This doesn’t excite me nearly as much…but Scorsese is often great, one of the best. He understands vintage rock ‘n’ roll as well as any director…and has put a ton of money in the Stones’ pockets via years of soundtracks (though he never bettered the use of ”Tell Me” in Mean Streets). The band still sounds great...
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Must admit I wasn’t super-thrilled when I heard Todd Haynes was manning the Bob Dylan bio flick. Seems everything in his hands became a gay fantasy of sorts; some of it’s been very good (Far From Heaven, for one). But despite an amazing soundtrack, Velvet Goldmine, his last rock fantasy, was a fictionalized lost opportunity. It...
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Detroit’s shock-rockers Crud are headlining the big after-party for the Festival of Fear horror extravaganza in Toronto this weekend. Which means they’ll be playing in front of a lot of heavy hitters in the horror industry. The band also plays Detroit’s own Erotica Ball on September 15th at Bert’s Warehouse Theater in the Eastern...
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The online Detour Magazine is sponsoring its own local rock festival launch party September 20th through 22nd. Shows will be at the Magic Stick and Garden Bowl. Co-sponsors include Real Detroit Magazine and MyFox Detroit. Bands include Heroes & Villains, Noisettes and Ko & The Knockouts. The headlining band is the Go. We, of...
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Pamela Welsh, former cohost of WDTR‘s The Reggae Soundblast, starts her own online radio station, broadcasting the music of the Caribbean tonight. The station is scheduled to launch at 8 p.m. tonight…but I’ll be damned if I can tell you where because I just realized she didn’t include that info in her e-mail to...
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Our Media Blackout columnist, Jeffrey Morgan (who revealed an infatuation with Dick in this week’s print-issue), wanted to remind us of this (although we truly hope that the 18 month scenario isn’t the punchline to this story; we love Amy…at least I do…) From Jeff: Remember, you read it here first on April 4,...
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Detroit blues singer Odessa Harris (aka Dessie Williams) died from complications of emphysema this past Saturday, Aug. 18th. She was 71. Born in West Helena, Arkansas, Harris began, like so many blues vocalists, singing in the choir at a local Baptist church. At the age of 14, she landed a spot singing with James...
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It’s official. Although there were numerous rumors that the band had been dropped from their major label deal and even that they were now defunct, the Von Bondies — albeit an almost completely new lineup of the Von Bondies — will return in early 2008 with a brand-new album for Sire Records entitled Love,...
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Kid Rock ‘s former DJ and pop-rock-country star in his own right Uncle Kracker (real name: Matthew Shafer) was arrested early Friday morning (4:45 a.m., to be exact) in Raleigh, N.C., on charges of second-degree sexual offense. The 33-year-old Mount Clemens native was being held on $5 million bail after being arrested at his...
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What is this fat fuck laughing about? Now that that total waste of human flesh (and one of the most notorious closeted men in America) Karl Rove is leaving the Bush Administration (indictment free, I might add), what is the first thing this dickhead is doing when he leaves his position? No, he’s not...
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