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SUMMARY:An Evening with The Mountain Goats at The Wilma
DESCRIPTION:Logjam Presents welcomes The Mountain Goats for a live performance at The Wilma in Downtown Missoula at 8:00 pm Monday\, December 1\n\n\n\n\n\nLogjam Presents welcomes The Mountain Goats for a live performance at The Wilma in Downtown Missoula at 8:00 pm Monday\, December 1. \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\n\n\nAbout The Mountain GoatsThere are Mountain Goats albums that emerge from historical deep dives\, vividly rendered autobiography\, liturgical exploration\, and modern anthropological study. Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan came from a dream. In May 2023\, John Darnielle took to his phone in the middle of the night to document a title from somewhere in his subconscious. Because this is the Mountain Goats—a band known for avoiding the easy route\, always challenging themselves to push a step beyond—Darnielle not only decided to complete this mysterious project but also to deliver it as a full-on musical that stands as the most conceptually detailed and musically elaborate project in the band’s ever-expanding catalog. \n\n\n\n“I loved musicals when I was a kid\,” Darnielle explains\, “but I hadn’t really indulged in them that much until the last 7 years or so. And then we did Jenny From Thebes\, which I called a ‘fake musical’ a lot… But this one actually is going for it.” \n\n\n\nProduced by the Mountain Goats’ multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas\, who also co-wrote several songs\, the record is embracing\, inviting\, and overflowing with melody and orchestration that extends far beyond the boundaries of their past work. “My approach is more arrangement-based\,” Douglas says of his role. “I’m trying to sculpt the shape of the songs with the layering of instruments that are suiting the song best… I am sometimes a bit of a maximalist with that stuff. Sometimes more is more!” \n\n\n\nDrawing on the cryptic phrasing of its title\, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan tells the story of a small crew shipwrecked on a desert island\, where three surviving members—an unnamed narrator\, Captain Peter Balkan\, and Adam—are plagued by diminishing resources and apocalyptic visions. “The first thing you learn is how strong you can be if you have to\,” Darnielle sings early in the album. “The next thing you learn is how cold it can get at night.” \n\n\n\nThese are tales of survival and desolation\, brutality and tenderness\, hard-earned wisdom and heaps of compassion\, novelistic detail and shouted\, wordless choruses that transcend language. In other words\, these are Mountain Goats songs\, further deepening a singular body of work now spanning over three decades. To match the conceptual heft of the narrative\, the band’s core members—John Darnielle\, Matt Douglas\, and drummer Jon Wurster—are accompanied by new bassist Cameron Ralston and crucial appearances from Replacements legend Tommy Stinson\, harpist Mikaela Davis\, and musical theater royalty Lin-Manuel Miranda\, a longtime friend whose background vocals lend the songs an additional dramatic punch. \n\n\n\nFor all the new ground the Mountain Goats cover\, they still play to their strengths. There are belt-along anthems like “Armies of the Lord\,” whose stately slow-build seems designed to get hearts racing during their famed live show. There’s poignant storytelling like the hushed “Peru\,” whose pastoral imagery offers a rare moment of respite amid the destruction. For the diehards\, there are also crucial references to the band’s back catalog: The boombox-era deep cut “Lady From Shanghai” gets a belated sequel that will make you reconsider the stakes of its previous entry (and admire just how virtuosic this band has become). \n\n\n\nAs the story evolves from its opening overture—the first instrumental track to ever appear on a Mountain Goats album—the band guides us through the journey’s humble beginnings and the ensuing chaos\, disappearances\, and acceptance of fate. Occasionally\, the writing feels as formalist and poetic as Darnielle\, a National Book Award-nominated novelist\, has ever achieved: “Lightly row but this much I know/The first thing you learn will be the first thing to go\,” he sings in the brisk\, catchy “Cold at Night.” In “The Lady From Shanghai 2\,” the band sets a sophisticated groove that makes the ambition of its narrator feel precarious\, possibly doomed from the beginning. “When I was a young man I sought out the sky\,” he sings uneasily. Even within the record’s tight\, chronological frame\, Darnielle leaves space for interpretation\, questions that linger after the narrative is over. \n\n\n\n“That’s something that I like\,” he says. “Details that\, generally speaking\, only I will know about. So you try to let the music evoke that very personal thing without it being a confessional song.” \n\n\n\nWorking at Dreamland Recording Studios in Hudson\, New York\, the Mountain Goats have crafted a record that matches the emotional vulnerability of their previous career peaks while filling up a larger space than ever. The performances are so compelling that it may take a few listens to notice the surprising textures they weave in—synth\, pedal steel\, fretless bass—and the bold new chapter it marks in the band’s evolution. As he was writing\, Darnielle envisioned a stage set with a few key props—parts of the ship\, pieces of kelp—as each character delivered their songs in the forms of soliloquies. In the closing “Broken to Begin With\,” one such character surveys his surroundings\, not to lament his own bad fortune but to honor the fact that\, even for a moment\, this environment managed to shelter him at all. This may be like a bleak story to tell\, a common thread of Mountain Goats concept albums all the way back to 2002’s breakthrough Tallahassee. But it speaks to a vision shared by the narrator and\, increasingly\, the restlessly creative trio presenting his tale: “Nothing’s ever promised to anyone\,” Darnielle sings in “Fishing Boat.” “Everything you get is a gift.”
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/an-evening-with-the-mountain-goats-at-the-wilma/
LOCATION:The Wilma Theater\, 131 Higgins Avenue\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
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SUMMARY:Memphis May Fire at The Wilma
DESCRIPTION:Logjam Presents welcomes Memphis May Fire for a live performance on The Shapeshifter Tour Part II with Rain City Drive\, Nevertel and If Not For Me at The Wilma in Downtown Missoula at 7:00 pm Saturday\, December 6\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors @ 6:00 pm \n\n\n\nLogjam Presents welcomes Memphis May Fire for a live performance on The Shapeshifter Tour Part II with Rain City Drive\, Nevertel and If Not For Me at The Wilma in Downtown Missoula at 7:00 pm Saturday\, December 6. \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\n\n\nAbout Memphis May FireMemphis May Fire is a sonic confessional\, confronting the brokenness so many feel\, and challenging that darkness with an aggressive call toward a hard-won victory. They have steadily amassed a strong catalog while bringing a high level of audience participation and engagement to festivals\, clubs\, and theaters all around the globe. \n\n\n\nThe band’s ambitious sixth record\, Broken\, is a bold declaration of resilience. It fashions music into a sharp sword\, dedicated to cutting free the bonds of self-doubt. Broken is both a perfect distillation of everything the band has achieved creatively\, with the group’s signature passion and diversity\, and a bold leap into the future. Singer Matty Mullins\, emboldened by a renewed purpose and the type of humility derived from personal struggles not dissimilar to the stories the band hears from their fans\, leads the charge against a backdrop of instantly memorable hooks and bottom-heavy crunch\, skillfully performed by guitarist/co-founder Kellen McGregor\, longtime bassist Cory Elder\, and drummer Jake Garland. Consistently journeying to connect with as many people as possible\, Memphis May Fire has toured with a diverse list of important rock and metal acts that includes Killswitch Engage\, Sleeping With Sirens\, Black Veil Brides\, Sevendust\, and Atreyu. \n\n\n\nThe unity of purpose is palpable at a Memphis May Fire show\, as both the audience and band share their life experiences\, their dreams and fears\, through the power of transcendent music. \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 Rain City DriveRAIN CITY DRIVE makes vibrant and dynamic alternative rock n’ roll\, with strong roots in the post-hardcore subculture and unapologetically ambitious swings into contemporary pop. Described by Distorted Sound Magazine as “a melody machine” and in Metal Hammer as “a band you need to hear\,” Rain City Drive builds a musical bridge between heavy riffs and soaring\, intimate\, earnest pop. Armed with arena-ready anthems ready-made for long drives\, workouts\, intimate clubs\, and massive festivals alike\, the Florida-based group built a reputation as an engaging live act. Nearly 700\,000 fans around the world listen to the band on Spotify each month. The songs “Talk to a Friend” and “Heavier\,” from their 2020 album To Better Days\, account for 40 million streams between them alone. “Cutting it Close” from their 2022 self-titled follow-up (released in a deluxe edition with bonus cuts in 2023) quickly cracked the Top 5 on SiriusXM radio’s Octane upon release. Rain City Drive warps the boundaries between post-hardcore and aggressive melody. On the adventurous Rain City Drive and beyond\, the group’s spirit of resilience connects with fans old and new\, resonating deeply with all who struggle and find the will to push forward.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout NevertelLeading with an emphasis on quality in everything they do\, Nevertel – Jeremy Michael (vocalist)\, Raul Lopez (rapper/guitarist/producer) and Alec Davis (guitarist) – have honed a distinctly modern genre-blending sound that fuses elements of hip-hop\, nu-metal and alternative rock. Touting influences from established acts such as Linkin Park and Bring Me The Horizon\, the group draws in listeners with riveting melodic choruses\, hip-hop infused verses and bombastic EDM-style breakdowns.  \n\n\n\n  Even before they were Nevertel\, they were just a bunch of childhood pals bonded by their shared love of music. “We’ve all been best friends since high school and have been in and out of bands together\,” Jeremy explains.  However\, as often happens with school-aged friendships\, they eventually drifted apart – until music intervened yet again. “It wasn’t until years later\, after seeing Linkin Park at the 2014 Carnivores Tour\, Raul called me and Alec about starting another band.” Though the trio is long past their high school days\, they still bond over the interests they shared as kids. “What brought us together was our love for music and video games. We would play video games to stay close and keep in contact about the band. Music and gaming have been instrumental to our growth and bond as brothers.”  \n\n\n\n Now\, after two albums\, two EPs\, and a slew of singles out in the world\, Nevertel has racked up over 60 million global streams to date (and over 900K a week) while fostering an online community of over 600K social media followers. A testament of their dedication to their craft and commitment to their fans\, the band has performed at festivals like Welcome To Rockville\, seen radio support from SiriusXM and earned recognition across all major DSPs\, with a placement on Spotify’s All New Metal\, Kickass Metal\, and Hard Rock playlists.    \n\n\n\n“Our mission is pretty simple: to make music that saves and inspires people to make great changes in their lives.” While they pour their hearts into their work\, at the core of it all\, they do it for the tight-knit group of childhood best friends they once were. “If we could inspire that same 13-year-old kid we once were to follow their dreams and chase their passions then I’d say our mission is being accomplished.”  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout If Not For MeIf Not For Me is a four piece metalcore outfit hailing from Harrisburg\, Pennsylvania. Composed of veterans ranging from all over the central PA music scene\, INFM delivers their own brand of catchy choruses\, driving riffs\, and hard-hitting breakdowns with an explosive live performance to match. If Not For Me has cemented themselves as a fan favorite staple in the emerging metalcore scene. \n\n\n\nDetermined to push the boundaries of their sound\, If Not For Me teamed up with producers Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland of the legendary Atrium Audio (see: August Burns Red\, Erra\, Polaris\, From Ashes To New\, Like Moths To Flames) to produce a new 11-song LP called “Eulogy”\, which takes their dynamic mix of aggressive vocal cadences\, huge catchy choruses\, massive breakdowns\, and technical facemelting riffs to an entirely new level.
URL:https://missoulaunderground.com/mugevent/memphis-may-fire-at-the-wilma/
LOCATION:The Wilma Theater\, 131 Higgins Avenue\, Missoula\, Montana\, 59802\, United States
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