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Man Forever / So Percussion / Prognosis Negative @ Louie’s 7/11/14

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A few times each year, a show happens in Kalamazoo that is truly awe inspiring. The kind of event where everyone in attendance remembers and talks about it for months. Where the experience gets inside you and remains a subtle influence from there on.

I have been lucky enough to experience this kind of event several times this year already. Acid Mothers Temple. Keir Neuringer. Dead Rider. Chicago Underground Duo. Cheer-Accident.
If you attended any of those shows and felt the way I did, then this Friday at Louie’s is were you NEED to be!

Kate Slater has done this town a service by bringing in some absolutely incredible artists. Man Forever & So Percussion.

Man Forever is the side project of Kid Millions, drummer for legendary Psych band Oneida. So Percussion is a pioneering rhythm based group operating in the world of Modern Composition and the Avant-garde. Absolute pro level heavy hitters all around.

They are touring together with a brand new collaboration LP called “Ryonen” (Thrill Jockey).

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Local Free Jazz duo Prognosis Negative will be kicking off the night.

Doors are at 9pm
Music starts at 9:30pm
Cover is $8
Attendance is 18+

For further proof of this show’s excellence, check out these two long playing videos:

 

Folk For Many Folks – Axel & Marcus Quinlan, Ugly Brothers, Lousy Trouts, Deep Waters – 5.27

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Louie’s Trophy House will be the place for fans of acoustic music from across the board. Be it gruff of ethereal, there’s something for all tastes. The night is particularly exciting, as two Milwaukee bands are making their first trek to Kalamazoo.

UGLY BROTHERS are a large band of rag tag soulful folk singers. For fans of The Avett Brothers, Elvis Perkins, and Tik Tok, but a bit more rough around the edges than those examples – not that they are not fine players – just a tangible authenticity in their style.

LOUSY TROUTS on the other hand, are quite reminiscent of Lonesome Crowded West era Modest Mouse – but all acoustic and refreshingly new to your ears.

Also this night, not so lousy, not so trouty, not so ugly, but definitely brothers – Axel and Marcus Quinlan will be playing their first set as a duo since August. Axel is the former songwriter for The Almanac Shouters, and has been working on a large body of solo work for the last couple of years. Each show is a glimpse into some portion of what is to be a cohesive concept album.

Also backing up the traveling acts would be the profoundly ethereal Deep Waters – a project started by talented local musician DSK as a keyboard project – many of the songs are now often performed live on acoustic guitar. Meditate and contemplate, get pensive but not sad.

Bring yourself, bring your friends, bring five dollars, bring what is left of your show worn ears. Tip the waitstaff and give the sound engineer a high five.

1/19/14 – White Gold, Brown Cow, Katy Needs A Life @ Louie’s!!!

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Tonight at Louie’s awesome awesome awesome!!!

WHITEGOLD (Chicago)
“Holy hell—Monday night at the Burlington in Chicago, White Gold put on one of the most inspiring shows I’ve ever seen. It was massively exciting. Two foxy band members, a half-dozen costume permutations (the drummer becomes a cyclops Billymonster for one song!), beautiful projections, powerful vocals in endless loops, dinner plates smashed for percussion…. and it was their FIRST SHOW. Damn. Thanks to White Gold and Melkbilly (also rad, also first show—what’s going on here?!) for expanding the known universe.” – Sleepy Kitty Music

Brown Cow – Kalamazoo sad-pop

KATY NEEDS A LIFE – Happy stuff about stuff.

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DOORS 8PM
SHOW 9PM
COVER – $5 (suggested)

Forget The Times / Gary Neason / Morseville Bridge / Peter Damien Cook

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Kalamazoo’s second most challenging musical collective Forget The Times is kicking off a tour of the mid-west on Thursday, February 9th at Louie’s Trophy House Grill in Kalamazoo.

Before the details, the numbers: $5 cover, 18+, 9pm.

I’ve seen Forget The Times on a dozen or so occasions, and no two performances have been quite alike. One constant is the conventionally attractive Sean Hartman and his conventionally attractive guitar, which combine to produce an unconventionally attractive stream of notes, noise, tones, and vaguely Beefheartish licks. Another Forget The Times staple is a flurry of busy hands behind one (or sometimes two) drum kits.

Other ingredients that are mixed in include up to three extra guitars, Sean’s didgeridoo, a variety of square and sawtooth waves from a tiny synthesizer, and … well, have yourself a listen. In fact, have yourself another listen.

All by itself, this is enough music to require a takeout container, but we haven’t even shown you the appetizer menu yet.

Three additional acts will lay granite blocks of sound across the squishy warm earth, making for safe travel and clean shoes when we arrive at Forget The Times’ party zone:

Morseville Bridge will provide beautiful and catchy songs in the tradition of Built to Spill, whether stripped bare (“Grampa’s Ghost“) or with the benefit of accompaniment (“Hostage“).

Gary Neason‘s music hasn’t taken a break in nearly a decade, although occasionally there are entire weeks consisting only of rests, followed by an imperceptibly creeping crescendo of polyphony approaching pink noise. We’ll never know whether dinosaurs listened to A Love Supreme, but if they did, it might sound like this at the dinosaur open mic night.

Peter Damien Cook is a songwriter and ceaselessly dedicated entertainer. You may have seen fronting the recently deceased psychedelic pop band The Philly Crawlers, shredding his trademark green Stratocaster as part of Forget the Times, providing harmonies to the fuzzy poprocks of Edward, or sonically assaulting a basement as part of Sleeper Agent. See PDC play “Wrong To Me” live.