Fat Guy House is notable for bringing in solid touring acts, combining them with well fitting and sick as hell locals, and this is of course no exception. These experts of pop punk have for you on this Saturday night:

Hold Tight! are traveling from Richmond to bring you no -nonsense straight up pop punk. High-energy music with relatable lyrics, it’s exactly what you want done just as you want it.

Pedals On Our Pirate Ships draw from many influences and sounds, having been an acoustic act now moving into being a full-fledged plugged in punk group, but also featuring duel male/female vocals and keyboards currently. Their sound is solid, and is sure to get you moving.

The locals are two you know and love, George Costanza and Bike Tuff. Though they likely need no introduction, George Costanza is an exellently dynamic tappy-emo 3-piece, and Bike Tuff are a hard-hitting pop punk band with a solid sound made by solid dudes.

Show is at 9, and donations are collected because Pedals and Hold Tight! are both on the road, so bring some bucks.

Tomorrow night, for the first time in a couple of months, Milhouse will host a quiet show in their living room, featuring three songwriters, one with a four-piece acoustic band.

Walter Mitty & His Makeshift Orchestra are coming through all the way from Portland on a month and a half tour that winds through most all the inhabited parts of the US and they are bringing upbeat songs about real life along with them. Their most current album, Overwhelmed & Underdressed, is full of beautiful, honest lyrics with subject matter that can be both socially relevant and personal, accompanied by acoustic string instruments, tambourines, and hand drums.

Local support will be provided by Jake Simmons, who will be performing solo for the first time in a while, after a long while of full band sets with JS & the Little Ghosts.  Jake Simmons writes songs about world problems that are influenced by power-poppers like Elvis Costello and Ted Leo.

Circle, Get Square! is the long-standing songwriting project of a musician named Travis who grew up in the Kalamazoo area and has been living in Chicago for the past year.  He’ll be returning to play a set at this show, offering up clever and sincere songs that echo anti-folk and lo-fi pop musicians such as The Moldy Peaches or David Dondero.

Door time is 8:00pm and donations will be accepted for Walter & co.  Come support some traveling musicians and have a good time!  No tom-foolery will be tolerated.

Last Minute Notice! The Walnut House will be hosting a roots-oriented show for the second week in a row. It starts at 9pm. Bring you donations!

Small Houses will play again. From last week:

“Small Houses is Jeremy Quentin’s project. His songs include technical acoustic guitar, a little piano, and intensely tender vocal delivery about the human condition, all set in Michigan. “When it’s Morning” from Our Dusking Sound could slow down any Sunday Afternoon.”

For more music from Small Houses: http://www.smallhousessing.com/press

Kalispell hails from the same school of quietude as Small Houses. Kalispell is Shane Leonard’s project, from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He digs Appalachian Americana up from mountain graves with a ghostly call from a clawhammer banjo and pedal steel guitar.

The Hill and Wood come from Charlottesville, VA and offer a jingly-pop sound with layered soft voices, a bit like Belle  and Sebastian of the Great West. Not to say this band is exclusively folk. It’s rock and roll.

Check out the song ICSWYW for a glimpse of the catchy rolling waves of guitar and vocals tun.