This weekend, a new house venue sprung from the madcap cultural excavators who brought you such beloved house venues as Village Castle and The Band Cave will be having their inaugural show down where the rivers run deep, the trees grow like weeds, and the coffee and cigarettes flow in prodigious cadence.

The Black Lodge, a place which may or may not exist only in Agent Cooper’s mind (a matter of large and varied debate), will be holding a birthday celebration for one of Kalamazoo’s most eccentric of sonic treasures, Sid Redlin, the musical genius behind such projects as Boron Nuzzle, Sista Mista, Sneak Attack, and innumerable side projects, collaborations, and art installations of varying points of eccentricity.

Starting the night will be R. Mutt and Fitzgig Henson, an experimental three piece assembled by Sid Redlin himself. R. Mutt combines the sonic experimentation of Redlin’s noise music with a bottom-line danceablility (for those comfortable dancing to very peculiar music, that is). They do not form up very often, and their sparse appearances always leave their audiences in a state of bewilderment and profound gratitude to the universe for having witnesses such a unique and awesome performance.

Afterwards Everyone & Their Empty Cups are going to stop by. If you haven’t heard them before, Everyone & Their Empty Cups are the punk rock band that generic punk rock bands in coming-of-age movies about young college students wish they could be. They infect basements with terminal cases of fun that serve as a perfect soundtrack for your own personal life narrative (which, given the flexibility of their particular sound, could very well be anything from a lighthearted tale about finally asking out that girl you like or a dark, Fincheresque descent into your drug and alcohol addiction).

Closing out the festivities are Inflatable Best Friend. The fellows at IBF are well known for their catchy garage punk, and have been quite ubiquitous in the Kalamazoo music scene for the better part of the year. If you haven’t seen them yet, which seems an absurd proposition at this point, this would be a great opportunity to not only see the band play but catch the drummer as he exists in his natural habitat. If you come extra early, you may even catch him doing household chores or playing Ocarina of Time!

The show is Sartreday the Twenty-FiF, starting roundabouts 10 o’ clock in the PM. Contact the host for the address, or one of the admins over at The Black Lodge facebook page.

The owls are not what they seem…