Monthly Archives: August 2010

Are You Experimental?

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Then come check out the sweet noise show at The Strutt on August 11th! If you’re not, then come check out the sweet noise show at The Strutt on August 11th and get into it!!! Just one week from tomorrow. For only $5, your mind will be thoroughly melted. Here’s what’s up:

Vertonen –

This Califonia noise maker has been at it since the early 90s. In true noise fashion, he has release somewhere around five hundred thousand albums on just about every format imaginable. This includes a split with Wolf Eyes side project Demons. He also runs the C.I.P. label in his free time (somehow).

Nerfbau / Take Up Serpents –

Noise minus a little bit of the ear piercing harshness. These guys are both on tour together. Check out their tour page for an idea of what to expect.

Dental Work – Noise by way of Traverse City, MI. This guy is super active in Michigan’s experimental music community. He books shows all over the state and runs Placental Recordings. He’s released albums for bands all over including Acid Mothers Temple and Cock ESP.

Boron Nuzzle – Kalamazoo’s own fun loving absurdists rockers. Sounds ranging from straight noise to free jazz to psych rock and everything in between.

Like I said, Only $5. Doors at 8pm. First band at 9pm. 18+. See you there.

No Fun July 30th

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La Chambre No Fun, A Casa No Fun, in all languages it means the same thing: The No Fun House. And Friday night, July 30th to be exact, The House of Supreme Malaise hosted three (count ’em) bands: Good News, Fox and the Law, and And I Was Like, What? (in that order).

The latter two on the previously stated bill hail all the way from Seattle, Washington. For every mile they drove, they rocked two.

The night started out with “math rock” gods Good News playing to a crowd yearning for more individuals. Those individuals didn’t come, but Good News gave absolutely no mind to this situation and played on. They played on to a fervent crowd of other bands and DIT junkies, a guitarist and a drummer, adding and subtracting their way into the night, raising the bar of rockin’ so high that I could see sweat beading off of the heads of the members of Fox and the Law. They would not be frightened.

Fox and the Law met this challenge with a smile, told us we were the best crowd ever, and managed to rock everyone’s pants off. So much so that I had to go walk all the way to bronson park just to cool myself down in the fountain. So much so that I missed “And I Was Like, What?”. It sucked so bad that I missed them, though, I actually had to physically get up and drive myself to Steak and Shake to ward off the depression.

Yeah, that was a Steak and Shake plug, they’ve got good food, you mad?

The point here really is that you should all come to more DIT shows. Because often times there are awesome kids throwing down awesome jams at awesome places all around this fair city, and I know for a fact that if they stopped, you’d all cry. The good news is that they wont stop. Check the bar on your right, it’s on fire.

No Fun House! Tomorrow!

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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.