Live Review Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Dow Event Center, Saginaw Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Saginaw was originally supposed to be the opening show of Bob Seger’s current, relatively whim-of-the-moment tour, which concludes with three shows at the Palace in mid-May. A Toledo show was then added three days earlier, due to...
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Just in time for Detroit’s upcoming annual Movement music festival comes a splendid “Oral History of Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival” from Resident Advisor, which bills itself as “the leading online electronic music magazine.” It’s a pretty excellent piece, featuring comments from a large assortment of talking heads, including superstar DJ/producers like Kevin Saunderson and...
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Need a dose of British folk-rock goodness to give you a Hump Day boost? You may want head to the Pike Room next Wednesday, May 19th to catch Turin Brakes (http://www.myspace.com/turinbrakes) do an acoustic set that is sure to be as harmonically tight as it is dreamy. Their fifth album, Outbursts, is out now...
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On the Rocks Detroit is booking all the bands for this year’s People’s Arts Festival, which will be held in Detroit at the Russell Industrial Complex on August 28th and 29th. This year, the organizers are accepting band submissions via Sonicbids.com only. To submit for consideration, click here. Submission deadline is June 20th and...
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Mick Bassett & The Marthas, one of our fave local bands, are releasing a new four-song EP, Laugh Like You Want It, this week. The release party is this Thursday, May 13th, at the Loving Touch in Ferndale. But if you don’t want to wait until Thursday, you can download all four of the...
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Two Detroit musical legends — despite what you may think of either one, they are legends at this point — in the spotlight this week. In case you haven’t noticed or heard, Ted Nugent wrote the entry for Sarah Palin in the new Time Magazine special edition list of the World’s 100 Most Influential...
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During a recent panel discussion and audience Q&A discussion in New York, someone asked Patti Smith if it was still possible for a young artist to move to New York City and live a similar life to the one that Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe and other artists did years ago. Such a life was recently...
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Matador Records released Together, the new album by the terrific New Pornographers, yesterday, May 4th. So what does that have to do with Detroit? Well, in addition to the album, the label is releasing a limited-edition, 7-inch vinyl EP, entitled Togetherness: The New Pornographers Play Outrageous Cherry, which will be given out for free...
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The Third Annual Rock and Rummage Spring Cleaning Spectacular is happening on a Friday this year — this Friday, May 7th, to be exact, at the Belmont in Hamtramck (10215 Jos Campau, between Holbrook and Caniff). The event is a traveling rock ‘n’ roll-themed flea market with vintage clothing, handmade goods and other pop...
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Jack White‘s other band will be performing their second album, Sea of Cowards, in its entirety live on My Space this coming Monday, May 3rd. The band will perform the album front-to-back in the live room at the Third Man Records building in downtown Nashville, the same space in which they played their very...
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