Total Fest

07/29/2026

(Serious This Time)
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Let’s make this final show memorable, together.

Saturday, Sept. 12th at The Big Dipper (171 S. Washington Street, Spokane, WA) w/Psychic Death and Bandit Train.

Tix: https://tickets.holdmyticket.com/tickets/465992

03/24/2026

We highly recommend both following this page, and going to the actual thing in July. Anderson in the Bitterrroot foothills sounds entirely too amazing to miss! Last year was over the top great.

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And you thought we’d been teleported to a Waffle House in Georgia. No! We’ve been quietly chopping wood and carrying water in order to bring you an amazing line up. Stay tuned for exciting artist announcements this week! ⛰️🔱

03/10/2026

Mandator if you're anywhere nearby. You know Tom Dewar made all our official posters, right?

Hope you can join us this Saturday, March 14 from 3 :to 6 PM when we’ll host the opening reception for Georgetown artist Tom Dewar’s exhibition, Stock Car and Drag Racing Posters. Influenced by hot rod cartoonists like Robert Williams and Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, Dewar has also worked as a pit mechanic on the regional sports car circuit. His imaginative prints have broad appeal just as racing season commences. See you all soon.

03/10/2026

Uh, who's going to Big Sandy for Steel Pole Bath Tub and P.E.S.T. (ex-Humpy, Deranged Diction, the Banned, VTO, Green River) !? Because we arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre!

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02/23/2026

News like this lessens the blows of a Monday.

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American primitive guitarist Marisa Anderson joins the 2026 Woodtick lineup. Her neo-Americana style is both refined and rambling, luminous and stark. "Without a word she sings" - Pitchfork

02/19/2026

Back in simpler times before the The White Stripes were a global phenomenon and every 9-year-old could sing Seven Nation Army, there was a classically crusty place in downtown Missoula called Jay's Upstairs, and it was a great spot where touring punk/garage and indie bands constantly played. The bathrooms stank, the floor might've given out if it continued to be a venue, and memories/mistakes were made!

Importantly, there was also an enterprising record store owner (Ear Candy Music) and garage music fan and musician (Helltones/Everyday Sinners/ etc. currently with the Sasha Bell Band) named John Fleming. John put the early (Sympathy for the Record Industry) White Stripes releases into more hands in Missoula than I imagine any other indie record, (or CD actually, in those days) for probably a solid year, really shoring up their local fan base here, and we think promoting the first handful of White Stripes Missoula shows.

Also, the first two Total Fests were at Jay's. But no White Stripes.

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Missoula - June, 2000
Have Blues, Will Travel
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From the White Stripes’ first headline tour, on the road promoting the upcoming release of their second album, De Stijl.  This show in Missoula took place in the middle of a three-week journey from Michigan through Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois.  Like itinerant musicians, they were traveling in a van, sleeping on sofas, and selling merch for breakfast and gas money. Performing music that was a bit of garage, a bit of country and folk, a bit of punk, and a lot of the blues.