As Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields was sitting in an empty room in upstate New York waiting for a “75-foot moving truck,” he pulled up his email and began responding to some questions I had sent him a week earlier. R...
Wind whistling through tall grass. Stacking, shuffling, breaking and building – like faint echoes from a carpenter’s shop. Natural percussion and electronically-born melodies sneaking into open air through a crack in a stud...
If you think Edward Sharpe is one of the members of the 10-plus member band called Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, you’d be wrong. Edward Sharpe is actually a fictional character created in the mind of group frontman Al...
Coldplay // The Palace / Aug. 1 by Mary Simkins Exciting news, everybody! British rock sensations Starfish will be coming to Michigan soon! Oh, you’ve never heard of Starfish? That might be because they changed their name t...
Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised to see the words “sold out!” marked in green chalk on a sign outside the Crofoot on Wednesday night. But they remained even after a double take, reminding me that Beach House isn’t ...
Father John Misty (Joshua Tillman) came to the Crofoot like a 21st century John the Baptist emerging from years in an emotional desert, armed with a notebook of enlightenments and a newfound enthusiasm for sharing his message. ...
Tycho is the musical half of San Francisco-based electronic music producer, Scott Hansen. The other half is ISO50, the pseudonym he uses for his graphic design work. Another thing you should know about Hansen is that he’s rep...
?Twin Shadow – 8/01 Pontiac Crofoot Ballroom – Pike Room Got a sec? Just 5-secs… George Lewis is singing about relationships and it gets me wondering how much you really know me. How close are we, friend? How eer...
Before you read any further, there’s a few things you need to know: First, it’s okay to be self-absorbed. Second, hooking up with a girl in a graveyard is not disrespectful. In fact, it’s actually a better way to commemor...
“We aren’t by ourselves Grouplove,” said singer Christian Zucconi over some mellow, between-songs instrumentation. “We are all Grouplove,” he continued, stretching his arms out as if to initiate the entire crowd into ...