In honor of Detroit gal Madonna’s much-anticipated performance at the Super Bowl this Sunday, City Slang is getting into the spirit by offering a prize for the first Detroiter to send us the answer to this question: What will be the first song Madonna plays during the Super Bowl halftime show> Send your answer...
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We have already reviewed this album in the weekly music review roundup a coupe of weeks ago, but it is worth another mention. Local legend Andre Williams will release his new album Hoods and Shades via Bloodshot Records on February 28. It’s a beauty too, like the soundtrack to the greatest blaxploitation movie, set...
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It’s not easily loved… but this is exactly the album Kevin Barnes (Of Montreal) should have made after False Priest. A needed hard-swerve into a brambly, cacophonous left field. Paralytic Stalks - Polyvinyl Records (stream it on SPIN while you can…)   –> Listen (via Polyvinyl) Of Montreal – “Dour Percentage”   After grinding out Priest’s over-glitzed...
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We are saddened and stunned by the news that artist and former Destroy All Monsters member Mike Kelley has passed away having apparently committed suicide. Reports seem to suggest that Kelley, a Detroiter who had been living in LA, had been depressed following the breakup of a relationship. “His work was widely collected and...
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One of City Slang’s favorite haunts, Detroit’s Showtime Clothing, will host a concert on February 11 at the Hastings Street Ballroom to promote both local and national acts. Of course, we are more interested in the local bands, which include Bixy Lutz (pictured), Bloodline Riot, Citizen Zero, Curbstone Beauty, Glitter Trash, Haflife and Saturnine...
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Riled-up never sounded so groovy. Call it AgitGroove, or whatever you blogoids prefer…   –> Listen: Pupils – “Bone Avenue” MP3         Though this Detroit quartet (made up of players from Legendary Creatures, Marco Polio and Red China) may sound like they’re in a sort of a firestorm-ish pinpball punk mode...
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Doc Waffles was a poet studying at Wayne State when he started rapping. He got into battles. It seemed like a fun, engaging way to do something that, at it’s core, Waffles said, is “kinda intellectual but gives a certain credibility and whimsy that is lacking in dry poetry functions.” If you go see...
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Today is February 1st and for thousands of hip-hop fans around the globe, it means the all too short month of celebrating James “J Dilla” Yancey’s life has commenced. The late groundbreaking Detroit producer who touched the lives of countless music fans worldwide would have been 38-years-old this month (Feb 7) if he hadn’t...
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By now you should have seen the lineup for Blowout 15. If not, take a look. Last week’s Revisited, on the Sights’ debut album, was due to Eddie Baranek’s band’s appearance at this year’s festival. That will be an ongoing Revisited theme up until the week of Blowout. This week, the Dirtbombs. It’s kind...
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We’re taking a break from the weekly music review roundup this week, kinda. Jack White’s debut solo single, “Love Interruption”, can be heard by clicking here. The single is the first from the Blunderbuss album, available on April 24 on Third Man Records/Columbia. The record can be pre-ordered via that link now, and the...
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