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.
video by cory peak
HOURS
wednesday 5pm-12am
thursday 5pm-12am
friday 5pm-12am
saturday 10am-12am
sunday 10am-5pm
CLOSED MONDAY+TUESDAY
wednesday 5pm-12am
thursday 5pm-12am
friday 5pm-12am
saturday 10am-12am
sunday 10am-5pm
CLOSED MONDAY+TUESDAY
PROGRAMME
thursday 02 may
FILMOSOFIA X SOCRATIC SOCIETY PRESENT: ARRIVAL
FILMOSOFIA X SOCRATIC SOCIETY PRESENT: ARRIVAL
ARRIVAL (2016)
dir. Denis Villeneuve
runtime: 1h 56m
PG-13
A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.
free admission
7pm screening
discussion will follow
dir. Denis Villeneuve
runtime: 1h 56m
PG-13
A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.
free admission
7pm screening
discussion will follow
friday 03 may
OUTLETProgramme presents: PRECOCIOUS NEOPHYTE + MIZU + OHYUNG
OUTLETProgramme presents: PRECOCIOUS NEOPHYTE + MIZU + OHYUNG
PRECOCIOUS NEOPHYTE (seoul, south korea/ chicago)
precociousneophyte.bandcamp.com
Precocious Neophyte is the shoegaze/dreampop project of South Korean singer-songwriter Jeehye Ham. She brings experiences from the Korean post-rock and noise rock scenes to her home recording projects in Chicago.
MIZU (nyc)
iammizu.bandcamp.com
From gossamer harmonic textures to lush orchestral washes, MIZU builds expansive soundscapes through her singular cello playing. Her signature stratiform style of composition, melding self-recorded layers of her instrument with electronic manipulation and experimental production, explores themes of transformation and the infinite possibilities within queerness. Taking on new life onstage, MIZU’s work interrogates and challenges the boundaries between concert, theater, and performance art through electrifying and cathartic stagings.
OHYUNG (nyc)
ohyung.bandcamp.com
OHYUNG is Robert Ouyang Rusli's solo experimental project ranging from ecstatic pop and ambient drones to brutalist noise.
$15 at the door/ no advance tickets
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 continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
precociousneophyte.bandcamp.com
Precocious Neophyte is the shoegaze/dreampop project of South Korean singer-songwriter Jeehye Ham. She brings experiences from the Korean post-rock and noise rock scenes to her home recording projects in Chicago.
MIZU (nyc)
iammizu.bandcamp.com
From gossamer harmonic textures to lush orchestral washes, MIZU builds expansive soundscapes through her singular cello playing. Her signature stratiform style of composition, melding self-recorded layers of her instrument with electronic manipulation and experimental production, explores themes of transformation and the infinite possibilities within queerness. Taking on new life onstage, MIZU’s work interrogates and challenges the boundaries between concert, theater, and performance art through electrifying and cathartic stagings.
OHYUNG (nyc)
ohyung.bandcamp.com
OHYUNG is Robert Ouyang Rusli's solo experimental project ranging from ecstatic pop and ambient drones to brutalist noise.
$15 at the door/ no advance tickets
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 continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
saturday 04 may
OUTLETProgramme presents: BILL ORCUTT GUITAR QUARTET
OUTLETProgramme presents: BILL ORCUTT GUITAR QUARTET
BILL ORCUTT GUITAR QUARTET
with Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish
*30 min opening set from Bill Orcutt & Ava Mendoza
$25 admission - ON SALE NOW
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/four-guitars-live
Live video
Tiny Desk Concert
San Francisco-based guitarist and composer Bill Orcutt presents his latest project, an all-electric Guitar Quartet performing the music from his 2022 LP “Music for Four Guitars,” an album which Pitchfork describes as “a rigidly structured quartet that weaves tiny rhythmic phrases into expansive tapestries, drawing on the tenets of early minimalism and New York guitar groups like Glenn Branca Ensemble.” Featuring an all-star team of guitarists Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish, the ensemble will present the music in an expanded live format that will combine intricate composition with no holds barred improvisation.
Bill Orcutt is the former guitarist and founder of the notorious 90’s group Harry Pussy, and his sound is a stuttered reimagining of blues guitar, weaving looping melodic lines and angular attack into a dense, fissured landscape of American primitivism, outsider jazz, and a stripped-down re-envisioning of the possibilities of the guitar. Whether he’s playing his decrepit Kay acoustic or gutted electric Telecaster (both stripped of two of their strings, as has been Orcutt’s custom since 1985), Orcutt’s jagged sound is utterly unique and instantly recognizable, compared with equal frequency to avant-garde composers and rural bluesmen. The New York Times has called him a "powerful musician... a go-for-broke guitar improviser," and described his sound as "articulated sprays of arpeggiated chords and dissonance."
Wendy Eisenberg is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, the computer, the synthesizer and the voice. Their work spans genres, from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate songs; their performances span venues, from international festivals to intimate basements. Though often working solo as both a songwriter and improviser, with acclaimed releases on Tzadik, VDSQ, Out of your Head, and Garden Portal, they also perform in the rock band Editrix, and in endless other combinations of their heroes and peers including Allison Miller, Carla Kihlstedt, John Zorn, Billy Martin, and Caroline Davis. They are also a writer on music and other things, with published essays on music in Sound American, Arcana, and the Contemporary Music Review.
Settled in Brooklyn, Ava Mendoza has gained a deserved reputation in recent years for being one of the most exciting musicians on the New York scene, appearing on stages and records with John Zorn, Matana Roberts, Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, William Parkers and Mike Watt. Although also performing with the trio Unnatural Ways (with whom she appeared at Jazz in August in 2016), here Mendoza presents her beguiling solo work whose latest chapter, New Spells, released in 2021, brings together her own compositions with pieces written by Trevor Dunn, Devin Hoff and John Dikeman. Marc Ribot has described New Spells as “a beautiful, powerful and highly original solo electric guitar record – not just another record but a new sound, a new voice”.
Shane Parish devotes much of his time to developing his singular and expressive voice on the guitar. He communicates through emotion, unexpected melodicism, technical whimsy, a nuanced sense of form, and rich timbral variety, simultaneously drawing from the guitar’s history and aiming for its future. He is known for fronting the electric instrumental prog-punk band Ahleuchatistas, and for his uniquely beautiful solo acoustic finger-style work, often creating modern re-interpretations of traditional folk tunes. He has released records on Tzadik, International Anthem, Cuneiform and more.
* 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 continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
with Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish
*30 min opening set from Bill Orcutt & Ava Mendoza
$25 admission - ON SALE NOW
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/four-guitars-live
Live video
Tiny Desk Concert
San Francisco-based guitarist and composer Bill Orcutt presents his latest project, an all-electric Guitar Quartet performing the music from his 2022 LP “Music for Four Guitars,” an album which Pitchfork describes as “a rigidly structured quartet that weaves tiny rhythmic phrases into expansive tapestries, drawing on the tenets of early minimalism and New York guitar groups like Glenn Branca Ensemble.” Featuring an all-star team of guitarists Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish, the ensemble will present the music in an expanded live format that will combine intricate composition with no holds barred improvisation.
Bill Orcutt is the former guitarist and founder of the notorious 90’s group Harry Pussy, and his sound is a stuttered reimagining of blues guitar, weaving looping melodic lines and angular attack into a dense, fissured landscape of American primitivism, outsider jazz, and a stripped-down re-envisioning of the possibilities of the guitar. Whether he’s playing his decrepit Kay acoustic or gutted electric Telecaster (both stripped of two of their strings, as has been Orcutt’s custom since 1985), Orcutt’s jagged sound is utterly unique and instantly recognizable, compared with equal frequency to avant-garde composers and rural bluesmen. The New York Times has called him a "powerful musician... a go-for-broke guitar improviser," and described his sound as "articulated sprays of arpeggiated chords and dissonance."
Wendy Eisenberg is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, the computer, the synthesizer and the voice. Their work spans genres, from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate songs; their performances span venues, from international festivals to intimate basements. Though often working solo as both a songwriter and improviser, with acclaimed releases on Tzadik, VDSQ, Out of your Head, and Garden Portal, they also perform in the rock band Editrix, and in endless other combinations of their heroes and peers including Allison Miller, Carla Kihlstedt, John Zorn, Billy Martin, and Caroline Davis. They are also a writer on music and other things, with published essays on music in Sound American, Arcana, and the Contemporary Music Review.
Settled in Brooklyn, Ava Mendoza has gained a deserved reputation in recent years for being one of the most exciting musicians on the New York scene, appearing on stages and records with John Zorn, Matana Roberts, Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, William Parkers and Mike Watt. Although also performing with the trio Unnatural Ways (with whom she appeared at Jazz in August in 2016), here Mendoza presents her beguiling solo work whose latest chapter, New Spells, released in 2021, brings together her own compositions with pieces written by Trevor Dunn, Devin Hoff and John Dikeman. Marc Ribot has described New Spells as “a beautiful, powerful and highly original solo electric guitar record – not just another record but a new sound, a new voice”.
Shane Parish devotes much of his time to developing his singular and expressive voice on the guitar. He communicates through emotion, unexpected melodicism, technical whimsy, a nuanced sense of form, and rich timbral variety, simultaneously drawing from the guitar’s history and aiming for its future. He is known for fronting the electric instrumental prog-punk band Ahleuchatistas, and for his uniquely beautiful solo acoustic finger-style work, often creating modern re-interpretations of traditional folk tunes. He has released records on Tzadik, International Anthem, Cuneiform and more.
* 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 continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
friday 10 may
AMATEUR SELECTORS: vinyl deejay series
AMATEUR SELECTORS: vinyl deejay series
FUNK ME? FUNK YOU! w/ JUSTEECE
[funk] [RnB] [space funk]
justeece coming through again! belly up!
free admission
all ages
8pm-midnight
[funk] [RnB] [space funk]
justeece coming through again! belly up!
free admission
all ages
8pm-midnight
saturday 11 may
CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING + SOULTRU
CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING + SOULTRU
CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING
christopherpaulstelling.com
christopherpaulstelling.bandcamp.com
To date, Atlanta, Georgia based songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling has released 7 albums and played thousands of concerts across the US and EU. Over the last decade Stelling has toured as both headliner and as support for Son Little, Mavis Staples, and The Devil Makes Three, Ben Harper (who produced his 2020 album Best of Luck) and many others. Stelling released a trio of albums for indie favorite Anti- records (Tom Waits, Merle Haggard, Niko Case) and has performed multiple times at Newport Folk Festival and on CBS Saturday Morning. Stelling is known for his intricate finger-style guitar and road tested vocal delivery.
SOULTRU
soultru.bandcamp.com
Davenport Soul.
$15 - ON SALE NOW
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
christopherpaulstelling.com
christopherpaulstelling.bandcamp.com
To date, Atlanta, Georgia based songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling has released 7 albums and played thousands of concerts across the US and EU. Over the last decade Stelling has toured as both headliner and as support for Son Little, Mavis Staples, and The Devil Makes Three, Ben Harper (who produced his 2020 album Best of Luck) and many others. Stelling released a trio of albums for indie favorite Anti- records (Tom Waits, Merle Haggard, Niko Case) and has performed multiple times at Newport Folk Festival and on CBS Saturday Morning. Stelling is known for his intricate finger-style guitar and road tested vocal delivery.
SOULTRU
soultru.bandcamp.com
Davenport Soul.
$15 - ON SALE NOW
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
sunday 12 may
OUTLETProgramme presents: LOOLOWNINGEN & THE FAR EAST IDIOTS (japan) + GLURGE
OUTLETProgramme presents: LOOLOWNINGEN & THE FAR EAST IDIOTS (japan) + GLURGE
LOOLOWNINGEN & THE FAR EAST IDIOTS (japan)
loolowningen.bandcamp.com
Tokyo-based avant-punk/alternative-blues trio, ink wash painting-like sounds and unicursal rhythms, for all wanderers. math-y drums and high-groove bass lines. these guys are REALLY GOOD.
GLURGE
https://glurge.bandcamp.com/album/glurge-ep
experimental 4-track post-punk solo project from Andrew "Stu" Cline
$12 advance - ON SALE NOW
$17 at the door
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
loolowningen.bandcamp.com
Tokyo-based avant-punk/alternative-blues trio, ink wash painting-like sounds and unicursal rhythms, for all wanderers. math-y drums and high-groove bass lines. these guys are REALLY GOOD.
GLURGE
https://glurge.bandcamp.com/album/glurge-ep
experimental 4-track post-punk solo project from Andrew "Stu" Cline
$12 advance - ON SALE NOW
$17 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 continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
friday 17 may
AMATEUR SELECTORS X YAMAGUCHI RADIO PRESENT: JAZZ KISSA
AMATEUR SELECTORS X YAMAGUCHI RADIO PRESENT: JAZZ KISSA
w/ OBSCURIOUS
Urbana-based selector Obscurious (Matt Cohn) will bounce between zingy bebop, full-side fusion explorations, vibrant vibraphones, and modern Chicago players. He will also highlight Monk and may even pace around Rozz-tox in a fur hat.
free, all ages
8pm-midnight
JAZZ KISSA is a monthly vinyl dj series exploring jazz and all of its sub genres. named after the jazz cafes and listening bars in japan; a concept and aesthetic that's always been an inspiration. pop in for late night jazz and coffee, tea, whisky, or whatever your jammer is. we will have a different dj each month, with their own personal jazz tastes and collections.
if you have a bunch of great jazz records and wanna spin for us sometime, reach out to booking@rozztox.com, subject: jazz kissa.
Urbana-based selector Obscurious (Matt Cohn) will bounce between zingy bebop, full-side fusion explorations, vibrant vibraphones, and modern Chicago players. He will also highlight Monk and may even pace around Rozz-tox in a fur hat.
free, all ages
8pm-midnight
JAZZ KISSA is a monthly vinyl dj series exploring jazz and all of its sub genres. named after the jazz cafes and listening bars in japan; a concept and aesthetic that's always been an inspiration. pop in for late night jazz and coffee, tea, whisky, or whatever your jammer is. we will have a different dj each month, with their own personal jazz tastes and collections.
if you have a bunch of great jazz records and wanna spin for us sometime, reach out to booking@rozztox.com, subject: jazz kissa.
saturday 18 may
OUTLETProgramme presents: HALI PALOMBO + SIGNAL DECAY + LAZY HEX
OUTLETProgramme presents: HALI PALOMBO + SIGNAL DECAY + LAZY HEX
HALI PALOMBO
halipalombo.bandcamp.com
Hali Palombo is a composer, visual artist and filmmaker shortwave radio enthusiast from Chicago. Born in Northfield, Minnesota, she has had a natural curiosity about the Midwestern United States since a young age. Her work often weaves the absurdity and mundane beauty of Illinois into her records, short films, drawings and paintings.
SIGNAL DECAY
sierradelta.bandcamp.com
Heavy and exploratory zones from a noise rock/early industrial indebted experimental outfit of "Illinoisian Surrealists". Based between Chicago and Little Egypt, it remains an underground/outsider affair since its founding in 2016 by Dave Nelson and Nick Yeck-Stauffer. Born out of a publishing project which approached Midwestern Noise as a sort of "regional folk music". Instrumentation may include various electronics & sample sources, hotwired synths, devolved guitar, contact mics, scrap metal, power tools, submerged sound poetry, and horn.
"You can expect to hear anything from infinitely sustained electronic drones, disembodied metallic scrapes, and, perhaps most strikingly, fanfares of effected trumpet surging through the din. The combined effect is like a variation on the “fourth world” electronic-abetted trumpet explorations of Jon Hassell, as witnessed in a dystopian junkyard instead of some far-off imaginary island. - Max Allison
LAZY HEX
lazyhex.bandcamp.com
experimental improv/electronic muzak from the Quad Cities
$15 at the door/ no advance tickets
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 continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
halipalombo.bandcamp.com
Hali Palombo is a composer, visual artist and filmmaker shortwave radio enthusiast from Chicago. Born in Northfield, Minnesota, she has had a natural curiosity about the Midwestern United States since a young age. Her work often weaves the absurdity and mundane beauty of Illinois into her records, short films, drawings and paintings.
SIGNAL DECAY
sierradelta.bandcamp.com
Heavy and exploratory zones from a noise rock/early industrial indebted experimental outfit of "Illinoisian Surrealists". Based between Chicago and Little Egypt, it remains an underground/outsider affair since its founding in 2016 by Dave Nelson and Nick Yeck-Stauffer. Born out of a publishing project which approached Midwestern Noise as a sort of "regional folk music". Instrumentation may include various electronics & sample sources, hotwired synths, devolved guitar, contact mics, scrap metal, power tools, submerged sound poetry, and horn.
"You can expect to hear anything from infinitely sustained electronic drones, disembodied metallic scrapes, and, perhaps most strikingly, fanfares of effected trumpet surging through the din. The combined effect is like a variation on the “fourth world” electronic-abetted trumpet explorations of Jon Hassell, as witnessed in a dystopian junkyard instead of some far-off imaginary island. - Max Allison
LAZY HEX
lazyhex.bandcamp.com
experimental improv/electronic muzak from the Quad Cities
$15 at the door/ no advance tickets
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 continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
saturday 25 may
CARY GRANT DIED HERE PRESENTS: THE FAQ!?
CARY GRANT DIED HERE PRESENTS: THE FAQ!?
Join host Andrew King as he quizzes contestants on a variety of topics in what could be described as "Antagonistic Jeopardy". Plenty of goofs, not-so physical challenges, and more, in this comedic game show.
Returning Champion: Liv Carrow and challengers TBA
$8 at the door
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
*this is a CGDH event: https://carygrantdiedhere.com/
Returning Champion: Liv Carrow and challengers TBA
$8 at the door
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
*this is a CGDH event: https://carygrantdiedhere.com/
friday 24 may
AMATEUR SELECTORS: vinyl deejay series
AMATEUR SELECTORS: vinyl deejay series
I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THAT LEFT TURN AT ALBUQUERQUE
w/ LUCAS BERNS
[noisy jazz] [drone] [neoclassical]
get lost. stay lost.
free admission
all ages
8pm-midnight
w/ LUCAS BERNS
[noisy jazz] [drone] [neoclassical]
get lost. stay lost.
free admission
all ages
8pm-midnight
friday 31 may
THE CO-PRODUCERS - A LIVE COMMENTARY FILM SCREENING EVENT
THE CO-PRODUCERS - A LIVE COMMENTARY FILM SCREENING EVENT
"Two unsung, ageless heroes who were on the frontlines of every commercial and critical flop in film history."
Come see Hollywood Pariahs Stan Clouzot (Stu) and Archie Cesaro (Andrew King) as they perform a live commentary of the film Fantastic Four (1994).
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Fantastic Four 1994:
Fantastic Four is an unreleased 1994 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The film features the team's origin and first battle with Doctor Doom. Executive-produced by low-budget specialists Roger Corman and Bernd Eichinger, it was made to allow Eichinger to keep the Fantastic Four film rights. It was not released officially, although pirated copies have circulated since May 31, 1994 as well as various clips being available online.
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There will be giveaways of "props" from the film.
free admission
8pm screening
(This is a comedy show)
Come see Hollywood Pariahs Stan Clouzot (Stu) and Archie Cesaro (Andrew King) as they perform a live commentary of the film Fantastic Four (1994).
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Fantastic Four 1994:
Fantastic Four is an unreleased 1994 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The film features the team's origin and first battle with Doctor Doom. Executive-produced by low-budget specialists Roger Corman and Bernd Eichinger, it was made to allow Eichinger to keep the Fantastic Four film rights. It was not released officially, although pirated copies have circulated since May 31, 1994 as well as various clips being available online.
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There will be giveaways of "props" from the film.
free admission
8pm screening
(This is a comedy show)
saturday 01 june
CHRASH RECORD RELEASE SHOW
CHRASH RECORD RELEASE SHOW
Music For the Next Scene, Chrash's 5th full length release, filed under the genre known as phantom rock, cover a range of subjects from covid lock-down nights and healing from rough relationships to a final blessing to all who have left this mortal coil. Deep and yet somehow funny, MFTNS is the latest effort from Chrash to express the many current moods that rise to the surface in the sea of real and imagined experience.
Music For the Next Scene, is out on this day, June 1.
DJ sets from members of Running Man before and after the show.
$10 advance - ON SALE NOW
$13 at the door
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
Music For the Next Scene, is out on this day, June 1.
DJ sets from members of Running Man before and after the show.
$10 advance - ON SALE NOW
$13 at the door
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
saturday 22 june
AMATEUR SELECTORS X YAMAGUCHI RADIO PRESENT: JAZZ KISSA
AMATEUR SELECTORS X YAMAGUCHI RADIO PRESENT: JAZZ KISSA
LOVE IN OUTER SPACE w/ ABSTRACT TRUTH (JAY BRYANT)
Aural offerings from the eternal cosmic seekers. Starting on planet earth with a funky dose of groove grease, before launching on a sonic journey to other worlds they have not told you of — out there a minute, metaphysical harmonies, celestial rhythms, languid and enlightened, where pathways meet. Come delight in the mysteries. Space is thee place.
Floating through genres: soul-jazz, jazz-funk, space-age, spiritual, afro-futurist, cosmic, abstract, chill, modal, ambient, minimal — but, depending on the vibe it may all change!
free, all ages
8pm-midnight
JAZZ KISSA is a monthly vinyl dj series exploring jazz and all of its sub genres. named after the jazz cafes and listening bars in japan; a concept and aesthetic that's always been an inspiration. pop in for late night jazz and coffee, tea, whisky, or whatever your jammer is. we will have a different dj each month, with their own personal jazz tastes and collections.
if you have a bunch of great jazz records and wanna spin for us sometime, reach out to booking@rozztox.com, subject: jazz kissa.
Aural offerings from the eternal cosmic seekers. Starting on planet earth with a funky dose of groove grease, before launching on a sonic journey to other worlds they have not told you of — out there a minute, metaphysical harmonies, celestial rhythms, languid and enlightened, where pathways meet. Come delight in the mysteries. Space is thee place.
Floating through genres: soul-jazz, jazz-funk, space-age, spiritual, afro-futurist, cosmic, abstract, chill, modal, ambient, minimal — but, depending on the vibe it may all change!
free, all ages
8pm-midnight
JAZZ KISSA is a monthly vinyl dj series exploring jazz and all of its sub genres. named after the jazz cafes and listening bars in japan; a concept and aesthetic that's always been an inspiration. pop in for late night jazz and coffee, tea, whisky, or whatever your jammer is. we will have a different dj each month, with their own personal jazz tastes and collections.
if you have a bunch of great jazz records and wanna spin for us sometime, reach out to booking@rozztox.com, subject: jazz kissa.
thursday 27 june
FILM SCREENING: BABYLON
FILM SCREENING: BABYLON
BABYLON (1980)
dir. Franco Rosso
runtime: 1h 35m
UK
Franco Rosso’s incendiary Babylon had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but went unreleased in the U.S. for “being too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension” (Vivien Goldman, Time Out). Raw and smoldering, it follows a young dancehall DJ (Brinsley Forde, frontman of landmark British reggae group Aswad) in South London as he pursues his musical ambitions, battling fiercely against the racism and xenophobia of employers, neighbors, police, and the National Front. Written by Martin Stellman (Quadrophenia) and shot by two-time Oscar winner Chris Menges (The Killing Fields) with beautifully smoky cinematography that has been compared to Taxi Driver, Babylon is fearless and unsentimental, yet tempered by the hazy bliss of the dancehall set to a blistering reggae and lovers rock soundtrack featuring Aswad, Johnny Clarke, Dennis Bovell, and more.
8pm screening
free admission
17+ ages
dir. Franco Rosso
runtime: 1h 35m
UK
Franco Rosso’s incendiary Babylon had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but went unreleased in the U.S. for “being too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension” (Vivien Goldman, Time Out). Raw and smoldering, it follows a young dancehall DJ (Brinsley Forde, frontman of landmark British reggae group Aswad) in South London as he pursues his musical ambitions, battling fiercely against the racism and xenophobia of employers, neighbors, police, and the National Front. Written by Martin Stellman (Quadrophenia) and shot by two-time Oscar winner Chris Menges (The Killing Fields) with beautifully smoky cinematography that has been compared to Taxi Driver, Babylon is fearless and unsentimental, yet tempered by the hazy bliss of the dancehall set to a blistering reggae and lovers rock soundtrack featuring Aswad, Johnny Clarke, Dennis Bovell, and more.
8pm screening
free admission
17+ ages
friday 28 june
DAVID R. COLLINS WRITERS' CONFERENCE
DAVID R. COLLINS WRITERS' CONFERENCE
Faculty Reading & Participant Open Mic
Featured readings from the stellar Conference faculty (Chad Simpson, Darius Stewart, Rebecca McKanna, and Sara Lupita Olivares), followed by an open mic for Conference participants.
free and open to the public, donations welcome
Social Hour at 6pm
Faculty Reading at 7pm
Participant Open Mic at 8pm
Featured readings from the stellar Conference faculty (Chad Simpson, Darius Stewart, Rebecca McKanna, and Sara Lupita Olivares), followed by an open mic for Conference participants.
free and open to the public, donations welcome
Social Hour at 6pm
Faculty Reading at 7pm
Participant Open Mic at 8pm
friday 19 july
OUTLETProgramme presents: LUCAS 'GRANPA' ABELA & GORGINA INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA TOUR
OUTLETProgramme presents: LUCAS 'GRANPA' ABELA & GORGINA INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA TOUR
$12 advance - TICKET LINK COMING SOON..
$15 at the door
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
LUCAS 'GRANPA' ABELA
http://dualplover.com/yeldham/
https://granpa.bandcamp.com/
"Lucas is just captivating. It's incredible how they can flip the feeling of a room upside down and sonically there’s just no other sound like theirs" - ZACH HILL. - Death Grips.
"One moment you hear John Coltrane playing a volcano, the next you hear a string section being squeezed through a toothpaste tube" - David Rees - The New York Times.
Maverick improviser; Lucas ’Granpa’ Abela’s (formerly Justice Yeldham) singular journey performing on shards of broken glass is the stuff of legend. For over twenty years now they have relentlessly toured the globe, the glass evolving over that time from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an incredibly versatile instrument producing organic outsider electronica. Played somewhat like a reed instrument, Abela vibrates the shards edge with their lips, producing both audio signal and control voltages. These feed a complex modular patch of parallel chains where the performance modulates itself to give the instrument the illusion of a ghostly accompaniment that together forms dense layers of anomalous music.
Copies of their limited-edition collaborative 7” with Zach Hill (Death Grips) will be available at shows for US$10. The single fuses Zach’s frenetic drumming dynamics onto Abela’s textural glass noise by converting Zach’s drumming into rhythmical control voltages to tear Abela’s sustained textural glass signal rhythmically apart. The single was recorded using stems provided by Hill so Abela could develop techniques to interpolate their signals before recording together in Los Angeles late last year for a forthcoming album currently being mixed down by Hill.
GORGINA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhZ60h5DdP0
Magandjin (Brisbane) based dancoise duo Gorgina boil down their shared interest in internet-born music, female rap, harsh noise & experimental media in a cacophonous soup that leaves the listener with an aftertaste of sexual hysteria, trans-life, Infidelity and a lingering hint of love.
NICK YECK-STAUFFER
https://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.
* 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 continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.
$15 at the door
all ages
7pm doors, 8pm show
LUCAS 'GRANPA' ABELA
http://dualplover.com/yeldham/
https://granpa.bandcamp.com/
"Lucas is just captivating. It's incredible how they can flip the feeling of a room upside down and sonically there’s just no other sound like theirs" - ZACH HILL. - Death Grips.
"One moment you hear John Coltrane playing a volcano, the next you hear a string section being squeezed through a toothpaste tube" - David Rees - The New York Times.
Maverick improviser; Lucas ’Granpa’ Abela’s (formerly Justice Yeldham) singular journey performing on shards of broken glass is the stuff of legend. For over twenty years now they have relentlessly toured the globe, the glass evolving over that time from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an incredibly versatile instrument producing organic outsider electronica. Played somewhat like a reed instrument, Abela vibrates the shards edge with their lips, producing both audio signal and control voltages. These feed a complex modular patch of parallel chains where the performance modulates itself to give the instrument the illusion of a ghostly accompaniment that together forms dense layers of anomalous music.
Copies of their limited-edition collaborative 7” with Zach Hill (Death Grips) will be available at shows for US$10. The single fuses Zach’s frenetic drumming dynamics onto Abela’s textural glass noise by converting Zach’s drumming into rhythmical control voltages to tear Abela’s sustained textural glass signal rhythmically apart. The single was recorded using stems provided by Hill so Abela could develop techniques to interpolate their signals before recording together in Los Angeles late last year for a forthcoming album currently being mixed down by Hill.
GORGINA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhZ60h5DdP0
Magandjin (Brisbane) based dancoise duo Gorgina boil down their shared interest in internet-born music, female rap, harsh noise & experimental media in a cacophonous soup that leaves the listener with an aftertaste of sexual hysteria, trans-life, Infidelity and a lingering hint of love.
NICK YECK-STAUFFER
https://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.
* 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 continue bringing stuff like this to rock island, please consider donating here.