Christmas night, which is great for the hard-working bar/club employees who deserve a night off, but not awesome for those looking for a respite from their family or those spending the holidays alone. But MOTR Pub will be rockin’ with the holiday spirit again this year as Cincy band The Guitars returns to the club for its fifth-annual Christmas-night show. The band released a fantastic holiday-themed EP, A Very Guitars Christmas, in 2009, which features the group’s renditions of contemporary Christmas classics like “Run, Rudolph, Run,” “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)” and The Sonics’ “Don’t Believe in Christmas.” The Guitars members have been busy with other projects, but have two releases in the works — a four-song EP and an album of covers of famed Italian film soundtrack composers.
10 p.m. Friday. Free. MOTR Pub, 1345 Main St., Over-the-Rhine,
motrpub.com .
This article appears in Dec 23-29, 2015.