FRIDAY NIGHT! Get with it, people! The Strutt shall be hosting three excellent bands, each of an entirely different persuasion from the others.
NWE SPRYGHTS – wild prog rock from far beyond
PAUCITY – post-rock intensity
COMA NOVA – post-grunge weight!
photo by Jeremy Martin
The Strutt is located at 773 W. Michigan Ave. in Kalamazoo. Cost of the show is $5 and it starts at 9 p.m. Show is all ages!
Tonight, the Strutt plays host to a trio of most excellent songwriters and guitar-players the likes of which are hardly ever tucked under the same roof. David Dondero is one of them, and it’s a triumphant return that I know many folks have been waiting for.
Also taking stage tonight is the lead singer of Kalamazoo’s own Nightjars, Aaron Young. He’s doing a rare solo performance, and if it’s anything like his last rare solo performance, it’s going to be a real good one. Make sure you check it out.
Finally, The Go Rounds’ Gitis Baggs will be pickin’ and grinnin’ and doing those things that Gitis Baggs does. His tunes are more than killer, and similar to Aaron Young’s in that his solo sets are few and far between.
Music starts around 9pm and the door will cost 5 bucks to walk through. Not a bad price for a good time on a Monday night.
Kalamazoo’s premier local artist zine, Asylum Lake, have completed their 4th edition and are holding their release party tonight, Friday, June 10th, at Boomerang’s with performances from two bands the latest edition features, Almanac Shouters and Good News, as well as Lincoln County War.
Almanac Shouters/photo by Jeremy Martin
Almanac Shouters have but a few shows remaining before disbanding due to new paths to be traveled in life by bandmembers. The folkpunk trio released their sophomore effort Windmills earlier this year, which is reviewed in this issue of Asylum Lake.
Lincoln County War is the project of the engaged Benji Myers and Sofia Peters, on guitar and violin respectively. Both sing and have engaging tunes, falling somewhere between punk, Americana, and other!
Good News
Good News are the artist featured in Asylum Lake; the mathrock duo have spent the last year and a half perfecting their dynamic, shifting instrumentals and have grown incredibly tight. Live shows are exhilarating!
Admission to this event is only $2! Copies of Asylum Lake #4 will be on sale for $5. Boomerang’s is located in the Rugger’s Up & Under building at 711 W. Michigan Ave in Kalamazoo.
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!
This is a relatively exciting post for me personally, so I’m just going to get all the way down to business: Michael Chapman is a 70 year old man from the United Kingdom, over by way of Europe. he is also a brilliant musician and phenomenal guitar player. He is also playing The Strutt tomorrow here in Kalamazoo.
This is going to be an excellent show just in regards to Mr. Chapman. But in case that wasn’t enough, Kalamazoo locals Lincoln County War will be providing support. In case that’s still not enough, Matt Motzell – the drummer for local rockers Coma Nova – will also be performing a solo set, and his first solo set in a very long time.
It should be a night of excellent music, and for a mere pittance of $5 at the door, what more do you want on a Monday Night?
Music should start around 8:30, so get ready to rock right around then!
You like folk music? You like Rock music? You like when the two are recklessly smashed together and performed on stage in front of a live studio audience? Well that’s what’s going to happen tonight at The Strutt, and that’s pretty cool.
Coming in all the way from New York, former University Of Michigan student Charlene Kaye is on tour and playin’ the house. Her music is less folk-rock and more folk-jazz – not that she doesn’t rock per se, just that she be swingin’, and that’s okay. She’s got a set of pipes too, which further aids in the process of getting down.
Spencer Michaud hails from Ann Arbor currently, and is a bit more straight-laced in terms of his folk music. It’s good though, real good.
Finally, local Folk Rock Heroes Birches are providing the jams, the grooves, and the hometown support. This is one of my personal favorite Kalamazoo outfits, and it’s always good to see ’em playing at home. The doors for this one open at 8:30 and it cost 5 bux to stop by, but don’t let that deter you from some awesome music.
If a funkier, bluesier sort of night is what you’re looking for, though, you could always swing by Bell’s Eccentric Cafe and check out the BMF Band and Marble Garden. It’s gonna be good times either way though!
Courtesy BMF Band
Tonight at Louie’s Trophy House Grill, Sweet Brown bring the fun times in the form of several girls and a male or two. I saw them play on an ill-fated night where winter road conditions rendered a show incomplete yet they still brought a few fun originals and a high octane set of covers from the Runaways and Blondie.
Brown Cow are a young group of musicians geared toward the slacker pop of the 90s like Pavement and Sebadoh, with singer Mallory Cobb’s otherworldly vocal vibrato filling out the sound in a new flavor to this formula.
IfIHadAHiFi hail from Milwaukee and feature members of Death Dream and The Pop Machine. They bring Noise Rock and Post-Punk like crazy, a party of excess. WAY FUN!
The show is only $5 and starts at 10 p.m. at 440 E. North St in Kalamazoo, MIchigan. Louie’s Trophy Grill House!
Every once in a while, the garage-rockers leave the garage and rock elsewhere. Sometimes that elsewhere is a long, long way from home. That’s what TV Ghost is doing this Wednesday at Louie’s Trophy House Grille, and it is so good to hear it. Their special brand of music is crunchy, punky, relatively manic and mildly insane. I caught these guys last time they came through the ‘Zoo (even had a chance to open for them) and they are most excellent. But don’t take my word for it, come check it out tomorrow night!
Joining them will be The Spits, formerly-local rockers with a synthesized twinge that gets the hairs on the back of your neck standing up just right. These fellas know how to pound through a tune and make it count. Check ’em!
Finally, Kalamazoo locals No Bails will provide the hometown support. Zombie Surf music at it’s finest!
Show starts at 9 and it costs 5 bux to get in, but what price do you put on good old Rock and Roll? See you cats there!
Tonight there’s a whole lot of rockin’ and rollin’ and jazzin’ and such goin’ on all over the place, and it will be so good to hear it.
First up, The psychedelic jam-band stylings of Marble Garden can be found tonight at Papa Pete’s. They’re loud, funky, groovy, and most importantly, these boys can play! Also, before you ask, their band name is in fact a reference to a level in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
Oh, and there’s the band too:
Plus, Teh Wallcatz will be opening up with their own brand of funky sweaty organ trio goodness. The jams will be had for certain. Show costs 4 bucks to get in.
If jazz is what you want, however, you can always pop by The Strutt and check out Duke and the Loose Cannons! Featuring Leonard Duke and Craig Vestel – long time Kalamazoo Musicians – James Duke of Son Drop, and Jarad ‘Saxsquatch’ Selner (That’s me!). We will get down. Let’s KICK IT.
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