Flipper’s rant

I found this stuck in a bush outside the offices of the Missoulian this morning. I have no idea what it means. (You can click through to see a large and more legible version).

This One Goes to Eleven…Billion

When I first began reading accounts of performances by Ami Shalev and his band, Monotonix, I found myself wondering if any of it could possibly be true. Breathless odes splattered around the Internet talk of flaming drum-sets (and people), flying garbage cans, sweat and blood and occasional police interventions. The band has allegedly been banned from performing at most clubs in its Israeli hometown of Tel Aviv.

Earlier this month, Portland Metblogger Geoff Kleinman took a stab at recounting a Monotonix show that he described as “so outrageously amazing that, after it’s over, you begin to doubt if it actually happened.”

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We Live in a Peeber Town


 Anybody who doubts that Missoula loves its PBR need only read this heartwarming account of local photog Cathrine Walters’ entry into the 2008 PB-Art contest. Walters ultimately won second prize in the photography category, which came with some awesome schwag, not least of which is free beer for four months. Her winning entry might offend one or two people, but I think it’s hilarious: [Read More...]

Vile Little Secret

There was a time, not so long ago, when a Vile Blue Shades show could have been pretty much anything. The band, which blossomed in Salt Lake City as a kind of open-stage experiment centered around a few core guys from the city’s underground punk scene, involved some 13 frequent participants playing all manner of different instruments. The few scattered published reports about the band’s live shows indicate a kind of semi-controlled chaos, unfocused and barely structured. A video on Youtube, of the band’s 2007 Halloween gig, reflects as much: [Read More...]

Trucks, Atmosphere & Rancid at the Wilma

He’s been a professional performer for more than 15 years, has recorded and performed with Eric Clapton, is now the lead guitarist of one of the most legendary southern rock bands of all time, has a record deal for his own band with mega-label Columbia, has appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone, and is widely regarded as “the most awe-inspiring electric slide guitar player performing today,” in the words of the Wall Street Journal.

Not bad, for a guy who hasn’t yet hit his 30th birthday. [Read More...]

Adams comes full circle

Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone? Such was the case when songwriter Jenn Adams moved away from Missoula some five years ago now. Once a regular fixture at local festivals, pubs, and coffeehouse concerts (she shows up in more than 90 listings in the Missoulian archives prior to 2004), Adams rather quietly disappeared from the local scene in late 2003, transplanting to Nashville in hopes of finding a better chance to make a living through music.

Since departing, Adams has traveled to South America and China, studied at the world-renowned Berkeley Berklee College of Music and the Nashville Jazz Workshop, released an album, and moved to Maine.

Now, she comes full circle. Adams is back in Montana – at least, half-time; and thus this week, she returns to the stage for her first Missoula show in several years.

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Get to the Point

In the space between Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens lie the fertile fields of Point Juncture, WA. A band and not a place, this Portland-based act bears no geographical connection to the Evergreen State. But like the vast plains that occupy most of the miles between Seattle and Spokane, Point Juncture, WA evokes a sense of unbounded openness that is both beautiful and haunting.

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Comments aweigh!

For those who haven’t noticed, Missoulian.com has finally started allowing comments on stories. For now, as kinks are worked out, the feature isn’t enabled on every story; but that’s apparently where we’re headed. I know, I know — this is long overdue. Still, it’s a great development in the community dialogue that we’re [...]

Smells like strange inspiration

Through one of those inexplicable mouseclicking exursions across YouTube, I found myself recently exploring the world of oddball music via “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” It’s kinda astounding what people have done with, and to, that song. [Read More...]