DIT Kalamazoo loves you and wishes you a safe, responsible, polite, PC New Year.

However, NO FUN HOUSE WANTS YOU TO PARTY LIKE IT’S 2009!!!

None other than GROW FANGS!, ROTTEN WOOD MOON & PROBLEMS THAT FIX THEMSELVES will be kicking it old school and rocking the night away like only they can!!!

Plus, we’ve just received word that all the neighbors will be out of town tonight! Meaning: NO COPS NO PARENTS NO WORRIES

Word on the street is, there may even be a little secret fun going on upstairs in honor of Emilie Tole’s birth…

A new page has been added to the blog! the ‘Where You At?’ Page has a short-but-growing list of venues and their locations (right down to a Google Map). This only includes ‘public’ venues though.

Information concerning ‘Private’ venues such as No Fun House or the Ant Hill is still available by simply asking someone who knows about them. Alternatively, you can hit us with an Email at ditkalamazoo@gmail.com, and we’d be more than happy to tell you all about it.

That being said, there are some pretty wicked shows tonight. It sort of begs the question: What are you doing on your computer?

We’ve added a Flickr account to DIT(K)’s already vast array of internet accounts. What does this mean? Well, it means we can display all of the great pictures people take at all o the great shows people go to here in the Zoo. That way, the folks that miss out can see it for themselves and feel really bitter about the whole thing. Personal embitterment is not, however, the goal of DIT(K) or any of it’s members, but sometimes that’s just the way it works.

You can access the Flickr via the links on the right sidebar of any page on the blog. Alternatively, you can visit it directly and do all the nice things that Flickr lets you do with people’s Flickr accounts, like stalk them and make inappropriate comments.

That said, special thanks to Kasey Brown and Jarab Selner for photographing Sunday night’s shows. Jarab’s photographs are already up on the Flickr feed, and Kasey’s will be shortly, as soon as she finds access to a computer with an internet connection.

Don’t forget, however, that DIT still stands for Do It Together. So if you’ve got any great pictures or videos that you’d like to share with the world via this blog, you can email them to ditkalamazoo (at) Yahoo (dot) com and we’ll get ’em up on the photostream as soon as we’re able to.

If you don’t have photos to share, but you want to have photos to share, I guess it’s time to dust of that old point-and-shoot you got for Christmas two years ago (but never really use because it’s pink, and I mean, who buys pink cameras anyway?), and check out some upcoming shows!

In the true spirit of doing it together, fellow musician and newly-graduated graphic designer Josh Tabia threw together a most excellent banner for the blog. Fella knows how to make a two-bit operation look good, that’s for sure. Thanks Josh, for making us seem that much more legitimate. If we keep this up, we might even get somebody fooled!

Last night was another I spent in the studio, but not with the Almanac Shouters (that mayhem will resume – and hopefully culminate – tonight). No, last night was installment 3 of a project that has been creatively (hah!) dubbed ‘The Album-A-Week Project’. Every week we’ve been getting together some of Kalamazoo’s finest young musicians, writing up some chord changes, and jamming – just to see what will happen.

This is not an Album-A-Week session, but it looks like one

All three sessions have been very successful, with plenty of fusion-jazz jam-band goodness packed in to three hot and sweaty Wednesday nights. As soon as I get some of the material mixed and mastered, you can bet it will be available for free download right here, so if that’s something you’re interested in, make sure you keep checking back – I’m bound to get some of it done eventually.

The blog will be getting yet another facelift and slight relocation in the near future, as DIT member Carman Goodrich was awesome enough to take care of URL and hosting space for a bona-fide site, which he’s also going to whip up for us. We’ll let you know before that happens and where we’re going, but rest assured it’s going to a positive development, allowing us to do all the silly things we really want to see in a DIT website.

That said, if there’s anything you guys want to see us do, give us your recommendations by emailing jaradwselner (at) yahoo (dot) com and we’ll make sure we take ’em in to consideration. After all is said and done, everybody’s got to help if we’re gonna do it together.

In an effort to better serve our community, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to pack up and slide over to WordPress – a site that offers a bit simpler usability and a longer list of tools than our previous digital location. Additionally, we’ll be gearing this site more towards the folks that are looking for shows to see, and less for the folks that are booking the shows.

As always, if you’d like to book a show somewhere in Kalamazoo through us, let us know through our still very functional email: ditkalamazoo (at) gmail (dot) com.