Former Thieves from Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Native from Northwest Indiana will be beginning a US tour soon. Their Michigan stop for this tour was canceled due to a venue closure just a few days ago. Fortunately we were able to move this show to the No Fun House. Also playing will be the Reptilian. You can bet it will be a crazy good time. I am fully expecting this to be the wildest No Fun show so far. Help us make it so.

It’s a busy weekend here in DIT (as alluded to in an earlier post). Our very own Sean A. Hartman and Samantha Madrid are tying the proverbial knot tomorrow, and that’s sort of a big deal. As a result, there’s not much goin’ on in terms of DIT stuff that is open to all attendants.

That’s alright though, because there’s plenty going on next week. Andreas Kapsalis Trio and Matt Land Trio will be exercising the Strutt of any curses, hexes and enchantments (or laying down some of their own) on Monday night. AKT performs good solid experimental music with a tinge of the middle east, a fresh and welcome sound.

Then, on Wednesday, 1994! and Big Kids will do their best to tear down the Strutt again. This time, though, we’re welcoming home the Kalamazoo-based hardcore rockers The Reptilian after a month-long tour. Make sure you make it out to cushion their return from a hard life on the road. It’s tough out there.

shamelessly stolen from The Reptilian's tour photos on Facebook.

It’s gonna be a good week. See all you cats at the jams.

It’s Tuesday so you know what that means right y’all? The Almanac Shouters will be gracing the No Fun House with their presence, and along for the ride this time is Pittsburgh’s Run Forever, and Brandon Reid who hails from Alaska. The Show is running a little later than usual this time due to electrical work, so be sure to be there around 9:30pm, bands should start around 10. See y’all there.

Tonight, one of Kalamazoo’s most prominent DIY venues is celebrating it’s long, successful run, and ending it with a bang. Tonight, the Iglesians are coming together and jamming out the most delicious way they know how: Punk Rock Pancakes.

If you don’t know what Punk Rock Pancakes is, it’s a unique concert format. You come, you pay 2 dollars (to pay for batter and pay touring bands), and you bring your favorite pancake topping to pass. It was quite successful last summer, and quite delicious to boot.

The music is gonna be good too. Two new bands made up of current Iglesians and DIT members will be opening the show – This is the first ever show for the experimental electronic band Bronson Blvd, and the the third show ever for the experimental noise project Forget The Times. Neither of these bands have web presence yet, so suffice it to say it’s gonna be an excellent way to start the last Iglesia show ever.

The real party starts with Problems that Fix Themselves, a La Iglesia original featuring Joshua Tabbia wrecking the stratosphere with his experimental synthesizer. Every show is unique, and this one is the last one ever at La Iglesia. Detect a theme?

Closing the show is crowd favorites and Iglesia originals The Grow Fangs! Ray Jackson and James Duke will do their best to show you exactly what happens at 7o’clock on a Friday night. I don’t think much more needs to be said.

La Iglesia. 9pm (no punk rock time). Be there, or miss the last La Iglesia show ever.

A whirlwind of psychedelic organ pop and down ‘n’ dirty rock ‘n’ roll is set to bring down the stage at The Strutt in downtown Kalamazoo tonight!

Hollows

Chicago’s Hollows bring giant female vocal harmonies layered over haunting, dark 60s-influenced organ pop.  It’s terrifyingly delicious, one listen to “Shadows in the Dark” on their MySpace should convince anyone with a soul.

YellowFever

YellowFever are traveling from Texas with a paranoid rock ‘n’ roll jitter that’ll get the kids shakin’ in their skivvies and spilling their coffee all over the floor (or perhaps beer for the particularly edgy).  The Austin-based band recently released their record on the Vivian Girls label Wild World label and have been receiving wider critical acclaim.  On her NPR blog, Carrie Brownstein described their sound as “haunted house surf music.”

Local support shall come from the high energy live bounce of Tiny Rhythm with their psycho-skiffle beat.  There’s a chance this will be a prehistoric set where Bo Diddley receives a visit from velociraptors.

Opening the night shortly after 9 p.m. will be the Vox-driven garage pop of The Philly Crawlers. Their sound is kinda like what might’ve happened if Pavement had been trying to imitate The Seeds and Strawberry Alarm Clock instead of The Fall.

For $5, just a little over a dollar per band, you can’t really find a better way to spend on a Thursday night in Kalamazoo.

The Strutt is located at 773 W. Michigan in Kalamazoo, MI.  The show is 18 yrs old and up, costs $5, and starts at 9 p.m.

Last night marked the third time that We’re Wolves were booked to play the No Fun House, but then something silly happened. Fortunately, last night’s catastrophe was not a deal-breaker, and We’re Wolves went on as a free show, opened by 3/4 of Forget The Times in an impromptu free 2-band No Fun extravaganza. We’re Wolves were excellent, and almost more importantly, excellent sports about the crazy luck that seems to follow them around at No Fun.

Tonight will be a bit different, but equally rockin’, what with a few great bands coming in from who-knows-where and playing acoustic guitars with attitude and gusto. Is there a better way to spend a hot summer night than rocking out to good music? The answer is ‘no’, so nobody has a reason to miss this one.

Trunks and Tales is a suburbs-of-Philly-based folk-punk outfit. They rock hard and get rowdy for a six-string wielding duo, and while I haven’t seen them live (yet), it sounds like they’re having a blast either howling about whatever makes ’em pissed, or calming down and veritably crooning about lost love.

Riding shotgun on the proverbial tour-bus T&T is the New Hampshirian Young Mountain, a high-energy folk-punk quartet. La Iglesia will be treated to a tight and well-rehearsed band jammin’ some catchy, hooky, folky, ‘I hope you die’ (or specifically, get eaten by a cannibal) sort of punk music. And we can all use a little more catchy, hooky, folky, ‘I hope you die’ sort of punk music in our lives.

Local support is coming in the form of Everyone & Their Empty Cups – I.E. a guy and a guitar telling good stories and occasionally screaming, with the potential for guest appearances always around the corner. It’ll be a good, solid open for what is sure to be an excellent show.

Make sure you slide through La Iglesia tonight, catch some good bands who are far from home, and throw ’em two bucks at the door. it’s a long way from the Illadelph, and I’m not even sure where New Hampshire is on the map. Plus, this is La Iglesia’s SECOND TO LAST SHOW EVER. Just saying. No pressure.

See you guys there!

Tomorrow night! No Fun House will be hosting two amazing ambient rock touring bands and one even more awesome local! What better way to spend a hot summer night then in a cool basement listening to some chilled out bands?

We’re Wolves – Jon Folet’s new indie rock band. Passionate vocals and groovy lo fi guitars. Think early Modest Mouse. Last time they were scheduled to play the house, the weather decided it couldn’t handle their awesomeness and shut our power off. That’s how good these guys are.

P. D. Wilder – Super droney ambient guitar layers that will make you feel like you’re drifting on a sea of music.

Summer Of Glaciers – Electronica meets Post Rock. As if Mogwai collaborated with M83. Totally rad. Check the video below for an idea of what you can expect.

9pm no punk rock time
$2 for the touring bands

Tonight at The Strutt, Graham Parsons and the Go-Rounds will be performing a free show. This is the test-run for their live-album which they’ll be recording tomorrow, also at  The Strutt, also for free. It’s gonna be an excellent show, so if you got nothing going on tonight or tomorrow, and want to catch one of Kalamazoo’s best bands, check it out.

For one night, and one night only (lies), the No Fun House presents Analecta, Northwest Indiana’s finest (and perhaps only?) post rock ensemble coupled with Texas’s own noisy and spastic troupe, Sohns. Left field local support is being provided by Kalamazoo’s brand new Forget The Times.

Pictures are most definitely worth a thousands words, and a quick browse of Sohns’ myspace album will tell you that these guys put on one hell of a show. Those images, plus the fact that they cite their only influence as Small Brown Bike, should spark interest.

Analecta position themselves on the opposite end of the spectrum with a more Explosions In The Sky-esque sound. Quoted as being “a great blend of agression and restraint”, this group will lull you into a calm state one moment, then will progress into a deeper and more powerful sound the next.

Forget The Times has never played a show and has no internet presence at all. However, it can be cited that they are a new project featuring Sean & Benji from Rotten Wood Moon and Peter from The Philly Crawlers. Three guitars + vocals that may or may not be run through a PA. Not for the faint of heart.

Missing a mix like this would be detrimental to your health. This wednesday, July 7th. No Fun House. Show starts 9pm. $2. Be there.