The lineup for this year’s mega Orion Festival, taking place on Detroit’s Belle Isle on June 8 and 9, has been announced and there are a few local bands on the bill. Metal-heads Battlecross, rock ‘n’ soul dudes the Dirtbombs and punks Death represent Detroit. Also on the bill are the Red Hot Chili...
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Rapper Trick Trick will be performing at the Magic Stick on May 9. Tickets are $10. According to a statement, “A member of Detroit’s hip-hop elite, Christian Anthony, better known by his stage name Trick Trick, is an American rap artist and member of the hip-hop group Good Sqwad. He picked up his love...
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The Jamaican Queens play the Blind Pig tonight, Saturday, February 23. The band is performing Wormfood, its debut album. It also has a video out for new single “Water”, which can be seen here. “Ryan and Adam were formerly in the band Prussia, and teamed up to record Wormfood last winter, mixed by Christopher...
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Sequestration. SXSW. Emergency Financial Managers. Bonnaroo lineups… Sporting world scandals. Thurston Moore’s new band… It’s another busy, crazy, noisy week. It’s all blurring by me, as I try to move my shit from one house to another. It’s like the world’s being put on hold while I crouch down and get screws out of...
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With combined resumes conjuring kaleidoscopic-pop types,  fx-clouded experimentalists and world-music-tapping progressives like THTX, Immigrant Suns XD Wei and Waka Jawaka… With their intriguing and effective implementation of an octave-divided saxophone’s low-gurgling sizzle, African talking drums marching under Indian hammered dulcimers… With their altogether creative compisitional rewiring of affecting the rhythmic grooves of their non-existent “bass” player...
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  Here we go folks, it’s Oscar time! There are 24 statues up for grabs, and since most of you probably only care about five of them, allow me to suggest how to place your bets for the other nineteen. As always, the goal is to go 20 for 24, and one of these...
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