“BLOOOOZE ex-SPLO-zhun!!!….Man of my nature always got the trip!” Jon Spencer… This guy, not even 6 ft tall, and what, he must be 50 by now, lightning in leather, this sleek slithery sanctifier speckled with sweat s...
From the roots of Michigan music to Bank of Ann Arbor’s Sonic Lunch comes songwriter duo Seth Bernard and May Erlewine. After having each established independent careers, the pair came together six years ago to create a combi...
I tell myself: it only feels like everyone’s in Chicago. It’s Saturday as I write this. I can see it: a sea of tied-dye and ironic animal-themed cotton T’s, bulbous sunglasses masking faces burnt by July’s rays, their t...
And a fine way to commemorate that comes in a couple weeks when the magazine will host its own music stage in the heart of the Ann Arbor Art Fair (7/16 – 7/18) on Liberty (between Main and Ashley). One band featured that week...
The indisputable cultural tidal wave that sweeps Washtenaw County every year in mid-July is upon us once again. We all know it as the Ann Arbor Art Fair, but we also all have our own perspective on the experience. For some, it ...
Summer is the prime time to gather with friends to enjoy warm evenings, good food and exciting events to come. If you had the chance do all this and also support the Ann Arbor Art Fair, why wouldn’t you? Well, Ann Arbor’s T...
Building their wings mid-flight Wherever there are great bands, there are great unknown bands. It’s a full-time hobby, keeping track of all the sounds being generated between Detroit and Ann Arbor, and it’s easiest to let w...
Jonathan Coulton (pictured above) Photo by Lauren Atkinson by Jesse Atkinson Normally if you told me that you’d been to a concert that involved a crowd sing-a...
YpsiFest 2011 will be taking place October 12 – 15 at Woodruff’s in Depot Town, Ypsilanti. In the festival’s seventh year, eight bands will kick off the fest at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, October 12. Thursday and Friday wil...