Everyone’s favorite experimental noise band Forget the Times is celebrating their return from touring with SHOTO tonight at the Corner Record Shop. If you’re not even doing the mother’s day thing, or are done pretending to love your family, an option for you to cap off your night with super loud and weird music does exist.
If you’re into this type of stuff you won’t regret it. Plus, you can help support some local musicians break even after touring.
Jazz, noise, saxophones, distortion, unconventional playing. You can find this in recorded music over at The Corner Record Shop, or you could very well experience it live. Though some great, innovative, and boundary pushing innovators are dead and gone – living through their undeniable masterpiece works on LP – there are people still here, pushing that envelope a bit further. Don’t let this opportunity slip by to see some great work performed live at the low low price of your donation and respectful attention.
KEIR NEURINGER is a composer, mostly notably known for his experimental and emotionally riveting saxophone work. He’s played in Kalamazoo a few times, and has always been a pleasure to witness.
THIS SHOW ALSO FEATURES:
PROGNOSIS NEGATIVE – the sax-laden brainchild of “Local Boulder” JarDad “The Saxquatch lost The Game” Yard Sard Selner and Sean Hartman.
FUZZ TOWN – the improv champions Josh Miller and Poncho Klinger showcasing their knowhow of space travel via guitar and electronic noise.
Bring a friend, bring yourself, bring donation, bring an open mind. 9PM.
This Saturday night, Louie’s Trophy House Grill (440 E. North St.) will feature three different acts in their back room where the buffalo roam. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
Driving in from Kent, Ohio are Bethesda. The 6-piece has been working hard the last few years and played some high profile gigs, including a slot at the 2012 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee. They self-describe their music as how The Decemberists would sound if fronted by a female. Below is the title cut from their most recent album, The Reunion.
Kalamazoo tune-smith Katy Needs A Life will be performing her keyboard-driven happy music about sad subjects. You can feel the cork about to pop with these infectious numbers.
Kalamazoo live favorites Brown Cow are also on the bill. You will find them at the end of the rainbow and your rope. Their second coming came in last and out of the closet. They kindly ask that you “f*ck yourself pretty.”
This takes place at 9:00 p.m. Saturday night, May 10th, 2014 at Louie’s Trophy House Grill on 440 E. North Street, Kalamazoo, MI. The cover is a suggested $5 and the age is 18+. Turn off the internet and come rock out with your sock out.
If you’re looking to get away from the television set this Friday evening and expand your social horizons and sense of local culture, Louie’s Trophy House Grill (440 E. North Street, Kalamazoo, MI) is hosting an intimate portrait of local singer/songwriters in (mostly) bare bones acoustic fashion.
Headlining this event is Gitis Baggs, member of the Double Phelix music collective and prolific songwriter extraordinaire. Originally on the bill as an acoustic opener when the lineup was quite different, Baggs has now assembled a strong arsenal of musician muscle and shall unleash his infectious melodies and crunchy guitars in full band fashion.
90s revivalists (sic) Boring People will be stripped down to a duo for this performance. Most of BP singer/songwriter Wallace Luckas’ songs are originally written and demoed in this format, so the skeletons of these songs reveal the germination and creative process in a conducive and fitting manner.
Opening the evening with an acoustic set will be Kalamazoo modern day troubadour Chris Rawlins.
https://chrisrawlins.bandcamp.com/
Once again, this happens on Friday, May 9th at Louie’s 440 E. North Street in Kalamazoo. Doors for this show will be at 9:00 p.m. and the show shall be underway around 9:30. The cover is a suggested donation of $5. This is at 18+ event.
Maybe one of the most surprising things for people when they first learn about all the basement shows happening in Kalamazoo, is just how far some bands travel to play here for these small audiences in these strange settings. I have heard multiple people over the last year express shock at bands from New York or Portland “why are you here? how did you get here?” The fact remains that many bands prefer the unconventional, the DIY for touring, but at first encounter it does seem quite strange.
Kalamazoo has hosted countless bands from this continent, but artists traveling in from abroad, especially for basement shows, is a rare treat. And this Wednesday, Kalamazoo has a rare and wonderful treat for you in the form of Macedonian dancy post-punk band, BERNAYS PROPAGANDA. If you like hard-hitting, get-yer-ass-movin’ punk, this is just the thing for you.
And now you know where Macedonia is
If that was not cool enough on it’s own, Bernays Propaganda are on tour with GHOST MICE of Bloomington, IN. Ghost Mice were here not long ago, supporting the KCAC at a benefit show. If you haven’t seen them, they’re a long standing energetic acoustic folk punky project, long associated with Plan It X Records.
PLUS this show will include two locals who have never played Milhouse before – GUPPY – who are a new project without any recordings, but feature members from The Reptilian, Shoto, George Costanza, and Ackley Kid so you know it’s going to be good. THE MUSHMEN will also be making their first appearance to the Milhouse basement, promising to get you dancing.
Please bring money for the touring groups as Macedonia is unfathomably far away from our little Midwestern city. Respect the venue, respect everyone around you, make some new friends. SHOW STARTS AT 900, don’t be late!
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The project needs to be fully-funded by May 4th, 2014, which is this Sunday. The project is super-close, but any little bit helps! Please consider helping my friends help the community with an all-ages, drug-and-alcohol-free, safe-space arts and music venue!
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