Tomorrow night, the Victory House will be putting on a show for the first time in it’s year of existence. The show, with an eclectic mix from all over the USofA, promises to be nothing shy of radical. Here’s a general idea of how the night will look:

Kicking things off at 9 o’clock will be comedian and longtime friend of the Victory residents, R. Cranberry. Then, things get heavy. Illustrations out of Texas and Wolfmouth from Missouri are out on tour together and bringing the party here to Kalamazoo. Check some tasty jams that they have to offer

Wolfmouth

Joining us from North Carolina are one of the raddest two-piece fuzz-rockers around. Listen to some of their summery-fun, garage-poppin’ tunes here and check ’em out tomorrow. Word is they’ve got some tapes for sale, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Then, the party’s moving upstairs where everyone can chill and we’re going to take it down a notch with some of Kalamazoo’s finest. Totally Rad will having their first performance with an acoustic guitar since their debut show a little over a year ago. The Philly Crawlers’ own Peter Damien Cook will be providing us with some songs of his own. And the guitar and violin playing couple Lincoln County War will be giving us a taste of their own style folk punk

Courtesy http://myspace.com/naturaldisastersmi

Once again the Fat Guy house graces us with another amazing show, but this time it comes with a pre cook out at 3 p.m.! So bring some grillables and hang out with your friends early. Due to the amount of bands on the bill this SHOW WILL START AT 7 P.M. SHARP! Don’t forget to bring donations for the touring bands.

Natural Disasters- awesome pop punk, hardcore from our vary own Kalamazoo ( http://www.facebook.com/pages/Natural-Disasters/103370013059834)

Hold Tight!- fast in your face pop punk from Richmond VA\(http://holdtight.bandcamp.com/)

The Greek Favorites- melodic pop punk from PA! (http://thegreekfavourites.bandcamp.com/track/wax-wings)

Choke UP-hard, and fast punk coming straight from Boston MA (http://chokeup.bandcamp.com/album/choke-up-ep)

This Is Your Life-melodic hardcore not to be missed, hailing from Richmond VA (http://thisisyourlife.limitedpressing.com/)

Hard Daze-heavy hardcore from Livonia MI (http://www.facebook.com/pages/HARD-DAZE/144149368973965?sk=app_178091127385)

Respect the house, Respect the neighbors, Respect each other!

It’s been a while, Kalamazoo! No Fun House has been laying low for the past few months due to some noise complaints. It’s been our plan to come back for a few select shows this summer. Tonight is the first of them all.

To add to the specialness of the occasion and to make things as cozy as possible, we’ll be having a potluck before the show and all music will be performed in our living room.

If you’ve got a dish to pass, bring it on over at 7pm. Music will start promptly at 9. We may even fire up the grill for this one…

We’ve got some pretty stellar touring musicians coming from Toronto, Montreal and Austin, TX. Local support will be provided by the amazing GARY NEASON!!

As always, we’re asking that you bring donation money so the touring artists can pay for gas. We’re also keeping with our no drug/alcohol policy to ensure a safe and problem free environment for everyone.

Take a minute to read up on our touring acts. This is gonna be mesmerizing!

KHORA: www.khora.ca/albums

Khôra is an experimental music project of Toronto musician Matthew Ramolo aimed at blurring the lines that separate the organic and synthetic, improvisation and composition, and the artist and the expressivity of nature. The emphasis in Khôra’s music is distributed equally between melodic acoustic and electronic figures and experimentation involving field recordings, analogue and digital processing, and extended techniques, with a high degree of attention paid to assembling unique sound palettes containing rich colour, texture, and dynamics. In 2006, Ramolo self-released a small handmade full-length record under a different moniker entitled ‘Now Beacon, Now Sea…’. After subsequent years of writing, refinement, and translating a recorded aesthetic into a live performance setting, Khôra emerged with the 2009 self-release ‘Silent Your Body Is Endless,’ an album that was warmly received, hailed as “a complete revelation” and reaching the top of CKUT’s music charts. In the autumn of 2010, a re-mixed, re-sequenced, and re-mastered version of ‘Silent Your Body Is Endless’ was released by Constellation Records as part of the first edition of Musique Fragile, alongside albums by Montreal’s Nick Kuepfer and Les Momies De Palerme. In addition to collaborative projects, Khôra will be traveling with a sublime live show through Canada and the US in the summer of 2011, and is presently at work experimenting and recording for a third full length album.

NICK KUEPFER: www.myspace.com/nickkuepfer

Nick Kuepfer is a guitar player who weaves nylon string and electric guitar pieces with live sampled tape loops and drones. His sources range from static repetition and subtlety to frantic and abrasive; always with a tendency for experimentation. He was born and raised in Stratford, Ontario and is now living in Montreal, Quebec since 2003. He has performed solo for a short time and occasionally plays with guests Eric Craven (hanged up), Kristina Koropecki (Mark Berube), John Corban (SMCQ) and Nick Scribner (Clues). His current activity was preceded by playing in the bands Lungbutter, Aidswolf, L’embuscade etc and presently plays with Hrsta and No Nature. In November of 2010 he released a full-length solo record as part of the first edition of Montreal record label Constellation Records’ Musique Fragile series. In addition he released a limited pressing mini-cdr with Toronto Print shop and record label Standard Form as the 7th installment of their RR series in March of 2011.

SILENT LAND TIME MACHINE: http://sltm.bandcamp.com/

Silent Land Time Machine is a one-man bedroom recording-project based in Austin, TX. SLTM is a naive composition of guitars, viola, violin, cello, accordion, voice, percussion, samples & found-sound, various electronics & noise-makers, and piano; musical-experiments which move from small exercises in sound-manipulation into full-on orchestrated blow-outs of coordinated noise that sound more like a small electro-acoustic orchestra than a single individual. On his debut album, &hope still ((TLR045/IQR001) collaboratively released between TIME-LAG Records and his own Indian Queen Records) SLTM was described as ‘naive bedroom folkrock filtered through some blissed out minimalist phase experiment…ecstatic, post-psychedelic chamber rock maybe?’; &HS was met exclusively with warm-regards and kind words and played on the likes of WFMU and the BBC, and was said to be “a bit like a backwater Panda Bear or Godspeed You Black Emperor, with all the hypnotic, emotive power that suggests.”

If you’re a fan of local venue, The Strutt then you’ve probably heard about the phenomenon known as The Church Of Sound.

Several Wednesdays out of the month, people gather at The Strutt to appreciate music in it’s truest form, VINYL! Local folks from all walks of life take on the title of ‘DJ’ and spin some good tunes all night long.
We’re talking aboot Jazz, Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, Rock ‘N’ Roll, Latin, Reggae, Prog, Psych, Rockabilly, Country, Avant Garde, Pop, Power Pop, Punk, Metal, Grunge, Lo-Fi, Post Punk, Post Bop, Post Fusion, Post Rock, Post Cool, Post Cereal…

Plus there’s killer drink specials and NO COVER CHARGE:
$3 Drafts
$3 Wells
$1 Coffee

It’s pretty much the best way to beat the heat. Hang out with your good friends, get a cheap cold drink, listen to some killer tunes, support your local music venue!

Tonight’s entertainment will be provided by our very own Jarad Selner and Sean Hartman.
Bring a record and get it played!

Well, it’s Tuesday in Kalamazoo. That means the Strutt’s microphones are unprotected! You play music? Come on down and grab a 15-minute slot for which to get down in. You like listening to music? Come on down and enjoy drink and the widest variety of tuneage this side of the Mason-Dixon.

If you’re planning on performing, keep this in mind: The Strutt offers for your use a full backline including drum set, guitar, bass guitar and amplifier. It can also accommodate everything from acoustic instruments, acoustic instruments with pickups, horns, and of course vocals.

Now going to a jam session or open mic has some unwritten rules that sometimes are not always made obvious to participants and audience members, so I’ll lay a few down right here. First off, if you’re playing, set up and tear down quickly so that you can play a full set and so you don’t cut in to anyone else’s time. Also, try not to show up right before your set and leave right before your set. it’s rather inconsiderate of the other people who have come to play and listened to you.

Also (and this is one of those old fashioned golden rules anyway), be respectful to the other acts. You may be a salty veteran of the open stage and microphone format, but a lot of the players hitting open mics don’t have any experience or are just getting started. Say a few kind words and show some encouragement, you were there once too.

That being said, it’s important that everyone has a good time, so come on down and do it!

Sign up sheet comes out promptly at 6:50 and fills up quick, so get your tails on down asap!