Kalcun: the Spring Break of House Shows
By Jess Kwiatkowski On Saturday, March 10, I arrived in Kalamazoo for the 8th Annual Kalcun. The title is a play on popular vacation destination Cancun, of course. A perfectly ironic name for an [Read more...]
tim. Talks Wrestling and New Releases
tim. is a band with a single first name just like Prince, Cher and Satan. They don’t give a shit about last names, capital letters, or punctuation because they’re too busy thumping the bejesus out of [Read more...]
The Death of the Death House
THE DEATH OF THE DEATH HOUSE Ft. Dante Cope X Belve By Guadalupe Olgine Jr. The Death House. You know, that dingy, dark and raw but unequivocally most popular underground GR music venue that [Read more...]
SkipFiction Radio – ep. 1
John and Schyler are back at it again with a show promo podcast for our 6/23/18 show at Green Acres (reach out for address). Lamont Arrington will be performing some poems and spoken word with some [Read more...]
Is Lacroix Saying “bye bye” to Michigan?
Recently contributor Zac Abid reached out to folk-pop and comic artist Lacroix Winget after the release of their latest album and single, "bye bye" and "am I doing ok??," respectively. Read on about [Read more...]
A Walk With Jeff Martin
Last fall, Andy Warhol had been dead for thirty years, eight months, and thirty days when Jeff Martin and I examined the timeline on the wall of the Grand Rapids Art Museum. It prefaced their exhibit [Read more...]
Novice Premier “Big Country” Music Video
The Grand Rapids based post-hardcore quintet Novice come across as anything but new to their craft in their first music video which they just released. Their track "Big Country" clocks in at just [Read more...]
AOTA Hip Hop Academy’s “Be the Change” Week Begins TONIGHT.
All of the Above Hip Hop Academy, a collection of artists, wordsmiths, emcees, producers, and more, is a crew based on Ozay Moore's drive to be responsible with one’s position of influence in society, [Read more...]
SkipFiction Podcast Ep. 1: Andrew W. K.
Our first podcast episode! Take a listen to co-editor John Akers interviewing Andrew W. K., who is performing at the Pyramid Scheme May 10th. John gets a call from Andrew W. K., and they talk [Read more...]