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This year Bonnaroo invited a handful of Detroit’s finest including Alice Cooper, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and Danny Brown to make the trek down to Tennessee for the annual 4-day music festival that draws nearly 80,000 people each year. Check out photos from this year’s festival highlighting some of the Detroit bands that made...
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  Roger Waters again brought his reincarnation of the Pink Floyd classic The Wall to life in Detroit, this year at Joe Louis Arena.  There were a few minor changes this time around, Waters added a sing-a-long with his 1980s self on “Mother” along with ramping up on the socio-political messages  inherent in the...
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My alarm clock blared at 9:30am with the sound of Drew & Mike berating a disgruntled listener who had just written in via email about last night’s Van Halen show. They read his wordy email in their fucktard tone they give to anyone they want to make sound like a nitwit, it’s a patented...
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 When I first heard Charles Bradley it was after I had finished interviewing Brooklyn’s the Budos Band as they stopped in at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor. I was talking to them about whether or not they were a soul band as they (along with Bradley) are on the Brooklyn Daptone label. The...
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The Darkness at St. Andrews  In 2004 there were a few CDs that never left my 1992 Chrysler New Yorker. As most of my friends can attest one of those was the Darkness’ Permission To Land.  I’ve even caught some random flack over the past few years about how my musical tastes were shit...
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Hitting Detroit on the most recent mega-metal tour, Gigantour came to The Palace of Auburn Hills late last week on February 9th. Headlining was Megadeth, who fronted by Dave Mustaine closed out the evening with a roughly hour long set complete with a somewhat incoherent mini political rant from Mustaine.  Megadeth played through a...
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See the full lineup in the video below or at Bonnaroo.com. In addition to Alice Cooper, other notable Detroit area acts on the initial release include MT cover boys Danny Brown and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. along with Yelawolf. See the full lineup below in video form as well as the rundown. Bonnaroo 2012...
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Produced in association with The Grammys, the upcoming documentary film RE:GENERATION looks at the history, songwriting and studio process of different musical genres through the eyes of five influential electronic producers/DJs in music today. (For the full list head after the jump.) The film is directed by Amir Bar Lev—who made the award-winning documentaries...
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  Last night Paul McCartney brought his latest band to Detroit proper for the first time since playing Olympia Stadium during the 1976 Wings Over America Tour (something that stuck with McCartney for a while.)  McCartney also came to Michigan in 2005 with this same band but brought the two-night stand to the Palace...
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