Tonight! Live and in person! Music and sounds to shock and confound, brought to you by the folks who know how to bring it. Starts at 9PM, so set your alarm now.

Get Fucked (The Band)
A raucous, rollicking racket reminiscent of nothing at all. Featuring members of Forget the times, Anybody But The Cops and Fuzztown, GF(TB) sounds almost exactly like the sum of its parts. Probably the final performance, so save your smokes for after their set.

Discarnate
https://discarnatemetal.bandcamp.com/
Oozing from the gutters of Grand Rapids and ready to tear Milhouse a new asshole (like it really needs one), and then stitch it back together. Black shirts, black metal, black eyes. Hide your kids, hide your wife.

Desiring Dead Flesh
https://www.facebook.com/desiringdeadflesh
Hailing from Bay City and on their way to Illinois’ Audiofeed festival, this troupe of ne’er-do-wells is adequately prepared to rage against the washing machine. Side effects may include blastbeats, breakdowns, bugzappers, balloons, and a really long microphone cable. Get your hands outta your armpits and get your feet into the circle pits.

Restrictions may apply. Donate even if you can’t. Respect everything you can see, hear, touch, taste or smell. \m/

Anybody remember 1982 very clearly?  Eliot Rachman does.  Or maybe he doesn’t, what do I know?  At any rate, in that year and on the heels of the musical and cultural tidal wave known as hardcore, the RSO known as Students for Progressive Action was born.

The organization was spearheaded by Rachman and Kenny Knott, who, as students at Western and members of Violent Apathy, sought to make Kalamazoo’s venerated university a viable option for hardcore bands in need of a venue.

Students for Progressive Action made it possible for many of hardcore’s seminal groups to make appearances in Kalamazoo, including but not limited to Black Flag, Minutemen, Discharge and Minor Threat.  This was, of course, long before punk shows could be coordinated and held in one’s basement with merely a handful of facebook messages.

And now, three decades later, some spunky WMU students have taken it upon themselves to resurrect the RSO that championed Kalamazoo’s involvement in hardcore’s salad days, with the apparent blessing of Violent Apathy and the university itself.

And now the fun part.

Students for Progressive Action, in cooperation with The Peace Center, is hosting a kickoff show on FEBRUARY 15 at 8pm at the Wesley Foundation on Western’s campus.

Scheduled performances by:

DAD JEANS
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dad-Jeans/428123767313433

EVIL DEAUXERS
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Evil-Deauxerz/279476615431181

THE DANDY CHUMS
http://www.facebook.com/thedandychumsband

THIS ISN’T WHERE I PARKED MY CAR
https://www.facebook.com/thisisntwhereiparkedmycarkzoo?ref=stream

With a killer lineup and appearances by members of Violent Apathy, this show promises to be perfectly rad, and a glimpse into a fresh chapter not only for Students for Progressive Action, but our beloved music scene at large.

The gig is, of course, all ages, with a suggested donation of $5.

More information can be found at

https://www.facebook.com/events/675868085767706

https://www.facebook.com/SPAwmu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Apathy

Dude!

HERMIT THRUSHES
from the corners of the mind, a sonic pop anomaly, coming back to kalamazoo for the first time in over a year!
http://hermitthrushes.bandcamp.com/

FORGET THE TIMES
local cacophony with phasers set to confuse, a shape constantly shifting
http://forgetthetimes.bandcamp.com/

ANYBODY BUT THE COPS
stops on a dime, gives you nine cents change
http://anybodybutthecops.bandcamp.com/

Show starts at 9PM, you know where Rupert’s is.  Get there before the beer runs out!
https://www.facebook.com/events/652504314784030/

More often than not, I catch myself thinking, “Gee, I haven’t been to Louie’s in a while, I wonder why that is.”  I mean, the place has everything; food, drink, billiards, taxidermy, and this Saturday night, Louie’s Trophy House and Grill is playing host to some of our fine local talent, as well as some welcome faces from out of town.

From the sprawling grassy ocean of Ohio, STRANGEWAVE make mountains of musical molehills with a deep melancholy sound http://strangewave.bandcamp.com/

Nobody in town has a bad word to breathe about BORING PEOPLE, certainly not the band, anyway.  Don’t you dare let the name fool you.  http://boringpeople.bandcamp.com/

Rounding out the sound for the evening, is none other than SAXSQUATCH AND THE BRIDGE BAND, Kalamazoo’s premier keister-haulin groove train, here to set your souls on fire.  Or is it soles?  Whichever analogy makes you wanna dance.

The gig is set to take off around 8:30, suggesting a donation of $5 if you please.  18+

Leave some room in your gut for a beer and bring your dancin’ shoes, just in case.

This Wednesday evening, the Courthouse has another show jammed to the hilt with rock, roll, and heaven knows what else.  With performances by

Jake Simmons and the Little Ghosts – never failing to disappoint
http://jakesimmons.bandcamp.com/

Appleseeds – from Milwaukee, which might as well be a sister city to Kalamazoo
http://appleseeds.bandcamp.com/

Real People – who are from from Buffalo, and sound like a trampling herd of exactly that.
http://realpeople.bandcamp.com/

Ghost Bunnies – catch them at the Courthouse, then again the next night at the Globe!

and, of course, Witch Fingers – who require little introduction, as I’m certain you’re aware
http://witchfingers.bandcamp.com/

Bring a beer, a fistful of dollars, and a friend, and leave your attitude at home
Get there early so you don’t miss any of the action!

2013 has barely begun and Milhouse is already gearing up to tear it a new one.  The first of several January shows scheduled for the venerated domicile, this Wednesday evening’s events will hit you right in the funky bone.

Hailing from Milwaukee with more groove than your uncle’s record collection, SOUL LOW
http://soullowband.bandcamp.com/

A dynamic duo bound and determined to make you shake in your seats, SHUFFLE
http://www.facebook.com/xxshuffle24

And bringing jams so smooth they belong on bread with peanut butter,
SAXSQUATCH AND BRIDGE BAND

Sleep off the overhang on Tuesday, then wake up and get down on Wednesday
Respect the bands, the house, your fellow homo sapiens, and whatever else you can get your hands on. 

The killer shows just keep coming like we’ve got some sort of musical assembly line operating here in tha Zoo.  The twenty-seventh promises to be no exception, with one of our finest basements to host a smorgasbord of rock n’ radness.  I don’t know why you guys let me write this stuff.

DELAY http://delayoh.bandcamp.com/

Earnest to goodness powerpop from Columbus, OH.  I had the immense pleasure of catching Delay at Plan-It-X fest earlier this summer, and this band is awesome, I swear it’s true.

ALL DOGS

All right, I’m told this group contains members of Delay, but that’s all the information I’m capable of scraping together, so let’s just assume they’re totally rad. How could they not be?

Plus, CITYCOP http://citycop.bandcamp.com/ noodly, mathematical and poetic, I’ve been dying to have this band back here in Kalamazoo.

Oh, did I mention THE REPTILIAN?!? Playing for the first time since Russ’s bicycle decided to exact revenge upon the forearm of the undeserving guitarist. http://thereptilianband.bandcamp.com/

Further support will come in the form of BIKE TUFF and NATURAL DISASTERS, with whom we should be very familiar indeed, and this post is far too long already.  Basically, there’s no good reason to miss this show, it’s gonna be a fabulous friday at Fat Guy, for real.

Show at NINE PM. Bring some dollars for the helmet or blender or whatever and try to find a way to clap with a beer in your hand.  Respect everything!

Saturday the Fourteenth!  At the Anthill!  At about eight o’clock!

Guaranteed awesomeness from Brian Franklin

http://www.facebook.com/bullshitSwearWords

Ann Arbor’s Kyle Thomas

http://kylethomas.bandcamp.com/

And I don’t know why I’m not in a band that sounds like this yet, Tiny Moving Parts

http://tinymovingparts.bandcamp.com/track/de-la-exsorta-2

Everybody bring a different kind of cheap beer and we’ll have a big beer swap.  Cheaper the better, you cannot lose.

Also, crack open the mayonnaise jar perched atop the fridge and throw a fistful of dollars in the hat.  Don’t be a jerk.