Tuesday, August 16, 2011

0 Total Fest X is this weekend...you going?


It's only Tuesday morning and I'm packed and ready to roll to Missoula, Montana for TOTAL FEST X. The all-ages, volunteer-run, nonprofit, DIY event boasts a killer line-up this year and on paper looks like it's going to be three solid days of great music and times. For 10 years Total Fest has featured original, independent and largely underground music acts from around Missoula, around the Northwest and around the country. This year is no different. It's a killer mix of heavy bands like Kowloon Walled City, Big Business, and Hammerhead as well as the best in garage punk and noisy bands like The Bugs, Pygmy Shrews, and The Blind Shake. Beyond the music I'm also really stoked for the record swap, not to mention the daytime barbecues and river hangs.

Total Fest kicks off Thursday evening and runs through Saturday, here's a glimpse of JUST A FEW of the bands I'm stoked to see this weekend. Hope to see you there.

Thursday:

Pygmy Shrews (Brooklyn, NY)


VAZ (Brooklyn, NY)


FRIDAY:

The Bugs (PDX)


Big Business (LA by way of Seattle)



Milk Music (Olympia, WA)


Kowloon Walled City (San Fran, CA)


SATURDAY:

Helms Alee (Seattle, WA)


The Blind Shake (Minneapolis, MN)


Hammerhead (Minneapolis, MN)


FULL SCHEDULE:

Thursday, August 18
Top Hat, 134 W. Front St.
9pm, $10 at the door
Vaz
The Pharmacy
White Mystery
Pygmy Shrews
Mordecai
Bad Naked

Friday, August 19
Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St.
6:30pm, $8 at the door
Japanther
Custody Battle
The Bugs
Shark Pact
Goddammitboyhowdy

Friday, August 19
Badlander/Palace, 135 W. Broadway
9pm, $20 at the door
Big Business
White Lung
Dead
White Shit
The Men
Gun Outfit
Unstoppable Death Machines
Kowloon Walled City
Grown-Ups
Milk Music
Religious Girls
Underground Railroad to Candyland
Omotai
10 YO GF
Pigs

Saturday, August 20
Record Swap at Big Dipper Ice Cream, 631 S. Higgins
12-2pm, Free
Sam Humans and the Light
Le Sang Song
Tyson Ballew

Saturday, August 20
Badlander/Palace, 135 W. Broadway
9pm, $20 at the door
Hammerhead
The Arrivals
Leaders
Shellshag
The Trashies
The Blind Shake
Gull
Shannon and the Clams
P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.
Helms Alee
Friendo
Street Eaters
Pine Hill Haints
Shahs
Microbabies
Thrones

Posted by Nik Christofferson

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