Tickets are now on sale for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s summer season, headlined by the “Salute to America” concerts. Other presentations include appearances by Bill Cosby, Natalie Merchant, Yo-Yo Ma’s exciting bluegrass project, and more. They say, “The 21st Annual Salute to America concerts will take place on Wednesday, July 3-Saturday, July 6 at...
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LINE UP SCHEDULE VENUES TICKETS Welcome to Blowout…   I woke up today wanting to write about it feeling as though there was substantially more excitement being generated by-and-throughout the music community then any time I can remember. (Well, more than five years, let’s say?) Excitement like a renaissance, a rev-up, a roller-coaster or...
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  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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