The Juliets at Woodruff’s [Video]
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Nathan K // Leave Them [Video]
Before Nathan K. heads out on the road with Stepdad to join the Warped Tour, he found himself in my office…playing music with a video camera in his face. One of the areas top singer/songwriters, having Nathan around is al...
Paul Luc // Sunday’s Best [Video]
This past weekend we had the pleasure of having Pittsburgh natives Paul Luc in studio. We got to spend a lot of time with them as they passed through town on their way to play Traverse City. We grubbed out at Red Rock in downto...
Local Song Revue: SLGTM, Spanish Radio, Misty & more
It’s been a busy month in Ypsi-music-making, listeners, thus that this is less a blog post and really a rehash of recently streamable songs from your neighbors. The passing of children’s author (a misleading genre-designati...
Fellow Graduates Your A2/Ypsi Bucket List
Trustees, faculty members, proud parents, family and friends. Graduating class of 2012, I’m honored and grateful that you’ve invited me to be a part of such an important moment in your lives. I stand here today before you, ...
The High Strung’s ¿Possible o’ Impossible? + Totally Awesome Fest #8
The Totally Awesome Fest is all about audience engagement; a whitewater rapid’s-splashing-together of culture, from music, to visual arts, to more eccentric forms, namely shadow puppetry, streaming across a range of easily na...
Seth Glier Live in Studio [Video]
Critically-acclaimed and all-around awesome rising artist Seth Glier talks about Starbucks, dropping out of college, and making a difference on the road I’ve read that the main reason music is so affecting to the listener is ...
Gotye and Kimbra Please at Pease Auditorium [Review]
Photo by Bruno Postigo “Are you excited to see Gotye?” asked opening act Kimbra on Monday night, unknowingly clearing up any confusion as to how his name is pronounced (G?-tea-?). While the obvious answer from the sell-out ...
Tune in to Smash Television
Now, it’s been almost two years since this post-apocalyptic hip-hop duo (Leaf Erikson and Jah Connery) put out their subtly epic Idiot Bocks album. (I’ll call anything ‘epic’ if you can gracefully/gloriously embrace and...
The Dish: The Wurst Bar
705 W Cross St., Ypsilanti // 734-485-6720 // www.wurstbarypsi.com Back in January, Mark Maynard interviewed Wurst Bar owner Jesse Kranyak and had only positive things to say about Ypsi’s newest bar (other than that th...
Heavy, Dark, Precise: Lizerrd
Lizerrd – L-T: Joshua Tafelski, Larry Johnson (drums), Anthony Anonymous, James North Photo by Doug Coombe This couldn’t be just a one-off thing. In the middle of October, the guys all started talking in these anxious term...
