Blogs: Music Blahg

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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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. Despite the fact that he’s still battling with health issues, Bootsey X has a new album out, Women’s Love Rites (Jett Plastic Recordings). Backed by Ricky Ratt of the...
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The Detroit School of Rock and Pop has a camp planned for the summer. They say, “For those who have not been, we spend three “three-week” sessions learning to play in bands, recording in our studio, shooting music videos, learning music theory and arranging, and preparing a show with our bands. At the end...
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