Guest blog by Gerard Smith of Bill Grogan’s Goat I got to the Friday night installment of The Metro Times Blowout late last night, after taking my lovely Mrs. out for Mexican dinner, then falling into a food coma for an hour or so when I dropped her off at home. I still managed...
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So far so good. Two nights of Blow-ing-Out the Library. Last night we (The Ferndale Library – as a venue, and as an entity of volunteer bartenders and staff members, myself included as it is, full disclosure, my “day-job”) were privileged with a pleasing line up. We had three proficient indie-rocking pop provocateurs with...
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Phantom Cats had so many trippy light effects beamed around the library, it felt like we were inside a lava lamp. Very distracting, but I could still hear the singer’s wooing and warbling. It was like if Poly Styrene of X-Ray Specs was trying to sing like Kate Bush. I didn’t not like it,...
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Four days have passed since the conclusion of the Hamtramck portion of Blowout, and the very first day of the festival in Ferndale is here. Let’s not mince words here – this is a bit of an experiment, but it’s a very necessary one. The Blowout had to change to survive, and this is...
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Have you noticed how expensive beef has gotten? Thanks to the higher prices of ground beef, even the once humble hamburger has become something of a treat. Ground beef used to be the way Americans would stretch their dollar and add protein to inexpensive meals like Hamburger Helper and spaghetti. Although pork prices have...
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What, go to Blowout? Or just go to a live-music-thing, in general? I would go because I want to very nearly have my forehead smacked with a guitar neck. It’s that physiological reaction, the hurk and jerk where you duck your head or collide, recoil, rollick off of a swarm of perfect strangers. The...
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