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Please, don’t eat my blog

I’m almost afraid to say anything negative about Oakland-based band Antioquia. After all, their latest album is called, “My Piano ate the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle.” I’d hate to see...

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Lubriphonic slides into Top Hat

Somewhere along the meandering course of the now-waning jam-band decade, horn-driven funk acts seemed to largely drop out of the regional nightclub circuit. While local bands such as Reverend Slanky...

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Top Hat apologizes for “Doppelganger” cancellation

I’d heard over the weekend about a schedule screw-up that forced the cancellation of “The Doppelganger,” an original “noir radio play” by Missoula writer Kaet Morris that was scheduled to take place...

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Stellarondo takes up residence at the Top Hat

“Artists in residence” and “Top Hat” are not two phrases one normally expects to hear in the same sentence. Though long a central hub in the Missoula music scene, the Front Street nightclub has...

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Butter spreads dreamy folk at Top Hat

Before Butter was Butter, it was simply two friends churning musical ideas as their clothes spun in the dryer. That was 2007, when Hermina Harold and Lisena Brown, two local musicians who had recently...

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Shredding guitars, shredding slopes

The Après-ski is where to be this weekend, with a pair of concerts in Missoula aimed at celebrating all that is gnarly and sick (that’s ‘extreme’ and ‘good’ to the rest of us). First up, tonight at...

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Gourds returning to Missoula

The Gourds, the Austin, Tx.-based band that has become something of a Missoula darling over the years, announced a return engagement…at the Top Hat. Strange as that may sound for a band that has...

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Clumsy Lovers bring the love back to Missoula

It’s been almost two years since Missoula last had a date with the Clumsy Lovers. Back in the early years of the last decade, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based band was a favored regular in town,...

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Midnight Conspiracy at the Top Hat Saturday

In a recent interview with the members of Chicago electronic music trio Midnight Conspiracy, amidst a series of vacuous questions posed by a blogger at Ohh! So Famous!, one of the musicians was asked...

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“Best new band in the world” to play the Top Hat

You’re excused if you’ve never heard of the “Best New Band in the World.” That sobriquet, bequeathed upon the Jamaican reggae/dub/fusion band Dubtonic Kru, comes from the “Global Battle of the Bands”...

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