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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

City Slang

Magic Stick: Rock is Dead

Posted By Valerie Vande Panne on Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:07 PM

According to a report in the Freep, legendary local club the Magic Stick will cease hosting rock bands in the spring:

"It was a matter of surviving," [David] Zainea said of the move to electronic dance music, quietly in the works for more than a year... Rock bookings will move to the adjacent Majestic Theatre — a 1,000-capacity room that can be curtained down to space for 300 — and the Majestic Cafe, which is big enough to accommodate the 250-person average attendance of recent Stick shows, Zainea said. Those spaces will also undergo some renovation work, Zainea said.

Read the Freep story here, and the Detroit News story here.

Do you have a favorite rock-n-roll Magic Stick memory? Photo? Share it in the comments below.

Tags: Magic Stick, Majestic Theatre, David Zainea

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