Wildlands + Calamity Cowboy + Austin Britton
Wednesday, March 20 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Wildlands is an aspiring Indie Rock Quartet based out of Missoula. The band creates and performs with an electrifying stage presence for all to enjoy. The power of the songwriting and the chemistry between the members creates an infectious atmosphere full of excitement, heartbreak and the urge to move around. Wildlands is here to inspire, entertain and show the world the passion of music. The band consists of Ben MC, the snow loving frontman. Josh Streit, the resident electrician that rips on the guitar. Runyon Matthews, the 1# King Gizzard fan that lays down the bass and Spencer Nelson the Titan of sound behind the drums. Calamity Cowboy is the colloquial name given to a group of viscous homunculi believed to have originated sometime in the early 19th century. After aimlessly wandering for a couple hundred years they decided to start a rock and roll band together. They play a blend of country and psychedelic rock that has garnered them tens of fans. It’s the real deal! Austin Britton has been playing music his whole life, and has been doing it in Missoula the past 4 years. He has just released a new single ‘Make A Friend’ on all streaming platforms. You can follow him on instagram at @austinbrittonmusic and visit his website austinbrittonmusic.com. He continues to write, record, and play shows all over and loves having Missoula as his homebase. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Goth Ball
w/ DJs Gingerbat & Sister Midnight & a LIVE Performance by Negative Gain Recording Artist ‘Order of The Static Temple’Saturday, March 30 // 8 PM to Midnight // $15 The Montana Goth Ball is back and ready to have a spooky spring! Release the bats Saturday, March 30, at the ZACC! DJs GingerBat and Sister Midnight will bring you the spookiest tunes along with a LIVE performance by Negative Gain recording artist Order of The Static Temple! DJs will rotate throughout the night, so be ready to DANCE! This is your excuse to dress up and party – gothic, leather, punk, Victorian, latex, lace (if in doubt, wear black). Dress to DEPRESS! For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Fragment Tuesdays w/ Joyride + Toad
Monday, March 11 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist SupporterFragment Tuesdays is a new alternative band that talks about struggling with grief and sadness. The band was formed in Missoula one summer ago and has been following their dreams ever since.Joyride is an alternative rock band hailing from Missoula. With Elements of the ’90s and early 2000s rock, Punk, Emo, and Grunge. The sonic sounds of Joyride can go from rambunctious noise to soothing guitar melodies, to driving rhythms made to groove. Expect to hear more from the group in the near future.Toad is a solo artist from the flathead valley, sort of rooted in alt punk accompanied by a couple friends of various musical backgrounds. 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/.
STiLGONE w/ Shark Buffalo & Twelve Clouds
Friday, March 8 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist SupporterSTiLGONE is a Bozeman based band that plays a unique fusion of genres, spanning funk, soul, hip hop, reggae, psychedelic rock and more. While covering so many styles they manage to create a cohesive sound that is uniquely their own. Their live shows are an immersive trip through detailed soundscapes, danceable grooves, and the lyrics of songwriter and guitarist Symon Palmer, who founded the band originally In 2016. Since then STiLGONE has gone on to play many of their own events, and supported nationally touring acts like Deltron 3030, Nappy Roots, Kyle Hollingsworth Band, and Michal Menert. Who the hell is Shark Buffalo, that mysterious übergroup from a long-forgotten Missoula music scene of yore? More importantly, what the hell IS a shark buffalo? Do you picture a buffalo’s body with a shark’s head, like some kind of aquatic centaur? Or do you prefer to envision an elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton fused with the head and torso of a bearded bovinae? I digress. Shark Buffalo is comprised of a holy musical trinity: Keys, Drums, and Trumpet, with Cove Jasmin, Emmet Ore, and Nathan Crawford.Twelve Clouds is The Sound God from Montana, bringing you experimental Hip-Hop. 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/.
Minot + Calamity Cowboy + Billywhips
Saturday, March 2 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter SHOWCASING LOCAL AND REGIONAL TALENT IN MISSOULA, MT @DAISYCHAINPRESENTS Minot is lo-fi garage punk baking mixture made of two parts Midwestern and a dash of Northern New England. The shortest distance between two sonic points is made by leaving no room for lengthy melodic banter. Drenched in reverb to cover their inadequacies; This band has a driving rhythm of Mo Tucker’s brother and the belief that less is always more. Minot because….Why not Instagram: @minot_winecop 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. Calamity Cowboy is the colloquial name given to a group of viscous homunculi believed to have originated sometime in the early 19th century. After aimlessly wandering for a couple hundred years they decided to start a rock and roll band together. They play a blend of country and psychedelic rock that has garnered them tens of fans. It’s the real deal! 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/.
Florry w/ Worst Feelings & The Spills
Tuesday, February 27 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $12 Advance // $15 DOSFlorry is a Philly-based country rock outfit led by Francie Medosch and featuring a cast of the most daring and tasteful players of the underground. Francie’s songwriting is pointed, personal and current, yet arranged with a keen ear toward the canon of late 20th century outlaw country and rock n’roll.Heralded (by some) as Missoula’s original family band, Worst Feelings has been satisfying audiences with their bouncy, mid-tempo bops for a quarter of a quarter century. Helmed by Flathead-raised Jesse Hadden, the 6-piece outfit offers up sweet harmonies, atmospheric textures and simply danceable grooves. It’s like if Fleetwood Mac and Pavement were best band friends. Basically, chicken soup for your ears.The Spills are the strumminest, pluckinest, bowinest, shredinest, wailinest bunch of sorry sons of guns this side o the land.For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Bacon & Egg w/ Brute Finesse, Doctor Fly, & R’Know
Thursday, February 29 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Mom says to start the day with a healthy breakfast. If you’re lacking the federally mandated allowance of rock ‘n’ roll vitamins such as soaring vocals, noodling guitars and choruses extolling the virtues of rocking, then a serving of Bacon & Egg awaits, piping hot. Bacon & Egg hail from Missoula, MT and are prepared to blow you away. Brute Finesse is Psychedelic hip-hop from Missoula featuring Sean Burress, Coach Shane Rooney, Nicole Cannavaro, and Larry Hirshberg. Nobody sounds like Brute Finesse. 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.R’Know has been writing and performing hip hop music since 2010. Taking inspiration from artists such as J. Cole, Tech N9ne, Eminem, and many more, he prides himself on making songs packed with clever wordplay, diverse flows, and catchy hooks. 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/.
Hotline TNT
Tuesday, March 19 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $12 Advance // $15 DOSWill Anderson believes in true love — as both concept and catalyst, aspiration and inspiration. During his 34 years, the Hotline TNT founder and architect has found such love perhaps half-a-dozen times. Each instance has prompted some enormous swing of commitment, like a cross-country move or simply being honest about his budding attraction. It is a hopeful and vulnerable way to exist, a way to ensure maximum bruising during the fall of the breakup. And so far for Anderson, that is how it has always ended, whether the air has slowly seeped out of some once-full balloon or whether it has simply popped, those expanded feelings expelled in an instant. This tension is the brain, blood, and beating heart of Cartwheel, the byproduct of Anderson’s decades-long quest to pin down the surging sound long in his head. But borne of real hurt and continued hope, lit by the flickering belief that just maybe things will sort themselves out, Cartwheel transcends those scene associations to become something greater—a classic encapsulation of youthful ardor, fading into adulthood’s grim acceptance. It is a beautiful, radical, and engrossing record about trying to find what most of us have not yet attained: fulfillment. Anderson plays and sings nearly every note on Cartwheel himself. He recorded the bulk of these songs during two very different sessions: one with prolific art-pop-punk auteur Ian Teeple (Silicone Prairie), who pushed him to keep working on every idea, and one with bicoastal engineer Aron Kobayashi Rich (Momma), who encouraged him to get ideas down and keep moving forward. But Cartwheel itself is seamless, with notions of bedroom studio largesse and punk simplicity perfectly coiled inside Anderson’s catastrophic visions of true love. Cartwheel is the band’s follow-up to Nineteen In Love, a record that’s influence has spread through fervent word-of-mouth these last couple of years. Hotline TNT toured relentlessly, enduring seemingly endless lineup shifts to become a linchpin of several interconnecting DIY scenes. Their audience steadily ballooned, with Nineteen in Love becoming a coveted LP.Cosmic Sans is an evil psychedelic rock five piece from Missoula, MT with Jake Howell on vocals and bass, Cole Bronson on drums, Lane Ulberg on bass, Seamus Jennings on lead guitar, William “Stos” Stoskopf on ambo-guitar! (latent) is a Missoula based band composed of Zack Buchholo, Nick Togliatti and Jake Swank. These three fellers have been playing music together for nearly a decade and this band is a culmination of their endeavors to incorporate absurdity, sincerity, and high energy music into a single intense project. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
lil jane, 40 VI$TA, CALIS, & A-MAR
Wednesday, February 28 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter lil jane & The ZACC present an under 20 y/o aspiring group of rap performers based out of Missoula, Montana – making modern style trap and trying to make a name for themselves. Performing newly released singles alongside Keygan Cowan (lil jane) with special guest appearances by Caleb Liszak (CALIS), Aidan Margolis (A-MAR) and Seth Pro (40 VI$TA). Follow lil jane on all social media @liljanerecords.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/.
Trio Incognito
Wednesday, March 6 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $15 Advance // $20 Day of Show DAVID BIXLERDavid Bixler is a renowned alto saxophonist, composer, and educator who has recently revitalized his career with the release of three new recordings: In the Face of Chaos (2019), Blended Lineage (2020), and Inside the Grief (2020). His latest work, THE LANGSTON HUGHES PROJECT vol. 1, is a unique compilation of music inspired by the poetry of Langston Hughes, which has been highly praised by PARIS-MOVE as “a touch of genius.” Having moved to New York City (NYC) three decades ago, Bixler honed his musical skills touring the world with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Toshiko Akioshi. He later became part of the Chico O’Farrill Afro-Cuban Big Band, playing a decade-long residency of Sunday evenings at Birdland and winning a LATIN GRAMMY for the recording, Final Night at Birdland. DAN LOOMIS With more than a decade of performing experience since moving to New York City, Dan Loomis has emerged as a daring leader, a sought-after sideman, and a composer whose view of the world – and willingness to explore his own inner questioning – has led to the creation of innovative and moving works. Loomis is also an in-demand sideman. He’s a regular member of Vadim Neselovskyi’s trio, which has played across Europe and at the Blue Note and Village Vanguard in NYC. A small sample of the no- table names with whom Loomis has performed includes TS Monk, Gary Burton, Wycliffe Gordon, Ernesto Cervini, Joel Frahm, Laurence Hobgood, and The Respect Sextet. He’s played in all of New York’s major clubs and at Jazz at Lincoln Center, in addition to appearing on stages across Europe, Canada, Australia, China and throughout the United States. For more on Dan Loomis’s current projects, recordings and clinics, visit https://www.danloomismusic.com. FABIO ROJAS Fabio Rojas, Drummer/Film Composer and Educator based in New York City, originally from Valencia-Venezuela. Since arriving to the US, Rojas has performed with artists such as David Bixler, Greg Osby Band, Lonnie Plaxico, Geri Allen, Bill Pierce, Sean Jones, Jon Cowherd, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kevin Harris, Mike Rodriguez, John Lockwood, Manuel Valera, Regina Carter, Rachel Z Hakim, Pepe de Lucia, Nino de los Reyes and many others, in venues such as BU Agganis Arena, Boston Symphony Hall, Daegu Jazz Festival (South Korea), Lincoln Center (NYC), The Esplanade, Scullers Jazz Club, SXSW, BGSU, Smoke Jazz Club, TEDx Boston 2010, TEDx Sommerville 2012, RVA Film & Music Festival, 55 Bar, NAMM, MusikFest. Fabio Rojas earned his Bachelor of Music with a Dual Major in Performance and Professional Music at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston 14’, thanks to a scholarship and extreme hard work, where he had the honor of being mentored by Terri Lyne Carrington and Kim Plainfield. He also earned his Master of Music in Jazz Studies at CUNY – Queens College 23’ , Magna Cum Laude, where he studied with Michael Mossman, Antonio Hart and Dennis Mackrel. Rojas has given master classes in Youngstown State University (OH), Jazz St. Louis (MO), New Tier HS (IL), Berklee College of Music (MA), Lions Township HS (IL), Kalos Music & Art School (FL), NYC Public schools, Port Washington Public Schools, Conservatorio Sergei Rachmaninov (Ecuador), UEB Torremar (Ecuador), among other locations around the globe. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
