Filler sees night of ‘80s ‘nostalgicana’ ahead of Ages & Ages show
ChickenJam West presents electronic music project Exmag on Thursday, May 16th at 9pm. This to this 21+ show are $9 in advance and $12 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
Where the new and the old are reconciled, where powerful and meek, beautiful and tragic are one, exists Exmag. These musicians take many forms and use their driving, soulful fusion to bring you a celebration of Extraordinary Magnitude. Celestial harmonies and ancient rhythms take you on a journey neither here nor there, to explore the space in between. The group’s newly released EP, The Walls That Divide Us, is available now.
A reviewer for Empty Lighthouse writes, “Containing all the right elements of funk, soul, blues, R&B, and electronica, this ever-growing contingent of artists is not just another EDM group, but a production collective who explore new means of pushing the limits by combining live instruments and vocalists with their own synthesized beats.”
Nostalgicana Gen X group Hair Train Awesome follows with an ‘80s-inspired evening on Friday, May 17th at 7pm. Be sure to wear your bitchin’ threads – and get ready to show off your best grubby dust wall, Air Hoffman, or Tawny Kitaen move! This to this 21+ show are $7 in advance and $10 at the door. Doors at 6pm.
Psychedelic indie pop act Ages and Ages visits Bozeman on Saturday, May 25th. Local rock band WireRider will kick off the music at 9pm. This to this 21+ show are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Doors at 8pm.
Ages and Ages is touring in support of Me You They We, the band’s just-released new album which serves as “a reflection of their experiences over the past two years of climate change catastrophes, racist policies, rising fascism and an overt culture of dread of an unknowable future. [Principle songwriters Rob Oberdorf and Tim Perry] took their time to document some of the micro and macro feelings that living through near-daily atrocities evoke. Me You They We is as much a personal record, a journal of specific instances, as it is an indictment of the political landscape.”
Looking to next month, Denver-based bluegrass outfit Turkeyfoot is set for a show on Sunday, June 9th. Lamb Salad, a duo comprised of Shawn Swain and Gordon Sevee of the Kitchen Dwellers, will get the music started at 8pm. This to this 21+ show are $5 in advance and $8 at the door. Doors at 7pm.
The five members of Turkeyfoot share momentous instrumental talent, an enthusiasm for collaboration, and some serious songwriting chops. While the five-piece’s original songs feature themes of love and loss in contemporary settings, musically, the members share a love for traditional, straightforward bluegrass – and it shows in the no-nonsense, driving arrangements. Turkeyfoot released their self-titled debut EP last year and are now working on their first full-length outing. New single “Life Is Strange” is available now.
Advance tickets for these Filling Station and other upcoming shows are available in-store at Cactus Records and www.cactusrecords.net. For more information, visit www.chickenjamwest.com. •