XV makes a smooth landing at the Blind Pig
When Donavan Johnson was fifteen years old and only known in small high school circles as “the kid with the green backpack,” the young outcast left earth and took residence on the (still undiscovered) Planet Squaria, where ...
Chris Bathgate reminisces about his “Salt Year” in resonant performance [Review]
As I typed the first sentence of this review – “Local folk musician Chris Bathgate returns to the Blind Pig for another memorable show…” – I could sense myself stripping his music of its power with my keyboard. Yeah, ...
Pause, Rewind and Fast Forward
The best films of 2011 and the most anticipated 2012 releases If humans needed to take a month out of the year to hibernate, you can bet every movie lover would choose January. It has become the pre-Oscar dumping ground, where ...
Einstein casts spells in Ann Arbor
This is an account of my experience at a preview performance of “Einstein on the Beach” on Saturday, January 21st. For more background information about the opera and events leading up to its remount, check out our feature ...
iSPY’s Top 30 Albums of 2011
(in no particular order) To listen to all of these great albums (most of them anyways) check out our Top 30 Albums of 2011 playlist on Spotify. “Bon Iver” – Bon Iver I’ve listened to a lot of really, really good music t...
#tweetea Ann Arbor Bar Crawl for the Neutral Zone [Photos]
On December 14th, the #tweetea Ann Arbor crew hosted their 1st Annual Charity #tweetea Bar Crawl. Taking place along Main St. in downtown Ann Arbor, patrons were invited to join the fight to help Ann Arbor’s teen center T...
IAMDYNAMITE – Blue October Review [Photos]
Blue October proves therapy should be loud, interactive, and musical At what point did Blue October become irrelevant? I started asking myself that question about twenty minutes into Blue October’s set Wednesday night at the ...
Ypsilanti Songwriting Festival at Woodruff’s [Photos]
The Ypsilanti District Library held it’s annual Songwriting Festival over the weekend. There were performances at the Whittaker Road library and at Woodruff’s later on Saturday evening. We stopped by and snapped som...
Fleet Foxes at Hill Auditorium
Take one of the most musically complex and hauntingly melodic bands around, put them on stage in one of the most intimate and acoustically gorgeous venues in the country, and I don’t know if you can describe it as anything sh...
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