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Sometimes you just gotta stay out too late for your own good. Especially if the drinks are cheap.

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A Strutt full of people understood that all too well last night, rocking out to Rotten Wood Moon, Gold Panda, and of course HEALTH. The house was packed, the mixed drinks were on special, and the drummer’s monitor speaker caught fire during the last set. Sounds like a good time to me, especially for a mild-weathered mid-June hump-day.

The Almanac Shouters got a great review over at Sounds Good ink. Check it out and get a second opinion. It’s all a tease for us Kalamazoo folks, though, ‘cuz the boys and girls that make up the Shouters are on the road for the next few weeks. That means you’ll either have to wait until they get back to grab a copy of A Long Road Home, or take a little trip and catch ’em on one of their tour dates abroad. Oh, The Corner Record Shop has some copies too. That said, everyone at DIT(K) would like to wish the Almanac Shouters the best of luck and a safe journey. Go get ’em guys!

Friday, the No Fun House is playing host for We’re Wolves, As Above So Below (both from Kalamazoo), and The Lorax Tree from way down in Cleaveland. It’s gonna be a night filled with progressive guitar, spaceship/laserbeam/robot sounds, and break-beats.

I don’t know about you, but I love break-beats, and The Lorax Tree seems to know how to rock a break-beat.

Of course, that’s not all they’re rockin’, but if you wanna get the full effect, you’ll just have to slide through the No Fun House this Friday with two bucks for the touring bands. 9pm, no punk-rock time. Check it.

The Almanac Shouters’ first full-length album ready to drop.

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As usual, the Shouters and I completely underestimated the time it would take to mix down the album. We ended up missing The Grow Fangs! / Problems that Fix Themselves minitour show last night, but the 13-track debacle that was the Almanac Shouters’ first full-length album is completely mixed and mastered to the band’s satisfaction. The jams sound good, if I do say. Of course, if you don’t believe me, you can always check out ‘A Walking Song’ on the band’s Myspace.

The Shouters will be playing the Trumbullplex tonight in Detroit, Mi, and selling their newly-cut album for a reasonable price. Then, tomorrow night, the official hometown CD release is happening at 9pm at the No Fun House right along with Chicken Little and Our Lady… . It’s gonna be a hootin’ and hollerin’ (shoutin’?) good time.

Well, I’ll be yelling anyway.

Long Nights and the Like

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Over the last few days, I’ve had the pleasure of hosting the Alamanac Shouters in my studio, where we have been diligently (if not ridiculously) recording their first full length album. I don’t know what it’s called. I don’t know what it’s packaged in. I just set up the microphones, play the fancy nobs and sliders, and press the little red button that says ‘record’ from time to time.

When you spend extended hours in two small, padded rooms with the same 4 people, things tend to melt down from time time. At points, you just can’t help but shouting (oho! See what I did there?). At other points, you’re just going to laugh and laugh and laugh while the guys in the other room shout at you for laughing because, well, damn it, they’re trying to record a take here.

For as silly as things can get, though, The Shouters are a real pleasure to work with, and as many of you guys know, their material is top-notch home-grown minimalist guitar-plus-banjo folk-punk bliss. Barring a complete failure in production (which is not impossible), I know you cats are gonna dig this album. So you know, make sure you come around on the 13th when the Almanac Shouters (hopefully… fingers crossed!) release it.