Sunday night is going to be ridiculous. The Milhouse will be hosting what will likely go down as my favorite Kalamazoo show of the year.
I met the guys in Duck. Little Brother, Duck! after a 14-hour drive from Idaho Falls to Portland this past winter. Upon our arrival, these fine fellows showed us the kind of hospitality in their hometown that made the hours and gas money spent all so worth it. These are the kind of folks that will help someone from 2000+ miles away with a show to play, pack out an entire anarchist bookstore to well beyond fire-code, inexhaustibly show you around their entire city, and get their parents to feed you healthy Portlandia food the whole time you’re there.
Also, their band makes amazing music.
It’s angular, adventurous, and defies structure – yet with all the energy of the most shoutable post-hardcore bands. Their newest release, Don’t Take Our Filth Away, is coming out this month on Topshelf Records and can be heard now on the label’s bandcamp page (which has been taking up a tab on my web browser for the last three weeks because it’s the kind of album you find yourself listening to daily).
They’ll be meeting up with Octaves from Baltimore, MD, while they’re on this side of the country. Octaves is stylistically quite different; darker. They play a metally version of hardcore that is fast and aggressive but knows when to let a song breathe and expand and do the kind of interesting things that set this band apart from others in the hardcore/screamo realm.
Also on tour for this show will be William Bonney, the Northern Indiana heavyweights who will be touring behind the brand new vinyl release of their album Good Vibes. This fierce five-piece, if you’re not already familiar, was a critical part of the new Midwest screamo movement before members decided to move to other parts of the country. Though not always active nowadays, they’ve been working towards their vinyl release for some time now and are in the midst of a lengthy US tour.
Local bands Ackley Kid (always a hometown favorite) and Seventeen Again (the brand new band featuring members of Ackley Kid/The Reptilian/William Bonney) will be joining this stellar lineup of touring bands for the evening. It’s going to be a frenzied show from start to finish with nothing but exciting talent.
The show will be starting early due to having so many bands on the lineup. None are to be missed and, as always, please help these touring bands out by being as generous as possible with donation money!
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