The Brevet
Filling Station Jam(s): The Brevet, Lincoln Durham & Bright Light Social Hour
Partnering with FroZen Monkey Productions, ChickenJam West presents the 11th Annual Funk Meltdown at 7pm on Saturday, March 16th. This year’s event will feature live entertainment by The Tiny Band with help from Funk Junkie.
The ‘70s-themed dance party celebrates skiing, fun, and the awesome Gallatin Valley community. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door, and neglecting to dress up vintage funky will bring a $5 surcharge! Proceeds will benefit Big Sky Youth Empowerment in support of their amazing work. Further Meltdown details, as well as a ticket link, can be found on the Facebook event page. Doors at 6pm.
With a lineup of local luminaries, the Bozeman-based Tiny Band’s repertoire is a blend of Motown, rock, soul, and pop standards that keep the dance floor pulsing. With hits ranging from Stevie Wonder to The Beatles, Michael Jackson to Adele, they’ll get you out of your seat and onto the dance floor. The Tiny Band brings big vocals, high energy, and anything but a tiny sound. Band members include Ryan Matzinger, Jeni Fleming, Krista Barnett, Jake Fleming, Chris Cundy, Sean Lehmann, John Sanders, and Drew Fleming.
Indie folksters The Brevet are set for Friday, March 22nd at 9pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $10 in advance and $14 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
One listen and it’s immediately clear that The Brevet have undergone a dramatic evolution on their explosive, ambitious album, Legs. Synthesizing the raucous energy of their live show with sonic precision of their extensive studio history, the collection is the California five-piece’s most deeply personal and lyrically sophisticated yet, tackling perception and identity in the digital age with both subtle nuance and blunt force. The songs remain as cinematic as ever, full of rousing choruses and sing-along hooks, but they carry more weight here, propelled inexorably forward by thunderous percussion and blazing electric guitars that blend rock and roll snarl with R&B swagger.
On Saturday, March 23rd, Black Mountain perform with The Salamanders kicking things off at 9pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $15 in advance and $18 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
The rock canon has many anti-heroes, Black Mountain being the latest. In the past, Can’s Tago Mago established that the only rule in rock and roll is that there are no rules. Pink Floyd’s prodigious output in the 70s showed us that architecture can be cool, while unskilled laborers Black Sabbath demonstrated you can make a lot from not that much. Now Black Mountain teach us that you don’t have to be afraid of the past to move bravely into the future, defining what it is to be a classic rock band in the new millennium. IV, their latest album, is an unapologetically ambitious record made by a group of musicians who are at the peak of their powers.
Southern gothic indie-rocker Lincoln Durham takes the stage Tuesday, March 26th at 8pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Doors at 7pm.
Armed with old bastardized mid-century guitars, hand-me-down fiddles and banjos, homemade contraptions with just enough tension on a string to be considered an instrument and any random percussive item he can get his hands or feet on, Lincoln Durham is a Southern gothic, psycho-blues, revival-punk one-man-band with a heavy amped edge, preaching the gospel of some new kind of depraved music. With driving guttural beats backboning various growling stringed instruments Durham gives birth to a sound that transcends genres with his dark, poetic and raw writing style telling tales that Edgar Allan Poe would’ve been proud of. His latest release, And Into Heaven Came the Night, is available now.
Wick-it the Instigator visits Bozeman on Friday, March 29th at 8:30pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
The multi-genre DJ and producer is a breath of fresh air in an otherwise crowded EDM scene. His SoundCloud page is of the most active pages on the site, a testament to his top-notch production skills and keen ability to build and harness a highly interactive online fan base. With successful headline tours supplemented by sets with Skrillex, Pretty Lights, GRiZ, Herobust and others, it’s become clear Wick-it’s talent and success extend far beyond the studio.
Closing out a great month of live music, The Bright Light Social Hour are back in Bozeman with help from Sea Moya and Mad Pattern on Saturday, March 30th at 9pm. Tickets to this 21+ show are $11 in advance and $15 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
Austin-based mood-punk and cosmic soul ensemble Bright Light Social Hour is touring in support of its latest release, Jude Vol. I. Produced by Chris Coady (Slowdive, Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, the album is named after Alex Jude O’Brien, brother to bass player and vocalist Jackie O’Brien and the band’s manager for several years. After suffering from severe and sudden bipolar 1 disorder, Alex took his own life in 2015.
“This was all happening as we started the record,” said Jackie. “The music deals with the ripples it caused in all of our lives, especially in our relationships, with an underlying theme of trying to wrap our heads around all of this.”
Advance tickets for these Filling Station and other shows are available in-store at Cactus Records and www.cactusrecords.net. For more information, visit www.chickenjamwest.com. •
