Fireside Thursdays with DJ JoJo

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Karaoke with KJ Sparkles starting at 10 PM! Come sing your favorite karaoke tracks!

Come get your HaHa's with a meal for our weekly Comedy Open Mic every Sunday and Wednesday night.

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About Alex

Alex Hooper was sculpted in Baltimore, MD.  As a troubled weirdo, he tried on many hats before realizing only comedy could tame his hair. On stage he is known for his clever writing, fearless style, rampant energy, and sickeningly positive attitude. He has appeared on America's Got Talent, Comedy Central (Roast Battle 2, Corporate), Fox's New Girl, TVLand, Nickelodeon, and most importantly, The Bad Girls Club. His 2018 Album "Hugs. Drugs. Pugs." hit #1 on Amazon and #3 on ITunes Best Selling Comedy Records. Also in 2018 his Pug Yoga Calendar was featured on The Ellen Show. Funny Or Die named him one of the 15 Funniest Comics to Follow. Good Deed Seats included him in their list of The 40 Best Up & Coming Comedians.  He created CRAVE, a unique comedy and dance party experience. Named one of LA Weekly's Best of 2013, CRAVE has also been recognized by The LA Times and Thrillist.

Hooked Entertainment , Erickson Unlimited and Koots are proud to Present the Return of Tim Montana & the Shrednecks, with special guest The Stack Saturday August 24th at Koots!
Tickets on Sale now at:

https://myalaskatix.com/events/Tim-Montana--the-Shrednecks-with-special-guest-and-local-favorites-The-Stack-8-24-2019

*Advance General Admission $20.00  at the door they go up to $30

*VIP/ Meet & Greet $40.00 includes an early entry at 8 PM , Meet and Greet at 8:30 and 2 drink tickets valued at $7.00 each

* This is a 21+ Show / NO REFUNDS

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Tim Montana

Whether he's performing onstage with ZZ Top in front of a crowd of thousands, kicking it with his friend Dave Grohl at a Foo Fighters gig or racing ATVs with extreme-sports star Travis Pastrana, Tim Montana has a knack for always being in the right place at the right time. But don't chalk it up to luck. Rather, it's Montana's innate talent, unrelenting hustle and magnetic charisma that have made the country-rock singer-songwriter a dude that everyone — from the famous to the blue-collar — wants to be around.

Raised in the wilds near Butte, Montana, Tim Montana (yes, it's his real name), entered the world as an off-the-grid thrill-seeker. He and his buddies would take to the nearby mountains to fish, hunt and raise hell as an escape from their rustic home lives — Montana grew up without electricity. Soon, however, he sought out a different high: the kind that only comes from performing live music. Eager to perfect the guitar playing he began when he was just 6 years old, he moved to Los Angeles to put his time in studying his craft.

"Music was an escape from being secluded in the woods. When I played guitar and closed my eyes I was leaving Butte and seeing the world," Montana says. "When I moved to L.A., I went from having no electricity to living on Hollywood Boulevard. It was quite the culture shock."

In a uniquely Tim Montana way, he somehow found himself in the company of David Letterman during a trip back home to Montana, and the talk-show host personally invited him to perform on his show. In 2008, Montana sang his song "Butte, America" for a national audience on the Late Show.

Eventually, he ended up in Nashville, where he formed his band the Shrednecks and established himself as a thrilling live performer. He's a gregarious personality and struck up friendships with such diverse figures as Kid Rock and the Navy SEAL who led the raid to take down Osama bin Laden, Rob O'Neill. In Kid Rock, Montana found a kindred rebel spirit and began one of his most prolific creative periods, opening for the rap-rock icon and co-writing two charting singles for Rock's Sweet Southern Sugar album: the Top 10 country hit "Tennessee Mountain Top" and the Number 16 rock anthem "Greatest Show on Earth."

"We have a lot in common," he says of his relationship with Rock. "The way we write songs is very similar, our performance style is full throttle and we instantly hit it off."

But it's ZZ Top's legendary Billy F. Gibbons with whom Montana has formed his longest and most prosperous relationship. Natural collaborators, the pair has written, recorded and performed together countless times, co-writing songs like "Weed and Whiskey," "Rust and Red" and "Fifty Fifty." In 2013, the hirsute rockers penned "This Beard Came Here to Party," which became the theme song of the Boston Red Sox as they fought to a World Series championship, and later Music City's NHL franchise the Nashville Predators.

"Billy and I bonded over beards, and now he is part of the family," Montana says.

Now, as the Whisker Brothers, Montana and Gibbons are gearing up to launch their own hot sauce company, Whisker Bomb Pepper Sauce, with the backyard anthem "Good Ol' BBQ." Barbecue is a cornerstone of Montana's life, and he regularly gives followers the meat sweats with epic grill photos posted to his Instagram. As the brand ambassador for Traeger Grills, he recently performed with Dave Grohl at the company's all-star weekend in Memphis and taught a how-to-barbecue class to music-industry executives in Nashville. In addition to Traeger, Montana is a spokesperson and influencer for Black Rifle Coffee, Snap-On Tools, Polaris and Weather Guard, and remains a passionate advocate for the U.S. military, helping tell the stories of patriots like Rob O'Neill and the late "American Sniper" Chris Kyle.

"Working with brands is something I never set out to do, but it happened because I genuinely love products that fit my outdoor lifestyle. I couldn't sell teeth-whitening stuff, but I can sell a grill," he quips. "And my heroes have always been soldiers. I love getting to help those guys and acknowledge their sacrifice. I'll always support the military."

But while Montana may be a foodie, a marksman, an adrenaline junkie and a TV personality, it's music that remains at the core of the man. In the fall, he'll release his new full-length album American Thread. The video for the LP's supercharged title track, featuring Montana in his snowy home state, is currently in rotation at CMT and shortly he'll unveil a video for another album cut, "Mostly Stoned." Unable to do anything small, Montana enlisted notorious Hollywood bad boy Charlie Sheen to direct the clip, garnering national headlines for the project.

And he has yet more irons in the fire. His song "Asphalt Throwdown" is being used by Fox Sports for its NASCAR telecasts, the raucous "Hillbilly Rich" appears in the Action Figures 2 film, and the original composition with Gibbons "American Dresser" soundtracks the Tom Berenger movie of the same name. All of this builds on what Montana has already accomplished since breaking out of Butte all those years ago.

But he's nowhere near finished.

"It wasn't easy for me on Music Row, so I had to work a little bit harder," he says. "Now we're doing things in Nashville in a way that hasn't been done before."

For Montana, the Big Sky is the limit.

Afroman returns to Koot's!

"The first tape I made was about my eighth-grade teacher," recalls the 30-year-old rapper, whose real name is Joseph Foreman. "She got me kicked out of school for sagging my pants, which was a big deal back then. So I wrote this song about her and it sold about 400 copies: it was selling to teachers, students, just about everybody. And I realized that, even though I wasn't at school, my song was at school, so in a way I was still there. All these people would come by my house just to give me comments about how cool they thought the song was."

That episode was precisely the proverbial 'kick in the pants' Afroman needed to satisfy his burgeoning musical aspirations. Using a low-cost microphone, tape deck and mixer -- purchased by his parents to "keep him out of trouble" -- the novice rapper went from ragging on his teacher to crafting spirited tapes filled with his patented mixture of perceptive humor and straight-from-the-street sentiments. "I'd hustle to all the swap meets in LA until security ran me out," he remembers adding that he initially lived in the infamous South Central section of Los Angeles before moving, as a teenager, to Palmdale, California. "I also went to all the low-rider shows and Venice Beach. Basically, any function where I thought I could flip over a dollar and expose people to my music." That hustling ultimately paid off when "Because I Got High" from THE GOOD TIMES, his debut full-length CD, became the most popular summer song of 2001. A hilarious ode to the pitfalls of smoking marijuana, the track was a Top Ten tune in over a dozen countries, with the album certified gold in the United States.

"In two minutes, eleven seconds, I had written a hit, but before that it had taken me nearly seven months to recognize I had a marijuana problem," says the now-reformed rapper. "It was only then that I realized everyone talks about smoking weed, but no one ever really talks about the effects of marijuana. We know about the effects of drinking beer, we know about the effects of looking at a naked lady, but nobody knew about the effects of smoking weed. Actually, the problem was more that the people who did know weren't songwriters; they were just dudes walking down the beach or whatever. So I decided to write that song." Now, Afroman is following up the worldwide success of that recording with the aptly titled AFROHOLIC ... THE EVEN BETTER TIMES, a comprehensive, two-disc collection -- released on his home-grown Hungry Hustler Records label -- showcasing forthright lyrics, skilled guitar work and infectious hooks. Whether raising the roof with "Let's Get High Tonight," reliving painful "Ghetto Memories" or simply "Hittin' Switches," every hip-hop-infused cut is hard-rocking and undeniably heartfelt.

At the same time, while most of the tracks admittedly focus upon having a good time, listeners who know Afroman solely through "Because I Got High" are in for a surprise. "I caught a lot of flak for having so many drug references in my music, so on this album I wanted to give cats a few songs that are really good but don't say anything about drugs," reveals the singer. "For example, on 'Cali Swangin',' I'm talking about low-riding, which I really love to do. That's one of my hobbies -- it's kind of like skateboarding to me. I've also got another tune called 'Just My Paranoia' that's simply my interpolation of the song 'Just My Imagination.'"

Regardless of the subject, for Afroman the most important thing, both in creating the music and sharing it with fans, is that he and his audience are having fun. "Music was really made for a good time," he notes, adding that key influences include classic hip-hop heroes like Too Short, DJ Quik and 2 Live Crew. "Nowadays, most Los Angeles rappers want to kill you, which is natural, because it's LA, and a lot of those dudes are gang members who've come off the street. Well, I don't really care about this guy trying to kill me in the verse; I just like the funk he's rapping to. So on AFROHOLIC ... THE EVEN BETTER TIMES, I decided to fillet all the bullshit. I tried to get rid of all the hostility and animosity out there that usually goes with the funk, and just rap with clever, uplifting lyrics."

Ever since the eighth-grade expulsion that kick-started his career, Afroman has striven to fuse the finest early rap elements with modern-day attitudes, creating high-spirited yet unquestionably up-to-the-minute melodies. From his perspective, if the tunes sound a tad familiar, that's fine, so long as his fans are smiling, dancing and, most important of all, having a grand time.

"You know how all Mercedes Benzes look related to each other?" he asks. "Well, I don't want my music to be the equivalent of an Impala or a damned Cadillac, where one day it looks like a coupe, the next day it looks like a truck, and tomorrow it may look like a freakin' helicopter or something. I want to give cats the best of the future and, of course, maintain the past. Kind of like Mercedes Benz does with the look of their cars, where you can always see the resemblance. I want people to think of AFROHOLIC ... THE EVEN BETTER TIMES as a great '80s West Coast disc where the guy's not killing everybody. I want them to spend their $17 or whatever and, when all is said and done, just feel happy."

Karaoke with KJ Sparkles every Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights!

Starts at 10 PM

Come sing your favorite karaoke tracks!

Karaoke with KJ Sparkles every Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday starting at 10 PM!

Come sing your favorite karaoke tracks!

Karaoke with KJ Sparkles starting at 10 PM! Come sing your favorite karaoke tracks!

Mondays are for Open Mic! Come play some music under the windmill!

Bring a guitar and join our host, with the most, 'Boobs' Hennig, for Open Mic Monday at Koot's! Play a song or two and leave with a recording of your performance! Boob's will record and burn a CD for you, to take home, for free...

$3 drafts specials running all night, and bring an appetite with you as well.

Open mic starts at 9pm. Beer specials run all day long.

Fireside Thursdays with DJ JoJo

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Come get your HaHa's with a meal for our weekly Comedy Open Mic every Sunday and Wednesday night.

Think you have what it takes to get the laughs? Sign up and give it a shot!

DJ Just Adam

Swing Bar at Koot's

DJ BeeOne at Koot's

in The Swing Bar

Don’t miss Lowroc. at KOOTS for a very special performance featuring the music of iconic 90’s Boston area band Morphine. 

Lowroc. performs the music of Morphine Fireside at Koots.

No cover.