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Coming Up This Week – Beach House, NOISE, The Hold Steady and More!

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Here’s some stuff for this week:

Wednesday:

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Spirit of ’68 presents…

Beach House
w/
Tammar
@The John Waldron Arts Center
Wednesday, April 1st
9pm
$12
All Ages

Or if Beach House isn’t your fancy…

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Spirit of ’68 presents…

Drakkar Sauna
w/
Busman’s Holiday
Thousand Arrows
@Bear’s Place
Wednesday, April 1
10pm
$6
21+

Thursday:

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NOISE:
Found Objects
w/
Adeptive Radiation
Officer Deaf
Mindfreak With Mr. Flannelly & Associated Esteemed Colleagues
@Indiana Memorial Union Gallery
Thursday, April 2
8pm
FREE

This show should be kickass. Found Objects are one of my favorite local bands and I would recommend seeing them whenever you can. Nicole over at HipsterSpinster wrote a great article chronicling the band so check that out as well.

Saturday:

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Spirit of ’68 presents…

The Hold Steady
w/
The War On Drugs
Saturday, April 4th
@Jake’s Nightclub & Bar
8pm
21+

So that’s your week! Another great one from the looks of it. And next week there is even more good stuff including Live from Bloomington Club Night and Dinosaur Jr. Life is good, right?

This Weekend – Ladybug Transistor, We Are Hex, and We Just Call It Roulette V.2

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After checking out the free NOISE show tonight, this weekend has a ton of options for your viewing/listening pleasure. Here are just a few:

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Spirit of ’68 Promotions presents…

The Ladybug Transistor
w/
The Delicious
Friday, March 27
@Bear’s Place
10pm
$6
21+

Or if you are underage/prefer sweaty basements and didn’t get enough of We Are Hex on Thursday…

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Photo by Austin Warnock

Bands + Beerthday at the Clinic
Featuring:
We Are Hex
Resting Rooster
Grandchildren
Rad Racket
Skin Mags
Friday, March 27
@The Clinic (9th and Washington)
10pm
FREE
All Ages (I mean, it’s a house show)


Saturday:

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Spirit of ’68 Promotions Presents…

We Just Call It Roulette V.2 CD Release Show
Featuring:
Medusa
Child Bite
Beyond Things (formerly Ephemeroptera)
Saturday, March 28
@Russian Recording (1021 S. Walnut)
9pm
6$ (includes the compilation CD)
All Ages

Some information about the compilation from Facebook:

“The new CD contains 13 tracks, including 3 exclusive recordings from Child Bite (detroit), Valina (austria) and The Cover Band (members of wesh, the coke dares, push-pull and magnolia electric company). Other bands appearing on the compilation:

Medusa
Beyond Things
Defiance, OH
Prizzy Prizzy Please
Kentucky Nightmare
Sump Pumps
Trio In Stereo
Everthus The Deadbeats
Lafcadio
Sheasby Matiure and the Mbira Queens

Altough there is entirely new artwork (by Shawn Knight of Child Bite), the packaging is still the same… letter pressed, die cut, silk screened and hand numbered in a match book box with magnetic snaps.

The cost of $6 gets you admission and includes a copy of the CD. If you cannot make the show, the compilations will be available at Landlocked and TD’s for $7.”

This should be a great show. Medusa is supposed to be pretty brutal.

There is also a “secret” show on Friday night that is technically a surprise so I might be there snapping some photos but I can’t announce it now…so stay tuned.

Big Shows in Your Near Future

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Spirit of ’68 Promotions just unleashed some more huge shows on the public, so here’s a preview of the coming months. I’m only posting the biggest ones, and obviously I will say more as the shows draw closer.

This one is on Thursday!

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Spirit of ’68 Promotions and the BCT present…

Bonnie Prince Billy
w/
Begushkin
Thursday, March 12th
8pm
@The Buskirk-Chumley Theater
$15 adv/$20 door
All Ages

And then right after SXSW…

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Spirit of ’68 Promotions presents…

Ra Ra Riot
w/
Passion Pit
Cut Off Your Hands
@The John Waldron Arts Center (note that this has moved from The Cinemat)
Tuesday, March 24th
9pm
$10 advance/$12 door
All Ages

If you would rather hear west coast gangster rap instead of indie rock that night, you are covered…

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BFA Entertainment and Spirit of ’68 Promotions present…

The Game
w/
Nipsey Hussle
Clyde Carson
@ Jake’s Nightclub
Tuesday, March 24th
9pm
$25 adv/$28 door
21+

April Fool’s Day – however, this is not a joke

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Spirit of ’68 Promotions presents…

Beach House
@The John Waldron Arts Center
Wednesday, April 1st
9pm
$12
All Ages

A few days later…

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Spirit of ’68 Promotions presents…

The Hold Steady
w/
The War On Drugs
@Jake’s Nightclub
Saturday, April 4th
8pm
21+

These shows are only a slice of what is to come, but I think they are a prettty damn big slice…of awesome.

Capillary Action and Racebannon @The Cinemat Wednesday

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Spirit of ’68 Promotions and The Cinemat proudly present…

Capillary Action
w/
Racebannon
Basilica
Push-Pull
@The Cinemat
Wednesday, March 4, 8pm
$5, All Ages

I will be stuck in the darkroom tomorrow night, but that doesn’t mean that you kids can’t go out and party. I have actually never seen any of these bands although I have to say that Racebannon intrigues me and I like some of their stuff. I’m not sure quite what the vibe of this show will be, considering Push-Pull is playing an acoustic set and I haven’t heard any of the other bands besides Racebannon. I can’t imagine Racebannon playing acoustic anything. But check it out for yourself!

Blk Jks To Play a Free Show at Jake’s!

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I just got back from the Explorers Club show, and all I have to say is…Johnny B. Goode. A good end to my three day run at The Cinemat.

So many great shows are coming up so I will try to announce them in a timely fashion. This one is going to be great and is happening tomorrow/today/Monday. And…it’s free. That’s right, free.

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Spirit of ’68 Presents…

Blk Jks
w/
Tammar
Push Pull
@Jake’s, 21+
Monday, March 2nd
10pm
FREE!!!

The show was originally at The Cinemat which would have made my Cinemat run an epic four days long, but alas, it was not to be. My guess would be that the show got too big. It’s going to be a good one. Check out the last time I saw Blk Jks at The Statehouse, or when I saw Tammar at NOISE.

The Explorers Club @The Cinemat Tonight!

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Spirit of ’68 Promotions Presents…

The Explorers Club
w/ Busman’s Holiday (orchestrated)
@The Cinemat
Sunday, March 1st
9pm
$8
All ages

Well it looks like I’ll be chilling at The Cinemat for a third straight night. Explorers Club are a team of devilish harmonizers who are signed to Bloomington indie label Dead Oceans. Everybody says they sound like The Beach Boys and I won’t argue. Although, I will say that they sound more like Pet Sounds Beach Boys, rather than Smiley Smile Beach Boys. Either way they sound great and I highly recommend their first (and only) album, Freedom Wind (listen free here). Here’s a video from their MySpace…it’s not serious…nor should it be. I’ll see you at The Cinemat…again.

Vegetables Are Gangsta – dead prez on Wednesday

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Spirit of ’68 presents…

dead prez
Wednesday February 25th
w/The Mudkids
@ The Buskirk Chumley Theater
8pm
$15
All Ages

Cool. I got into dead prez a little while after RBG came out. I was really into Rage Against the Machine and Public Enemy for a while, so these guys were right up my alley. It’s political. It’s philosophical. It’s hip hop. They have two albums out now with another due soon. Their second album, RBG is a little more violent and straightforward than Let’s Get Free. Let’s Get Free is one of the best hip hop albums I’ve ever heard. It’s got hooks, lyrics, and it definitely has a message. It plays like some kind of hip hop/socialist manifesto. It covers everything from the government to psychology to discipline to sociological philosophy. Oh, and Prodigy from Mobb Deep raps about vegetables. If you’ve never heard dead prez before (and I know you have, Dave Chappelle used the Hip-Hop instrumental at the beginning of every show) then I recommend at least listening to Let’s Get Free. If nothing else, check out Hip-Hop and the Animal Farmesque track Animal in Man. Then go to the show because supposedly they sometimes hand out apples to the audience (so they will eat healthy?). So I guess apples are gangsta too.