Episode 3:04 – And Now His Watch Is Ended   As Cersei famously said back in the first season, “In the game of thrones, you win or you die.” With that spirit in mind, here’s your weekly look at who’s winning and who got served.   Winning!   1. Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen In...
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On Wednesday, April 24, Trinosophes hosts Spires That in the Sunset Rise. They say, “Using a wide array of ethnic folkloric instruments, Spires That in the Sunset Rise perform psyche-folk with a broad, global awareness of other folk traditions. Covering ground from Appalachia to Morocco to Java, Spires delivers their charming original material in...
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Remember – if you send it, it will get reviewed. That’s the City Slang promise. It doesn’t matter what genre the music is – as long as it has a Metro Detroit connection, it’ll get in. Preferably, we’d like to concentrate on new releases but, while we’re getting warmed up here, feel free to...
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Black Jake & the Carnies Possessed by Paul James (Texas) Rickett Pass Stretched Across the Tracks April 25th —7pm, $6 – at the Trumbullplex in Detroit (down Trumbull street in Woodbridge) Been watching and waiting for the metro-area’s preeminent punk-frayed bluegrass folk-brawlers to come back around?       Black Jake & The Carnies have...
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The Deadstring Brothers will play the Honky Tonk Throwdown, an event taking place at PJ’s Lager House on May 10-12. This is the festival’s fourth year, and it has a great lineup on hand to celebrate. Day 1 features: Deadstring Brothers The Sights Katie Grace Horse Cave Trio If Birds Could Fly Captain Ivory...
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The Phantom Cats might be taking a bit of a long-afternoon nap for the next few weeks after Blowout so I should probably write about this now. You should probably listen to this now. Those multi-tracked harmonies kaleidoscope with sunspot brilliance over these sparking guitars that effect this giddy jogging, a half-jumping kind of a run…a...
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