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This is as good ‘a time as any to blog about Hospital Garden. As expected, they have a new album out. Why else would an ostensible culture upstart like me be blogging about a band? But these Chicago lo-fi/noise noodlers, these refiners of quintessential fuzz-rock, are Detroit friendlies… They’re practically cousins with our Destroy This Place. They’ve...
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Covering Desperate Ground - The Thermals perform at the Loving Touch in Ferndale on Friday night. Here’s the new single: “Born To Kill” The notoriously energetic band with its notoriously propulsive Portland-bred pop style are upping the indie-cred of Ferndale by making the Loving Touch a tour-stop, supporting their new album on Saddle Creek records. While writing...
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May 17 Destroy This Place release an album called “Destroy This Place” Bellyache Records Performing at PJ’s Lager House, with: Touch The Clouds and Palaces and Braided Veins   Watch: Destroy This Place – “Graves” You probably think you’ve heard this record before. But spin it again. This is just what it sounds like when...
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Saturday Looks Good To Me - One Kiss Ends It All Polyvinyl               This iconic Ann Arbor pop institution aren’t a normal enough band to be basely pinned the normal-“comeback” narrative, even if it has been six years since we’ve heard new recordings of their eclectic summery jams and rich,...
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Fest Season Has Begun… The Blowout’s done – but we’re just getting going, here. The end of May brings us X! Fest – a coalescing of caustic rockers rounding up the affably brotherly batch of new-neo-post-whatever-PUNK outfits in town. Call them whatever you will – they’re united by their inclinations towards the fast and the loud...
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I hope everyone else had as much fun as we did.   I also wish I could’ve gotten out more. But it’s done now. You’ll have to tell me about that one bar and that one band and how it sounded. And all that. For now, it’s done.   Ferndale’s Blowout is done. Blowout 16...
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So far so good. Two nights of Blow-ing-Out the Library. Last night we (The Ferndale Library – as a venue, and as an entity of volunteer bartenders and staff members, myself included as it is, full disclosure, my “day-job”) were privileged with a pleasing line up. We had three proficient indie-rocking pop provocateurs with...
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What, go to Blowout? Or just go to a live-music-thing, in general? I would go because I want to very nearly have my forehead smacked with a guitar neck. It’s that physiological reaction, the hurk and jerk where you duck your head or collide, recoil, rollick off of a swarm of perfect strangers. The...
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Listen: The Anonymous – “Smash For Funkers” - Interview – Kwesi / Goldzilla There’s this rapper and producer loudly hiding out amidst the gentrified/shabby post-hipster culture klatches of Woodbridge. “Does that make me a bass-head ‘cuz I’m turning up the Dolby…?” Goldzilla raps, “…in the middle of the burbs, at 7:30 in the morning? This...
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The first time Noah from the Craycrays pinball-punched his body with wild abandon out from the floor-level “stage” inside the Polish National Alliance lounge and into the crowd, it was brief, as a lightning strike, and didn’t cause too much of a mosh-ish dust-up. The second time…during the last song… I’m pretty sure he...
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