Coming up on Wednesday, May 1st, at The Courthouse, Kalamazoo shall be visited byThe People’s Temple.  This Lansing, Michigan band have been making waves in the underground rock scene for a number of years now, maintaining a steady touring schedule and noteworthy ruckus live performances.  After putting out a few full-lengths on HoZac Records, the People’s Temple released a single on Jack White’s Third Man Records earlier this year.  Check it

Local support for this show comes in the form of Kalamazoo’s rock and roll party time superstars Terror… Terror… Oh My!

Also on the bill are the melodic rockers Boring People, a relatively new Kalamazoo band.

So that’s 9 p.m. at The Courthouse on Wednesday, May 1st. If you don’t know the whereabouts of The Courthouse, you can message ditkalamazoo@gmail.com.  Donations for the touring band are accepted.

A quad of performances are lined up to satiate your skull on Thursday, March 7th at Louie’s Trophy House in Kalamazoo, Michigan starting around 8:30 p.m.

From New York, Phone Home provide some thumping bedroom beats that transfer to the stage with great ease.  Should get some booties shaking

Newport Stress also hail from New York and bring some old school-style raw hip hop

Former Tenants are punk as fuck and right outta Kalamazoo

The fourth band is The Pate Smith Project, of which is a complete mystery to DIT, all the more exciting!

Doors are at 8:30 p.m. with the show starting a little after 9 p.m. at Louie’s Trophy House and Grill on 440 E. North Street just northeast of downtown Kalamazoo.  The age range is 18 and up, and while entry is free, it is suggested to donate to a little scratch to help out the touring bands.  Gas prices are a wee bit steep these days.

Yup! 5 bands are bringing the noise and the funk (well, in this case, punk) to The Anthill here in Kalamazoo tonight! The Reptilian and Cloudmouth are returning from their chrondevouz tour to celebrate the birthday of Josh Veld. Joining them are former Victor! Fix The Sun members with their more punk-as-fuck project, Jowls, plus jazz-mathers Pan and fuck-as-punk Ackley Kid. Show starts at 8 p.m. If you don’t know where the Anthill is, ask someone who does (like us).

A dual release show is taking place tonight at The Strutt in good old downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan.  We shall see new material from both Gitis Baggs and Lasso.  And it’s a FREE SHOW!

The genius tact of craft that is Mr. Gitis Baggs is making available his newest CD, The Gitis Baggs Game, featuring 8 tracks that he has composed and performed with various guests.  Packaged along with Game shall be his last CD, The Universe and Dr. Kaiser, which saw limited release last year, though anyone who has had the fortune to hear the album seems to fall in love with the songs and voice.

Multi-Instrument and recording master Andy Catlin of The Go-Rounds, ex-Tiny Rhythm, and many other assorted projects is Lasso, an outsider country project that’s first release is on cassette through Chicago tape label Already Dead. This will be available tonight for $5!

Kalamazoo’s Elk Welcome, formerly Nerves, will provide a scorching set of heavy jams; these guys seem to get progressively heavier with each show.

Noise rockers Forget The Times will be opening the show promptly at 9:30 p.m., performing a two-guitar set, no percussion.  Probably gonna be weird!

The Strutt is located at 773 W. Michigan in downtown Kalamazoo.  Note that it’s FREE!  FREE!

FRIDAY NIGHT!  Get with it, people!  The Strutt shall be hosting three excellent bands, each of an entirely different persuasion from the others.

NWE SPRYGHTS – wild prog rock from far beyond

PAUCITY – post-rock intensity

COMA NOVA – post-grunge weight!

photo by Jeremy Martin

The Strutt is located at 773 W. Michigan Ave. in Kalamazoo.  Cost of the show is $5 and it starts at 9 p.m.  Show is all ages!

Kalamazoo’s premier local artist zine, Asylum Lake, have completed their 4th edition and are holding their release party tonight, Friday, June 10th, at Boomerang’s with performances from two bands the latest edition features, Almanac Shouters and Good News, as well as Lincoln County War.

Almanac Shouters/photo by Jeremy Martin

Almanac Shouters have but a few shows remaining before disbanding due to new paths to be traveled in life by bandmembers.  The folkpunk trio released their sophomore effort Windmills earlier this year, which is reviewed in this issue of Asylum Lake.

Lincoln County War is the project of the engaged Benji Myers and Sofia Peters, on guitar and violin respectively.  Both sing and have engaging tunes, falling somewhere between punk, Americana, and other!

Good News

Good News are the artist featured in Asylum Lake; the mathrock duo have spent the last year and a half perfecting their dynamic, shifting instrumentals and have grown incredibly tight.  Live shows are exhilarating!

Admission to this event is only $2!  Copies of Asylum Lake #4 will be on sale for $5.  Boomerang’s is located in the Rugger’s Up & Under building at 711 W. Michigan Ave in Kalamazoo.

Tonight at Louie’s Trophy House Grill, Sweet Brown bring the fun times in the form of several girls and a male or two. I saw them play on an ill-fated night where winter road conditions rendered a show incomplete yet they still brought a few fun originals and a high octane set of covers from the Runaways and Blondie.

Brown Cow are a young group of musicians geared toward the slacker pop of the 90s like Pavement and Sebadoh, with singer Mallory Cobb’s otherworldly vocal vibrato filling out the sound in a new flavor to this formula.

IfIHadAHiFi hail from Milwaukee and feature members of Death Dream and The Pop Machine. They bring Noise Rock and Post-Punk like crazy, a party of excess. WAY FUN!

The show is only $5 and starts at 10 p.m. at 440 E. North St in Kalamazoo, MIchigan. Louie’s Trophy Grill House!

BlackJack Productions would like to present: The melodic garage-psych onslaught known as Fairweather Friends out of Milwaukee, WI shall be appearing tonight at Louie’s Trophy House Grill in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan!

Frontman Jordan Davis was formerly in the Wisconsin outfit Mystery Girls.  Much like that band, the Friends bring that amped up 60s psych flavor with strong songwriting to boot.  There’s perhaps even more melodic focus but the rockin’ is still intact, as evidenced by the song “Jokes On You“.

Kalamazoo’s The Evil Deauxerz are set to tear down the house with their rambunctious garage stomp that echoes through the Valley.

Lastly, a new project has recently been given life by members of outfits such as The Philly Crawlers, Aaron Young & His Nights Jars, Legendary Wings, and former Tiny Rhythm-ers.  As of right now, the project is simply known as MattMattPete and is in its infancy, so anything could happen!  The music is fairly diverse, with a heavy emphasis on drone and vamp rock!

Louie’s Trophy House Grill is located at 44o E. North Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  The show is 18 and up, starts 10 p.m., and costs ya $5 bones!