Jack & The Bear
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,...
“Collective Folk Art” – Boss Radio / Sagittronics / Vagrant Symphony
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 #8
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...
Detropia Premier (Soundtrack) + Congress’ Maker
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...
The Paper Sound / Eleanora / Ypsi Flea # 4
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...
The Buzz: September
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...
Music Makers // Congress – Shigeto – SelfSays and Buffay, too
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...
In Fact’s First Tracks – New Ypsi-Electronica – New E.P. (First show: 8.15.12)
What is it about atmospheric electronica? Trancey trip-hop… Intricately layered, glitch-adorned, synth-swirled dream-pop… Brings out the moon, stars and the mystery inherent to faint luminance, to fluorescence glowing o...
Midnight Snack: Child Bite on the prowl + Introducing: Disinformants
Out of your mind music for an out of your mind scenario: hell-storm quake-rock appealing to the sharp-toothed shadowed side of yourself, the one you don’t let-out until after 11 p.m. anyhow. The word “awesome” was drained...
The Hounds Below
Jason Stollsteimer has been there and back with the Von Bondies. Now he’s returning to the road with a new pack. Jason Stollsteimer is in a good mood. “Great, actually!” His excitement comes through over the phone the way...
iSPY Sponsors
