Billywhips w/ Witch Bitch & Stoned to Death
Saturday, June 1 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Billywhips, a portmanteau of Coachwhips (the infamous San Franciscan garage punk group of the early noughties) and hillbilly, is a garage psych band with folk sensibilities. Borrowing the groovy ear worm garage rock of Frankie and the Witch Fingers and the melodically intricate guitar work of Joni Mitchell, Billywhips teeters on an obscure line between folk musings and freak-out cow punk. Frontman Will Stoskopf enlists the help of drummer Caleb Tutty and bassist Colin Merrick to make this esoteric dream a reality, with hopes to tantalize and polarize. Witch Bitch is a two-piece band that leaves your skull in two pieces. Dark, tropical, and fuzzy, Witch Bitch melts tsunamis, ancient pyramids, and corpse effluvium in a sonic crucible. What remains will make your bones rattle – sludgy surf that’s sweeter than sipping a piña colada on a private beach in hell. Stoned to Death has been making noise in Missoula Montana since 2018, brought back from the dead in 2024 with new lead singer, drummer and guitarist, rise of the new respect to the old! For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Patti Nolan & The Undeniables + Rob Tapper & The Jazz Collective
Wednesday, June 5 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $12 // $15-$20 Artist SupporterDon’t miss this spirited night of Montana jazz – featuring two powerhouse Missoula acts: Patti Nolan & The Undeniables, and Rob Tapper & The Jazz Collective! During the first set, Patti’s timeless vocals will be backed by Ben Schuberg on piano, Pete Hand on bass, Graeme Pletscher on saxophone, and Ed Stalling on drums. The second set features Rob Tapper on the trombone, joined by Tommy Sciple on bass, Connor Racicot on piano, and Sam Purvis on drums. Bring a snack, bring a date, or just bring yourself – but just don’t miss this show!For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
The Missoula Jazz Orchestra with Dawn Clement and the Mile High All-Stars
Friday, January 17 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $31.50 GA // $14.50 Student // $24.50 Seniors The Missoula Jazz Orchestra is proud to team with Dawn Clement (piano/vocals), Shane Endsley (trumpet), Steve Kovalcheck (guitar) and Dru Heller (drum set) for an incredible evening big band music. These internationally recognized jazz artists are joined by the phenomenal Missoula Jazz Orchestra performing jazz big band standards along with original compositions and arrangements. This musical journey is bound to be a highlight of 2025. For more information about the artists: DAWN CLEMENT https://www.dawnclement.com/ SHANE ENDSLEY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Endsley STEVE KOVALCHECK https://www.kovalcheckmusic.com/bio DRU HELLER http://www.druhellermusic.com/ For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
DEAD (Australia) w/ Trigger Object & .repetened
Tuesday, June 4 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 8 PM // $15 DEAD are back in the US for the first time in almost 10 years! For a while there it seemed like they were Stateside every summer. The band has released 7 or so LPs since the last tour so…I dunno…you might wanna get caught up. Kicking off with a set at Caterwaul Festival (Oxbow, Thrones, Gay Witch Abortion and more!) and then heading west with Trigger Object (Avola/EMS) – long time DEAD collaborator. Want some context? The band has shared stages with Big Business, Jucifer, Black Cobra, Vaz, MoE and a stack more. They run their own label, print their own merch – that whole deal. https://deadsounds.bandcamp.com Trigger Object, an Italian-born composer and multimedia artist based in Portland, Oregon, infuses a cheerfully unhinged flair to the music scene with their unconventional approach and dark sense of humor. Partnering with musicians such as Daniel Menche (Bear Spray), Erika Anderson (EMA+EMS), Australia’s DEAD, and Ian Gorman Weiland (Elrond), Avola navigates through a variety of sonic terrains, from drone, to rhythmic dance music, to ambient and returning to harsh noise. https://vernsworld.bandcamp.com/music.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.For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Odyssey + Intice + Arthur Buezo
Saturday, June 8 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist SupporterOdyssey’s music is an instrumental fusion combining elements of Metal, Rock, and Blues, resulting in a dynamic and engaging listening experience. Odyssey formed in 2007 are are based out of Spokane, WA. The band’s lineup features all original members: Jerrick Crites (guitar), Jordan Hilker (bass), and Lukas Hilker (drums). Intice is a progressive metal/rock band based out of Missoula Montana. They play the original music of their front man, Cameron Kinney, who plays guitar and vocals. Cameron started the band with guitarist Justin Brantley in Great Falls and met the rest of the band members while studying with them at the UM School of Music a couple years later. Along with Cameron and Justin the band features Josh Smith on drums, Lane Ulberg on bass and Jolene Green and Cade Chastain on saxophone. The band has two albums on Spotify and is currently recording their third album. Arthur Buezo’s one-man band of self-branded savage folk is a one-of-a-kind experience. The music is an engrossing fusion, crisscrossing the gritty sounds of the desert, and fueling a sense of a once Wild West meets Middle-Eastern mystics and travelers along the way. It is driving and edgy, yet deeply contemplative and connective to many of the landscapes that nurtured a given song’s inspiration. Since Arthur’s 2021 move to the mountain west, he has quickly become both a powerful and beloved presence, a welcomed force with which to be reckoned. His folk meets grunge meets western nostalgia has been winning over audiences of all ages and of a variety of musical inclinations. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
THE ACCÜSED AD w/ Grease Cult, Pay No Mind, & Frontside Crime
Friday, June 7 // Door at 8 PM // Show at 8:30 PM // $15 Advance // $20 DOSWith the knife-wielding, toothy-grinned Martha Splatterhead at their side, Seattle’s own THE ACCÜSED carved their way into the underground music scene by becoming one of the cornerstones of crossover music that melted faces in the 80s across the globe––A punk/metal fusion that planted its ever-growing seed in modern heavyweights such as MUNICIPAL WASTE, LAMB OF GOD, CANNIBAL CORPSE, the Patton/Lombardo project DEAD CROSS, and many more. now with Recruitment of Drummer Chris Gohde the blender baby known as MARTHA’S REVENGE now proudly sports the moniker THE ACCÜSED AD. The cult of Splatter is alive, and the Kool-Aid is being consumed insatiably so. They Ain’t Dead yet…. 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. HAILING FROM GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, GREASE CULT HAS ONE MISSON: THE SPREAD THE WORD OF THE GREASE TO THE MASSES! ARMED WITH SLUDGY TONES AND GREASY PUNK VIBES, THEY WILL UNLEASH THE GREASEPOCALYPSE ONTO THE EARTH!! BE PREPARED TO JOIN THE CULT AND REMEMBER, GREASE IS LOVE, GREASE IS LIFE!! Frontside Crime is local raw punk rock. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Sluice + Fust
Tuesday, July 30 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 8 PM // $12 Advance // $15 DOSSluice is the recording project of Durham based musician/engineer Justin Morris (Fust, Weirs, Aunt Sis). Radial Gate, the second release as Sluice, features a wide collection of local talent including Avery Sullivan (Fust, Indigo De Souza), Oliver Child-Lanning (Fust, Weirs), Luke Norton (HC McEntire), Frank Meadows (Fust, Tomberlin, Bellows) and Natalie King (Toss) to name a few. Radial Gate continues the Sluice theme of nature’s intersection with industry, and lyrically explores the ideas of isolation and depression giving way to community and personal growth. “Could you pass me a beer, oh no it fell in the river. Hey man that’s all right, goodnight.”Fust is the songwriting project of Aaron Dowdy, and a Durham NC based alt-country band formed in 2018 currently touring in support of Genevieve, their sophomore album on Dear Life Records. Their first record Evil Joy was a self-described bitter domestic drama obsessed with the kitchen-sink passage of time measured by moments of leaving, returning, leaving, and returning. With Genevieve, we find a different kind of leaving: leaving behind, leaving one’s old ways, starting anew, a small life together, in “Family Country.” Thus, Genevieve: an historical name for both the saintly and the ordinary, the peasantry and the family, the community and the wife, extreme devotion and absolute forbearance. The Pond is tender slowcore meloncholy. They’ve got a new album coming out sometime with the band fka Bombshell Nightlight.For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Glitterfox (Portland) w/ Les Duck & Queenager
Sunday, June 23 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $12 Advance // $15 DOSThe Portland based band Glitterfox has released five singles in just six months under their new record label Kill Rock Stars, with two more arriving this Spring. The band’s been growing steadily since “Drive” came out in August 2023, with their indie rock recipe that deftly balances Southern songwriting shine and nostalgia-fueled anthems. The four-piece band’s songwriters and front persons, married couple Solange Igoa and Andrea Walker, have always channeled their personal struggles as well as experiences as queer, neurodiverse individuals into their songwriting. Bassist Eric Stalker and drummer Blaine Heinonen bring a love of Americana, grunge, and dance music into the mix. All of these influences can be heard on the band’s latest singles, produced by Chris Funk of The Decemberists, and in their spirited live shows as they prepare for their full-length album debut in 2025.Les Duck is all about fast cars, slow guitars, family and friendship. Lukas Phelan and Sanders Smith trade songs exploring those very themes while Nate Biehl rips the steel guitar and James Rogers tickles the drums. Scrappy, jangly and a wee bit twangy, Les Duck channels a loosey goose sound somewhere between Arthur Russell and Crazy Horse.Queenager is the combination of glitchy, punchy synth tones mixed with vocoded lyrical beauty that pierces listeners straight to the heart. The project was started in January 2020, and through the pandemic the duo Sarah Frazier and Bryan Kostors hunkered down together on a sexy synth wave mission. With the release of their debut album “Easy” in June 2021, Queenager is on the path to leading crowds to dancing bliss and leading the charge on making Montana a place for letting loose.For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Parallel Universe: A Journey through Contemporary Jazz
Friday, May 31 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Boundless Possibilities. Drawn together by a deep love of the collective improvisation at the heart of jazz, these musicians share a belief that the essence of a song is the shape of the story – its arc through emotion and sound. While each tune is (sometimes…) written in the notes on the page, each journey through the moment is entirely its own, flowing through the spaces between the notes and beyond. The Absent Wilson Conspiracy explores acoustic and electric jazz through spacious original compositions and contemporary standards. Absent Wilson is: Steven Gores – Piano, DR Halsell – Guitar, Ed Stalling – Percussion, Lhanna Writesel – Alto Sax, Steve Kalling – Double BassGolden Mean features original compositions by Bill Kautz that are arranged specifically for this ensemble. The compositions feature thoroughly composed melodies and improvisation in various structures that can be developed uniquely to the given moment. Bill Kautz – Trumpet, Cornet & Compositions, Steve Kalling – Double Bass, Aria Peters – Violin, Hannah Ransom – Percussion, Jake Ransom – Vibraphone … and Neutrino – Hand Pans. 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/.
Mount Eerie
Saturday, June 22 // Door at 1 PM // Show at 2 PM // $20 Advance // $23 DOS Phil Elverum is an artist and human being from the Pacific Northwest town of Anacortes. His recordings, released variously as The Microphones and Mount Eerie, represent just a portion of his artistic output, which has ranged from running a label and co-organizing festivals to self-publishing books, photography, and painting. But it is for his stunningly original music that he is known best, from the earliest tape experiments of the ’90s to the immersive sound-diary of Microphones in 2020. Elverum has never shied from exploring the high mountain passes, finding new ways to sculpt with sound, and trying to communicate the momentary experience of being human as clearly as the water from freshly melted snow. (written October 2020 by Emily Wirthlin)Sung Mountains is the musical project of multidisciplinary artists Kelly Schirmann and Jay Fiske, and sometimes others. Their music sounds like “meditative light, plains of gold before mountain blue” (from their favorite review). Their album “Sanctuary” is available to stream on Bandcamp and everywhere else. Dylan Running Crane is a singer-songwriter from Browning, Montana, a place that remains the subject of most of her work. Her vibe is country meets rez-folk meets tender and silly. Check out her work with Cry Baby – https://crybabymissoula.bandcamp.com/track/missoula *Please note that this is an afternoon show. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
