It's A Kling Thing!

New Years Day, 2011

klingthings — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:29:43 +0000

First show, 2011:
Castevet
Stay Ahead Of The Weather
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
Worship This!

Saturday, Dec 18

klingthings — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:28:01 +0000

Saturday night, 2010:
The Ground Is Lava
It’s Just Vanity
Boleyn
Florida Snoman

Updates

klingthings — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:14:17 +0000

Schools in, I’m forgetful, blogs are hard to update. My bad.

We’ve had some shows and they’ve been great. Sea Skulls, Death Eater, and Storms happened a couple weeks back and we said goodbye to our friends Matt and Eric. There was some moshing in the basement and that was kind of weird…

Koji, PJ Bond, Aficionado, and Talons was last week and it was a really fun time. Every single one of the people in those bands are more than worth your time; not simply because theyre great musicians, but they are great people. We hope to have them back again soon.

Friday night, October 8, our friends The Reptilian will be stopping in and playing with The Ground Is Lava and house band Annabel. Be sure to stop by and throw some dollars in the fish bowl.

Wednesday night The Riot Before will be playing with Red City Radio and Gunnerson. Once again, stop by, bring a friend, and donate!

Summer is definitely over now and autumn is in full force. We’re going to back off on doing as many shows as we have been doing. As of now there aren’t shows confirmed, but we have some pretty cool possibilities in the future.

Thanks for stopping in.

It’s A Swing Thing! – Into It. Over It.

klingthings — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:37:48 +0000

I first met Evan Weiss (Into It. Over It.) while he was still in the middle of his 52 Weeks project when he played at Akron’s small hipster bar, The Matinee, with Ben Hendricks of Annabel. He has played the house a couple times since then, the most recent being last week’s show with Snowing, Glocca Morra, and Annabel. Currently he’s in the middle of a very cool split 7 inch project called Twelve Towns, where he puts out different splits with different bands and sings about 12 towns that he played in on a previous tour. So far splits with Bob Nanna, Castevet, Everyone Everywhere, Empire Empire, Snowing, and Akron’s own DIY stalwarts in Pswingset are either out, in pre-order, or coming soon. Thanks to Evan for being a great dude all around and for agreeing to play a song for us on the swing!

There was a lot of talking up until he hit his first note, so I had to go with a different type of edit than I normally do and the audio isn’t the greatest quality. I plan on upgrading my video camera (and editing software knowledge) in the future, but for now this will work.

Here’s the song “Pontiac, MI” which is out on his split with Castevet called Snack Town.

It’s A Swing Thing! – Into It. Over It. from Its A Kling Thing on Vimeo.

It’s A Swing Thing! – Joie De Vivre

klingthings — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:17:50 +0000

Joie De Vivre is a band that you should know and listen to right now if you’ve ever listened to and loved the ever thrown around Midwest-Nineties-Emo genre. They pull their biggest influences from bands from that era while making songs that are fresh and filled with new life. We had the pleasure of their company after they played at A.R.M. Fest (www.armfest.org) in Kent with a ton of amazing bands (which is another post completely…)

After clobbering us at Mortal Kombat 3 for Sega they felt bad enough for our poor gaming skills that they agreed to do a Swing Thing! first thing in the morning. Watch the video of “Upper Deck San Diego” then go check them out at their myspace.

It’s A Swing Thing! – Joie De Vivre from Its A Kling Thing on Vimeo.

July 30th

klingthings — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:21:44 +0000

Here’s the flier for the show on July 30th. I decided to move it from the house to a venue in Kent because the charitable and amazing ARM Fest is happening the same night and since the shows couldn’t be combined, I figured the next best thing would be an after show! I’m personally looking forward to this show since it will be The Kids United’s first show in over seven months. I’m so excited to play shows again!

Photos?! Videos?!

klingthings — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:13:12 +0000

Do you have pictures or video from a show at the house? Would you be so kind to add them to our facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/klingthing) or email them to me (stereoprize@gmail.com) if you do? Thanks, friends!

“These are the only memories… that I’ll ever need”

It’s A Swing Thing! – Koji

klingthings — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:50:40 +0000

Koji is a singer/songwriter from Pennsylvania. This is the second time he has played at the house and I couldn’t have been more excited to hear him play his songs and tell anecdotes about his life and his beliefs. He’s definitely one of the most hard-working, passionate, and genuinely nice people I have ever met and he also cooks spaghetti better than an old Italian grandmother! Be sure to keep your ears and eyes peeled for this dude, he has some really cool things happening. He will be back at the house in September. Here’s the song “Color Quiet Loud”

It’s A Swing Thing! – Koji from Its A Kling Thing on Vimeo.

Fliers – July 13

klingthings — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:26:58 +0000

Here’s the flier for tonight’s show

It’s A Swing Thing! – Museum Mouth

klingthings — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:30:19 +0000

First post! Welcome to the It’s A Kling Thing! website/blog! We don’t really know exactly everything that will end up on this page, but one can assume that we’ll post show reviews, pictures, and videos. One thing that we will for sure be posting on a regular basis is a video series called “It’s A Swing Thing!” Basically, we have an awesome swing on our porch and a ton of bands coming through… why not present them the option of playing an acoustic jam or two for your enjoyment? We don’t have any crazy HD cameras, or even a microphone. Just an iPhone, a swing, cheap video editing software, and the internet. That’s all we need!

North Carolina’s Museum Mouth is the first band to record a Swing Thing video. While they didn’t play a show at the house, they stayed here after their show in Cleveland and agreed to at least play a song! They were three of the nicest people and their love of cats was awesome! They played their song “Outside” before they headed back on the road towards their next show in Columbus. Check it out!

It’s A Swing Thing! – Museum Mouth from Its A Kling Thing on Vimeo.