Thursday, October 17, 2019
Glow up at Bevlove's monthly dance party at Deluxx Fluxx
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Posted By Lee DeVito on Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 1:00 PM
Bevlove is the Detroit R&B singer so fabulous that she graced the cover of Metro Times twice in one year. And her fabulosity is also such that she holds down a monthly night at Deluxx Fluxx, where she performs between sets from a lineup of DJs curated by her....
Detroit's Paint Thinner release second record of the year at Outer Limits Lounge
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Posted By Lee DeVito on Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:37 AM
Detroit punk band Paint Thinner has been putting in the work. The band only released its first LP, The Sea of Pulp, in February, and is already dropping follow-up Hagioscope to the Heart this week, with a record release show on Saturday. While the band is new-ish to the...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Detroit jazz royalty Joan Belgrave heads to Ann Arbor's Blue LLama Jazz Club
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Posted By Lee DeVito on Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 11:42 AM
Joan Belgrave was pretty much born to do this. The soulful jazz vocalist from Detroit began her music career at just 3 years old, soon receiving vocal training from University of Michigan professor Dr. Willis Patterson. Her career was taken to the next level when she started collaborating with...
Detroit's Electric 6 celebrate 20 years of high-voltage jams at Small's
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Posted By Lee DeVito on Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 10:52 AM
This is a 20-year milestone double-whammy. Hamtramck bar Small’s and heavy-hitting rock band Electric Six were both founded in 1999, and both are now institutions in their own rights. Small’s celebrated its big 2-0 with a birthday bash last month. Meanwhile, E6 celebrated by doing the only thing it...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Rapper IDK contemplates God's existence at Detroit's El Club
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Posted By Jerilyn Jordan on Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 3:27 PM
While Kanye West is off galavanting around the country with his Sunday Service, claiming to be some MAGA-hat-wearing conduit of divine power or whatever, Maryland rapper IDK is conducting a different type of sermon. For his major label debut, Is He Real?, the formerly incarcerated tutor and barber muses...
Edgefest returns to Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Concert House to celebrate out-of-the-box jazz
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Posted By Jerilyn Jordan on Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 2:38 PM
Returning to push jazz to the limit is Edgefest — the four-day experimental avant jazz fest produced by Kerrytown Concert House, which makes its return to Ann Arbor with a roster of artists carrying the torch for the improvisational and collaborative genre. The award-winning fest, which was founded in...
No, Elton John and his husband haven't used Eminem's intimate wedding gift... yet
Posted By Jerilyn Jordan on Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 11:11 AM
One is a glittery, hit-making “Rocket Man” and the other is an angsty hometown “Rap God.” All differences aside, Elton John and Eminem are just like a couple of cock rings in a pod, er, satin box. In an interview released by The Guardian on Saturday, during which the British...
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Crowdfunding campaign launched to fix Grande Ballroom roof
Posted By Lee DeVito on Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:43 PM
Last year, an inspection crowdfunded by a preservation group revealed that Detroit's historic 1960s rock 'n' roll venue, the Grande Ballroom, was structurally sound — and revived hope that the storied venue could one day return to "kick out the jams." However, the Friends of the Grande is now once...
Detroit's Armageddon Beachparty to host performances by Native Age, Bad Fashion, and Craig Garwood
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Posted By Jerilyn Jordan on Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:28 PM
Detroit’s ambassadors of psychedelia — Elena and Aubrey Smyth, aka Kozma and Motu — just so happen to run one of the cooler and under-the-radar venues in town, Armageddon Beachparty Lounge, and have curated an evening of tunes for indie music lovers. For starters, Warren-based four-piece the Native Age blends...
Metro Detroit rock mainstay Pat Smillie releases first record in a decade at Token Lounge
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Posted By Jerilyn Jordan on Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 2:51 PM
Now with Bob Seger retiring from the road, it’s up to some other Motor City artists to keep the soulful multi-faceted rock flame a-burnin’. Leave it to longtime performer Pat Smillie, who will return with his first record in a decade, Lonesome for a Long Time, to do some...
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