Blogs: Music Blahg

OK, so I’ve arrived. Back in the Motor City. You can check out my introductory column at the Metro Times web site, proper, to learn more about me. But for practical purposes, these are probably the two most important graphs… just in case you don’t want to take the time to read the whole...
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Seems Von Bondie head Jason Stollsteimer is alive. We got a press release from a Warner Brothers flack informing us of an upcoming Stollsteimer show that’s “a bunch of his close friends, aka: Jason and The Hounds Below.” This piece of PR pulp says the show is a warm up “in lieu of the...
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Photo: Leni Sinclair Not to get all blowjobian but …A few years back I was working on Metro Times story about the Rockets and its singer Dave Gilbert and I had the pleasure of meeting the band’s guitarist Jimmy McCarty. I’d read about this guy when I was a little kid, his days in...
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Record of the year.Okay, it’s like 11 a.m. on Wednesday and the new issue of Metro Times is out. Already I’m fielding emails and calls about Nate Cavalieri’s review of the White Stripes Icky Thump. Some say Cavalieri nailed it, perfectly. Others say the dude couldn’t find his own ass, much less a good...
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Are many of you idiots? You gotta be. I mean, why would any self-respecting music fan into (proper) music formats such as vinyl, CD, DVD-a, SACD, cassette, 8-track — that which isn’t downloaded invisible and shitty-sounding — not support your local record store? Why, why, why, why? Why give your money to community-killing corporations?...
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Photo: Doug Coombe Or, download this, punk …Okay, the White Stripes UK vinyl version of its latest single (“Icky Thump” – No. 2 on the UK charts) sold more than a whopping 10,000 copies in its first two days of release, which is more than the single’s CD and download sales combined. It’s been...
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So we get the new Queens of the Stone Age disc in the mail. Yeah, whatever. Anyway, we were blowing cigarette ashes off the band’s ever-so-major-label, Jason Odell-shot glossy and notice something that gets the stale Folgers spewing through our clinched lips and expanded nostrils. There, amidst the rock-appropriate tuff-dude grimaces and fancy jackets,...
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By our accounts this corpulent dude Ty Stone is a rather jolly fellow. We wish him the best. In fact, the downriver-bred Stone did extensive touring playing the big rooms with confederate flag-waver Kid Rock, showcasing certain aptitude for the rock ‘n’ roll-hillbilly ditty. The guy can craft and sing ‘em, to be sure....
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Well, sorta. LA’s KROQ is spinning the shit out of their latest single “Forever Fades Away” — off this year’s lauded Music From Regions Beyond. But there ain’t much radio love for Tiger Army in old Detroit, tho. So what? Neck-inked dudes and punk-porn chicks are hipped to the band’s power-chord-meets-McCarthy-era rumpus, and MySpace...
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Hip-hop shop talk Are you sick of seeing hip hop reduced to disposable soundbites and cheap consumerist trappings and hocked to the kids of America for huge capitol gain? Sick of lowest-common-denominator tactics in pop hip hop that uphold the honor of a greedy fuck like Donald Trump, as if he’s something to be?...
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