Past Shows
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LUNGFISH | GRIS GRIS | MOTO | DOWN THE LINE | THE WEDDING PRESENT | THE DEMON'S CLAWS | THE MOUNTAIN GOATS | THE CRACKPIPES | TRIAGE | BLANK ITS | PINBACK | TH' LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS | THE TOUGH AND LOVELY | THE PAYBACKS | UFODICTATOR | EASY ACTION | THE TEARJERKERS | THE SHOP FRONTS | CONSTANTINES | THE SPiTS | THE HARD LESSONS | 25 SUAVES | SMOG | THE RAVEN SOCIETY | THE OSCARS | THE BRIEFS | PORTASTATIC | THE PONYS | BRIAN VANDER ARK | JOHN VANDERSLICE | THE MOUNTAIN GOATS | EMBER SWIFT | DOWN THE LINE | MAKE/BELIEVE | ELF POWER | CROOKED FINGERS | DAVE DONDERO | THE WEDDING PRESENT | MONDALE! | ARAB STRAP | NOBODY'S FAVORITE | GRIS GRIS | REMPIS PERCUSSION QUARTET | JOHN VANDERSLICE | THE FATALS | BLACK SUNDAY | THE HUNCHES | THE BELL ORCHESTRE | FRUIT BATS | THE MIGHTY GO-GO PLAYERS | MISS ALEX WHITE | THE CRETEENS | BRIMSTONE HOWL | THE ANGEL SLUTS | THE SPITS | ARMY OF JESUS | DEVOTCHKA | THE SNEAKY PINKS | UFO DICTATOR.COM 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW | ANGRY ANGLES | THE GRIS GRIS | BRIDGE 61 | THE CARBONAS | SO MANY DYNAMOS | THE SINATRAS/THE SLEESTACKS | ROGUE WAVE | JEFF HANSON | WOLF PARADE | ERIC BACHMANN (Crooked Fingers) & RICHARD BUCKNER | THE MOUNTAIN GOATS | ELF POWER | THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW | THE DEMOLITION DOLLRODS | MICAH P. HINSON | THE MAGNETIX | THE HARD LESSONS | JOE LALLY | M.O.T.O. | BIRTHDAY SUITS } EVIL ARMY | EMBER SWIFT | THAT 1 GUY | THE HARD LESSONS
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MONDAY NOVEMBER 6 th
9pm
Micah P. Hinson
With Special Guest Frank Fuzz
All for only $6
Micah P. Hinson
Hometown: Abilene, TX US
Life has a strange habit of never exactly going according to plan; just when it seems even, life throws a curve ball to put things off balance. Some call it karma, while others call it luck. Life seems to right itself, in the end.
Micah P. Hinson experienced a turbulent period in his late teens, involving narcotics, jail time for forging prescriptions and a tumultuous relationship with a Vogue cover model - all before the age of 20, Hinson was homeless, penniless and abandoned by his family. He was eventually forced to declare himself bankrupt and moved into a motel and acquired a mundane telemarketing job. During this period, Micah still managed to write around 30 songs on borrowed instruments and equipment.
2004 saw Micah Paul Hinson catapulted from being a skate kid down on his luck to making one of the year's finest and most critically acclaimed debut albums, Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress (which made numerous ‘Best of 2004' polls, especially in the UK including Uncut, The Independent, the BBC and Time Out UK) and traveling the world playing with the likes of Iron & Wine, Antony & the Johnsons, Devendra Banhart, The Arcade Fire and most recent being invited on tour with KT Tunstall and Richard Hawley.
Frank Fuzz
Hometown : Paw Paw, MI
Frank needs someone to write him a bio, so we can just copy that and put it on this site. In lieu of a proper bio, let's just say that Frank is a hometown hero. He is one that inspires hope in and for the local Kalamazoo music scene. His songs are truly original and unique. Which is harder to come by than you would imagine. The Frank on Frank live show brings a third dimension to life. Really put a little faith in Frank.
Links:
www.micahphinson.com
www.myspace.com/micahphinson
www.myspace.com/franklinfuzz
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ELF POWER
Elephant 6 Collective
PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS:
Geoff Reacher
The Glowfriends
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2006
TICKETS $8
DOORS OPEN AT 9PM
Tickets are available at
Buy Tickets Online
Kraftbrau Brewery
Vertigo Music
129 S. Division Ave.
Grand Rapids , MI
Rocket Star Café- Kalamazoo
ELF POWER
Formed in Athens , GA in 1994, Elf Power was spawned from the legendary Elephant 6 collective that also produced Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal and Apples In Stereo. For the "Web" sessions, the band, whose founding members include Andrew Rieger on vocals, Laura Carter on accordion and keys and Brian Poole on bass, was joined by John Fernandes (of Olivia Tremor Control and Circulatory System) on violin and clarinet, Jimmy Hughes on guitar, Heather McIntosh on cello and new drummer Josh Lott. The band has spent the past twelve years making albums and touring the globe, sharing bills with the likes of R.E.M., Dinosaur Jr., Wilco and Guided By Voices.
Elf Power also runs their own land conservation group/record label called Orange Twin. The group involves 150 acres of land on the outskirts of Athens , GA which is currently being turned into a self sustainable, low impact village and nature preserve.
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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
4 AD Recording Artist
*Darn Nice Folks
CHRISTINE FELLOWS
From Toronto , Ont.
*Finest Canadian Export Since Strange Brew.
Really you should check out:
www.christinefellows.com
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 2006
$12 Advance Tickets
$14 at the Door (if there are any left)
8 pm doors
(Please note early time, it will be this early, and we would hate for you to miss any of the show...)
Tickets are available at
Buy Tickets Online
Kraftbrau Brewery
Vertigo Music
129 S. Division Ave.
Grand Rapids , MI
Rocket Star Café- Kalamazoo
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
Last year, The Mountain Goats released an album called The Sunset Tree, and something unusual happened. John Darnielle - long recognized by his fans as one of the most imaginative and downright thrilling lyricists of his generation - suddenly found the rest of the world starting to think the same way. The album, the most nakedly autobiographical in a Mountain Goats discography which spans 400 or more songs across scores of releases, was widely hailed as a masterpiece; it went on to become the most successful of Darnielle's career.
But - as you might expect from a songwriter as creatively restless as he is prolific - Get Lonely is something else again. If The Sunset Tree (which chronicled the fraught, violent relationship between Darnielle and his stepfather) derived its power and energy from an unblinking exorcism of personal demons, Get Lonely is perhaps the quiet, haunted aftermath. It's a reflective, intimate record; the mood is one of bittersweet resignation rather than cathartic release. And it sees Darnielle modulating his perspective away from the unequivocally personal – these elegiac vignettes undoubtedly spring from emotion deeply felt, but emotion this time – as the poet once had it – "recollected in tranquility".
And given Darnielle's gift for telling irony, it might not come as surprise to discover that, at least as far as the musical performances are concerned, Get Lonely doesn't quite follow the stark command of its title. In fact, these recordings are warmly collaborative affairs, with Darnielle and his long-term collaborators Peter Hughes and Franklin Bruno forming an ensemble captured playing live in the studio - the songs murmur with surefooted confidence, the product of intuitive, respectful mutual exploration.
Their performances are augmented by the luminous cello playing of Erik Freidlander, the lithe, almost-jazz drumming of Corey Fogel and the multifarious instrumental touches supplied or inspired by producer Scott Solter. There's an endless array of gently inspirational flourishes - the radiant piano chords of " New Monster Avenue ", the rippling vibraphones and soaring guitar lines of "Half Dead", the perfect pizzicato cello in "Woke Up New", the cross-hatched brass and Hammond of "If You See Light".
Darnielle's marvelous lyrics work in the same way – even at their most introspective, there's always something to surprise; a momentary splash of colour, an arresting image:
"And these moments of lucid verbal drama rub up against the sombre mood of Get Lonely, disrupting the album's dazed beauty, casting light into its shady corners. These constant contrasts mean that, even at its most languid, the album is never merely pretty, and even at its most troubled, it is never merely dark. It is, however, a delicately nuanced triumph – an uncannily coherent and subtly redemptive record which should come to be seen as The Mountain Goats' most resonant, assured and magical collection of songs so far.” America 's best non-hip-hop lyricist"
-The New Yorker
*Personal Opinions.
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**SPECAIL CO-HEADLINE**
ERIC BACHMANN (Crooked Fingers)
Saddle Creek Records
RICHARD BUCKNER
Merge Records
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2006
9pm Doors Open
$12 in Advance- $14 Day of Show
Tickets are available at
Buy Tickets Online
Kraftbrau Brewery
Vertigo Music
129 S. Division Ave.
Grand Rapids , MI
Rocket Star Café- Kalamazoo
ONLY MICHIGAN PERFORMANCE!
ERIC BACHMANN
Eric Bachmann will release To The Races on August 22nd on Saddle Creek Records. The release marks the first time Bachmann has chosen to release an album under his own name. Recording under the moniker Crooked Fingers since 2000, Bachmann has released four albums of charmingly melancholic music that have earned him a reputation as arguably one of the finest singer songwriters to emerge in recent years. Markedly different than 2005's highly praised and most immediately accessible Crooked Fingers' release Dignity and Shame (Merge) - which received 4-star reviews from Details and Maxim, while "(giving the) stale singer-songwriter consortium a nice kick in the pants" (Alternative Press) - To The Races is as skeletally spare as it is insightful and restrained. It is fitting that Bachmann chose such an austere album as the first Eric Bachmann solo release: no pretenses, no pseudonyms, no ornamentation - qualities that also mirror the album's writing and recording process: To The Races was mainly written in the summer of 2005 while Bachmann voluntarily chose to live in the back of his touring van. After making the best of the hospitable Northwestern summer by setting up home and shop in his vehicle, Bachmann waited until December to record To The Races in only a week's time, self-recording its entirety in a hotel in the Outer Banks town of Buxton , NC. Joined on only a few songs by Devotchka's violinist Tom Hagerman and Austin , TX 's Miranda Brown on backing vocals, To The Races is a stunning collection of songs examining both self-imposed isolation and the search for human connection.
RICHARD BUCKNER
Meadow is the 8th full-length recording from Richard Buckner, and his second for Merge Records. The latest chapter in a story that began in San Francisco , back in the early 90's and has seen Buckner travel across the U.S. and Canada many times. Buckner's body of work has always seemed to be about motion vs. stillness, whether it be running away or toward something, or watching something or someone leave or approach: the restless energy of the heart, full speed ahead, the consequences taken and embraced, the good and the bad. The false starts, roadblocks and pitfalls along the way only add to the richness of the journey.
“There are three kinds of American folk artist: those who sit, contented, on a back porch contemplating America 's landscape and ways; those for whom its landscape and ways are something to stand against or move boldly through; and those whose America is a shadowy, impressionistic place that moves inside of them. This [latter] is the area that the somber-voiced Richard Buckner has been exploring since 1984” -- Sylvie Simmons; The Guardian, 2004
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8th 2006
ROGUE WAVE
Sub Pop Recording Artist
THE GRATES
From Austraila
FOREIGN BORN
9pm- Doors
10pm- Show
$9 in Advance- $11 at the Door
Tickets are available at
Buy Tickets Online
Kraftbrau Brewery
Vertigo Music
129 S. Division Ave.
Grand Rapids , MI
Rocket Star Café- Kalamazoo
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SPECIAL SMALL CLUB SHOW
WOLF PARADE
From Montreal , Quebec
Sub Pop Recording Artists
The Narrator
Flameshovel Recording Artist
Thursday August 31 2006
9 pm doors open
There are a few tickets left, but buy soon at:
Kraftbrau Brewery
Buy Tickets Online
Vertigo Music-129 S. Division Ave. Grand Rapids (best area independent record store)
Rocket Star Café- Kalamazoo
www.kraftbraubrewery.com
THE WOLF PARADE
MEMBERS:
Dan Boeckner
Spencer Krug
Hadji Bakara
Arlen Thompson
WHERE FROM:
Montreal
WHEN FORMED:
March 2003
HOW FORMED:
According to Arlen, this is how Wolf Parade formed:
As far as I can remember the story, Spencer was called by Alex Megelas of Grenadine Records to play a show opening for Melon Galia and Arcade Fire. Spencer agreed, although he had no band, so Spencer called up Dan to get something together for the show.
They wrote songs in Spencer's apartment playing with a drum machine through comupter speakers.
I got a call about a week before the show from Spencer asking me if I wanted to play a show that Saturday. I agreed and we rehearsed as a full band with amps and PA the day before and the day of our first show. All of the gear was borrowed; I don't think we had any equipment of our own except for Spencer's Juno-4 keyboard.
I am pretty sure that set the precedent of our band always being half-assed...
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BRIDGE 61
@ Kraftbrau Brewery (Kalamazoo, MI)/July 29, 2006
BLACK JACK PRODUCTIONS presents
BRIDGE 61
(Atavistic/Chicago, IL)
http://www.kenvandermark.com
http://www.atavistic.com/
Band Members
Tim Daisy: drums, percussion
Nathan McBride: acoustic & electric basses
Jason Stein: bass clarinet
Ken Vandermark: reeds |
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Saturday, July 29, 2006
KRAFTBRAU BREWERY
402 E Kalamazoo Ave
Kalamazoo, MI
(269) 384-0288
http://www.kraftbraubrewery.com
http://www.myspace.com/kraftbraubrewery
9PM Doors 10PM Show
18 & Over $6.00
http://www.myspace.com/blackjack_productions
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"UFO DICTATOR.com 2 Year Anniversary Show"
featuring
THE MARKED MEN/
M.O.T.O./
NOBODY'S FAVORITE/
THROBBIN' URGES/
DUTCH HERCULES ONE MAN BAND
@ Kraftbrau Brewery (Kalamazoo, MI)/July 22, 2006
BLACK JACK PRODUCTIONS
and
UFO DICTATOR.com
presents
THE MARKED MEN
(Swami Records/Denton, TX)
http://www.themarkedmen.com/
http://www.myspace.com/themarkedmen
M.O.T.O.
(Criminal IQ Records/Chicago, IL)
http://www.myspace.com/moto
http://www.indiepages.com/moto/
NOBODY'S FAVORITE
(Kalamazoo, MI)
http://www.myspace.com/nobodysfavorite
http://www.nobodysfavorite.com/
THROBBIN' URGES
(Deadbeat Records/Kalamazoo, MI)
http://www.myspace.com/throbbinurges
DUTCH HERCULES ONE MAN BAND
(Kalamazoo, MI)
http://www.myspace.com/dutch_hercules
and special guests
MASTER OF CEREMONIES MICKEY MAC
(csl, MI)
http://www.myspace.com/recordwhore
KALAMAZOO KAMIKAZES
(Kalamazoo's Rock And Roll Roller Derby Hit Squad!!!)
http://www.myspace.com/kkkz
plus super secret pre-show afternoon BBQ
with
X-OFFENDER
http://www.myspace.com/xoffenderkzoo
and
THE METAL TEETH
http://www.myspace.com/themetalteeth
and a super secret post-show party with MORE bands!!!
Saturday, July 22, 2006
KRAFTBRAU BREWERY
402 E Kalamazoo Ave
Kalamazoo, MI
(269) 384-0288
http://www.kraftbraubrewery.com
http://www.myspace.com/kraftbraubrewery
8PM Doors 9PM Show
18 & Over $8.00
http://www.myspace.com/blackjack_productions
http://ufodictator.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ufodictator
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THURSDAY JUNE 29 2006
Devotchka
Norfolk & Western
Wishek
Doors open at 9pm
$9 Advance/ $10 day of Show
Buy tickets online or at Kraftbrau
Devotchka may be the best band in America you've never heard of. This fascinating little quartet from Denver Colorado has made a wistful, beautifully-arranged something that isn't really an indie rock record, and isn't really a jazz record, and isn't really a mariachi/norteno (or Eastern European) folk record. It's the album Calexico should have been making all these years. It's the album you put on when you want to wallow, when you want to brood, when you want to shut your windows and close your blinds and lose yourself in the wistful tragedy of love and loss and hope and nostalgia that bubbles to the surface in all of your darker, finer moments. And though it could easily be the soundtrack to One Hundred Years of Solitude (what, with all the horns and guitars and the crooning Nick Urata), it's actually more spiritually related to the darker and finer moments of, say, Modest Mouse. (“Night on the Sun” the-world-is-ending-right-here-in-this-guitar-delay Modest Mouse, not the newly-minted disco Mouse). It makes you think. It makes you long. It makes you dream. And if you can listen to the aching troubadour ballad “Dearly Departed” without feeling the suffocating sensation of tearing flesh from bone that accompanies any true loss, then you haven't loved and you haven't lost and you shouldn't kid yourself that your better for it.
Norfolk and Western started as a recording project in '99 or so. I met Adam when he was just finishing up his first recording, A Collection of Songs . He recorded The Places pretty early on, at his then newly transplanted studio, The Type Foundry. Anyway, he was going to release this recording the same way HUSH had been doing it in those early days: a CDr run with nice handcrafted packaging. Adam has always been in to nice packaging. I still have the original, deleted songs and all.
But I digress. I saw him play the Norfolk and Western material as a duo with M.Ward (in that same basement bar that I was first introduced to Amy Annelle and Colin Meloy) and I was floored. Adam has a really amiable, understated, but confident stage presence that I've always admired. Every show he plays is different, too. There is always some new element or a new collaborator du jour. Four years later, he's a neighbor, sure-shot basketball compatriat, and dependable inspiration. Joining forces with his girlfriend Rachel Blumberg on Drums, Dave Depper on Bass, and sound jackal Tono Moreno on guitar, organ and the secret stuff buried behind the signature 20's-era radio cabinet, Selzer and co. deliver a dynamic (in a pastoral atmospheric sort of way) live show.
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Valentine Productions Proudly Presents:
FRUIT BATS
Sub Pop Recording Artist
Thursday May 4th
With:
Amandine & Sam Jayne
$9 Advance $11 Day of Show
Tickets Available:
Buy Tickets Online
At The Kraftbrau
& Vertigo Music
129 S. Divison Ave Grand Rapids
Rocket Star Café- Kalamazoo
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Black Jack Productions and Valentine Booking Proudly Present
Rough Trade Recording Artist
From Montreal, Quebec
THE BELL ORCHESTRE
(Members of the Arcade Fire )
www.bellorchestre.com
Wednesday May 3 rd
9pm Doors Open
$10
THE BELL ORCHESTRE/SNAILHOUSE/THE GLOWFRIENDS @ Kraftbrau (Kalamazoo, MI)/
May 3, 2006 BLACK JACK PRODUCTIONS
and
VALENTINE BOOKING
present
THE BELL ORCHESTRE
(Rough Trade/Montreal, Quebec)
(members of THE ARCADE FIRE )
www.bellorchestre.com
SNAILHOUSE
http://www.snailhousemusic.com
THE GLOWFRIENDS
(Kalamazoo)
http://www.myspace.com/glowfriendsnet
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
KRAFTBRAU BREWERY
402 E Kalamazoo Ave
Kalamazoo, MI
(269) 384-0288
www.kraftbraubrewery.com
http://www.myspace.com/kraftbrau
9PM Doors 10PM Show
$10.00
18 & Over
Buy Tickets Online at www.kraftbraubrewery.com
Tickets also available directly at
Kraftbrau Brewery
and at
Vertigo Music
129 S. Division Ave. Grand Rapids, MI
http://www.myspace.com/blackjack_productions
http://www.myspace.com/valentinebooking
Buy Tickets Online
At The Kraftbrau
& Vertigo Music
129 S. Division Ave. Grand Rapids, MI
Rocket Star Café- Kalamazoo
The Bell Orchestre was born in an old dance studio in central Montreal. As dancers ran, froze and crashed into each other and footsteps echoed in our ears the music began to create itself, painting landscapes and underscoring bodies, communicating through powerful, wordless gestures…
The band spent two years among the dancers, and when the time came to fly away, the music continued to evolve and exude intangible, physical qualities. Bell Orchestre impacts the body and the emotions, evoking images, vast open spaces, movement and conflict, while retaining in the music a delicate intimacy and a raw ferocity that is completely unique. It taps into the acoustic delicacy of chamber music, the urgency and volume of post punk and rock, and the intricacy of contemporary electronic music.
Often drawing comparisons to film music, perhaps this band is not so much creating the soundtracks to movies, but rather inventing a musical meeting place for a century's worth of city ghosts, weather patterns and shifting architecture.
The Bell Orchestre is made of strings, bells, horns, drums, stethoscopes, samples and quiet noise. Their live performances soothe, excite and soar.
The band is: Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) on upright bass/keyboard/percussion, Sarah Neufeld (Arcade Fire) on violin, Stefan Schneider (IKS) on drums/percussion, Pietro Amato (Torngat) on French horn/electronics, and Kaveh Nabatian on Trumpet/Melodica, with Mike Feurstack (Wooden Stars/ Snailhouse) playing Lap Steel Guitar on happy occasions.
If you like these other folks you will most definitely like the Bell Orchestre: Kronos Quartet, Aphex Twin, Penguin Café Orchestra, Autechre, Rachel's, Arvo Part, Red Snapper
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SUNDAY APRIL 16th
8:30 Doors
9:30 Show Begins
$8
JOHN VANDERSLICE
Carefully Crafted Indie-Pop from the golden gates of San Francisco. John Vanderslice returns to Kalamazoo for another show stopping performance.
CRYSTAL SKULLS
Just one year ago, Crystal Skulls released their debut, Blocked Numbers. Listeners got smart and stylish songs nestled comfortably into the folds and corners of various timeframes and musical movements. The band delivered a thoughtful, eloquent, and singular record and toured extensively, playing the tunes with good and feisty intentions to those that came to listen.
The band will be touring throughout the year in support of the record. You'll love it if you come.
Links:
www.johnvanderslice.com
www.crystalskullsonline.com
www.barsuk.com
www.suicidesqueeze.net
Buy Tickets Online
At The Kraftbrau
Vertigo Music- 129 S. Division Ave. Grand Rapids
Rocket Star Café- Kalamazoo
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BLACK JACK PRODUCTIONS presents
An Evening Of Jazz And Improvised Music With
THE REMPIS PERCUSSION QUARTET
(482 Music/Chicago/members of The Vandermark 5, Triage and more!)
http://www.482music.com/ http://www.482music.com/albums/482-1046.html
featuring:
DAVE REMPIS : saxophones
ANTON HATWICH : bass
TIM DAISY : drums
FRANK ROSALY : drums
"The name of Dave Rempis's latest group is fair warning: never before has the local saxophonist led a band that hit this hard. Bassist Anton Hatwich provides a stable fulcrum with his thrumming, insistent vamps, around which drummers Frank Rosaly and Tim Daisy, both on ! trap sets, play a dynamic array of swinging beats, interlocking Latin motifs, martial cadences, and nuanced, meterless textures. Even at full throttle the two drummers mesh precisely, despite their divergent styles: Rosaly's is fluid and sinuous, busy with double- kick flutters, while Daisy's is more spiky and agitated. Rempis sketches keening alto and tenor lines across the surface, taking a more overtly melodic tack than he does in Triage or his free-improv quartet with Jim Baker. At other times he switches to baritone and plunges down into the ensemble's dense and surging rhythms, using his horn like yet another percussion instrument--and it's then I start thinking this might be the best new jazz band in town. The set I caught a couple weeks ago at Hotti Biscotti created an unstoppable momentum with its seamless transitions, opening with a polyrhythmic whirlwind worthy of late- 60s Pharoah Sanders and building from there." - Bill Meyer, Chicago Reader
Saturday, April 15, 2006
KRAFTBRAU BREWERY
402 E Kalamazoo Ave
Kalamazoo, MI
(269) 384-0288
www.kraftbraubrewery.com
http://www.myspace.com/kraftbrau
9PM Doors 10PM Show
18 & Over $6.00
http://www.myspace.com/blackjack_productions
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VALENTINE PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS
Sunday April 2 nd
Arab Strap
From Scotland
A Whisper in the Noise
$10 Advance $12 Day of Show
Tickets Available
Buy Tickets Online
At The Kraftbrau
& Vertigo Records
129 S. Division Ave, Grand Rapids
Rocket Star Café- Kalamazoo
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Saturday March 25
Mondale!
Dr.Xeron & The Moogulators
Helles-Dostoevsky
9pm - $5
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VALENTINE PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS
THE WEDDING PRESENT
With
Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves
Saturday March 11
9pm
$10 Advance $12 Day of Show
The Wedding Present was, and is, one of the most influential and successful indie bands in Britain. Active from 1986 to 1996, the band, fronted by songwriter and only constant member David Gedge, had seventeen Top 40 UK hit singles, patronage by the late renowned DJ John Peel, and acclaimed albums released on RCA/BMG, Island, and Cooking Vinyl. Among other notable achievements, the band had twelve chart singles - one each month -- in 1992, equaling Elvis' 35-year-old British record for "most hits in one year.
Buy Tickets Online
At Kraftbrau
& Vertigo Music
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7th
DAVE DONDERO
FRANK FUZZ
$7
9pm Doors
10pm Show
Considering everywhere Dave Dondero has traveled, it's not surprising that geography permeates his songs. From Miami, Florida to Ely, Nevada, Dondero connects the highway lines into a collection of literate, impressionistic, folk-blues mini-epics. Conjuring the spirit of Henry Miller coming to terms with his homeland in The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Don | | |
THE HEX BOMBS 
