Misty Lyn walked into the studio knowing this was who she was, feeling that this was where she was supposed to be. Knowing that these songs were hers and she was going to accomplish anything, everything, with these new songs of...
On a cool evening in middle October, the seven members of Jack & the Bear settled at a cozy wooden table inside B-24 Espresso Bar. Sipping large mugs of coffee and sharing cookies, Brandon James, Adam Schreiber, Evan Close,...
Duende… This Detroit-based quartet experiments with strange brews of un-psyche, dysfolk-ian, blues-stung honky-tonk; a reassembling of strutting rock styles jettisoning into lysergic-hinted lift-offs yet still muddied with a ...
YpsiFest isn’t out to be self-congratulatory – no, it’s out to be a summit, a meeting of distanced musical minds, a bridge! This will be three days of live (loud) music, Michigan music, in Depot Town, meant not so much to...
Two things this week: ONE: Detropia is a surreal insight into the accelerated depletion of Detroit, in manufacturing, financing, and in population, directed by the Oscar-nominated creators of Jesus Camp, exploring what the Moto...
How many pop-songs are inspired by girls? Probably impossible to count… From the Beatles to Weezer, Chuck Berry to Bon Iver, there’s infinite inspiration for any heavyhearted roses-are-red-type-boy when he starts musing upo...
Patience is rewarded, more often than not. Detroit-area guitar-glorifiers the Paper Sound’s debut album dropped back in 2005, a curious and somewhat erratic time in the music world where electro-heavy M83/LCD/Animal Collectiv...
Frontier Ruckus // The Ark & The Crofoot / Sept. 6 & 7 by Paul Kitti A VHS tape of “The Adventures of Pete & Pete” (anyone?) on their homepage is just one of countless reasons to love this folk rock band from ou...
Comfortably hidden below LIVE in the spot that used to house Goodnite Gracie’s in Ann Arbor, The Last Word bar opened quietly about six months ago. Their updated yet understated approach to nightlife compliments the almost an...
I’m indoors cuz I can’t go out… Actually, I can’t get out. Over here in metro Detroit, the indomitable/abominable Woodward Dream Cruise is currently slugging through our main vein of transportation, with pop-up carnival...