2018 spring hours:
closed monday / tuesday - friday 5p-1a / saturday 11a-1a / sunday 11a-11p
closed monday / tuesday - friday 5p-1a / saturday 11a-1a / sunday 11a-11p
in memory of our mother, MARISA "MISSY" SORRELLS
we love you forever.
we love you forever.
11.11.58 - 12.09.17
MAY 2018
thursday 24 may
Benjamin Cartel / brooklyn
benjamincartel.com
Seth Knappen / QC
sethknappen.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
7p doors | 8p show
indie alt pop rock
benjamincartel.com
Seth Knappen / QC
sethknappen.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
7p doors | 8p show
indie alt pop rock
saturday 26 may
Alex Fest
Alex Fest
Harakiri / MN
harakiriofficial.bandcamp.com
Closet Witch / IA
closetwitch.bandcamp.com
Pulsing / QC
pulsing8bit.bandcamp.com
Bereft / WI
bereftwi.bandcamp.com
Better Now / TX
betternow.bandcamp.com
Sea of Trees / QC,MI
Avoid. / IA
avoidmusic.bandcamp.com
The Central / WI
thecentral.bandcamp.com
Piss Exorcist / IA
pissexorcist.bandcamp.com
Trophy Husband / KS
trophyhusband2.bandcamp.com
Chill Smith / QC
Everlasting Light / QC
Dee Pretion / IA
$10-15 sliding scale | all ages
3p - 11:30p
harakiriofficial.bandcamp.com
Closet Witch / IA
closetwitch.bandcamp.com
Pulsing / QC
pulsing8bit.bandcamp.com
Bereft / WI
bereftwi.bandcamp.com
Better Now / TX
betternow.bandcamp.com
Sea of Trees / QC,MI
Avoid. / IA
avoidmusic.bandcamp.com
The Central / WI
thecentral.bandcamp.com
Piss Exorcist / IA
pissexorcist.bandcamp.com
Trophy Husband / KS
trophyhusband2.bandcamp.com
Chill Smith / QC
Everlasting Light / QC
Dee Pretion / IA
$10-15 sliding scale | all ages
3p - 11:30p
sunday 27 may
Nordic Film Series
Nordic Film Series
Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult [I Am Curious (Yellow)]
a film by Vilgot Sjöman
1969 | Sweden | 2h 1m | drama | X
free admission | 18+ ages only
8p screening
a film by Vilgot Sjöman
1969 | Sweden | 2h 1m | drama | X
free admission | 18+ ages only
8p screening
JUNE 2018
friday 01 june
Step into the head and heart of one of of the QC's finest selectors. Dance your way through a 5 hour journey exploring sonic landscapes both familiar and unknown.
saturday 02 june
Mdou Moctar (sahel sounds) / niger
In the crowded scene of Tuareg guitarists, Mdou Moctar stands apart from his peers. Playing in the repertoire of desert guitar popularized by groups like Tinariwen and Bombino, Mdou is pushing the boundaries of the genre with a uniquely personal sound. With versatile compositions and genre-defying albums, Mdou's music has been an underground success with an international following, set on redefining the sound of the desert.
Mdou Moctar hails from a small village in the Azawagh desert of Niger, a remote region steeped in religious tradition. As a child, he taught himself to play a homemade guitar, cobbled together out of planks of wood. It was years later before he found a “real” guitar, teaching himself in secret. In an area where guitar music was all but prohibited, he quickly rose to the status of the local celebrity amongst the village youth.
Mdou Moctar and his band have toured Europe and North America, playing sold out shows from small DIY rock clubs in Portland to New York City's Lincoln Center. His music has been featured in the BBC, The Guardian, Pitchfork, New Yorker, L.A. Weekly, NPR, Rolling Stone, Les Inrocks, and his film continues to be screened at film festivals around the world. From underground star of Niger to international film star, Mdou Moctar has undoubtedly one of the quickest rises to success.
mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com
sahelsounds.com
$10 | all ages | event page | tickets (one free drink w tix bought online)
8p doors | 9p show
tuareg desert blues
In the crowded scene of Tuareg guitarists, Mdou Moctar stands apart from his peers. Playing in the repertoire of desert guitar popularized by groups like Tinariwen and Bombino, Mdou is pushing the boundaries of the genre with a uniquely personal sound. With versatile compositions and genre-defying albums, Mdou's music has been an underground success with an international following, set on redefining the sound of the desert.
Mdou Moctar hails from a small village in the Azawagh desert of Niger, a remote region steeped in religious tradition. As a child, he taught himself to play a homemade guitar, cobbled together out of planks of wood. It was years later before he found a “real” guitar, teaching himself in secret. In an area where guitar music was all but prohibited, he quickly rose to the status of the local celebrity amongst the village youth.
Mdou Moctar and his band have toured Europe and North America, playing sold out shows from small DIY rock clubs in Portland to New York City's Lincoln Center. His music has been featured in the BBC, The Guardian, Pitchfork, New Yorker, L.A. Weekly, NPR, Rolling Stone, Les Inrocks, and his film continues to be screened at film festivals around the world. From underground star of Niger to international film star, Mdou Moctar has undoubtedly one of the quickest rises to success.
mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com
sahelsounds.com
$10 | all ages | event page | tickets (one free drink w tix bought online)
8p doors | 9p show
tuareg desert blues
sunday 03 june
Outlet Presents
Outlet Presents
Carla Dal Forno (blackest ever black) / london
blackesteverblack.bandcamp.com
blackesteverblack.com
opening act:
Alex Body / iowa city
alexbody.bandcamp.com
Carla Dal Forno is an Australian born, Berlin/London based artist with albums out on Blackest Ever Black and regular DJ sets on NTS Radio.
You Know What It’s Like is an album for inbetween days, and occupies inbetween states: plain-speaking pop, disorientated by dub. Psychedelic folk delivered with (post-)punk economy. Drifting in space while still tethered to the ground. Astral tones blurred with earth sounds: wood, bone, breath, skin, dirt. Ending and beginning, dying and becoming. Longing for adventure and an unquiet life. Struggling to get out of bed.
New LP, Garden, out now!
$10 | all ages | event page | tickets (one free drink w tix bought online)
7p doors | 8p show
Outlet Series:
http://www.rozztox.com/outlet.html
delicate dreamy folk pop / electro dance punk
blackesteverblack.bandcamp.com
blackesteverblack.com
opening act:
Alex Body / iowa city
alexbody.bandcamp.com
Carla Dal Forno is an Australian born, Berlin/London based artist with albums out on Blackest Ever Black and regular DJ sets on NTS Radio.
You Know What It’s Like is an album for inbetween days, and occupies inbetween states: plain-speaking pop, disorientated by dub. Psychedelic folk delivered with (post-)punk economy. Drifting in space while still tethered to the ground. Astral tones blurred with earth sounds: wood, bone, breath, skin, dirt. Ending and beginning, dying and becoming. Longing for adventure and an unquiet life. Struggling to get out of bed.
New LP, Garden, out now!
$10 | all ages | event page | tickets (one free drink w tix bought online)
7p doors | 8p show
Outlet Series:
http://www.rozztox.com/outlet.html
delicate dreamy folk pop / electro dance punk
thursday 07 june
friday 08 june
Tomato Dodgers / MD
tomatododgers.bandcamp.com
Archeress / QC
archeressqc.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
8p doors | 9p show
new wave funk jazz / shoegaze
tomatododgers.bandcamp.com
Archeress / QC
archeressqc.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
8p doors | 9p show
new wave funk jazz / shoegaze
saturday 09 june
365 Horror Films X Factory of Fear Present
365 Horror Films X Factory of Fear Present
Child's Play I, II, III
patio screen films TBA
free admission | 17+ ages
indoor films start at 7p
outdoor films start at sundown
patio screen films TBA
free admission | 17+ ages
indoor films start at 7p
outdoor films start at sundown
thursday 14 june
monthly swing dance with beginners lesson
7-8pm beginners east coast swing lesson | 8-10 open dance
free (donations accepted) | no partner or experience necessary
7-8pm beginners east coast swing lesson | 8-10 open dance
free (donations accepted) | no partner or experience necessary
sunday 17 june
Nordic Film Series
Nordic Film Series
Persona
a film by Ingmar Bergman
1966 | Sweden | drama | 1h 21m | NR
screening in VHS format
free admission | 17+ ages
8p screening
a film by Ingmar Bergman
1966 | Sweden | drama | 1h 21m | NR
screening in VHS format
free admission | 17+ ages
8p screening
tuesday 19 june
Midwife / denver
midwifeco.bandcamp.com
American Grandma / denver
americangrandma.bandcamp.com
Kevin Greenspon / LA
kevingreenspon.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
7p doors | 8p show
ambient shoegaze / dream-pop / ambient left-field techno
midwifeco.bandcamp.com
American Grandma / denver
americangrandma.bandcamp.com
Kevin Greenspon / LA
kevingreenspon.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
7p doors | 8p show
ambient shoegaze / dream-pop / ambient left-field techno
thursday 21 june
Junetopia Day 1
Junetopia Day 1
Ceschi Ramos
soundcloud.com/ceschi
Finally Some Action
finallysomeaction.bandcamp.com
Nalani Proctor
nalaniproctor.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages | event page
6p doors | 7p show
All proceeds after venue & performer costs are split between Kings Harvest Pet Rescue No Kill Shelter 563 386 3117 / Kings Harvest Ministries & Humility of Mary Housing, Inc. / Humility of Mary Shelter, Inc.
photo: Michael Herrick Imaging
soundcloud.com/ceschi
Finally Some Action
finallysomeaction.bandcamp.com
Nalani Proctor
nalaniproctor.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages | event page
6p doors | 7p show
All proceeds after venue & performer costs are split between Kings Harvest Pet Rescue No Kill Shelter 563 386 3117 / Kings Harvest Ministries & Humility of Mary Housing, Inc. / Humility of Mary Shelter, Inc.
photo: Michael Herrick Imaging
friday 22 june
Mustard-In-Law / iowa city
BBjr / dubuque
Nonnie Parry / QC
Blue Movies / QC
Dog Hairs / QC
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
8p doors | 9p show
weirdo electro-coustic noise dark distorted minimal pop fuck jazz
BBjr / dubuque
Nonnie Parry / QC
Blue Movies / QC
Dog Hairs / QC
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
8p doors | 9p show
weirdo electro-coustic noise dark distorted minimal pop fuck jazz
saturday 23 june
Julian Lynch (of Real Estate) / WI
julianlynch.bandcamp.com
opening acts:
Gabriel Dowie
gabrieldowie.bandcamp.com
Johnnie Cluney
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
8p doors | 9p show
avant garde freak folk / psych pop
julianlynch.bandcamp.com
opening acts:
Gabriel Dowie
gabrieldowie.bandcamp.com
Johnnie Cluney
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
8p doors | 9p show
avant garde freak folk / psych pop
sunday 24 june
Circuit Des Yeux (drag city) / chicago
circuitdesyeux.com
circuitdesyeux.bandcamp.com
www.dragcity.com/artists/circuit-des-yeux
opening acts:
Aqualife / QC
aqualife.bandcamp.com
Anthony Worden / iowa city
anthonyworden.bandcamp.com
Vocalist, composer, and producer Haley Fohr has been CIRCUIT DES YEUX since she was eighteen years old. Born in the year of the Dragon in Indiana’s own “Star City” - that’s Lafayette IN - she released records regularly over the past decades; four full-length albums, along with several mini-albums and singles. Meanwhile, she has played shows everywhere, touring all the time. She has been based in Chicago since 2012.
All this was endeavored to be done out of necessity, in order for Haley to be Circuit des Yeux and for Circuit des Yeux to be Haley. The records and shows have been done in primarily DIY fashion, as a means of navigating the world, genuflecting with Sagittarian energy. Circuit des Yeux reflects from a singular angle, looking deeply, at times unblinkingly, at connections and collisions of the cerebral and the physical, with a sense of colloquial grit and an equally opaque transcendent spirit in her words and her music.
Circuit des Yeux is an ardent collaborator, numbering Glenn Branca, Lee Renaldo, Bill Orcutt, Bitchin Bajas & Bonny ‘Prince’ Billy and Olivia Block among her fellow performers. Circuit des Yeux has received enervated and affirmative commentary from The Quietus, NPR, New York Times, Chicago Reader, Brooklyn Rail, Pitchfork and The Wire, among many others. They have all made interesting speculations on her brand of entertainment. All we can tell you in addition is that she has a 4-octave range - at least on days when it isn’t raining.
$10 | all ages | event page | tickets (one free drink w tix bought online)
7p doors | 8p show
avant garde neo classical pop / minimal synth / new wave
circuitdesyeux.com
circuitdesyeux.bandcamp.com
www.dragcity.com/artists/circuit-des-yeux
opening acts:
Aqualife / QC
aqualife.bandcamp.com
Anthony Worden / iowa city
anthonyworden.bandcamp.com
Vocalist, composer, and producer Haley Fohr has been CIRCUIT DES YEUX since she was eighteen years old. Born in the year of the Dragon in Indiana’s own “Star City” - that’s Lafayette IN - she released records regularly over the past decades; four full-length albums, along with several mini-albums and singles. Meanwhile, she has played shows everywhere, touring all the time. She has been based in Chicago since 2012.
All this was endeavored to be done out of necessity, in order for Haley to be Circuit des Yeux and for Circuit des Yeux to be Haley. The records and shows have been done in primarily DIY fashion, as a means of navigating the world, genuflecting with Sagittarian energy. Circuit des Yeux reflects from a singular angle, looking deeply, at times unblinkingly, at connections and collisions of the cerebral and the physical, with a sense of colloquial grit and an equally opaque transcendent spirit in her words and her music.
Circuit des Yeux is an ardent collaborator, numbering Glenn Branca, Lee Renaldo, Bill Orcutt, Bitchin Bajas & Bonny ‘Prince’ Billy and Olivia Block among her fellow performers. Circuit des Yeux has received enervated and affirmative commentary from The Quietus, NPR, New York Times, Chicago Reader, Brooklyn Rail, Pitchfork and The Wire, among many others. They have all made interesting speculations on her brand of entertainment. All we can tell you in addition is that she has a 4-octave range - at least on days when it isn’t raining.
$10 | all ages | event page | tickets (one free drink w tix bought online)
7p doors | 8p show
avant garde neo classical pop / minimal synth / new wave
JULY 2018
thursday 19 july
Sam Moss - boston
sammoss.bandcamp.com
Sam Moss is a musician living in Boston. His discography ranges from early recordings of instrumental folk guitar to more recent lyrically centered efforts, including 2018’s Neon, which has been acclaimed by NPR and The Boston Globe. Since 2014 he has been regularly on tour, performing in all manner of venues: pubs, galleries, abandoned silos, living rooms, and the Newport Folk Festival. Moss is a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Marble House Project.
"Few fingerstyle guitarists have made the transition to singer-songwriter mode as gracefully as Sam Moss." - NPR
"Marvelous, resonating, magnetic stillness." - Boston Globe
“This fingerpicking guitar virtuoso characterizes the folk spirit in its finest sense.” - Paste
Her Crooked Heart - minneapois
hercrookedheart.bandcamp.com
HER CROOKED HEART is the new music of Rachel Ries – multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, rock & roll choir director, sideman, singer. Her Crooked Heart’s debut EP, To Gentlemen, and forthcoming album, To Love To Leave To Live, feature members of Bon Iver, Shane Leonard and string arrangements by the inimitable Rob Moose.
Along with numerous and diverse collaborators through the years – including Hadestown mastermind, Anaïs Mitchell – Rachel has proven herself ever-curious to expand her sound, her scope, and sail on past the confines of ‘singer-songwriter.’ After all, sometimes what the heart wants is poetry and a syncopated horn line; a string section and a bass synth – all leaving exultation and devastation in their wake.
opening act:
Liv Carrow
livcarrowmusic.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
7p doors | 8p show
finger-style folk songwriting
sammoss.bandcamp.com
Sam Moss is a musician living in Boston. His discography ranges from early recordings of instrumental folk guitar to more recent lyrically centered efforts, including 2018’s Neon, which has been acclaimed by NPR and The Boston Globe. Since 2014 he has been regularly on tour, performing in all manner of venues: pubs, galleries, abandoned silos, living rooms, and the Newport Folk Festival. Moss is a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Marble House Project.
"Few fingerstyle guitarists have made the transition to singer-songwriter mode as gracefully as Sam Moss." - NPR
"Marvelous, resonating, magnetic stillness." - Boston Globe
“This fingerpicking guitar virtuoso characterizes the folk spirit in its finest sense.” - Paste
Her Crooked Heart - minneapois
hercrookedheart.bandcamp.com
HER CROOKED HEART is the new music of Rachel Ries – multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, rock & roll choir director, sideman, singer. Her Crooked Heart’s debut EP, To Gentlemen, and forthcoming album, To Love To Leave To Live, feature members of Bon Iver, Shane Leonard and string arrangements by the inimitable Rob Moose.
Along with numerous and diverse collaborators through the years – including Hadestown mastermind, Anaïs Mitchell – Rachel has proven herself ever-curious to expand her sound, her scope, and sail on past the confines of ‘singer-songwriter.’ After all, sometimes what the heart wants is poetry and a syncopated horn line; a string section and a bass synth – all leaving exultation and devastation in their wake.
opening act:
Liv Carrow
livcarrowmusic.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
7p doors | 8p show
finger-style folk songwriting
friday 27 july
SeeYouSpaceCowboy
seeyouspacecowboyca.bandcamp.com
Closet Witch
closetwitch.bandcamp.com
Artorias
youtube.com/watch?v=KP0r5LSbWL4
Joint Dislocation
daggerscloaks.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
7p doors | 8p show
screamo metalcore noise
seeyouspacecowboyca.bandcamp.com
Closet Witch
closetwitch.bandcamp.com
Artorias
youtube.com/watch?v=KP0r5LSbWL4
Joint Dislocation
daggerscloaks.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
7p doors | 8p show
screamo metalcore noise
AUGUST 2018
thursday 02 august
Uniform (sacred bones) / NYC
unifuckingform.com
unifuckingform.bandcamp.com
sacredbonesrecords.com
Uniform formed in New York City in late 2013 when old friends Ben Greenberg (Hubble, The Men, Pygymy Shrews) and Michael Berdan (York Factory Complaint, Drunkdriver, Believer/Law) realized they lived on the same street. Their impulsive collaboration quickly yielded Our Blood / Of Sound Mind and Body single. The six tracks that comprise the equally abrasive but more refined Perfect World have been coming together between tours and work ever since.
The music that Greenberg and Berdan conjure up under the Uniform moniker is immediate, aggressive, and even primal in form, but it plumbs untold depths. Berdan’s venomous voice mines deeply personal themes of resentment, regret, reflection and addiction over the hum of Greenberg’s almost impossibly disciplined guitar, bass synth, and drum machine lines. Greenberg uses the word “templatized” to describe their approach to writing songs for Uniform.
$10 | all ages | event page | tickets (one free drink w tix bought online)
7p doors | 8p show
heavy industrial noise
unifuckingform.com
unifuckingform.bandcamp.com
sacredbonesrecords.com
Uniform formed in New York City in late 2013 when old friends Ben Greenberg (Hubble, The Men, Pygymy Shrews) and Michael Berdan (York Factory Complaint, Drunkdriver, Believer/Law) realized they lived on the same street. Their impulsive collaboration quickly yielded Our Blood / Of Sound Mind and Body single. The six tracks that comprise the equally abrasive but more refined Perfect World have been coming together between tours and work ever since.
The music that Greenberg and Berdan conjure up under the Uniform moniker is immediate, aggressive, and even primal in form, but it plumbs untold depths. Berdan’s venomous voice mines deeply personal themes of resentment, regret, reflection and addiction over the hum of Greenberg’s almost impossibly disciplined guitar, bass synth, and drum machine lines. Greenberg uses the word “templatized” to describe their approach to writing songs for Uniform.
$10 | all ages | event page | tickets (one free drink w tix bought online)
7p doors | 8p show
heavy industrial noise
friday 17 august
Charlie Kirchen Quartet / chicago
youtube.com/watch
The Charlie Kirchen Quartet is the latest project from Chicago-based composer/improvisor/bassist/theorist, Charlie Kirchen. Drawing on a sensibility informed by jazz, certain strains of 20th century classical music, and various folk traditions, Kirchen's music is focused on finding a balance between a visceral free-improvised expression and logically rigorous melodic, harmonic, and formal frameworks.
Nick Mazzarella - alto saxophone
Dave Miller - guitar
Charlie Kirchen - bass and ink
Devin Drobka - drums
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
8p doors | 9p show
free jazz neo-classical noise
youtube.com/watch
The Charlie Kirchen Quartet is the latest project from Chicago-based composer/improvisor/bassist/theorist, Charlie Kirchen. Drawing on a sensibility informed by jazz, certain strains of 20th century classical music, and various folk traditions, Kirchen's music is focused on finding a balance between a visceral free-improvised expression and logically rigorous melodic, harmonic, and formal frameworks.
Nick Mazzarella - alto saxophone
Dave Miller - guitar
Charlie Kirchen - bass and ink
Devin Drobka - drums
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
8p doors | 9p show
free jazz neo-classical noise
wednesday 22 august
Outlet Presents
Outlet Presents
Efrim Manuel Menuck - godspeed you black emperor founding member
efrimmanuelmenuck.bandcamp.com
opening acts:
Archeress
archeressqc.bandcamp.com
Bob Bucko Jr.
bobbuckojr.bandcamp.com
Outlet Series:
http://www.rozztox.com/outlet.html
$15 | all ages | event page | tickets (free drink w advance tix)
7p doors | 8p show
hypnotic loud electronic drone
efrimmanuelmenuck.bandcamp.com
opening acts:
Archeress
archeressqc.bandcamp.com
Bob Bucko Jr.
bobbuckojr.bandcamp.com
Outlet Series:
http://www.rozztox.com/outlet.html
$15 | all ages | event page | tickets (free drink w advance tix)
7p doors | 8p show
hypnotic loud electronic drone
SEPTEMBER 2018
tuesday 11 september
Loud Sun - minneapolis
loudsun.bandcamp.com
Devata Daun - minneapolis
devatadaun.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
7p doors | 8p show
lofi bedroom pop / electronic darkwave
loudsun.bandcamp.com
Devata Daun - minneapolis
devatadaun.bandcamp.com
$5-10 sliding scale | all ages
7p doors | 8p show
lofi bedroom pop / electronic darkwave
