Liquid Stranger returns to the Wilma in March, three years after his last Missoula night

The Swedish bass producer and Wakaan founder brings Sully and Twopercent to Higgins Avenue on Thursday, March 25.

The Wilma has hosted silent films, a pipe organ, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a century of Missoula nights out. On a Thursday in late March, it gets a subwoofer-first evening from one of the producers who helped define the sprawling, weird corner of bass music now known as freeform.

Liquid Stranger plays The Wilma Theatre on Thursday, March 25, 2027, at 8 p.m., with Sully and Twopercent in support. The date was announced Nov. 3, and tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The Wilma holds 1,500.

It's his first Missoula show since March 8, 2024, when he also played the Wilma. That visit was part of a Montana return announced by Logjam Presents with TVBOO, Drinkurwater, Sharlitz Web and Yoko on the bill. Three years later, the room is the same, and the support is new.

Liquid Stranger is the project of Martin Stääf, a Swedish producer born in Varberg, according to his Wikipedia entry. He founded the Wakaan label in 2015, and it has since grown into more than a record imprint, with a merch line, an artist collective and the Wakaan Music Festival, as EDM.com has covered. He's credited with coining the term "freeform bass" for the label's genre-bending output, which pulls from dub, downtempo and dubstep.

What has changed since 2024 is mostly scale and reach. His 2025 run was billed as the Revolution tour, which Stage Hoppers previewed as a push to change bass music, and he is listed for Ultra Music Festival in Miami in March 2027 on Live Nation. A Missoula Thursday in the same month says something about how much this market means to his touring.

A century-old theater on Higgins Avenue, and a producer who helped name freeform bass.

The Wilma is a big part of the draw. The theater was built in 1921 by William "Billy" Simons and named for his wife, light opera singer Edna Wilma, and it opened that May with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, according to its Wikipedia entry). A 1933 remodel gave it French Renaissance styling, and the building it anchors, the Smead-Simons Building, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Distinctly Montana has a good history for anyone who wants more.

What to know before going: it's a Thursday with an 8 p.m. start and two support acts, so get there early if you want to catch the openers. Late March in Missoula can still mean snow, so dress for the walk on Higgins between the bar and the theater.

Tickets are live. Missoula gets a bass night in its grandest room, from the producer who has made a career of bending the genre. Bring earplugs and a friend who still talks about 2024.

Sources: Liquid Stranger plots return to Montana in 2024 — Logjam Presents (logjampresents.com); Liquid Stranger — Wikipedia (mirror) (kiwix.lema.org); Wakaan — Wikipedia (wikipedia.com); Liquid Stranger Wakaan Music Festival interview — EDM.com (edm.com); Liquid Stranger invites fans to a revolution in bass music with 2025 tour — Stage Hoppers (stagehoppers.com); Liquid Stranger events — Live Nation (livenation.com); Wilma Theatre (Missoula, Montana) — Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Missoula's Historic Wilma Theater — Distinctly Montana (distinctlymontana.com); JamBase show listing (jambase.com)