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
AUGUST 2019
thursday 22 august
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 24 august
365 Horror Films & Midwest Monster Fest present:
365 Horror Films & Midwest Monster Fest present:
Indoor films:
Predator '87
Predator 2 '90
third film TBA
Sci-Fi On the Patio:
The Deadly Spawn '83
Terrorvision '86
free admission
indoor films start at 19:00
patio films start at dusk
Predator '87
Predator 2 '90
third film TBA
Sci-Fi On the Patio:
The Deadly Spawn '83
Terrorvision '86
free admission
indoor films start at 19:00
patio films start at dusk
sunday 25 august
Yellow UFO Presents: Deadbeat Beat
Yellow UFO Presents: Deadbeat Beat
Deadbeat Beat | deadbeatbeat.bandcamp.com
Dark Family | darkfamily666.bandcamp.com
Id Noir | centaurnoir.bandcamp.com
$8 admission
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[garage pop] [psych rock]
Dark Family | darkfamily666.bandcamp.com
Id Noir | centaurnoir.bandcamp.com
$8 admission
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[garage pop] [psych rock]
monday 26 august
free & open
19:30 - 21:00
19:30 - 21:00
friday 30 august
Tommy
Ahzia | soundcloud.com/zia-31
PoolBoy | soundcloud.com/smokedoutsessions
Zachreb | soundcloud.com/clustrr
Mill City Mob | mobqc.com
Xandrew | music.apple.com/us/artist/xandrew
Doctor Ew | smokingallthekush.bandcamp.com
hosted by Lil Mark
free admission
20:00 doors | 21:00 show
[hip-hop] [rap]
Ahzia | soundcloud.com/zia-31
PoolBoy | soundcloud.com/smokedoutsessions
Zachreb | soundcloud.com/clustrr
Mill City Mob | mobqc.com
Xandrew | music.apple.com/us/artist/xandrew
Doctor Ew | smokingallthekush.bandcamp.com
hosted by Lil Mark
free admission
20:00 doors | 21:00 show
[hip-hop] [rap]
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
thursday 05 september
$10
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[hip-hop] [rap]
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[hip-hop] [rap]
friday 06 september
Googz & Satan's God are going on tour together. Like everything they do, musically and otherwise, it is probably ill-advised!
Also appearing at this event: Blue Movies, Lackluster (solo), and Shittalk!
$5-10 sliding scale
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
Also appearing at this event: Blue Movies, Lackluster (solo), and Shittalk!
$5-10 sliding scale
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
saturday 07 september
tuesday 10 september
Thollem (electric) with films | www.thollem.com/electric
"An intense and virtuosic keyboardist” (TimeOut NY)
Aqualife | aqualife.bandcamp.com
$8
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[electronic] [keyboard] [synth]
"An intense and virtuosic keyboardist” (TimeOut NY)
Aqualife | aqualife.bandcamp.com
$8
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[electronic] [keyboard] [synth]
saturday 14 september
Outlet Presents: Ash Lauryn
Outlet Presents: Ash Lauryn
Ash Lauryn | undergroundandblack.com
nts.live/shows/ash-lauryn
Ash Lauryn is a DJ, Writer, and Radio Host hailing from Detroit, MI who is currently based in Atlanta, GA. Ash specializes in underground dance music, and says most of her influence stems from her roots back home in Detroit. As an active member of the dance music community for over a decade, she hosts her own event series alongside Stefan Ringer called Expressions, and is currently a resident DJ with Atlanta’s Deep South collective. In addition, Ash run’s a blog called “Underground & Black”, that shares the title with her monthly NTS radio show- the blog explores her experiences as a black woman and rising DJ on the dance music scene. Ash also hosts events under the Underground & Black moniker, with the inaugural edition taking place in NYC at Bossa Nova Civic Club, and the second to take place in Detroit during Movement Festival Weekend 2019.
Ash has quickly and firmly established her career as a DJ, and has successfully headlined gigs in NYC, Berlin, London, Paris and beyond. She has also shared bills with legendary acts such as Joe Claussell, Marcellus Pittman, Chez Damier, and Kai Alcè, to name a few. With 3 Europe tours under her belt, Ash made her debut at the world-renowned Tresor Club in Berlin in 2018, and more recently at Oval Space in London at the long running and respected SecretSundaze series. With a deep respect and appreciation for the roots and soul of dance music, Ash has solidified her sound and mission in music. This can be experienced through her emotive writing and DJ sets, that consist of everything from Soul, to Disco, to House and Techno. The Detroit native is a fresh and energetic voice; a passionate ambassador of one of America’s homegrown music traditions, and her “Underground & Black” vision is shaping the fabric of contemporary club culture.
$8 advance | $10 dos
21:00 doors | 22:00 show
[detroit house] [soul] [techno] [disco]
outlet is a series of curated rozz-tox events focusing on quality experimental and electronic music and performances.
nts.live/shows/ash-lauryn
Ash Lauryn is a DJ, Writer, and Radio Host hailing from Detroit, MI who is currently based in Atlanta, GA. Ash specializes in underground dance music, and says most of her influence stems from her roots back home in Detroit. As an active member of the dance music community for over a decade, she hosts her own event series alongside Stefan Ringer called Expressions, and is currently a resident DJ with Atlanta’s Deep South collective. In addition, Ash run’s a blog called “Underground & Black”, that shares the title with her monthly NTS radio show- the blog explores her experiences as a black woman and rising DJ on the dance music scene. Ash also hosts events under the Underground & Black moniker, with the inaugural edition taking place in NYC at Bossa Nova Civic Club, and the second to take place in Detroit during Movement Festival Weekend 2019.
Ash has quickly and firmly established her career as a DJ, and has successfully headlined gigs in NYC, Berlin, London, Paris and beyond. She has also shared bills with legendary acts such as Joe Claussell, Marcellus Pittman, Chez Damier, and Kai Alcè, to name a few. With 3 Europe tours under her belt, Ash made her debut at the world-renowned Tresor Club in Berlin in 2018, and more recently at Oval Space in London at the long running and respected SecretSundaze series. With a deep respect and appreciation for the roots and soul of dance music, Ash has solidified her sound and mission in music. This can be experienced through her emotive writing and DJ sets, that consist of everything from Soul, to Disco, to House and Techno. The Detroit native is a fresh and energetic voice; a passionate ambassador of one of America’s homegrown music traditions, and her “Underground & Black” vision is shaping the fabric of contemporary club culture.
$8 advance | $10 dos
21:00 doors | 22:00 show
[detroit house] [soul] [techno] [disco]
outlet is a series of curated rozz-tox events focusing on quality experimental and electronic music and performances.
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.
opening act: Shining Realm
theshiningrealm.bandcamp.com
$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.
opening act: Shining Realm
theshiningrealm.bandcamp.com
$12 advance | $15 dos
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[desert blues] [tuareg guitar] [niger] [tende]
saturday 21 september
This is Roaring Rhetoric's first "Readers With Bars" event; where regional readers come and share their work from their recently published literary work. This event is featuring Caleb Rainey, also known as, The Negro Artist. Local reader and emcee Aubs. will be opening up! A little about both..
Aubrey "Aubs." Barnes is a poet; ranked third best slam poet in the state of Iowa, author, emcee, battle rap enthusiast, creative arts educator, and cohost of "Ode TO The Underdog" podcast, and host of "Black Thoughts Podcast". His literary work "Unfin-" and "I'm Not Anti-Love, I Swear" can be found on Amazon. His rcent project "Aubizms." can be found on all streaming platforms.
Caleb “The Negro Artist” Rainey is an author, performer, and producer. He hails from Columbia, Missouri, and holds a bachelors degree in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Iowa. He co-founded the literary magazine Black Art; Real Stories, and has been published in the Little Village Magazine and The Real Mainstream.
As a performer he is the winner of the Des Moines Poetry Slam, the Iowa City Poetry Slam, a two-time winner of the Fire & Ice Poetry Slam, and a finalist for the UNESCO City of Literature Global poetry slam. He has done spoken word around the world, including Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Illinois, Colorado, New York City, and London. He was the opening poet for Dan Brown, featured on the album Blk Boi Joy, and acted in the Iowa debut of the plays, Exit Strategy and Luna Gale.
$3 for first seven open mic readers
$8 general admission
19:30
Aubrey "Aubs." Barnes is a poet; ranked third best slam poet in the state of Iowa, author, emcee, battle rap enthusiast, creative arts educator, and cohost of "Ode TO The Underdog" podcast, and host of "Black Thoughts Podcast". His literary work "Unfin-" and "I'm Not Anti-Love, I Swear" can be found on Amazon. His rcent project "Aubizms." can be found on all streaming platforms.
Caleb “The Negro Artist” Rainey is an author, performer, and producer. He hails from Columbia, Missouri, and holds a bachelors degree in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Iowa. He co-founded the literary magazine Black Art; Real Stories, and has been published in the Little Village Magazine and The Real Mainstream.
As a performer he is the winner of the Des Moines Poetry Slam, the Iowa City Poetry Slam, a two-time winner of the Fire & Ice Poetry Slam, and a finalist for the UNESCO City of Literature Global poetry slam. He has done spoken word around the world, including Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Illinois, Colorado, New York City, and London. He was the opening poet for Dan Brown, featured on the album Blk Boi Joy, and acted in the Iowa debut of the plays, Exit Strategy and Luna Gale.
$3 for first seven open mic readers
$8 general admission
19:30
sunday 22 september
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Video Age | videoage.bandcamp.com
J Fernandez (Joyful Noise) | jfernandez.bandcamp.com
$8 advance | $12 dos
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[new wave] [synth pop] [psych pop]
J Fernandez (Joyful Noise) | jfernandez.bandcamp.com
$8 advance | $12 dos
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[new wave] [synth pop] [psych pop]
wednesday 25 september
Darsombra | darsombra.bandcamp.com
Dear Rabbit | dearrabbit.bandcamp.com
The Golden Fleece | thegoldenfleece.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[space rock]
Dear Rabbit | dearrabbit.bandcamp.com
The Golden Fleece | thegoldenfleece.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[space rock]
thursday 26 september
Humbird | humbirdmusic.com
Liv Carrow | livcarrowmusic.bandcamp.com
$8
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[folk] [finger-style guitar] [experimental]
Liv Carrow | livcarrowmusic.bandcamp.com
$8
19:00 doors | 20:00 show
[folk] [finger-style guitar] [experimental]
OCTOBER 2019
NOVEMBER 2019
saturday 16 november
Outlet Presents: Ami Dang
Outlet Presents: Ami Dang
Ami Dang | amidang.com
Amrita “Ami” Kaur Dang is a South Asian-American vocalist, sitarist, composer and producer from Baltimore. Her sound ranges from North Indian classical fused with noise/ambient electronics to beat-driven psych and experimental dance-pop. The work references her hybrid identity as a first-generation South Asian-American, Sikh upbringing, musical education, as well as the chaos and spirituality of the landscapes of both Baltimore and urban India.
support TBA
$10 advance | $15 dos
20:00 doors | 21:00 show
[sitar] [experimental] [electronic] [south asian]
outlet is a series of curated rozz-tox events focusing on quality experimental and electronic music and performances.
Amrita “Ami” Kaur Dang is a South Asian-American vocalist, sitarist, composer and producer from Baltimore. Her sound ranges from North Indian classical fused with noise/ambient electronics to beat-driven psych and experimental dance-pop. The work references her hybrid identity as a first-generation South Asian-American, Sikh upbringing, musical education, as well as the chaos and spirituality of the landscapes of both Baltimore and urban India.
support TBA
$10 advance | $15 dos
20:00 doors | 21:00 show
[sitar] [experimental] [electronic] [south asian]
outlet is a series of curated rozz-tox events focusing on quality experimental and electronic music and performances.
