Yamaguchi Radio is an archive of deejay sets that happen live in both our Rock Island & Guangzhou locations. Press play before scrolling down to listen while you read about our upcoming events. Enjoy!
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
friday 15 may
TIME TRAVELERS VHS CINEMA X LATCHKEY MOVIE CLUB PRESENT:
DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978)
TIME TRAVELERS VHS CINEMA X LATCHKEY MOVIE CLUB PRESENT:
DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978)
DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) - the US theatrical cut aka the Romero version
dir. George A. Romero
runtime: 2h 06m
R
Possibly the most iconic zombie movie to date, Romero’s brilliant satire sequel to Night of the Living Dead has a lot of fun with social commentary on consumerism and some fantastic gore fx, all while keeping the bleakness of a zombie apocalypse in perspective. this is also the film that catapulted Tom Savini into a horror-household name. Italian maestro filmmaker Dario Argento co-produced this film and he and Romero wrote the script together in Italy, which no doubt influenced the films european arthouse sensibilities.
This tape is on loan for this screening by Jesse Codling. It’s the first VHS release of this film, and was distributed by Thorn EMI Video in 1983. It’s a very clean tape — really impressive for a being 40+ years old.
free admission
17+ ages
8pm screening
poster by Jesse Codling
dir. George A. Romero
runtime: 2h 06m
R
Possibly the most iconic zombie movie to date, Romero’s brilliant satire sequel to Night of the Living Dead has a lot of fun with social commentary on consumerism and some fantastic gore fx, all while keeping the bleakness of a zombie apocalypse in perspective. this is also the film that catapulted Tom Savini into a horror-household name. Italian maestro filmmaker Dario Argento co-produced this film and he and Romero wrote the script together in Italy, which no doubt influenced the films european arthouse sensibilities.
This tape is on loan for this screening by Jesse Codling. It’s the first VHS release of this film, and was distributed by Thorn EMI Video in 1983. It’s a very clean tape — really impressive for a being 40+ years old.
free admission
17+ ages
8pm screening
poster by Jesse Codling
saturday 16 may
OUTLETProgramme Presents: LOLINA
w/ DESERT LIMINAL
OUTLETProgramme Presents: LOLINA
w/ DESERT LIMINAL
$20 DOOR / $15 ADVANCE / $10 MEMBERS
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
LOLINA
https://lolina.bandcamp.com/
Lolina is a London-based electronic and digital musician, also known for her past projects as Inga Copeland. She was a member of the band Hype Williams between 2009 and 2013. Lolina’s releases and live performances evolved through experiments with recording and playback equipment. She also runs the label Relaxin' Records, releasing some of the most interesting electronic music from the London underground and beyond.
"In her third reincarnation. A paraphonic sound emerges from the complicated connection between notes merging and not quite. The emphasis is not on the definite. Beats mix together—sometimes aligned, sometimes not—following the logic of the equipment. The intention is deliberate. The same question is approached each time with different material —Lolina went looking for Music... A very literal system, working with media players, records, bass, analogue and digital synthesisers. Tracks form in the process with outcomes not entirely predictable, but her music, to the listener, is inherently recognisable."
- Kaivalya Brewerton
DESERT LIMINAL
https://desertliminal.bandcamp.com/
Desert Liminal's unique sound centers dream-like poetry and looping vocal melody within a cloud of analog synth textures. DL's songwriting strength lies in alchemizing bleak moments into a beautiful and distant landscape.
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
LOLINA
https://lolina.bandcamp.com/
Lolina is a London-based electronic and digital musician, also known for her past projects as Inga Copeland. She was a member of the band Hype Williams between 2009 and 2013. Lolina’s releases and live performances evolved through experiments with recording and playback equipment. She also runs the label Relaxin' Records, releasing some of the most interesting electronic music from the London underground and beyond.
"In her third reincarnation. A paraphonic sound emerges from the complicated connection between notes merging and not quite. The emphasis is not on the definite. Beats mix together—sometimes aligned, sometimes not—following the logic of the equipment. The intention is deliberate. The same question is approached each time with different material —Lolina went looking for Music... A very literal system, working with media players, records, bass, analogue and digital synthesisers. Tracks form in the process with outcomes not entirely predictable, but her music, to the listener, is inherently recognisable."
- Kaivalya Brewerton
DESERT LIMINAL
https://desertliminal.bandcamp.com/
Desert Liminal's unique sound centers dream-like poetry and looping vocal melody within a cloud of analog synth textures. DL's songwriting strength lies in alchemizing bleak moments into a beautiful and distant landscape.
saturday 23 may
OUTLETProgramme Presents: STEIN/ SMITH/ SHEAD
w/ GABI VANEK
OUTLETProgramme Presents: STEIN/ SMITH/ SHEAD
w/ GABI VANEK
$15 DOOR / $10 ADVANCE
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
STEIN/ SMITH/ SHEAD
irritablemysticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hum
Jason Stein - bass clarinet
Damon Smith - double bass
Adam Shead - drums/percussion
Jason Stein — Damon Smith — Adam Shead (often billed as Stein/Smith/Shead) is a Chicago-rooted improvising trio uniting bass clarinetist Jason Stein, double bassist Damon Smith, and percussionist Adam Shead. Since forming in late 2021, the group has toured extensively across the Midwest and beyond, becoming a fixture in the creative music circuit and collaborating with influential figures such as Roscoe Mitchell. Their recorded work documents a remarkably productive period, encompassing four releases: Volumes & Surfaces (2022), Hum (2023), spi-raling horn with Marilyn Crispell (2024), and Live at the Hungry Brain with Marilyn Crispell (2025). Together, these albums trace the group’s evolution from kinetic, small-ensemble interplay toward expansive collaborations that bridge generations of avant-jazz practice.
Critics have consistently praised the trio’s fearless energy and deep listening. All About Jazz described Volumes & Surfaces as “undiluted free jazz with energy as its calling card and attention as its driver,” while The Free Jazz Collective called their collaboration with Marilyn Crispell “stunning” and “full of muscular interplay.” Known for their balance of precision and volatility, Stein/Smith/Shead channel the improvisational lineage of Chicago’s creative music scene into a sound that is at once restless, focused, and alive to the moment.
GABI VANEK
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”, 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.
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
STEIN/ SMITH/ SHEAD
irritablemysticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hum
Jason Stein - bass clarinet
Damon Smith - double bass
Adam Shead - drums/percussion
Jason Stein — Damon Smith — Adam Shead (often billed as Stein/Smith/Shead) is a Chicago-rooted improvising trio uniting bass clarinetist Jason Stein, double bassist Damon Smith, and percussionist Adam Shead. Since forming in late 2021, the group has toured extensively across the Midwest and beyond, becoming a fixture in the creative music circuit and collaborating with influential figures such as Roscoe Mitchell. Their recorded work documents a remarkably productive period, encompassing four releases: Volumes & Surfaces (2022), Hum (2023), spi-raling horn with Marilyn Crispell (2024), and Live at the Hungry Brain with Marilyn Crispell (2025). Together, these albums trace the group’s evolution from kinetic, small-ensemble interplay toward expansive collaborations that bridge generations of avant-jazz practice.
Critics have consistently praised the trio’s fearless energy and deep listening. All About Jazz described Volumes & Surfaces as “undiluted free jazz with energy as its calling card and attention as its driver,” while The Free Jazz Collective called their collaboration with Marilyn Crispell “stunning” and “full of muscular interplay.” Known for their balance of precision and volatility, Stein/Smith/Shead channel the improvisational lineage of Chicago’s creative music scene into a sound that is at once restless, focused, and alive to the moment.
GABI VANEK
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”, 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.
thursday 28 may
SPECTRA READING SERIES: MWC PRESS CHAPBOOK RELEASE fea. JENNA GOLDSMITH & BRITTANY JAEKEL
SPECTRA READING SERIES: MWC PRESS CHAPBOOK RELEASE fea. JENNA GOLDSMITH & BRITTANY JAEKEL
7pm - Open Mic
8pm - Featured Reading: Jenna Goldsmith & Brittany Jaekel
Free & Open
Jenna Goldsmith is a poet, writer, and educator living in the Midwest. Her first full-length poetry collection, The Worse for Wear (Cornerstone Press/UW Stevens Point) was be published in January, 2026. She directs the Oregon State University Cascades low-residency MFA Program in Writing and was City Poet Laureate of Rockford, Illinois from 2023-2025. Her chapbook, Pineapple Darling, is forthcoming from MWC Pres.
Brittany N. Jaekel writes from the outer reaches of the Twin Cities. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in RHINO, $: Poetry is Currency, MER (Mom Egg Review), Third Wednesday, Right Hand Pointing, Club Plum Literary Journal, and elsewhere. She serves on the editorial team at Great Lakes Review and recently joined the board of directors of her local American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) chapter. Her chapbook, The Witch's Mouth, is forthcoming from MWC Press. Connect with Brittany at brittanynjaekel.com
www.mwcqc.org/
8pm - Featured Reading: Jenna Goldsmith & Brittany Jaekel
Free & Open
Jenna Goldsmith is a poet, writer, and educator living in the Midwest. Her first full-length poetry collection, The Worse for Wear (Cornerstone Press/UW Stevens Point) was be published in January, 2026. She directs the Oregon State University Cascades low-residency MFA Program in Writing and was City Poet Laureate of Rockford, Illinois from 2023-2025. Her chapbook, Pineapple Darling, is forthcoming from MWC Pres.
Brittany N. Jaekel writes from the outer reaches of the Twin Cities. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in RHINO, $: Poetry is Currency, MER (Mom Egg Review), Third Wednesday, Right Hand Pointing, Club Plum Literary Journal, and elsewhere. She serves on the editorial team at Great Lakes Review and recently joined the board of directors of her local American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) chapter. Her chapbook, The Witch's Mouth, is forthcoming from MWC Press. Connect with Brittany at brittanynjaekel.com
www.mwcqc.org/
saturday 30 may
OUTLETProgramme Presents: WATER IS THE SUN + BOY DIRT CAR + POST DOOM ROMANCE
OUTLETProgramme Presents: WATER IS THE SUN + BOY DIRT CAR + POST DOOM ROMANCE
$15 DOOR / $10 ADVANCE
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
WATER IS THE SUN
https://wateristhesun.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-fever
There are moments of silent depth in which the winter of the scalpel of meaning and the spring of the sound-born, unleashed body look upon the world fully present. When the notes at last are heard, the ordered world is their indistinguishable score. The ritual of process is that which carries. The process of ritual is that which brings moments both transitory and immortal, apprehended by musician, seer, clairvoyant, herald; the welling tones that emanate from the crystal salt of shattered primordial sea; the melody that creeps unheard from unseen distance across the desert blaze; the hymns that blare in whispers from mountain peak and valley depth, beams of their power streaming into the ordered world, in confluence with body, voice and soul, dissolving it again and again.
Water is the Sun is the inevitable union of Mkl Anderson (Drekka), and Adam Parks (Timber Rattle / Lightning White Bison). Together they play an alchemical amalgam of their primary projects, resulting in cinematic / landscape textures that give slow birth to psyche-pastorals and intoned ritual songs; a music as informed by the devotional chants of West Coast cults and Appalachian hymns as it is by the dark new age and ambient resonance of the experimental scene that has embraced and supported both musicians for many years.
"Ritual Fever" - with its dual reference to an ecstatic state connected with nature, and an anxious lack in the context of modern-day alienation - is Water Is The Sun's first co-written / co-produced recording. It is a sculpted studio document of a fully realized work which they present in its entirety during their live performance.
In both environments, the duo willfully inhabits the liminal region between the colorful, diverse palette and improvisational possibilities of abstract sound, and more concrete universal song structures. A foundation of becoming embraces the radical aspects of experimental means and aesthetics - even hearkening to a timeless primordial - culminating intermittently in the being of meditative folk-inspired compositions; intentional and accessible gestures that strive for an authentic shared feeling in the context of a world where social energy, information, sound and meaning are increasingly dissipate.
The album is recorded - as the live set is performed - with old tape machines, keyboards and field-/found-recordings; materials and instruments with capabilities and limitations which keep Water Is The Sun's offering grounded in the physicality of playing music that is rooted in a celebratory world of sound.
"Ritual Fever" will be released on March 20th, 2026 on Trome Records, UK (LP) and Tocco Magico, IT (CASSETTE).
BOY DIRT CAR
https://boydirtcar.bandcamp.com/album/black-house-for-scott-2
Founded in 1981, Outlaws, Outsiders and Artifacts have played a part of Boy Dirt Car from the very inception. Along with the nightmarish chaos and improvisation that has exposed evidence of a decaying culture in 1980’s abandoned soundscapes. These sounds have now been replaced with an artifact that echoes the final vision of destruction of the western world.
"...Why bother with Boy Dirt Car? For the simple reason that they are one of the great missing links in '80s U.S. punk-noise underground culture”.
post doom romance
https://postdoomromance.bandcamp.com/music
What Mykel Boyd and seah (Chelsea Heikes) have in common when forming their collaborative artist group, post doom romance, is a keen eye and ear for textures. In both sound and image, we have been solo artists working both in the music industry and the fine arts world. Together, producing sound, video, and still image compositions that are sensitively layered and textural. Our aesthetic is such that we do not heavy-handedly depict. Rather, we ruminate together in the feeling space of both literary and physical spaces, building our aural and visual language through subtle layering of manipulated field recordings. post doom romance will be performing pieces from their upcoming release titled “the way of what is to come”.
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
WATER IS THE SUN
https://wateristhesun.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-fever
There are moments of silent depth in which the winter of the scalpel of meaning and the spring of the sound-born, unleashed body look upon the world fully present. When the notes at last are heard, the ordered world is their indistinguishable score. The ritual of process is that which carries. The process of ritual is that which brings moments both transitory and immortal, apprehended by musician, seer, clairvoyant, herald; the welling tones that emanate from the crystal salt of shattered primordial sea; the melody that creeps unheard from unseen distance across the desert blaze; the hymns that blare in whispers from mountain peak and valley depth, beams of their power streaming into the ordered world, in confluence with body, voice and soul, dissolving it again and again.
Water is the Sun is the inevitable union of Mkl Anderson (Drekka), and Adam Parks (Timber Rattle / Lightning White Bison). Together they play an alchemical amalgam of their primary projects, resulting in cinematic / landscape textures that give slow birth to psyche-pastorals and intoned ritual songs; a music as informed by the devotional chants of West Coast cults and Appalachian hymns as it is by the dark new age and ambient resonance of the experimental scene that has embraced and supported both musicians for many years.
"Ritual Fever" - with its dual reference to an ecstatic state connected with nature, and an anxious lack in the context of modern-day alienation - is Water Is The Sun's first co-written / co-produced recording. It is a sculpted studio document of a fully realized work which they present in its entirety during their live performance.
In both environments, the duo willfully inhabits the liminal region between the colorful, diverse palette and improvisational possibilities of abstract sound, and more concrete universal song structures. A foundation of becoming embraces the radical aspects of experimental means and aesthetics - even hearkening to a timeless primordial - culminating intermittently in the being of meditative folk-inspired compositions; intentional and accessible gestures that strive for an authentic shared feeling in the context of a world where social energy, information, sound and meaning are increasingly dissipate.
The album is recorded - as the live set is performed - with old tape machines, keyboards and field-/found-recordings; materials and instruments with capabilities and limitations which keep Water Is The Sun's offering grounded in the physicality of playing music that is rooted in a celebratory world of sound.
"Ritual Fever" will be released on March 20th, 2026 on Trome Records, UK (LP) and Tocco Magico, IT (CASSETTE).
BOY DIRT CAR
https://boydirtcar.bandcamp.com/album/black-house-for-scott-2
Founded in 1981, Outlaws, Outsiders and Artifacts have played a part of Boy Dirt Car from the very inception. Along with the nightmarish chaos and improvisation that has exposed evidence of a decaying culture in 1980’s abandoned soundscapes. These sounds have now been replaced with an artifact that echoes the final vision of destruction of the western world.
"...Why bother with Boy Dirt Car? For the simple reason that they are one of the great missing links in '80s U.S. punk-noise underground culture”.
post doom romance
https://postdoomromance.bandcamp.com/music
What Mykel Boyd and seah (Chelsea Heikes) have in common when forming their collaborative artist group, post doom romance, is a keen eye and ear for textures. In both sound and image, we have been solo artists working both in the music industry and the fine arts world. Together, producing sound, video, and still image compositions that are sensitively layered and textural. Our aesthetic is such that we do not heavy-handedly depict. Rather, we ruminate together in the feeling space of both literary and physical spaces, building our aural and visual language through subtle layering of manipulated field recordings. post doom romance will be performing pieces from their upcoming release titled “the way of what is to come”.
thursday 04 june
FILMOSOFIA
FILMOSOFIA
free community film screening and reading discussion with philosophical themes hosted by Deke Gould PhD (Augustana College)
the film:
WAKING LIFE (2001)
dir. Linklater
runtime: 1h 41m
format: VHS
reading selection: Plato, “Allegory of the Cave”, from Republic (399 BCE, Grube & Reeve, trans.)
*free print copies available in the cafe
https://dekecainasgould.com/filmosofia-archives/
the film:
WAKING LIFE (2001)
dir. Linklater
runtime: 1h 41m
format: VHS
reading selection: Plato, “Allegory of the Cave”, from Republic (399 BCE, Grube & Reeve, trans.)
*free print copies available in the cafe
https://dekecainasgould.com/filmosofia-archives/
saturday 06 june
SOUND IN SPACE X OUTLETProgramme Present: HIEROGLYPHIC BEING
w/ SAMUEL P.
SOUND IN SPACE X OUTLETProgramme Present: HIEROGLYPHIC BEING
w/ SAMUEL P.
$15 door / $10 advance
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
HIEROGLYPHIC BEING
https://hieroglyphicbeingsts.bandcamp.com/album/dance-music-4-bad-people
Jamal Moss has been making music in Chicago under the moniker Hieroglyphic Being since 1994. His music is deeply rooted in the influential house and techno scenes of the city but also draws on the avant-garde and jazz. His music is both dark and transcendent, mechanical and organic. - Zakia
His list of acheivements are long, but among them are: opening for The Sun RA Arkestra, Kamasi Washington, William Basinski, Actress, Dean Blunt, Jon Maus, James Holden, Theo Parrish, Wolf Eyes, and Laraaji; label commissions from Warp Records, Ninja Tune, SmallTown SuperSound, Ghostly, RVNG and Soul Jazz Records; performed at venues such as Berghain, Cafe OTO, Tate Modern, MOMA PS1, Tresor, and Golden Pudel. Hieroglyphic Being was voted in top 200 best electronic music releases in 25 years ranked #170 by Resident Advisor, and has released over 100 recordings since 1996 by various artists on his label, Mathematics Recordings.
For this gig he will perform a 2hr live electronic set. holy shit.
SAMUEL P.
https://soundcloud.com/samueljp
The man behind the Sound In Space series, Samuel P. is a local QC record-collector & DJ. A music enthusiast from a young age, he fell in love with record collecting during his time living in Chicago. When Samuel's behind the decks you can expect to hear everything from jazz to disco to house music with a few surprises mixed in.
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
HIEROGLYPHIC BEING
https://hieroglyphicbeingsts.bandcamp.com/album/dance-music-4-bad-people
Jamal Moss has been making music in Chicago under the moniker Hieroglyphic Being since 1994. His music is deeply rooted in the influential house and techno scenes of the city but also draws on the avant-garde and jazz. His music is both dark and transcendent, mechanical and organic. - Zakia
His list of acheivements are long, but among them are: opening for The Sun RA Arkestra, Kamasi Washington, William Basinski, Actress, Dean Blunt, Jon Maus, James Holden, Theo Parrish, Wolf Eyes, and Laraaji; label commissions from Warp Records, Ninja Tune, SmallTown SuperSound, Ghostly, RVNG and Soul Jazz Records; performed at venues such as Berghain, Cafe OTO, Tate Modern, MOMA PS1, Tresor, and Golden Pudel. Hieroglyphic Being was voted in top 200 best electronic music releases in 25 years ranked #170 by Resident Advisor, and has released over 100 recordings since 1996 by various artists on his label, Mathematics Recordings.
For this gig he will perform a 2hr live electronic set. holy shit.
SAMUEL P.
https://soundcloud.com/samueljp
The man behind the Sound In Space series, Samuel P. is a local QC record-collector & DJ. A music enthusiast from a young age, he fell in love with record collecting during his time living in Chicago. When Samuel's behind the decks you can expect to hear everything from jazz to disco to house music with a few surprises mixed in.
wednesday 10 june
IOWA IWW GMB Presents: PRIDE
IOWA IWW GMB Presents: PRIDE
PRIDE (2014)
dir. Matthew Warchus
runtime: 2h
The Iowa Industrial Workers of the World General Membership Branch invites everyone to a showing of the movie "Pride" to celebrate pride month. It's important to remember the crucial solidarity that continues to exist between the queer community and the working class.
The movie Pride is based on the true story of gay and lesbian activists who raised money for the workers affected by the British Miners' Strike in 1984. This comedy/drama depicts the tense and at times hostile relationship between the homophobic miners and the queer community. As the "Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners" campaign doubles down on their solidarity efforts, relations between the two groups improve though not without complicated feelings on both sides.
free admission
all ages
8pm screening
dir. Matthew Warchus
runtime: 2h
The Iowa Industrial Workers of the World General Membership Branch invites everyone to a showing of the movie "Pride" to celebrate pride month. It's important to remember the crucial solidarity that continues to exist between the queer community and the working class.
The movie Pride is based on the true story of gay and lesbian activists who raised money for the workers affected by the British Miners' Strike in 1984. This comedy/drama depicts the tense and at times hostile relationship between the homophobic miners and the queer community. As the "Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners" campaign doubles down on their solidarity efforts, relations between the two groups improve though not without complicated feelings on both sides.
free admission
all ages
8pm screening
friday 12 june
OUTLETProgramme X RAGGED RECORDS Present:
DERYA YILDIRIM & GRUP ŞIMŞEK
w/ IDPYRAMID
OUTLETProgramme X RAGGED RECORDS Present:
DERYA YILDIRIM & GRUP ŞIMŞEK
w/ IDPYRAMID
$25 DOOR / $20 ADVANCE / $15 MEMBERS
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
DERYA YILDIRIM & GRUP ŞIMŞEK
https://deryayildirimandgrupsimsek.bandcamp.com/album/yar-n-yoksa
Born in Hamburg, Germany to Turkish parents, Derya Yıldırım grew up influenced by her family’s Anatolian background and the myriad of cultures in the city. Derya’s musical roots started at home playing folk music with family members. Her father pushed her to learn various instruments, beginning with the bağlama, a seven stringed Turkish lute. Then she picked up the guitar, piano, and saxophone. Although she is a multi-instrumentalist, Derya always felt drawn to the sound of the bağlama. With her band Grup Şimşek’s forthcoming album Yarın Yoksa, which translates to If There’s No Tomorrow, Derya continues her journey revitalizing Anatolian folk music and instrumentation by infusing timeless melodies with a modern psychedelic flair.
Ten years ago, Derya met French musicians Graham Mushnik and Antonin Voyant from Catapulte Records and formed the band Grup Şimşek with Helen Wells, a drummer from Cape Town, South Africa joining in 2021. While the band is truly international, they eschew the term ‘world music’, preferring instead ‘outernational’ which they say suggests a sound that’s more inclusive or “beyond borders.” DY&GS embody what defines Anatolian folk music — “You need a groove and a melody, and everything around it is free.” It’s this ethos that guides the band’s songwriting and the way they take on Anatolian folk standards. “I believe the melodies shouldn't be changed because we are responsible to preserve music in the correct way. Our versions respect the roots. It’s the same lyrics and melody, but it has a different soul maybe.” While it’s easy to think of folk music as a music of the past, she insists it’s just as important today. “Some of these poems were written hundreds of years ago but they’re still relevant. This music is so important because it remains the voice of the people, the minority, and the oppressed.”
After self-producing multiple albums, they signed with New York’s Big Crown Records in 2024 and teamed up with Grammy-nominated producer Leon Michels (El Michels Affair) for Yarın Yoksa. The new album embodies their balance of preservation and innovation across nine original compositions and three traditional folk songs. It is a record that will enchant any listener regardless of language barrier with Derya’s passion and authenticity front and center and music too moving to deny.
IDPYRAMID
https://idpyramid.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-rider-ii
Idpyramid is the synthwave soundscape project of midwest musical chameleon Dennis Hockaday (ex-Mondo Drag and Meth and Goats). Idpyramid draws on a variety of sounds to create their own unique style of spaced-out deep groove dance jams, ranging from the minimal early electronic Krautrock sounds of the late 60's to the synth-heavy dance grooves of 1980's synth pop.
* this show is co-presented by Ragged Records
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
DERYA YILDIRIM & GRUP ŞIMŞEK
https://deryayildirimandgrupsimsek.bandcamp.com/album/yar-n-yoksa
Born in Hamburg, Germany to Turkish parents, Derya Yıldırım grew up influenced by her family’s Anatolian background and the myriad of cultures in the city. Derya’s musical roots started at home playing folk music with family members. Her father pushed her to learn various instruments, beginning with the bağlama, a seven stringed Turkish lute. Then she picked up the guitar, piano, and saxophone. Although she is a multi-instrumentalist, Derya always felt drawn to the sound of the bağlama. With her band Grup Şimşek’s forthcoming album Yarın Yoksa, which translates to If There’s No Tomorrow, Derya continues her journey revitalizing Anatolian folk music and instrumentation by infusing timeless melodies with a modern psychedelic flair.
Ten years ago, Derya met French musicians Graham Mushnik and Antonin Voyant from Catapulte Records and formed the band Grup Şimşek with Helen Wells, a drummer from Cape Town, South Africa joining in 2021. While the band is truly international, they eschew the term ‘world music’, preferring instead ‘outernational’ which they say suggests a sound that’s more inclusive or “beyond borders.” DY&GS embody what defines Anatolian folk music — “You need a groove and a melody, and everything around it is free.” It’s this ethos that guides the band’s songwriting and the way they take on Anatolian folk standards. “I believe the melodies shouldn't be changed because we are responsible to preserve music in the correct way. Our versions respect the roots. It’s the same lyrics and melody, but it has a different soul maybe.” While it’s easy to think of folk music as a music of the past, she insists it’s just as important today. “Some of these poems were written hundreds of years ago but they’re still relevant. This music is so important because it remains the voice of the people, the minority, and the oppressed.”
After self-producing multiple albums, they signed with New York’s Big Crown Records in 2024 and teamed up with Grammy-nominated producer Leon Michels (El Michels Affair) for Yarın Yoksa. The new album embodies their balance of preservation and innovation across nine original compositions and three traditional folk songs. It is a record that will enchant any listener regardless of language barrier with Derya’s passion and authenticity front and center and music too moving to deny.
IDPYRAMID
https://idpyramid.bandcamp.com/album/dawn-rider-ii
Idpyramid is the synthwave soundscape project of midwest musical chameleon Dennis Hockaday (ex-Mondo Drag and Meth and Goats). Idpyramid draws on a variety of sounds to create their own unique style of spaced-out deep groove dance jams, ranging from the minimal early electronic Krautrock sounds of the late 60's to the synth-heavy dance grooves of 1980's synth pop.
* this show is co-presented by Ragged Records
monday 15 june
OUTLETProgramme Presents: MIDWIFE + AMULETS
OUTLETProgramme Presents: MIDWIFE + AMULETS
$20 DOOR / $15 ADVANCE / $10 MEMBERS
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
MIDWIFE
https://heavenmetal.bandcamp.com/
Madeline Johnston is a self taught multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer, currently based in Southern Colorado by way of Denver, where she spent the last decade developing her sound and focusing on her artistic community. Midwife began while Madeline was a resident of the beloved DIY space Rhinoceropolis in 2014. On stage, Johnston is known for her sparse, emotionally charged experimental pop music that can silence a room. On record, she produces intricate and lush sonic environments in her own little corner of the heavy music scene. She describes her sound as "Heaven Metal," AKA emotional music about devastation. Johnston writes primarily about grief, and the many faces it can inhabit.
AMULETS
https://amulets.bandcamp.com/
Amulets is the solo project of Portland-based audio + visual artist Randall Taylor. Amulets employs handmade cassette tape loops and live processed guitar loops to create live, lush soundscapes and immersive drones. Through the recontextualisation of cassettes, sampling, field recording, and looping, these long-form compositions blur the genres of ambient, drone, noise, and electronic music.
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
MIDWIFE
https://heavenmetal.bandcamp.com/
Madeline Johnston is a self taught multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer, currently based in Southern Colorado by way of Denver, where she spent the last decade developing her sound and focusing on her artistic community. Midwife began while Madeline was a resident of the beloved DIY space Rhinoceropolis in 2014. On stage, Johnston is known for her sparse, emotionally charged experimental pop music that can silence a room. On record, she produces intricate and lush sonic environments in her own little corner of the heavy music scene. She describes her sound as "Heaven Metal," AKA emotional music about devastation. Johnston writes primarily about grief, and the many faces it can inhabit.
AMULETS
https://amulets.bandcamp.com/
Amulets is the solo project of Portland-based audio + visual artist Randall Taylor. Amulets employs handmade cassette tape loops and live processed guitar loops to create live, lush soundscapes and immersive drones. Through the recontextualisation of cassettes, sampling, field recording, and looping, these long-form compositions blur the genres of ambient, drone, noise, and electronic music.
wednesday 17 june
PHILOSOPHY PUB
PHILOSOPHY PUB
Join us for our regular Philosophy Pub, organized by Deke Gould PhD (Augustana College)—the discussion this session will be led by August Denys.
free & open
all ages
6-730pm
free & open
all ages
6-730pm
saturday 20 june
OUTLETProgramme Presents: MARISA ANDERSON
w/ LIV CARROW
OUTLETProgramme Presents: MARISA ANDERSON
w/ LIV CARROW
$20 DOOR / $15 ADVANCE / $10 MEMBERS
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
MARISA ANDERSON
https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/music
Marisa Anderson will be touring her new album, The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music: Volume 1. The record will be released in May 2026 on Thrill Jockey as part of a larger multi-year release project connected to her ongoing work curation of what she calls UnAmerican Folk Music. This curated collection draws from nearly one thousand songs sourced from the private record collection of Harry Smith, where she is focusing on music from regions where the United States has engaged in conflict since 1970, including Southeast Asia, the former USSR, and the Arabic and Islamic world.
Marisa was awarded a residency through the Tulsa Artist Fellowship granting her access to an archive (of more than 1,200 records) from Smith’s personal collection, now owned by the University of Oklahoma and housed at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa. During the nine-day residency, Marisa focused on collecting recordings from countries connected to U.S. conflicts during her lifetime starting in 1970 - the year she was born.
The record features deeply personal interpretations — composed, transcribed, and arranged — of music spanning from Afghanistan to Vietnam, via Yemen, Cambodia, Turkmenistan, and Pakistan. She will be performing this material live for the first time, alongside selections from her earlier catalog and new, unreleased work.
LIV CARROW
https://livcarrowmusic.bandcamp.com/album/photograph
Liv Carrow is a singer, songwriter and guitarist based in the Quad Cities and brings you folk songs for a strange present and a low tech future. Influenced heavily by traditional Appalachian music, British folk ballads and early popular music, she weaves evocative lyrics in a voice “from an old radio” with her unique fingerstyle guitar playing.
Formerly of New York’s Hudson Valley and Philadelphia, Liv has been a mainstay of the Quad Cities music scene since 2016. She has released four full-length albums and performed all over North America.
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
MARISA ANDERSON
https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/music
Marisa Anderson will be touring her new album, The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music: Volume 1. The record will be released in May 2026 on Thrill Jockey as part of a larger multi-year release project connected to her ongoing work curation of what she calls UnAmerican Folk Music. This curated collection draws from nearly one thousand songs sourced from the private record collection of Harry Smith, where she is focusing on music from regions where the United States has engaged in conflict since 1970, including Southeast Asia, the former USSR, and the Arabic and Islamic world.
Marisa was awarded a residency through the Tulsa Artist Fellowship granting her access to an archive (of more than 1,200 records) from Smith’s personal collection, now owned by the University of Oklahoma and housed at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa. During the nine-day residency, Marisa focused on collecting recordings from countries connected to U.S. conflicts during her lifetime starting in 1970 - the year she was born.
The record features deeply personal interpretations — composed, transcribed, and arranged — of music spanning from Afghanistan to Vietnam, via Yemen, Cambodia, Turkmenistan, and Pakistan. She will be performing this material live for the first time, alongside selections from her earlier catalog and new, unreleased work.
LIV CARROW
https://livcarrowmusic.bandcamp.com/album/photograph
Liv Carrow is a singer, songwriter and guitarist based in the Quad Cities and brings you folk songs for a strange present and a low tech future. Influenced heavily by traditional Appalachian music, British folk ballads and early popular music, she weaves evocative lyrics in a voice “from an old radio” with her unique fingerstyle guitar playing.
Formerly of New York’s Hudson Valley and Philadelphia, Liv has been a mainstay of the Quad Cities music scene since 2016. She has released four full-length albums and performed all over North America.
saturday 27 june
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
I GOT STONED AND I MISSED IT W/ KYLE WAGGONER
[folk-rock] [psychedelic pop] [acid rock]
record store clerk and music lover kyle pops behind the record bar for his debut amateur selector set.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
[folk-rock] [psychedelic pop] [acid rock]
record store clerk and music lover kyle pops behind the record bar for his debut amateur selector set.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
monday 13 july
OUTLETProgramme Presents: HORSE LORDS
w/ FRIEND LESS
OUTLETProgramme Presents: HORSE LORDS
w/ FRIEND LESS
$25 DOOR / $20 ADVANCE / $15 MEMBERS
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
HORSE LORDS
https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/interventions-expanded
Horse Lords were founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 2010; they evolved from the experimental collective Teeth Mountain and began as a trio with drummer Sam Haberman, guitarist Owen Gardner, and bassist Max Eilbacher, soon adding alto saxophonist Andrew Bernstein to the core ensemble. Though Horse Lords grew out of the fertile Baltimore noise and leftfield rock scene, a storied environment for artists and weirdos that has nurtured many an influential outsider band (Lungfish, Matmos), their approach is more omnivorous than the stippled rhythms of instrumental electric rock would indicate.
Across sixteen years of frequent touring, Horse Lords have released ten studio, live, and collaboration albums in addition to a split EP with fellow Baltimoreans Lower Dens, a handful of singles and compilation tracks. For RVNG’s FRKWYS series, the band collaborated with Berlin-based composer Arnold Dreyblatt, a onetime student of La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros whose just intonation chamber music was a crucial part of the post-Fluxus Downtown New York City environment.
With the relocation of three of the four members to Germany beginning in 2021, the potential for more further creative exploration, and performance opportunities including the Moers Festival (with an 11-piece lineup, interpreting Julius Eastman’s music as well as their own), the interdisciplinary phases of the band’s music was poised for fascinating new directions. The band observes “We are always trying to balance working within the limitations of the quartet and pushing beyond them.
For their second studio album on RVNG Intl., Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive!, Horse Lords have followed this notion and augmented the instrumentation, expanding the format slightly to include bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone (TAK Ensemble), trombonist Weston Olencki (Nate Wooley, RAGE Thormbones) and vocalists Nina Guo (Departure Duo) and Evelyn Saylor (Holly Herndon, Caterina Barbieri) across a program of twelve original compositions.
Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive! is a reference to a line in a poem by Russian Futurist writer Vladimir Myakovsky, and the band have also name-checked the Bauhaus weaver Anni Albers (wife of painter Josef Albers), Islamic geometrical patterning, Dutch avant-garde group the Maciunas Ensemble (themselves named after Fluxus artist and typographer George Maciunas), composer/writers Tom Johnson, Henry Flynt and Catherine Christer Hennix, and musically draw from sources as diverse as Roscoe Holcolmb, James Brown, Kuwaiti/Bahraini sawt, and electronic composers Maryanne Amacher and Jaap Vink.
As the members are keen to point out, Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive! is “a bid for the flattening of time and perception in favor of greater goods [and] the iterative nature of reaching/building a paradise in this life, not the next,” and the new album at hand is an illuminating starting point for eternal nowness.
FRIEND LESS
https://rhythmplex.bandcamp.com/album/energy-rippers
FRIEND LESS is a project by Jon Mueller. Its latest recording, Energy Rippers, aims to provoke the heart, mind and body through an unorthodox approach to rhythmic patterns. In performance, the pieces from Energy Rippers lean on a system of AIR (Acoustic Improvised Rhythm) using drums and voice to achieve a similar effect. More information about the project can be found at rhythmplex.com.
Jon Mueller studied jazz drumming with Hal Russell at Columbia College in Chicago, and singing with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York. A prolific performer, he tours extensively and has appeared at festivals and venues throughout the United States, Canada, England, Europe and Japan.
In addition to his solo work, Mueller has collaborated and performed with groups such as Who is the Witness?, Mind Over Mirrors, Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees, and Pele. He has also worked with artists including Olivia Block, Aaron Turner, Faith Coloccia, Timo van Luijk, Dawn Springer, Chris Hefner, Jason Kahn, Hal Rammel, Asmus Tietchens, Z’EV, Rhys Chatham, Jarboe, James Plotkin, Duane Pitre, and Raymond Dijkstra. He has released music on renowned labels such as Room40, Astres d’Or, American Dreams, Table of the Elements, Type Recordings, Important Records, Taiga Records, SIGE Records, and his own imprint, Rhythmplex.
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
HORSE LORDS
https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/interventions-expanded
Horse Lords were founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 2010; they evolved from the experimental collective Teeth Mountain and began as a trio with drummer Sam Haberman, guitarist Owen Gardner, and bassist Max Eilbacher, soon adding alto saxophonist Andrew Bernstein to the core ensemble. Though Horse Lords grew out of the fertile Baltimore noise and leftfield rock scene, a storied environment for artists and weirdos that has nurtured many an influential outsider band (Lungfish, Matmos), their approach is more omnivorous than the stippled rhythms of instrumental electric rock would indicate.
Across sixteen years of frequent touring, Horse Lords have released ten studio, live, and collaboration albums in addition to a split EP with fellow Baltimoreans Lower Dens, a handful of singles and compilation tracks. For RVNG’s FRKWYS series, the band collaborated with Berlin-based composer Arnold Dreyblatt, a onetime student of La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros whose just intonation chamber music was a crucial part of the post-Fluxus Downtown New York City environment.
With the relocation of three of the four members to Germany beginning in 2021, the potential for more further creative exploration, and performance opportunities including the Moers Festival (with an 11-piece lineup, interpreting Julius Eastman’s music as well as their own), the interdisciplinary phases of the band’s music was poised for fascinating new directions. The band observes “We are always trying to balance working within the limitations of the quartet and pushing beyond them.
For their second studio album on RVNG Intl., Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive!, Horse Lords have followed this notion and augmented the instrumentation, expanding the format slightly to include bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone (TAK Ensemble), trombonist Weston Olencki (Nate Wooley, RAGE Thormbones) and vocalists Nina Guo (Departure Duo) and Evelyn Saylor (Holly Herndon, Caterina Barbieri) across a program of twelve original compositions.
Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive! is a reference to a line in a poem by Russian Futurist writer Vladimir Myakovsky, and the band have also name-checked the Bauhaus weaver Anni Albers (wife of painter Josef Albers), Islamic geometrical patterning, Dutch avant-garde group the Maciunas Ensemble (themselves named after Fluxus artist and typographer George Maciunas), composer/writers Tom Johnson, Henry Flynt and Catherine Christer Hennix, and musically draw from sources as diverse as Roscoe Holcolmb, James Brown, Kuwaiti/Bahraini sawt, and electronic composers Maryanne Amacher and Jaap Vink.
As the members are keen to point out, Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive! is “a bid for the flattening of time and perception in favor of greater goods [and] the iterative nature of reaching/building a paradise in this life, not the next,” and the new album at hand is an illuminating starting point for eternal nowness.
FRIEND LESS
https://rhythmplex.bandcamp.com/album/energy-rippers
FRIEND LESS is a project by Jon Mueller. Its latest recording, Energy Rippers, aims to provoke the heart, mind and body through an unorthodox approach to rhythmic patterns. In performance, the pieces from Energy Rippers lean on a system of AIR (Acoustic Improvised Rhythm) using drums and voice to achieve a similar effect. More information about the project can be found at rhythmplex.com.
Jon Mueller studied jazz drumming with Hal Russell at Columbia College in Chicago, and singing with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York. A prolific performer, he tours extensively and has appeared at festivals and venues throughout the United States, Canada, England, Europe and Japan.
In addition to his solo work, Mueller has collaborated and performed with groups such as Who is the Witness?, Mind Over Mirrors, Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees, and Pele. He has also worked with artists including Olivia Block, Aaron Turner, Faith Coloccia, Timo van Luijk, Dawn Springer, Chris Hefner, Jason Kahn, Hal Rammel, Asmus Tietchens, Z’EV, Rhys Chatham, Jarboe, James Plotkin, Duane Pitre, and Raymond Dijkstra. He has released music on renowned labels such as Room40, Astres d’Or, American Dreams, Table of the Elements, Type Recordings, Important Records, Taiga Records, SIGE Records, and his own imprint, Rhythmplex.
thursday 23 july
OUTLETProgramme Presents: MAGIC TUBER STRINGBAND
w/ DAVID LORD
OUTLETProgramme Presents: MAGIC TUBER STRINGBAND
w/ DAVID LORD
$20 DOOR / $15 ADVANCE / $10 MEMBERS
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
MAGIC TUBER STRINGBAND
https://magictuberstringband.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-water
Magic Tuber Stringband, hailing from North Carolina, probes the undercurrents of the landscapes around them. Highly skilled players and writers, the trio are leaders within the burgeoning avant composition world utilizing folk instrumentation. Their music appears to weave in and out of the fabric of their surroundings, reflecting their time spent living across the Southeast and studying its regional folk traditions and natural histories. Having performed recently at Big Ears, Hopscotch, Sound & Gravity (and many other places along the way) the group’s music resonates well beyond their regional roots. Their newest record, Heavy Water, will be out May 22 on the venerable Thrill Jockey Records. The ensemble continues to stretch the parameters of acoustic instrumental expression with masterful flourishes of dense, textural arrangements, subtle minimalist gestures and deft improvisation.
DAVID LORD
https://davidlord.bandcamp.com/
Guitarist and composer David Lord has developed a singular approach to composition and improvisation. He has collaborated with Chad Taylor, Jeff Parker, Devra Hoff, Billy Mohler, Charles Rumback, Jason Stein, Mai Sugimoto, Dave Easley, James Singleton, John Tate, Dale Black and many others. Lord has released five albums under his own name, Forest Standards Volumes 1-4 (BIG EGO and Astral Spirits) and the recent Way Over the Rainbow (Cloud Ear). Grounded in the natural world, Lord’s musical logic involves themes of the forest, fungi and ecosystems. Lord’s musical system has been presented and studied in academic institutions such as Colorado State University, University of Chicago and Fresno State University and was featured at the American Musicological Society Midwest Conference in 2024.
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
MAGIC TUBER STRINGBAND
https://magictuberstringband.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-water
Magic Tuber Stringband, hailing from North Carolina, probes the undercurrents of the landscapes around them. Highly skilled players and writers, the trio are leaders within the burgeoning avant composition world utilizing folk instrumentation. Their music appears to weave in and out of the fabric of their surroundings, reflecting their time spent living across the Southeast and studying its regional folk traditions and natural histories. Having performed recently at Big Ears, Hopscotch, Sound & Gravity (and many other places along the way) the group’s music resonates well beyond their regional roots. Their newest record, Heavy Water, will be out May 22 on the venerable Thrill Jockey Records. The ensemble continues to stretch the parameters of acoustic instrumental expression with masterful flourishes of dense, textural arrangements, subtle minimalist gestures and deft improvisation.
DAVID LORD
https://davidlord.bandcamp.com/
Guitarist and composer David Lord has developed a singular approach to composition and improvisation. He has collaborated with Chad Taylor, Jeff Parker, Devra Hoff, Billy Mohler, Charles Rumback, Jason Stein, Mai Sugimoto, Dave Easley, James Singleton, John Tate, Dale Black and many others. Lord has released five albums under his own name, Forest Standards Volumes 1-4 (BIG EGO and Astral Spirits) and the recent Way Over the Rainbow (Cloud Ear). Grounded in the natural world, Lord’s musical logic involves themes of the forest, fungi and ecosystems. Lord’s musical system has been presented and studied in academic institutions such as Colorado State University, University of Chicago and Fresno State University and was featured at the American Musicological Society Midwest Conference in 2024.
