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SUMMARY:Fruit Bats / The Landfill Tour with Matthew Logan Vasquez at The Wilma
DESCRIPTION:Logjam Presents welcomes Fruit Bats for a live concert performance on The Landfill Tour with Matthew Logan Vasquez at The Wilma in Downtown Missoula at 8:00 pm on Thursday\, October 15\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors @ 7:00 pm \n\n\n\nLogjam Presents welcomes Fruit Bats for a live concert performance on The Landfill Tour with Matthew Logan Vasquez at The Wilma in Downtown Missoula at 8:00 pm on Thursday\, October 15. \n\n\n\nTickets on sale at Logjam Presents Box Offices and online while supplies last. All tickets are General Admission standing room only. All ages are welcome. \n\n\n\nTake a look at these tips to best prepare yourself for a smooth ticket buying experience. \n\n\n\nAdditional ticketing and venue information can be found here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIndie folk rock band Fruit Bats bring The Landfill Tour to The Wilma in Missoula on October 15\, 2026. \n\n\n\nLed by singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson\, Fruit Bats have spent over two decades crafting a sound that blends indie rock\, folk\, and Americana with warm\, melodic songwriting and a distinctly reflective tone. Their upcoming album The Landfill (out June 12\, 2026) features a full-band recording style that captures the energy of musicians playing together in the room\, resulting in a more live\, dynamic sound than ever before. \n\n\n\nWith a catalog that includes fan favorites like “When U Love Somebody\,” “The Bottom of It\,” and “Gold Past Life\,” Fruit Bats have built a loyal following and a reputation for songs that resonate both in the studio and on stage. \n\n\n\nFruit Bats return to The Wilma for an evening that promises a mix of new songs\, familiar favorites\, and the kind of immersive live performance that has made them a standout in the indie music landscape. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Fruit BatsThe midwest\, particularly the part of the midwest Eric D. Johnson hails from\, is a largely flat expanse. Zipping through it on the highway\, you’ll see cities and towns rise up in the distance\, but blink and you’ll miss other man-made rejoinders to horizontal living dotting the landscape\, hill after hill\, built from the refuse of the past: landfills. Some of these hills make for great sledding spots\, parks\, and trails. Others turn organic waste into compost. The Landfill\, Fruit Bats’ June 12\, 2026 album from Merge Records\, is something else entirely: a mountain dominating the landscape of Johnson’s heart. \n\n\n\nThis being a Fruit Bats record\, one scales that mountain to take in the view\, to see the future spread out as wide and endless as the midwestern plains. “But the mountain that gives us this vantage point\,” Johnson says\, “is made out of the trash that we’ve created\, the collective weight of the past and where it’s taken us.” When he details that view on title track and lead single “The Landfill” — “a holy vision / of what could be / and couldn’t be / and could have been” — it’s thrilling to hear him sent soaring by a full complement of instruments. But what’s truly stunning is how\, in his recontouring from could to couldn’t to could have been\, he has lost none of the vulnerability that was brought to the foreground of his songwriting by 2025’s solo outing\, Baby Man. \n\n\n\nOver the course of his now 25-year career under the moniker\, most of Eric D. Johnson’s output as Fruit Bats has been the product of patience and fine-tuning. His songs\, to borrow a phrase\, are slow growers\, given life on albums that encompass long stretches of time and memory. Baby Man changed that — he disallowed himself from referring to material he’d been working on before laying the album down\, utilizing the morning pages technique of stream-of-consciousness\, observational songwriting which flowed directly into his afternoon recording sessions. It was both a breathtaking document of Johnson’s skill as a singer-songwriter and an unvarnished account of the two weeks in which he recorded the album. \n\n\n\nBaby Man’s closeness to Johnson’s heart and the close attention to his voice and instrument its minimalist-maximalist ethos required uncorked something in him as he wrote towards a new full band effort. “That session was over\,” he explains\, “but there was way more to explore. I liked the immediacy of it\, and I wanted to see how that would translate into a full-band Fruit Bats record.” Within weeks\, he was back in a studio\, this time with his band — David Dawda (bass)\, Josh Mease (guitars\, synth)\, Frank LoCrasto (piano\, synth)\, and Kosta Galanopoulos (drums) — with whom Johnson has spent over a decade building Fruit Bats into one of the most in-demand live acts in indie rock. Listening to The Landfill\, it’s not hard to understand why: simply put\, this band smokes. \n\n\n\nProducing the initial recording sessions in Washington’s Bear Creek Studios\, Johnson set out to capture “the sound of this band I constantly marvel at\, the feeling of being in a room with musicians you love and trust enough to let them cook.” They laid most of it down on the floor — no click tracks\, no comped vocals\, and minimal overdubs\, with frequent collaborator Thom Monahan returning to provide additional production and The Landfill’s final mix. “It’s how we do things with my other band\, Bonny Light Horseman\, and I was curious to see how it would work with Fruit Bats\,” Johnson notes. “It’s both a very personal record\, and my most collaborative to date.” \n\n\n\nIt’s also the most live a Fruit Bats record has been since 2009’s The Ruminant Band\, and in paring back the number of tracks that typically layer a full-band song\, the psychedelic\, technicolor dreaminess of their sound is more vivid than ever. Time and space melt into the sublime as the band gels around Johnson’s hazy croon on “That Goddamn Sun\,” stretching out to accommodate him as he trips from California to North Carolina. In striking a balance between ecstatic romance and melancholia\, “Think Aboutcha” occupies the blissful-but-doomed intersection of the E Street Band and Paul McCartney\, playful but playing for stakes that are larger than life\, while “Perhaps We’re a Storm” charges headlong into the unknown. \n\n\n\nAll of these songs — most of the songs on The Landfill\, in fact— mark themselves immediately as some of the best in Eric D. Johnson’s ever-expanding songbook\, seekers and anthems alike. It’s the most daunting peak he’s scaled yet\, musically or lyrically: a swashbuckling set of full-band jammers couldn’t be more honest and open-hearted about his hopes and anxieties\, his dreams and failures\, what’s passed and what will come to pass\, were it just him\, his guitar\, and the listener. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Matthew Logan Vasquez \n\n\n\nBest-known as the co-founder and frontman for shape-shifting heartland indie rockers Delta Spirit\, Matthew Logan Vasquez’s fierydelivery and thought- provoking lyrics draw from a huge and versatile well ofinfluences\, including Gordon Gano\, Kurt Cobain\, Neil Young\, and Thom Yorke . Asasolo artist\, he juggles elements of indie rock\, electronic pop\, R&B\, andsoulfulAmericana\, flirting with despondency\, but ultimately succumbing tobeatitude. Vasquez’s latest release SANA SANA 2026 is pushing his sound into abroader spectrum and depth\, trading in his rasp for more of a croon.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/fruit-bats-the-landfill-tour-with-matthew-logan-vasquez-at-the-wilma/
LOCATION:The Wilma Theater\, 131 Higgins Avenue\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
CATEGORIES:Americana,Folk,Folk Rock,Music
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SUMMARY:Snowmobile Film Premiere: Beyond the Backcountry - Progression Vol. 3 at The Wilma
DESCRIPTION:Logjam Presents welcomes Beyond the Backcountry – Progression Vol. 3 for a live film premiere at The Wilma in Downtown Missoula at 6:00 pm Saturday\, October 17\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors @ 4:30 pm \n\n\n\nLogjam Presents welcomes Beyond the Backcountry – Progression Vol. 3 for a live film premiere at The Wilma in Downtown Missoula at 6:00 pm Saturday\, October 17. \n\n\n\nTickets on sale at Logjam Presents Box Offices and online while supplies last. This is a fully-seated event and all tickets are general admission available on a first-come first served basis. All ages are welcome. \n\n\n\nTake a look at these tips to best prepare yourself for a smooth ticket buying experience. \n\n\n\nAdditional ticketing and venue information can be found here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Beyond the BackcountryBeyond the Backcountry is more than a film premiere—it’s a celebration of snowmobiling culture\, community\, and passion for the outdoors. On October 17\, The Wilma Theater in Missoula becomes the ultimate gathering place for riders\, industry leaders\, and enthusiasts who live for winter. \n\n\n\nAt the heart of the night is the exclusive premiere of Progression Vol. 3: For the Love of the Sport\, showcasing the world’s best riders pushing every discipline of backcountry sledding. Alongside it\, a lineup of short films and athlete interviews that brings you the stories and people behind the sport. \n\n\n\nMeet the athletes\, connect with brands\, and join a crowd that gets the passion and obsession behind backcountry snowmobiling. Every ticket is entered to win a brand new Polaris Boost\, with $15K in additional giveaways. \n\n\n\nLast year’s premiere sold out. Get your tickets in advance!
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/snowmobile-film-premiere-beyond-the-backcountry-progression-vol-3-at-the-wilma/
LOCATION:The Wilma Theater\, 131 Higgins Avenue\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
CATEGORIES:Documentaries,Movies,Outdoors,Snowmobiling
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