Logjam Presents is pleased to welcome Red NOT Chili Peppers for a live in concert performance at The ELM on Saturday, March 8, 2025.

RED NOT CHILI PEPPERS pay tribute to the ultimate funk rock quartet: a band who has developed one of the largest die-hard followings in the world by transcending four decades of chart-topping success. Combining nostalgic hits, full throttle energy, and virtuosic performances, the Red Nots channel the raging party that has given the Chili Peppers international acclaim and regal rock and roll status. Having performed at many of the country’s most prestigious concert halls as well as every major tribute festival, the Red Nots’ undying devotion to the classic California sound has filled venues and rocked audience’s socks off all over the US and abroad. With a huge song catalog that spans every era of the Chili’s prolific career at their command, every Red Nots show provides a unique live music experience.

Formed in 2009, the Red NOT Chili Peppers quickly rose to become the nation’s most active Chili Pepper tribute as well as spanning the globe through Dubai, Brazil, Mexico, and Japan. With world-class musicians on the roster, the Red Nots have stopped at nothing to develop the most accurate re-creation of the distinctive alternative funk rock sound pioneered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

 Logjam Presents is pleased to welcome Jim Messina & the Road Runners for a live in concert performance at The ELM on Friday, April 25, 2025.

An undisputed expert in the fine art of making hit music, JIM MESSINA’s legacy of musical genius spans five decades, three super groups, a vibrant solo career and scores of producing and engineering credits.

“Your Mama Don’t Dance,” “Angry Eyes,” “Danny’s Song,” “House of Pooh Corner,” and “You Better Think Twice” are just a few songs of Jim Messina’s vast musical hits.

While acting as producer/audio engineer for Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Buffalo Springfield, Messina ultimately joined the band as its bass player. When “the Springfield” disbanded in 1968, Jim and fellow bandmate Richie Furay formed Poco. With Jim on lead guitar, Poco defined a new musical genre, Country Rock. After three successful albums, Jim was ready for a change and left to return to his passion for producing music. He signed as an independent producer with Columbia Records.

In November 1970, the Columbia asked Jim to work with an unknown Kenny Loggins. While helping Kenny get ready for a record and touring, the two discovered that they  worked well together and Jim agreed to sit in on Kenny’s first album. Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sittin’ In was released in November of 1971 and an accidental duo was formed.

Over the next seven years, Loggins & Messina released eight hit albums, had scores of hit songs and sold over 16 million albums. They had become one of rock’s most successful recording duos ever, but it was time for the duo to go their separate ways.

Since then, Jim has been releasing critically acclaimed solo albums and playing to audiences across the country. Recently, with his new band, The Road Runners, Jim released his latest live album Here, There & Everywhere. Touring the country and playing sold-out shows, Jim says that he’s enjoying discovering who he is, where he’s been and, most significantly, where he’s going.

Logjam Presents is pleased to welcome Dirtwire for a live in concert performance at The ELM on Saturday, May 3, 2025.

Dirtwire stands poised between ancient Mother Earth and modern technology, a blend of ethnomusicology and the psychedelic trance state, gut-bucket delta blues and what the band variously dubs “back-porch space cowboy blues, swamptronica, and electro-twang.” It’s a sound informed by Dirtwire’s travels and performances around the globe, where East meets West and North joins South. From the favelas in Brazil, Femi Kuti’s Shrine in Lagos, Tokyo’s bluegrass clubs, Ayahuasca ceremonies in Central America, Gamelan performances in Bali, desert festivals in the Australian Outback, and the 20th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s modernized new capital Astana, the band spreads its message by building bridges across musical cultures in their own unique way.

Dirtwire plays an array of instruments both ancient and modern, including West African kamale ngonis, jaw harps, space fiddles, whamola basses, Rickenbacher electric 12 string guitars, bowed Banjos and mouth harps from around the globe, all interwoven into modern laptop beat creation. Hailing from the underground west coast electronic bass music scene Dirtwire finds itself at the forefront of experimental electronic music production mixing in their wide array of world instruments with sampled beats and 808’s. Dirtwire’s live shows are a communal psychedelic journey, ranging from down home boot stomping get downs, to bass and blues electronic mashups, to ethereal cinematic beat driven soundscapes. Woven into each is the exploration of where live instruments meet computer production, and where tradition meets experimentation.

Logjam Presents is pleased to welcome Napalm Death & Melvins for a live in concert performance at The ELM on Saturday, May 31, 2025 with Hard-Ons and Dark Sky Burial.

Although the name Napalm Death has existed since 1981, as the band’s first line-up plundered the post- and anarcho punk scenes for inspiration, it was 1987’s seminal Scum album that would ensure their place in the grand pantheon of heaviness. A visceral dismantling of conventions, it effectively kick-started the entire Grindcore scene, gaining Napalm Death something approaching household name status for their insane speeds, animalistic screams and uncompromising political stance. From that moment, the band became synonymous with both proudly-held ethical principles and the relentless pursuit of new ways to terrorize people with riffs and noise.

By the early ‘90s, Napalm Death had coalesced around a steady line-up of vocalist Barney Greenway, bassist Shane Embury, drummer Danny Herrera and guitarists Mitch Harris and Jesse Pintado. Renowned for both unrelenting tour schedules and a steady stream of consistently well￾received albums, they have powered forward ever since, weathering transient trends, media indifference and industry skulduggery along the way. Despite the sad passing of Pintado in 2006, the 21st century has seen Napalm Death continue to refine and redefine their still epoch-wrecking sound, with instant classic albums like Smear Campaign (2006) and Utilitarian (2012) adding further flesh to the bones of this ongoing legend.

While many veteran bands are content to repeat themselves or to wallow in nostalgia, these noise-hungry stalwarts seem to have gained fresh impetus and momentum in recent times, as showcased on 2015’s Apex Predator – Easy Meat, and its universally acclaimed and truly mind-bending Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism (2020). The creation of the latter masterpiece clearly ranks as one of the most fertile periods in Napalm Death history, as the band are now to unleash a brand new 30-minute mini-album, Resentment is Always Seismic – a final throw of Throes. Boasting some of the band’s most experimental material yet, alongside the expected bursts of bone-shattering extremity, the new release continues Napalm Death’s devotion to a defiantly underground punk rock ethos.

“It was all recorded during the sessions for the last album, but as you know, we always record a shitload of stuff!” says Barney Greenway. “We purposely said, right, we’re going to put a mini-album out for a change! Being from the school of hoary old punk rockers, we like to do these stripped down releases. We recorded enough that we still had a lot of bonus tracks for the original album release, and we had all this extra stuff left over!”

Continuing the fearless exploration of their legendary sound’s outer limits, Resentment is Always Seismic… is full of jaw-dropping moments where heaviness and insanity collide. From the crushing, ultra-distorted grooves of opener Narcissus and the sluggish, Swans-saluting oppression of Resentment Always Simmers, to the visceral rage attack of By Proxy and blistering covers of Bad Brains’ Don’t Need It and industrial noise rock icons SLAB!’s pummelling People Pie, Napalm Death’s music has never sounded more vital or unique. Nowhere is that more evident than on the new mini-album’s closing title track, wherein bassist Shane Embury morphs into his Dark Sky Burial alter-ego for a synapse-torching remix for the ages.

“These songs are pretty much an extension of the last album, but there’s a lot of crazy stuff on there and we really went for it,” Barney concludes. “With the title track, Shane punted the idea of doing a remix, and I thought yeah, why not? We’ve always shared a love of things like Coil, and all that dark, soundscape stuff, so I was quite happy for him to do that. Him and Russ [Russell, producer] built the track, with all kinds of inanimate objects being thrown around in very unsavory ways! [Laughs] It turned out really fucking good.”