Sounds From the Black Hole

04/16/2026

03/05/2026

Wednesday 3/11: walk on down to the boot shop for live experimental sound featuring V Vecker, Joshua Joy, B.K.WALA, and a little Lather.

sax, banjo, strings and a bunch of "what the hell is that?" 🎷🪕🎸🎛🌬
7pm. All-ages
$8 requested but we just want you there

02/11/2026

::FEB 14::

Rob Funkhouser performs at Orbit Room in support of BASIC (Chris Forsyth + Doug McCombs + Mikel Patrick Avery)

Funkhouser mesmerized the entire place last time down performing. Don't miss this one.
DOORS 8 PM MUSIC 9 PM

https://link.dice.fm/Xaa0f0cf7fcd

Co-Produced by Visit Bloomington and SFTBH

https://youtu.be/EadxCoO4m0U

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02/08/2026

Saturday February 14
SFTBH, Orbit Room, and Visit Bloomington Present:
BASIC
(Chris Forsyth + Doug McCombs + Mikel Patrick Avery)
Opening Set: Rob Funkhouser
DOORS 8PM MUSIC 8:45
Food or Drink Purchase Required

The new BASIC EP “Dream City” is a minimalist fusion of taut, experimentally-minded funk: think Bo Diddley with a chorus pedal, Yo La Tengo on a Congotronics bender, or The Pop Group gone chill. The trio of Chris Forysth (guitar), Mikel Patrick Avery (percussion, drum machine, electronics), and Douglas McCombs (Fender Bass VI), BASIC produced this three-track, 25-minute release over a two-day recording session in December, concluding an eventful 2024 for the group. The recordings were done fast and live, the three members cutting them together in a room at Philly’s Kawari Sound with minimal overdubs. And although just a trio these tunes sound like more than that. Ample detail is provided by the interlocking guitars and Avery’s unique combination of electronic beats and acoustic percussion that he treats and manipulates live with various self-built electronic processors.

Shortly after the release of their debut album “This Is BASIC,” OG Tortoise bassist McCombs joined the group, and along with Philly-based core members Forsyth (Solar Motel Band) and Avery (Natural Information Society), BASIC toured the record up and down the West Coast and throughout the Northeast and Midwest US.

11/25/2025

Join us for the final Black Hole of 2025. Hear far-out exciting jazz with El Mantis, a genre-defying band from Houston, TX. Local quartet of Hazel Benton, Norbert Herber, Ben Myers and Kyle Quass will open the show.
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TICKET LINK IN BIO $10 in advance / $13 at door
Doors 7pm / Show 7:30
Food or Drink Purchase Required

El Mantis is a heavy psychedelic jazz band formed 2021 in Houston by Danny Kamins (alto saxophone), Andrew Martinez (guitar, vocals) and Angel Garcia (drums, vocals). Influences include King Crimson, John Coltrane, Magma, and The Mars Volta. For fans of genre-bending jazz and progressive music in the vein of the aforementioned groups, Rangda, Sun City Girls, and The Mothers of Invention.

After putting out their debut CD in July 2022, the band released its sophomore album El Mantis II, an LP on Houston-based CIA records, in February 2024. Since then, they have performed extensively in Texas and Puerto Rico to promote their music (4 albums total). 

Festivals/venues the band has performed at include 1810 Ojeman in Houston, NMASS Festival, Sahara Lounge in Austin, Rubber Gloves in Denton, Handlebar in San Juan, PR, and C-Note Jazz Club in Luquillo Beach, PR.
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Opening the show is a local ensemble of Hazel Benton, Norbert Herber, Ben Myers and Kyle Quass. Mixed electronic/acoustic improvised sound featuring players with Xylocept, Ortet, Lather, Technicolor Band, Without Whom, LXQ, Black Hole Drone Trio, etc.

11/08/2025

is back next week, and so is my trio with and ._.really
Slugg slimed up Gold Dust back in July and is back to rock the basement.

Come check it out!

10/23/2025

Friday November 14 at Gold Dust Vintage & Vinyl
Show up at 7 // Noise starts at 7:30 // PWYC
Erica Dawn Lyle is back with a new LP On Fire, a beautifully noise-forward cover of the Van Halen song interpreted as a trans-girl anthem. Check it out on her bandcamp page and pick it up at the show.
Local support from Freeloadr, Crab Jackson, Abstract Projections, and Lather.

10/11/2025

Join us October 25 for space music, free improvisation and a weirdo singer-songwriter.
ALL-AGES
$10 ADMISSION + FOOD OR DRINK PURCHASE REQUIRED
TICKETS: https://link.dice.fm/H37fca9d7fe1
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Bad History Month - honest, intelligent and humorous songwriting with a post-rock bend. Songs about daily anxieties and the little pleasures in life.
https://fathistorymonth.bandcamp.com/
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Let Me Hear You - masterful soundcraft using keys, strings and samples from local sonic explorer Jimmy Brown.
https://letmehearyou.bandcamp.com/
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Exurn - new solo project of Joseph Trahan, progression from Spiral project.
Without Whom - Joseph will be joined by Hazel Benton and Ben Myers to revive this heavy, amorphous improvisational trio.
https://spiral1031.bandcamp.com

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