Blogs: Music Blahg

Send CDs, vinyl, cassettes, demos and 8-tracks to Brett Callwood, Metro Times, 733 St. Antoine, Detroit, MI 46226. Email MP3s and streaming links to bcallwood@metrotimes.com. The Rogue Satellites has a new album, Other Angels, a record which perfectly showcases the band’s evolution from electronica-tinged pop rock, Pixies-esque love monkeys to challenging, experimental, impossible to...
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Plllllaaa-NET- Rock! Bangin’ jams for the dim discotheques of 1981 – Get out the broken down cardboard boxes and limber up – This local duo is resurrecting breakdance for you, grab a plate and fill up on some B-boy goodies. Metallic vocode-heavy sound fx’s splashing over nifty, buzzing bass grooves, thrumming with quintessential post-disco decadence...
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Too often I find myself listening to whatever’s next – the newest of the new. The hour-glass view of just what’s bubbling this week, a symptom of what Ypsi-area pop outfit Saturday Looks Good To Me penned as “…the ever-present new times condition.” It’s either whatever’s newest or its some junkfood-ish afternoon snack of some old favorite from...
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June 1 Rogue Satellites release Other Angels - available on vinyl & free digital download, featuring a video documentation of local duo’s collaboration with installation artist Alice Schneid Performing that night at the Old Miami with Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor and The Philter.   This duo pull off sarcastic satires of hipsterdom with such panache, they drop...
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Celtic rockers Bill Grogan’s Goat will play the Magic Bag in Ferndale on Saturday, June 8. They say, “Joining us will be Stone Clover and I Love Lightning Bugs. Come on out for the show! Doors at 8 pm, $10 at the door, or in advance. Click here to join the City Slang Turntable...
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The Black Dahlia Murder is streaming a track with the help of Revolver magazine. The track is called “Rape in Hatred by Vines of Thorn”, and it can be heard here. The song is an ode to Evil Dead, of which BDM’s Trevor Strnad said, “I remember the first time I saw Evil Dead…...
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Friday night saw the Metro Times take over the Soundboard venue at the Motor City Casino as we celebrated the Best Of issue. It was a bit of a “world’s collide” event too – with CEOs rubbing shoulders with rockers, high-ranking execs with DJs and all manner of reprobates. Thanks to the open bar...
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On Sunday, May 19, 150 Detroit students will perform on stage at Orchestra Hall in the Honda Power of Dreams String Music Project, a program presented by Honda and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. “Most of the children involved in this project would otherwise never have had the opportunity to even touch an instrument, let...
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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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Veteran hardcore punks the Meatmen have launched a Kickstarter campaign, which can be seen here. Frontman Tesco Vee released a statement saying, “That’s right, I’ve been entertaining your sorry asses for over 30 years, and now it’s time for YOU to become a part of Meat History! After 18 years, we embark on our...
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