INTICE Album Release Party
Wednesday, November 13 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter 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 just finished recording their third album. Formed in 2022, and based out of Missoula MT, wearing their influences and hearts on their sleeves, strides Turtle Tuesday. Your new favorite local band. Meeting and forged in the blazing hot fires of heartbreak, raising reptiles, and playing 20+ year old video games. This electric and exciting DIY basement/garage punk/emo/folk/whatever group is hard focused on delivering you the best possible sounding method of receiving tinnitus. They’ll have you fumbling over your words when asked by your friends as to what genre they play, before you inevitably retire the effort and answer “uhh, rock”. Featuring frontman Kage, drummer Griffin, guitarist Collin and John on bass, expect electrifying performances with tracks whose lyrics detail a splendid range of topics. From whaling about death, to finding happiness, to the woes of public transportation infrastructure. Keep an eye out for their upcoming performances and debut project on the horizon. And in the meantime, they’d love for you to swing by the Hellgate Elk’s Club on Tuesdays to play Super Smash Bros Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Intice, Tephra & Wormwood Nowa
Thursday, February 13 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter 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 just finished recording their third album. Tephra plays slow-burning doom with a focus on atmosphere and melody. Thick guitars and brooding synths drag everything down into a heavy, hypnotic haze, with haunting female vocals floating somewhere above the wreckage. Like everything you’ve ever known, it builds, it crushes, it fades. Featuring members of Shramana, Nightwitch, and other Missoula heavy acts, Tephra makes music for an impending long, slow collapse. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Perfect Blue + Skadget + Pilots We’ve Known + Deathcare Industries
Thursday, November 14 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10-$25 Donation for Entry Perfect Blue is a genre-bending, instrumental post-rock quartet from Missoula, Montana. Their music blends elements of post-punk, psych, shoegaze, folk and black metal for an eclectic spectrum of sounds moving between somber, intricate passages to dark, heavy soundscapes. The band’s debut album, “Empress,” is now available everywhere. Skadget is a psychedelic dive into the subconscious waters of this hallucination called life. Born in the monster mindscape of Dead Ed, Skadget sat in a stew of bubbling muck for years, unable to find life. But when that seed of a thought finally made contact with Dead’s friends D.L. Johnson and Carson Smith (and Juxtabunny in the psyrealms) it was jolted to life as the hydra you see before you! Pilots We’ve Known is a post-punk/post-hardcore band from Missoula, Mt. purpose-built in early 2017 as an emotional outlet against the noises of our time. They use elaborate arrangements, angular chords and riffs and dynamic vocals to produce an emotional cacophony as the backdrop to attention-grabbing lyrics. After a three year hiatus Pilots We’ve Known are back at it with a crushing-loud vengeance. 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/.
Jazzoula Presents: Guitar Night
Saturday, November 16 // Door at 6 PM // Show at 6:30 PM // $25 General Admission Jazzoula Presents: Guitar Night – a very special evening featuring some of Montana’s finest guitarists including Louie Bond, Craig Hall, DR Halsell, David Horgan, Owen Thayer, & The University of Montana Guitar Trio. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Blessiddoom w/ Ceres & The New Nightmare
Friday, October 18 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 Advance // $15 Day of Show Blessiddoom began in the fall of 2005 on a mission to shine a light on social norms that often label people, places, and things as being unwanted or ugly in some way but hold their own inner beauty. Showcasing an oxymoron even in the name, that our doom would indeed be blessid. Having come from modest means Blessiddoom aims to be a voice for the shunned, the societal outcasts or the metal head that was always told they would grow out of it. With lyrics that can be seen as quite serious, Blessiddoom does not take themselves too seriously, ultimately just wanting to have the best parties we can while we are still here. “We don’t have a lot of time on this earth, we weren’t meant to spend it this way.” Ceres is a 5-piece metal band, based out of Missoula. Formed in 2019, Ceres has had the opportunity to play Flathead Metal Fest several times, as well as travel around the Pacific Northwest playing shows. Ceres has released 2 albums and a few singles on all streaming services, and are currently working on the third album. They bring a high energy and engaging show to the stage, with original metal and occasional covers like Eskimo Callboy’s ‘Hypa Hypa.’ 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. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
ROCKTOBER VOL. 4
Thursday, October 31 // Doors at 7:30 PM // Music 8 PM to Midnight // $15 ROCKtober is back with an epic line-up of favorite local bands and musicians (like Calamity Cowboy, The Naked Limbs, Big Mosquito (featuring members of Pay No Mind) and Radio Mulder [with members of Rach Against the Machine returning!]) covering, in costume, an incredible array of bands and styles including 70s & 80s Synth Pop, Stone Temple Pilots and assorted 90s jams, Classic Country, and a super special, sure-to-make-you-dance set of Ska Classics! Believe us when we say, this is going to be way more than just a rock show. Costumes strongly encouraged! For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
GHOSTFASE SHOWCASE, A Halloweek Getdown!
Tuesday, October 29 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter GHOSTFASE SHOWCASE is an opportunity for folks to partake in some of the fine, funky and fun musical artists that occupy our beautiful valley. Since it is Halloween week, costumes are encouraged but not a necessity! Join us on a Tuesday lark, enrich your life and have a great time! Sarah Frazier’s artistry is intricate, fascinating and a balm on the senses. Creating soundscapes that perfectly suit her thoughtful stylings, Sarah is a captivating presence onstage. Her lyrics are relatable and fantastical, her melodies enriching. Become enwrapt in the ambience! Doctor Fly – A consummate experimenter and lover of all genre, Doctor Fly has been a student of the game for years now. A throughline of groove permeates the good Doctor’s music, as he intrepidly explores audio space and brings his audience along on the journey, whether their minds are prepared or not. Study under the Doctor and find your mind expanded! Stay Ugly is a Hip Hop group based out of Missoula. They have a penchant for highlighting the unusual and imperfectly perfect aspects of life in their lyrics, over beats with heavy kicks and smacking snares. They have a closely-knit energy onstage, helping their audience feel as if they are part of every bit of the proceedings. If there is a duo that encapsulates Montana Hip Hop, it could very well be Tonsofun x Wormwood Nowa. Both staunch veterans of the live music scene, their stage presence is sharp and engaging. Precise bombardments of insightful lyrics permeate their music, as they relentlessly bound from one song to the next. They effortlessly bring their audience into the moment, sharing their energy and combining into something greater than its parts. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Kate’s Birthday & Fundraiser for the ZACC
Friday, October 25 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10-$30 Sliding Scale It’s Kate’s 21st Birthday and all she wants to do is party in support of the ZACC! Help raise money for Missoula’s community arts center, and enjoy music by Calamity Cowboy, Thermoresistant, flowers from the pool, and Jules Jensen. 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 tens of fans. It’s the real deal! Thermoresistant is a band made up of Kate Widmer (guitar/vox), Dorothy Moran (guitar), Jules Jensen (bass) and Maxum Doucette (drums) that makes loud alt rock music. You can call them Thermo for short. flowers from the pool makes music for friends, with Jules Jensen and Kate Widmer on guitar/vocals, Sid Boyer on bass, and Larry Leonard on drums. They are arguably Missoula’s most niche supergroup. Jules Jensen is a musician, actor, and friend-haver. She’s originally from Great Falls. She’s happy to be here. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Western Union
Sunday, October 27 // Door at 6:30 PM // Show at 7 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Louie and Kimberlee are founding members of Montana’s hottest Texas swing band Western Union, with bandmates David Horgan and Beth Lo from one of Montana’s most renowned jazz and R&B bands-the Big Sky Mudflaps. They have the distinction of being the only Montana band to play at the Montana Folk Festival (July 2016) in addition to opening for Marty Stewart (Sept 2015) and Colorado’s renowned Hot Rize (July 2015). Where jazz meets country, Western Union is Montana’s favorite “countrypolitan” western swing band, specializing in classic Texas Swing & Honky Tonk music. With electric and acoustic guitars, standup bass, pedal steel guitar, and drums – plus sharp-as-a-tack lead vocals and vocal harmonies — Western Union delivers the true-blue sound of grassroots America. 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/.
Beau Akimbo Album Release Party
Thursday, October 24 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Formed in 2020, Beau Akimbo is a Missoula-based Indie Pop band that is crafting their sound over the last four years. Their music consists of lush harmonies, earworm melodies, and tongue and cheek lyrics about their fucked up 20’s. Their music resembles the influences of bands like The Magnetic Fields, Lake Street Dive, Avett Brothers, Stevie Wonder, and more. Come join them for the release of their debut album at the ZACC. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
