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Drunken Barn Dance and the SomethingNew in local hip-hop…

Photo by: Kelly Bennett My memories of the winter of 2008 and the winter of 2009 are burned with signature singes from a singer/songwriter who taught me that Johnny Cash and My Blood Valentine could work together as feasible in...
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Ypsi @Blowout – Each Venue Is An Adventure

Ypsi bands’ reverence for Hamtramck, “sweaty, sardine-packed” dive bars and the spontaneous/mischievous Blowout Music Festival.. This is the music scene’s spring training, their opening day and world series rolled into ...
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Two Things: BUFFAY and Swimsuit

Ypsi’s Brandon Wiard writes in an update on his latest mixes, producing an epic hip/hop-funk/pop odyssey via his alter-genre-ego BUFFAY: “Just muscling through… …take no prisoners.” It’s one thing to have a vibrant ...
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Hobbies include: “Making weird songs and screaming a lot…” Jim Cherewick’s busy February…

Jim Cherewick screams. Jim Cherewick croaks. Jim Cherewick longs for wicker chairs that could also rock… I ask him if he’s playing that Groundhog Day show at the Pig? “Wait, which day is Groundhog’s Day?” I tell him i...
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Abandon hope all ye who enter – Live is reborn

This writer was able to slip into an exclusive pre-opening party at the recently purchased and renovated Live to mingle with Ann Arbor’s selects as they bounced to the bass and christened Tree Town’s newest hangout. Live st...
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Re-rise and Shine-on… Lightning Love’s new EP

It’s a big deal, yeah, but it might also be kind of a preface. Songs about sleeping, waking up, getting up and getting out, this could just be the start (or the re-start).Lightning Love’s new EP (out in two weeks, properl...
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Matt Jones cuts a new album and I drink too much coffee

Half Poison / Half Pure Already surpassing volatile rates of coffee-intake, I shuffled in to the Ugly Mug last week so that I could, thus, down some more of the jittery juice and commence to yammer at Matt Jones about how he ne...
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LePop: Nova Atlantis

Presented by Charlie LaCroix Art Brokerage  LePop is a traveling pop-up art gallery intended to breathe new life into underutilized corporate spaces available for lease or sale. For the next several months Charlie LaCroix will...
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“But We’re Here…” – Rounding Up Unusual Suspects and Singles

The end of the year has meant I’ve finally found some time to stop running… to sit, and to listen. ~ Nathan K. has embraced feedback, reverb, and static-spotted, space rock. Reading back the epitaph on his current ...
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Revue – not Review – Some Things to Look Forward To…

I’m made nauseous by the bulge of year-end theme lists, posts, essays and reviews. December is often clouded over by the big, blustery siiiigh of blogs and zines, a puff of particulates crowding together best-albums and b...
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