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
thursday 13 february
SPECTRA READING SERIES: LOCAL LOVERS OPEN MIC
SPECTRA READING SERIES: LOCAL LOVERS OPEN MIC
free & open
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
By local, we mean anyone in or around the greater Quad City area on Feb. 13 who has an original poem, song, story, soliloquy, bit, rant, performance art piece, etc. they are willing/burning to share with the one(s) they love and a loving audience at the enigmatic Rozz-Tox.
By lovers, we mean humans with any relationship to the idea/experience/emotion/harness that might be defined as “love,” even if that relationship is more love/hate. Have something poetic you want to share with your special someone? Want to sing a song about your love for your line-walking partner? Have a hilarious and/or terrible Valentine’s Day story about love gone wrong? Songs about your forlorn love? Then we have a stage and a microphone and a welcoming audience ready to embrace you and anyone else in the QC with the courage get up and testify their love (or lack thereof).
The show will be free and open to the public—come with the one you love, or come ready to love the one you’re with.
If you would like to let us know you’re planning on attending, feel free to send us an email at [email protected]. If you’re feeling more spontaneous, not to worry—there will be a sign-up sheet at the event, and performers will be welcomed to the stage on a first come, first serve basis.
Please note that all performers will be limited to one (1) poem/song/story/etc. and to no more than 5 minutes of stage time per performance. This event always brings a good crowd, and we want to be sure we have time/space for everyone who wants to perform.
Please contact Ryan Collins at the Midwest Writing Center for more information about SPECTRA or any other MWC programs: (309) 732-7330 | [email protected]
The SPECTRA Reading Series is supported by the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Illinois Arts Council.
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
By local, we mean anyone in or around the greater Quad City area on Feb. 13 who has an original poem, song, story, soliloquy, bit, rant, performance art piece, etc. they are willing/burning to share with the one(s) they love and a loving audience at the enigmatic Rozz-Tox.
By lovers, we mean humans with any relationship to the idea/experience/emotion/harness that might be defined as “love,” even if that relationship is more love/hate. Have something poetic you want to share with your special someone? Want to sing a song about your love for your line-walking partner? Have a hilarious and/or terrible Valentine’s Day story about love gone wrong? Songs about your forlorn love? Then we have a stage and a microphone and a welcoming audience ready to embrace you and anyone else in the QC with the courage get up and testify their love (or lack thereof).
The show will be free and open to the public—come with the one you love, or come ready to love the one you’re with.
If you would like to let us know you’re planning on attending, feel free to send us an email at [email protected]. If you’re feeling more spontaneous, not to worry—there will be a sign-up sheet at the event, and performers will be welcomed to the stage on a first come, first serve basis.
Please note that all performers will be limited to one (1) poem/song/story/etc. and to no more than 5 minutes of stage time per performance. This event always brings a good crowd, and we want to be sure we have time/space for everyone who wants to perform.
Please contact Ryan Collins at the Midwest Writing Center for more information about SPECTRA or any other MWC programs: (309) 732-7330 | [email protected]
The SPECTRA Reading Series is supported by the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Illinois Arts Council.
friday 14 february
DIMENSIONS OF DISCO PRESENTS: THE LOVE DIMENSION
DIMENSIONS OF DISCO PRESENTS: THE LOVE DIMENSION
Dimensions of Disco is B. Empire and Diamond Life
For Valentine’s Day we’ve curated The Love Dimension, a kaleidoscopic, all-vinyl, genre-spanning exploration of love songs. From break-ups to make-ups, songs of love & lust, to anthems of self-love. Bring your partner, bring a friend, bring yourself - we’ve got selections for you.
Presented, of course, with love.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
For Valentine’s Day we’ve curated The Love Dimension, a kaleidoscopic, all-vinyl, genre-spanning exploration of love songs. From break-ups to make-ups, songs of love & lust, to anthems of self-love. Bring your partner, bring a friend, bring yourself - we’ve got selections for you.
Presented, of course, with love.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
saturday 15 february
(OPEN [MIKE) INTERRUPTION]: INVITATIONAL 6
(OPEN [MIKE) INTERRUPTION]: INVITATIONAL 6
The (Open[Mike)Interruption]: Invitational 6 is QC stand-up comedy veteran Mike Steele's final quarterly comedy show. He invites his comedian friends to perform their stand-up, but he doesn't leave the stage. While the comics perform their material, Mike interrupts them with jokes, advice, heckles, and whatever else he has to say. Mike hopes to prove that, when it comes to comedy, two heads are better than one.
$8 admission
7pm doors, 8pm show
$8 admission
7pm doors, 8pm show
wednesday 19 february
IWW PRESENTS: THE HAND THAT FEEDS
IWW PRESENTS: THE HAND THAT FEEDS
The Iowa Industrial Workers of the World invite you to join us for a night of radical labor history. This time we will be screening the documentary The Hand That Feeds about the struggles of undocumented immigrant workers in New York City to organize for better wages and fair workplace treatment.
thehandthatfeedsfilm.com/
Synopsis from the filmmakers:
At a popular bakery café, residents of New York’s Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers who will fire them for calling in sick. Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma López has never been interested in politics, but in January 2012, he convinces a small group of his co-workers to fight back.Risking deportation and the loss of their livelihood, the workers team up with a diverse crew of innovative young organizers and take the unusual step of forming their own independent union, launching themselves on a journey that will test the limits of their resolve. In one roller-coaster year, they must overcome a shocking betrayal and a two-month lockout. Lawyers will battle in back rooms, Occupy Wall Street protesters will take over the restaurant, and a picket line will divide the neighborhood. If they can win a contract, it will set a historic precedent for low-wage workers across the country. But whatever happens, Mahoma and his coworkers will never be exploited again.
Information about the IWW and labor organization will be available at the screening.
free & open
all ages
7:30pm screening
thehandthatfeedsfilm.com/
Synopsis from the filmmakers:
At a popular bakery café, residents of New York’s Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers who will fire them for calling in sick. Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma López has never been interested in politics, but in January 2012, he convinces a small group of his co-workers to fight back.Risking deportation and the loss of their livelihood, the workers team up with a diverse crew of innovative young organizers and take the unusual step of forming their own independent union, launching themselves on a journey that will test the limits of their resolve. In one roller-coaster year, they must overcome a shocking betrayal and a two-month lockout. Lawyers will battle in back rooms, Occupy Wall Street protesters will take over the restaurant, and a picket line will divide the neighborhood. If they can win a contract, it will set a historic precedent for low-wage workers across the country. But whatever happens, Mahoma and his coworkers will never be exploited again.
Information about the IWW and labor organization will be available at the screening.
free & open
all ages
7:30pm screening
friday 21 february
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS:
JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT
w/ RYAN COLLINS
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS:
JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT
w/ RYAN COLLINS
$10 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT
A sound and visual meditation
Jon Mueller’s singular performance idiom is an awe-inspiring display of elegant athleticism, preternatural focus, brute restraint, and ecstatic, monastic reverie. Paired with Tom Lecky's photographs, it becomes a deliberate focus on form, shape and detail. It requires and demands a state of inner quietude from witnesses. Yet, from this seemingly metronomic exercise blossoms every possible tint and hue of infinite spectral sound.
Renowned percussionist and drummer Jon Mueller is celebrated for his uncommon technique, rigor and virtuosity. Mueller’s aim has been to move drums, percussion and rhythm from its anticipated backbeat to a central musical focus, something more intuitive and natural than usually imagined. Audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United Kingdom have experienced this idiosyncratic point of view as, paradoxically, both ‘cathartic’ and ‘meditative’. Notable solo performances have taken place at the Guggenheim Museum, New Museum, Issue Project Room, SXSW, Big Ears Festival, Hopscotch Fest, and Witching Hour Festival. Beyond his solo work, Mueller has performed and recorded with Olivia Block, Aaron Turner, James Plotkin, Who is the Witness?, Mind Over Mirrors, Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees and Pele. www.rhythmplex.com
Tom Lecky has worked in photography, music (as Hallock Hill), the book arts, prose and poetry writing, and literary criticism. His creative work concentrates on memory, place, and environment, the work of the imagination, perception, and the intersections of abstraction and representation. He often interweaves appropriated texts and images with his own, evoking a conversation with the history of book design and illustration.
These creative pursuits are linked to Tom’s career as an internationally recognized expert in the field of rare and antiquarian books and manuscripts. He has worked in the auction world – notably in a 17-year run as a specialist and Head of Christie’s New York Books and Manuscripts Department – and as an advisor to collectors and institutions. He is the owner of Riverrun Books, and the founder of the rare book and manuscript appraisal and advisory firm Lecky Art Group. www.tomlecky.com
RYAN COLLINS
Poet Ryan Collins will read from a new project CALLING DOWN THE MOON, a series of improvised poems written during the 2024 Feed Me Weird Things FEaST in Iowa City (30 Oct - 2 Nov 2024) and dedicated to the memory of Chris Wiersema (1980-2024).
Bio:
Ryan Collins is the author of A New American Field Guide & Song Book and several chapbooks. Recently he was a finalist in the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest, and the Conduit/Minds on Fire Open Book Prize. His work has appeared in Apartment, Crazyhorse, The Mixtape Review, Ninth Letter, Past Ten, Sink Review, and many other places. He hosts the SPECTRA Reading Series in Rock Island, IL, where he lives.
* 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.
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT
A sound and visual meditation
Jon Mueller’s singular performance idiom is an awe-inspiring display of elegant athleticism, preternatural focus, brute restraint, and ecstatic, monastic reverie. Paired with Tom Lecky's photographs, it becomes a deliberate focus on form, shape and detail. It requires and demands a state of inner quietude from witnesses. Yet, from this seemingly metronomic exercise blossoms every possible tint and hue of infinite spectral sound.
Renowned percussionist and drummer Jon Mueller is celebrated for his uncommon technique, rigor and virtuosity. Mueller’s aim has been to move drums, percussion and rhythm from its anticipated backbeat to a central musical focus, something more intuitive and natural than usually imagined. Audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United Kingdom have experienced this idiosyncratic point of view as, paradoxically, both ‘cathartic’ and ‘meditative’. Notable solo performances have taken place at the Guggenheim Museum, New Museum, Issue Project Room, SXSW, Big Ears Festival, Hopscotch Fest, and Witching Hour Festival. Beyond his solo work, Mueller has performed and recorded with Olivia Block, Aaron Turner, James Plotkin, Who is the Witness?, Mind Over Mirrors, Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees and Pele. www.rhythmplex.com
Tom Lecky has worked in photography, music (as Hallock Hill), the book arts, prose and poetry writing, and literary criticism. His creative work concentrates on memory, place, and environment, the work of the imagination, perception, and the intersections of abstraction and representation. He often interweaves appropriated texts and images with his own, evoking a conversation with the history of book design and illustration.
These creative pursuits are linked to Tom’s career as an internationally recognized expert in the field of rare and antiquarian books and manuscripts. He has worked in the auction world – notably in a 17-year run as a specialist and Head of Christie’s New York Books and Manuscripts Department – and as an advisor to collectors and institutions. He is the owner of Riverrun Books, and the founder of the rare book and manuscript appraisal and advisory firm Lecky Art Group. www.tomlecky.com
RYAN COLLINS
Poet Ryan Collins will read from a new project CALLING DOWN THE MOON, a series of improvised poems written during the 2024 Feed Me Weird Things FEaST in Iowa City (30 Oct - 2 Nov 2024) and dedicated to the memory of Chris Wiersema (1980-2024).
Bio:
Ryan Collins is the author of A New American Field Guide & Song Book and several chapbooks. Recently he was a finalist in the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest, and the Conduit/Minds on Fire Open Book Prize. His work has appeared in Apartment, Crazyhorse, The Mixtape Review, Ninth Letter, Past Ten, Sink Review, and many other places. He hosts the SPECTRA Reading Series in Rock Island, IL, where he lives.
* 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 22 february
CARDIACS: an evening of listening
CARDIACS: an evening of listening
In celebration of the new Cardiacs book released by Melodic Virtue, Jon Mueller will play records from throughout the cult band's history, from the raw, yet complex songs of the 70s and 80s, to the powerful and ultra-polished masterpieces of the 90s. Never heard of them? You're not alone, but join us on this night for perhaps one of the most gratifying and exciting listening experiences of your life!
Cardiacs are an English rock band formed in 1977, originally as Cardiac Arrest, led by Tim Smith. Noted for their complex, varied and intense compositional style and for their eccentric, theatrical stage shows, they have been hailed as an influence by bands as diverse as Blur, Faith No More and Radiohead. www.cardiacs.net
Read Jon's experience in finding this band later in life: www.talkhouse.com/now-is-the-time-for-cardiacs/
free admission
all ages
8pm-1130pm
Cardiacs are an English rock band formed in 1977, originally as Cardiac Arrest, led by Tim Smith. Noted for their complex, varied and intense compositional style and for their eccentric, theatrical stage shows, they have been hailed as an influence by bands as diverse as Blur, Faith No More and Radiohead. www.cardiacs.net
Read Jon's experience in finding this band later in life: www.talkhouse.com/now-is-the-time-for-cardiacs/
free admission
all ages
8pm-1130pm
wednesday 26 february
FILMOSOFIA
FILMOSOFIA
A free community film screening and reading discussion with philosophical narratives lead by Deke Gould PhD (Augustana College).
the film:
MULLHOLLAND DRIVE (2001)
dir. David Lynch -- RIP, sir. see you in the trees.
runtime: 2h 26m
reading selection: Carroll, "The Nature of Horror" (1991)
* free print copies are available in the cafe
free admission
all ages
pre-screening discussion 630pm
screening 7pm
post-screening & reading discussion to follow
the film:
MULLHOLLAND DRIVE (2001)
dir. David Lynch -- RIP, sir. see you in the trees.
runtime: 2h 26m
reading selection: Carroll, "The Nature of Horror" (1991)
* free print copies are available in the cafe
free admission
all ages
pre-screening discussion 630pm
screening 7pm
post-screening & reading discussion to follow
saturday 01 march
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: SAM PREKOP
w/ IDPYRAMID
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: SAM PREKOP
w/ IDPYRAMID
SAM PREKOP
samprekop.bandcamp.com/album/drawing-one-two
the prolific chicago artist known for his band The Sea and Cake, and his incredible solo modular synth electronic albums with releases on Thrill Jockey and TAL. he has worked with many brilliant musicians, including Chad Taylor, Josh Abrams, John McEntire, Archer Prewitt, and Jeremiah Chiu, among others. it is an honor to present him here
IDPYRAMID
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.
$15 advance -- ON SALE NOW
$20 at the door (cash only)
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
samprekop.bandcamp.com/album/drawing-one-two
the prolific chicago artist known for his band The Sea and Cake, and his incredible solo modular synth electronic albums with releases on Thrill Jockey and TAL. he has worked with many brilliant musicians, including Chad Taylor, Josh Abrams, John McEntire, Archer Prewitt, and Jeremiah Chiu, among others. it is an honor to present him here
IDPYRAMID
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.
$15 advance -- ON SALE NOW
$20 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 07 march
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: HEARSAY
w/ TEA? YES. YAY!
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: HEARSAY
w/ TEA? YES. YAY!
HEARSAY
hearsaychicago.bandcamp.com/album/glossolalia
Comprised of visionary experimental sound artist Allen Moore, versatile cellist / guitarist / composer Ishmael Ali, and dynamic drummer Bill Harris, Hearsay cultivates a distinct and captivating aesthetic that traverses ethereal dimensions, gradually morphing rhythmic tapestries, and electrifying improvised soundscapes that bounce off of free jazz and textural noise music to land on a kind of wild and bounding avant-groove music that is as pleasing as it is avant-garde.
TEA? YES. YAY!
instagram.com/lucas_rad_name/
the next phase of Lucas Berns presenting solo sound collage and live improvisations. Chaos, joy, repetition, and harmony ensue, though not in that particular order.
$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.
hearsaychicago.bandcamp.com/album/glossolalia
Comprised of visionary experimental sound artist Allen Moore, versatile cellist / guitarist / composer Ishmael Ali, and dynamic drummer Bill Harris, Hearsay cultivates a distinct and captivating aesthetic that traverses ethereal dimensions, gradually morphing rhythmic tapestries, and electrifying improvised soundscapes that bounce off of free jazz and textural noise music to land on a kind of wild and bounding avant-groove music that is as pleasing as it is avant-garde.
TEA? YES. YAY!
instagram.com/lucas_rad_name/
the next phase of Lucas Berns presenting solo sound collage and live improvisations. Chaos, joy, repetition, and harmony ensue, though not in that particular order.
$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 08 march
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
JHERI CURL GREASE W/ ZEB BROOKS
[funk] [soul] [disco] [electronic]
record collector and music enthusiast zeb brooks is back at the record bar spinning NOT REGGAE! excited for this birthday set of his.
free admission
all ages
8pm-1130pm
[funk] [soul] [disco] [electronic]
record collector and music enthusiast zeb brooks is back at the record bar spinning NOT REGGAE! excited for this birthday set of his.
free admission
all ages
8pm-1130pm
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
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
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
support TBD
$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
support TBD
$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 partially funded 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, and 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 04 april
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: LANDON CALDWELL + MARK TESTER
w/ NICK YECK-STAUFFER
OUTLETProgramme PRESENTS: LANDON CALDWELL + MARK TESTER
w/ NICK YECK-STAUFFER
LANDON CALDWELL + MARK TESTER
mediumsound.bandcamp.com/album/smiley-endless-smile-mix
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
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 partially funded 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, and 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 - TICKETS ON SALE THU 06 FEB, 10AM
$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 - TICKETS ON SALE THU 06 FEB, 10AM
$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 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 in downtown Davenport