When the new lineup of the Von Bondies takes the stage at Ann Arbor’s Blind Pig next Wednesday night, January 9th, for Jason Stollsteimer’s first area show in four years, they’ll be hitting that stage following a set by SSM (Szymanski, Shettler, Morris), who...
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‘Tis the season, it appears, for rock ‘n’ roll reunions. Not only are Rhythm Corps and Sponge performing a Detroit show this weekend (see item below), but Luke Mucus & The Phlegm, one of the first “punk rock” bands to appear on the Michigan...
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One of the major musical pre-Christmas events takes place this weekend in nearby Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. Mittenfest II, a two-day, three-venue holiday benefit music festival, is described by organizer/promoter Brandon Zwagerman as “an ode to the winter season, our hand-shaped peninsula, the local...
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You may or may not have heard that Detroiter rockers-made-good Rhythm Corps will be doing a reunion show at the Royal Oak Music Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 22nd, performing with another band of Detroit rockers-made good, Sponge. What you definitely may not know is...
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Almost every rock fan in Detroit knows that the Muggs were one of the 12 finalists on Fox-TV’s The Next Great American Band TV show. Alas, the Muggs didn’t make it to the final finals (the judges especially had a difficult time with the...
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Hip-hop producer Dr. Dre was victorious in a second lawsuit involving his Up In Smoke tour and DVD. A $3 billion invasion of privacy lawsuit was filed against the hip hop star over a videotaped conversation featuring three former City of Detroit employees that...
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Speaking of the Detroit Top 100 Songs, which we’ve still been doing a lot of around here lately, how come this rockin’ band never made the final cut? Cool stuff! Seriously, though, you can find even more vintage Detroit kiddies stuff at detroitkidshow.com. Good stuff for nostalgia...
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There have, of course, been many differing opinions regarding our recent Detroit’s 100 Greatest Songs cover feature, to the point that some of the more uninformed ones made me blow an Internet gasket last week (well, sort of — people should be aware that...
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As was noted on this site several times over the past two months, producer, songwriter and Was (Not Was) cofounder Don Was was recently in town to record and film a slew of new Detroit music for his part of the MyDamnChannel Web site....
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