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THURSDAY 11/29: Oreo Jones & DJ Action Jackson with DMA, Finaocardi, Beniam, Heart-Attack Zack, Deniro Swiper, and Kid Dew @ THE BLACK LODGE

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Thursday night The Black Lodge will host several hip-hop acts from around Kalamazoo and abroad.

Oreo Jones and DJ Action Jackson are from Indianapolis, currently on their Behind the Lips tour. Oreo is a rapper of the absurdist tradition, evoking comparisons to other playful hip-hop outfits like Das Racist or Odd Future, with the same good-times-party bent of Digital Underground. Think a block party co-hosted by Dave Chapelle and Tim & Eric.

Finaocardi is a local MC whose party-ready tunes serve as a smokescreen to a dynamic lyricist with bombastic delivery and a fantastic lyrical bent. His body of work trojan horses pertinent social themes with songs about chillin’ at home and getting down.

Beniam is an up-and-coming rapper in the Kalamazoo area who explores unique territory other rappers don’t necessarily delve into. He talks about highly spiritual and personal topics, and touches on issues that will satisfy your cerebral cravings.

Heart-Attack Zack melds together a sense of whimsical humor and personal introspection. A Drake or Kid Cudi who is perhaps less self-serious and more apt to rap as much about life’s absurdities and it’s struggles.

Deniro Swiper  is a vicious female MC who takes the traditional aggressive machismo of Hip-Hop music and turns it on its head, essentially taking the bullhorn and demolishing all misogynistic haters.

Kid Dew and his brother Why J will be coming down from Grand Rapids to present their street level rhymes and beats.

Please bring donations to support the touring MCs and DJs. Show starts at 9 o’ clock. Respect the house (and respect Black Fabio).

TONIGHT: Mehrunes Dagon, Bert, Statia, and Entropy Elephant @ THE BLACK LODGE

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Tonight The Black Lodge will host a docket of acts poised to scratch all kinds of experimental musical itches.

Coming through from parts outside the Kalamazoo sphere are two metal bands that are completely unafraid to dive headfirst into strange sonic territories.

BerT are from Lansing, weaving together the slow, rolling thunder of doom metal with experimental electronics to produce a highly unique sound that pricks the eardrums on several fronts. Using their metal instrumentation as a baseline, they build on it with noise music techniques to produce a peculiar yet highly entertaining hybrid beast that implements the best of both genres.

Mehrunes Dagon are a doom metal band from Grand Rapids who execute the traditional tidal sounds indicative of the genre. Listening to their music is similar to watching a combustion engine being built piece-by-piece, building their rolling guitars to exciting heights and crescendos.

They will be getting local support from Kalamazoo experimentalists Statia and ENTROPY ELEPHANT.

Statia has recently been making the rounds in the Vine Neighborhood, with a crunchy metal sound that borrows as much from contemporary metal as it does 70’s prog rock.

ENTROPY ELEPHANT is a new side project from local musical mad scientist Sid Redlin. Thrown together on the fly for a fill-in gig at Louie’s several weeks ago, Sid quickly realized that he had created a monster which he will be gleefully unleashing on The Black Lodge.

Show starts at 9PM. Please bring donations for the out-of-town bands!

TONIGHT: Jerry Fels and the Jerry Fels w/ Boy Becomes Hero, Nick DeMott, and Neil Shah @ THE BLACK LODGE

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Tonight The Black Lodge will be hosting an acoustic night featuring Jerry Fels and the Jerry Fels, who is actually just one man. Currently on tour to celebrate his 2011 release “Evil is the Root of All Money,” Jerry is a solo acoustic performer whose music has both a poignant introspection and a wonderful sense of humor. With such songs as “Bad Bad Bad Bad Money” and “Girl You Make Me Want to Change My Number,” Jerry’s tongue is planted firmly in his cheek.

Supporting him are several local performers including Boy Becomes Hero, folk songs with a distinctly personal bent.

Nick DeMott, who veers through various topics with a whimsical appreciation for the American roots folk/ blues sound.

Rounding it out will be Neil Shah, best known for his involvement with several popular Kalamazoo bands like Ackley Kid, Witch Fingers, and Statia.

Show starts at 9PM. Please bring donations for the traveling troubadour.

TONIGHT: ZOMBIE PROM @ THE BLACK LODGE

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Darkness falls across the land…

The midnight hour is close at hand…

Ah, do you remember your prom? A celebration of all your least favorite pop songs that were over-saturated by your local radio station, full of hormone driven misfits dancing around in a trance-zombie-like fashion.

At The Black Lodge, we like to tell it how it is. That’s why we’re putting together ZOMBIE PROM, a chance for you and your sweetie to relive the fun of dressing up with all the post-modern ironic zest of dressing up like zombies! Featuring music that is actually good without the high school dramatics, with a tiny dash of FUN FUN HORROR.

Inflatable Best Friend will be kicking things off with their fun, dance-ready punk rock. Coming on the heels of the release of their new album “DMT Bike Ride,” they should be full of surplus amounts of HAMMAGE.

Arson Party is a progressive metal band with members from both Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo. Best described as hardcore metal as written by a set of meticulous, obsessive-compulsive hands. Their melodically sung lyrics have been known to get stuck in the heads of innumerable Michigan metalheads.

That’s Blood are some local punk rockers with a heavy sound sprinkled with small fingerprints of 80’s California hardcore.

Abortion Survivors are another group of local punk rockers who shred and shred and then, even though one would think t’would be enough of said shredding, decide to shred for additional amounts of time. Speed, pep, and go, that should indeed make the body flow.

Cavalcade are a band from Lansing that perhaps is the closest to sounding directly like some sort of Satanic spell that could summon a veritable zombie apocalypse. Their sound is an evil hybrid beast, with vocals skewing towards what one might find a black metal record with instrumentation that finds an inexplicable place between doom and surf punk.

Show starts at 9. Get in the spirit and come as a zombie with your sweetheart! Or alone in some sort of Halloween costume! You could potentially come by yourself as yourself, but that shows a definitive lack of the ghoulish Halloween spirit.

For any additional information, visit the Facebook event page or Facebook page for The Black Lodge.