Announcements

WIDR Dance Party

Arthur — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:55:34 -0500

Start: Feb 23 2007 - 9:00pm

End: Feb 24 2007 - 2:00am

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Location: Kraftbrau

Description: WIDR Week Dance Party — it’s a sock hop, with disk jockeys playing pre-recorded music. Nothing boring, like just throwing on a CD and walking away. No! They will “mix” various songs by various artists, “on the fly!” Featuring “DJs” Bat Guano, Richard Bowser, Brad Miller, Jason Hall, Matt Dorbin, Justin Robertson, and DIrty Dub.

This is to raise funds for WIDR FM, so the DJs can keep doing their thing hidden inside a studio somewhere, instead of in view of the grimy intoxicated public.

IMPORTANT! The music starts exactly at 9 p.m. DON’T Dawdle!

Eccentric dress is not required, but is encouraged.

Leppotone New Year's Eve Dance Party

Nathan — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:13:56 -0500

Start: Dec 31 2006 - 10:00pm

End: Jan 1 2007 - 3:00am

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Location: Kraftbrau Brewery, Kalamazoo, MI

Description:

The Leppotone Social Aid and Pleasure Club proudly announces a New Year’s Eve Dance Party at the illustrious Kraftbrau Brewery of Kalamazoo.

In honor of The Year 007, this year’s theme is Swinging Carnaby Street! Mod madness!

A measly $10 cover at the door is your ticket to all manner of hoopla, surprises and excitement, including complementary food and a loud, shiny surprise at midnight.

Beloved WIDR FM DJs Richard Bowser, Tim “Hail To The Chimp” Hayden and the mysterious Bat Guano will be on-hand to spin dance-happy sides between live performances by Nobody’s Favorite and The Sinatras.

If you’re looking for guaranteed fun and foolishness to signal the end of 2006, look no further. The party lasts from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. See you there!

Vital info:

Date: December 31, 2006. 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.

Location: Kraftbrau Brewery
402 East Kalamazoo Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
(269) 384-0288

Action: 2 LIVE BANDS
Nobody’s Favorite: Besides being some of the nicest dudes in town, this high-energy, hard-rocking outfit knows how to put on a danged show! You can check them out at their Internet home or on MySpace.

The Sinatras: Part of the local scene since 1985, The Sinatras defy easy classification. They write great songs, perform with awesome fury, and are beloved local legends. What more reason do you need to spend New Years with them?! Visit The Sinatras

You can enjoy a nice interview with the band at Glorious Noise.

3 WIDR DJs past and present:
Richard Bowser, Tim Hayden, and Bat Guano

FOOD, FUN, AND LOTS OF SURPRISES!

Cost: $10 (beer/wine tab not included)

T-Snakes w/The Sinatras!

Tree — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:23:46 -0500

Start: Dec 3 2006 - 5:00pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Location: Kraftbrau Brewery, Kalamazoo

Description:

T-Snakes reunion show w/The Sinatras!

5PM-ish, Sunday December 3rd @ Kraftbrau Brewery.

Eat absorbent foods early, then come soak your ears and belly at the 'Brau, Bro!

Catch Sounds In Space on your way home to watch The Simpsons.

New Real People: Surprise Show!

Nathan — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:39:27 -0400

Start: Oct 30 2006 - 10:00pm

End: Oct 31 2006 - 2:00am

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Location: Kraftbrau Brewery, Kalamazoo MI

Description:

New Real People Sunset

Please join the New Real People in a surprise show at the Kraftbrau Brewery in Kalamazoo, Michigan on October 30 2006. We know it's a week night, but it will be a Halloween-sort-of-thing, so make the scene if you can.

We will be performing songs from our soon-to-be-released album. We will meet or exceed your expectations or we'll give you DOUBLE your money back.

The EVENS

Nathan — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:02:34 -0400

Start: Oct 11 2006 - 8:00pm

End: Oct 11 2006 - 10:00pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Location: Woodward Elementary

Description: Do not miss this show.

The EVENS from Washington DC/Dischord Records
(Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and Minor Threat and Amy Farina of The Warmers)

Wednesday, October 11th 2006
at WOODWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!

606 Stuart Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49001

8pm Doors
Show starts 8:30 sharp
$5
Bring yer kids! Kids under 12 are free
All Ages
No alcohol
No drugs
No smoking
All is welcome
Leave your bad attitude at the door.

The Proposition

redstarwraith — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:34:22 -0400

Start: Sep 15 2006 - 11:30am

End: Sep 17 2006 - 11:30pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Location: WMU's Little Theatre

Description: At last! The movie, "The Proposition" that Nick Cave wrote the screenplay for is here. All hail the little theatre at WMU!

WIDR S&M Sock Hop For the Art Hop at the SMART SHOP

Arthur — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:28:09 -0400

Start: Sep 1 2006 - 6:00pm

End: Sep 1 2006 - 11:59pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Location: SMART Shop

Description: See paintings by Fred Zimlick as WIDR DJs Dirty Dub, Richard Bowser and Bat Guano spank your ear-holes with records and CDs. Featuring a special guest appearance by Crawlspace Eviction. Who knows when who will be on… Stay tuned for further information. FREE! Wear your leather.

Leppotone Karaoke Overdrive VIII

Nathan — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:22:42 -0400

Start: Nov 25 2006 - 9:00pm

End: Nov 26 2006 - 2:00am

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Location: Kraftbrau Brewery, Kalamazoo, MI

Description: Karaoke Massage

Dear Leppotone Family,

Y'all are more than cordially invited to the Leppotone Karaoke Show 2006. Again, the fabulous Leppotone Karaoke Overdrive will take the stage at nine PM and commence to tax your patience with spontaneous and non-spontaneous assortments of sounds divided by interjections of surprise and silence.

The greasy rocking chair that keeps us all glued to the weathered porch of complacency will be kicked away in a moment of Costneriffic oblivion. If you aren''t "down" with that sort of thing, then you should stay home, because at this point, we quite frankly want nothing to do with you.

If you are at all familiar with what the hell we''re putting down, you should make with the requests in a most "pronto" fashion. I am an old and busy man, and I've had more than my share of pink mint juleps this evening (more on that later). If you are not acquainted with all of this prancing tootling, then read on, my sweet parfait.

In the fall of 1990, The Sleestacks ate a second Thanksgiving dinner on the Saturday after Thanksgiving at "our" house in Ann Arbor. We ate a great deal of the spoils of the season, leftover from the feasts of our various families. We also drank a great deal of fancy red wine. This was followed by a brief nude protest downtown, where we implored the coffee-drinking dolts (no offense) off Ann Arbor to "Free Willie Nelson." For a completely unknown reason, Mr. Nelson's problems with the IRS were at the center of our drunken noodles. Every year after that, The Sleestacks held a post-Thanksgiving party. It eventually became a Leppotone Thanksgiving Party, and it grew to include all of our favorite people and their thundering dance moves, beautiful vomiting and infidelity. The last of those parties included so many people that no one was able to eat or talk or play the banjo or dance or get naked. So, we decided to move the party to a public venue, because you know how amenable neighborhood bars are to eating, talking, playing the banjo, dancing and getting naked.

Since laughter is the best medicine, we decided that a live karaoke band would be the best salve for our drunken-banjo-dancing-infidelity wounds. The Karaoke show is our once-a-year free party, and everyone is invited, even assholes. The rules are simple. You request a song and the LKO plays it.

1. Request the song in advance and be willing to sing it.
2. Request the song in advance and be willing to listen to it.
3. Request the song during the show and be willing to sing it.
4. Request the song during the show and be willing to fight anyone who disagrees with your appraisal of the Styx canon.

We think Drago may have given us brain damage. Like Mr. Balboa, our boxing days are over; however, we offer up the LKO as our own up-and-coming Tommy Gunn. These guys could be sucking down liquor at any old brass-n-fern piano bar in North America. Instead they choose here and now and you and me. Bless them and the beauty that shines forth from them and bathes us all in the unforgiving glow of an early Irish Spring.

Here's a map to the venue:

Kraftbrau Map

Here's a recipe for a Pink Mint Julep

1 kaboodle of reasonable bourbon
1 squishful of mint
1 spint of powdered sugar
2 ml. of generic Pepto-Bismol

Muddle the mint and the sugar with one drop of Kentucky tap water. Drop in enough ice to fill your glass. Add the pink. Fill with bourbon. Swish the glass around. Swish your fine ass around. Drink.

Does anyone remember how to make a Klugman? No? Well here's the recipe:

Bourbon
Some other kind of whiskey
Vermouth

Fill glass with ice from bottom of the Harvey's ice machine. Pick up bourbon with right hand, a different whiskey with the left. Pour both into glass. Add a smidge of vermouth. Stir with finger. Enjoy.

Thanks to Mr. Chris Monsma for remembering the recipe. Apparently his brain was not as damaged as mine was by the experience.

Your partner in truss repair,

Col. D.K."Wade" Leppo

The magical song request form is no longer available. Please bring any requests to the show on Saturday!

UFODictator.com Year 2: Fear The Creepah (and Hamurgah Pimp 2)

Ulysses S. Eater — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 12:59:10 -0400

Start: Jul 22 2006 - 12:51pm

End: Jul 23 2006 - 12:51pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Location: Kraftbrau

Description:

This is a show featuring bands that play rock n roll. So far this is what Blackjack (air tight brohann) and I the UFODictator.com have:

Date: Saturday July 22nd
Bands:
The Marked Men from Denton, TX
MOTO from Chicago, IL
Nobody's Favorite from Kalamazoo, MI
Throbbin' Urges from Midland, MI
Dutch Hercules One Man Band from Dutch Settlement Road, MI

Place: Kraftbrau Brewery in Kalamazoo, MI
Time: 8pm doors, 9 show
Price: $8
Master Of Ceremonies: Mickey Mac
Preshow: BBQ with Metal Teeth and X-Offender at Mickey & Nobody's Favorite HQ.
Postyshow: at Pony's place with unnamed new super group featuring The Hammer, Mustin Jiller, Dutch Heraclese and jeffthesnake.

Touch and Go Records 25th Anniversary

u1oo — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:48:21 -0400

Start: Sep 8 2006 - 4:00pm

End: Sep 10 2006 - 10:38pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Location: 1354 W. Wabansia Ave. Chicago IL

Description: Annual Hideout Block Party celebrating Touch and Go Records 25th Anniversary http://www.touchandgorecords.com/