Filed under: Featured Events, Ottos Nightclub | Tags: Craig Finn, DeKalb, Kickstand Productions, Ottos Nightclub, Stay Positive, The Hold Steady
For those of you Northern, IL’ers who have been living under a rock, we made a major announcement a few weeks ago…Brooklyn-based rock luminaries, The Hold Steady will be stoppin’ in at Ottos Nightclub in DeKalb on Fri. Nov. 19th!
Don’t miss your chance to see Craig Finn and his merry men at Ottos! Not familiar with the band? Check out their critically-acclaimed album, ‘Stay Positive’, which topped most music critics ‘end of the year’ lists. While your at it, check out their newest album, ‘Heaven Is Whenever’.
Tickets are available now at YourTicketStand.com
In support of their newest album We Walk This Road – produced by legendary Grammy-winning producer T. Bone Burnett – Robert Randolph & The Family Band will make their way to DeKalb for a Kickstand show at Otto’s Nightclub on Thursday, July 15th.
Randolph began playing pedal-steel guitar in his New Jersey church but it wasn’t until 2006 that the band saw an international explosion in popularity. Their third disc Colorblind birthed the massive, toe-tapping single “Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong With That,” which popped up everywhere on television (“Grey’s Anatomy,” Subway restaurant ads and The Discovery Channel, just to name a few spots). The group continued a marathon touring schedule, hitting the road with Dave Matthews Band, Eric Clapton and O.A.R., plus appearances on “The Late Show with David Letterman” and the Grammy Awards, in a star-studded tribute to Sly & The Family Stone.
This is a 21+ show with no opening act, so get ready for a full night of Robert Randolph & The Family Band! Tickets are available now via YourTicketStand.
Check out this video below of the band performing “The March”:
Kickstand Productions is incredibly excited to announce Drive-By Truckers, coming to Otto’s Nightclub on Sunday, July 11th at 9PM.
Having straddled the indie-rock and alt-country worlds for the better half of a decade, Drive-By Truckers are on coarse to take over in a major way this year. Their eighth and newest album, The Big To-Do, has brought the group onto David Letterman’s stage (see the video below) as well as opening slots for heavy-hitters like The Hold Steady and even Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Leader Patterson Hood crafts workingman anthems that hark back to early Southern gothic tales of loss and religion while injecting an urgency that others in their category can’t carry.
This show is 21+ and tickets are available now via YourTicketStand. Don’t miss your chance to check out one of America’s most-talked about bands!
For years now, Kickstand has been proud to bring some of the best talent in the country through DeKalb. Often, our best nights are spent watching both a gigantic local crowd and a national heavy-hitting band have the time of their lives together, fueled by sing-alongs, camaraderie and – of course – the occasional beer or whiskey!
So it’s with great pleasure that Kickstand and the upcoming Middlewest Fest present the mighty Lucero, cruising through Otto’s on Monday, August 2nd, with special guests Ha Ha Tonka. It’ll be a 21+, 8pm show.
Led by the tender, yet gruff vocals of Ben Nichols, Lucero’s tales of late-night rambling and morning regret have catapulted the group to the top of the indie-punk/alt-country scene that encompasses like-minded acts such as The Hold Steady and The Gaslight Anthem. This Memphis-bred sextet has been averaging an astounding 200 shows per year in their decade-long existence, making them a cult favorite in all corners of the globe.
2009′s 1372 Overton Park hit the Billboard Top 200, as well as scored a whopping #2 on the Heatseekers Album charts. Park, the band’s sixth record overall and major-label debut for Universal, is named for the space that several members shared in Memphis over the years – writing, recording and even living for a time. It’s also worth noting that the King himself – Elvis Presley – also took karate lessons at that same address back in the 1970′s. Perhaps its those historic vibes that spread to Park‘s joyous Memphis-soul sound, sporting horn arrangements from long-time session player Jim Spake, whose resume includes legends such as Al Green and Solomon Burke.
Get your tickets now for Lucero on Monday, August 2 via Your Ticket Stand.
In the meantime, check out the below live video from 2008, as Lucero performs “She’s Just That Kind of Girl”:
Filed under: Ottos Nightclub
Mark your calendars, you Kickstand acolytes, because on Wednesday, April 21st, we’re very proud to announce that The Appleseed Cast will be playing their seminal 2001 albums, Low Level Owl, Volumes 1 & 2 in their entirety @ Otto’s Nightclub in DeKalb. Not only is this going to be a great show, but a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see one of the best guitar-based bands in the last 15 years showcase their talent for ambient soundscapes, rhythmic-but-intricate drumming, and complex vocal arrangements, while playing these two albums start to finish.
Do yourself the favor and make sure to get to Otto’s Nightclub in DeKalb on Wednesday, April 21st , or else all your friends will start talking about how you “lost it” and “used to be fun.”
To get you warmed up, here’s a video for Low Level Owl‘s “Steps and Numbers”:
Filed under: Featured Events, Ottos Nightclub | Tags: DeKalb, Kickstand Productions, Langhorne Slim, Ottos Nightclub
Kickstand Productions is very excited to have Langhorne Slim playing Otto’s Nightclub on Monday January 25th! Langhorne Slim recently released Be Set Free, which has been acclaimed to be his best effort yet. Slim’s music and lyrics tell the story of life one song at a time. Be Set Free was described as, “Langhorne’s most cinematic and cohesive effort to date. Slim has truly reached a point of light where these songs come from wide-eyed maturity and mastered craft”. Slim played this past summer at Lollapalooza along side other great artists like Kings of Leon, The Killers, and TV on the Radio. Defiantly come out to Otto’s Nightclub on Monday, January 25th and check out Langhorne Slim, show starts at 9PM and tickets are only $12!
Filed under: Featured Events, Ottos Nightclub | Tags: DeKalb, Kickstand Productions, Minus The Bear, Ottos Nightclub
On Saturday, November 21st a band that we are all very excited to have at Otto’s is coming. That band is MINUS THE BEAR! If you have never seen Minus the Bear before please do yourself a favor and come to this show, you won’t regret it! Minus the Bear release Acoustic’s last year and I don’t know about you but I still listen to this record weekly if not daily! Defiantly don’t miss your opportunity to check out Minus the Bear on Saturday, November 21st at Otto’s Nightclub, show starts at 9PM, tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door.
Check out this video for ‘Pachuca Sunrise’ from their album ‘Menos El Oso’
Filed under: Featured Events, Ottos Nightclub | Tags: Kickstand Productions, Ottos Nightclub, The Meat Puppets
The word influential is a moniker given to many bands, but not many are as worthy as the gosh darn Meat Puppets. This 3-piece by way of Phoenix will be playing their brand of uncompromising music on Wednesday, November 11th @ Otto’s Nightclub in the heart of downtown DeKalb. Having started out as a hardcore punk band that eventually grew to a psychedelic approach of alternative-rock that meandered into country, The Meat Puppets have done it all, seen it all, and touched many in their 20 years as a band. The Brothers’ Kirkwood were even an influence on Nirvana and were invited by Kurt Cobain to perform with the band on the taping of MTV’s Unplugged series. This concert included three songs from the Puppets’ catalogue and helped to thrust the band into the national attention of music listeners. This November 11th show @ Otto’s will start at 8 PM with outstanding Chicago rockers Geronimo! to take stage first. For more details check out the show listing on the Kickstand calendar or check us out on twitter at twitter.com/kickstandshows.
Filed under: Featured Events, Ottos Nightclub | Tags: Captured By Robots, DeKalb, Kickstand Productions, Ottos Nightclub
What is Captured! By Robots, you say??? Captured! by Robots is a touring musical comedy troupe with only one human member. It is part-concert and part-performance act, made up of three robots, two stuffed apes, three “headless hornsmen” playing backup brass, and their human, “JBOT”. I know this sounds completely strange and unusual, and it is! Check out this video from a previous concert of theirs, this is something that you cannot miss! Captured! By Robots will be playing live at Otto’s Nightclub on Wednesday October 20th w/ The Super 8 Bit Bros, ‘Richardson’ Richardson and Egon’s Unicat!
Filed under: Ottos Nightclub | Tags: Cursive, DeKalb, Kickstand Productions, Ottos Nightclub, Tim Kasher
Tim Kasher of Omaha-stalwarts, Cursive, performs an acoustic set outside Ottos in the DeKalb.
