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A Music Discovery List Worth Keeping: New Voices on the Indigenous Music Countdown

From Mercedes Brown to DJ Shub, the October Indigenous Music Countdown is a reminder that Native music refuses one narrow label.

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Concerts & Festivals

Fruit Bats Bring The Landfill Tour to Missoula Oct. 15

Fruit Bats play The Wilma in Missoula on Thursday, Oct. 15, touring their new full band album The Landfill.

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Concerts & Festivals

Shakey Graves Brings Fondness, Etc. to Missoula

Shakey Graves plays The Wilma in Missoula on Oct. 23 behind his album Fondness, Etc. His Bozeman show the next night is already sold out.

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Local Artists

Tim Montana’s New Album Brings Crow Vocals to Rock

Montana raised country rocker Tim Montana released Entire State of Tim Montana on July 31. One song features pow wow drum group WolfBear and Crow vocalist First Crazy Dog.

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Music

Browning Duo Ponoka Is First Firekeeper Alliance Record

The Browning nonprofit Firekeeper Alliance started a record label. Its first release is a live set from Blackfeet doom duo Ponoka.

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Music

Vincent Bird Releases Mission Mountain Native

Vincent Bird, a songmaker from the Flathead Reservation, put out his album Mission Mountain Native on Sept. 17 with help from the Billy Conway Artist Fund.

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Music

Missoula Punk Trio Minot Releases Third Album

Missoula garage punk trio Minot released its third studio album, Down & Out at the Thunderbird, on Oct. 2 through DragBunt Records. The band plays Bozeman's Labor Temple on Oct. 17.

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Music

Stonefruit’s debut Good News Only draws new review

Stonefruit's debut album, Good News Only, came out in June. The music site Start Track reviewed the Bozeman dreamgaze band's record on Oct. 6.

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