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/.
Icarus + Pay No Mind + Western States
Friday, February 2 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 // $15-$20 Artist SupporterIcarus is an art rock band based in Bozeman, MT. This cast of musicians have a deep passion for jamming and creating unique art. Their influences include Alternative bands like Primus and My Bloody Valentine, as well as more diverse soundscapes coming from artists like John Coltrane and Kyuss. Icarus has a range of styles, described by some as a thrashy Black Sabbath.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.The Western States is a punk rock band from Missoula, MT. The band just released their full length “Heavy Pours” in 2021. The album is full of anthemic songs featuring classic punk gang vocals and old school pop punk 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/.
Wednesday
Friday, May 24, 2024 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 8 PM // $18 Advance // $22 DOSA Wednesday song is a quilt. A short story collection, a half-memory, a patchwork of portraits of the American south, disparate moments that somehow make sense as a whole. Karly Hartzman, the songwriter/vocalist/guitarist at the helm of the project, is a story collector as much as she is a storyteller: a scholar of people and one-liners. Rat Saw God, the Asheville quintet’s new and best record, is ekphrastic but autobiographical and above all, deeply empathetic. Across the album’s ten tracks Hartzman, guitarist MJ Lenderman, bassist Margo Shultz, drummer Alan Miller, and lap/pedal steel player Xandy Chelmis build a shrine to minutiae. Half-funny, half-tragic dispatches from North Carolina unfurling somewhere between the wailing skuzz of Nineties shoegaze and classic country twang, that distorted lap steel and Hartzman’s voice slicing through the din.Rat Saw God is an album about riding a bike down a suburban stretch in Greensboro while listening to My Bloody Valentine for the first time on an iPod Nano, past a creek that runs through the neighborhood riddled with broken glass bottles and condoms, a front yard filled with broken and rusted car parts, a lonely and dilapidated house reclaimed by kudzu. Four Lokos and rodeo clowns and a kid who burns down a corn field. Roadside monuments, church marquees, poppers and vodka in a plastic water bottle, the shit you get away with at Jewish summer camp, strange sentimental family heirlooms at the thrift stores. The way the South hums alive all night in the summers and into fall, the sound of high school football games, the halo effect from the lights polluting the darkness. It’s not really bright enough to see in front of you, but in that stretch of inky void — somehow — you see everything.The songs on Rat Saw God don’t recount epics, just the everyday. They’re true, they’re real life, blurry and chaotic and strange — which is in-line with Hartzman’s own ethos: “Everyone’s story is worthy,” she says, plainly. “Literally every life story is worth writing down, because people are so fascinating.”But the thing about Rat Saw God — and about any Wednesday song, really — is you don’t necessarily even need all the references to get it, the weirdly specific elation of a song that really hits. Yeah, it’s all in the details — how fucked up you got or get, how you break a heart, how you fall in love, how you make yourself and others feel seen — but it’s mostly the way those tiny moments add up into a song or album or a person. Draag inhabits the space between bliss and pain, interweaving shoegaze, electro-industrial, and punk elements within a pop ballad. Originating in Sylmar, a forgotten neighborhood in Los Angeles, Draag began when Adrian Acosta (songwriter, vocalist, guitarist) revived songs he recorded on his karaoke tape deck when he was 10 years old. After years of refining their sound, five-piece Draag gained a reputation for their sonically immersive live shows in LA, largely by word of mouth, known for transforming any range of DIY to high production stage into a wall of sound described as a storm in slow motion. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Disco Hammer + Intice + I Imagine Murder
Wednesday, October 25 // Doors at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter The Missoula Montana love child of industrial, nu metal, and EDM, Disco Hammer combines high-energy dance beats and bizarre synths with heavy guitars and barking vocals to serve as the perfect soundtrack for someone who thinks the “good ol’ days” of music were the early 2000s. The band features Jacob Sowles on vocals, Alex Wickham on bass, Tyler King on guitar, and a sassy iPad on drums and synths.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.I Imagine Murder is an American Metalcore band from Missoula, MT. They’re a powerhouse of brutal breakdowns, fierce vocals, and intense energy! Check out their newest single “New Era” on all major streaming services!For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Friday the 13th w/ The Foilies, Kürøishi, & Panic Boner
Friday, October 13 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket The Foilies are a Montana-based Speed Rock/Punk/Rock N Roll band bringing tight riffs, sick leads and an always driving bass line with a full on assault to your eardrums from a relentless machine of a drummer. They balance this by exchanging lead vocals between three people and having back gang vocals to match. The sonic attack will make you feel like you’re about to go off the rails on every song right before arriving at your abrupt destination. Kürøishi is a D-Beat Hardcore Punk & Crust band from Oulu, Finland. Panic Boner Unsemble is a free music group based out of Missoula. They’re known to be unconventional with their sound making and uncompromisingly abstract in nature and performance. They incorporate elements of free jazz, noise, and no wave and all their gigs are totally improvised. A quick taste of their vibe would be like John Zorn meets Grateful Dead and your getting close. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
ROCKTOBER VOL. 3
Saturday, October 28 // Doors at 8 PM // Music starts at 8:30 // $15 ROCKtober returns BIGGER and BETTER THAN EVER with an epic line-up of favorite local bands and musicians (like Senterline, members of Arrowleaf, The Western States and members of Shakewell, plus Rach Against the Machine!) covering, in costume, an incredible array of bands and styles including 80s Pop Hits, Nirvana, Classic Heavy Metal, 90s Pop Rock Hits and more! Believe us when we say, this is going to be way more than just a rock show. Costumes, ROCK N ROLL or otherwise, are strongly encouraged! For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Darsombra w/ Night Witch & Swamp Ritual
Thursday, September 28 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Darsombra is a trans-apocalyptic galaxy rock duo from Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Known internationally for walking the line between glam-prog-psych-stoner metal and site-specific installation performance art, their hallucinogenic live audio-visual shows are often met with the following responses: “I didn’t know what to expect, but that was awesome”, “I’ve never seen anything like that before”, and “it was like tripping on acid, without the acid.” The band has a committed DIY cottage industry ethic, self-producing their music and videos and booking their own tours globally. They bring a stadium show in a cargo van or a handful of suitcases, and have performed in 48 states and 20 countries worldwide since their inception in 2005. Nightwitch will be dropping heavy bombs like veteran anti-fascist pilots fighting Nazis when they shred searing twin-jet guitars, thunderous rhythms and piercing screams to the ZACC! Swamp Ritual is drum and bass stoner / doom metal, formed in 2010 in the Missoula mountains. With Dustin Fugere on bass and vocals, and Sid LaTray on drums and vocals. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Goochslam w/ The New Nightmare & Senterline
Saturday, August 19 // Door at 8:30 PM // Show at 9 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Goochslam is a kinky surf punk power trio that will leave you with emotional whiplash and hit you right where it matters. The New Nightmare is a hard rock band out of Missoula Montana sharing tales of living thru the new nightmare. Thrash metal / grunge / and psychedelic influences with haunting vocals and driving riffs. SenterLine is a punk trio with grunge roots. Their sound is a blend of rock, punk and funk – blended together to serve as a soundtrack to moshing and dancing. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Redbush w/ Mido Skip & DeLorean Deluxe
Tuesday, July 25 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Redbush is a New Mexico-based rock band whose performances have been hailed as energetic, exciting, and (most importantly) fun! The band plays a compelling mix of 90s influenced alternative flavors, sarcastically described by founding member and principal songwriter JD Korpitz as “a shameless Toadies rip-off band”. A closer look under the hood of this 20 year-old entity reveals far more depth beyond such a label. Redbush features big snarling guitar riffs atop winding well-composed rhythms juxtaposed with catchy melodies and carefully crafted lyrics that venture into the dark characteristic minds of all stripes: funny, caustic, and sardonic. These forlorn ne’er do wells greet most problems with a wink and an invitation to a smoke and PBR (or in this case, Montucky). From the great city of Missoula, Mido Skip started out as a simple idea, formulating into one of the biggest conspiracies to date. It is said that on a full moon you can hear the mad ravings of the nü-emo band from abandoned alleyways. Have you captured a glimpse of this enigmatic event? If you’re lucky enough, it could change how you look at yourself, and the world as you know it. DeLorean Deluxe is a brand new project bringing well crafted compositions and melodies – their upbeat progressive pop-punk sound is not to miss. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
Swamp Ritual, w/ The Gray Goo & Runecaller
Sunday, July 23 // Door at 7:30 PM // Show at 8 PM // $10 // $15 Artist Supporter Ticket Swamp Ritual’s drum and bass combo listens like a herd of mammoths: crushing, heavy, and definitely something you don’t get every day. The Gray Goo is a musical trio that hails from The Flathead Valley in Northwestern Montana. The Goo takes a unique and proggy take on the psychedelic genres, creating a fantastical journey through realms of Doom Metal, Funk, Psyche Rock, Punk, and even Bluegrass and Disco. From Fuzzed out guitar riffs to atmospheric synthy breaks, and shready bass. The Gray Goo Consumes You. Runecaller is gnarly, riff packed, blackened stoner/sludge from Great Falls. For further information, accessibility, and inquiries please visit https://www.zootownarts.org/meet-the-zacc/about/.
