Saturday Looks Good To Me 2012 Spring Tour

Twelve years ago Saturday Looks Good To Me, Michigan pop group began, coming out of some four track recordings I made in the basement. By 2004 we were playing all the time, with a bunch of different versions of the band and all over the place. The last show before this year was in London in early June of 2008 and then things got really quiet on the SLGTM front. There was a show in early April in Michigan and on Wednesday we head out on a short tour with our friends Wild Moccasins from Houston, Texas. There's some new songs, some older ones, a brand new tour cassette with some new recordings and a chance to see this band play if you missed us in the last decade cause you hadn't gotten into the Beach Boys yet. Dates are below!

Wed 05-09 - North Manchester, IN - The Firehouse
Thurs 05-10 - Chicago, IL - Schuba's  w/  Love of Everything
Fri 05-11 - Spring Green, WI - Shitty Barn Sessions
Sat 05-12 - Champaign, IL - Mike N Molly's  w/ Anna Karenina/Anna Karina
Sun 05-13 - Lexington, KY - Cosmic Charlie's  w/ Idiot Glee
Mon 05-14 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland w/ Afternoon Naps
Tues 05-15 - Ithaca, NY - The Haunt
Wed 05-16 - New Haven, CT - BAR
Thurs 05-17 - Portland, ME - Empire  w/ Werewolf Police
Fri 05-18 - Brooklyn, NY - NYC Popfest @ Knitting Factory  w/ Cola Jet Set, Orca Team, Cat Naps this is an early gig! doors are at 6 pm and SLGTM set is at 10 pm!
Sat 05-19 - Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie w/ Pet Milk
Sun 05-20 - Ypsilanti, MI - Woodruff's w/ Body Holographic and Santa Monica Swim & Dive Club
Early gig! Doors 7 pm! ALL AGES!

* all shows with Wild Moccasins except the last one.

It Was Totally Awesome

Swimsuit jammed in a totally acoustic stylee this last weekend as part of the 8th annual Totally Awesome Fest in Ypsilanti. Prolific city blogger and parent Mark Maynard posted the above videos for our songs "Evaporation" and "Spoons" (working title) complete with Amber's pup Kuma staring down some kids for their pizza. As you can clearly see, everyone was having a lovely time.

RSDBDCC

City Center feat. Fred Thomas live @ Vertigo Music - Record Store Day 2012 from A.T. Kolkman on Vimeo.
Here is a video of my set from last weekend's Record Store Day jam in Grand Rapids. Unprepared and subdued as hell, this 10 minute set wasn't the most visually stimulating performance I've ever done, but it was fun! I was playing drums on a mini-tour with Drunken Barn Dance and this was set #4 of what ended up being nine total sets played in a five day period.

Songs: Thaw, Are You Kissing Anyone?, Obvious

All Dizawgs Go To Heaven

At the end of February Damned Dogs ventured east to do our first ever New York area gigs. Amber and I along with an accompanying Shelley left from Ypsilanti at 8pm on a Thursday night, driving all night through boring ass Pennsylvania and the snowy Poconos mountains, getting in to Harlem at 7am. It was intense, for sure, but totally worth it. We did a gig at the New Museum as part of their Get Weird music series.


 


Soft Circle jammed as well! They did a just electronics set, no drum kit. It was pretty stellar.

We recorded a new cassette just for the trip and sold most of them. It's called "Island Scars" and you can download it here.

 FRIENDS!

 ENEMIES!! (Jk, the New Museum had some really incredible work up for their trienneal.)

We also got over to Lamonte Young's DREAM HOUSE, which was a beautiful and meditative place. Loud, low tones in a mostly empty room. People sleeping, sitting, thinking, rolling, etc.  in stillness.

Next night was a house show in Brooklyn, Living Room style!!

On the way out of town we gripped food at Imhotep, an amazing vegan soul food spot in Crown Heights. Serious healing dishes!!

Walking the walk through the Ohio roadside waste-stations.

Disappearing Plaza Whale

A flyer I made for an upcoming gig in Ann Arbor that Shelley is putting on.

At Land

Been checking out filmmaker/choreographer/poet Maya Deren's work lately. Pretty amazing stuff, especially considering a lot of it was made in the early 1940's.

1994

My band from right after I graduated high school. Chore, circa winter 1994.What did this band sound like? Can you tell by the photo? Me neither.