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HOURS
wednesday 5pm-12am
thursday 5pm-12am
friday 5pm-12am
saturday 10am-12am
sunday 10am-10pm
CLOSED MONDAY+TUESDAY
wednesday 5pm-12am
thursday 5pm-12am
friday 5pm-12am
saturday 10am-12am
sunday 10am-10pm
CLOSED MONDAY+TUESDAY
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* masks are highly encouraged when attending shows with touring artists
* max capacity of 60 for all indoor events
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CURRENT EXHIBITON: LITTLE THEATERS, WORKS BY LES BELL
Little Theaters, works by Les Bell
oil on canvas
exhibition will be up until May 29
Leslie Bell was born in 1947 in Washington D.C. and came to the Midwest in 1965 to study art with Father Edward Catich, the world-renowned calligrapher, epigrapher and graphic designer, at St. Ambrose University. He received his BA in art in 1972. His MA and MFA in painting are from Northern Illinois University, where he studied with Walter Ball and Richard Beard. His artwork has been displayed in one-person shows at many universities and galleries from coast to coast and has been represented in galleries in Chicago, Atlanta, Tampa, Des Moines and the Quad Cities.
Bell’s work has been figurative for 15 years and tells stories of love, education, longing and nature. Jerry Cullum, editor of Art Paper and critic for Art in America has said, “His recent paintings are a rare combination of vision, skill and wit.” “The stories are enacted in brilliantly composed landscapes amid stunning effects of light.” “Bell’s imagination has created not just magical realism, but real magic.”
His awards include a fellowship in painting from Arts Midwest/NEA, the Special Recognition Award, best in painting, from the Des Moines Art Center in their Iowa Artists show, two first prize and purchase awards from the Davenport Museum of Art, and grants from the Iowa Arts Council and Quad City Arts.
Bell is a founding member of Open Cities Film Society, the Photo Image League and Riverssance Festival of Fine Arts and served as the initial chair of the Artist’s Advisory Council to the Figge Art Museum. He is Professor Emeritus of Art at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa where he lives with his wife, Sara, who is also a painter.
oil on canvas
exhibition will be up until May 29
Leslie Bell was born in 1947 in Washington D.C. and came to the Midwest in 1965 to study art with Father Edward Catich, the world-renowned calligrapher, epigrapher and graphic designer, at St. Ambrose University. He received his BA in art in 1972. His MA and MFA in painting are from Northern Illinois University, where he studied with Walter Ball and Richard Beard. His artwork has been displayed in one-person shows at many universities and galleries from coast to coast and has been represented in galleries in Chicago, Atlanta, Tampa, Des Moines and the Quad Cities.
Bell’s work has been figurative for 15 years and tells stories of love, education, longing and nature. Jerry Cullum, editor of Art Paper and critic for Art in America has said, “His recent paintings are a rare combination of vision, skill and wit.” “The stories are enacted in brilliantly composed landscapes amid stunning effects of light.” “Bell’s imagination has created not just magical realism, but real magic.”
His awards include a fellowship in painting from Arts Midwest/NEA, the Special Recognition Award, best in painting, from the Des Moines Art Center in their Iowa Artists show, two first prize and purchase awards from the Davenport Museum of Art, and grants from the Iowa Arts Council and Quad City Arts.
Bell is a founding member of Open Cities Film Society, the Photo Image League and Riverssance Festival of Fine Arts and served as the initial chair of the Artist’s Advisory Council to the Figge Art Museum. He is Professor Emeritus of Art at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa where he lives with his wife, Sara, who is also a painter.
thursday 19 may
MAURICE LOUCA (Egypt)
MAURICE LOUCA (Egypt)
MAURICE LOUCA (Egypt)
https://mauricelouca.bandcamp.com/
Maurice Louca’s new album Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour), released via Sub Rosa and Northern Spy, draws voraciously on Arabic music, psychedelic folk, and free improv and the lead single “Bidayat (Holocene)” mesmerises with a feral groove centered around percussion, guitar and violin. The title Saet el Hazz is a coded saying in Egypt to refer to a good time and usually implies a great deal of debauchery. “When you mention to someone that you’ve had a saet hazz, there are no questions asked. It is what it is.”
Louca is a pivotal figure on Cairo’s experimental music scene, guitarist Maurice Louca is nonetheless more commonly seen performing outside Egypt. Working with bands such as Lekhfa, Orchestra Omar, Alif, Bikya and the Dwarfs of East Agouza, his work encompasses exploratory electronica, psychedelic dub, avant jazz and Egyptian shaabi.
opening act:
CROATIANS
https://croatians.bandcamp.com/album/moon-shakingly-wanes
$15 ADV / $20 DOS - *ON SALE NOW*
free drink with online ticket purchase
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
https://mauricelouca.bandcamp.com/
Maurice Louca’s new album Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour), released via Sub Rosa and Northern Spy, draws voraciously on Arabic music, psychedelic folk, and free improv and the lead single “Bidayat (Holocene)” mesmerises with a feral groove centered around percussion, guitar and violin. The title Saet el Hazz is a coded saying in Egypt to refer to a good time and usually implies a great deal of debauchery. “When you mention to someone that you’ve had a saet hazz, there are no questions asked. It is what it is.”
Louca is a pivotal figure on Cairo’s experimental music scene, guitarist Maurice Louca is nonetheless more commonly seen performing outside Egypt. Working with bands such as Lekhfa, Orchestra Omar, Alif, Bikya and the Dwarfs of East Agouza, his work encompasses exploratory electronica, psychedelic dub, avant jazz and Egyptian shaabi.
opening act:
CROATIANS
https://croatians.bandcamp.com/album/moon-shakingly-wanes
$15 ADV / $20 DOS - *ON SALE NOW*
free drink with online ticket purchase
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
friday 20 may
AMATEUR SELECTORS: SOUND OF THUNDER w/ ZEB BROOKS
AMATEUR SELECTORS: SOUND OF THUNDER w/ ZEB BROOKS
AMATEUR SELECTORS is our new weekly all vinyl deejay series taking the place of FRESH WAX. this series is a nod to a small bar in Düsseldorf called Salon Des Amateurs - a space we admire for breaking the rules of what a "club" should be, and what kinds of music a deejay should spin. We feel like ROZZ-TOX follows a similar ethos, and we want to cultivate this mentality in Rock Island by not subscribing to any rules of what a venue/ club/ bar should be, but rather do what feels good and right.
SOUND OF THUNDER w/ ZEB BROOKS
[roots reggae] [dub]
8pm - 12am
free, all ages
check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
SOUND OF THUNDER w/ ZEB BROOKS
[roots reggae] [dub]
8pm - 12am
free, all ages
check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
saturday 21 may
AMATEUR SELECTORS: UNOCCUPIED SPACE w/ FORD/BARR OF THE GARROTE
AMATEUR SELECTORS: UNOCCUPIED SPACE w/ FORD/BARR OF THE GARROTE
AMATEUR SELECTORS is our new weekly all vinyl deejay series taking the place of FRESH WAX. this series is a nod to a small bar in Düsseldorf called Salon Des Amateurs - a space we admire for breaking the rules of what a "club" should be, and what kinds of music a deejay should spin. We feel like ROZZ-TOX follows a similar ethos, and we want to cultivate this mentality in Rock Island by not subscribing to any rules of what a venue/ club/ bar should be, but rather do what feels good and right.
UNOCCUPIED SPACE w/ FORD/BARR OF THE GARROTE
[minimalist] [drone] [dark ambient] [noise] [experimental] [left-field]
https://www.thegarrote.com/
8pm - 12am
free, all ages
check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
UNOCCUPIED SPACE w/ FORD/BARR OF THE GARROTE
[minimalist] [drone] [dark ambient] [noise] [experimental] [left-field]
https://www.thegarrote.com/
8pm - 12am
free, all ages
check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
wednesday 25 may
MOPCUT + BOB BUCKO JR.
MOPCUT + BOB BUCKO JR.
MOPCUT (Germany)
https://opaltapes.com/album/jitter
http://www.audreychen.com/
The Berlin based project MOPCUT is a medium-length noise-style that covers the head and ears with a vertical bang and a horizontal wave. It's a popular style for all ages, genders and generations.The soundscape should be trimmed evenly all around the circumference so that the noise at the front reaches the inner eye while the waves on the sides cover (or almost fully cover) the ears. The beats at the back maintain the same length as the samples at the front and sides. Once the overall sound is achieved, trimming is used to achieve minimalism or maximalism, depending. Improvisation, noise and electronic beats work well as backgrounds for the MOPCUT. Electronic appliances and devices may be used to give the MOPCUT a bit more volume, but effects may lead to standing up instead of hanging low.
Their objective is a construct of noise and sounds that completely envelopes the listeners and has an equally as intensive impact on the ears as on the inner eye – that’s how Audrey Chen, Julien Desprez, and Lukas König describe their trio project MOPCUT, which celebrated its premiere at donaufestival Krems (AUT) in 2018. Their improvisation abilities transcend all genre borders. Lukas König utilises his drums, synthesizer, and voice; Julien Desprez plays electric guitar; and Audrey Chen overlays the sounds from her analogue synthesizers with ecstatic extemporised vocals.
MOPCUT is:
Audrey Chen (USA) - VOICE, ANALOG ELECTRONICS
Recent projects, aside from performing solo, include her long running voices duo with London based artist, Phil Minton, and duos with NYC abstract turntablist, Maria Chavez, French guitarist, Jean-Yves Evrard, BEAM SPLITTER, with Norwegian trombonist, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, the “romantic noise duo” AFTERBURNER with Doron Sadja (electronics/light projections), with modular synth player, Richard Scott, with American percussionist, Flandrew Fleisenberg and a collaborative project with German conceptual artist, John Bock.
Giuliano Deadprez (FRANCE) - ELECTRIC GUITAR
Evolving between sound art, performance and contemporary improvisational music, his work today is centered around all the questions that exist within a stage space, through body, space, sight and light, but where the sound remains the central pillar.He played with Charlie Haden, Mats Gustafson, Jeanne Added, Edward Perraud, Thomas Depourquery, François Jeanneau, Louis Sclavis, Stephane Payen, Guillaume Orti, Benoit Delbecq, Tortoise, Han Bennink, Hubert Dupont, Rob Mazurek, JeffParker, Frank Vaillant, Gilles Coronado, Marc Duckte and many more.
Alfred Kornberg (AUSTRIA) - DRUMS, SYNTHESIZER
Born in St.Pölten, Kornberg played with a variety of international artists such as Reggie Washington, Briggan Krauss, Malcolm Braff, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, David Murray, Wolfgang Mitterer, Klangforum Wien, Jazzwerkstatt Wien, Maja Osojnik, Wolfgang Puschnig, Shahzad Ismaily and many more. Aside performing with bands like Kompost3, 5K HD and other projects based in Vienna, he has developed a soloconcept, KORNBERG, which combines live-drums, synthesizers and a rapping-voice simultaneously played and creates a live-performance between Hiphop and Noise.
opening act:
BOB BUCKO JR.
https://bobbuckojr.bandcamp.com/
$10 - *ON SALE NOW*
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
https://opaltapes.com/album/jitter
http://www.audreychen.com/
The Berlin based project MOPCUT is a medium-length noise-style that covers the head and ears with a vertical bang and a horizontal wave. It's a popular style for all ages, genders and generations.The soundscape should be trimmed evenly all around the circumference so that the noise at the front reaches the inner eye while the waves on the sides cover (or almost fully cover) the ears. The beats at the back maintain the same length as the samples at the front and sides. Once the overall sound is achieved, trimming is used to achieve minimalism or maximalism, depending. Improvisation, noise and electronic beats work well as backgrounds for the MOPCUT. Electronic appliances and devices may be used to give the MOPCUT a bit more volume, but effects may lead to standing up instead of hanging low.
Their objective is a construct of noise and sounds that completely envelopes the listeners and has an equally as intensive impact on the ears as on the inner eye – that’s how Audrey Chen, Julien Desprez, and Lukas König describe their trio project MOPCUT, which celebrated its premiere at donaufestival Krems (AUT) in 2018. Their improvisation abilities transcend all genre borders. Lukas König utilises his drums, synthesizer, and voice; Julien Desprez plays electric guitar; and Audrey Chen overlays the sounds from her analogue synthesizers with ecstatic extemporised vocals.
MOPCUT is:
Audrey Chen (USA) - VOICE, ANALOG ELECTRONICS
Recent projects, aside from performing solo, include her long running voices duo with London based artist, Phil Minton, and duos with NYC abstract turntablist, Maria Chavez, French guitarist, Jean-Yves Evrard, BEAM SPLITTER, with Norwegian trombonist, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, the “romantic noise duo” AFTERBURNER with Doron Sadja (electronics/light projections), with modular synth player, Richard Scott, with American percussionist, Flandrew Fleisenberg and a collaborative project with German conceptual artist, John Bock.
Giuliano Deadprez (FRANCE) - ELECTRIC GUITAR
Evolving between sound art, performance and contemporary improvisational music, his work today is centered around all the questions that exist within a stage space, through body, space, sight and light, but where the sound remains the central pillar.He played with Charlie Haden, Mats Gustafson, Jeanne Added, Edward Perraud, Thomas Depourquery, François Jeanneau, Louis Sclavis, Stephane Payen, Guillaume Orti, Benoit Delbecq, Tortoise, Han Bennink, Hubert Dupont, Rob Mazurek, JeffParker, Frank Vaillant, Gilles Coronado, Marc Duckte and many more.
Alfred Kornberg (AUSTRIA) - DRUMS, SYNTHESIZER
Born in St.Pölten, Kornberg played with a variety of international artists such as Reggie Washington, Briggan Krauss, Malcolm Braff, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, David Murray, Wolfgang Mitterer, Klangforum Wien, Jazzwerkstatt Wien, Maja Osojnik, Wolfgang Puschnig, Shahzad Ismaily and many more. Aside performing with bands like Kompost3, 5K HD and other projects based in Vienna, he has developed a soloconcept, KORNBERG, which combines live-drums, synthesizers and a rapping-voice simultaneously played and creates a live-performance between Hiphop and Noise.
opening act:
BOB BUCKO JR.
https://bobbuckojr.bandcamp.com/
$10 - *ON SALE NOW*
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
friday 27 may
CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA + JORDAN REYES
CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA + JORDAN REYES
Chihei Hatakeyama is a sound artist, an organizer and mastering engineer who was born in 1978, and lives in Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name and also as one half of the electroacoustic duo Opitope, along with Tomoyoshi Date. Hatakeyama got involved in playing music through strumming a electric guitar in a few rock-oriented bands in his teenage years. Subsequently a laptop computer superseded his bands as his main platform. Hatakeyama polychromes memory-evoking soundscapes with various recorded materials of acoustic instruments such as guitars, vibraphone, and piano; mostly played by hand and processed time and time again via laptop. His first album Minima Moralia was commissioned for release by the Chicago-based label kranky in early 2006.
https://chiheihatakeyama.bandcamp.com/album/late-spring
Jordan Reyes is a Chicago-based jammer, writer and label head of American Dreams Records. While Reyes' varied output covers harsh noise, power electronics and experimental post-punk with the band Ono, under his own name he creates enveloping modular synth work that is easy to get lost in.
https://jordanreyes.bandcamp.com/
support TBA
$12 ADV / $17 DOS - *ON SALE NOW*
free drink with online ticket purchase
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
https://chiheihatakeyama.bandcamp.com/album/late-spring
Jordan Reyes is a Chicago-based jammer, writer and label head of American Dreams Records. While Reyes' varied output covers harsh noise, power electronics and experimental post-punk with the band Ono, under his own name he creates enveloping modular synth work that is easy to get lost in.
https://jordanreyes.bandcamp.com/
support TBA
$12 ADV / $17 DOS - *ON SALE NOW*
free drink with online ticket purchase
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
saturday 28 may
AMATEUR SELECTORS: 781 - GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND MUSICAL FORMS w/ DAVID OTTEN AND LUCAS BERNS
AMATEUR SELECTORS: 781 - GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND MUSICAL FORMS w/ DAVID OTTEN AND LUCAS BERNS
AMATEUR SELECTORS is our new weekly all vinyl deejay series taking the place of FRESH WAX. this series is a nod to a small bar in Düsseldorf called Salon Des Amateurs - a space we admire for breaking the rules of what a "club" should be, and what kinds of music a deejay should spin. We feel like ROZZ-TOX follows a similar ethos, and we want to cultivate this mentality in Rock Island by not subscribing to any rules of what a venue/ club/ bar should be, but rather do what feels good and right.
781 - GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND MUSICAL FORMS w/ DAVID OTTEN AND LUCAS BERNS
[ambient] [minimalist] [electronica] [fourth world] [nu jazz]
8pm - 12am
free, all ages
check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
781 - GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND MUSICAL FORMS w/ DAVID OTTEN AND LUCAS BERNS
[ambient] [minimalist] [electronica] [fourth world] [nu jazz]
8pm - 12am
free, all ages
check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
friday 03 june
AMATEUR SELECTORS: SHOW AND LISTEN w/ BEEJ
AMATEUR SELECTORS: SHOW AND LISTEN w/ BEEJ
AMATEUR SELECTORS is our new weekly all vinyl deejay series taking the place of FRESH WAX. this series is a nod to a small bar in Düsseldorf called Salon Des Amateurs - a space we admire for breaking the rules of what a "club" should be, and what kinds of music a deejay should spin. We feel like ROZZ-TOX follows a similar ethos, and we want to cultivate this mentality in Rock Island by not subscribing to any rules of what a venue/ club/ bar should be, but rather do what feels good and right.
SHOW AND LISTEN w/ BEEJ
[alt rock] [easy listening] [trip hop] [new wave]
8pm - 12am
free, all ages
check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
SHOW AND LISTEN w/ BEEJ
[alt rock] [easy listening] [trip hop] [new wave]
8pm - 12am
free, all ages
check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
friday 10 june
FLUX BIKES + LAZY HEX
FLUX BIKES + LAZY HEX
photo by: Mark Rietveld
FLUX BIKES (Chicago)
https://robfrye.bandcamp.com/album/out-and-back-ep
Lush, rhythmic and meditative sounds & beats from a bicycle wheel, bike chimes, flutes, and field recordings make up Flux Bikes, the solo project of Chicago musician Rob Frye (Bitchin' Bajas).
opening act:
LAZY HEX
https://lazyhex.bandcamp.com/album/resin
$10 - *ON SALE NOW*
free drink with online ticket purchase
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
https://robfrye.bandcamp.com/album/out-and-back-ep
Lush, rhythmic and meditative sounds & beats from a bicycle wheel, bike chimes, flutes, and field recordings make up Flux Bikes, the solo project of Chicago musician Rob Frye (Bitchin' Bajas).
opening act:
LAZY HEX
https://lazyhex.bandcamp.com/album/resin
$10 - *ON SALE NOW*
free drink with online ticket purchase
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
saturday 11 june
AMATEUR SELECTORS: RAGGED RECORDS w/ STU
AMATEUR SELECTORS: RAGGED RECORDS w/ STU
AMATEUR SELECTORS is our new weekly all vinyl deejay series taking the place of FRESH WAX. this series is a nod to a small bar in Düsseldorf called Salon Des Amateurs - a space we admire for breaking the rules of what a "club" should be, and what kinds of music a deejay should spin. We feel like ROZZ-TOX follows a similar ethos, and we want to cultivate this mentality in Rock Island by not subscribing to any rules of what a venue/ club/ bar should be, but rather do what feels good and right.
RAGGED RECORDS w/ STU
[prog rock] [art punk] [jazz fusion]
8pm - 12am
free, all ages
check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
RAGGED RECORDS w/ STU
[prog rock] [art punk] [jazz fusion]
8pm - 12am
free, all ages
check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
wednesday 15 june
CS+KREME + IDPRYAMID
CS+KREME + IDPRYAMID
CS + KREME (Australia)
https://csandkreme.bandcamp.com/album/snoopy
CS + Kreme are Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel – two Australians who record slow, hallucinatory experimental music. Transcending style and space, CS + Kreme don’t follow a philosophy with making music, what they do is more fluid. Drawn like moths to the liminal state, they write slow and meditative “horizontal-music” which takes in heavy dub processing, sweeping post-punk and chamber music soundscapes, anchored around Standish’s leftfield bass guitar.
Resident Advisor review of their 2020 release, Snoopy, out on London based label The Triolgy Tapes:
https://ra.co/reviews/24865
opening act:
IDPYRAMID
https://idpyramid.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-rider
$15 ADV / $20 DOS - *ON SALE NOW*
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
https://csandkreme.bandcamp.com/album/snoopy
CS + Kreme are Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel – two Australians who record slow, hallucinatory experimental music. Transcending style and space, CS + Kreme don’t follow a philosophy with making music, what they do is more fluid. Drawn like moths to the liminal state, they write slow and meditative “horizontal-music” which takes in heavy dub processing, sweeping post-punk and chamber music soundscapes, anchored around Standish’s leftfield bass guitar.
Resident Advisor review of their 2020 release, Snoopy, out on London based label The Triolgy Tapes:
https://ra.co/reviews/24865
opening act:
IDPYRAMID
https://idpyramid.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-rider
$15 ADV / $20 DOS - *ON SALE NOW*
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
friday 17 june
FUJI||||||||||TA + HAUNTER
FUJI||||||||||TA + HAUNTER
FUJI||||||||||TA (Japan)
https://hallowground.bandcamp.com/album/fuji-ta-iki
BIO:
FUJI||||||||||TA is a Sound Artist living in Japan. His unique practice utilizes various natural phenomena that respond to his interest in wanting to hear unheard sounds and noises. In 2009 Fujita hand fabricated a Pipe Organ that has only 11 pipes and no keyboard. Fujita conceived and built it using his imagination, without any prior or specialized knowledge. Designed to create a landscape rather than function as a musical instrument, he took the idea from the Japanese “gagaku”. The air pump (called “FUIGO”) which is kept moving by the left hand when playing, and is based on associations with an ancient blacksmith. This is a unique instrument that Fujita had to learn to play. Recently, he has added a water element, with sound synthesized water tanks, to his performance repertoire. The music consists of water sounds from multiple aquariums alongside his pipe organ and his voice.
Since 2006 he has had many solo performances and collaborative works with musicians, including ∈Ｙ∋ (Boredoms), Akio Suzuki, Keiji Haino, and Koichi Makigami. He has presented his sound installation works in many contexts: the work “CELL”, which made audible the sounds of black soldier fly maggots buried in dirt, was exhibited in Sapporo International Art Festival 2017 and attracted a great deal of interest in Fujita’s artistic practice. A performance with an organ and 4 water tanks were performed in MODE (London) in 2019. In 2020, he released the albums “iki” [Hallow Ground] and “KŌMORI” [Boomkat Editions].
opening act:
HAUNTER (Iowa City)
https://haunter0.bandcamp.com/album/ablesigh-2
$15 ADV / $20 DOS - *ON SALE NOW*
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
https://hallowground.bandcamp.com/album/fuji-ta-iki
BIO:
FUJI||||||||||TA is a Sound Artist living in Japan. His unique practice utilizes various natural phenomena that respond to his interest in wanting to hear unheard sounds and noises. In 2009 Fujita hand fabricated a Pipe Organ that has only 11 pipes and no keyboard. Fujita conceived and built it using his imagination, without any prior or specialized knowledge. Designed to create a landscape rather than function as a musical instrument, he took the idea from the Japanese “gagaku”. The air pump (called “FUIGO”) which is kept moving by the left hand when playing, and is based on associations with an ancient blacksmith. This is a unique instrument that Fujita had to learn to play. Recently, he has added a water element, with sound synthesized water tanks, to his performance repertoire. The music consists of water sounds from multiple aquariums alongside his pipe organ and his voice.
Since 2006 he has had many solo performances and collaborative works with musicians, including ∈Ｙ∋ (Boredoms), Akio Suzuki, Keiji Haino, and Koichi Makigami. He has presented his sound installation works in many contexts: the work “CELL”, which made audible the sounds of black soldier fly maggots buried in dirt, was exhibited in Sapporo International Art Festival 2017 and attracted a great deal of interest in Fujita’s artistic practice. A performance with an organ and 4 water tanks were performed in MODE (London) in 2019. In 2020, he released the albums “iki” [Hallow Ground] and “KŌMORI” [Boomkat Editions].
opening act:
HAUNTER (Iowa City)
https://haunter0.bandcamp.com/album/ablesigh-2
$15 ADV / $20 DOS - *ON SALE NOW*
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
saturday 18 june
DEAR RABBIT + FROZEN FRUCTOSE LAUNDROMAT
DEAR RABBIT + FROZEN FRUCTOSE LAUNDROMAT
DEAR RABBIT
https://dearrabbit.bandcamp.com/
opening act:
FROZEN FRUCTOSE LAUNDROMAT
https://frozenfructoselaundromat.bandcamp.com/album/her-eyes-in-horizons
$10 - ticket link coming soon
free drink with online ticket purchase
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
https://dearrabbit.bandcamp.com/
opening act:
FROZEN FRUCTOSE LAUNDROMAT
https://frozenfructoselaundromat.bandcamp.com/album/her-eyes-in-horizons
$10 - ticket link coming soon
free drink with online ticket purchase
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
saturday 25 june
AMATEUR SELECTORS: STAMP COLLECTOR w/ TOM TESLIK
AMATEUR SELECTORS: STAMP COLLECTOR w/ TOM TESLIK
AMATEUR SELECTORS is our new weekly all vinyl deejay series taking the place of FRESH WAX. this series is a nod to a small bar in Düsseldorf called Salon Des Amateurs - a space we admire for breaking the rules of what a "club" should be, and what kinds of music a deejay should spin. We feel like ROZZ-TOX follows a similar ethos, and we want to cultivate this mentality in Rock Island by not subscribing to any rules of what a venue/ club/ bar should be, but rather do what feels good and right.
STAMP COLLECTOR w/ TOM TESLIK
[indie rock] [hip-hop] [soul] [funk]
8pm - 12am
free, all ages
check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
STAMP COLLECTOR w/ TOM TESLIK
[indie rock] [hip-hop] [soul] [funk]
8pm - 12am
free, all ages
check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
thursday 30 june
FILM SCREENING: MADE IN HONG KONG
FILM SCREENING: MADE IN HONG KONG
The 25th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover, and this brilliant film.
MADE IN HONG KONG - 香港製造 (1997)
a film by Fruit Chan
running time: 1h 48m
cantonese w/ eng subs
8pm screening
free admission
Produced on a shoestring budget, with non-professional actors and using discarded film reels for stock was released to critical acclaim in 1997, the year of the Hong Kong handover, Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong was praised as an anarchic masterpiece, a powerful distillation of urban alienation and youthful despair.
Moon (Sam Lee) is a small-time triad, stuck in an endless cycle of pointless violence with no hope of escape. After he and his friends witness the suicide of a young girl, they embark on a journey to deliver two letters she had on her when she died.
MADE IN HONG KONG - 香港製造 (1997)
a film by Fruit Chan
running time: 1h 48m
cantonese w/ eng subs
8pm screening
free admission
Produced on a shoestring budget, with non-professional actors and using discarded film reels for stock was released to critical acclaim in 1997, the year of the Hong Kong handover, Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong was praised as an anarchic masterpiece, a powerful distillation of urban alienation and youthful despair.
Moon (Sam Lee) is a small-time triad, stuck in an endless cycle of pointless violence with no hope of escape. After he and his friends witness the suicide of a young girl, they embark on a journey to deliver two letters she had on her when she died.
monday 11 july
ANTELOPER + DEREK MONYPENY
ANTELOPER + DEREK MONYPENY
“We’re improvisers first and we’re bringing moment music into these other zones of hip hop and electronic music, drum-machine music, sound-system culture... We start as these Jazz musicians but we’re flowing out into everything else. And that’s the shit that we want to be playing on big ass systems. Omnivorous, freaking out, mosh pit dance-music. It has to begin in the body!” – jaimie branch
Anteloper is the duo of jaimie branch (trumpet, synths, vocals) and Jason Nazary (drums, synths). Their new album Pink Dolphins was produced by Jeff Parker (Tortoise, The New Breed), using improvisations the duo recorded at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. The album cover art was a collaboration between illustrator John Herndon (also known as drummer for Tortoise) and jaimie branch (whose digitally treated watercolor technique just keeps getting better). The duo’s previous two albums – 2018’s Kudu (issued on vinyl for the first time in January 2022) and 2020’s in-progress report Tour Beats Vol. 1 – both acted as ‘proof-of- concept’ experiments, merging synths, raw experimental desktop electronics, gadgets, and efx with the energy and attitude of punk and an insatiable thirst for extended outer space jams. Pink Dolphins presents a fully-molted and firing-on-all-cylinders expression of the duo/project, as realized by Parker in the lab.
“Anteloper has a very unique sound and chemistry, and I love the spirit behind everything that they’re doing.” – Jeff Parker
Branch and Nazary have been playing together for years, since meeting at the New England Conservatory of Music in 2002, but in this duo both musicians include synthesizers to push further into the spectral space ship ether. With deep rhythmic passages, telepathic improvisations and effortless melodic negotiations, Anteloper pushes forward, swinging its horns all the while.
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/tour-beats-vol-1
https://www.jaimiebranch.com/
opening act:
DEREK MONYPENY
https://derekmonypeny.bandcamp.com/
Derek Monypeny is a Joshua Tree, CA-based guitarist and oud player who has played in the bands Oaxacan, ALTO!, and Sir Richard Bishop's Freak Of Araby Ensemble. He has performed and toured with artists such as Bill Orcutt, Jozef van Wissem, Eva Aguila/Kevin Shields, Arrington de Dionyso, and many others.
$15 ADV / $20 DOS - *ON SALE NOW*
free drink with online ticket purchase
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
Anteloper is the duo of jaimie branch (trumpet, synths, vocals) and Jason Nazary (drums, synths). Their new album Pink Dolphins was produced by Jeff Parker (Tortoise, The New Breed), using improvisations the duo recorded at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. The album cover art was a collaboration between illustrator John Herndon (also known as drummer for Tortoise) and jaimie branch (whose digitally treated watercolor technique just keeps getting better). The duo’s previous two albums – 2018’s Kudu (issued on vinyl for the first time in January 2022) and 2020’s in-progress report Tour Beats Vol. 1 – both acted as ‘proof-of- concept’ experiments, merging synths, raw experimental desktop electronics, gadgets, and efx with the energy and attitude of punk and an insatiable thirst for extended outer space jams. Pink Dolphins presents a fully-molted and firing-on-all-cylinders expression of the duo/project, as realized by Parker in the lab.
“Anteloper has a very unique sound and chemistry, and I love the spirit behind everything that they’re doing.” – Jeff Parker
Branch and Nazary have been playing together for years, since meeting at the New England Conservatory of Music in 2002, but in this duo both musicians include synthesizers to push further into the spectral space ship ether. With deep rhythmic passages, telepathic improvisations and effortless melodic negotiations, Anteloper pushes forward, swinging its horns all the while.
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/tour-beats-vol-1
https://www.jaimiebranch.com/
opening act:
DEREK MONYPENY
https://derekmonypeny.bandcamp.com/
Derek Monypeny is a Joshua Tree, CA-based guitarist and oud player who has played in the bands Oaxacan, ALTO!, and Sir Richard Bishop's Freak Of Araby Ensemble. He has performed and toured with artists such as Bill Orcutt, Jozef van Wissem, Eva Aguila/Kevin Shields, Arrington de Dionyso, and many others.
$15 ADV / $20 DOS - *ON SALE NOW*
free drink with online ticket purchase
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
friday 15 july
MOORE / SHEAD DUO
MOORE / SHEAD DUO
Chris Moore (alto sax)
Adam Shead (drums)
https://music.amalgamusic.org/album/the-flower-of-paradise
The duo has been performing regularly together throughout Chicago and the Midwest since 2017 and has recorded albums for Amalgam Music Chicago and Adiaphora Music. The duo performs with focused and raucous energy in the vein of free jazz giants such as Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, and Evan Parker.
free, all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
Adam Shead (drums)
https://music.amalgamusic.org/album/the-flower-of-paradise
The duo has been performing regularly together throughout Chicago and the Midwest since 2017 and has recorded albums for Amalgam Music Chicago and Adiaphora Music. The duo performs with focused and raucous energy in the vein of free jazz giants such as Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, and Evan Parker.
free, all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
masks are highly encouraged
