Jon Follet, Kalamazoo music staple-turned visiting Portland resident, is back in town for a proper CD release at Touchdown City this weekend. A handful of years back, Follet started performing as a solo musician under the name Everyone and Their Empty Cups. Eventually this project evolved into a full-fledged three-piece rock and roll machine that hearkens back to other such 90’s three-piece rock and roll machines as Nirvana and Modest Mouse*.

Joining them for the album release celebration will be a couple acts sharing members of Empty Cups; Blank (which bassist Mark Heyboer recently took over on bass duty for) and The Wrap (the long-running hip-hop project of drummer/sex-demon Gabe Hovey); as well as Koster and The Pork Rinds, which is, as far as I know, a relatively new Kalamazoo act.

The show is guaranteed to rage in all the best ways that Kalamazoo basement shows are known for and this may be the last time you get to see Everyone and Their Empty Cups for a good while. Bring a few bucks and pick up a copy of Mechanically Separated Children, the long-time coming fruits of these boys’ labors.

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*Modest Mouse was totally and officially only a three-piece for a number of years, many of them being during the 90’s. Count it!