Blogs: Music Blahg

I hope everyone else had as much fun as we did.   I also wish I could’ve gotten out more. But it’s done now. You’ll have to tell me about that one bar and that one band and how it sounded. And all that. For now, it’s done.   Ferndale’s Blowout is done. Blowout 16...
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Blowout is over for another year and, while you can be sure that the strong opinions will continue to rain in (please keep them coming, btw), we’re just happy that, at the end of the day, 600-ish bands were able to play the festival, with the vast majority of them playing well. It’s after...
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Guest blog by Gerard Smith of Bill Grogan’s Goat I got to the Friday night installment of The Metro Times Blowout late last night, after taking my lovely Mrs. out for Mexican dinner, then falling into a food coma for an hour or so when I dropped her off at home. I still managed...
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So far so good. Two nights of Blow-ing-Out the Library. Last night we (The Ferndale Library – as a venue, and as an entity of volunteer bartenders and staff members, myself included as it is, full disclosure, my “day-job”) were privileged with a pleasing line up. We had three proficient indie-rocking pop provocateurs with...
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Phantom Cats had so many trippy light effects beamed around the library, it felt like we were inside a lava lamp. Very distracting, but I could still hear the singer’s wooing and warbling. It was like if Poly Styrene of X-Ray Specs was trying to sing like Kate Bush. I didn’t not like it,...
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Four days have passed since the conclusion of the Hamtramck portion of Blowout, and the very first day of the festival in Ferndale is here. Let’s not mince words here – this is a bit of an experiment, but it’s a very necessary one. The Blowout had to change to survive, and this is...
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What, go to Blowout? Or just go to a live-music-thing, in general? I would go because I want to very nearly have my forehead smacked with a guitar neck. It’s that physiological reaction, the hurk and jerk where you duck your head or collide, recoil, rollick off of a swarm of perfect strangers. The...
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra guest conductor John Storgårds will lead them through Holst’s The Planets on Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4, featuring Women of the MSU Chorale and State Singers. The program will also include Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 featuring pianist, Rafal Blechacz and the DSO premiere of Ligeti’s Lontano. They say,...
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Listen: The Anonymous – “Smash For Funkers” - Interview – Kwesi / Goldzilla There’s this rapper and producer loudly hiding out amidst the gentrified/shabby post-hipster culture klatches of Woodbridge. “Does that make me a bass-head ‘cuz I’m turning up the Dolby…?” Goldzilla raps, “…in the middle of the burbs, at 7:30 in the morning? This...
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There is some fascinating, eclectic music going on at Trinosophes this week. On Friday, May 3, Josephine Foster performs. They say, “As an adolescent Josephine Foster worked as a funeral and wedding singer, and aspired to become an opera singer. After her studies she began to record demos of her own songs, resulting in...
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