Bill Holdship
COVER STORY
On with the show
Motwon blues survivors the Muggs have one of the most inspiring stories in Detroit rock 'n' roll history.
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Updated 5/8/2008 
Posted by Bill Holdship
Chris Handyside
ON THE DOWNLOAD
Ear-popping songs from the Motor City fringes.
Jeffrey Morgan
MEDIA BLACKOUT
Burns faster than a line of hillbilly cyrstal meth!
Bill Holdship
Are you experienced?
Will Motor City guitar hero and blues scholar Cetan Clawson revive teh power trio concept for a new generation?
Bill Holdship
Ho-hum, again
Great acts can't save an award-show stinker.
Brian Smith
It's about the music, dude
AK Fest brings hi-fi-heads to Livonia.
Wendy Case
Rising from the ooze
Detroit punkers the Terrible Twos come not to praise rock but to bury it.
Avneet Singh
Brush it off
Comparisons to Pavement and Pixies don't faze Tapes 'n Tapes.
Brett Callwood
Crud 'n' guts
Detroit's B-movie metal heroes sing of girls, guns, gasoline and um, glitter.
Bill Holdship
Shake some action
How the Singles jangle and riff on a power-pop panacea.
W. Kim Heron
Wild and weird
The Fringe Festival takes over Detroit's Music Hall.
Chris Parker
It's about the music, man
Why American Mars won't let go.
Walter Wasacz
THE SUBTERRANEANS
The more things change ...
Thinking outside the, uh, box and the pleasure is all yours; plus Movement news.
Michael Jackman
True grit
Legendary Meatmen frontman Tesco Vee returns to Detroit.
Doug Coombe
Down under
SXSW '08 in glimpses and snaps.
Bill Holdship
Blowout bonanza!
What's in a word: Four days of nonstop musical mania.
Eric Harabadian
Pod people
A quartet of jazz aficionados takes D-town sounds to the masses.
Hobey Echlin
Master of the universe
Rapping's an adventure, and it's taken One Be Lo all the way to Egypt.
Walter Wasacz
THE SUBTERRANEANS
The vicious circle
Detroit techno artists keep inventing, innovating ... an doing it 'one more time.'
Bill Holdship
Into you like a train
Detroit slick chicks pick their horniest tunes.
Kahn Davison
The message
A U-M prof wants A2 & D-Town to be hub of hip-hop activism.
W. Kim Heron
All that jazz
It's a jazz-lover’s paradise in town this week.
Serene Dominic
Anyone can write the Grammys!
Yes, Virginia, writers make the Grammys 'long' and 'boring' and sometimes 'wildly unpredictable.'
Michael Hurtt
COVER STORY
Pay dirt
Only Detroit could give up the Dirtbombs and a guy like Mick Collins, but don't ever call 'em 'garage.'
Bill Holdship
Hamtown ham
A frolicsome music awards (and show) from the gut. And no, it ain't the DMAs.
Jess Harvell
Dress me up in your fuzz
Stephin Merritt’s newest love songs are all for the Jesus and Mary Chain.
Charles L. Latimer
Free heart
Shelton's righteous scream.
Bill Holdship
COVER STORY
CREEMed
Temper's flare in the wake of a new CREEM anthology & Lester Bangs rolls in his grave.
Khary Kimani Turner
Big bop for Dilla dawg
Mos Def leads a big band tribute to J. Dilla.
Chris Handyside
The 'bumblefuck model'
Quack! Multimedia's unconventional business plan.
Bill Holdship
COVER STORY
Sour CREEM
The life, death and strange resurrection of America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine; the first of two parts.
Khary Kimani Turner
Big bop for Dilla dawg
Mos Def leads a big band tribute to J. Dilla.
Chris Parker
Brothers and sisters
One of Detroit's most unheralded bands begins, slowly, to win over America.
Ben Blackwell
POP SHOTS
7-inchers of fun
Our resident singles expert scrutinizes the latest vinyl.
Walter Wasacz
THE SUBTERRANEANS
Best of 2007
The year showed the supremacy of the indie label.
Metro Times music staff
That was the year that was
Our critics pick the best in tunes, 2007.
Kahn Davison
What's goin' on
Street Justice can define hip-hop balance and chemistry. And they're from Inkster!
Walter Wasacz
THE SUBTERRANEANS
Beyond 'amateur night'
Holiday techno activities in the Motor City ain't just humbug.
Bill Holdship
Home for the holidays
The best Christmas comp of '07 is right here in Detroit.
Serene Dominic
December's chllin'
Calendar ghouls concur: 'Tis the season for rock 'n' roll tragedy!
Michael Hurtt
Boogie fever
Carl Sonny Leyland prepares to teach Detroit some hidden truths.
Chris Handyside
Peerless Vampire killers
Vampire Weekend rock multi-ethnically ... but please don't mention Paul Simon!
