ChickenJam(s) at Filler & Zebra to get us thru sloppy spring

ChickenJam West will present a FREE Jelly Bread show at the Zebra Cocktail Lounge on Friday, April 6th at 10pm. This is a 21+ show. Doors at 9pm.
The band’s musical alchemy blends a dash of alt-rock with soul and funk, yet is thoroughly steeped in rock-Americana. The band’s chameleonic playlist is highlighted by dual vocals, four part harmonies, in-the-pocket drum and bass grooves, swampy lap steel guitar, dirt under the fingernails guitar licks, and take-‘em-to-church organ that’s downright appetizing. Jelly Bread has emerged with a high-energy calling card that melds elements of desert twang and the urban tones of funk and rock, balanced by exceptional songwriting and storytelling. Their most recent album, Here, There, & Everywhere, is avaialble now.
The 4th annual Vulfpeck Tribute concert will take place at The Filling Station on Saturday, April 7th at 10pm. This to this 21+ show are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Doors at 9pm. The evening will feature songs from Vulpeck’s new album Mr. Finish Line, as well as lots of the classics. The Vulfpeck Tribute Band features some of Bozeman’s finest musicians including Sean Lehmann (bass), Garrett Stannard (drums, vocals), Andrew Hohne (keys), Weston Lewis (guitar), Matt Powell-Palm (sax), Madeline Hawthorne (vocals) and Sierra Kamplain (vocals). Note: the Vulpeck Tribute show is not a ChickenJam production.
Chastity Belt follows with Panther Car at The Filling Station on Wednesday, April 11th at 9pm. This to this 21+ show are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Doors at 9pm.
Chastity Belt is touring in support of its most recent release, I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone. It’s a dark and uncommonly beautiful set of moody post-punk that finds the Seattle outfit’s feelings in full view, unobscured by humor. It’s a brave and often exhilarating tangle of mixed feelings and haunting melodies that connects dizzying anguish (“This Time of Night”) to shimmering insight (“Different Now”) to gauzy ambiguity (“Stuck,” written and sung by Grimm). It’s a serious record but not a serious departure, defined best, perhaps, by a line Julia Shapiro shares early on its staggering title track: “I wanna be sincere.”
Hitting the road in promotion of their debut EP, The Good Fight, Far Out West bring a show to the Zebra Cocktail Lounge with local help from Left On Tenth and Holocene on Thursday, April 12th at 9pm. This to this 21+ show are just $7 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
Far Out West brings a unique and energetic brand of funk that features groovy beats and rootsy vocals. The quartet performs a spectrum of sounds, while their original songs fuse together soulful folk-inspired lyrics with crunchy instrumental endeavors guided by the stylings of jazz and rock. Popular cover songs by artists like James Brown, The Grateful Dead, The New Mastersounds, and Sharon Jones are also often sprinkled into the set list. Far Out West has been performing around the Pacific Northwest since 2016.
Frogleg and Heatbox are next up with a joint show at the Filling Station on Saturday, April 14th at 9pm. This to this 21+ show are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
Known for their songwriting and improvisational live performances, Frogleg would be best described as a soul band, as their influences are not drawn from one specific genre. A typical Frogleg show usually features a unique blend of funk, reggae, rock and jazz exploration. Frogleg’s self-titled debut released in 2015, followed in 2017 with the release of Busy Checking In.
Minneapolis-based Heatbox effortlessly blends vocal percussion and vocal turntablism with the simulation of horns, strings, musical instruments, and various sonic anomalies. He has mastered a wide range of music technologies while grounding them in a firm understanding of quality songwriting, singing, and the unifying power of creative expression via live performance. His dedication to the craft of beatboxing and live looping has earned the respect of the hip-hop community and jam music scene throughout the United States and abroad.
Check out Diego’s Umbrella at the Zebra Cocktail Lounge on Tuesday, April 17th at 9pm. This to this 21+ show are just $5 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
Celebrated as San Francisco’s ambassadors of Gypsy Rock, these world-renowned entertainers have created an irresistible mélange that’s entirely their own. A Diego’s Umbrella show is a singular, ecstatic experience. Night after night they effortlessly blend eastern European sounds, marching drums, beautiful harmonies and catchy hooks with a showmanship that has all the fire and unpredictability of youth, marked by a chiseled refinement of years of experience on the road. Continuously touring the United States and abroad has always fed their aesthetic, and has resulted in incorporating the scales of klezmer, the strings of flamenco, and the energy of punk rock. Their latest release, Edjka, is available now.
Back at the Filling Station, Consider the Source perform Wednesday, April 18th at 9pm. This to this 21+ show are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
The New York City trio defy easy description. If intergalactic beings of pure energy, after initiation into an order of whirling dervishes, built some kind of pan-dimensional booty-shaking engine, powered by psychedelics and abstract math, it’d probably just sound like a Consider the Source tribute band. Drawing from progressive rock, fusion and jazz, with alien sounds soaked in Indian and Middle Eastern styles, the group blends disparate parts into a striking, utterly original whole. Dubbed “Sci-Fi Middle Eastern Fusion,” the band’s music strikes a rare balance between cerebral and emotional, intellectual and primal. A relentless touring schedule has won the band a fervent following from California to Israel, with fans ranging from jam-band hippies and jazz cats to corpse-painted headbangers and prog geeks. Their latest release, World War Trio, Pts. II & III, is available now.
Advance tickets for these and other shows are available in store at Cactus Records and www.cactusrecords.net. For more information, visit www.chickenjamwest.com.