MISSOULA –

KBGA College Radio 89.9 FM at The University of Montana will host its annual on-air fundraiser, RadioThon, the week of Feb. 8-14.

The student-run radio station’s goal during its pledge week is to raise $13,000 – a thousand dollars for each year it’s been in existence. KBGA staff and volunteers will be in the office answering phones from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day, accepting donations in exchange for premium packages. Premiums will include KBGA merchandise and items, services and gift certificates donated by local and regional businesses.

To donate premiums or pledge your support, call 406-243-KBGA (5242).

KBGA will celebrate a successful fundraiser with a benefit concert, EndofThon, Saturday, Feb. 13, at the Badlander and Palace Lounge in downtown Missoula. The concert will feature five bands – The Hood Internet, Black Velvet Elvis, Visqueen, Shahs and Capricorn Vertical Slum – in addition to three DJs, screen printing, giveaways and specials. A similar KBGA event last September attracted more than 900 people.

EndofThon doors open at 9 p.m., and the show starts at 10 p.m. Admission is open to ages 18 and older and costs $5.

The lineup’s three DJs are DJ STV SLV (The Hood Internet’s Steve Reidell), a laptop-armed alchemist who makes gold from pop, rap, indie rock, R&B and more; Missoula’s soon-to-be-legendary DJ Kris Moon; and DJ Fleege, who will close out the night with a not-too-late-night dance party, mixing progressive and tech-house dance music.

Playing upstairs in the Badlander, The Hood Internet comes all the way from Chicago with hundreds of hip-hop-indie-rock mash-ups that have earned them notoriety everywhere from Lollapalooza to the South by Southwest festival.

Local favorites Black Velvet Elvis reunite for one show only, bringing their original lineup and a new drummer.

In the Palace, Seattle’s Visqueen returns to Missoula on the heels of the release of their new album, “Message to Garcia,” where Neko Case returns lead singer Rachel Flotard’s vocal favors.

Also in the Palace, local one-man bands Shahs and Capricorn Vertical Slum open up the night. Shahs has been described as “the antithesis of Animal Collective,” while Capricorn Vertical Disco describes himself “as if disco-era Rolling Stones were jamming in the closet of R. Kelly’s spaceship.”

For more information, visit http://www.kbga.org.

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