Gorillaz Drop Free Sonic Journal of 2010 Fall Tour
Download it here for free. Recorded along their recent North American tour the new 15-track album features a song recorded while in town at The Fox Theater oh so cleverly named “Detroit”
Mr. Chief’s “Can’t Stand It” featuring Guilty Simpson and Wrekonize
Here’s a vid for the song “Can’t Stand it” from Detroit based rapper Mr. Chief featuring fellow Detroit emcee Guilty Simpson and Miami-based wordsmith Wrekonize. The video was shot by Wayne State grad Adam E. Pillon and was filmed in a wooded area of Southfield and at the American Pawnshop on 8 Mile and Greenfield.…
Shea’s Lounge: ‘CHRISTMAS, THE ECONOMY AND YOU’
CHRISTMAS, THE ECONOMY AND YOU I’m gonna stay in bed all day on Christmas, And pull my Three Wise Men comforter o’er my head, It’s not that I’m unhappy with a Saverer, But now I’d rather have a Spenderer instead.
Adventures of Plastikman
The line stretches out the door of the Elysium Lounge and wraps around the corner in the cold Detroit November rain. Bass shakes the cement down the entire block, and earplugs are handed out as you make it to the door. Step inside and see Richie Hawtin manning the turntables in one of his famed…
Food Stuff
More ‘cue — The rise of the barbecue joint continues. Banking on the success of Detroit’s Slows Bar-B-Q, a whole new slab of contenders has arisen, including Detroit’s Rub and Red Smoke, Royal Oak’s Lockhart’s, Bad Brad’s BBQ in New Baltimore, Clarkston’s Union Woodshop and others. Welcome to the fold Penny Black, bringing a taste…
Letters to the Editor
Buying a bridge Re: "When Matty wins, we all lose" (Dec. 15), thanks very much to Curt Guyette for the very informative article. It has always amazed me at the cost of going back and forth to Windsor. You spent a lot of time on this story and I really appreciate the information. Great job!…
Going the distance
When guitarist Scotty Iulianelli asks if I wanted to meet Brandon Moss, drummer for his band Bars of Gold, it’s a surprise. The guy’s in Washington D.C., where he lives with his family — at least that’s the story. Besides, we’re in Ferndale, and he’s nowhere to be seen. I figure the guy’s on a…
The real deal
It turns out that there really is a Santa Claus. Did you know, though, that he lives not at the North Pole but in the Nortown neighborhood on the city’s east side? Not only that, his sled isn’t pulled by reindeer power but rather by horsepower and Detroit steel. And contrary to what the movies…
Mickey Leigh & Legs McNeil – I Slept with Joey Ramone
Mickey Leigh & Legs McNeil – I Slept with Joey Ramone Touchstone, $26, 416 pp. Family psychologists would have a field day with Mickey Leigh’s memoir about his brother Joey Ramone. Now in paperback, it dredges up every sibling squabble we’ve endured, against the background of punk’s formation. The normalcy that sickly, obsessive-compulsive Ramone craved…
All in the family
Q: I’m writing to you under the influence of a little alcohol (as I’m not sure I’d have the courage to write to you about this sober). I’ve got an awkward (understatement) situation. My mother left her e-mail logged in on my computer, and I decided to be an asshole and snoop out of boredom.…
Little Fockers
Little Fockers GRADE: C The Meet the Parents/Fockers franchise is sort of like that one distant cousin you see only on holidays, pleasant enough to pass the green bean casserole to, but just a tiny bit boorish, and certainly not someone you’d like to see on a regular basis. Yet the series has stashed away…
Of Kwame and Kwanzaa
Like a holiday present to Detroit, the latest round of federal indictments swept up former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, his father Bernard Kilpatrick, former mayoral aide Derrick Miller, former Department of Water and Sewerage director Victor Mercado, and contractor Bobby Ferguson and in a single stroke. It’s been a long time coming. After listening to the…
Trans Detroit express
In this fleeting world of synthetic rhythms and sounds where we spend most of our waking hours, the end of the calendar year has actual meaning. We finally get a chance to measure the immeasurable. If only by, first, stripping away the hype to preview the best of the holiday parties that feature real talent.…
True Grit
True Grit GRADE: B+ Whatever your memories of John Wayne’s True Grit (if you have memories of it at all), they probably outsize the film’s actual virtues. Though the Duke walked away with a Best Actor Oscar, the 1969 film is an uneven affair, nostalgically remembered for its darkly comic characters and a few signature…
The tragedy of Kwame
For those of us who have long pegged Kwame Kilpatrick as a crook as well as a liar, the indictments handed down last week by a federal grand jury inspired an almost visceral sense of satisfaction.� Despite the attention paid to his sexual escapades, the real story has always been the way he and his…
Ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Well, everyone seemed positively giddy at our great leap forward last week, the one in which Congress finally voted to let openly gay servicemen and -women enlist, fight and die in America’s colonial wars. Some even saw it as a sign of progress that eight — count ’em, eight — Republican senators broke ranks and…
Spun
FRIGHT FROM THE BINS Jimmy Swaggart The Plague (1967) The Summer of the Love will not be seen this evening so we can bring you the following tele-castigation. … Why do I love Jimmy Swaggart? Well, neighbor, let me count the ways, all of which are in "profundity" and "abundance" on this 33 revelations-per-minute sermonette.…
Maybe you missed them …
FRAME BY FRAME Art Clokey Animator, creator of "Gumby" Perhaps animators just don’t get the respect they deserve. Even after a half-century of cinematic auteur theory, we seldom talk about "the great animation directors." For every Walt Disney or Chuck Jones, there are dozens of unsung creators — not to mention thousands of individual animation…
The Brought Low – Third Record
The Brought Low – Third Record Small Stone Detroit’s Small Stone Records, owned and managed by outspoken rock ‘n’ roll aficionado (and Luder guitarist) Scott Hamilton, has been pumping out quality ’70s-esque hard rock for nigh 15 years. Few Small Stone bands are local, but Hamilton has a knack for finding dirty, sludgy and perhaps…
Motor City Five
Detroit music without Dave Feeny and Tempermill studios would be a nightmare before Christmas. This witty gent pumps out killer tunage from behind the board and on stage, and bestows citywide joy with the Sounds & Spirits Olde-Fashioned Holiday Spectacular. Somebody get this dude a rum ball! Metro Times: Nine years strong! What’s the secret?…
The King’s Speech
The King’s Speech GRADE: B What would the Christmas, pre-Oscar season be without a little middle-brow cotton candy from the brothers Weinstein? Destined for a handful of nominations (and probably a win or two), The King’s Speech is the kind of well-acted, handsomely mounted, British period piece that seems more meaningful while you’re watching it…
Racing backward?
Of all the pernicious things Kwame Kilpatrick did, none was more destructive than his use of the race card in his ultimately futile attempts to silence his critics and save his career. Remember the infamous lynching ad that included our colleague Jack Lessenberry, or the high-profile claims of being called a "nigger" by his detractors?…
Oscillating Fan Club – George Washington’s Teeth
Oscillating Fan Club – George Washington’s Teeth Bellyache Records The Oscillating Fan Club’s second long-player explores with ever-sharpening results the same creepy-psychedelic-surf-pop vein the Ferndalians have been mining since their inception. Vocal duties this time around are shared evenly between bassist Jon Biernat and guitarist Ray Thompson, alternating between a whispered threat and a manic…
War on drug tourism
Lately I’ve been fascinated by the remarkable disparity between the progress America seems to be making toward legalizing marijuana and — dare we say it? — all recreational drugs utilized by U.S. citizens to get high on, and on the other hand the regressive direction taken by Canada and the European Union to reverse the…
New Year’s Eve Party Guide 2010
This is the party guide for 2010. Check our new guide for 2011 listings Find up-to-the-minute New Year’s party information at calendar.metrotimes.com. See our map of select New Year’s events at metrotimes.com/newyears 50 Amp Fuse. Uptown Grille, 3100 E. West Maple, Commerce Township, 248-960-3344. 8th Annual $10 New Year’s Eve Party. The annual low-cost,…
Show stopper
Cork Wine Pub 23810 Woodward Ave., Pleasant Ridge 248-544-2675 corkwinepub.com Let wine flow freely — or at least cheaply — and people will come running. The early, explosive success of Cork Wine Pub proves as much. Opened just before Thanksgiving, the first-ever recipient of a liquor license in Pleasant Ridge is deceptively calm and commercial…
