Lung (Ohio) + Rob Travolta + Panic Boner
Wednesday, May 15 // 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. Powerhouse art-punk, cello-core, Lung, consists of Kate Wakefield, a classically trained opera singer and cellist, and drummer Daisy Caplan, formerly the bassist of Foxy Shazam. Fierce, ethereal, and heavy as hell, Lung rocks with the intensity of early grunge, layered with sinister undertones. Described as “loud, dissonant, innovative, and fearless” (Fair Shakes and Just Dessert). Wakefield runs her cello through distortion pedals and big amps, and Caplan pounds out earthquaking beats on epic horn-shaped, vintage drums. A relentless touring machine, the duo has played over 800 shows across North America and Europe, on bills with Brainiac, Screaming Females, Big Business, Chat Pile and so many more. Rob Travolta is the ideal soundtrack for road trips through space and time. Drummer / beat producer Cole Bronson creates dynamic shifts within bassist Rob Cave’s bass lines. Rob Travolta’s aim is to create thought provoking / heart-felt compositions that keep you on your toes. 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/.
Missoula Collective Music Ensemble
Monday, May 13 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10-$30 Sliding Scale Tickets w/ Bill Kautz, John Wicks, Ed Stalling, Jessica Catron, Jeremy Drake, Johan Eriksson, Beth Youngblood, Tommy Sciple, Loren Stillman, Naomi Moon Siegel, MJ Williams, Tanner Fruit, Natalita, & Jesse Dochnahl The Missoula Collective Music Ensemble brings together an exciting ensemble of Missoula-based improvisers with guest artist Wayne Horvitz leading the band. The first set is a quartet featuring Naomi Moon Siegel, Jessica Catron, Jeremy Drake, and Wayne Horvitz. The second set features the entire ensemble, under conduction/direction by Horvitz. These collective improvisations and compositions feature “conduction”, a jazz technique utilized to organize, expand and inspire improvisation in a large group setting. “Conduction” was created but the late Lawrence “Butch” Morris, and is now used throughout the world. Mr. Horvitz and Mr. Morris were friends and colleagues, and Horvitz learned the technique as a member of many of Butch’s early groups. Wayne Horvitz continues to use conduction frequently in his ensembles The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble and Electric Circus, and as a guest artist throughout Europe and North America. Featuring: Bill Kautz – Trumpet John Wicks – DrumsEd Stalling – Drums Jessica Catron – Cello Jeremy Drake – Guitar Johan Eriksson – Alto Saxophone Beth Youngblood – Violin Tommy Sciple – Bass Loren Stillman – Saxophone Naomi Moon Siegel – Trombone MJ Williams – Vocals/Trombone Tanner Fruit – Saxophone Natalita – Vocals Jesse Dochnahl – Saxophone For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
E.T. (Minneapolis) w/ Order of the Static Temple + Sarah Frazier
Sunday, May 5 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Minneapolis-based synthpunk duo E.T. is inspired by peace punk and darkwave, a combination they have come to call peacewave. They make music about aliens and alienation, decolonization and abolition. Ultimately, E.T. is a form of creative catharsis for themselves and other theyliens. 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! “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) 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/.
Rock, You Must: Donkey Island + Motorhome + The Selsun Blues
Saturday, May 4 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter More than an isolated land mass, Donkey Island is a state of mind. Founded by former members of Blessiddoom, Juveniles and the Bowie tribute band Glass Spiders, this trio of Missoula dads needed a space to unwind. Saxophone player Nathan Hoyme birthed this trio when he was finally ready to share a trove of songs for guitar which he had been secretly writing for decades. He called on power groovster Al Gooday to lay down some bass in order to electrify Nathan’s secret angsty ballads. Paul Rosen plugged in some heavy beats and brought his own secret songs which had been trying to escape his head since he was a teenager. With hints of sounds from classic Minnesota 80s Rock to alt-country and even grooves that’ll get you shaking that ass, a visit to Donkey Island is sure to quench anyone’s thirst for electric noise. Reconstituted from the fevered pitch of late-wave noisepop and early ‘90s fuzz, Missoula’s Motorhome mimics a nitrous-fueled Winnebago that’s dropped its muffler. Vibraphone and synthesizer chime and swoon atop twin-guitar attacks, stuttering drums. and propulsive bass. Layered vocals weave tales of hope, regret, and tangled relationships. As graduates of indie scenes in Albany, San Francisco, Chapel Hill, and Missoula, today’s Motorhome incites a sonic swirl of melodic chaos and a churning tide of noise. Formed in Missoula in 2015, The Selsun Blues is an eclectic woman-fronted band featuring some of Missoula’s bedrock talent. Riding a wave of sounds from Dick Dale-inspired surf instrumentals, all the way to 90s indie, riot grrl, garage rock, and an occasional alt-country song just because, they are a rollicking good time. Jake Knudsen and Dan Strachan on guitars and vocals, drummer LeRoy Menahan on drums, and Krispen Nelson on bass and lead vocals. 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/.
Margo Cilker / Summer 2024
Thursday, July 11 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 8 PM // $18 Advance // $22 DOSARTIST PRESALE STARTS AT 10 AM, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10PUBLIC ONSALE STARTS AT 10 AM, FRIDAY, APRIL 12Margo Cilker’s sophomore album, Valley of Heart’s Delight, refers to a place she can’t return: California’s Santa Clara Valley, as it was known before the orchards were paved over and became more famous for Silicon than apricots. In this 11-song follow-up to 2021’s critically acclaimed Pohorylle, family and nature intertwine as guiding motifs, at once precious and endangered, beautiful and exhausting. Cilker and Pohorylle producer Sera Cahoone brought most of that record’s highly-acclaimed crew (studio players for The Decemberists, Band Of Horses, and Beirut) back to the studio with additional contributions from acclaimed Northwest traditionalist Caleb Klauder. Valley of Heart’s Delight, Cilker’s second record on Portland, Oregon label Fluff & Gravy Records, follows a year busily reaping the fruits of Pohorylle’s success, with festival appearances at Pickathon, Treefort, and End Of The Road, and tours supporting American Aquarium, Hayes Carll, Drive-By Truckers, and Joshua Ray Walker.Margo Cilker lives near the Columbia River in Goldendale, Washington with her husband, songwriter and working cowboy Forrest VanTuyl, as well as their dog and some horses.https://www.margocilkermusic.com/At the junction of sparse folk, pop, and cosmic country you’ll find Junior, helmed by three Missoula, MT-based songwriters. Listeners might have heard members of Junior play in groups including: Butter, Stellarondo, Burlesco, Broken Valley Roadshow, Shahs, Hermina Jean, The Cigarette Girls, Caroline Keys, Worst Feelings, Danny’s Dilemma, Travis Sehorn and the Pebble Light, The Best Westerns, and Patsy Grime.Each member of Junior packs a quiver of instrumental skills and is constantly acquiring more to add to the group. Junior has been compared to Sibylle Baier, Karen Dalton, and The Roches. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
The Pop Rocks of Sussex School
Thursday, May 2 // Door at 5:30 PM // Show at 6 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter We are an ensemble called the Pop Rocks from Sussex School, an independent progressive school here in Missoula. We are a group of seven members in grades fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth and we play the bass, guitar, drums, vocals, and keys. We have been working together for seven months now. We will be performing eight songs during our performance at the ZACC. The songs will vary from slow, to upbeat, to fast and include different arrangements of pop and rock songs (Pop Rocks hehe). This show will be our culminating performance for all of the work we have done this year. We really hope to see you there! Watch out, because the Pop Rocks are about to start rockin’! 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/.
Blacktracks (Spokane) + Spooky (Spokane) + Infinite Ammo
Monday, April 22 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Blacktracks is a two-piece experimental punk group from the Pacific/Inland Northwest. Having toured the Cascade region extensively the band has roots to call home in both Spokane Washington and Eugene Oregon. It’s a difficult project to pigeonhole into one genre having a tangible range from hardcore, crust, sludge to horrorcore, hip-hop & spoken word. It’s an amalgamation of tension presented in an engaging, viscerally determined, often self-violent live show that’s difficult to look away from. The band has found their home in the broader DIY circuit and is scheduled to release their debut full length via Blackhouse Records in 2024. Spooky is not a band; a body. Infinite Ammo banded together at the beginning of Covid and started a band that would soon be known for their weird sound that collides powerviolence/grindcore/death metal/hardcore punk into one giant mass of sound. Featuring members of The Foilies, Lust Hag, and Frontside Crime. Cameron came up with the idea for the band with Keith Szardarski who previously played guitar in the band. They added Moses on drums and Elli on Bass, with Dizzy taking over guitar duties in summer of ‘22. 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/.
Academy Order (Philly) + The Old Ones (Billings) + Swamp Ritual
Sunday, April 21 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Since 2021, Academy Order have been honing their sound through various releases and live incarnations, expertly showcasing elements of death rock, punk, new wave, and even hardcore in a sonic amalgamation that is uniquely their own, while remaining just familiar enough to keep heads nodding. Now they surge forth with a debut LP, unleashing “A New Kind of Fear” to solidify an approach that touches nerves both lyrically and musically via counterpoints of aggression and melody not so commonly coupled in the broad genre of post-punk. The deliciously cold attack of driving guitars and Matthew’s demanding vocals weighed against synth lines straight from the 80’s dance floor and Norelle’s angelic vocal hooks bring the shadowy rhythm of the whole album to halting depths and infectious heights. Fans of seminal acts such as 45 Grave, Clan of Xymox, and TSOL may find themselves moving just as readily as those who enjoy Danse Society, Bleached Cross, and Chain Cult. Swamp Ritual is drum and bass stoner / doom metal, formed in 2010 in the Missoula mountains. With Dustin Fugere on bass and vocals, and Sid LaTray on drums and vocals. The Old Ones are good ol’ fashion Doom/Stoner from the Low Life Big Sky State. 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/.
Pay No Mind + Try Again + Damnthebadluck
Saturday, April 20 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter 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. Try Again is hardcore based out of Missoula. DAMNTHEBADLUCK is a hardcore/post-punk band from Missoula, MT composed of Luke Harmon (vocals), Cody Sumner (guitar), Mars Sandavol (bass), and Chris Ostheimer (drums). Sounds like Idles, Turnstile, and Amyl and The Sniffers. 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/.
Box Elder (WY) w/ The Western States & Cory Fay
Wednesday, April 17 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter “Arrows” is the debut full band release by the Jackson Hole, Wyoming based indie punk outfit Box Elder. Box Elder was started in the spring of 2021 by Christopher Archuleta (vocalist, primary songwriter and guitarist) as his solo project for musical catharsis during the Covid pandemic. Chris independently released a handful of singles and two EPs before realizing it was time to take these songs on the road. In early 2023, Chris recruited a handful of longtime friends to get involved in his project; Claire Holden on synth, Oscar Garcia on drums, Ian Tompkins on lead guitar and Wil Zeigler on bass. Since 2023, Box Elder has toured relentlessly and made appearances at Treefort Music Festival (Boise), Crucial Fest (Salt Lake City) and shared stages with bands such as Agent Orange, The Black Lips, Teenage Halloween, Red Fang and many more. 2024 looks bright for the band with stacked back-to-back spring tours in the Pacific Northwest and Midwest, more new music on the horizon and showcase spots at Treefort Music Festival and the Denver Underground Music Showcase. The Western States is a punk rock band from Missoula, MT. The band just released their full length “Heavy Pours” in 2021. The album is full of anthemic songs featuring classic punk gang vocals and old school pop punk hooks. Cory Fay is a cosmic lullaby-core songwriter, record producer, sex advice personality, and emotional support animal. Just kidding. But not about a few of them. 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/.
