Blogs: Music Blahg

The first time Noah from the Craycrays pinball-punched his body with wild abandon out from the floor-level “stage” inside the Polish National Alliance lounge and into the crowd, it was brief, as a lightning strike, and didn’t cause too much of a mosh-ish dust-up. The second time…during the last song… I’m pretty sure he...
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  For my second Blowout, I better understood the happenings in Ham-Town, and (sort of) had a plan to catch as many bands as possible. Arriving at the Polish National Alliance (PNA) hall just short of 9 o’clock, I was able to jump into the middle of Deadbeat Beat’s set, a trippy psych group...
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It’s very strange to think that the Saturday evening of Blowout is done, and we’re only halfway through this great beautiful thing. Apparently, some people still can’t get a handle on the whole expansion thing and have been clinging to the idea that Blowout is ditching Hamtramck. This weekend proved that nothing could be...
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By Will A. Shattuck and Jason Stollsteimer (of The Hounds Below) Paychecks smells like puke And poop. I think the giant pile of orange cones outside the front entrance indicates a recent plumbing malfunction. (Will) Now on to the bands: Nam kook and the typhoon were great. The venue for some reason decided to...
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My band #2, All The Wild Children played at the Whiskey in the Jar. It was a decent turn out, mostly close friends up front, and definitely a good energy. The sound was rough, as it was just a tiny “vocals only PA”, but we made it work. We played a new tune, tentatively...
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The best laid plans and all that. When I get to the PNA tonight at 9pm to see out-of-towners Hunters, the first noticeable thing is that they aren’t in fact a two-piece, as I wrote in the blurb guide in the paper. Doh! To be fair, their press pics are deceiving and so many...
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I don’t know what came over me, but by the end of the set I was hanging off the edge of the stage. Part of that was due to the fact that there was no where to stand. Another part of it was that the music was so affecting (so loud, really,) that I...
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Guest Blog by Frank Woodman (Caveman Woodman) I’m driving down 94 at 90 miles an hour. Just got out of work an hour early and I have Blowout fever. Trying to make Loretta Lucas, I fly up the back stairs of the Majestic with my backpack and have my first beer open before I...
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Holy crap, last night was good. It’s Blowout time, ladies and gentlemen. It’s the time of year when we get to wallow in Detroit’s gloriously diverse and consistently awesome music scene like pigs in poop, pounding down tune after tune, fearing no consequence. We get to be greedy, gluttonous even, and certainly debauched. The...
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Hustle and Bustle… The Metro Times’ 16th Blowout Festival kicks-off tonight at the Magic Stick with a fitful, blurring band summit: 20-ish minute sets from 25 bands. Bars of Gold 10:40 PM to 11:00 PM @ Magic Stick – Stage 2 Spread across three stages (including down in the Garden Bowl, near the shiny...
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