MASS FM, Norwell & Wilma Laverne Miner
LIVE @ THE BADLANDER, THURSDAY AUGUST 29, 2019
(208 RYMAN ST., MISSOULA, MT | DOORS @ 9PM / 18 & OVER / FREE ENTRY)

A night of all local indie rock featuring:

MASS FM formed in the fall of 2013, features former-members of the Volumen, Victory Smokes and Flying Rickshaw, and is (arguably) Missoula’s best dad band. MASS FM plays groove-heavy, dance-friendly post-punk and counts Fugazi, INXS, Queens of the Stone Age and Steely Dan among their many collective influences (but please don’t bring it up, Steely Dan is highly contentious). MASS FM is Chris, Christopher, Doug and Ryan. MASS FM released their latest EP, What Will Divide Us Is Love, in May 2019 (which has a Mu chord or two, but please don’t tell Doug it sounds like Steely Dan).

https://massfm.bandcamp.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/massfmband/

There Is Nothing That Cannot Happen to Someone, Norwell's formal introduction in 2018, brought to life a multi-year writing and recording labor of front man Brady Schwertfeger. Teaming up with friends Max Dutcher (No Fancy) and Jon Filkins (Arrowleaf, Mendelssohn) among others, and with the help of standout features from pop maven Chloe Gendrow and folk artist Ira Wolf, Norwell took years of house shows and empty bar gigs and churned out an album described by Peter Friesen of the Missoulian as "airy, expansive, melancholic electronica."
Hovering many lines, be they between genres, between quiet and loud, between isolation and fellowship, Norwell makes brooding music with intention. Spacious live shows compliment layered recordings, and the Missoula, MT indie-rock band aims to lose you in all of it.

https://norwellband.bandcamp.com | https://www.instagram.com/norwellband
https://www.facebook.com/norwellband

Hailing from the mountain town of Missoula, songwriter Kaylen Alan Krebsbach has rooted and up-rooted herself in and from Montana many times over. After touring the country with acts such as Buddy Wakefield, Andrea Gibson, and Philadelphia based Kississippi, Krebsbach gathered a band around her, forming Wilma Laverne Miner, the namesake that of her grandmother. In the grand tradition of artists like Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed and Patti Smith, Wilma Laverne Miner fuses poetry and music together with a twist, channeling elements of the country western Krebsbach was raised on and dreamy indie rock. After a brief hiatus, the band has taken a new form, and will be releasing it’s debut album later this year.”

https://wilmalaverneminer.bandcamp.com | https://www.instagram.com/wilmalaverneminer
https://www.facebook.com/wilmalaverneminer