Big Business Everybody knows lots was wrong in 2016 but musically for me there was some pretty excellent stuff that came to and happened...

This thing was on top of our year-end list. 2015 was a year that went by entirely quickly, but when I sat back to think about what new m...

Andy Smetanka Total Fest friend, musician, writer and filmmaker Andy Smetanka just announced that he's raising money for a new proje...

HOLY LANDS Where do you begin with a band that seems to intentionally defy categorization? Here's the never-graduated-from-college t...

Guest Blogger: Izaak Opatz ___________________________________________________________________________________ I first encountered Jonny F...

Guest Blogger: Becky Hensley Moving to Missoula was a transformative part of who I have become. I was coming down off som...

Humpy. Back when I was a wee lad of eighteen or nineteen years, in about 1992, newly arrived in Missoula, wet behind the proverbial ears...

Not to be all Wikipedia or anything, but when you tag yourself as "progressive crust," my ear hair perks up. You're willing...

Bob Marshall's dank pizza place. It's the final year of Total Fest and that also means that yes, it's time to announce our f...

If you're the kind of person that enjoys convenience or just the satisfaction that comes from consolidating everything...

Long time duo, all around awesome folks, and DIY stalwarts, Shellshag continue to breathe fresh air into their lo-fi, poppy bursts. If y...

Weedeater. We just (7/28/15) received the following bad news from Weedeater's booking agent, Erik Jarvis from Tone Deaf Touring: ...

Guest post today from longtime Missoulian, Total Friend and former TF Organizer and party/camper host, Irish American and soul patch wearer,...

There is next to nothing about Missoula's Beatzlevox online. What I know, what I can tell you, is that Beatzlevox may not truly be of...

It's been years now since I first encountered The Best Westerns. For a band that reads as MONTANAN as this one, seeing them at the Uni...

Another day, another killer Missoula band we get to announce and it's... NO FANCY . They're one of the newest, most stellar local ...

For long (or even part) time Missoula residents, the mere mention of chamber-folk juggernaut Wartime Blues will elicit a wave of feeling. ...

There will always be summer and, it seems, there will always be bands like Sacramento's  Vasas , who mine the season into a sunny kind...

Full disclosure: Elisha and I love Shahs so much they played our wedding. Shahs has been a project / band since 2005, and I can...

An over-saturated Polaroid. Dreamy, desert-fried blues. Death Moth inhabit a world that's both mysterious yet infinitely familiar, br...