Broadway Bash
Friday, April 18 // Door at 8:30 PM // Show at 9:00 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Calling all Rentheads, Guilty Ones, and Phans! Put on your Broadway best and come dance at the ZACC for your own enjoyment-Whoopsie Falcon Ptoductions presents The Broadway Bash! We’ve got the boppin best tunes from The Great Bright Way for you and the Glinda to your Elphie to dance through life to. Costumes are HIGHLY encouraged, so step into the candy store and celebrate La Vie Boheme with us! Proceeds from door sales go to a local charity that will be announced at the evening’s end. So Missoula…Shall We Dance?
Punk Benefit for the Poverello Center w/ Pilots We’ve Known, Perfect Blue, Dank Crypt, & Seditious Activity
Tuesday, April 15 // Door at 7:00 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 With Donation // $15 Without Donation 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. 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. Dank Crypt spawns from the harsh depths of Havre, Montana. Formed in September 2022 by Drew Torgerson, and long time friends Trever Berger and Travis Berger. Following a short run of shows, with influences spanning from Sludge metal / punk rock/ thrash metal/ Doom metal / and everything in between; Dank Crypt released a demo track of their song Snow Owl Eats At Daytime in August of 2023 and it was featured on Weedian’s “Trip to Montana” compilation.Debut EP “Crypt Scripture” Was released on April 20, 2024. Seditious Activity is a punk band from Missoula, Montana. Never trust authority.
Patti Nolan and the Undeniables / Fundrasier for NO JOKE THEATER
Thursday, March 20 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $30 // $100 table of 4 // $150 table of 6 Patti Nolan and the Undeniables are an amazing jazzband. This is music that is rarely heard in Missoula. It’s very reminiscent of being in a New York City jazz club. NO JOKE THEATER creates bold, original theater with the formerly incarcerated, individuals in pre-release and drug court as well as members of the recovery community. It is the only theater company like this in Montana. Prior to the creation of No Joke Theater in Missoula, the artistic director, Leah Joki, spent 23 years creating theater in California prisons.
Dug w/ .repetend & Skadget
Wednesday, April 9 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $15 The indomitable duo of Minneapolis noise veterans Travis Kuhlman (drums) and Michael Baillie (guitar) are DUG. Tuned to the key of tinnitus, DUG brings a sludge-laden sonic assault most easily measured in minutes per beat, rather than in beats per minute. Through stretches of seemingly constant touring across the US, the pair have put out a trio of exceptionally punishing releases – all through Kansas City, Missouri-based The Ghost is Clear Records – “35:35” (2021), “Pain Machine” (2022) and “You Make Me Sad” (2023). However, from first-hand experience – DUG is a band best enjoyed LIVE and OFTEN .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. 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!
Owen Cleary & Sean Stineford
Sunday, March 23 // Door at 2:30 PM // Show at 3:00 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Presenting vibrant sets of original and arranged music, graduating UM jazz students Sean Stineford and Owen Cleary are sharing their capstone jazz performances. Featuring a full big band and jazz combo with the Connor Racicot Trio, this afternoon performance is perfect for anyone looking to enjoy some great live music!
Panic Boner w/ Kragg, S.G.C., & birthdaymoanz
Thursday, April 10 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter Ticket Panic Boner is an experimental music trio based out of Missoula, Montana. As they don’t rely on categorization or genre for their band, they have been described by audiences as heavy jazz psychedelic or now wave resembling bands like Wolf Eyes, Black Dice, and a more freeform Hella. P.B. has recently released an album on the chocolate monk label based out the U.K. KRAGG is an instrumental experimental noise rock trio based out of Missoula. Influenced from krautrock, deep cuts to San Francisco garage psych punk to the O.G.hard rock trailblazers of Jesus Lizard, and The Birthday Party. Sucks Girl Cock (S.G.C.) is a harsh noise wall/powerelectronics project that explores the intersection of sincerity and vulnerability in composition. Known for unforgiving walls of crashing electronic static, S.G.C. directly challenges listeners with xeir noise. exploring themes of trans liberation, disability advocacy, and expressionist anti-music through distorted oscillation. Justin Matousek occasionally makes sound art as “birthdaymoanz”. he grew up near pittsburgh pa, and has been curating and creating experimental sounds for more than 15 years, he believes that the wu-tang clan is for the children and that curiosity will save the world
Jazzoula 4-Night Package
It’s Jazzoula ‘25 Celebrating 20+ years of Jazz in the Missoula community – presenting16 plus jazz combos, vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists over four days, April 23, 24, 25, and 26. Providing a complete variety of the only original form of American music: jazz. Jazzoula gives the listener a chance to experience Montana’s finest jazz performers showcasing their individual talents with their groups, and as soloists. With artist such as Owen Ross, Craig Hall , Johan Eriksson, Connor Racicot, Missoula’s favorite Basement Boyz to name a few. Enjoy short sets and a fantastic variety of awesome jazz music. Wednesday, April 23 Line-up (MTPR Recording): Basement Boys Patti Nolan & the Undeniables Owen Ross Trio Big Sky Mudflaps Thursday, April 24 Line-up Absent Wilson Conspiracy Melody Anderson One Word/Dylan Bautiste Trio Ally Fradkin Quartet Friday, April 25 Line-up All City Jazz Owen Thayer Marie Smith Quintet Missoula Conduction Band Saturday, April 26 Line-up Boyd Combo Craig Hall & Alex Nauman Zoolectic Band “Fusion Tribute” (Johann Eriksson, John Wicks, Owen Ross, Tommy Sciple) . Connor Racicot Trio
Goth Ball
Saturday, March 22 // 8 PM to Midnight // $15 It’s time for spooky spring! The Montana Goth Ball is back! Release the bats Saturday, March 22nd at the ZACC! DJs GingerBat and Sister Midnight will bring you the spookiest tunes along with projections by Rainbow Gorilla Visuals and 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!
Deathcare Industries Record Release w/ Pilots We’ve Known, .repetend, & Serpentina
Friday, March 21 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist Supporter 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. 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. .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. Serpentina is a new Missoula rawk band. Big drums, big fuzz, big guitars, big vocals. No big deal. Punk-metal-other-stuff influenced if you need to split hairs
Open Mic w/ Shane Coburn
Wednesday, March 19 // Door & Sign-up at 7 PM // Free & Open to the Public! Come join us! Hosted by Shane Coburn.