Calvin Johnson & The Sons Of The Soil available @ K.

K Records founder and the driving force behind The Go Team // Beat Happening // Dub Narcotic Sound System // Halo Benders // The Hive Dwellers will be performing at Heaven Gallery in Chicago on September 22.
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City Center (Fred Thomas and Ryan Howard, bandmates from Saturday Looks Good To Me) will be playing The Bakery in Chicago on September 23 after recently releasing their own self-titled debut.

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Old Time Relijun - “Siren” Live @Subterranean in Chicago from Chad Paulson on Vimeo.

More updates soon, promise.

Head on over to the Dub Narcotic Dot Org Vimeo Channel for the latest in basement garbage-can rock video (see Monotonix). I will be updating the YouTube channel sometime soon.

Calvin Johnson @ The Co-Prosperity Sphere (2/12/08)

Old Time Relijun @ Subterranean (3/19/08)

Karl Blau @ Ronny’s (3/22/08)

Monotonix @ Empty Bottle (3/28/08)

Calvin Johnson, Mahjongg, and Waterbabies are scheduled to perform at the Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago this coming Tuesday, February 12th. Calvin will then go on tour (sans Mahjongg / Waterbabies) through February, dates below.

Feb 12, 2008 - Chicago, Illinois
The Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S. Morgan St.,

Feb 14, 2008 - New York, New York
New York University, Shorin Hall

Feb 15, 2008 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square

Feb 16, 2008 - Providence, Rhode Island
The Underground, Faunce House, 75 Waterman Street

Feb 17, 2008 - New York, New York
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery

Feb 18, 2008 - Brooklyn, New York
Lutheran Church of the Messiah, 129 Russell St (at Nassau, Greenpoint, Brooklyn G-Nassau or L-Graham)

Feb 23, 2008 - Grinnell, Iowa
Grinnell College-Gardner Lounge, 1121 6th Ave. & East St

Feb 24, 2008 - Omaha, Nebraska
The Waiting Room, 6212 Maple Street

Feb 25, 2008 - Lincoln, Nebraska
Box Awesome, 801 O Street

Feb 26, 2008 - Denver, Colorado
Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer Street

Feb 27, 2008 - Salt Lake City, Utah
Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West)

Feb 28, 2008 - Boise, Idaho
Neurolux, 111 North 11th Street

Feb 29, 2008 - Seattle, Washington
The Vera Project - Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St.

Tags: calvin johnson, chicago, dub narcotic, k records, mahjongg, tour, waterbabies

Chicago’s Mahjongg, who I had the pleasure of seeing tonight @ The Empty Bottle as “Waterbabies”, will be touring in January before they release their K debut, “Kontpab”, in February according to paste magazine.

Tags: calvin johnson, chicago, empty bottle, kontpab, krecords, krecs, mahjongg, waterbabies

I was stuck indoors this weekend due to a flu / cold thing, so I decided to make a stop-motion crayonimation video for Old Time Relijun’s “Daemon Meeting”, enjoy.

Tags: old time relijun, daemon meeting, catharsis in crisis, k records, krecs, calvin johnson, crayons, devil, animation, stop motion, chad paulson, chicago, steve fisk, coloring

We recently started a Vimeo channel which will contain all things K on Vimeo. Please subscribe if you are a Vimeo member. Although YouTube will remain our primary venue for videos (particuarly full-length shows), our Vimeo channel will always debut our Dub Narcotic Video Singles series before they air on YouTube, as the videos on Vimeo are of higher quality.

The Dub Narcotic Video Singles series are exerpts and highlights of previously uploaded full-length shows from our YouTube channel. Below is a list of the first batch of video singles.

1) The Blow - “The Long List of Girls”
2) Saturday Looks Good To Me - “Money In the Afterlife”
3) Old Time Relijun - “Cold Water”
4) Karl Blau - “Mockingbird Diet”

The videos in the singles series will appear on YouTube a week or so after we upload them to Vimeo.

Tags: the blow, saturday looks good to me, old time relijun, karl blau, k records, krecs, chicago, vimeo, youtube, video

Karl Blau and Your Heart Breaks played a great show last night at The Hideout. It was the record release part for Karl’s new CD called “AM” on Whistler Records (a new Chicago label). They put out the Slow Down Joe b/w Lake King Daughter 7″ that you can get from the K Mail Order Dept (on the back it shows a different label name, but they changed it to Whistler recently).

Anyway, it was a really fun show. I bought all three of the CDs available from Your Heart Breaks, they are really good. I also picked up Karl’s new CD and it is also wonderful. It should be coming out in January. I’m going to see if I can help the Whistler guys out, you might be able to buy it online sooner, more on that later.

Your Heart Breaks

Karl Blau

Tags: chicago, hideout, karl blau, your heart breaks