8pm doors, 8:30pm music

$15 GA / $10 with student ID

https://littlevillagetickets.com/events/151213411/lia-kohl-macie-stewart

Lia Kohl is a cellist, composer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago. She creates and performs sonic landscapes utilizing cello, synthesizers, field recordings, and live radio to explore the mundane and profound possibilities of sound. She has presented work and performed at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Walker Art Center, Chicago Symphony Center, and Eckhart Park Pool. Recent releases include Untitled Radio (futile, fertile) on Longform Editions, and The Ceiling Reposes on American Dreams Records. She is the 2023/24 Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow.

Her work has been featured in Pitchfork, The Quietus, The Chicago Tribune, and Downbeat Magazine, and on NTS Radio, Kunstradio, Chirp Radio, and WNYC. Recent collaborative releases include duos with Macie Stewart (Astral Spirits), Honestly Same (Moonglyph), and ZRL (American Dreams Records).

As an improviser and collaborator, she has participated in cultural exchanges in Mexico, France, Germany, Denmark, China and the UK, and toured on four continents. An active recording artist, she has arranged strings and recorded with Makaya McCraven, Circuit des Yeux, Steve Gunn, claire rousay, and Steve Hauschildt, among others. As a sound and visual artist, she has presented gallery shows at Roman Susan Art Foundation and Experimental Sound Studios’ Audible Gallery. She has been a resident artist at ACRE, Vashon Artist Residency, High Concept Labs, dfbrl8r Performance Art Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Stanford University, and Mills College. She tours regularly with puppet theater company Manual Cinema.

Macie Stewart is a multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger, songwriter, and improviser based in Chicago, IL who Downbeat Magazine calls “a master of equilibrium.” Stewart’s instrumental work primarily includes piano, violin, voice, guitar, and synthesizers. From a very young age she found herself drawn towards music and sound; learning to communicate with music while simultaneously learning to communicate with words. As the child of a career musician (pianist Sami Scot), Stewart was encouraged to explore the piano and violin through classical training which led to teaching herself guitar and composing music for herself and others. After helping to found the Chicago bands Kids These Days and Marrow, Stewart broadened their interests and spent time in the avant-garde jazz scene, performing regularly at Chicago institutions Constellation and The Hungry Brain. It was in that scene Stewart distinguished herself as a go-to collaborator, co-founding the band Finom, (with Sima Cunningham); forming an improvised duo and longstanding artistic collaboration with cellist and sound artist, Lia Kohl (Macie Stewart & Lia Kohl); performing and improvising with Ken Vandermark’s Marker ensemble; and creating as the improvised trio, The Few (with guitar player Steve Marquette and bassist Charlie Kirchen). Stewart has toured as a multi-instrumentalist with bands such as Japanese Breakfast, The Weather Station, Chance The Rapper, Makaya McCraven, and Tweedy. Stewart has also spent years working as a string arranger, drawing on her varied background in classical, jazz, and Irish folk music to create unique arrangements for artists such as the band Whitney, SZA, V.V. Lightbody, Knox Fortune, and many others.

On September 24, 2021 Stewart released her debut solo record “Mouth Full of Glass” on Orindal Records and re-released the record on November 11, 2022 featuring two new bonus songs with UK label Full Time Hobby Records.

Macie’s longtime collaboration is the band Finom with Sima Cunningham. The band began in 2014, and since then they have released 3 full records, many singles, and a collaborative dance film entitled “Half of Us” with Hubbard Street Dance in 2021. Their most recent record, “Fantasize Your Ghost”, came out in June of 2020 on Joyful Noise Recordings. Finom premiered a work for 50 piece orchestra and dance with the Pacific Northwest Ballet titled “Before I Was” in Spring of 2022 alongside choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams.

This is going to be a great night folks! Three Iowa City bands put on a springtime folk roots and blues music showcase at the Trumpet Blossom.
-Illinois John Fever
-Cedar County Cobras
-Big Begonias

Doors at 7:30
Show at 8:00
$10 at the door

$10, all ages

8:30pm doors, 9pm music

https://bellamossmusic.net/

Please visit englert.org for tickets and more info.

https://ci.ovationtix.com/36399/performance/11421551?performanceId=11421551

$15 GA / $10 student / free with FMST season pass

Emily Rach Beisel is a Chicago-based improviser, composer, educator, curator and woodwind specialist. Beisel is known for visceral performances blending extended vocal and instrumental techniques with analogue electronics and rich bass clarinet tone. Their solo album Particle of Organs has been described as "Operatic, wild and dark. It showcases the raw, unadulterated power of the body and the instrument, weaving together sounds that are both corrosive and tender."

As a curator, Beisel seeks to increase the visibility and involvement of femme, trans and nonbinary artists in the creative music community. They founded the Pleiades Series at Elastic Arts, presenting monthly performances along with a community-based free improvisation jam for femme and nonbinary performers.

Beisel is a member of the contemporary ensemble Fonema Consort, touring most recently in Brazil, Mexico, Minneapolis and New York and premiering works of living composers including James Dillon, Richard Barrett and Julio Estrada. Beisel holds a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University and is a member of the American Federation of Musicians Local 10-208.

"Beisel's "Particle of Organs" is heavy stuff, sounds retrieved from the deeper places - the underworlds, the lightless subterranea, the crushing ocean trenches. Beisel pokes around in the sonic depths and brings leviathans out to play. It's a raw, abrasive, oppressive, and thrilling journey."
- Dave Foxall, A Jazz Noise

"Beisel's "Particle of Organs is an absolute trip that digs deep into flesh and bone, ripping through rhythmic spackle and distorted gauntlets like Beisel is performing ancient, uncharted rituals."
- Foxy Digitalis

Bill is a Chicago-based drummer and improviser working in areas of improvisation, noise, rock, and country. His work has been presented nationally and internationally at performance series, festivals, clubs, and art installations such as Elastic Arts, Constellation, Experimental Sound Studios, The Empty Bottle, The Hideout, Evanston Space, Beat Kitchen, Spot Tavern, Lincoln Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, and The Chicago Museum Of Contemporary Art.

Some of his primary groups and projects are:
Je'raf, a psychadelic funk/free jazz/hip-hop group from the future.
KAH, an improvising trio with Jeff Kimmel and Ishmael Ali.
Hearsay, with Allen Moore and Ishmael Ali.
Joybird, with Jess McIntosh and Aaron Smith
Errata, with Ishmael Ali and Eli Namay.

Additionally, Bill focuses on solo work incorporating non-idiomatic acoustic and electronic material, using feedback and timbral manipulation. He has recorded two solo records, Blinking Glue, and ONOMAT.

Some of his most frequent collaborators include Ishmael Ali, Jake Wark, Carol Genetti, Emily Beisel, Allen Moore, Timothee Quost, Dave Rempis, Jess McIntosh, Jim Baker, PT Bell, Gerrit Hatcher, Eli Namay, Peter Maunu, Matt Piet, Brianna Tong, Wills McKenna, David Fletcher, Aaron Smith, Jeff Kimmel, Molly Jones, and Keefe Jackson.

In 2015 he started Amalgam, a 100% artist-run collective and label dedicated to showcasing works of improvised and experimental music in Chicago and elsewhere, with a bi-monthly series at Cafe Mustache. Bill is also an audio engineer working in both studio and live contexts, and operates an independent studio in Chicago with engineering, mixing, mastering, and production credits on labels such as Amalgam, Astral Spirits, No Index, 577 Records and Ears&Eyes. In 2020 he started and co-operates a recording studio called Marmalade.

"Bill Harris builds a thumping, peg-legged groove a beat at a time, and then trips up his own cadence with random cowbell offbeats."
- Bill Meyer, The Wire

"Harris...[maintains] a firm pulse while jabbing his partners with sputtering lines that suggest he could keep time even as he and his kit tumbled down a flight of stairs."
- Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

9pm $10 all ages

https://xxgoodmorningmidnight.bandcamp.com/

https://dizzybridges.bandcamp.com/

$15 GA / $10 student / free with FMWT pass

A “Vibrating Voice to Shake the Soul”-NPR

Josephine Foster is a Colorado singer-songwriter and composer whose “music plays games with our ideas of time and space” says The Guardian. The Nashville Scene describes her work a”fusion of art song and American folk music” and the former opera student is “known to breathe new life into archaic forms, embodying the cultural archaeology of Harry Smith’s old weird America, and has lent her characteristic warbling mezzo-soprano and interpretive wit to over two decades of recordings” writes Blank Forms.

Josephine has released some twenty albums, each a sui generes song cycle drawn from her own singular songbook, performed solo or leading various ensembles (occasionally under band guises: Mendrugo, the Supposed, Born Heller.)  Peripheral but not insignificant are her unorthodox arrangements of 19th century German Lieder, the folkloric collection of Lorca, or her musical settings of Dickinson and other poets. Foster is a poet herself, as well as visual artist.

On stage or in recording she collaborates with free players from folk and avant-garde, such as Michael Hurley, Keiji Heino, Gyða Valtýsdóttir, Sonny Simmons, Paz Lenchantin, The Cherry Blossoms, Victor Herrero, Jason Ajemian, The Master Musicians of Joujouka, Daniel Blumberg, Shahzad Ismaily, Heather Trost, Chris Scruggs, Lorena Alvarez, Moon Bros, Alex Neilson, Ed Askew, Susan Alcorn, Michael Zerang, Lori Goldston, Brian Goodman, Eric Chenaux, Louis Landes Levi, David Pajo, Alasdair Roberts, Victoria Williams, Hamza el Fasiki, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Les Fils du Détroit, Kath Bloom, and Zoh Amba.

A nomadic spirit living between the US and Spain Josephine performs at venues such as Cafe Oto, Zebulon, MoMA PS1, Constellation, Issue Project Room, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Tangier American Legation Museum, Paradiso, Tonic, Arkaoda, Chicago Cultural Center, Les Instants Chavirés, Beirut Art Center, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, EMPAC, Trans-Pecos, Barbican, Monasterio de Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Troubadour, Andy Warhol Museum, ZDB, Palazzo Biscari, Trinosophes,ODA, Musée national Eugène Delacroix, Brown’s Diner.

Some past festival appearances include Big Ears, Le Guess Who?, London Contemporary Music Festival, Donau, ArthurFest, Liverpool Biennal, ATP, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Etcetera, KRAAK, Million Tongues, Counterflows, Stockholm New Music Festival, Suoni per il Populi, Incubate, Green Man, Platform, Serralves, Mimi.

On her latest solo offering Domestic Sphere, Josephine performs solely with her electric guitar and then subverts the usual range of her voice to embody other frequencies and sounds beyond the surface layer of the songs .

Godmother (Fire) and Spellbinder (Takuroku) are two recent solo records that brought front and center for the first time Josephine’s own synth arrangements.  Mystery Meet and What is it that ever was? , collections of improvised song experiments released as CD-R’s in 2006, are now available in their first vinyl pressings on Feeding Tube records.

"Tekla Peterson is the new pop-oriented solo project helmed by Wisconsin's Taralie Peterson. Peterson has been a member of Spires That In the Sunset Rise since their founding in 2001. Most recently a duo with Ka Baird, Spires has a sound that began deeply rooted in underground folk music, but evolved into a much more overtly jazzoid space. We released their 2017 collaboration LP with Chicago percussionist Michael Zerang, Illinois Glossalia (FTR 285LP). But Peterson has always had solo projects going. First she had Tar Pet, an exceedingly fine exploration of so-called wyrd folk. Later there was more avant/jazz-oriented, Louise Bock, with whom we did a 2017 solo LP, Repetitives in Illocality (FTR 374LP) and 2021's All Summer Long Is Gone (FTR 382LP) -- a duo album with string wizard, Pat 'PG Six' Gubler.

More recently we have been introduced to a 'pop' persona, Tekla Peterson, who debuted with a 2022 cassette called Heart Press. Heart Press was created in reaction to the end of a long personal relationship, and is a cool, uneasy pairing of contempo-pop readymades and lyrics questioning some foundational aspects of romance. Mine to Give is Tekla's similarly-styled, though constantly evolving, sophomore effort. Assisted by Rob Jacobs on bass and beats, Peterson's vocals, keys, bass and sax are up front at all times, and do a massively fine job defining a musical/emotional space that is simultaneously pop-oriented and avant-garde. The songs and arrangements often have a surface feel akin to something you'd hear on commercial radio, but there are lots of strange experimental textures and techniques that enliven, enrich and transform the material into something that is transcendently 'other.'

Parts sound a bit like what I imagine Taylor Swift has going. Inside those walls you'll hear echoes of acid folk, avant-jazz and post-industrial compositions, but only if you pay careful attention. As with other female artists who began their journey in the sub-underground and kept going (Natalie Mering's Weyes Blood, Meg Remy's U.S. Girls), Peterson creates deeply coded music with enough surface sheen to keep slow pokes from ever perceiving what's going on in the depths. The spelunker's pay-off. Great stuff." --Byron Coley, 2024

$10 all ages

Lo-fi Americana/psych outfit King Ropes evoke the striking and expansive landscapes of their native Montana, offering up a homebrew of caustic folk yarns and chunky garage rockers. The band deftly balances thrilling guitar riffs with more nuanced arrangements that crawl under your skin and take up permanent residence. Feedback roars with an unexpected ferocity across these tracks, jolting tempos into the upper atmospheres.
With their new single, “Halfway Did”, the band lopes through a selection of roughhewn rock territories, with Hollier’s compelling voice channeling the odd angles of Lou Reed and Bob Mould. The guitars are prickly and aggrieved as the drums batter away at your senses.

— Joshua Pickard, Beats Per Minute

https://kingropesband.com/

Bella Moss is an up-and-coming artist from Dubuque, Iowa, with a pure, mellow voice that has the power to captivate an audience. Gathering inspiration from artists like Robin Pecknold and Devonte Hynes, Bella found her love of music at a young age. Her heartfelt folk style is clear and transcends genres. She began learning guitar off YouTube and has evolved to play the banjo, mandolin, bass guitar, violin, and harp. Starting at age 16, Bella started performing at open mic nights around Dubuque. She has since opened for artists such as Johanna Warren, who was named Rolling Stone’s “artist you need to know.” She also has worked with Grammy Award Winning Audio Engineer Michael Cogdon. Bella’s debut album "Midwestern Daydreams," is on all streaming platforms.

https://bellamossmusic.net/

$15 GA / $10 student / free with FMWT season pass

Dorothy Carlos is an experimental cellist and electronic musician working in improvised performance and multi-channel sound in New York City and Chicago. Her work utilizes randomized electronics and extended techniques to explore fragility and imaginaries.

Recent solo performances have been presented internationally by e-flux, Experimental Sound Studio Chicago, Big Ears Festival, default, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Dorothy has been featured as an artist and collaborator in projects presented at the Swiss Institute (New York), Night Gallery (Los Angeles), Artists Space (New York), Performance Space (New York), Untitled Art Fair (Miami), Gaudeamus Festival (Utrecht, NL) and the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been featured in Artforum, The Wire, The Quietus, and the Chicago Reader.

Last year, Dorothy released an album on the Chicago-based label American Dreams in collaboration with artist, Brian Oakes. Other recent collaborators include Catalina Ouyang, mayfield brooks, Poncili Creacion, and Shala Miller. Dorothy holds a Bachelor’s degree from NYU where she studied classical cello and anthropology on full scholarship, and an MFA in sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the current Alba Artist in Residence at Experimental Sound Studio Chicago.

Daniel Wyche is a Chicago-based guitarist, composer and improviser. Working with a wide range of physical preparations, extended techniques, and pedal instruments, his solo recorded work and live performances are characterized by long-form structured improvisations. Recently, this approach has become increasingly integrated with the exploration of multi-channel performance and the spatialization of sound, including new compositions for quad- and 16-channel guitar.

Daniel's 2016 record "Our Severed Sleep" (with Ryan Packard) was called “a blowout to wake the dead” by the Wire, “reverent music,” by Decoder, and “an infinite swansong of bliss” by Tiny Mix Tapes.

Along with his solo work, Daniel is highly active in the improvised and experimental communities in Chicago and beyond, including a number of ongoing collaborations. The 2017 self-titled release by the trio of Wyche, Ben Baker Billington (Tiger Hatchery, ONO, ADT), and Mark Shippy (US Maple, Invisible Things) on Astral Spirits was referred to as "flat-out exhilarating improvised mania" by Marc Masters. Both the trio’s Astral Spirits debut and follow-up on No Index were praised by Byron Coley in the Wire. In 2020, he released a live trio record with LA-based improvisors Patrick Shiroishi and Ted Byrnes on Astral Editions, and new music with Lake Mary is forthcoming, among other projects in process.  

Daniel’s work as curator and producer with the Elastic Arts Foundation in Chicago since 2013 has been described as “crucial” by Dusted and “vital” by the Chicago Reader. In March of 2020, Daniel co-founded The Quarantine Concerts in collaboration with Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio. The series has been widely praised as a model for online/streaming live music, and has raised around $100,000 which has gone directly to artists and performers who have lost income during the pandemic. A documentary short on the series, by director Brian Ashby, can be seen online at The Wire.

https://www.joelsires.com/

Music has held great importance to Joel his entire life. His exposure to playing music began early. Guitar circles and singalongs were not uncommon at family gatherings.

He has distinct memories of the soundtrack he curated for some of life's most defining moments - like a first crush. With a Walkman in hand, he reserved a certain song for a special girl, waiting to press play until she walked through the classroom door. DJing school dances was something he became skilled at quickly because he recognized at a young age the connection music had to creating a mood and defining experiences for people.

https://www.jordansellergren.com/

$15 GA / $10 student / Free with FMWT season pass

Tickets available at https://www.feedmeweird.com/

US citizen and permanent Swiss-resident since 2016, Steve Fors is a composer/performer of intra-genre experimental music. He’s explored drone, noise, experimental ambient, and neo-classical genres, performing in Chicago’s and New York’s experimental underground music scene since 2004. He’s released eight solo and collaborative project albums in the past 15 years as Aeronaut, Shovels Beat The Sun, and The Golden Sores. His current project’s debut album, it’s nothing, but still—produced by Siavash Amini and released on the Swiss-based Hallow Ground imprint last year—garnered critical acclaim despite its limited physical release.

Fors continues to explore the physicality of sound through layered cello, guitar, voice, processed tape loops, field recordings, and electronics. Building on the work of such luminaries as Tim Hecker, Lawrence English, and Rafael Anton Irisarri, his approach to sonic maximalism brings with it both a wistful melancholy and raw power. Of late, he’s been exploring microtonality and multi-channel composition/performance; reinforcing his interest in a heightened sensorial approach.

Fors has a Master’s degree in Installation/Sculpture from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Printmaking from Grinnell College. Recent works include a 60-minute sound installation Manufactured Obsolescence, at Tokyo’s √K Contemporary gallery, and several Zürich performances. He will tour Japan in late 2023
and the US in early 2024.

“Fors...weaves in dense layers of electronic and acoustic sound that build in
intensity and complexity. Lush with both beauty and darkness, it is nuanced
and fascinating. [It] comes together as a perfectly unified piece of music...
the pairing of bleak and hopeful is perfect.”
—Creaig Dunton, Brainwashed

“Sometimes, something catches me out of nowhere like a silk thread on
a jagged edge, and the more I try to cut it loose, the more tangled it
becomes. It’s a testament to the richness and depth in Fors’ music...and the
vulnerable connective tissue holding it all together sets it apart.”
—Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis

Haunter is k. Arthur Miller from Iowa City who creates guitar based drone/noise.

"Miller draws so many different tones and textures from his guitar. Despite the shifting sonic palettes, he keeps a consistent mood. Miller plucks around on a series of notes as guitars trade escalating and receding wails, rise and fall together, then finally soar off to nearly ear-piercing heights... new sounds drip, melt and bleed from the stratospheric wails, filling in the middle and bass registers. The rest of the piece sounds like an orchestra doing warm ups as it slowly carves a new path through a mountain range.”

-Little Village

8:30pm doors, 9pm music

$10, all ages

kitchen is open until 9pm, bar is open for the show

Indie folk musician Anna p.s. conveys a sense of weariness throughout her simple but resonant songs, but it’s a weariness that keeps a blanket of hope tucked up under its chin, even as the rain keeps falling outside the windows. Grace always lurks around the corner on tunes that layer delicate vulnerability over the hearty stock of this songwriter’s spirit. With technical acumen acquired during an early career as an audio engineer and a humble but confident stage presence groomed as a founding member of indie roots rock band Shiny Shiny Black, Anna stepped out as a solo musician in 2014. She’s been on the road intermittently ever since, and her debut LP Umbrella released in July 2016, showcasing her signature sonic blend of melancholy, hope, and resilience.

https://annapsmusic.com/

Bella Moss is an up-and-coming artist from Dubuque, Iowa, with a pure, mellow voice that has the power to captivate an audience. Gathering inspiration from artists like Robin Pecknold and Devonte Hynes, Bella found her love of music at a young age. Her heartfelt folk style is clear and transcends genres. She began learning guitar off YouTube and has evolved to play the banjo, mandolin, bass guitar, violin, and harp. Starting at age 16, Bella started performing at open mic nights around Dubuque. She has since opened for artists such as Johanna Warren, who was named Rolling Stone’s “artist you need to know.” She also has worked with Grammy Award Winning Audio Engineer Michael Cogdon. Bella’s debut album "Midwestern Daydreams," is on all streaming platforms.

https://bellamossmusic.net/

doors at 8:30, music at 9pm

$15, all ages

kitchen is open until 9pm, bar is open for the show

Three fruity indie icons, one stage. Come join us for an epic reunion show!!

mars hojilla is the freshly sprung solo project and pop-rock alter ego of Iowa City-based singer/songwriter Myles Evangelista (he/they). Born to two kickass Filipino immigrants in Peoria, Illinois, Myles’s first musical love was the household’s MAGIC SING Karaoke Machine, which fostered in him a love of classic pop and rock by scoring him highly on Queen, ABBA, and Elton John songs. He further pursued his passion for music with classical piano, French Horn, electric bass, and acoustic guitar performance, and eventually, songwriting. Myles overlays his pop- and emo-inspired music with lyrics that explore every corner of human emotion and dive deep into his perspective on love, heartbreak, and growing pains in the transgender experience. “mars hojilla” is so named firstly for his mother, who gave him her maiden name as a middle name, and secondly for the cashier at the I-80 Arby’s, who misheard his actual first name for a planet.

emily the band is a three-piece queer girl group based in Peoria, Illinois. Emily Antonacci, Camryn Proctor, and Abbey Haste began to share their indie alt-pop anthems with audiences in the Peoria area in April 2021. Since then, they have expanded their reach to Chicago, St. Louis, Iowa City, and Nashville. Their highly-anticipated, independently-produced debut album, the heartbreak album (2022), has been described as a "hooky pop-gem" (Jon Norton, WGLT).

Early Girl is bringing queer aesthetics back to pop rock. Based in Iowa City, their songs range from dreamy ballads to punk shredders.

$15 GA / $10 Student / FMWT24 passholder

Chuck Johnson is a California-based composer, producer, and musician. He approaches his work with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that might reveal latent beauty, with a focus on pedal steel guitar, experimental electronics, alternate tuning systems, and composing for film and television. Recordings of his work have been published by VDSQ, Thrill Jockey, Temporary Residence, Kompakt, Ghostly, and Three Lobed, among others.

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Cole Pulice (they/them) is a saxophonist and composer living in Oakland, California. Performing primarily as a solo saxophonist, Cole’s music blends the saxophone with electroacoustic signal processing, contemplative improvisation, and playful experimentalism to create vast and surreal sonic landscapes that mutate and expand the sonic language of the saxophone. Cole’s music and artistic practice is often attuned to exploring, uncovering, and working through alternative conceptions and sensations of time, gender, dream, and memory.

Cole’s most recent solo work, a 22-minute electroacoustic piece titled If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You In the Pasture (Longform Editions, 2023), was named “Best New Music” by Pitchfork and landed at #25 of Pitchfork’s “Best 100 Songs of 2023” year-end list.

$10, all ages

doors at 8:30, music at 9

https://wavecage.bandcamp.com/

https://linktr.ee/wavecageband?fbclid=IwAR0pS5lvn3s60uOgpka_48q_krphdFjG3rgTDO5hyLO5PJumMpTXUz8k174

https://jacklion.bandcamp.com/track/fillmore

8:30 doors, 9pm music

$10

all ages

https://dreamthiefia.bandcamp.com/

https://tvcop.bandcamp.com/

https://thebandbouquet.bandcamp.com/

$15 GA / $10 Student

ALEX CUNNINGHAM

Alex Cunningham is a violinist, improviser, and visual artist based in St. Louis, MO. His recorded output spans free improvisation, drone, noise, and minimalist composition. Cunningham has recorded with Lisa Cameron, Damon Smith, claire rousay, Chris Trull (under the Apathist! moniker), and Mark Shippy (U.S. Maple). Past collaborations include the groups Vernacular String Trio, Hess/Cunningham Duo, and Hardbody. Cunningham has released music on Close/Far Recordings, Personal Archives, Already Dead Tapes and Records, Fort Evil Fruit, Working Man Lay Down, and Astral Spirits.

LISA CAMERON

Austin-based percussionist and multi-instrumentalist, Lisa Cameron, is well-respected in the noise and free-improv scenes, and has played with everyone from Brave Combo (Cameron was a member of the original late ‘70’s lineup) to Roky Erickson, Jandek, and members of Faust and Guru Guru, and she has opened for many others, such as Psychic TV and various incarnations of Hawkwind, plus the bands growing out of the Hawkwind diaspora. She has also been a member of such seminal groups as ST 37, Glass Eye, Three Day Stubble, and other Texas cult-acts.

Cameron’s approaches to creating noise/drone on her percussion instruments are rooted in the extremes of the original psychedelic era and influenced by Velvet Underground’s White Light White Heat (which she bought as a child in Winfield, Kansas, and says changed her life).

Ongoing collaborators include Sandy Ewen, Raquel Bell, Claire Rousay, and a trio with Alex Cunningham and Damon Smith. She also currently plays with the Texas groups ST 37 as well as Suspirians.

David Hurlin received his BFA in photography and tabla (hand drums of the Hindustani classical music tradition) and his MA in studio art from Maharishi International University (MIU), including time abroad in India studying with tabla master Anup Ghosh. His photography took him around the United States photographing his favorite poets (James Tate, Charles Wright, Cole Swenson and others) which informed his own writing.  His first book of poems Zero Gravity Funk Libido was released in 2019 by Blue Light Press in San Francisco. In addition to writing, Hurlin has extensive experience as a drummer and percussionist playing for Apocalypso Tantric Noise Choir, Soulmath, Annalibera, Dana T, Elizabeth Moen and most recently with Mike Dillon Band and Nolatet. 

Currently he is working at the intersection of sound art, sculpture, installation and performance, pursuing instrument building, movement and sound-based performances, and the construction of sculptural sonic networks, vehicles, chime clouds, wearables, non-traditional music scores and collaborations that investigate the exploration of tuning and objecthood, allowing for a wild freedom of rhythmic expression that smashes conventional time keeping and grid-based thinking, to partially outsource musical authorship to chance and elements beyond control, interfacing with fluctuating parameters in real time improvisation to broaden the scope of materials and expression into what John Cage calls the “all sounds music of the future.” 

Recent works include performances at Joey Fauerso's exhibition, Inside the Spider's Body, at Bemis Center in Omaha, Sound is a Body Held, a sound and movement collaboration with Tony Orrico at Signs & Symbols Gallery in New York City, as a percussionist in the Nakatani Gong Orchestra at the Englert Theater in Iowa City, in addition to local performances at Hancher, PS1, Feed Me Weird Things Iowa City at Trumpet Blossom, Gabe's, Parking Spaces Project, Climate Fest, Sculpture & Intermedia Open House and the Visual Arts Building in Iowa City.  

Hurlin lives in Iowa City with his family and is an MFA candidate in Sculpture & Intermedia at the University of Iowa.

A night of Christmas sax, stories, and projections from our friend Peter Balestrieri.

Join us for dinner and stay for the free show.

https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=301933&article_id=2481682&view=articleBrowser

Come see two great bands for a pre-Thanksgiving celebration of epic contrasts!

Sleepersound
https://www.sleepersound.com/
https://sleepersound.bandcamp.com/

"...pays homage to a slower, sadder slice of '90s indie rock near and dear to my heart (Low, Codeine) while opening vistas with a GY!BE-y vibe. Even so, it's hard to pull off that era without total mimicry, but Sleepersound's cooing dual vocals and dramatic sense of space keep everything moving..." Vikings Choice

Moscow Puzzles
http://instagram.com/moscowpuzzles/
https://moscowpuzzles.bandcamp.com

Loose, raw, and organic post-rock from the coral prairies of Iowa. In a genre known for the big cinematic climax, Moscow Puzzles opt for loose structures with plenty of room for improvisation. Big highs and lows come around naturally, and the band leans into the straightforward 'less is more' appeal of a power duo.

Simon Joyner is a singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska. He's been flying under the radar since 1991, releasing music on various independent labels including: Team Love, Jagjaguwar, Sing Eunuchs!, Catsup Plate, One-Hour, Shrimper, Brinkman, Secretly Canadian, and Unread. He is also the co-founder of Grapefruit Records (grapefruitrecordclub.com) and an occasional producer of other people's albums.

https://simonjoyner.bandcamp.com/

Sam Locke Ward is a home taper and comic book zine maker from Iowa. And don’t tell him I told you this but he’s also a genius :)

https://samuellockeward.bandcamp.com/

Sean Tyler is a rock and roll artist from the Midwestern, United States. He just released his newest album, Nor There

https://seantyler.bandcamp.com/

All ages diverse Monday night punk show @ Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City featuring,
𝙁𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙩 𝙇𝙤𝙊𝙤𝙥𝙨 ( 𝙊𝙃 ) • grinding Cincy Post Punk/no wave noise ensemble on tour from Ohio —>
https://fruitlooops.bandcamp.com/.../last-chance-at-the...
𝙎𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙁𝙈 ( 𝙄𝙇 ) • electro punk motivational dance machine from Chicago —-> https://sweatfm.bandcamp.com/album/you-are-made-of-fists
𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙃𝙤𝙟𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖 ( 𝙄𝘼 ) Iowa City Emo —-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2iihmHphu4...

DOORS @ 8Pm - $10 COVER - 3 BANDS !!!

$10 all ages

https://www.nevadanevadaband.com/

https://pyrrhicvictories.bandcamp.com/

https://xxgoodmorningmidnight.bandcamp.com/

$15 / $10 students / $5 FEaST passholders

9pm

https://matthewjrolin.bandcamp.com/album/passing

https://erikwhittaker.bandcamp.com/

Stories in Song Tour 2023 comes to Trumpet Blossom Cafe in IOWA CITY!

Doors: 8:15pm
Music: 9:15pm
Tickets: $15 at the door

An evening of fine-crafted songwriting and storytelling by some of Iowa's hardest working singer-songwriters.

FEATURING...
Joel Sires & his Street Companions (Cedar Falls)
River Glen w/ Dan Padley (Dubuque/Iowa City)
Abbie Sawyer (Des Moines).

JOEL SIRES & HIS STREET COMPANIONS:
Joel Sires never gives up, even when he probably should. A goofy, good natured blockhead, Sires is equivalent to Charlie Brown, had he played guitar instead of baseball. Putting his own twist on the tried and true folk formula and emerging a delightful and engaging left of center singer songwriter.

Having performed on renowned stages coast to coast including SXSW in Austin, Texas, and the iconic CBGBs in New York, Sires has established himself as a commanding live performer, connecting with audiences through heartfelt, funny and funky performances.

Over the years he has garnered attention from publications such as Paste and Spin Magazine. Combining elements of nostalgia with a touch of humor, his songs tug at the heartstrings while simultaneously shooting the listener a playful wink. https://www.joelsires.com/

RIVER GLEN W/ DAN PADLEY:
River’s songwriting strikes a delicate balance of pop-appeal and lyrical substance. From wonderings about love, family, and belonging, to the celebration of death and loss as a natural part of life, River critiques modern pop-culture through the lens of familiar, traditional folk themes. Always with tasty grooves and clever rhymes. He holds audiences with a comfortable confidence as he shares his original music, playfully blending elements of folk, pop, and rock. Every performance is an opportunity to showcase his proficiency in guitar, violin, and mandolin, alongside powerhouse vocals. www.riverglenmusic.com

ABBIE SAWYER:
Abbie Sawyer is a Des Moines-based singer-songwriter who embraces listeners with mesmerizing warmth and optimism, heartfelt delivery and soul-stirring lyrics. Her latest solo album, “Love is a Flood,” illuminates her experiences of motherhood, including postpartum anxiety and depression, joy and healing. https://www.abbiesawyer.com/

https://littlevillagetickets.com/events/143785054/bcmc-bill-mackay-cooper-crain

Moments of eternity: the first plucks at the strings, a bass note cementing the drift into place a little more than a minute in. The organ drones, iterating unliveable ancient history, a chiming note of the church. Guitar strings, climbing that stairway to heaven. Gossamer-light when viewed from a distance; up close, the gears grind with a visceral physicality.

With BCMC, Cooper Crain (Bitchin Bajas, CAVE) and Bill MacKay unite to create Foreign Smokes: provocalogues, equal parts avant-garde noir and fire-and-icy jams to recall bright shades and warm stretches of infinity drawn through the buzzy overdrive of this side of life’s strange and sunny days.

Cooper’s organ and synths and Bill’s guitar draw songs from spontaneous statements and elegiac scraps, floating closer, then farther, and closer again to the sounds of the other. Starting with a melody, a set of progressions or even as little as a scale or just a key, gives room for either one of ‘em to spread out and take the lead.

The first revelation from Foreign Smokes, “The Swarm”, commences with one single moment. A moment of dawn. A simple organ voicing that inspires the guitar to sound of the high desert, alters underneath the open sky. These lines, set forth gently like first steps on a new planet, echo through time and space, inspiring the organ to sail forth with a serene lick.

As BCMC beam through the universe, their light intersects with yours, creating a new arc. Every turntable they spin upon becomes a new prismatic stream; every bud blooming in ears across the known plane, another voicing. Every resonance, every redolence — hushed and encompassing, prayerful yet omniscient, intimate and universal.

𝙽𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝙱𝚘𝚢𝚜 (Kansas City) stomp thru Iowa City on their Fall 2023 tour performing spot-on '77 punk for the IC rock and roll students! * https://natureboyskc.bandcamp.com/album/nature-boys-3-lp
Local support from the garage gods 𝙶𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝙷𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚜 https://goodhabits.bandcamp.com/album/full-groan-2 & prog-yacht rockers 𝙻𝚘𝚞 𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚢 celebrating their fantastic debut full length out now ! —
https://dentalrecordsic.bandcamp.com/.../lou-sherry-more...

TENGGER
birdlabs
Monday October 9th
$20 GA // $15 Student // free with fwmt 2024 pass

https://littlevillagetickets.com/events/139553321/tengger

TENGGER is a traveling musical family, made up of Pan-Asian couple, itta and Marqido, who create their brand of psychedelic New-Age drone magic through the use of harmonium, voice, and toy instruments (played by itta) and analogue synths (played by Marqido). The duo originally started out with the moniker “10” but since the birth of their son RAAI (who joins them on tour and often on stage) in 2012, have called themselves TENGGER (meaning ‘unlimited expanse of sky’ in Mongolian) to mark the expansion of the family. It also means ‘huge sea’ in Hungarian. Travel, as spiritual experience in real environments, and the sound between the space and the audience have been central themes of their works. The family’s yearly pilgrimages inform every aspect of their art.

Iowa City’s birdlabs (Izaak Thompson) sonically weaves together synthesized textures and found sounds using synthesizers, drum machines, and tape loops, to create an eclectic and unpredictable aural tangle that provokes delight, movement, nostalgia, and a bittersweet reverence for the inseparable and often overlooked bond between nature and man’s inventions.

Presented by Feed Me Weird Things

9pm all ages

$25 / $20 with student ID

https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/baba-commandant-and-the-mandingo-band-sonbonbela

https://samuellockeward.bandcamp.com/

Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a contemporary group from Burkina Faso. Coming from Bobo-Dioulasso, the group is steeped in the Mandingue musical traditions of their ancestral legacy. The enigmatic lead singer Baba Commandant (Mamadou Sanou) is an original and eccentric character who is well respected in the Burkinabé musical community. A sort of punk Faso Dan Fani activist for traditional Mandingo music, Baba continues to redefine the boundaries between traditional and modern. In 1981, he joined the Koule Dafourou troupe as a dancer. Later, he embarked on his current musical direction as a singer first in Dounia and then in the Afromandingo Band.

His current band — when he’s not playing with the now-famous Burkinabé musician Victor Démé — is the Mandingo Band. At present, he is a practitioner of the Afrobeat style, drawing inspiration from the golden era of Nigerian music. Fela Kuti/Africa 70 and King Sunny Adé are big influences, as is the legendary Malian growler Moussa Doumbia.

Baba Commandant plays the ngoni, the instrument of the Donso (the traditional hunters in this region of Burkina Faso and Mali). His audience comprises multiple generations and strata of Burkinabé society; he accordingly adapts his repertoire to his surroundings, which range from cabaret Sundays in Bobo-Dioulasso to the sound systems of Ouagadougou. Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band are a formidable force steeped in Ouagadougou’s DIY underground musical culture.