MOVEMENT 08 SATURDAY
Egyptian Lover Rocks the 808 while Jun Atkins looks on Cozmo D of Newcleus gets the crowd to “Jam On It” Peanut Butter Wolf drops some Tay Zonday Terrence Parker rocks the underground stage Dan Bell/DBX on the Vitamin Water Stage Moby on the Vitamin Water Stage Stacey Pullen tearing it up at the underground…
FEASTING IN TECHNO ALONE AGAIN OR
The title here obviously (maybe not so obviously to some) gives a nod to one of the great songs from the band Love’s greatest work, 1967’s Forever Changes LP. Which doesn’t have anything to do with Movement 2008: Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival. Or doesn’t it just? Forget about the part about being “alone again tonight,…
DEMF 08: SATURDAY
Early afternoon smiles NOSPECTACLE opens up Main Stage Going raw DJ Minx Big Proof represent Hip-Hop on Red Bull Stage If your car was towed, this is where it got towed next to… Skating at Kenny Dixon’s party at Northland Keeping cool in the middle of skating competition
DEMF 08: FRIDAY
Brooklyn’s finest shopping at Record Time Pittsburgh’s Technoir Audio threatens a takeover Viki at Bohemian Hall DJ Genesis DJ Delano Smith
REPORTS FROM THE MOVEMENT FRONT
BTW: In addition to the excellent cover story by Walter Wasacz, Hobey Echlin and Carleton S. Gholz on the Movement ’08 festival coming up this weekend, Messrs. Wasacz and Gholz, along with Doug Coombe, will be posting reports from the event here all weekend long, similar to what we did during the Hamtramck Blowout fest.…
A WORTHY CAUSE
The Deastro show at the Crofoot this Friday, May 23rd — which was the tagline to Ms. Wendy Case’s excellent article on the dude (and which led to yet another shitstorm on one of the local Bozo blogs this week – which I may or may not address in the near future, depending on how…
IT’S NOT ABOUT ANYTHING…
The Jandek show in Ann Arbor last weekend has been the buzz of many sites on the Internet since Monday. Some have termed it “brilliant”; others have called it “the emperor’s new clothes.” At the very least, everyone thinks the show can be described as “interesting”… Here’s a first-hand, eye-witness report from local writer and…
HERESY ON VINYL
It only took like a million years, but the punks of Detroit’s Heresy finally have a worthy vinyl release in The Final Hour EP. The band, led by Tim King, played in the 1980s at clubs like Graystone Hall or the storied Hungry Brain. And the 7-inch release, on green vinyl, with a mushroom cloud…
Enabling the disabled
It may be more complicated than you think.
Keep on moving
Matt made art the way he lived: In perpetual motion. His collection of dashed-off helicopter paintings with whipping blades, his friezes choked with narrative action (no languid goddesses lounging in there), even the huge steel sculpture he crafted with Enis Sefersah looked like it plummeted from outer space and was still moving (in its stasis!),…
Because he had to
I wouldn’t say Matt and I were, like, friends friends, and it took us knowing each other for 10 years before we’d wind up in a band together, but, like a lot of us, I knew Matt as this ubiquitous presence on the scene — even when it didn’t seem like there was much of…
Move over
Greetings techno lovers and haters; whiners and quibblers; ecstatic dancers and third millennium hippies; club crawlers and starry-eyed house heads; chin-scratching aesthetes and purists; assorted suburban high-school nerds; punkettes and furry ravers with angel wings and bunny ears. And hello to all our local media friends, fans and musicians as well as visitors from New…
Portrait of the artist
The following remembrances are a mere handful of so many we have received. Please check www.metrotimes.com for more memories and photos, and feel free to share your own thoughts, which we will continue to post online. These letters have been edited for length. Gerry Blake, father When Matthew was a little boy we would take…
A grand visionary
Detroit lost a dear friend and tremendous asset last week. Scores of people in all walks of life — from the neighborhood kids he mentored in inner-city Detroit to friends and fans of his artwork and music from California to Hawaii, from New York to Germany and Japan — will miss him dearly. Matt Blake,…
Letters to the Editor
Spirit of service Jack Lessenberry’s article “Getting off the street” (Metro Times, April 23) impressed me. It is good to know that there is a place like Covenant House for young people at risk. I am a Human Service student at Baker College and have a great interest in serving people. I agree with Melissa…
Choke screen
There was a time when Ophelia Owens blamed bad genes for the asthma that spans three generations of her family. She and her mother both suffer from the potentially deadly malady. So do the youngest of Owens’ seven children, a pair of bright-eyed, exuberant boys ages 3 and 5. Then, last year, Owens and a…
Comics
The Boiling Point – by Mikhaela Reid
Preaching soul
Solomon Burke keeps on climbing.
Jeffrey Morgan’s Media Blackout
Tad, Cobain and Klaus Voorman, together again.
Movement drive-bys
DAN "DBX" BELL From: Detroit/Windsor via Sacramento, Calif. What he’s done lately: Well, see, that’s the point: DBX is Bell’s early ’90s techno-tinged house moniker, back when he rolled with Richie Hawtin and other bald minimalists. So lately, he’s lugging all his vintage gear onstage to re-create classics like “Losing Control” and nuggets from his…
Party Out of Bounds
Here’s a selective list of what we think are the best afterparties (of more than 50 scheduled) off the festival grounds. Sure, we’ve probably missed some good ones, but who cares? FRIDAY, MAY 23 Masters of the House: A Tribute to Ken Collier Featuring Delano Smith, Charles Hicks, Al Ester, Norm Talley, Minx, Mike Clark,…
Fieger vs. Meijer
Why the feds are hot to get Fieger.
Question of style
Obama and Kilpatrick take two different roads.
Heating up
Deputy mayor drops bomb on anti-incinerator protest.
Night and Day
THURSDAY • 22 JAMES FREY TOLSTOY … MARQUEZ … FREY? To gain entry to the illustrious inner circle of Oprah’s Club of Books, only to have it all snatched away in an hourlong episode of talk show defamation (ouch, biyatch!), is the mark of a true deviant. Forget “memories” penned of substance abuse and hard…
Food Stuff
Full plates for local foodies.
Remembering Matthew Blake
Detroit lost a dear friend and tremendous asset last week. Scores of people in all walks of life — from the neighborhood kids he mentored in inner-city Detroit to friends and fans of his artwork and music from California to Hawaii, from New York to Germany and Japan — will miss him dearly. Matt Blake,…
Back on the block
Oslo patrons can choose between sushi and a longish list of superior Thai dishes; the sushi is sliced and rolled by Korean-born John Riney. Tom kha, the soup with coconut milk and chicken, is both creamy and salty, with generous chunks of chicken. Drunken noodles are peppery yet luscious, the noodles fat and slippery, with…
Son of Rambow
As a self-confessed movie geek who squandered far too much of his childhood in the shelter of a darkened movie theater, I’m predisposed to identify with a story about boyish film obsession. I only wish that this movie itself were more worthy of obsessing over. Son of Rambow is a fitfully charming and engaging little…
Fantasy fatigue
The Pevensie kids — Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy (Georgie Henley) — return to Narnia a year after their first adventure to find that 1,300 years have passed. Narnia is in ruins and its mythological woodland creatures are near extinction because of the Telmarines (aka humans). When their evil…
