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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
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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
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Events
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- MEAT PUPPETS
Otto's Night Club
Tomorrow, November 11 at 8:00pm - OK Go
Otto's Nightclub
Friday, November 13 at 9:00pm - Thrice
Chubby Rain's House Of Tunes
Tuesday, November 17 at 6:50pm - The Univserity of Phoenix Pres...
The House Cafe
Tuesday, November 17 at 7:00pm - The Academy Is
Chubby Rain House Of Tunes
Thursday, November 19 at 7:00pm - The Devil Wears Prada
Mad Maggies
Friday, November 20 at 7:00pm - INEPT FAREWELL SHOW!!!!
The House Cafe
Saturday, November 21 at 6:00pm - Minus the Bear
Otto's Nightclub
Saturday, November 21 at 9:00pm - Ottos Family Thanksgiving!
Otto's Nightclub
Wednesday, November 25 at 6:45pm - Company of Thieves
Otto's Nightclub
Sunday, November 29 at 7:00pm
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.
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6PM - http://www.yourticketstand.com/
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
@ 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
BUY TICKETS
6PM - http://www.yourticketstand.com/
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!
Source: www.facebook.com
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!
Source: www.youtube.com
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.
Help spread the word! RSVP and invite your friends
BUY TICKETS
http://www.yourticketstand.com/tickets/1
LINKS
Birds of Avalon | http://www.myspace.com/birdsofavalon
Great Influence Machine | http://www.myspace.com/thegreatinfluence
Directions l http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s
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.
Help spread the word! RSVP and invite your friends
BUY TICKETS
http://www.yourticketstand.com/tickets/1
LINKS
Birds of Avalon | http://www.myspace.com/birdsofavalon
Great Influence Machine | http://www.myspace.com/thegreatinfluence
Directions l http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s
Tues. Oct. 13th @ Ottos Nightclub
Time:9:00PM Tuesday, October 13th
Location:Ottos Nightclub
KickstandProductions Smoking Popes are soundchecking right now! It is fantastic. 9pm. Ottos! Be there!!!!
KickstandProductions big announcements! The Devil Wears Prada - Nov. 20th @ Victory Sports Complex / Thursday & Dillinger Escape Plan - Dec. 9th @ Chubby Rain & Anberlin - Nov. 2nd @ Chubby Rain
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MON. NOV 2ND
@ CHUBBY RAIN HOUSE OF TUNES
4210 Countryside Estates Dr.- Poplar Grove
7PM-AA-$14
ANBERLIN
w/ Action Madison & Scarlett
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
http://www.yourticketstand.com/tickets/1
Hailing from Orlando, FL, Anberlin formed from the ashes of various other area projects, including the Christian punk outfit SaGo...h (Servants After God\'s Own Heart). Led by the soaring vocals of Stephen Christian, the positive-thinking Anberlin also included Joseph Milligan (guitar), Nathan Young (drums), Joey Bruce (guitar), and Deon Rexroat (bass), and presented an alternative pop/rock sound that, while inflected with the earnestness of emo, was closer to the mature stylings of Third Eye Blind. A five-song demo landed Anberlin the attention of the Seattle-based indie label Tooth & Nail, which signed the group in 2002. Blueprints for the Black Market marked the band\'s debut in May 2003, and Anberlin supported the album with shows alongside groups like Fall Out Boy and Story of the Year. Second guitarist Nathan Strayer later joined the lineup, and Anberlin returned in February 2005 with Never Take Friendship Personal. Their third record, Cities, appeared two years later and debuted at number 19 on the Billboard charts; soon after its release, however, Strayer made his exit and was replaced by former Acceptance guitarist Christian McAlhaney. 2008\'s New Surrender saw the retooled band joining the roster of Universal Republic Records and enlisting the help of Neal Avron, who had formerly produced records for Fall Out Boy, Yellowcard, and New Found Glory. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide
Help spread the word! RSVP and invite your friends
BUY TICKETS
http://www.yourticketstand.com/tickets/1
LINKS
Anberlin | http://www.myspace.com/anberlin
Directions l http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s
@ CHUBBY RAIN HOUSE OF TUNES
4210 Countryside Estates Dr.- Poplar Grove
7PM-AA-$14
ANBERLIN
w/ Action Madison & Scarlett
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
http://www.yourticketstand.com/tickets/1
Hailing from Orlando, FL, Anberlin formed from the ashes of various other area projects, including the Christian punk outfit SaGo...h (Servants After God\'s Own Heart). Led by the soaring vocals of Stephen Christian, the positive-thinking Anberlin also included Joseph Milligan (guitar), Nathan Young (drums), Joey Bruce (guitar), and Deon Rexroat (bass), and presented an alternative pop/rock sound that, while inflected with the earnestness of emo, was closer to the mature stylings of Third Eye Blind. A five-song demo landed Anberlin the attention of the Seattle-based indie label Tooth & Nail, which signed the group in 2002. Blueprints for the Black Market marked the band\'s debut in May 2003, and Anberlin supported the album with shows alongside groups like Fall Out Boy and Story of the Year. Second guitarist Nathan Strayer later joined the lineup, and Anberlin returned in February 2005 with Never Take Friendship Personal. Their third record, Cities, appeared two years later and debuted at number 19 on the Billboard charts; soon after its release, however, Strayer made his exit and was replaced by former Acceptance guitarist Christian McAlhaney. 2008\'s New Surrender saw the retooled band joining the roster of Universal Republic Records and enlisting the help of Neal Avron, who had formerly produced records for Fall Out Boy, Yellowcard, and New Found Glory. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide
Help spread the word! RSVP and invite your friends
BUY TICKETS
http://www.yourticketstand.com/tickets/1
LINKS
Anberlin | http://www.myspace.com/anberlin
Directions l http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s
Monday November 2nd at Chubby Rain House of Tunes
Time:7:00PM Monday, November 2nd
Location:Chubby Rain House of Tunes
KickstandProductions
Fri. Oct. 23rd
The House Cafe
263 E. Lincoln Hwy.
DeKalb, IL 60115
$15 adv / $17 dos // all ages
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
SKELETONWITCH
TOXIC HOLOCAUST
TRAP THEM
The Black Dahlia Murder immediately established themselves at the forefront of the then-burgeoning U.S. metal scene when they released their full-length Metal Blade deb...ut Unhallowed in June 2003. The release of that critically lauded album, however, was only the beginning of an epic journey that would find this Detroit, Michigan, quintet dealing with personnel issues (founding member drummer Cory Grady was replaced by Zach Gibson) and a nonstop touring itinerary that kept them on the road for nearly two years playing with bands as diverse as The Red Chord, Arch Enemy, Napalm Death and Terror. But those experiences ultimately had a profound effect on their latest Metal Blade release, Miasma. \"The road has been what really made Miasma what it is,\" vocalist Trevor Strnad confesses. \"Much of the content here is a direct result of our experience in the band.\"
It is no surprise, then, that Miasma reflects the insanity of life on the road for five guys, barely over the legal drinking age, who were playing an endless string of shows across North America and Europe. \"It\'s quite a bit more personal lyrically, ranging from anthems of cheap sex and drug use to more classic Black Dahlia Murder horror style,\" says Strnad. \"I\'ve tried to reinvent BDM lyrically here. It\'s still dark. It\'s still really evil shit.\"
Strnad’s growth as a lyricist is just one of the ways the band expanded its sound on Miasma. Guitarist Brian Eschbach contributed more to the writing process while his counterpart John Kempainen wrote and played solos for every track. As a result, The Black Dahlia Murder--rounded out by bassist Dave Lock--have created an album that reflects the bonds cemented by the band\'s two-year odyssey. Recorded and co-produced with the band by Scarlet drummer Andreas Magnusson at Planet Red Studio in Richmond, Virginia, Miasma is a deadly reinvention of The Black Dahlia Murder\'s nefariously nasty melodic death metal sound. It is a sound that Kempainen simply describes as \"more pissed off.\" Strnad sees other improvements, as well, however. \"The new songs are much heavier than anything on Unhallowed,\" he declares. \"We were making a conscious effort to challenge ourselves as players and give each song an identity of its own. And the addition of Zach has enabled us as a unit to write more complex and interesting arrangements.\"
Help spread the word! RSVP and invite your friends
BUY TICKETS
http://www.yourticketstand.com/tickets/1
LINKS
Black Dahlia Murder | http://www.myspace.com/blackdahliamurder
Skeletonwitch | http://www.myspace.com/skeletonwitch
Toxic Holocaust | http://www.myspace.com/toxicholocaust
Trap Them | http://www.myspace.com/trapthem
DIRECTIONS l http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s
The House Cafe
263 E. Lincoln Hwy.
DeKalb, IL 60115
$15 adv / $17 dos // all ages
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
SKELETONWITCH
TOXIC HOLOCAUST
TRAP THEM
The Black Dahlia Murder immediately established themselves at the forefront of the then-burgeoning U.S. metal scene when they released their full-length Metal Blade deb...ut Unhallowed in June 2003. The release of that critically lauded album, however, was only the beginning of an epic journey that would find this Detroit, Michigan, quintet dealing with personnel issues (founding member drummer Cory Grady was replaced by Zach Gibson) and a nonstop touring itinerary that kept them on the road for nearly two years playing with bands as diverse as The Red Chord, Arch Enemy, Napalm Death and Terror. But those experiences ultimately had a profound effect on their latest Metal Blade release, Miasma. \"The road has been what really made Miasma what it is,\" vocalist Trevor Strnad confesses. \"Much of the content here is a direct result of our experience in the band.\"
It is no surprise, then, that Miasma reflects the insanity of life on the road for five guys, barely over the legal drinking age, who were playing an endless string of shows across North America and Europe. \"It\'s quite a bit more personal lyrically, ranging from anthems of cheap sex and drug use to more classic Black Dahlia Murder horror style,\" says Strnad. \"I\'ve tried to reinvent BDM lyrically here. It\'s still dark. It\'s still really evil shit.\"
Strnad’s growth as a lyricist is just one of the ways the band expanded its sound on Miasma. Guitarist Brian Eschbach contributed more to the writing process while his counterpart John Kempainen wrote and played solos for every track. As a result, The Black Dahlia Murder--rounded out by bassist Dave Lock--have created an album that reflects the bonds cemented by the band\'s two-year odyssey. Recorded and co-produced with the band by Scarlet drummer Andreas Magnusson at Planet Red Studio in Richmond, Virginia, Miasma is a deadly reinvention of The Black Dahlia Murder\'s nefariously nasty melodic death metal sound. It is a sound that Kempainen simply describes as \"more pissed off.\" Strnad sees other improvements, as well, however. \"The new songs are much heavier than anything on Unhallowed,\" he declares. \"We were making a conscious effort to challenge ourselves as players and give each song an identity of its own. And the addition of Zach has enabled us as a unit to write more complex and interesting arrangements.\"
Help spread the word! RSVP and invite your friends
BUY TICKETS
http://www.yourticketstand.com/tickets/1
LINKS
Black Dahlia Murder | http://www.myspace.com/blackdahliamurder
Skeletonwitch | http://www.myspace.com/skeletonwitch
Toxic Holocaust | http://www.myspace.com/toxicholocaust
Trap Them | http://www.myspace.com/trapthem
DIRECTIONS l http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s
Fri. Oct. 23rd @ The House Cafe
Time:7:00PM Friday, October 23rd
Location:The House Cafe
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