Ridgeway + adam + Sarah Frazier
Sunday, April 10 // Doors at 7 PM // 7:30 PM // $10 Ridgeway is a band from Santa Ana California. The band has been growing since 2013 through DIY touring and collaborative efforts. They are currently supporting their 2nd full length effort ‘Marlo’, which packs an emotional punch with combinations of shoegaze, post punk, and modern pop rock. Sarah Frazier creates soundscapes like the darkest of rural Montana nights when the stars look like diamonds floating on an impossibly deep inkwell. Heavy, graceful, and beautifully ominous. Adam G. Holden, performing under simply the moniker ‘adam’, makes music that begs to answer the age old question: What’s in a name? Textured arrangements and sometimes autobiographical but always deeply personal lyrics have earned him a spot in the long line of great singer-songwriters who coax music out of the most tender parts of themselves. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Poliça (+ Wilsen)
Tuesday, July 5 // Doors at 7 PM // 8 PM // $15 (Advance tix recommended) The ZACC is excited to welcome Poliça (Minneapolis) to the Show Room JULY 2022, with opener Wilsen (Brooklyn). Poliça is Channy Leaneagh (vocals, synth), Chris Bierden (bass), Drew Christopherson (drums) and Ben Ivascu (drums), with Ryan Olson joining the band in studio as a producer. Poliça’s 2020 album, When We Stay Alive, possesses a new confidence in its sound, reflected in its fierce, determined songs and anchored by the heavy synths and punctuating beats of Poliça co-founder and producer Ryan Olson. Over the last several years Olson and Leaneagh have widely collaborated with musicians from all over the world: both with Bon Iver, and Leaneagh individually with Boys Noize, Lane 8, Sasha, Leftfield, and Daniel Wohl; Olson with Swamp Dogg in addition to countless musicians from the 37d03d collective. As a result, When We Stay Alive features one of the largest musical casts of any Poliça record to date. On Poliça’s first three albums, Leaneagh focused on restructuring the world and her relationships within it. On When We Stay Alive, she realizes the power in restructuring her inner self. The album’s title references the idea of moving forward through life – our experiences, both good and bad – and what happens next with the strength we find. “I had been living unconsciously in past trauma,” Leaneagh says. “I don’t want to deny something happened – this is not about repression – it’s about taking the power back from the past, holding the power in the present, and creating a new story for myself.”https://www.thisispolica.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/polica https://www.instagram.com/thisispolica/ https://twitter.com/thisispolica https://polica.bandcamp.com/ For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
mssv (Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges, Mike Watt)
w/ Rob Travolta & Black Shore!Tuesday // April 19 // Doors at 7 // Show at 8 // $15 // Advance tickets recommended No less an authority than Nels Cline, the high priest of art-rock guitarists, has called Mike Baggetta a “guitar poet.” That poetry, alternately gnarled and flowing, is on fine display in Main Steam Stop Valve, the second album by (and the decompressed namesake of) mssv, an experimental rock trio featuring Baggetta, the legendary punk bassist Mike Watt, and the versatile drummer Stephen Hodges.The collaboration began when Watt, of The Minutemen fame, joined Baggetta and seasoned session drummer Jim Keltner to record an improvised jazz-rock album called Wall of Flowers, an eight-track romp from pastoral splendor to urban din and back again. When Keltner declined to tour, they brought in Hodges, whose credits as a player include Mavis Staples, Tom Waits, and David Lynch, not to mention Contemplating the Engine Room with Watt.Solidified as mssv—some heretofore unimagined hybrid of a punky power trio and a dreamy experimental rock band—they released Main Steam Stop Valve, which blends industrial vigor and impressionistic languor into a lingering impression of “pressure, combustion, power, and hissing clouds of sonic poetry,” as Premier Guitar said. From the throttled surf guitar of “The Mystery Of” and the glimmering post-rock of “Every Growing Thing” to groovy, songful numbers like “Old Crow,” there’s no telling which way the band will turn at any given moment, a proposition that becomes a promise when they break down and reassemble these songs live, with an instinct for restraint and an openness to anarchy.___ “…vintage twang in service of Americana-meets exploratory Jazz-psych…” -Rolling Stone “The chemistry is palpable, the vibe is loose, and the songs are all worlds unto themselves.” -Aquarium Drunkard “…stealthy, mysterious music…” -New York Times “…full of subversive surprises, hellacious skronking, string-scraping and a general hornets’ nest of fuzz-toned dissonance.” -Slate Magazine “Mike Baggetta is a genre-blurring guitar hero…at the forefront of an army of guitar innovators” -JazzTimes Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0TS1fBRAlrf4WrcgV85XjS Bandcamp: https://mikebaggetta.bandcamp.com/ For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Sasha Bell + Tiny Iota + Rob Travolta
RESCHEDULED (from January 15)Friday, April 8 // Doors at 8 PM // Show at 8:30 PM // $10 (Advance tix recommended) Known for her work with Elephant 6 psych pop group, The Essex Green, and New York baroque ensemble Ladybug Transistor – Sasha Bell is a multi-faceted performer and musician most heralded for her melodious voice and lithe instrumentation. Tiny Iota writes tiny songs that scream like a dust mite into the eternal abyss. Rob Travolta will drop your jaw, with captivatingly composed tunes that balance Rob’s midwest emo meets Montana vibe – with drummer Cole Bronson’s knack for hip hop in smooth and enthralling pockets of groove. The talent and focus of the duo, not to mention the emotion they channel into their music performing, makes for a remarkable sonic journey of angst and joy. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
