You like folk music? You like Rock music? You like when the two are recklessly smashed together and performed on stage in front of a live studio audience? Well that’s what’s going to happen tonight at The Strutt, and that’s pretty cool.

Coming in all the way from New York, former University Of Michigan student Charlene Kaye is on tour and playin’ the house.  Her music is less folk-rock and more folk-jazz – not that she doesn’t rock per se, just that she be swingin’, and that’s okay. She’s got a set of pipes too, which further aids in the process of getting down.

Spencer Michaud hails from Ann Arbor currently, and is a bit more straight-laced in terms of his folk music. It’s good though, real good.

Finally, local Folk Rock Heroes Birches are providing the jams, the grooves, and the hometown support. This is one of my personal favorite Kalamazoo outfits, and it’s always good to see ’em playing at home. The doors for this one open at 8:30 and it cost 5 bux to stop by, but don’t let that deter you from some awesome music.

If a funkier, bluesier sort of night is what you’re looking for, though, you could always swing by Bell’s Eccentric Cafe and check out the BMF Band and Marble Garden. It’s gonna be good times either way though!

Courtesy BMF Band

Tonight at Louie’s Trophy House Grill, Sweet Brown bring the fun times in the form of several girls and a male or two. I saw them play on an ill-fated night where winter road conditions rendered a show incomplete yet they still brought a few fun originals and a high octane set of covers from the Runaways and Blondie.

Brown Cow are a young group of musicians geared toward the slacker pop of the 90s like Pavement and Sebadoh, with singer Mallory Cobb’s otherworldly vocal vibrato filling out the sound in a new flavor to this formula.

IfIHadAHiFi hail from Milwaukee and feature members of Death Dream and The Pop Machine. They bring Noise Rock and Post-Punk like crazy, a party of excess. WAY FUN!

The show is only $5 and starts at 10 p.m. at 440 E. North St in Kalamazoo, MIchigan. Louie’s Trophy Grill House!

Every once in a while, the garage-rockers leave the garage and rock elsewhere. Sometimes that elsewhere is a long, long way from home. That’s what TV Ghost is doing this Wednesday at Louie’s Trophy House Grille, and it is so good to hear it. Their special brand of music is crunchy, punky, relatively manic and mildly insane. I caught these guys last time they came through the ‘Zoo (even had a chance to open for them) and they are most excellent. But don’t take my word for it, come check it out tomorrow night!

Joining them will be The Spits, formerly-local rockers with a synthesized twinge that gets the hairs on the back of your neck standing up just right. These fellas know how to pound through a tune and make it count. Check ’em!

Finally, Kalamazoo locals No Bails will provide the hometown support. Zombie Surf music at it’s finest!

Show starts at 9 and it costs 5 bux to get in, but what price do you put on good old Rock and Roll? See you cats there!

Tonight there’s a whole lot of rockin’ and rollin’ and jazzin’ and such goin’ on all over the place, and it will be so good to hear it.

First up, The psychedelic jam-band stylings of Marble Garden can be found tonight at Papa Pete’s. They’re loud, funky, groovy, and most importantly, these boys can play! Also, before you ask, their band name is in fact a reference to a level in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

Oh, and there’s the band too:

Plus, Teh Wallcatz will be opening up with their own brand of funky sweaty organ trio goodness. The jams will be had for certain. Show costs 4 bucks to get in.

If jazz is what you want, however, you can always pop by The Strutt and check out Duke and the Loose Cannons! Featuring Leonard Duke and Craig Vestel – long time Kalamazoo Musicians – James Duke of Son Drop, and Jarad ‘Saxsquatch’ Selner (That’s me!). We will get down. Let’s KICK IT.

Tonight, you, The Strutt, Blueprint from Rhymesayers, Bedroxx, and Shneal (both local cats); high quality Hip-Hop.

Bring $10 dollars and one of these things because it’s gonna be sick.

BlackJack Productions would like to present: The melodic garage-psych onslaught known as Fairweather Friends out of Milwaukee, WI shall be appearing tonight at Louie’s Trophy House Grill in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan!

Frontman Jordan Davis was formerly in the Wisconsin outfit Mystery Girls.  Much like that band, the Friends bring that amped up 60s psych flavor with strong songwriting to boot.  There’s perhaps even more melodic focus but the rockin’ is still intact, as evidenced by the song “Jokes On You“.

Kalamazoo’s The Evil Deauxerz are set to tear down the house with their rambunctious garage stomp that echoes through the Valley.

Lastly, a new project has recently been given life by members of outfits such as The Philly Crawlers, Aaron Young & His Nights Jars, Legendary Wings, and former Tiny Rhythm-ers.  As of right now, the project is simply known as MattMattPete and is in its infancy, so anything could happen!  The music is fairly diverse, with a heavy emphasis on drone and vamp rock!

Louie’s Trophy House Grill is located at 44o E. North Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  The show is 18 and up, starts 10 p.m., and costs ya $5 bones!

Courtesy Earthwork Music http://earthworkmusic.com

Tonight, The Strutt plays host to the Kalamazoo return of Seth Bernard! In the off-case that you have not heard Seth before, he plays good, wholesome folk-inspired tunes sometimes, and then totally shreds an electric guitar other times. He also puts on a hell of a show, and so this one comes with a high recommendation.

For reference, here’s Seth performing a Pink Floyd tune with Daisy May:

Yeah, you know you like it.

Tonight, Seth will be backed up by a few of his friends, including Dominic Davis, Josh Davis, and Mike Shimmin. The music starts at 9pm, the cost of admission is $10, and the tunes will be kicking, to be absolutely sure!

For those of you that have a sweet-tooth for good music, tonight you can just consider Louie’s Trophy House grill the Willy Wonka Chocolate factory of rock.

Irregardless of actual order, we’re going to start talking about Sleepeater right now. Why? Because they’re from Portland, and you kiddos know what comes from Portland: Wheat! Here at DIT we love wheat just as much as we love Alternative Psychedelic Rock, and Sleepeater is good at the latter of the two, which as previously stated, we respect highly, so check them out.

http://myspace.com/sleepeater

Three Mile Island hails from Petaluma, California (Not Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) and plays some type of weird Bluegrass inspired Garage Rock. I say weird in the nicest way possible, because I like them, and you can believe me when I say that because I write for this blog and half of these bands on here are weird and that’s the best part. They have great presence on stage and it’s stuff you can sing along to and I know how much people like to sing along to music so that ought to be great.

Widow’s Hatchet is a metal band with a female lead singer that seems to take ques from all around the metal spectrum. They’ve gigged from Grand Rapids to Detroit, playing metal that feeds off of the blood that seeps from the black, brutal roots of the giant mother metal tree.

Lastly, local staple Good News will be adding and subtracting (maybe even performing some long division) musically with their Post-Math-Instrumental-Rock that’s so technical and precise they use TI-83 calculators to compose most of their tunes. Joking aside they really are technical and precise, and you should catch them at Louie’s tonight because their shows are always super legit.

The music starts at 9pm. The fun starts shortly before. The cost is 5 dollars. See you down there.

A few years ago I had the privilege of seeing a rare reunion of Small Brown Bike through a window at a sold out show.   That night, the boys from Marshall, MI brought enough energy to overflow Kraftbrau and spill out to those of us watching from the outside.  These guys are known for their dominance around the turn of the millennium emo-post-hardcore-punk scene.  Along their label mates on No Idea Records (i.e. Hot Water Music) Small Brown Bike breathed fresh life and energy into a tired punk genre.  I’m excited to say that I’ll have another chance to see these amazing musicians (hopefully from the inside this time).

The Casket Lottery is a similar story from Kansas City:  Midwest kids rocking the world, breaking hearts with a hiatus, and triumphantly returning to blow our minds once again.  I don’t have the same personal connection with these guys as SBB, but I know they will be phenominal.  Just watch this live video and you’ll get it:  (oh, btw: the drummer was also in the Appleseed Cast for a while)

Acting as our local representatives, Kalamazoo’s own MINUTES will be starting off the show tonight.  If you haven’t seen them yet, you’re missing out.  They’ve had a spot in my top 5 local bands since their formation in 2009.   Here’s two videos, because their radness can’t be contained in just one:

The Strutt.  9pm.  $14.  The best thing happening in town this whole month.  Seriously, if you’re into punk, post-hardcore, or generally great music, this show is a must.