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.
HOURS
wednesday 5pm-11pm
thursday 5pm-11pm
friday 5pm-12am
saturday 10am-12am
sunday 10am-3pm
CLOSED MONDAY+TUESDAY
wednesday 5pm-11pm
thursday 5pm-11pm
friday 5pm-12am
saturday 10am-12am
sunday 10am-3pm
CLOSED MONDAY+TUESDAY
PROGRAMME
saturday 24 january
PROBLEMS + VENEREAL CRUSH
PROBLEMS + VENEREAL CRUSH
PROBLEMS
1manbandgod.bandcamp.com/
a one-person band from Chicago, led by Darren Keen. They make composer driven electronic music that is sometimes very fun, sometimes very beautiful, and usually quite excellent. PROBLEMS’ latest release “Enter the Annals” was released last year on The Record Machine.
The band has tour support history with Peaches, Dan Deacon, Lighting Bolt, Wolf Eyes, Mezerg, Pile, deaths dynamic shroud, and Giant Claw. In addition to extensive headline touring throughout North America and Europe, PROBLEMS has performed at festivals such as Lincoln Calling and Camp a Low Hum in New Zealand.
VENEREAL CRUSH
venerealcrush.bandcamp.com/
dark ambient free jazz drone from Dubuque/ QC
$10 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
1manbandgod.bandcamp.com/
a one-person band from Chicago, led by Darren Keen. They make composer driven electronic music that is sometimes very fun, sometimes very beautiful, and usually quite excellent. PROBLEMS’ latest release “Enter the Annals” was released last year on The Record Machine.
The band has tour support history with Peaches, Dan Deacon, Lighting Bolt, Wolf Eyes, Mezerg, Pile, deaths dynamic shroud, and Giant Claw. In addition to extensive headline touring throughout North America and Europe, PROBLEMS has performed at festivals such as Lincoln Calling and Camp a Low Hum in New Zealand.
VENEREAL CRUSH
venerealcrush.bandcamp.com/
dark ambient free jazz drone from Dubuque/ QC
$10 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
wednesday 28 january
PHILOSOPHY PUB
PHILOSOPHY PUB
Join us for our bimonthly Philosophy Pub, organized by Dr. Gould PhD (Augustana College)-- the discussion this month will be lead by Morgan Haskill (Augustana College '25)
Title: What Ought We Do Under Dictatorship?
Three Questions:
- What is the most ethical course of action for citizens belonging to an unjust system?
- Is it right not to act when not under an immediate threat?
- Is pacifism a viable ethical option for those under a dictatorship?
free & open
6-730PM
dekecainasgould.com/qc-philosophy-pub-archives/
Title: What Ought We Do Under Dictatorship?
Three Questions:
- What is the most ethical course of action for citizens belonging to an unjust system?
- Is it right not to act when not under an immediate threat?
- Is pacifism a viable ethical option for those under a dictatorship?
free & open
6-730PM
dekecainasgould.com/qc-philosophy-pub-archives/
friday 06 february
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
NOW OR NEVER (OR MAYBE LATER) W/ LUCAS BERNS
[post-everything] [experimental] [energetic] [weird]
it's that time of year again! need a break? take one! heck, take two. life can seem awfully weird (or weirdly awful?). maybe some music will help. free beer? probably. while supplies last. have a coffee, banh mi, pizza.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
[post-everything] [experimental] [energetic] [weird]
it's that time of year again! need a break? take one! heck, take two. life can seem awfully weird (or weirdly awful?). maybe some music will help. free beer? probably. while supplies last. have a coffee, banh mi, pizza.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
friday 13 february
TIME TRAVELERS VHS CINEMA: A 1980 SAVINI DOUBLE FEATURE
TIME TRAVELERS VHS CINEMA: A 1980 SAVINI DOUBLE FEATURE
this is the first of three friday the 13th's this year! and we're pulling out a couple of classic bangers that FX magician Tom Savini worked on, and both that were released into the world in 1980, at the start of the slasher boom.
7:00PM - FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)
dir. Sean Cunningham
runtime: 1h 36m
rated R
a film that needs little to no introduction. the one that launched the summer camp slasher subgenre as we know it, and solidified the slasher rules for years (and hundreds of films) that followed. "kill her, mommy!"
8:45PM - MANIAC (1980)
dir. William Lustig
runtime: 1h 27m
rated R
oh boy. this film. holy shit. a deranged momma boy serial killer played by Joe Spinell (who also wrote the screenplay) wanders the sordid 80s manhattan streets looking for women to scalp. Spinell's performance is incomparable. you'll feel like you're watching something you shouldn't be. "i warned you not to go out tonight."
free admission
17+ ages
* TIME TRAVELERS VHS CINEMA is a nod to the neighborhood videostore of our childhood-- TIME TRAVELERS on 23rd ave in moline illinois. all screenings will be VHS tapes with previews (if any). we will do our best to not pick tapes that are too worn to watch, but do not expect a high def 4k crystal clear picture. as with any 20-40 year old media, there are sometimes imperfections. we just love movies and wanna have fun and share our VHS collection.
7:00PM - FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)
dir. Sean Cunningham
runtime: 1h 36m
rated R
a film that needs little to no introduction. the one that launched the summer camp slasher subgenre as we know it, and solidified the slasher rules for years (and hundreds of films) that followed. "kill her, mommy!"
8:45PM - MANIAC (1980)
dir. William Lustig
runtime: 1h 27m
rated R
oh boy. this film. holy shit. a deranged momma boy serial killer played by Joe Spinell (who also wrote the screenplay) wanders the sordid 80s manhattan streets looking for women to scalp. Spinell's performance is incomparable. you'll feel like you're watching something you shouldn't be. "i warned you not to go out tonight."
free admission
17+ ages
* TIME TRAVELERS VHS CINEMA is a nod to the neighborhood videostore of our childhood-- TIME TRAVELERS on 23rd ave in moline illinois. all screenings will be VHS tapes with previews (if any). we will do our best to not pick tapes that are too worn to watch, but do not expect a high def 4k crystal clear picture. as with any 20-40 year old media, there are sometimes imperfections. we just love movies and wanna have fun and share our VHS collection.
saturday 21 february
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
CHROMESTHESIA W/ MARC HANS SHOWALTER
[electronic] [free improv] [experimental]
An exploration of experimental, psychedelic sounds from the past, present & future. Electronic Ethereal Obtuse Obscure outsider tracks that will let you hear the rainbow.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
[electronic] [free improv] [experimental]
An exploration of experimental, psychedelic sounds from the past, present & future. Electronic Ethereal Obtuse Obscure outsider tracks that will let you hear the rainbow.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
friday 27 february
DEATH CAFE
DEATH CAFE
a frank and fun discussion about death and dying, lead by death doula Lauren Gil-Hayes and anthropologist Adam Kaul.
post discussion: a curated musical coda exploring sonic themes of death and mortality with selector Jay Bryant.
free & open
all ages
discussion: 7-830PM
dj: 830PM-late
post discussion: a curated musical coda exploring sonic themes of death and mortality with selector Jay Bryant.
free & open
all ages
discussion: 7-830PM
dj: 830PM-late
thursday 05 march
FILMOSOFIA
FILMOSOFIA
filmosofia is an ongoing philosophy-based series that pairs a film with a reading selection, curated by Deke Gould PhD. dekecainasgould.com/filmosofia-archives/
the film:
MEMENTO (2000)
dir. Christopher Nolan
runtime: 1h 53m
format: VHS
reading selection: Descartes, excerpts from Meditations on First Philosophy (1641, Ariew & Cress, trans.) *free print copies available in the cafe
free admision
17+ ages (the film is rated “R”)
pre-screening discussion (informal) 630pm
screening 7pm
post-screening discussion to follow
the film:
MEMENTO (2000)
dir. Christopher Nolan
runtime: 1h 53m
format: VHS
reading selection: Descartes, excerpts from Meditations on First Philosophy (1641, Ariew & Cress, trans.) *free print copies available in the cafe
free admision
17+ ages (the film is rated “R”)
pre-screening discussion (informal) 630pm
screening 7pm
post-screening discussion to follow
saturday 14 march
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
FREQUENCIES FOR STRAYS W/ MS. CAT
[indie pop] [pop-punk] [rock]
belly up to the record bar for Cat's debut selector night.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
[indie pop] [pop-punk] [rock]
belly up to the record bar for Cat's debut selector night.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
friday 20 march
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: JJJJJEROME ELLIS + LIA KOHL + ZACHARY GOOD
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: JJJJJEROME ELLIS + LIA KOHL + ZACHARY GOOD
$20 advance - TICKETS ON SALE NOW
$25 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
JJJJJEROME ELLIS
jjjjjerome.bandcamp.com/album/vesper-sparrow
The work of JJJJJerome Ellis lives comfortably in the gaps between silence and possibility. The Black disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist creates atmospheric soundscapes with saxophone, organ, hammered dulcimer, electronics, and their voice. Improvisation is at the core of their artistry – often chipping away at large slabs of recordings to reveal the piece like a marble sculptor. It’s an expansive and interdisciplinary practice that allows JJJJJerome to adapt to any medium or form, including recorded music, live theatrical and performance art, scoring, spoken word and storytelling, and multimedia/visual works that incorporate sound.
Living as a person who stutters, using their mouth to express themselves proved difficult growing up. The practice of spelling their performance moniker “JJJJJerome” stems from the realization that the word they stutter most frequently is their own name. Despite a brief placement in speech therapy as a child, everything clicked when they picked up the saxophone in seventh grade. “I still stutter on the saxophone, but it’s different.” As an artist, their creative ethos now revolves around the exploration of stuttering through music, expounding upon the ability of each to shape time. They honor the stutter through art.
LIA KOHL
liakohl.bandcamp.com/album/various-small-whistles-and-a-song
Lia Kohl (b. New York, NY) is a composer and sound artist based in Chicago. Trained as a cellist, she also incorporates synthesizers, field recordings, toy instruments and radios into her work, searching for a balance between virtuosity and curiosity. She gravitates towards sound practices which reveal and speak to their time and place: field recording, improvisation, radio broadcast and transmission. She often focuses on mundane or pedestrian sounds – sounds which often go unnoticed or under-documented, searching for the profound, unknown, and beautiful in everyday life.
She performs as a soloist, a collaborator and composes works for ensembles. She has presented work and performed at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Union Station Chicago, Eckhart Park Pool, and Big Ears Festival. She has created sound installations for Experimental Sound Studios' Audible Gallery and Roman Susan Art Foundation. She has been a resident artist at ACRE, Vashon Artist Residency, High Concept Labs, dfbrl8r Performance Art Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Stanford University, and Mills College and a Transmission Art Fellow at Wave Farm. An active recording artist, she has arranged strings and recorded with Makaya McCraven, Circuit des Yeux, claire rousay, and Steve Hauschildt, among others. Her work has been featured in Pitchfork, The Quietus, The Chicago Tribune , The Wire Magazine, and Downbeat Magazine, and on NPR, NTS Radio, Kunstradio, BBC Radio 6 Music, Dublab, and WFMU. She has releases on Drag City, International Anthem, Moon Glyph, Longform Editions, and American Dreams Records. She tours nationally and internationally.
ZACHARY GOOD
add-dye-editions.bandcamp.com/album/lake-heritage
Zachary Good is a Chicago-based clarinetist, chamber musician, composer, and music educator. He is the clarinetist of the sextet Eighth Blackbird, a member of Ensemble Dal Niente, and Honestly Same. Zachary is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Northern Illinois University. Zachary Good’s music meticulously explores the contrapuntal and harmonic possibilities of quiet two-note multiphonics on the clarinet, creating the illusion of multiple clarinetists playing simultaneously. His music is quietly virtuosic, inspired by the intricacies of the clarinet and a love for Baroque nuance and form. Lake Heritage was released on Good's own record label, Add Dye Editions.
* this concert is supported by the Illinois Arts Council
$25 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
JJJJJEROME ELLIS
jjjjjerome.bandcamp.com/album/vesper-sparrow
The work of JJJJJerome Ellis lives comfortably in the gaps between silence and possibility. The Black disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist creates atmospheric soundscapes with saxophone, organ, hammered dulcimer, electronics, and their voice. Improvisation is at the core of their artistry – often chipping away at large slabs of recordings to reveal the piece like a marble sculptor. It’s an expansive and interdisciplinary practice that allows JJJJJerome to adapt to any medium or form, including recorded music, live theatrical and performance art, scoring, spoken word and storytelling, and multimedia/visual works that incorporate sound.
Living as a person who stutters, using their mouth to express themselves proved difficult growing up. The practice of spelling their performance moniker “JJJJJerome” stems from the realization that the word they stutter most frequently is their own name. Despite a brief placement in speech therapy as a child, everything clicked when they picked up the saxophone in seventh grade. “I still stutter on the saxophone, but it’s different.” As an artist, their creative ethos now revolves around the exploration of stuttering through music, expounding upon the ability of each to shape time. They honor the stutter through art.
LIA KOHL
liakohl.bandcamp.com/album/various-small-whistles-and-a-song
Lia Kohl (b. New York, NY) is a composer and sound artist based in Chicago. Trained as a cellist, she also incorporates synthesizers, field recordings, toy instruments and radios into her work, searching for a balance between virtuosity and curiosity. She gravitates towards sound practices which reveal and speak to their time and place: field recording, improvisation, radio broadcast and transmission. She often focuses on mundane or pedestrian sounds – sounds which often go unnoticed or under-documented, searching for the profound, unknown, and beautiful in everyday life.
She performs as a soloist, a collaborator and composes works for ensembles. She has presented work and performed at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Union Station Chicago, Eckhart Park Pool, and Big Ears Festival. She has created sound installations for Experimental Sound Studios' Audible Gallery and Roman Susan Art Foundation. She has been a resident artist at ACRE, Vashon Artist Residency, High Concept Labs, dfbrl8r Performance Art Gallery, Mana Contemporary, Stanford University, and Mills College and a Transmission Art Fellow at Wave Farm. An active recording artist, she has arranged strings and recorded with Makaya McCraven, Circuit des Yeux, claire rousay, and Steve Hauschildt, among others. Her work has been featured in Pitchfork, The Quietus, The Chicago Tribune , The Wire Magazine, and Downbeat Magazine, and on NPR, NTS Radio, Kunstradio, BBC Radio 6 Music, Dublab, and WFMU. She has releases on Drag City, International Anthem, Moon Glyph, Longform Editions, and American Dreams Records. She tours nationally and internationally.
ZACHARY GOOD
add-dye-editions.bandcamp.com/album/lake-heritage
Zachary Good is a Chicago-based clarinetist, chamber musician, composer, and music educator. He is the clarinetist of the sextet Eighth Blackbird, a member of Ensemble Dal Niente, and Honestly Same. Zachary is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Northern Illinois University. Zachary Good’s music meticulously explores the contrapuntal and harmonic possibilities of quiet two-note multiphonics on the clarinet, creating the illusion of multiple clarinetists playing simultaneously. His music is quietly virtuosic, inspired by the intricacies of the clarinet and a love for Baroque nuance and form. Lake Heritage was released on Good's own record label, Add Dye Editions.
* this concert is supported by the Illinois Arts Council
saturday 21 march
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
SIT NEXT BY US W/ LIS & SCOTTIE
[inde rock] [pop] [punk]
the Fellers are posting back up at the record bar on their anniversary to share some music with us. how sweet is that?
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
[inde rock] [pop] [punk]
the Fellers are posting back up at the record bar on their anniversary to share some music with us. how sweet is that?
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
SAT 04 APR 2026
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: KELLY MORAN (WARP RECORDS)
w/ RANDALL HALL
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: KELLY MORAN (WARP RECORDS)
w/ RANDALL HALL
KELLY MORAN
kellymoran.bandcamp.com/album/dont-trust-mirrors
Over the past decade, New York-based composer and producer Kelly Moran has challenged the piano's traditional, classically-imposed school of thought with a more contemporary, experimental approach. An accomplished and highly sought-after composer, Moran has collaborated and performed with FKA twigs and Oneohtrix Point Never as part of their live ensembles. Moran has also composed for classical musician Margaret Leng Tan and recorded collaborations with other visionary contemporaries like Kelsey Lu, Yves Tumor, The Avalanches, Helado Negro, Bibio, and more.
As a solo artist, Moran's critically acclaimed albums, Bloodroot and Ultraviolet, have explored a variety of extended piano techniques like John Cage-inspired prepared piano and exercises in improvisation. Her unique strand of experimental piano compositions, which conjure hypnotizing textures and dramatic compositional arcs, have been included on year-end lists across classical, avant-garde, and metal genres. Moran’s most recent album, Moves in the Field, was praised by the New York Times for being “a softhearted but steel-skinned set of 10 piano pieces that are as rapturous as a waterfall or as delicate as vapor. Her first album in six years, it is the redemptive conclusion in an extended span of personal tragedy and professional doubt, all ingrained in its sweeping songs.”
RANDALL HALL
randallhall.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacred-shouting-to-itself
Saxophonist, composer and improvisor RANDALL HALL moves at the sonic limits of the instrument to delve into the mythic, the esoteric, and the apophatic. As a leading interpreter of contemporary music for saxophone, his performances of new compositions and improvisations feature his mastery of extended techniques and cutting-edge electronics. Innova Recordings describes his music as “high-octane, supercharged sax” while The Wire says he plays with “utter confidence,” “fire and teeth,” and “unexpectedly tough beauty.”
$20 advance - TICKETS ON SALE NOW
$25 at the door
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this concert is supported by the Illinois Arts Council
kellymoran.bandcamp.com/album/dont-trust-mirrors
Over the past decade, New York-based composer and producer Kelly Moran has challenged the piano's traditional, classically-imposed school of thought with a more contemporary, experimental approach. An accomplished and highly sought-after composer, Moran has collaborated and performed with FKA twigs and Oneohtrix Point Never as part of their live ensembles. Moran has also composed for classical musician Margaret Leng Tan and recorded collaborations with other visionary contemporaries like Kelsey Lu, Yves Tumor, The Avalanches, Helado Negro, Bibio, and more.
As a solo artist, Moran's critically acclaimed albums, Bloodroot and Ultraviolet, have explored a variety of extended piano techniques like John Cage-inspired prepared piano and exercises in improvisation. Her unique strand of experimental piano compositions, which conjure hypnotizing textures and dramatic compositional arcs, have been included on year-end lists across classical, avant-garde, and metal genres. Moran’s most recent album, Moves in the Field, was praised by the New York Times for being “a softhearted but steel-skinned set of 10 piano pieces that are as rapturous as a waterfall or as delicate as vapor. Her first album in six years, it is the redemptive conclusion in an extended span of personal tragedy and professional doubt, all ingrained in its sweeping songs.”
RANDALL HALL
randallhall.bandcamp.com/album/the-sacred-shouting-to-itself
Saxophonist, composer and improvisor RANDALL HALL moves at the sonic limits of the instrument to delve into the mythic, the esoteric, and the apophatic. As a leading interpreter of contemporary music for saxophone, his performances of new compositions and improvisations feature his mastery of extended techniques and cutting-edge electronics. Innova Recordings describes his music as “high-octane, supercharged sax” while The Wire says he plays with “utter confidence,” “fire and teeth,” and “unexpectedly tough beauty.”
$20 advance - TICKETS ON SALE NOW
$25 at the door
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
* this concert is supported by the Illinois Arts Council
