cafe ~ bar ~ performance venue ~ library ~ guest house
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for booking inquiries please email: info[at]rozztox[dot]com
venue layout & tech specs here
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closed mondays
tuesday - friday 17:00-1:00
saturday 11:00-1:00
sunday 11:00-23:00
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for booking inquiries please email: info[at]rozztox[dot]com
venue layout & tech specs here
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closed mondays
tuesday - friday 17:00-1:00
saturday 11:00-1:00
sunday 11:00-23:00
JUNE 2019
thursday 20 june
friday 21 june
Northern Parallels: 033
Northern Parallels: 033
DJ's:
Mike Derer
Higgy
$5 | 20:00 - 1:00
[house] [techno]
Mike Derer
Higgy
$5 | 20:00 - 1:00
[house] [techno]
saturday 22 june
Advance Base | advancebasemusic.com
Claire Cronin | overandthrough.com
Liv Carrow | livcarrowmusic.bandcamp.com
$8 | 20:00 doors | 21:00 show
[lo-fi nostalgia] [singer-songwriter] [finger-style guitar]
Claire Cronin | overandthrough.com
Liv Carrow | livcarrowmusic.bandcamp.com
$8 | 20:00 doors | 21:00 show
[lo-fi nostalgia] [singer-songwriter] [finger-style guitar]
sunday 23 june
Embral | embral.bandcamp.com
Blue Movies
Idpyramid | idpyramid.bandcamp.com
Elliott Bay Towers
$5-10 sliding scale
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[ambient] [drone] [minimalist] [experimental]
Blue Movies
Idpyramid | idpyramid.bandcamp.com
Elliott Bay Towers
$5-10 sliding scale
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[ambient] [drone] [minimalist] [experimental]
thursday 27 june
friday 28 june
David R. Collins Writers' Conference
David R. Collins Writers' Conference
DRC Conference Social Mixer 5:30-7 p.m.
Faculty Reading and Book Signing 7-9 p.m.
Listen to conference faculty reading their work and then, the mic will be opened up for reading by conference participants
Free and open to the public
Faculty Reading and Book Signing 7-9 p.m.
Listen to conference faculty reading their work and then, the mic will be opened up for reading by conference participants
Free and open to the public
JULY 2019
wednesday 03 july
Outlet Presents: Kedr Livanskiy (Russia)
Outlet Presents: Kedr Livanskiy (Russia)
Kedr Livanskiy | https://kedrlivanskiy.bandcamp.com/
opening acts:
Bold Little Airwave | https://boldlittleairwave.bandcamp.com/
Pulsing | https://pulsing8bit.bandcamp.com/
$12 advance | $15 dos
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[electronic dance music]
outlet is a series of curated rozz-tox events focusing on quality experimental and electronic music and performances.
opening acts:
Bold Little Airwave | https://boldlittleairwave.bandcamp.com/
Pulsing | https://pulsing8bit.bandcamp.com/
$12 advance | $15 dos
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[electronic dance music]
outlet is a series of curated rozz-tox events focusing on quality experimental and electronic music and performances.
friday 05 july
Outlet Presents: Derek Monypeny
Outlet Presents: Derek Monypeny
Derek Monypeny | derekmonypeny.bandcamp.com
Derek Monypeny is an experimental guitarist/ oud /bulbul tarang 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.
opening act:
Marc Hans Showalter x Bob Bucko Jr.
$8 advance | $10 dos
20:00 doors | 21:00 show
[drone] [experimental] [folk]
outlet is a series of curated rozz-tox events focusing on quality experimental and electronic music and performances.
Derek Monypeny is an experimental guitarist/ oud /bulbul tarang 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.
opening act:
Marc Hans Showalter x Bob Bucko Jr.
$8 advance | $10 dos
20:00 doors | 21:00 show
[drone] [experimental] [folk]
outlet is a series of curated rozz-tox events focusing on quality experimental and electronic music and performances.
saturday 06 july
Roaring Rhetoric
Roaring Rhetoric
featured artists:
Andre Davis is a powerful poet-activist from St. Louis, MO determined to bring passion back to poetry. His work is filled with truth, tenacity, and a level of vulnerabilities that is sure to leave you in tears. You can find his most recent project "Poetry Jazz Sessions" and single "Escape" on Spotify and all streaming services...
Daniel Mulongecha is an up and coming spoken word artist of the Quad Cities.Under Chris Britton's mentorship in poetry, he has found his voice, style, and intense energy!
$10 admission | $5 for open mic readers
19:30 - 22:30
Andre Davis is a powerful poet-activist from St. Louis, MO determined to bring passion back to poetry. His work is filled with truth, tenacity, and a level of vulnerabilities that is sure to leave you in tears. You can find his most recent project "Poetry Jazz Sessions" and single "Escape" on Spotify and all streaming services...
Daniel Mulongecha is an up and coming spoken word artist of the Quad Cities.Under Chris Britton's mentorship in poetry, he has found his voice, style, and intense energy!
$10 admission | $5 for open mic readers
19:30 - 22:30
saturday 13 july
Sessa (São Paulo) | sessa.bandcamp.com
A long-time fixture of both North American and Brazilian music scenes, either as a collaborator with NY guitar legend Yonatan Gat, or as co-founder of São Paulo psych-funk combo Garotas Suecas, Sessa debuts his solo work for the first time ever in 2018.
His songs are sung in Portuguese, with visceral, sexual lyrics in the vain of Caetano Veloso and melodic flourishes not unlike those of Arthur Verocai and Tom Jobim. However, the music gets a deliberately minimalist treatment rarely found in contemporary Brazilian music and more reminiscent of the understated directness of Leonard Cohen or Devendra Banhart's early work.
Sessa's concerts are already the stuff of legend in Brazil, as he takes the stage accompanied solely by female background vocalists and Afro-Brazilian percussion. While the songs often deal with subjects such as spirituality and the sensual body in times of digital excess, the music points to new, more subtle directions for Brazilian pop in 2018 – a deep, almost insinuated use of the endlessly rich textures and rhythms that defined the songwriting history of Brazil – one which Sessa now joins as one of its most promising new voices.
opening act:
Dark Family | darkfamily666.bandcamp.com
$10 advance | $13 dos
20:00 doors | 21:00 show
[música popular brasileira] [tropicália] [experimental]
A long-time fixture of both North American and Brazilian music scenes, either as a collaborator with NY guitar legend Yonatan Gat, or as co-founder of São Paulo psych-funk combo Garotas Suecas, Sessa debuts his solo work for the first time ever in 2018.
His songs are sung in Portuguese, with visceral, sexual lyrics in the vain of Caetano Veloso and melodic flourishes not unlike those of Arthur Verocai and Tom Jobim. However, the music gets a deliberately minimalist treatment rarely found in contemporary Brazilian music and more reminiscent of the understated directness of Leonard Cohen or Devendra Banhart's early work.
Sessa's concerts are already the stuff of legend in Brazil, as he takes the stage accompanied solely by female background vocalists and Afro-Brazilian percussion. While the songs often deal with subjects such as spirituality and the sensual body in times of digital excess, the music points to new, more subtle directions for Brazilian pop in 2018 – a deep, almost insinuated use of the endlessly rich textures and rhythms that defined the songwriting history of Brazil – one which Sessa now joins as one of its most promising new voices.
opening act:
Dark Family | darkfamily666.bandcamp.com
$10 advance | $13 dos
20:00 doors | 21:00 show
[música popular brasileira] [tropicália] [experimental]
AUGUST 2019
friday 02 august
Rozz-Tox Presents: Lena Willikens
**this event is in chicago**
Rozz-Tox Presents: Lena Willikens
**this event is in chicago**
the second Rozz-Tox presentation in Chicago brings you German DJ Lena Willikens (Cómeme, Salon des Amateurs, Dekmantel, NTS), a free and foward-thinking, leftfield selector playing anything but the hits. Willikens nimbly navigates electronic music’s darkest and most bizarre corners, sampling different temperatures, different moods and a dollop of chaos, just to keep things interesting. and although she herself doesn’t always know the final destination, when Willikens is at the helm, there’s no question that the journey is bound to be thrilling.
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/lenawillikens
http://futura-artists.com/lena-willikens/
and we're super fuckn' excited to be working with legendary party throwers RutCorp for this installment in the Chicago x Rozztox series ♥
with sets from:
Fair Faucet (live/ ep release) • Higgy (dj) • Matthew Kylestewa (dj) • Itsï (dj)
RutCorp | Chicago
$15 advance | $20 dos
22:00-3:30
poster by Bráulio Amado
badbadbadbad.com/Braulio-Amado
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/lenawillikens
http://futura-artists.com/lena-willikens/
and we're super fuckn' excited to be working with legendary party throwers RutCorp for this installment in the Chicago x Rozztox series ♥
with sets from:
Fair Faucet (live/ ep release) • Higgy (dj) • Matthew Kylestewa (dj) • Itsï (dj)
RutCorp | Chicago
$15 advance | $20 dos
22:00-3:30
poster by Bráulio Amado
badbadbadbad.com/Braulio-Amado
saturday 10 august
Rozz-Tox x Wake Brewing x Ragged Records Present:
Rozz-Tox x Wake Brewing x Ragged Records Present:
Spotlights | spotlights.bandcamp.com
Vampyre | vampyreinc.bandcamp.com
free admission | 20:00 - 23:00
[post-metal] [doom-gaze]
Vampyre | vampyreinc.bandcamp.com
free admission | 20:00 - 23:00
[post-metal] [doom-gaze]
friday 23 august
Outlet Presents: Ariel Zetina
Outlet Presents: Ariel Zetina
Ariel Zetina | arielzetina.bandcamp.com
Few young DJs and producers in Chicago are as charismatic, original and progressive as Ariel Zetina. But that’s likely because Zetina is one-of-a-kind. For one, most producers would not cite the late-’90s/early aughts era of pop-oriented trance music as one of the numerous influences in their current creations. And most don’t mention performance art within their origin stories. It is precisely because of Zetina’s tastes, which are broad and inclusive, that fans (and house music institutions) have flocked to her in droves.
-Chicago Tribune
opening set: Higgy
$10 advance | $13 dos
21:00 - 3:00
outlet is a series of curated rozz-tox events focusing on quality experimental and electronic music and performances.
Few young DJs and producers in Chicago are as charismatic, original and progressive as Ariel Zetina. But that’s likely because Zetina is one-of-a-kind. For one, most producers would not cite the late-’90s/early aughts era of pop-oriented trance music as one of the numerous influences in their current creations. And most don’t mention performance art within their origin stories. It is precisely because of Zetina’s tastes, which are broad and inclusive, that fans (and house music institutions) have flocked to her in droves.
-Chicago Tribune
opening set: Higgy
$10 advance | $13 dos
21:00 - 3:00
outlet is a series of curated rozz-tox events focusing on quality experimental and electronic music and performances.
saturday 31 august
The Common Faces | thecommonfaces.com
John June Year | johnjuneyear.com
Foxholes | foxholesmusic.com
$5 admission
20:00 doors | 21:00 show
[rock]
John June Year | johnjuneyear.com
Foxholes | foxholesmusic.com
$5 admission
20:00 doors | 21:00 show
[rock]
SEPTEMBER 2019
sunday 15 september
Les Filles de Illighadad | lesfillesdeillighadad.bandcamp.com
The female led avant rock group hailing from the village of the same name bring their new genre of Tuareg guitar mixed with traditional rural folk. Versed in tradition, Fatou Seidi Ghali and her band have created contemporary studio versions that are unlike anything ever before recorded, transporting rural nomadic song into the 21st century.
Les Filles are all from Illighadad, a secluded commune in central Niger, far off in the scrubland deserts at the edge of the Sahara. The village is only accessible via a grueling drive through the open desert and there is little infrastructure, no electricity or running water. But what the nomadic zone lacks in material wealth it makes up for deep and strong identity and tradition. The surrounding countryside support hundreds of pastoral families, living with and among their herds, as their families have done for centuries.
The sound that defines rural Niger is a music known as “tende.” It takes its name from a drum, built from a goat skin stretched across a mortar and pestle. Like the environs, tende music is a testament to wealth in simplicity, with sparse compositions built from a few elements, vocals, handclaps, and percussion. Songs speak of the village, of love, and of praise for ancestors. It is a music form dominated by women. Collective and communal, tende is tradition for all the young girls of the nomad camps, played during celebrations and to pass the time during the late nights of the rainy season.
In the past years, certain genres of Tuareg music have become popular in the West. International acts of “desert blues” like Tinariwen, Bombino, and Mdou Moctar have become synonymous with the name “Tuareg.” But guitar music is a recent creation. In the 1970s young Tuareg men living in exile in Libya and Algeria discovered the guitar. Lacking any female vocalists to perform tende, they began to play the guitar to mimic this sound, replacing water drums with plastic jerrycans and substituting a guitar drone for the vocal call and response. The exiled eventually traveled home and brought the guitar music with them. In time, this new guitar sound came to eclipse the tende, especially in the urban centers. If tende is a music that has always been sung by woman, the Tuareg guitar was its gendered counterpart, and Tuareg guitar music is a male dominated scene.
Fatou Seidi Ghali, lead vocalist and performer of Les Filles is one of only a few Tuareg female guitarists in Niger. Sneaking away with her older brother's guitar, she taught herself to play. While Fatou's role as the first female Tuareg guitarist is groundbreaking, it is just as interesting for her musical direction. In a place where gender norms have created two divergent musics, Fatou and Les Filles are reasserting the role of tende in Tuareg guitar. In lieu of the djembe or the drum kit, so popular in contemporary Tuareg rock bands, Les Filles de Illighadad incorporate the traditional drum and the pounding calabash, half buried in water. The forgotten inspiration of Tuareg guitar, they are reclaiming its importance in the genre and reclaiming the music of tende. Hypnotic guitar riffs, driving rhythm, and polyphonic resonant vocals combine to create an organic sound that is timeless and ancient, bridging ancient tradition and modern worlds. With songs of love, celebrating the village, and praise for the desert and its people, Les Filles create a repertoire of ancient songs, village tende favorites, and new classics.
support TBA
$12 advance | $15 dos
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[desert blues] [tuareg guitar] [niger] [tende]
The female led avant rock group hailing from the village of the same name bring their new genre of Tuareg guitar mixed with traditional rural folk. Versed in tradition, Fatou Seidi Ghali and her band have created contemporary studio versions that are unlike anything ever before recorded, transporting rural nomadic song into the 21st century.
Les Filles are all from Illighadad, a secluded commune in central Niger, far off in the scrubland deserts at the edge of the Sahara. The village is only accessible via a grueling drive through the open desert and there is little infrastructure, no electricity or running water. But what the nomadic zone lacks in material wealth it makes up for deep and strong identity and tradition. The surrounding countryside support hundreds of pastoral families, living with and among their herds, as their families have done for centuries.
The sound that defines rural Niger is a music known as “tende.” It takes its name from a drum, built from a goat skin stretched across a mortar and pestle. Like the environs, tende music is a testament to wealth in simplicity, with sparse compositions built from a few elements, vocals, handclaps, and percussion. Songs speak of the village, of love, and of praise for ancestors. It is a music form dominated by women. Collective and communal, tende is tradition for all the young girls of the nomad camps, played during celebrations and to pass the time during the late nights of the rainy season.
In the past years, certain genres of Tuareg music have become popular in the West. International acts of “desert blues” like Tinariwen, Bombino, and Mdou Moctar have become synonymous with the name “Tuareg.” But guitar music is a recent creation. In the 1970s young Tuareg men living in exile in Libya and Algeria discovered the guitar. Lacking any female vocalists to perform tende, they began to play the guitar to mimic this sound, replacing water drums with plastic jerrycans and substituting a guitar drone for the vocal call and response. The exiled eventually traveled home and brought the guitar music with them. In time, this new guitar sound came to eclipse the tende, especially in the urban centers. If tende is a music that has always been sung by woman, the Tuareg guitar was its gendered counterpart, and Tuareg guitar music is a male dominated scene.
Fatou Seidi Ghali, lead vocalist and performer of Les Filles is one of only a few Tuareg female guitarists in Niger. Sneaking away with her older brother's guitar, she taught herself to play. While Fatou's role as the first female Tuareg guitarist is groundbreaking, it is just as interesting for her musical direction. In a place where gender norms have created two divergent musics, Fatou and Les Filles are reasserting the role of tende in Tuareg guitar. In lieu of the djembe or the drum kit, so popular in contemporary Tuareg rock bands, Les Filles de Illighadad incorporate the traditional drum and the pounding calabash, half buried in water. The forgotten inspiration of Tuareg guitar, they are reclaiming its importance in the genre and reclaiming the music of tende. Hypnotic guitar riffs, driving rhythm, and polyphonic resonant vocals combine to create an organic sound that is timeless and ancient, bridging ancient tradition and modern worlds. With songs of love, celebrating the village, and praise for the desert and its people, Les Filles create a repertoire of ancient songs, village tende favorites, and new classics.
support TBA
$12 advance | $15 dos
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[desert blues] [tuareg guitar] [niger] [tende]
sunday 22 september
Video Age | videoage.bandcamp.com
support TBA
$8 advance | $12 dos
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[new wave] [synth pop]
support TBA
$8 advance | $12 dos
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[new wave] [synth pop]
