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
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
friday 10 july
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
EARWORM BUZZ W/ PAT STOLLEY
[pop] [folk] [downtempo]
our friend pat returns to the record bar to share some tracks with us. his sets are always so good. looking forward to this one.
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
[pop] [folk] [downtempo]
our friend pat returns to the record bar to share some tracks with us. his sets are always so good. looking forward to this one.
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.
friday 17 july
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
AMATEUR SELECTORS SERIES
WITH MY GOOD EYE CLOSED W/ J. BARGER
[chicago blues] [delta blues] [r&b] [soul]
J. Barger returns with a blues focused set. Belly up and listen.
"The blues is like that problem child you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it." - B.B. King
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
[chicago blues] [delta blues] [r&b] [soul]
J. Barger returns with a blues focused set. Belly up and listen.
"The blues is like that problem child you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it." - B.B. King
free admission
all ages
8-1130pm
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.
friday 04 sepetmeber
OUTLETProgramme Presents: SABABA 5
OUTLETProgramme Presents: SABABA 5
$20 door / $15 advance / $10 members
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
support TBA
https://sababa5.bandcamp.com/album/c-a-va-c-a-va
Sababa 5 are a Paris-based band known for their hypnotic blend of Middle Eastern psychedelia, Mediterranean funk, and analog groove. Their sound fuses swirling organs, surf guitars, and irresistible rhythms into a style that feels both nostalgic and forward-looking — rooted in vintage tones, but always evolving.
After gaining global attention with the single “Tokyo Midnight / Nasnusa”, featuring Japanese singer Yurika, the band continued to explore new directions through collaborations and live performances across Europe. Their self-titled debut album and follow-up, Aspan, deepened their signature sound: a rich instrumental fusion of funk, disco, and Eastern melodies. In recent years, Sababa 5 have expanded their palette through projects with vocalists including Shiran Tzfira, Inbal Nur Dekel, Yurika Hanashima, Canay Doğan, and Sophia Solomon, balancing analog depth with cross-cultural energy. Known for their captivating live shows, Sababa 5 bring an immersive experience that blends groove, improvisation, and vibrant sonic textures, connecting with audiences across Europe and beyond.
In 2025, they unveiled Nadir, their fourth and most ambitious album to date. Marking a new creative high, Nadir dives deeper into emotion, texture, and groove — the sound of a band unafraid to move forward. This journey continues into early 2026 with the release of their fifth album, Ca Va Ca Va, embracing a celebratory Hafla sound — a Middle Eastern party spirit — fully supported by an extensive European tour.
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
support TBA
https://sababa5.bandcamp.com/album/c-a-va-c-a-va
Sababa 5 are a Paris-based band known for their hypnotic blend of Middle Eastern psychedelia, Mediterranean funk, and analog groove. Their sound fuses swirling organs, surf guitars, and irresistible rhythms into a style that feels both nostalgic and forward-looking — rooted in vintage tones, but always evolving.
After gaining global attention with the single “Tokyo Midnight / Nasnusa”, featuring Japanese singer Yurika, the band continued to explore new directions through collaborations and live performances across Europe. Their self-titled debut album and follow-up, Aspan, deepened their signature sound: a rich instrumental fusion of funk, disco, and Eastern melodies. In recent years, Sababa 5 have expanded their palette through projects with vocalists including Shiran Tzfira, Inbal Nur Dekel, Yurika Hanashima, Canay Doğan, and Sophia Solomon, balancing analog depth with cross-cultural energy. Known for their captivating live shows, Sababa 5 bring an immersive experience that blends groove, improvisation, and vibrant sonic textures, connecting with audiences across Europe and beyond.
In 2025, they unveiled Nadir, their fourth and most ambitious album to date. Marking a new creative high, Nadir dives deeper into emotion, texture, and groove — the sound of a band unafraid to move forward. This journey continues into early 2026 with the release of their fifth album, Ca Va Ca Va, embracing a celebratory Hafla sound — a Middle Eastern party spirit — fully supported by an extensive European tour.
friday 23 october
OUTLETProgramme Presents: AK’CHAMEL
w/ DEREK MONYPENY
OUTLETProgramme Presents: AK’CHAMEL
w/ DEREK MONYPENY
$20 door / $15 advance / $10 members
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
AK’CHAMEL
akuphone.bandcamp.com/album/spiritually-unemployed
They have been known by many names: The Givers of Illness; The Bandylegged Riders of the Ill-Promised Sun, etc… Honed and expanded through their travels, Ak’chamel’s singular sound comprising desert-scorched psychedelia, post-apocalyptic shamanism, and bizarre ritual folk is as unique as the physical theater of their otherworldly live performances.
DEREK MONYPENY
https://derekmonypeny.bandcamp.com/album/the-oppositional-imagination
Born in the Arizona desert, a veteran of multiple explorations into the Sahara desert via Morocco and Western Sahara, and now a resident of the Mojave, Derek Monypeny sees his musical mission as adding to and expanding on what he calls the "desert continuum;" the psychedelic sirocco swirl of desert-based stringed instruments played with utter abandon by musicians the world over.
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
AK’CHAMEL
akuphone.bandcamp.com/album/spiritually-unemployed
They have been known by many names: The Givers of Illness; The Bandylegged Riders of the Ill-Promised Sun, etc… Honed and expanded through their travels, Ak’chamel’s singular sound comprising desert-scorched psychedelia, post-apocalyptic shamanism, and bizarre ritual folk is as unique as the physical theater of their otherworldly live performances.
DEREK MONYPENY
https://derekmonypeny.bandcamp.com/album/the-oppositional-imagination
Born in the Arizona desert, a veteran of multiple explorations into the Sahara desert via Morocco and Western Sahara, and now a resident of the Mojave, Derek Monypeny sees his musical mission as adding to and expanding on what he calls the "desert continuum;" the psychedelic sirocco swirl of desert-based stringed instruments played with utter abandon by musicians the world over.
