Mormon Mincers (SF) w/ Owl the Conqueror & Death Care Industries
Monday, August 12 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Mormon Mincers are Grindcore out of SF. Born from the ashes of Writ Large, Owl the Conqueror is a groovy, bluesy, progressive grunge band. Driving rhythms and powerful guitars. Deathcare Industries is a Missoula-based band that mixes the energy of metal with the rhymic and lyrical style of Hip Hop. They’ve been described as “New Nü metal”. They are loud, just how you like it. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
briana grand w/ Order of the Static Temple & DJ Sister Midnight
Saturday, August 10 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter briana grand is an audio and visual artist who is currently releasing her debut 8 track concept album and experimental film entitled Modulated Minds. Evoking the senses through multiple mediums of production including live vocals, multi-instrumentation, stage theatrics, and cinema; briana grand’s performance is an invitation for conventional viewers to become active participants as they connect to the story told through Modulated Minds. All music and videos are recorded, directed, produced, and edited by briana grand. Negative Gain recording artist ‘Order of the Static Temple’ is a music/performance art collaboration headed by Rob Robinson (ohGr, Kevorkian Death Cycle, BOL, Hate Dept.). OotST combines dark synths, harsh percussion, dystopian samples, EBM and noise to personify the aptly titled ‘Electronic Cult Music’ description. The live show is a visual spectacle, with all the high energy of a demonic mass, complete with the seductive theatre of collaborator and performance artist Damsel In The Dollhouse. Become one of us… hail to the Order! Sister Midnight is originally from Milwaukee but has lived in Missoula on and off since 1999 (with a long stint in Austin, Texas). She was a long-time late-night DJ on KBGA, has been one of the resident DJs for the Montana Goth Ball for several years and is the Senior Official of Montana Drag Wrestling. She specializes in Goth, New Wave and Post Punk music from the 1980s and loves sad bastard music of all kinds. She enjoys cross stitching, hanging out at The Roxy and professional wrestling. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Milk 2 (from CA & CO) + Cambodian Sim Card (Madison, WI) w/ Panic Boner
Monday, July 29 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Outerwaves showcases experimental, fresh and different sound art incorporating unconventional instrumentation and electronic processes. Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms, such as dance and performance. Milk 2 is the combination project of Finn Palamaro (Bay Area, CA) and Omar Biebrich (Colorado Springs, CO) – creating military ambient noise music. Cambodian Sim Card is the solo project of Alex Meinhof (Madison, WI) – midwest making emo inspired experimental ambient noise music. Panic Boner is a left field experimental music project (Missoula, MT) – exploring free improvisation and abstract noise that verges sonically as new age punk meshing with free jazz psychedelia. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Proleterror (Spokane, WA) w/ Pay No Mind, Seditious Activity, & Thermoresistant
Friday, August 9 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $15 Proleterror are an anti-fasict/ anti-racist Oi & street punk band based out of Spokane WA. Pay No Mind is a skate punk band with hardcore and thrash influences consisting of former members of Stoned to Death and Super Sport (Great Falls). They have taken Missoula by storm opening for touring bands and supporting the local music scene. Two of their members are students at the U of M and have played shows on campus and supported headliner acts throughout town. Seditious Activity is a punk band from Missoula, Montana. Never trust authority. Thermoresistant are a spookyish heavyish alternative rock group from the zoo featuring Kate, Dorothy, Jules, and Maxum. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Larry Hirshberg w/ Doctor Fly & The Benevolents
Thursday, August 8 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Over time, Larry Hirshberg has been known as a “road dog,” a “poet,” a “word person,” a “songwriter,” a guitar player,” a “bass player,” a “jammer,” an “experimental musician,” a “blues guy,” a “DJ,” a “folk person,” a “singer,” and a “Missoula music stalwart.” He has never been known as The King of Hype, a promotional wizard, a sales genius, a distributor of products, or an Offerer of Things That Seem Familiar. He is certain that whatever expectations he had have been either exceeded, or abandoned, or both. Doctor Fly is an electronic musician who haunts Missoula, MT. Harnessing a brood of mysterious music machines, he enkindles an interdimensional space; all who enter shall be imperceptibly yet undeniably changed. Doctor Fly performs improvisational compositions on the guitar, keyboard, recorder, theremin, kazoo, and drum machine. For more information visit www.seansong.org. Based out of Missoula, Montana, The Benevolents are a groovy folk-rock five-piece that blends ripping guitar and fiddle solos, catchy vocal harmonies, and a driving rhythmic flow into funky, meter-crossing tunes. The band primarily plays the globally-influenced compositions of John Kratz, lead singer and finger-style electric guitarist, who writes and sings in English and Spanish about nature, beauty, love, and loss. Holly Riley animates the music with her precise harmonies and energetic fiddle playing. Michael Calucchia adds his powerful voice and rhythmic mandolin technique. Holding down the rhythm section are Daniel Kiely, who brings a bit of Alabama soul to his driving drum beats, and Ryan Stiles, groovemaster extraordinaire on the bass. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Mezzanine Swimmers (Detroit) w/ STMR (Helena) & Panic Boner
Wednesday, August 7 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Mezzanine Swimmers is the solo project of Mike Green, who is now based in Detroit after living 14 years in NYC. He has at one point cycled through every instrument in different bands, and his approach to music is completely individualistic; it can barely be taught, let alone imitated. The rhythms are a labyrinth of winding beats, from vaguely familiar samples to distorted sound bites, but never hesitant. Each song has a wildly catchy hook, and is dressed in woozy, garbled, and psychedelic textures. Like Container, he takes a tactile approach; the sound is sculpted from the mad combination of overdriven electronics and loose improvisation. You’ll never see a laptop on stage, but a pile of wires connecting synths, samplers and pedals. The result is a wonderful onslaught of deranged pop songs which would be quite comfortable in a playlist with Black Dice or Michael Jackson. His latest release is “Miserable Miracle” on Already Dead Tapes. STMR is a sound project out of Helena, MT. Panic Boner is an experimental music project based out of Missoula Montana. Their live shows incorporate elements of improvisation, noise, and psychedelia. Panic Boner was founded by Dusty Shriver and he plays with an ever evolving lineup of collaborators in the span of its three year existence. File under heavy jazz. 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/.
Perfect Blue w/ .repetend & Sarah Frazier
Sunday, August 4 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Perfect Blue is an Instrumental, Experimental Post-Rock band from Missoula, Montana. .repetend utilizes extended range tunings, driving bass and guitar riffs, complex meters, dynamic tonalities and progressive, driving percussion for a total math rock experience. Brush up on your algebra and see if you can count along. “Sarah Frazier’s unique brand of electronic music is composed of ethereal and melodic vocals, layers of looped instruments, and undeniable pop sensibilities. Her music feels like a journey with songs that swell only to fall away again. Her performance at Humble Burger earlier this year was absolutely breathtaking to watch.” — Nate H Wolf (Modest Music Festival, Moscow, ID) For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Vice Cream Social w/ Big Mosquito, Nataanii, & Wormwood Nowa
Thursday, August 1 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Big Mosquito is a local Missoula ska outfit bringing a mix of authentic ska and high energy, with renditions and covers of such classics as The Skatalites, The Specials, laurel Aitkens, Phyllis Dillon/Freddy McKay, ect. Plus originals and more lively tunes like Murphy’s law’s 1%. Big Mosquito’s goal is to bring authentic ska and love for roots music to the forefront of our rising youth movement in Missoula and beyond. Big Mosquito is made up of Zane Lambert, Maxum and Cameron Doucette, Evan Wright, Spencer Nelson, Nick Morgensen, Jacob Tirado, and Danny Boatwright. Vice Cream Social play an upbeat mix of ska, punk and rock that a crowd can dance and mosh to. Their music would be a natural fit for the soundtrack of a raunchy teen comedy or a skateboarding video game. As ska bands have done since the genre’s inception, they perform covers of hit songs that you might know the words to. Listen to this band when you’re packing a bowl— of ice cream, that is. 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/.
Earthware & Telemarket w/ The Sardines
Sunday, July 28 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter EARTHWAREEarthware is an indie pop solo project from Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eli Wheeler. TELEMARKETad nauseam /ad-’ nô-zē-ǝm, -am/ – adverb: 1. to a sickening extent 2. to go on endlessly due out August 25th on Elephant 6 label affiliate Cloud Recordings and Science Project Records. Running at 34 minutes and 34 seconds, this thirteen track odyssey discovers itself through bouts of exuberant feedback and snappy hooks, and ultimately finds resolution surrounded by good friends in its musical home of Athens. Among these friends is John Fernandes of Cloud Recordings, a former member of projects Olivia Tremor Control and Circulatory System and longtime Elephant 6 collaborator, who teamed up with Telemarket to release and distribute the group’s LP. Ad Nauseam features artwork from late Georgia artist Patrick Dean, to whom the record is dedicated. Dean’s piece ‘Welcome to Athens, Y’all’ was featured on Athens GA publication Flagpole’s cover in August of 1999. Telemarket provides a distorted vessel for the shape-shifting songcraft of vocalist/guitarist Adam Wayton, and features collaborations with many of his talented Athens friends. Wayton together with guitarist and engineer Will Wise hunkered down in their Odd Street home studio for much of 2021-2022—a piece of time many would just as soon forget—and managed to create something memorable together in Ad Nauseam. Vocalist/keyboardist Josie Callahan, bassist Hunter Pinkston, and percussionist Jack Colclough round out the group’s personnel, bringing counterpoint and consummation to Telemarket’s work. THE SARDINESThree friendly and freshly packaged fish saturated with wonder and the joy of song. The elite of the sea. If you choose to consume, you may unleash sonic whimsy. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Acalvaria + Axe of Volition + The New Nightmare
Saturday, July 20 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Acalvaria is skull fracturing, gut pumping slamming death grind that is absolutely relentless and destructive. A towering wall of crushing sound to throw down to! High octane, heavy hitters from Conrad – Axe of Volition puts on a Show that is sure enough to leave you with a whiplashed neck! Thrashing punk you won’t wanna miss! The New Nightmare is a hard rock band out of Missoula sharing tales of living through the new nightmare. Thrash metal / grunge / and psychedelic influences with haunting vocals and driving riffs. 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/.
