Tomorrow night at the No Fun House, all the way from Toronto, comes an instrumental band called Sleep For the Nightlife. I had the good fortune of running into them earlier on this tour in Long Island, NY. I had no idea what to expect as I hadn’t listened to them before and I was pleasantly surprised, nay, blown away. Their mathy dual-guitar attack was right up my alley but I was even more delighted when I realized that for a post-y band of this nature, they refreshingly eschewed anything unnecessary. They keep their songs short and between the straight up two guitar, bass, and drums lineup only one member uses any effects and even that is only limited to a single Line 6 delay pedal.

Joining them will be a new creation which I have yet to witness, Deep Waters, the latest project from Kalamazoo stalwarts David Spalvieri-Kruse, Pat Carrol, and Josh Holcomb. Do I have any idea what we’re in store for? Just imagine this image in musical form…

And rounding out the bill is our very own the Number Eight whom you should be plenty familiar with by now. If not, have you ever even been to a Kalamazoo show? Now a duo, these guys play indie/shoegaze influenced slow burners that are as pretty as they are seductive. You heard that right. If we’re lucky, we’ll hear some singing-saw thrown into their primarily acoustic guitar/electric guitar performance.