Kickstand Productions is proud to bring Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit to the House Cafe on Saturday, September 26th! Isbell started his music career in the famed band The Drive By Truckers, and now as a solo artists he just released his debut “Sirens of the Ditch” earlier this year. Everyone should defiantly come check Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit on Saturday, September 26th. For more details check out the show listing on the Kickstand calendar.

Is it me or can Craig Owens not get enough of Dekalb! Craig Owens, lead singer of Chiodos, will be making a solo appearance on Saturday, September 12th at The House Cafe. Here at Kickstand Productions we are glad to welcome him back, we have had Chiodos play at The House quiet a few times and we can’t wait to have Owens’ solo debut now. Owens will be releasing his debut record on Equal Vision Records later this year, so keep an eye out for that and if you want to be the first to hear some of the new tunes go to yourticketstand.com right now to pre-order your tickets! Or if you feel lucky if you are the 3rd or 9th person to follow Kickstand Productions on Twitter you will win a free ticket (twitter.com/kickstandshows).

The Fall of Troy will be making their triumphant return to The House Cafe on Wednesday October 28th! The Fall of Troy will be fresh off a run with Thursday and a new release dubbed “In The Unlikely Event”. Here at Kickstand we are so excited to have these three dudes back, they always bring an amazing live show and never disappoint! We have decided to give away 2 tickets for Fall of Troy right now to the 5th and 10th people who begin to follow us on twitter, go to http://www.twitter.com/kickstandshows!

The Morning Of will be making their return to The House in Dekalb, IL on Saturday August 22nd. They are currently headlining The End of The World As We Know It tour alongside Sparks The Rescue and Ian Walsh. The Morning Of recently released a great cover of Alisha Keys’ “No One” which is currently available on Itunes and Amazon, everyone should defiantly go check that out right now! We here at Team Kickstand have to say that these Morning Of’ers are some of the kindest and most humble people we have had the pleasure of working with. Much love! (pounds chest)
Follow us no Twitter right now and the 5th and 10th person to do so will win a free ticket, go to http://twitter.com/kickstandshows!

Outside The House Cafe during Sunn O)))’s show on Fri. July 10th!

Kανταϊφι πολίτικο από τον σέφ του ξενοδοχείου Four Seasons

Με τον σεφ του ζαχαροπλαστείου Σαράϊ

Δες εδώ και εδώ το επεισόδιο (σε 2 μέρη) της εκπομπής του Mega, “Γλυκές Αλχημείες”, με τον Στέλιο Παρλιάρο και τους βοηθούς του, που αυτή τη φορά είναι μαθητές του “Ζωγράφειου” από την Πόλη…

Θα δεις συνταγές από το ζαχαροπλαστείο Saray στην Ιστικλάλ, από το φημισμένο για τα προφιτερόλ του Inci και από το γκουρμέ εστιατόριο The House Cafe στην Πλατεία Τουνέλ. Και για τα 3 καταστήματα, σου έχω μιλήσει ήδη, εδώ

Chiodos live at The House Cafe on Sat. May 30th!

Thanks to every one for coming out to the sold out Chiodos show at The House Cafe on Saturday. I couldn’t help but feel very nostalgic as I recalled memories of the very first Chiodos shows at The House on Fri. June 17th 2005. The band opened up a sold out show with Murder By Death and He Is Legend. Many other dates came and went at The House Cafe as the years passed. It has been a pleasure watching these very deserving gentlemen achieve great success. The guys in the band are sweethearts and a truly the supreme rulers of their genre. Much love and many kisses from the bearded gentlemen at Team Kickstand.

This was taken at the House Cafe in DeKalb IL. I’ve been on a music picture thing for a while but this picture really caught my eye. I love the color.

This photo was taken with no-flash on a Nikon D50. This photo has been sharpened.

SUN. APR 5TH – 8PM – $8 adv / $10 dos
@ THE HOUSE CAFE
263 E Lincoln Hwy, DeKalb, IL

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SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN
w/ Guests TBA

Fun-loving Polyvinyl indie-rockers, SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN, make their triumphant return to The House Cafe! Never seen the band? Jubilant Shins-inspired melodies broken sprinkled on a cupcake of oozingly humble songwriting sensibilities…

Fri. Mar. 27th @ The House Cafe
8pm w/ Guests TBA
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Thurs. Oct. 9th @ The House Cafe
8pm w/ Kid, You’ll Move Mountains

Gezonde thee met hippe thee-builtjes voor de hippe restaurantketen The House Café. Terecht populair, zelfs zo populair dat The House Café plannen heeft verder te gaan dan een promotionele actie en de builtjes op de markt wil brengen. Dat Ironic Sans hier nietopgekomen is..

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Well, Alison and I have parted ways for a few days to return to our humble abodes for spring break. Although it’s our vacation from school, we are still working hard to keep bringing you the latest in music. Currently we will be giving you different accounts of the same concert.

Sanita’s Review | The House Cafe – 3/19/08 Crystal Castles, HEALTH, Heart Shaped Hate, and Eyes.

It’s spring break and all I want to do is dance.

So I drove an hour away to Dekalb, IL to the ambiguous venue that is The House Cafe. I’ve been here before, experiencing the dance party during the night that is Dan Deacon as well as the oh-so-cute Page France during the day. This place may look like your usual quaint coffee shop, but by night it easily converts into a bumping House (ba dum cheuh!) party. I got there extremely early because there was talk that the show would sell out, which did hold true to fact. It was one of the last dates that HEALTH and Crystal Castles will be playing on the same bill before CC parts to play across the pond. It was obvious people knew this and were willing to take the trek. The venue was jam packed by a crowd of teenage glam rock emos rather than the expected smell kid crowd. But if you are willing to dance, it doesn’t matter to me who you are.

First to perform was extremely experimental and disorganized band, Eyes. The band consisted of a drunken man slurring random sentences over an electronic R&B beat. The crowd, including myself, was simply tolerating this band and could not wait till it was over.

Next up were local ladies from my hometown, Heart Shaped Hate. Branding themselves avid connoisseurs of “pink metal”, these ladies were adorned in hot pink shorts and sequin dresses, and the crowd knew that this was not the band to mess with. The two-woman band sounded similar to The Deathset except heavier in beats and sound. Considering the band doesn’t even have an album, let alone an EP, the crowd ate them up anyways.

After a bunch of shifting around for the two prior sets, the crowd was finally staying put to stake out a spot for the last two bands. LA’s HEALTH was now taking the stage and after seeing them perform in Saint Louis, I had no idea how they could outperform the last time I saw them. I was glad to see that they change their sets from each show. The boys were working hard for the money that night and were obviously out of breath by the middle of the set. The show was rounded out with “Triceratops” and “Girl Attorney” which was the best way to end their set. The crowd was kind of lame, but it was probably because they were too entranced by the art that is HEALTH.

Finally, Crystal Castles. This is what everyone seemed to be waiting for. We were all in suspense. How would this band sound live? Would their electronic driven beats translate in person? It was dark, hot, and someone kept cutting the cheese while we waited. It was quite atrocious and everyone’s patience was growing wary. Alice finally got on stage and started singing her heart out. The strobe lights were disorienting at first, but by the second song I just pretended I was at a European rave. Their remix of Health’s “Crimewave” was especially on point and couldn’t be performed any better. The crowd was going nuts and if you weren’t dancing then you were just getting in the way. Alice was bouncing off the walls and was basically swinging off the disco ball that hung off the stage. I got man handled by a little dancing man and then I ate somebody’s fro of a pony tail before I eventually ran off to the side of the stage to get my own dancing room. Let it be a reminder that Crystal Castles’ self-titled debut had dropped on March 18th, only a day before this show. These people were all fans of Crystal Castles and couldn’t be more excited. The show ended with the hip hop beat of “Alice Practice” and was a perfect cool down for those who were dancing non-stop like me. Although they didn’t perform “1991″, it was a solid set and I can’t wait till I get the chance to see them again.

All pictures are courtesy of Sanita Saengvilay

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