Threshold Live!
Tuesday, October 27 // Doors at 6:30 PM // Show at 7:00 PM // $15 https://www.thresholdpodcast.org/
James McMurtry w/ BettySoo
Saturday, August 1 // 7:00 PM Doors // 8:00 PM Show // $25 ADV // $30 DOS **ADA seating will be limited** James McMurtry released The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy on June 20th via New West Records. The 10-song collection was co-produced by McMurtry & Don Dixon (R.E.M., The Smithereens) and is his first album in four years. It follows his 2021 acclaimed new West debut, The Horses and the Hounds, which UnCut Magazine said “lifts storytelling-in-song to meticulous new levels” and Pitchfork awarded an 8.0, saying “James McMurtry stands out even among the Lone Star State’s finest songwriters…” The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy features appearances by Sarah Jarosz, Charlie Sexton, Bonnie Whitmore, Bukka Allen and more, alongside his trusted backing band, THE MARTIAL LAW REVIEW, Tim Holt on guitar and accordion, Cornbread on bass and Daren Hess on drums. As varied as they are, McMurtry’s new story-songs find inspiration in scraps from his family’s past: a rough pencil sketch by Ken Kesey that serves as the album cover, the hallucinations experienced by his father, the legendary writer Larry McMurtry, an old poem by a family friend. A supremely insightful and inventive storyteller, McMurtry teases vivid worlds out of small details, setting them to arrangements that have elements of Americana but sound too sly and smart for such a general category. Funny and sad often in the same breath, The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy adds a new chapter to a long career that has young songwriters like Sarah Jarosz and Jason Isbell cite him as a formative influence.
Impulse Noise w/ Dirty Brother & No Policy
Sunday, August 30 // Doors at 7:30 PM // Show at 8:00 PM // $10 Seattle grindcore unit Impulse Noise commenced with their debut EP Stress in 2018, showcasing a spastic audio barrage reflecting a modern world drowning in sensory overload, anxiety, and addiction, rooted in the sound of Assück and early Napalm Death while demonstrating their affinity for old school death metal and hardcore punk. Following Stress, Impulse Noise released split records with Oakland powerviolence outfit Choke and fellow Seattle grinders Disease. The bands second EP …Such is Life arrived in 2025 pushing their chaotic, and abrasive style into even harsher territory. In 2026, Impulse Noise is set to embark on the Midwest Decimation tour joining forces with San Diego deathgrind band Genestealer.
Public Acid and Invertebrates w/ Sick Joke and ‘NAM
Wednesday, July 29 // Doors at 7:30 PM // Show at 8:00 PM // $10 ADV // $15 DOS Public Acid is a hardcore punk band that originally formed in Greensboro, NC. After several lineup changes with guitarist/bassists, the band is currently based out of Richmond, VA with a couple members living in Raleigh, NC and NYC. ‘NAM was formed on Christmas Eve of 2025 by four friends. The band consists of musicians John C, Sigrid S, Chris M and conceptual artist John K. ‘NAM plays short concise bursts of d-beat and metallic crust
Ghorot w/ Perfect Blue and ‘NAM
Sunday, September 20 // Doors at 7:00 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 ADV // $15 DOS Ghorot is a blackened doom-metal trio formed in Boise, ID in Ghorot is a blackened doom-metal trio formed in Boise, ID in 2019 by Carson Russel (Ealdor Bealu), Brandon Walker (ex-Ghost Tours), and Chad Remains (ex-Uzala). The band’s first ful-length album Loss of Light was released in 2021 onTransylvanian Recordings (Oakland, CA) and Inverse Records (Jyv ä skyl ä , Finland), and received significant national and international attention. The band toured in support of the record throughout the Pacific Northwest in 2021 and the Southwest in 2022 including 2 performances each at Crucial Festin Salt Lake City and Treefort Music Fest in Boise. Wound, Ghorot’ s sophomore ful-length album, was released on Wound, Ghorot’ s sophomore ful-length album, was released on October 6th, 2023 on Lay Bare Recordings (Nijmegen, Netherlands), King of the Monsters Records (Phoenix, AZ), and Transylvanian Recordings (Oakland, CA), and immediately became an album of the year contender throughout the international underground metal scene. The band set out on an 18- date Western US tour with Sacramento’s doom/sludge trio Chrome Ghost in support of the record, their longest and most successful tour to date. Ghorot’ s highly anticipated third ful-length record is slatedfor an April 2026 release on Lay Bare Recordings and King of the Monsters Records. Ghorot is prepared to bring their blasphemous atrocities to eager crowds across the globe.. YOU are not ready!WOUND Perfect Blue is a genre-bending, instrumental post-rock quartet from Missoula, Montana. Their music blends elements of post-punk, psych, shoegaze, folk and black metal for an eclectic spectrum of sounds moving between somber, intricate passages to dark, heavy soundscapes. The band’s debut album, “Empress,” is now available everywhere.
Daisy Chain Fest 2026
Saturday, August 15 // Doors at 5:30 // Show at 6:00 PM // $20 Tickets here Lineup: Hayes NobleHow Strange It IsProxiCalamity CowboyThe Macks The FOURTH annual Daisy Chain Fest (DCF) is a grassroots music festival uplifting local musicians and artists. Over four days, August 13th – 16th, we host more than 30 artists from across the state, region, and country in downtown Missoula, Montana. Daisy Chain Arts Collective is a non-profit organization focused on supporting and expanding Missoula’s local music and performing arts culture through events and collaboration with other local organizations. DCAC seeks to create safe, accessible, all-ages events. DCAC prioritizes sustainable business practices and fair compensation to artists and staff as well as radical transparency and community involvement. The heart of our work is community resilience with the goal of elevating Missoula’s rich culture through reinvestment in local artists, venues, and community partners. DCAC primarily operates at small-scale and alternative venues to provide opportunities to both local and touring performing arts. Focusing primarily on the development of Daisy Chain Fest, DCAC’s mission is to elevate and connect Missoula talent with other arts communities across the country & world by curating and hosting traveling performing artists.
Daisy Chain Fest 2026
Friday, August 14 // Doors at 5:30 // Show at 6:00 PM // $15 Tickets here Lineup: PillowcaseNonbinary GirlfriendFemme CellBrand New CompanionThe Love Darts The FOURTH annual Daisy Chain Fest (DCF) is a grassroots music festival uplifting local musicians and artists. Over four days, August 13th – 16th, we host more than 30 artists from across the state, region, and country in downtown Missoula, Montana. Daisy Chain Arts Collective is a non-profit organization focused on supporting and expanding Missoula’s local music and performing arts culture through events and collaboration with other local organizations. DCAC seeks to create safe, accessible, all-ages events. DCAC prioritizes sustainable business practices and fair compensation to artists and staff as well as radical transparency and community involvement. The heart of our work is community resilience with the goal of elevating Missoula’s rich culture through reinvestment in local artists, venues, and community partners. DCAC primarily operates at small-scale and alternative venues to provide opportunities to both local and touring performing arts. Focusing primarily on the development of Daisy Chain Fest, DCAC’s mission is to elevate and connect Missoula talent with other arts communities across the country & world by curating and hosting traveling performing artists.
Western Union
Sunday, August 23 // Door at 6:30 PM // Show at 7 PM // $12 // $15 GA + Dance Lesson // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Dance lessons with Lindy Hop begin at 6:30 Louie and Kimberlee are founding members of Montana’s hottest Texas swing band Western Union, with bandmates David Horgan and Beth Lo from one of Montana’s most renowned jazz and R&B bands-the Big Sky Mudflaps. They have the distinction of being the only Montana band to play at the Montana Folk Festival (July 2016) in addition to opening for Marty Stewart (Sept 2015) and Colorado’s renowned Hot Rize (July 2015). Where jazz meets country, Western Union is Montana’s favorite “countrypolitan” western swing band, specializing in classic Texas Swing & Honky Tonk music. With electric and acoustic guitars, standup bass, pedal steel guitar, and drums – plus sharp-as-a-tack lead vocals and vocal harmonies — Western Union delivers the true-blue sound of grassroots America. All tickets are general admission. Artist Supporter Tickets are a way for patrons to provide more financial support to performers. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Armed for Apocalypse
Monday, September 21 // Doors at 7:30 // Show at 8:00 PM // $15 ADV // $20 DOS Armed for Apocalypse came from nowhere and nothing. The sludgy five-piece from the small Northern California college town of Chico have worked relentlessly to leave their imprint on metal. Through tours across Europe, around the states and up and down the West Coast, they’ve continued to spread their name in the best way possible: word of mouth. They don’t play dress-up and they don’t turn down. They just play crushing songs that go from slow to slower, from muck to mire, from mosh to circle-pit. And sometimes they’ll make a left turn and end up at epic. Simply put, it’s rock ‘n’ roll music tuned way down and pissed way off. The upcoming full-length, “The Road Will End,” promises to be a complex study in heaviness. One finger chords and single string riffs, complicated by sophisticated voicings and even an occasional solo. No triggers, no wanky “shredding,” no posturing, no cowardice, no frills. http://www.armedforapocalypse.com/
Andrea Harsell Band
Friday, August 7 // Doors at 7:00 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $12 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Andrea Harsell is a Montana singer-songwriter with more than three decades of experience bringing her soulful voice, lived-in songwriting, and magnetic stage presence to audiences across the United States and abroad. Rooted in folk, blues, country, bluegrass, and jazz, Andrea’s songs are known for their emotional honesty, authenticity, and deeply human storytelling. For this special birthday concert, Andrea is joined by Laurie Banks on bass and vocals, Don Teschner on fiddle, mandolin, lap steel, harmonica, ukulele, and vocals, and Louie Bond on guitar. Together, the Andrea Harsell Band moves easily from intimate, heartfelt songs to rich harmonies and lively stomp-and-holler roots music. Andrea has opened for artists including The Avett Brothers, The Wailers, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Old 97’s. Her music is featured in the documentary A Place (Sort Of): The Ultimate Missoula Movie.
