There’s no way that one of the true kings of Detroit rock’n'roll should go unnoticed on his 63rd birthday. Ted Nugent has done more than his fair share to make sure that music lovers around the globe know that Michigan and Detroit in particular is a rock haven. Of course Ted has his controversial...
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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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Big news bombshells keep exploding fast and furious around All-American Muslim, the controversial first-season TLC reality series filmed in Dearborn. In the latest salvo, in the aftermath of Lowe’s pulling its commercials from the show under pressure from an ultraconservative Christian group, hip-hop megamogul Russell Simmons says he has bought all the remaining ad...
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Kid Rock’s cover of Bad Company’s “Feel Like Makin’ Love” has been called “sacrilege” in a chart of Courageous and Contentious Cover Songs compiled by Sonos.com. The chart, which can be viewed here, places the Kid Rock cover alongside Celine Dion’s awful rendition of AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long”. Also down the...
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Now in it’s fifth year of operation; the Detroit Film Critics Society, of which I and my friend Jeff Meyers are proud members, have released their nominations. It’s an intriguing list, in what was a somewhat unusual year, with fewer obvious, big budget favorites than is often the case. Many smaller films garnered acclaim;...
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Plymouth-based company Grip Studios has come out with a very cool range of guitar hangers, just in time for Christmas. The hangers, which are wall mountable, look like a variety of hands, from the zombie hand to the tree stump hand. According to the press release, “Grip Studios’ custom guitar hangars retail for around...
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