enjoy a set from YAMAGUCHI RADIO while you read:
Yamaguchi Radio is a Rozz-Tox production of deejay sets that happen live in both our Rock Island & Guangzhou locations.
we're very happy to announce that we now own our building. thank you to everyone that supported us along this near 14 year journey, and especially this last fundraiser, which was instrumental in keeping us here. ya'll really are a wonderful community-- we're still here because of you. full stop.
here's to many more years! look out for a big ol terrace party in the spring to celebrate.
here's to many more years! look out for a big ol terrace party in the spring to celebrate.
IPR Article:
ROZZ-TOX: A CULTURAL OASIS ON IOWA'S EDGE
published 04 december 2024
ROZZ-TOX: A CULTURAL OASIS ON IOWA'S EDGE
published 04 december 2024
HOURS
wednesday 5pm-12am
thursday 5pm-12am
friday 5pm-12am
saturday 10am-12am
sunday 10am-3pm
CLOSED MONDAY+TUESDAY
wednesday 5pm-12am
thursday 5pm-12am
friday 5pm-12am
saturday 10am-12am
sunday 10am-3pm
CLOSED MONDAY+TUESDAY
PROGRAMME
saturday 22 march
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: TWIN TALK
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: TWIN TALK
TWIN TALK
twintalk.bandcamp.com/album/twin-talk-live
Since forming in 2012, Chicago’s Twin Talk has steadily drifted from the conventions of the saxophone trio. Saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, bassist-singer Katie Ernst, and drummer Andrew Green have spent their time on the band stage together making their music elastic, spontaneous, and open, embracing new inspirations without stifling the improvisational heart of their work. While all three musicians are active members in the city’s bustling jazz community, each playing in numerous working bands, they’ve found a true collective voice as Twin Talk. They use live performances as opportunities to stretch—expanding on composed material and ditching set lists in favor of calling tunes on the fly.
On their latest album Twin Talk Live, the trio blur the boundaries between near-telepathic collective improvisation and highly composed songs, resulting in a studio album with all the viscerality of their live shows. Twin Talk Live is out now on Shifting Paradigm Records.
For this concert Twin Talk will be playing two sets w/ an intermission.
$10 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this is an OUTLETProgramme presentation, a nonprofit (501c3) arts & culture community interest project that focuses on presenting sound artists, djs, experimental, avant-garde, electronic, and international artists. if you like what we're doing, or if you can't make it but want to help us continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
twintalk.bandcamp.com/album/twin-talk-live
Since forming in 2012, Chicago’s Twin Talk has steadily drifted from the conventions of the saxophone trio. Saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, bassist-singer Katie Ernst, and drummer Andrew Green have spent their time on the band stage together making their music elastic, spontaneous, and open, embracing new inspirations without stifling the improvisational heart of their work. While all three musicians are active members in the city’s bustling jazz community, each playing in numerous working bands, they’ve found a true collective voice as Twin Talk. They use live performances as opportunities to stretch—expanding on composed material and ditching set lists in favor of calling tunes on the fly.
On their latest album Twin Talk Live, the trio blur the boundaries between near-telepathic collective improvisation and highly composed songs, resulting in a studio album with all the viscerality of their live shows. Twin Talk Live is out now on Shifting Paradigm Records.
For this concert Twin Talk will be playing two sets w/ an intermission.
$10 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this is an OUTLETProgramme presentation, a nonprofit (501c3) arts & culture community interest project that focuses on presenting sound artists, djs, experimental, avant-garde, electronic, and international artists. if you like what we're doing, or if you can't make it but want to help us continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
wednesday 26 march
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: STILL HOUSE PLANTS
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: STILL HOUSE PLANTS
STILL HOUSE PLANTS
stillhouseplants.bandcamp.com/album/if-i-don-t-make-it-i-love-u
London-based experimental post-punk art-rock, analog-devoted trio Still House Plants formed during their studies at Glasgow School of Art in 2015. Melding their slowcore, emo and UK garage influences into an off-kilter, deconstructed musical project, the band champion live recordings and an impromptu performance style, which promises a different show each time.
"Still House Plants are the most vital band in Britain today, in every sense, and we will be blessed indeed if we get a better album from these shores all year." - The Guardian on the 2024 release If I don't make it, I love u
TRUE COMMANDO
truecommando.bandcamp.com/
Lurking in the Midwest, True Commando assaults listeners with a barrage of machine gun breaks and world shattering bass lines. Tracks are Duct taped together with uncleared samples, Morse code style synth and nails on chalkboard vocals.
$10 advance - ON SALE NOW
$15 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
stillhouseplants.bandcamp.com/album/if-i-don-t-make-it-i-love-u
London-based experimental post-punk art-rock, analog-devoted trio Still House Plants formed during their studies at Glasgow School of Art in 2015. Melding their slowcore, emo and UK garage influences into an off-kilter, deconstructed musical project, the band champion live recordings and an impromptu performance style, which promises a different show each time.
"Still House Plants are the most vital band in Britain today, in every sense, and we will be blessed indeed if we get a better album from these shores all year." - The Guardian on the 2024 release If I don't make it, I love u
TRUE COMMANDO
truecommando.bandcamp.com/
Lurking in the Midwest, True Commando assaults listeners with a barrage of machine gun breaks and world shattering bass lines. Tracks are Duct taped together with uncleared samples, Morse code style synth and nails on chalkboard vocals.
$10 advance - ON SALE NOW
$15 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this is an OUTLETProgramme presentation, a nonprofit (501c3) arts & culture community interest project that focuses on presenting sound artists, djs, experimental, avant-garde, electronic, and international artists. if you like what we're doing, or if you can't make it but want to help us continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
thursday 27 march
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: ALASH
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: ALASH
ALASH
alashensemble.com
Alash are master throat singers from Tuva, a tiny republic in the heart of Inner Asia. The ancient art of throat singing (xöömei) developed among the nomadic herdsmen of this region. Alash remains grounded in this tradition while expanding its musical vocabulary with new ideas from the West.
If you were at their show here last year then you already know how special this is, and if you weren't, we highly recommend treating yourself to this experience. We were able to cut this ticket price in half with the generous support from Illinois Arts Council.
$10 advance - ON SALE NOW
$15 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
alashensemble.com
Alash are master throat singers from Tuva, a tiny republic in the heart of Inner Asia. The ancient art of throat singing (xöömei) developed among the nomadic herdsmen of this region. Alash remains grounded in this tradition while expanding its musical vocabulary with new ideas from the West.
If you were at their show here last year then you already know how special this is, and if you weren't, we highly recommend treating yourself to this experience. We were able to cut this ticket price in half with the generous support from Illinois Arts Council.
$10 advance - ON SALE NOW
$15 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this concert is supported by the Illinois Arts Council, and is part of the arts & culture nonprofit OUTLETProgramme, an ongoing experimental concert series at ROZZ-TOX. OUTLETProgramme is a registered 501c3 nonprofit. if you like what we're doing, or if you can't make it to the show, and still want to help us continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
saturday 29 march
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
MELLIFLUOUS MACHINATIONS w/ BRAD KOPPLIN
[post-punk] [avant-pop] [prog pop]
homie brad getting behind the record bar for the first time, sharing some favorites.
free admission
all ages
8pm-1130pm
[post-punk] [avant-pop] [prog pop]
homie brad getting behind the record bar for the first time, sharing some favorites.
free admission
all ages
8pm-1130pm
friday 04 april
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: MARK TESTER + LANDON CALDWELL
w/ NICK YECK-STAUFFER
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: MARK TESTER + LANDON CALDWELL
w/ NICK YECK-STAUFFER
photo by April Knauber
MARK TESTER + LANDON CALDWELL
mediumsound.bandcamp.com/album/smiley-endless-smile-mix
marktester.bandcamp.com/
landoncaldwell.bandcamp.com/
Hailing from the trenches of Indianapolis, the collaborative project of Mark Tester and Landon Caldwell, oft known as Caldwell/Tester, navigates spaces of sound built over a decades long friendship, blending quotidian ambient textures and otherworldly sonic explorations. Operating out of their shared vision, they helm the Medium Sound label, a home for works of a common geography, psychic and/or midwestern. Their collaborative oeuvre channels an intuitive unity, capturing fleeting moments of improvisation, free-wheelin' electronic abstraction, and diverse explorations of rhythm.
They have a new album out on Medium Sound on 28 March. For this show they will each be playing a solo set, and then closing out with a duo set.
NICK YECK-STAUFFER
swampcircle.bandcamp.com/track/muvement-ii
Friend of Rozz-Tox Nick Yeck-Stauffer has been intuitively incorporating the trumpet into amplified outsider music since the late 2000’s, when he could find space for the voice in omnivorous basement noise across humid southern Illinois. In the past decade this has extended into a humble body of recorded collaborations with the likes of Landon Caldwell, Crazy Doberman, Alex Zhang Hungtai, and his own project Signal Decay. He will be performing a once off solo set snapshot drawing from the years of stumbled underground inheritance, stringing together hotwired odds and ends and blowing his horn into the coming storm, grinning.
$10 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this is an OUTLETProgramme presentation, a nonprofit (501c3) arts & culture community interest project that focuses on presenting sound artists, djs, experimental, avant-garde, electronic, and international artists. if you like what we're doing, or if you can't make it but want to help us continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
mediumsound.bandcamp.com/album/smiley-endless-smile-mix
marktester.bandcamp.com/
landoncaldwell.bandcamp.com/
Hailing from the trenches of Indianapolis, the collaborative project of Mark Tester and Landon Caldwell, oft known as Caldwell/Tester, navigates spaces of sound built over a decades long friendship, blending quotidian ambient textures and otherworldly sonic explorations. Operating out of their shared vision, they helm the Medium Sound label, a home for works of a common geography, psychic and/or midwestern. Their collaborative oeuvre channels an intuitive unity, capturing fleeting moments of improvisation, free-wheelin' electronic abstraction, and diverse explorations of rhythm.
They have a new album out on Medium Sound on 28 March. For this show they will each be playing a solo set, and then closing out with a duo set.
NICK YECK-STAUFFER
swampcircle.bandcamp.com/track/muvement-ii
Friend of Rozz-Tox Nick Yeck-Stauffer has been intuitively incorporating the trumpet into amplified outsider music since the late 2000’s, when he could find space for the voice in omnivorous basement noise across humid southern Illinois. In the past decade this has extended into a humble body of recorded collaborations with the likes of Landon Caldwell, Crazy Doberman, Alex Zhang Hungtai, and his own project Signal Decay. He will be performing a once off solo set snapshot drawing from the years of stumbled underground inheritance, stringing together hotwired odds and ends and blowing his horn into the coming storm, grinning.
$10 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this is an OUTLETProgramme presentation, a nonprofit (501c3) arts & culture community interest project that focuses on presenting sound artists, djs, experimental, avant-garde, electronic, and international artists. if you like what we're doing, or if you can't make it but want to help us continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
saturday 12 april
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: BRYAN DAY + BIGCAT
w/ LAZY HEX
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: BRYAN DAY + BIGCAT
w/ LAZY HEX
BRYAN DAY
flagdayrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/moldy-cushions
Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in the east bay. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials, he re-imagines them into constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late-1990s, he has built over a hundred sound object devices, from amplified measuring tape, hacked radio transceivers to electromechanical installations using magnets, hard drives and pendulums. His recorded work ranges from noisy electroacoustic improvisation to drony minimalism and audio collage, which is showcased in his projects Euphotic, Collision Stories and Seeded Plain. Day has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia and the Americas. During his days, he can be found designing, building, and repairing science museum exhibits at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
BIGCAT
warmgospel.bandcamp.com/album/high-and-dry
Chris Olson is a musician living in Oakland, CA. He records electro-acoustic music under the name of BigCat. Some of his work can be found on the labels Warm Gospel Tapes or Wormhole World. He also plays with Berkeley’s Gamelan Sari Raras, and moonlights as the drummer for local indie band Sarah Coolidge.
LAZY HEX
lazyhex.bandcamp.com/
Experimental Duo using minimal electronics/natural sound to create unique & unsettling improvised soundscapes.
$10 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this is an OUTLETProgramme presentation, a nonprofit (501c3) arts & culture community interest project that focuses on presenting sound artists, djs, experimental, avant-garde, electronic, and international artists. if you like what we're doing, or if you can't make it but want to help us continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
flagdayrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/moldy-cushions
Bryan Day is a sound artist, musical instrument inventor, and conceptual artist based in the east bay. Using scavenged electronics, repurposed mechanical components, and amplified materials, he re-imagines them into constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late-1990s, he has built over a hundred sound object devices, from amplified measuring tape, hacked radio transceivers to electromechanical installations using magnets, hard drives and pendulums. His recorded work ranges from noisy electroacoustic improvisation to drony minimalism and audio collage, which is showcased in his projects Euphotic, Collision Stories and Seeded Plain. Day has performed, taught workshops, and built sound installations across Europe, Asia and the Americas. During his days, he can be found designing, building, and repairing science museum exhibits at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
BIGCAT
warmgospel.bandcamp.com/album/high-and-dry
Chris Olson is a musician living in Oakland, CA. He records electro-acoustic music under the name of BigCat. Some of his work can be found on the labels Warm Gospel Tapes or Wormhole World. He also plays with Berkeley’s Gamelan Sari Raras, and moonlights as the drummer for local indie band Sarah Coolidge.
LAZY HEX
lazyhex.bandcamp.com/
Experimental Duo using minimal electronics/natural sound to create unique & unsettling improvised soundscapes.
$10 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this is an OUTLETProgramme presentation, a nonprofit (501c3) arts & culture community interest project that focuses on presenting sound artists, djs, experimental, avant-garde, electronic, and international artists. if you like what we're doing, or if you can't make it but want to help us continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
friday 18 april
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL
w/ GROUND WATER
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL
w/ GROUND WATER
BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL
brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/album/carry-them-with-us
Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes – the bellows-blown, mellower and more emotive cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes – and she’s taken them to the global stage. A native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, Brìghde roots her music in her language and culture. She draws inspiration from the world of interconnected piping traditions, and her most recent album brings in influence from ambient, avant garde and electronic music. Haunting, entrancing, breathtaking, beautiful – this open-eared, understatedly virtuosic performer is transforming and creating new definitions for Scottish folk in the 21st century.
"unforgettable deep atmosphere" - the guardian
"unique, exciting and forward-thinking" - the quietus
"mesmerising" - mark radcliffe, BBC radio 2
GROUND WATER
groundwater8.bandcamp.com/album/ground-water
Ground Water is the beautiful ambient pedal steel, field recordings & electronics project from Iowa City-based artist Dustin Busch.
$10 advance - ON SALE NOW
$15 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/album/carry-them-with-us
Brìghde Chaimbeul is a leading purveyor of celtic experimentalism and a master of the Scottish smallpipes – the bellows-blown, mellower and more emotive cousin to the famous Highland bagpipes – and she’s taken them to the global stage. A native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, Brìghde roots her music in her language and culture. She draws inspiration from the world of interconnected piping traditions, and her most recent album brings in influence from ambient, avant garde and electronic music. Haunting, entrancing, breathtaking, beautiful – this open-eared, understatedly virtuosic performer is transforming and creating new definitions for Scottish folk in the 21st century.
"unforgettable deep atmosphere" - the guardian
"unique, exciting and forward-thinking" - the quietus
"mesmerising" - mark radcliffe, BBC radio 2
GROUND WATER
groundwater8.bandcamp.com/album/ground-water
Ground Water is the beautiful ambient pedal steel, field recordings & electronics project from Iowa City-based artist Dustin Busch.
$10 advance - ON SALE NOW
$15 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this concert is supported by the Illinois Arts Council, and is part of the arts & culture nonprofit OUTLETProgramme, an ongoing experimental concert series at ROZZ-TOX. OUTLETProgramme is a registered 501c3 nonprofit. if you like what we're doing, or if you can't make it to the show, and still want to help us continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
wednesday 23 april
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: CIRCUIT DES YEUX
w/ NETOCHKA NEZVANOVA
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: CIRCUIT DES YEUX
w/ NETOCHKA NEZVANOVA
CIRCUIT DES YEUX
circuitdesyeux.bandcamp.com/album/halo-on-the-inside
Haley Fohr is a vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her 15 year career as Circuit des Yeux has grown into one of America’s most successful efforts to connect the personal to the universal. She is most distinctly identified by her 4-octave voice and unique style of 12 string guitar. Her recent works include an Original Soundtrack for Charles Bryant’s silent film Salomé (1923), commissioned by Opera North, her critically acclaimed 2021 album -io, and two LPs under the mysterious moniker of Jackie Lynn. She is touring with a full band in support of her newest release, Halo on the Inside, out on Matador Records on March 14.
NETOCHKA NEZVANOVA
netochkanezvanova.bandcamp.com/album/rot
Described by The Road to Sound as making “shadowy music that prickles on your skin” and “unafraid to be anything at all”, Netochka Nezvanova (Gabi Vanek) is a bassoonist who exists in a world of harsh noise and drone/doom. She’s performed as both an ensemble member and soloist at small and large festivals such as the Darmstädter Internationale Ferienkurse, International Double Reed Society, Oh My Ears, and exhibited at the Osaka University of the Arts Electro-Acoustic Music Festival. More likely, you’ll find her making noises in more “unconventional” spaces, like your local dive bar.
$20 advance - ON SALE NOW
$25 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
circuitdesyeux.bandcamp.com/album/halo-on-the-inside
Haley Fohr is a vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her 15 year career as Circuit des Yeux has grown into one of America’s most successful efforts to connect the personal to the universal. She is most distinctly identified by her 4-octave voice and unique style of 12 string guitar. Her recent works include an Original Soundtrack for Charles Bryant’s silent film Salomé (1923), commissioned by Opera North, her critically acclaimed 2021 album -io, and two LPs under the mysterious moniker of Jackie Lynn. She is touring with a full band in support of her newest release, Halo on the Inside, out on Matador Records on March 14.
NETOCHKA NEZVANOVA
netochkanezvanova.bandcamp.com/album/rot
Described by The Road to Sound as making “shadowy music that prickles on your skin” and “unafraid to be anything at all”, Netochka Nezvanova (Gabi Vanek) is a bassoonist who exists in a world of harsh noise and drone/doom. She’s performed as both an ensemble member and soloist at small and large festivals such as the Darmstädter Internationale Ferienkurse, International Double Reed Society, Oh My Ears, and exhibited at the Osaka University of the Arts Electro-Acoustic Music Festival. More likely, you’ll find her making noises in more “unconventional” spaces, like your local dive bar.
$20 advance - ON SALE NOW
$25 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this is an OUTLETProgramme presentation, a nonprofit (501c3) arts & culture community interest project that focuses on presenting sound artists, djs, experimental, avant-garde, electronic, and international artists. if you like what we're doing, or if you can't make it but want to help us continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
saturday 26 april
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: DIRECT MUTANT ACTION
w/ SYSTEMS.
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: DIRECT MUTANT ACTION
w/ SYSTEMS.
DIRECT MUTANT ACTION
directmutantaction.bandcamp.com
Directly inspired by, but not solely, both Álex de la Iglesia’s film Acción Mutante & Masayuki Takayanagi “Action Direct” modality - Direct Mutant Action - true spontaneous outsider live actions presenting possibly challenging sessions of abstract collaboration and sonically confrontational Fluxus Jazz happenings. The death rattle of traditional instrumentation is stretched & warped outward to explore New Possibilities in Cosmic Jazz. DIRECT MUTANT ACTION is Energy Music. Exploring widescreen vaporized astral zones in improvisational tripouts.
SYSTEMS.
systemsnoise.bandcamp.com/album/homespun
Rock Island based noise/sound collage project Systems. explores abstract sonic spaces mirroring equally abstract mental and emotional spaces emphasizing both processing and transformation of both recorded sounds and performed actions. For this particular performance Systems. will translate the motion of crochet into harsh, textured, and rhythmic sound.
$10 advance - ON SALE NOW
$15 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
directmutantaction.bandcamp.com
Directly inspired by, but not solely, both Álex de la Iglesia’s film Acción Mutante & Masayuki Takayanagi “Action Direct” modality - Direct Mutant Action - true spontaneous outsider live actions presenting possibly challenging sessions of abstract collaboration and sonically confrontational Fluxus Jazz happenings. The death rattle of traditional instrumentation is stretched & warped outward to explore New Possibilities in Cosmic Jazz. DIRECT MUTANT ACTION is Energy Music. Exploring widescreen vaporized astral zones in improvisational tripouts.
SYSTEMS.
systemsnoise.bandcamp.com/album/homespun
Rock Island based noise/sound collage project Systems. explores abstract sonic spaces mirroring equally abstract mental and emotional spaces emphasizing both processing and transformation of both recorded sounds and performed actions. For this particular performance Systems. will translate the motion of crochet into harsh, textured, and rhythmic sound.
$10 advance - ON SALE NOW
$15 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this is an OUTLETProgramme presentation, a nonprofit (501c3) arts & culture community interest project that focuses on presenting sound artists, djs, experimental, avant-garde, electronic, and international artists. if you like what we're doing, or if you can't make it but want to help us continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
friday 16 may
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
WOW & FLUTTER w/JAY BRYANT
[avant-garde] [art-rock] [electronic] [kosmische] [neo-classical] [synth-pop]
jay returns to the record bar with what looks to be a night full of music that fits the space very nicely. can't wait.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
[avant-garde] [art-rock] [electronic] [kosmische] [neo-classical] [synth-pop]
jay returns to the record bar with what looks to be a night full of music that fits the space very nicely. can't wait.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
sunday 18 may
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: TAKAAT (OF MDOU MOCTAR)
w/ NONNIE PARRY
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: TAKAAT (OF MDOU MOCTAR)
w/ NONNIE PARRY
TAKAAT (pronounced tuh-cot), meaning “noise” in the Tuareg language Tamashek, is the trio of Ahmoudou Madassane, Mikey Coltun, and Souleymane Ibrahim, also known as the rhythm section of Mdou Moctar. TAKAAT is sonic chaos, improvisation, freedom of exploration, and the punk styles of bands such as Fugazi and Unwound, all mixed together with the guitar music from the Sahel.
TAKAAT started during soundchecks while on the road with Mdou Moctar when the trio indulged their shared love for amps cranked to 11 and the sound of blown out speakers. Towards the end of 2023, the three started writing music together, inspired by their shared experiences with the sounds and energy of Hausa bar bands, gritty soukous, and 2000s post-punk. The music of TAKAAT is intense, dark, and energetic. Deeply inspired by the DIY ethos of punk, Ahmoudou, Mikey, and Souleymane capture that thrill of the new and the ecstasy of togetherness in these heavy rockers. TAKAAT follows in the spirit of the independent music culture that birthed hardcore basement shows, bedroom tape labels, and generator-powered pick-up wedding bands.
Is Noise Vol. 1 (10”) EP was recorded on a cold winter day in Washington, D.C direct to ½” tape. The band set up, took a short tea break, and banged out the four tunes in one take. Very little editing was done. All songs written by Alhassane Gajil and Ahmoudou Madassane except Ishumar written by Hasso Akotey. All songs arranged by TAKAAT.
NONNIE PARRY
minimal post-punk duo w/ drum machine, guitar & vox
nonnieparry.bandcamp.com/album/plexiglass-casket
$10 advance - TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH, 9AM
$15 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
TAKAAT started during soundchecks while on the road with Mdou Moctar when the trio indulged their shared love for amps cranked to 11 and the sound of blown out speakers. Towards the end of 2023, the three started writing music together, inspired by their shared experiences with the sounds and energy of Hausa bar bands, gritty soukous, and 2000s post-punk. The music of TAKAAT is intense, dark, and energetic. Deeply inspired by the DIY ethos of punk, Ahmoudou, Mikey, and Souleymane capture that thrill of the new and the ecstasy of togetherness in these heavy rockers. TAKAAT follows in the spirit of the independent music culture that birthed hardcore basement shows, bedroom tape labels, and generator-powered pick-up wedding bands.
Is Noise Vol. 1 (10”) EP was recorded on a cold winter day in Washington, D.C direct to ½” tape. The band set up, took a short tea break, and banged out the four tunes in one take. Very little editing was done. All songs written by Alhassane Gajil and Ahmoudou Madassane except Ishumar written by Hasso Akotey. All songs arranged by TAKAAT.
NONNIE PARRY
minimal post-punk duo w/ drum machine, guitar & vox
nonnieparry.bandcamp.com/album/plexiglass-casket
$10 advance - TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH, 9AM
$15 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this concert is supported by Quad City Arts, through the Arts Dollars re-granting program, supported by The Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency, The Hubbell-Waterman Foundation, and the Quad Cities Community Foundation - Isabel Bloom Art Education Endowment, and is part of the arts & culture nonprofit OUTLETProgramme, an ongoing experimental concert series at ROZZ-TOX. OUTLETProgramme is a registered 501c3 nonprofit. if you like what we're doing, or if you can't make it to the show, and still want to help us continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
saturday 24 may
RAGGED RECORDS PRESENTS: FACS
w/ GOD'S HAND
RAGGED RECORDS PRESENTS: FACS
w/ GOD'S HAND
FACS
wearefacs.bandcamp.com/album/wish-defense
Chicago trio FACS use minimalism and space to create abstract, modern art rock. The group evolved out of the dissolution of kranky artists Disappears & the current lineup features three former members of the group. Now on their sixth studio album, the group is set to release Wish Defense on February 7th, 2025.
GOD'S HAND
new Iowa City post-punk band ft members of other cool Iowa City bands, and a singer from the UK. RIYL The Fall
$20 advance - ON SALE NOW
$25 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
wearefacs.bandcamp.com/album/wish-defense
Chicago trio FACS use minimalism and space to create abstract, modern art rock. The group evolved out of the dissolution of kranky artists Disappears & the current lineup features three former members of the group. Now on their sixth studio album, the group is set to release Wish Defense on February 7th, 2025.
GOD'S HAND
new Iowa City post-punk band ft members of other cool Iowa City bands, and a singer from the UK. RIYL The Fall
$20 advance - ON SALE NOW
$25 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this show is presented by Ragged Records
friday 13 june
RAGGED RECORDS PRESENTS: THE TUBS
w/ SUBATLANTIC + CAMP REGRET
RAGGED RECORDS PRESENTS: THE TUBS
w/ SUBATLANTIC + CAMP REGRET
THE TUBS
thetubs.bandcamp.com/album/cotton-crown
post-punk Celtic jangle from the London-based Welsh band. This is their frist US tour-- let's show em some Quad City love. RIYL: Richard Thompson, Sebadoh, The Feelies
SUBATLANTIC
subatlantic.bandcamp.com/
sonorous dream-pop to crisp, danceable post-punk
CAMP REGRET
instagram.com/camp_regret/
Quad City post-punk
$15 advance - ON SALE NOW
$20 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
thetubs.bandcamp.com/album/cotton-crown
post-punk Celtic jangle from the London-based Welsh band. This is their frist US tour-- let's show em some Quad City love. RIYL: Richard Thompson, Sebadoh, The Feelies
SUBATLANTIC
subatlantic.bandcamp.com/
sonorous dream-pop to crisp, danceable post-punk
CAMP REGRET
instagram.com/camp_regret/
Quad City post-punk
$15 advance - ON SALE NOW
$20 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this show is presented by Ragged Records
