The Buzz: November
Passion Pit // Royal Oak Music Theatre / Nov. 2 by Jasmine Zweifler Advice for the day: don’t get all scandalized when a friend asks if you’ve gotten tickets to Passion Pit. Passion Pit is not actually a trench filled with ...
Misty Lyn and the Big Beautiful
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...
Fusing the Past and Present, Shigeto’s Journey into the World of Electronic Music
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...
Greensky Bluegrass
Kalamazoo-based bluegrass sensation Greensky Bluegrass has had a busy summer, gaining steam with festivals and sold-out shows and playing with some of the biggest names in music. And now they will be making a stop at the Blind ...
Yelawolf
The Redneck Poet from Gadsden, Alabama Drive about two hours northeast of the beautiful University of Alabama campus and you’ll reach Gadsden. It’s the kind of place where shotguns are toted as loosely as iPods, where you�...
Saul Williams @ the Blind Pig
Click here for an introduction to Saul Williams through a recent interview. By the time I arrived at the Blind Pig this past Tuesday night, Dessa had already been on stage for a few minutes and had the crowd on her charming h...
Girls, Man + Chris goes back to the Cocoon ?
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...
Saul Williams
Get Inside the Mind of the World’s Greatest Slam Poet, Actor, Author and Musician Saul Williams is restless. As a slam poet, he can be kind, ferocious, funny, existential, dramatic and sensitive, all within the same minute. ...
EL-P and Killer Mike’s Latest Musings
This pair of rappers strike subversive into the cerebral – mad yet mindful, dark but not depressing. If “Rap is dead,” as Killer Mike rhymed ten years back on his proper debut, then perhaps an Emcee’s best course ...
Talib Kweli @ the Blind Pig [Review]
Not since Mac Miller performed back in December of 2010 have I seen the Blind Pig so full of life. It helped that it was a sold out show – when you get Talib Kweli at a venue the size of the Pig, holding capacity becomes moot...
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