The Max Allen Band has given up on having weekends off.

After being constantly on the road for the past five years, the band will hit DG’s Tap House, 125 Main St., in Ames on Saturday during its first trip to the heart of Iowa.

“It’s like going to a party every weekend,” said guitarist and vocalist Max Allen.

Allen doesn’t complain much about the traveling, as he has been a professional musician since he was 15-years-old and has kept his band going for 10 years now.

The group will be releasing its sixth album, “Rising Sun,” on the current tour. The jam band mixes blues, improv jazz and rock into its sound.

“I had an old friend of mine tell me, when I was younger, bands will come and they will go,” Allen said. “They break up, people move, they have kids, they can’t take the road and some just don’t play well with others.”

Its current lineup consist of Allen, Shaan France, as drummer for the past four years, and Dace Robie, coming up on one year as the group’s bassist. Robie had previously been a student at Butler University studying upright bass and composition.

Max Allen Band CD release party (jam band/rock/pop)

10 p.m. Saturday

DG’s Tap House, 125 Main St.

$6