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MINUS THE BEAR – SAT. NOV. 21ST
10 September 2009, 10:30 am |
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On Saturday, November 21st a band that we are all very excited to have at Otto’s is coming. That band is MINUS THE BEAR! If you have never seen Minus the Bear before please do yourself a favor and come to this show, you won’t regret it! Minus the Bear release Acoustic’s last year [...]
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LET’S TAKE A MOMENT
4 September 2009, 8:50 am |
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WIN TICKETS TO SEE BAYSIDE!
3 September 2009, 2:42 pm |
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ON THE RADAR :: THE MEAT PUPPETS
3 September 2009, 2:27 pm |
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ON THE RADAR :: JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT
27 August 2009, 3:09 pm |
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Events
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- Company of Thieves
Otto's Nightclub
Sunday, November 29 at 7:00pm - Veer Union
Tuesday December 8th @ The House Cafe
Tuesday, December 8 at 8:00pm - Thursday
Chubby Rain House of Tunes
Wednesday, December 9 at 7:00pm - CELEBRATE NEW YEARS EVE WITH L...
Otto's Nightclub
Thursday, December 31 at 9:10pm - THE TOSSERS
SAT. FEB. 27TH @ OTTOS NIGHTCLUB
Saturday, February 27 at 9:00pm
KickstandProductions THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA tour kickoff show @ Mad Maggies tonight! Tickets available at the door!
KickstandProductions big weekend! Thursday - The Academy Is @ Chubby Rain / Friday - The Devil Wears Prada @ Mad Maggies / Sat - Minus The Bear @ Ottos
KickstandProductions tonight MEAT PUPPETS at OTTOS w/ Geronimo & Astral Guard!!!!
KickstandProductions Hey friends! Many of you have been suggesting that we host a 'Halfway To Halloween Extravaganza' party. Would two Halloween Extravaganzas a year be too many? What do you think???
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Sat. Nov 21st
@ The House Cafe
263 E. Lincoln Hwy.
DeKalb, IL 60115
$7 // all ages // 6PM
INEPT
MADEAVAIL
VALASKA
CHARMING ROOKS
Inept is a band that brings an explosvie live show to each stage that they perform on. With over 3 years of live shows under their belts, each show now is better than the one the night before. Hailing... from Chicago, IL, Inept brings to the table only what they deem as their best. Inept has played on the 2004 and 2005 Warped Tour, the 2006 Taste of Chaos tour, Dirtfest 2006, and The Bamboozle Left in 2006. In addition, Inept has shared the stage with some of the biggest and brightest names in music today, including; The Deftones, Story of the Year, Quietdrive, TheAudition, Lucky Boys Confusion, My American Heart, Trapt, Alter Bridge, Blindside, Madina Lake, Thrice, Bowling For Soup, MC Lars, Atreyu, and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
Inept has received praise and play from Q101 (WKQX 101.1fm) in Chicago including winning the "Chicago Street Fight" constest hosted by James Van Osdol for ten nights in a row and being the first band "retired". In addition, Inept has played live acoustic sets on WONC 89.1fm and WXAV 88.7fm.
Help spread the word! RSVP and invite your friends
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LINKS
Inept | http://www.myspace.com/inept
MadeAvail | http://ww.myspace.com/madeavail
Valaska | http://www.myspace.com/valaska
Charming Rooks | http://www.myspace.com/charmingrooks
DIRECTIONS l http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s
KickstandProductions Anberlin tonight @ Chubby Rain! 7:30pm! Plenty Of Ticket Still Available!
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KickstandProductions HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA - Part V - TONIGHT! @housecafe! This Must Be The Band at Ottos! Two great options to get your Halloween jollies!
Sat. Oct. 31st @ The House Cafe
Location:The House Cafe
Time:7:00PM Saturday, October 31st
KickstandProductions Kill Hannah @ 7pm! Junk In The Trunk @ 11pm. Team Karaoke in the Underground! Ottos Nightclub, tonight. Be there!
KickstandProductions CAPTURED BY ROBOTS tonight @ Ottos! 9pm, with 'Richardson' Richardson, Super 8 Bit Bros and Egon's Unicat. You cannot miss this!
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A guy builds a bunch of robots to play in a band with him, but the robots hate him, so they capture him and make him play in their band.
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QUIETDRIVE SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1ST@The House Cafe!
Because we love you so much here is a free download from Quietdrive! http://t.opsp.in/D53
KickstandProductions Setting up for Hit The Lights tonight @housecafe ! Plenty of tickets still available. Get hurrrr early tho k ;)
KickstandProductions Michael Glabicki & Rusted Root acoustic performance tonight at Ottos!!!! 10pm...
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Tues. Oct. 13th
Otto's Nightclub
118 E. Lincoln Hwy.
DeKalb, IL 60115
$7 or $5 w/ flyer// 21+
BIRDS OF AVALON
GREAT INFLUENCE MACHINE
INFORMATION DELIVERY SERVICE
In a 1906 essay, Ernst Jentsch describes someone to whom something “uncanny” happens to as not “at home” or disoriented. He defines the word as “doubts whether an ap...parently animate being is really alive; or conversely, whether a lifeless object might be, in fact animate." Having spent the better part of the past two years on the road with the likes of The Racontuers, The Flaming Lips, Black Mountain and Ted Leo, BIRDS OF AVALON are no strangers to the sense of unsettlement that accompanies the constant traveler. BIRDS OF AVALON explore this concept of confusion with Uncanny Valley, by layering psychedelic dissonance atop lyrical themes of fugitives in the computer age, underground-dwelling children replaced by doppelgangers, and sensations of unreality.
Raleigh NC’s BIRDS OF AVALON was formed after newly-wed guitarists, Paul Siler (co-owner of famed Raleigh indie hangout, King’s Barcade) and Cheetie Kumar, split from The Cherry Valence to join forces with vocalist, Craig Tilley, and avid 4-tracker, David Mueller. They later enlisted their favorite Chapel Hill drummer and mural artist, Scott Nurkin and quickly made a name for themselves with relentless touring in support of their ’07 debut, Bazaar Bazaar, and last year’s follow-up EP, Outer Upper Inner.
BIRDS OF AVALON wrote and recorded almost two-dozen new songs during a six-month break from touring. In January, they wrapped up a more elaborate record at Mitch Easter’s Fidelitorium Studio. Following the session, the band found itself back home wanting to write and record additional material instead of getting back on the road as they usually would. After Easter, the famed producer (REM, Wilco, Pavement), generously offer to lend his 3M tape machine and some old used tape, the band borrowed the remaining equipment from friends around town and proceeded to record a second album in their basement-rehearsal space which was transformed within days to a makeshift studio.
Like assembly line workers, the band worked quickly and limited themselves to using only 15 tracks on the 16-track tape machine to try and capture the spontaneous emersion of new material. Cheetie Kumar, a Bronx transplant via India where she lived until she was 8, handled most of the engineering duties before she and Easter mixed the record down from 2” to 1/4” tape.
The band dubbed these recordings Uncanny Valley, after a theory which was introduced by Japanese roboticist, Masahiro Mori, in 1970 to describe the phenomena by which human beings become more unsettled by robots or other human facsimiles in direct proportion to how lifelike they appear. This sense of uncomfortable strangeness can sometimes develop between the creator and what they create - a sudden vertigo that arises as, in this case, a song takes on a life of it’s own. With Uncanny Valley, BIRDS OF AVALON embrace this sensation by capturing new material as it arises, taking advantage of analog limitations in today’s digital recording age.
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LINKS
Birds of Avalon | http://www.myspace.com/birdsofavalon
Great Influence Machine | http://www.myspace.com/thegreatinfluence
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