enjoy a set from YAMAGUCHI RADIO while you read:
HOURS
wednesday 5pm-12am
thursday 5pm-12am
friday 5pm-12am
saturday 10am-12am
sunday 10am-10pm
CLOSED MONDAY+TUESDAY
EVENTS

good news!

we've partnered with dice.fm for our ticketing platform. we will be using them for every show with advance tickets moving forward and hope to provide a more user-friendly, cashless ticketing experience for you and us.  for most events you will save $5 using DICE, and we will give you a drink ticket at the door. this special will run through the spring/ summer. 
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.

​check out RAGGED RECORDS next door to us, and downtown davenport - they're a couple of the best record stores in the midwest.
friday 12 august
ROARING RHETORIC
  
saturday 13 august
NUNN + STRESSICA + SYSTEMS
an experimental noise/ performance extravaganza. brace yourselves. 

NUNN (chicago)
https://nunnband.bandcamp.com/album/nunn

STRESSICA (minneapolis)
https://stressica666.bandcamp.com/releases

SYSTYEMS (rock island)
https://systemsnoise.bandcamp.com/

$10 at the door
7pm doors, 8pm show
all ages
thursday 18 august
ATLAS RELEASE PARTY & READING
The Atlas 17 Release Party - Featuring some of the best writing by writers under the age of 20 anywhere in the country, The Atlas is the annual publication of the Young Emerging Writers Summer Internship Program. All sales go to support the Young Emerging Writers and youth writing programs at the Midwest Writing Center.
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free & public, 7pm
friday 19 august
AMATEUR SELECTORS: VINYL DEEJAY NIGHTS
PINEAPPLE ON PIZZA W/ DJ MAYHEM + DJ JOHN EARLY
[synth] [pop] [hip-hop] [conscious rap]

8pm - 12am
free, all ages
saturday 20 august
AMATEUR SELECTORS: VINYL DEEJAY NIGHTS
INTERZONE W/ JOSH FORD
[dark beat] [deep night] [experimental] [electronic] [fever dream]

one half of  the garrote returns for your saturday night soundtrack at the record bar. 

8pm - 12am
free, all ages
friday 26 august
AMATEUR SELECTORS: VINYL DEEJAY NIGHTS
LOW TIDE W/ LIV CARROW
[folk] [country] [jazz] [20th century rock]

one of our faves is back on the 1s & 2s! liv's collection is fantastic and she plays the room so well.  get ready for a real lovely night. 

8pm - 12am
free, all ages
saturday 27 august
MOORE / SHEAD DUO
Since the Chris Moore (reeds) & Adam Shead (drums) duo's inception in the winter of 2017 the two musicians have cultivated a highly energetic interplay based in a trans-idiomatic approach to improvisation, performing with focused and raucous energy in the vein of free jazz giants such as Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, and Evan Parker.  The duo has released two full length albums, Transdisciplinary Jig (Adiaphora) and The Flower of Paradise (Amalgam Music), and performs regularly throughout Chicago and the Midwest. 

music.amalgamusic.org/album/the-flower-of-paradise

$10 at the door
​all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show (2 sets w/ intermission)
friday 09 september
AMATEUR SELECTORS: VINYL DEEJAY NIGHTS
PEOPLE WITH VOICES SINGING SONGS WITH WORDS W/ ELLIOTT BAY TOWERS
[avant pop] [experimental pop]

join elliott bay towers for their second annual record spinning event.

8pm - 12am
free, all ages
sarturday 10 september
AMATEUR SELECTORS: VINYL DEEJAY NIGHTS
TWO RAGGED LADS! W/ BOB HERINGTON & RYAN SIMPSON
[psych] [prog] [psych folk]

ragged records' boss-man bob, and store clerk ryan stop by for a psych filled night at the record bar.  you know it's gonna be good!

8pm - 12am
free, all ages
saturday 17 september
ALGIERS + MOUNTAIN SWALLOWER
ALGIERS (matador records)
https://algierstheband.bandcamp.com/album/there-is-no-year

"... Algiers’ gothic gospel funk finds the right balance of doomy melodrama, metallic Motown and floor-pounding post-punk." - the guardian

"their live show has been described as "recalling at various points PIL's dub-style expansions, Afrobeat, industrial, no wave, free jazz, Suicide, the XTC of "Travels in Nihilon," Nick Cave's fire and brimstone, and musique concrète" - the internet

w/ MOUNTAIN SWALLOWER
https://mountainswallower.bandcamp.com/

$15 advance / $20 at the door - *ON SALE NOW*
​7pm doors, 8pm show
all ages
saturday 01 october
​AMATEUR SELECTORS: VINYL DEEJAY NIGHTS
SUB SPECIE SIMULATIONIS W/ APRI ORION
[ambient] [electronic] [experimental]

a staple on the RT tables -- apri orion aka retinal tear!  listen in awe of his meticulous selections from his insane collection.

7pm - midnight
​​free, all ages
saturday 08 october
DESERT LIMINAL
DESERT LIMINAL (chicago)
https://desertliminal.bandcamp.com/album/glass-fate
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Desert Liminal is an experimental pop trio and fixture in the deep field of Chicago D.I.Y. Their unique sound combines elements of melodic dream pop, shoegaze, and noise.

support TBA

$10 at the door
all ages
7pmn doors, 8pm show
friday 28 october
JUDSON CLAIBORNE
JUDSON CLAIBORNE (chicago)
https://judsonclaiborne.bandcamp.com/

Judson Claiborne is the folk-rock music project of Chicago-based songwriter and DJ Christopher Claiborne Salveter.  Raised in a Missouri river town-turned suburb, his earliest musical influences were oldies radio and MTV’s 120 Minutes.  The Chicago indie record labels and bands of the late 90s beckoned him to relocate there in 2000.  Soon after, he started the group Low Skies, who released four records and toured as the support act for Neko Case, Explosions in the Sky, and Band of Horses.  Low Skies’ final record, All the Love I Could Find (2006) received an 8.1 on Pitchfork.   

support TBA

$10 at the door
all ages
​7pm doors, 8pm show