Hyacinth House U.S.

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Dirty, sexy, seedy. And without a doubt kickin’. A souped-up Beta Band. LCD Soundsystem with a li’l bit of Modest Mouse. That about hits it. High energy, this music’s got “late late night trouble,” dark rooms, weird lighting and couch surfing written all over it. In a good way, nasty. “I like driving to it. It gets you going. Something you can dance to, something you can put on when you’re going out Friday or Saturday,” says vocalist Mike Schalk. Electropunk band Hyacinth House played the “Bodyrock” event at the Blue Rock Tavern every Wednesday in June, booking bands and DJs. Schalk continues, “We’re lookin’ for other places to rock out to. It’s cool, because at Blue Rock we can pretty much do what we want. I can walk on top of the bar. I can jump off shit, and no one really cares. It allows us to have a little freedom.” Here’s the story: Schalk and Mike McKibben met in high school in Williamsburg, Ohio. When Schalk busted out of detention one day, McKibben was standing there waiting for him, asking, “Hey, man, you’re Mike, right? You play guitar?” Schalk responded, “Yeah, I’m a badass guitarist.” Straight from detention, Schalk and McKibben went to play music, and they’ve been ripping through songs together ever since. Grabbing the name Hyacinth House from the 1971 song by The Doors, Schalk says he just dug the sound of it: “It does have kind of an electronic music connotation … the ‘cinth’ and the ‘house.’ ” Although HH officially landed here from space a year and

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