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Kick-off Party - Thursday Night at the Magic Stick (and Garden Bowl) - 4120 Woodward Ave - 25 bands in one night! -- Pictured: CAVEMAN
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SCHEDULE VENUES TICKETS Welcome to Blowout...I woke up today wanting to write about it feeling as though there was substantially more excitement being generated by-and-throughout the music community then any time I can remember. (Well, more than five years, let's say?) Excitement like a renaissance, a rev-up, a roller-coaster or maybe even yet, still, a wreck... Inspired and enthusiastic and tense and we just don't know what's gonna happen... All of those types of excitement. I'm trying to characterize this somewhat crazed moment I experienced last weekend, inside Found Sound Records in Ferndale, when I started recapping real time events.
- The Detroit X Detroit show was going on that night (featuring more than a dozen local bands covering other local bands...or, maybe, legendary "local" bands of decade's-past), but I was in the middle of watching a live set by the psyche-splattered art pop quartet Lord Scrummage. They packed up their scuffed suitcases, cables and keyboards and shuffled off stage because they had to go down to the Old Miami to help open things up for this big Breezee One show.
- Hey, that sounded like an exciting show... Wild, dark, post-techno rap-toying dance parties, let's go...
- But Passalacqua were about to go on, there, at Found Sound. So...maybe I should stick around?
- But then, if I wanted, I could see "Passalacqua" down at the Detroit X Detroit show if I hurried, because Chris Jarvis (of Phantasmagoria) and James Linck were mimicking their raps as part of that show's tribute-centric theme.
- There was another rap show, the Head Nod Suite, over at Rodin and Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr were doing their big E.P. release show with Tunde Olaniran at the Majestic Theatre. And, there were still, yet, more hip-hop/electro acts performing up in the suburbs at the Berkley Front. And this is one week after there was three stupendous album-release-show/parties happening on the same night!
Welcome to Blowout.