Dark Dazey + Golf Alpha Bravo w/ Bluest & Cosmic Sans
Friday, September 9 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Tour Supporter Ticket Dark Dazey is an independent, LA-based psych-rock band with a flare for genre bending. They are an ambitious and dedicated group of UCLA alumni or current students who have worked together for years to create and share music with communities throughout California. Notable performances include UCLA’s Spring Sing, Far Out Fest, and COASTALONG Festival. They also planned and executed a California tour on their own in the fall of 2019. Their unique sound is broadly a blend of psychedelia, punk, dream-pop, Americana, and Latin music. Dark Dazey draws influence from classic and modern rock experimentalists the likes of Pink Floyd, Santana, Grateful Dead, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Tame Impala, Arctic Monkeys, and Vampire Weekend. Their current discography features a number of psych-rock singles (2019), a jammy live album titled Dark Dazey Live from the International Space Station (2020), a psych-punk-thrash EP NARCS (2020), and an anti gun violence country single, NRA (2020). They are dynamic and diverse multi-instrumentalists, visual artists, audiophiles and recording engineers who are dedicated to their craft of creative composition and performance, always exploring new sonic avenues. Dark Dazey records all of their own music (including most concerts that they play). This do-it-yourself attitude and passion for sound has solidified their ability to see their vision out to completion. Golf Alpha Bravo is the adopted moniker of Australian singer/guitarist Gab Winterfield. His is a unique brand of Surf Blues – a siren to a childhood of growing up on the coast of Sydney Australia: an eternal loop of surf, skate, Frusciante and Hendrix … Golf Alpha Bravo uncovers a new authenticity. Stripped of any embellishment, Golf Alpha Bravo presents live as a classic trio. Gab sings and plays guitar accompanied with bass and drums. Wavey verbed up guitar tones, dissolve into gravelling howls from the guitar amid mid and up tempo grooves & melodic bass lines – pooling together to create a cool colored collage, reviving the essence of groove from our collective stone age. Bluest is an indie rock band orchestrated by the longings and hauntings of Noelle Huser. Sifting through dreams and nightmares, Huser finds solace in serenading her ghost, turning self- soothing acoustic guitar folk and bedroom pop songs into full-band bops that pay homage to 90s/ early 00s angst pop and alt rock icons. Formed via some quality pandemic trauma bonding in true “School of Rock” fashion out of a group of kids rock camp instructors and their friends, Huser is joined by Erin Szalda-Petree on lead guitar and backup vocals, Duncan Szalda-Petree on bass, Ally Fradkin on keys and sax and Caleb Tutty on drums. They plan on releasing their chilling debut album Cold Sweat in 2023. Cosmic Sans is a western-psych five piece from Missoula, Montana – with Jake Howell on vocals, Lane Ulberg on bass, Cole Bronson on drums, Seamus Jennings on lead guitar, and William “Stos” Stoskopf on rhythm guitar. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Black Shore w/ SenterLine
Saturday, August 6 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Tour Supporter Ticket Black Shore is a democratic artistic collective power trio comprised of D.L. Johnson (vocals/guitar squanch), Joseph Running Crane (vocals/thunder drums) and Dead Ed (vocals/sub-contra bass)! Their music has been described as a punk rocker’s psychedelic journey thrashing and laughing their way through the dystopian jungle of the modern world, while discovering all the treasures left in the muddy ashes with childlike wonder. Having released their first ep in June 2022 to a potpourri of excited new fans, Black Shore has been diligently working on new material to excite and entice all walkers of life to join in its epic journey! SenterLine is a new three-piece rock band based in Missoula, MT. It consists of Marcus Knight on drums, Matt Miller on bass/vocals, and Stanley Kipp on guitar/vocals. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Mido Skip + Wet Dog Nightmare
Thursday, August 4 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 From the great city of Missoula, Mido Skip started out as a simple idea, formulating into one of the biggest conspiracies to date. It is said that on a full moon you can hear the mad ravings of the nü-emo band from abandoned alleyways. Have you captured a glimpse of this enigmatic event? If you’re lucky enough, it could change how you look at yourself, and the world as you know it. Take a mix of David Bowie, The Front Bottoms, Modern Baseball, Tom DeLonge, Alex Cameron, and you get what is Wet Dog Nightmare. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
But I’m a Cheerleader / The Love Darts / YOAX
Saturday, July 30 // Doors at 7 PM // 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Tour Supporter Ticket But I’m a Cheerleader is a band comprised of three nice queers and all of their repressed feelings they sing about. They invite you into all their sweetness and rage expressed through song (if you’re into that kind of thing). The Love Darts are Lean Drinkin, blunt smokin, horse owning, cat loving, shirt wearing, quarter Irish rock and rollers from Bozeman Montana. YOAX is a Missoula, MT based duo consisting of Carter French and Dylan Smith. Their alt-noise sound is reminiscent of early Modest Mouse, Broken Social Scene and Women. All there music is recorded at home in mount orange studios. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Darity w/ Bluest & ESP
Wednesday, July 27 // Doors at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 // $15 Tour Supporter Ticket Darity is the curated, multi-genre project of singer/songwriter Linsley Hartenstein. Thename Darity comes from the word “solidarity” meaning “to be unified”. Without the prefix “sol”, we find “Darity”, is defined as “the sum of”. As the name suggests, Darity is the result of collective influences and changing of hands that results in “out of the box” songwriting and production stylings. Bluest is an indie rock band orchestrated by the longings and hauntings of Noelle Huser. Sifting through dreams and nightmares, Huser finds solace in serenading her ghost, turning self- soothing acoustic guitar folk and bedroom pop songs into full-band bops that pay homage to 90s/ early 00s angst pop and alt rock icons. Formed via some quality pandemic trauma bonding in true “School of Rock” fashion out of a group of kids rock camp instructors and their friends, Huser is joined by Erin Szalda-Petree on lead guitar and backup vocals, Duncan Szalda-Petree on bass, Ally Fradkin on keys and sax and Caleb Tutty on drums. They plan on releasing their chilling debut album Cold Sweat in 2023. Erin Szalda-Petree is a musician from Missoula, MT. In 2020, under the name ESP, Erin created her first studio album ‘Backyard’, a collage of personal mementos from her teenage years up until the present. Other Missoula musicians, Christopher Baumann (producer), Joe Kirk, Duncan Szalda-Petree, and Noelle Huser performed on ‘Backyard’. Erin grew up listening to folk music and later found influence in pop-punk, and indie-folk songwriters. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Gabrielle Tusberg + Tiny Iota
Friday, July 8 // Doors at 8:30 PM // Show at 9 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Gabrielle Tusberg is a singer songwriter from Portland, OR. She has been writing her own music since high school and enjoys conveying deep emotion with her raw and honest lyrics. She is inspired by female artists like Jewel and Fiona Apple and hopes to come out with a complete album by fall of 2023. Tiny Iota writes tiny songs that scream like a dust mite into the eternal abyss. Flavored with a fondness for doo wop and punk, their debut album HUBBUB, released May 2022 is an ode to overthinking, toeing the line between anxiety and acceptance and finding solace in uncertainty. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Selling for Free w/ Opener Verre Forest
Wednesday, June 29 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Selling for Free is the project of singer-songwriter and analogue enthusiast Rob Hylbom. His creative imagination draws from groups such as The Mountain Goats, Frank the Rabbit and Bob Dylan, Hylbom’s songs explore music and culture, admiring and appreciating their histories. Hylbom’s sound is emotive, soft but firm. Recorded in bursts and fits, Selling for Free is a raw catalog of the times. Verre Forest are a group of 14 year olds who play music inspired from 90s alternative music. They are inspired by early Radiohead, Nirvana, and the Pixies, and are a classic rock ensemble of two guitars, bass, drums, and one vocalist. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
New Old Future + Arrowleaf
Friday, June 24 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Missoula garage pop New Old Future meets the delicious soft rock stylings of Arrowleaf. New Old Future play the kind of indie rock that sounds like it just lives in the water of the Pacific Northwest. Sincere, yet funny, poppy, but rough around the edges, sounding something like if Olympia, Washington’s music scene had a cousin living in western Montana. Hailing from Missoula, Montana, Arrowleaf combines cinematic guitar tones with addictive vocal hooks and subdued drums to deliver indie rock that’s “elegantly cosmic and easy to get along with”. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
KFGM Summer Showcase / Catnyp & Rob Travolta
Thursday, June 9 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 The KFGM Summer Series brings forth some of the great talent the Missoula music scene has to offer. Each show will showcase two great bands, cross genres, and offer a platform for audience members to discover and engage with some of Missoula’s best artists. KFGM’s desire for this series is to highlight some of their favorite local artists and for Missoula Community Radio’s listeners to tune-in to a true local experience. June’s bands are Catnyp and Rob Travolta … Formed in Missoula, MT after front man/composer/producer/bassist/multiinstrumentalist Henderson K Shatner (HKS) returned to the US after 18 years of overseas adventures, Catnyp released “The Black Cat Trilogy” of albums sequentially in 2018, 2019, 2020. Shatner founded Brand Violet, a seminal UK surf-goth act signed to legendary Some Bizarre records in the early 2000s. Catnyp has drawn recent comparison to Pixies, Daniel Ash, David Bowie, and even Led Zeppelin — largely based on the fearless vocal experimentation Shatner employs on Catnyp IIII, channeling his favorite vocalists for different tracks. Melodic, agile bass parts invoke Beatles-era McCartney while surf guitar and clean overdriven tones provide a nod to California punk and Britpop. Rob Cave, also known as Missoula’s ‘secretary of bass’ (for supplying the most buoyant and delightful bass riffs for numerous local bands), has his own project — Rob Travolta! Rob Travolta will drop your jaw, with captivatingly composed tunes that balance Rob’s “midwest emo meets Montana” vibe with drummer Cole Bronson’s knack for hip hop in smooth and enthralling pockets of groove. The talent and focus of the duo, not to mention the emotion they channel into their music performing, makes for a remarkable sonic journey of angst and joy. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Wildermiss (+ Arrowleaf)
Wednesday, July 6 // Doors at 7 PM // 8 PM // $10 (Advance tix recommended) // $15 Tour Supporter Ticket Wildermiss is an indie rock band. Emma Cole sings and plays synth bass, Joshua Hester plays guitar and Caleb Thoemke plays drums. They have sold out all of their hometown headlining shows since 2017 and steadily gained momentum nationwide with multiple support tours and festival spots. The band is currently working on the follow up to their quarantine singles “Supermagical” and “Italy” with plans to tour until their van dies again like it did in Michigan that one time. Official Site www.wildermiss.com Facebook www.facebook.com/wildermiss Twitter www.twitter.com/wildermiss Soundcloud www.soundcloud.com/wildermissband Instagram www.instagram.com/wildermiss Spotify https://spoti.fi/2Mw8uuQ YouTube www.youtube.com/wildermiss Arrowleaf pairs washy guitar work, humming bass, and the occasional riotous trumpet line with delicate anecdotes; dreamy conversations with wide open spaces that address stories of loss and grief on a larger scale. Featuring the introspective songwriting of Sarah Marker, the band is filled out by the thoughtful work of Brady Schwertfeger, Jake Whitecar, Peter Puczkowskyj Amanda Ceaser, and Jon Filkins. “Getting By” also features local musicians Jim Riach, Sean Burress, Bethany Joyce, Dan Weiss, Kira Bassingthwaighte, and Kaya Juda-Nelson. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
