Cleveland, OH-based Signals Midwest kick off a month-long, national tour at Kalamazoo’s own Fat Guy House tomorrow. Cain Marko, Bike Tuff, Living Room, and Protected Left will also play.

Despite their more complex and guitar-noodlin’ ballads, Signals Midwest stays true to their pop-punk roots with catchy hooks and solid punk harmonies. See “The Quiet Persuader” from Latitudes and Longitudes (2011).

Signals Midwest – The Quiet Persuader from Aaron Freeder on Vimeo.

Their sophomore album, Latitudes and Longitudes was released on Tiny Engines, a label that has seen the likes of Tigers Jaw, CSTVT, and Restorations.

Grand Rapid’s Cain Marko returns to Kalamazoo to play well known punk songs. The quartet is comprised of childhood friends Chris Lidstone and Jay VanVeen, high school friend Jeremy Verwys, and recent friend Joel Otte.

They formed Cain Marko at the end of 2008, “after surviving fifty-eight combined winters in the harsh Midwest.” Their influences include, “their home state, literature, comic books, alcohol, fellow Michigander punk stalwarts Bear vs. Shark and Small Brown Bike, as well as the Floridian legends Hot Water Music.”

The show starts at 8 p.m. Bring your donations.