Ominous or Awesome?

Alright collective DIT readers, Friday night there is a double-header at Louie’s of the  warbled, rockabilly-indie two step variety.

Delilah Dewylde and her dusty-trail Lost Boys, in town from Saugatuck, are going to beat listeners blue with their toe-thumping bass-line paired with the whiskey sour twang of the southern-styled songstress’ voice. While predictable in song style, most often opening up with Ms. Dewylde’s “I’m the boss around here” vocals– and strung together with a slapping on her coffin-sized upright bass, the band’s slightly-crooked eyebrow, black suits and red-dress attitude are plenty to get the neck swaying and the leg bouncing.

Followed by  guitarist Lee Harvey’s Dick Dale styled, motorized guitar solos that could have revved out of a pick-up truck, listeners will find themselves  right at home in the corners of the bar waiting for a fight to break out or the hoots to holler as if it was 110 degrees outside and they were in some bar off the side of Highway 61.

The band will also have “Delilah Wylde Berry Wheat” beer from Saugatuck Brewing Co. available for sale, so give it a taste if you want a stumble to your two-step Friday night.

For those that are interested in Son Drop and didn’t read last week’s article featuring their questionable appearance, expect some folk-inspired indie psychedelia.

The real story is that James Duke, founder and “brain-trust” of the group, is coming in town from Minneapolis for the show, and is more or less responsible for the one-night resurrection.

Having “not played full bando since February”  or “Boiling Pot Festival 2011” (he can’t quite remember which), Duke had a few things to say about the first set the band has played together in almost a year:

“Son Drop has some new songs and some old ones. Jeremy Ruggles (bandmate) is in Mexico for this show, so the fabulous Selner Bros Band will be rounding out the set.”

Tomorrow night, Kalamazoo basement venue the Crystal Cavern will rival the fun it offered last weekend when M Sord, Batcave, and others graced it’s cement floor.

Tiny Moving Parts describes themselves as “Minnesota kids who have nothing better to do.”  This music video pretty much sums them up, but expect fun-time chime guitar riffs and a whole lot of shouting.

That’s Blood is four guys who grew up making music together in neighboring Kalamazoo city, Portage.  Once known as Sea Rex, That’s Blood writes technical and heavy songs influenced by post-hardcore of the early 2000s, a la The Fall of Troy.  They’ve been playing basements around Kalamazoo fairly often, and the above video is of a show they played at Victory house some months back.

George Costanza will be performing as well.  We’ve mentioned George in a lot of recent posts, so we’ll skip the description this time to avoid redundancy, but what can be said is that they will be performing with known Kalamazoo musician Alex Young on drums until Chris gets back from his film internship in California.

The show starts at 9pm and Tiny Moving Parts has a gas tank will thank you for donating!

Come down to No Fun House around 5pm if you’re hungry and want to participate in the potluck/cookout, stay all night for music, which starts around 8pm.  Emilio Festivez is No Fun House’s annual festival, featuring low volume bands, Estevez movies, and veggie burgers.

Alex and Marcus Quinlan are brothers from Battle Creek.  This will be their first performance together.  Alex has laid down some very thoughtful, reputable folk songs since the demise of both The Almanac Shouters and Rotten Wood Moon.

Sea Couch is a husband and wife duo from Baltimore that has an eerie, haunting aesthetic to their conceptual folk songs.  Their instrumentation includes dual vocal, banjo, and acoustic guitar.  Maryland isn’t close, so make sure to bring some donations, or at least some kind words for the couple of folkies.

Birdfingers is the songwriting project of Kalamazoo musician Bennett Young.    Bennett has been known to perform both solo and with a full band, both of which are captivating set-ups.  His music is bright and uplifting.  It’s a tad folky, but modern and unique.

Lastly, a group that I’d have an awfully hard time writing an unbiased preview of, seeing as they might be the most important band in Kalamazoo to me, is Cold Mountain Child.  CMC have been sharing their earthy, but spacey low volume soundscapes with K-zoo show-goers for years now.  This past year, CMC upgraded from being a duo to being a full (but still quiet) band, including trap-kit drums, bass, violin, two acoustic guitars, electric guitar, keys and harmonizing vocals.  Cold Mountain Child will soothe you and encourage you to think, while also creating an ethereal wall of sound.

Photo courtesy of Relationships’ Facebook page

You’re probably sun burnt. Possibly hungover. You’re either loving the newfound legality of airborne fireworks in Michigan or you’re really sick of it by now. But this is America, so let’s keep the party rolling.

Relationships and My Captain, My Sea on tour from the Steel(ers) City, Pittsburgh. They’re playing tonight with their local buds/teen heartthrobs George Costanza. It’s a night of fun, upbeat, twinkly, pretty, punky kind of stuff and it’s all going down below ground level which should feel very welcome in the midst of the current heat wave.

Bring a few dollars to help these Pennsylvanians on their tour and get ready for more fireworks and maybe even some BBQ action. It’s going down at 9PM.

• My Captain, My Sea on Bandcamp
• Relationships on Bandcamp
• Facebook event

What an amazing way to start a tour for Batcave & M. Sord! With Kzoo locals Inflatable Best Friend, Sid Redlin, and Terror Terror Oh My! accompanying them, this will be an outrageous must-see show!

Batcave
Comprised of locals Matt Maverick, Andrew Mansberger, Isaac Lowery, and Matt Wood, Batcave is yet another superlative Kalamazoo supergroup. Without any prior personal knowledge of their former bands, I do know that this lineup as well as their sound is something one must truly observe.

M. Sord hits the stage with a genuine extraterrestrial look and sound! Simply drums and shades. Rockin’ it with only the sound of his live drums and preprogrammed synths, this unique music will put you in a trance and take you to Venus.

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Inflatable Best Friend

Sid Redlin

Terror Terror Oh My!

Crystal Caverns
Show @ 9PM
Bring donations for the soon to be touring groups.
Respect the House. Respect the Bands. Respect Others. Respect Yourself.

The day before everyone goes out and takes advantage of Michigan’s new tolerance of dangerous fireworks, Kalamazoo will be visited by an alien presence. They will bring strange sounds that will make strange feelings. They will warm your soul and cool your jets, as the evening permits. they are:

Courtesy insectfields.org

INSECT FACTORY, an ambient noise act that is sure to simultaneously soothe and cause ruminations of thoughts of different places that are not quite tangible but absolutely do exist, probably.

PUBLIC SPEAKING is uncouth grooves and sensual vocals. A perfect blend to get the blood moving again, after all that sweet rumination.

KYLE LANDSTRA, a Kalamazoo local, will assist us in examining our metaphysical states and righting what may be wrong with our microcosmic orbits.

Finally, the GIANTS OF FREE JAZZ will be making a shadowy and mysterious appearance via Wireless technology.

The music starts at 9pm sharp and flat, but make sure you get there early enough to catch everything. Also bring some cash for the touring acts. The show is free, but they’ve got merch and will be accepting donations.

It’ll be quite the hullabaloo, boy let me tell you

Coming up at the Fat Guy House on Friday, we’ve got something a little different for the house, something less on the punk side.

On tour from Columbus, OH, are two bands that vary pretty greatly from each other: the crooning, country-fried stylings of the aptly-named Steamboat and the amped-up, East-coast style, noodly emo of Squeamish.

Local acts Jake Simmons and the Little Ghosts and the Honey Pot will be joining the Ohio bands. Arguably the two best best bands in the Garage-rock realm of Kalamazoo, both acts are known for their spot-on delivery live.

All kinds of solid music on this one and it’s going to be a party for sure. Come on down, get down. Bring some dollars to donate to the touring bands.

Facebook event

A great Victory House show!

Featuring…
Touring bands Мища from Baltimore MD and Itto from Chicago IL.

With help from our MI locals…
Seventeen Again and Great American Witchhunt.

What’s going down is below.

Мища – Hardcore from Baltimore

Check Out Their Bandcamp!
Or the Facebook

Itto – Chicago Hardcore
“Itto is the sonic exertions of all our hopes, dreams, trials, and tribulation.”
Check Out Their Bandcamp!
Or the Facebook

Seventeen Again – Recent Hardcore Kalamazoo Supergroup.
You’ll have to be there to witness this sound for yourself.

Great American Witchhunt – Hardcore with a twist.

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Victory House
9pm
Donate to the Touring Bands!
Respect the House.
Respect Yourself and Others.

Chicago is coming. It’s coming to Kalamazoo. It’s bringing music with it. Not the blues though. No, it’s different than that. But it’s good.

Real good.

Folk music that borders on spoken word sometimes, mania other times, and brilliant musicianship all the time, Perpetual Dusk at Curtsy Caverns is making some cool sounds with whatever they’ve got. Very excellent.

Also from the Chitown, Bowl of Dust brings the folk-Americana, and brings it strong. Great songwriting, twangin’ guitars, and calming vocals singing old tunes about the modern age. Very digable.

LOCAL LEGEND FRANK FUZZ will be performing music with himself. Great performer, and a personal favorite local act. DO NOT MISS, as there is no guarantee that he’ll ever play again!

Finally, Jesse Duke will be making his first show appearance in nearly 2 years! Good times to be had by all!

The SHOW will immediately be preceded by a POTLUCK at 7, so bring some FOOD to SHARE. Also, if you could stack some bills up for to toss in to the hats of the wayfairing musicians, that’d be pretty stellar, too.

Hope to see y’alls!