More kickin’ punk! Locals Bike Tuff and Ackley Kid are joining forces to welcome Detroit Psych Punk greats Frustrations (X Records) for their first ever Kalamazoo show.

The show is at the Ant Hill and starts at Punk Rock Time (whenever enough of you and your friends show up).

You wanna jump around, sweat, yell, and release? Chicago’s X Is For Eyes and Ontario’s Life In Vacuum are going to kick and crunch all over Fat Guy House on Friday night. If you’ve been craving a good punk show, this is it.

Michigan folk wonderkinds Breathe Owl Breathe will warm the insides of all who enter the Strutt this Friday. If you like soup, kissing, spirit animals, face paint or wandering in the dark, you will like this band. Indiana’s lo-fi cult favorite Elephant Micah will open. This show is 18+ and is $8 at the door.

WHO:  Old Sledge House Concert at Redbud Farm.

WHERE: 9085 N Riverview Drive (about 11 miles from downtown Kalamazoo)

WHEN:  Thursday, November 11th at 7 pm.  Old time music jam to follow. Please bring a donation for the touring band! POTLUCK at 5:30 pm!

“Old Sledge is a group of young musicians from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.  Blowing the dust off old tunes and songs from the golden era of early country, hillbilly and blues music, Old Sledge represents the best and brightest of the new generation of traditional musicians from the south.  Far from being re-enactors of old time music they bring creative arrangements and dynamic performances while still holding true to the mountain aesthetic in which they are rooted.”

Meet the Coathangers! This Atlanta quartet is a bunch of girls who want you to shut up and dance like a broken machine. SPIN Magazine called em “a swift kick in the teeth” and that sounds about right. Haphazard drummin’ and trashy garage rock guitar licks crash all around lyrics that sound like they could be lifted from a sixties underground comic-book. This is going to be a lot of fun.

Noisy guitar weirdos Forget The Times and old-school screamo kids That’s Blood will provide support. Louie’s Trophy House Grille is at 440 East North Street in Kalamazoo, MI. Show starts at 9 pm.

Ps It’s Taco Tuesday at Louie’s!

We here at DITKalamazoo are stoked about every show we promote, but there’s something about the event taking place at The Strutt tonight, Friday, that has us feeling an extra-bit amped and tingly.  Masaki Batoh of the legendary Japanese psych-rock band Ghost shall be treating Kalamazoo to a solo performance.

For those familiar with the music of Ghost, there’s no more promotion needed than the information above, but in case you’re not familiar with this band, we don’t want you to miss this potential life-changing experience.  We shall spare you the details and let a few choice Ghost cuts speak instead.

Also playing are Philadelphia improvisational wizards Kohoutek.  These boys definitely have an old school Parson Sound/Baby Grandmothers/Krautrock drone-dirge.  Dig it!

Local experimental boys Unitard are kicking off the show at 9 p.m. sharp with their newest unique-to-this-performance piece.  Always a guaranteed trip, yah’ll!

Hear that?  9 p.m. SHARP!  The Strutt is located at 773 W. Michigan in Kalamazoo, MI.  Cover is $8, and you must be 18 and up to enter unless you have a guardian present.  Don’t be the only schmuck standing around the water cooler that’s not discussing your favorite Japanese psych bands come Monday morning!

Despite the pun, it’s true: Local math-rock experts Good News and Hometown Fight-for-the-tuna-winning heroes Coma Nova are tearing up the No Fun House basement tonight.

If you haven’t caught Good News yet, then you should make an extra-special trip out tonight to see these boys. Two-piece technical rock-and-roll wizardry at it’s finest, the tunes that Good News lays down are high-powered and friendly all at once. If you want to hear good music, check it. If you want to see two excellent players rip it up like it’s goin’ out of style (whatever ‘it’ may be), check it. If you just like the name Good News, check it.

Coma Nova is another most excellent local band that hits hard and gets weird. Stretched out garage jams are good for the soul (just ask any doctor), and Coma Nova’s special brand of awesome is no exception. Plus, these boys (and girl) won this year’s Fight For the Tuna, and made it on the front cover of November’s West Michigan Noise, so you know they’re good. Now I’m no medical professional, but I’ve been watching a lot of House, M.D. this past week, and I’m fairly confident in stating that seeing this set will be good for your health.

Finally, the real reason to come on out tonight, is a Chicago trio by the name of DICK WOLF! They’re tight, technical, and super sweet, with lyrics that will make you reconsider what lyrics are really all about in general anyway. Math Rock meets excellent songwriting. I personally have been anticipating this show for quite some time. Come on down if you know what’s good for ya, dig?

In case you haven’t received the memo, tonight’s show at The Strutt
is going to be totally killer!

Black Swans are a hot new up and coming indie band that is drawing praise from all over. They’ve toured with Okkervil River, Magnolia Electric Company and just released a spit 7″ with Bonnie Prince Billy.

They’ve got that perfect kind of hauntingly beautiful indie sound that just makes you want to turn the lights down and curl up with a blanket all day long. If you’re into bands like Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes or Arcade Fire then you owe it to yourself to be at The Strutt tonight.

White Pine's Joesph Scott

Joining the Black Swans is fellow touring artist White Pines and the ever amazing Michael Beauchamp. The fellow likes old timey music and eating strawberries in an old canoe. He is one of my local favorites.

The indelible Michael Beauchamp

Doors at 8:30, first band at 9:30
ONLY $5 FOR ALL THIS AMAZING MUSIC
See you there.

You know you love that mid 90’s sort of sad ‘n pretty music for driving home the long way. We do too. Empire Empire (I was a Lonely Estate) has got us both covered. The Count Your Lucky Stars artists will be laying down their particular variety of aching and honest emo tonight at the No Fun House, along with labelmates Mountains For Clouds and local indie rockers We’re Wolves.

Show starts at 9, $2 donation for bands. No Fun means no booze, no drugs, no jerks. If you don’t know where the No Fun House is, send us an email at ditkalamazoo@gmail.com and we’ll tell ya!

P.s. If ya don’t know, it’s Halloween. So dress up! Also, if you missed the Cell Phones and Tik Tok, YOU MISSED OUT! Last night was a doozy.

Tonight at No Fun house, we’re pre-gaming Halloween No Fun Style. DJ Dad of Totally Rad!/HMS Victory fame will be mixing down his favorite tunes in a socially awkward way for all us kids and the like to groove to. Come on down and get your dance on while practicing your pronunciation of severely alliterated sentences.

We’ve also got LIVE MUSIC. The Cell Phones will be in town all the way from Chicago, jammin’ out their own particular style of rockin’ hardcore-esque tunes.

Then, from Providence, Rhode Island, Tik Tok will be jammin’. I caught these cats last night at the Fletcher House Halloween What-Have-You, and was thoroughly impressed. An excellent blend of old-timey dixieland, cajun folk music, and even rock-a-billy, these guys are a must-see if you’re in town tonight.

Plus, there may be a secret special guest that pops through. Who knows? Only time will tell.

As a DIT representative from the Fletcher Collective, I’m very excited about the show we are putting on this Friday! Fletcher Collective is rarely used as a house venue, but when it is, it never disappoints. You may or may not recall being here to see Her Majesty Ship, Victory!, Rotten Wood Moon, Nunca Duerma, Chelsea Boys and Tacocat, or perhaps Zombie Apocalypse Now! and the Proverbials. Once again we will be bringing musical acts coming from a range of sounds and influences. This time around it is two days before Halloween, so we are attempting to decorate appropriately, and hope to see you all in costume.

The show will begin with the local free jazz three guitar onslaught Forget The Times, who will bring more noise than your ears have room for. This band is fairly new, but are already showing extreme dedication to the Kalamazoo music scene.

Then the Almanac Shouters, the resident acoustic singer songwriter folk punk outfit of Kalamazoo. This will be their second show as a three piece. Expect upright bass and songs to yell along with.

From Jackson, Michigan Matt Rozensky will be doing an improvised electronic set. For an example of what he will be doing: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=455984884240&ref=mf

And touring from Rhode Island, will be Tik Tok, with a vaudvillian, rag-time, clanky, jangly folk sound. Just Tom Waitsesque enough to be perfect for a Halloween show.

This will be a free show, but a bucket will be going around throughout the night for donations for Tik Tok, as they are on a long tour and could use help getting to their next stop.

I look forward to seeing you all there and in costume, and have a happy Halloween.