Hey, you with the computer, listen up! There's some shows happening and I wanna tell you about 'em. Tonight, a.k.a., Monday, a.k.a., yes, 4/20, at Vibes in Broad Ripple the fourth edition of Weird Vibes will feature Shame Thugs, Normanoak (whose latest full-length I reviewed not too long ago), Duncan Kissinger, and Periodic Table Tennis.
Tuesday at the State Street Pub The Funs, Sad Horse, White Moms, and Bugg will jabber until they cannot jabber anymore after which I will take up the jabbering mantle. Do not ask me what this means. Ask me only why I included a Thee Tsunamis track in celebration of this show and I will tell you quite plainly: it is because Bugg is a brand-new band featuring members of, you guessed it, Thee Tsunamis. Wow!
Golly, what's next? Maybe a little bit of hip-hop up in Muncie? Sure, that sounds good. The L.A.M.E. crew will be joined by the likes of Indiana Chief, Diop, John Stamps, and more on Thursday night at Be Here Now. As well on Thursday you can hear The Bones of J.R. Jones, Ampersand Blues Band, and Adam Kuhn at the Melody Inn. Turns out we don't have any Ampersand Blues Band up in this here archive, but we do have heaps of other stuff featuring members of the band, including Generation Elevators the band who recorded MFT's very first EP in a Weekend way back in 2012. Dive into some straight history up in that playlist, friend.
And then, precisely in tandem, down in Bloomington on the very same Thursday, Safe Sex, Shame Thugs, and Squirming will celebrate the release of Safe Sex's latest tape. Now, of course, FYI, I the blogger am in Squirming so take this particular heads up with a grain of salt. Only a single grain though, because that Safe Sex stuff is fire and you know it's perpetual love round here for Shame Thugs. Be sure to peep their recently-posted remixed tracks courtesy of Rob Funkhouser--I dropped one in the playlist because I'm super polite.
Speaking of Rob Funkhouser, the dude is straight up playing Sam Prekop at the Joyful Noise space this Friday. Yes, that Sam Prekop! The one from The Sea and Cake and those really excellent solo modular synth records! A younger me that I've mostly forgotten about interviewed Prekop for NUVO once. The past is weird. Anyway, if you want a taste of what Funkhouser is capable of in a live setting, check out his set from a show at General Public back in March up in the playlist. I was there when he played it and it was awesome.
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