Summer Goes Out With a Bang! The Final Festivals

None of us want to admit it, but we all know it’s true: Labor Day means summer is coming to a close.
Luckily, that’s not all it means.  Labor Day weekend in Detroit also means a lot of great art and music festivals–we like to save the best for last and then cram them all into [...]

Theatre Bizarre Presents Stolen Media Festival V

[ August 7, 2009 12:00 am to August 8, 2009 12:00 am. ] Two days of music and media featuring:

Friday (Doors 7:00PM)
The Best of Stolen Media
Sultry Surfers of the Apocalypse
HafLife
The Beggars
The Rue Moor Counts
& Surprise Guest

Saturday (Doors 6:00PM)
Electric Fire Babies
Silverghost
The Potions
Friends on Dennis Wilson
Gardens
The Questions
The Electric Lions

$10 per show, $15 for both

This event is being held at Theatre Bizarre, 967 West Statefair

Johnny Headband, Pop Project and OFFICE at Small’s

[ July 25, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] with Proxy (DJ)

8 p.m. – all ages – $6/$10

Blue Moon Festival at the CAID

[ July 10, 2009 12:00 am to July 11, 2009 12:00 am. ] Friday: DOORS 8pm/SHOWTIME 9pm
Saturday: DOORS 5pm/SHOWTIME 6PM
*Saturday’s program will begin with a pancake and mimosa breakfast from 11am-1pm followed by a neighborhood clean up from 1pm-3pm. There will be a bicycle scavenger hunt from 3pm-6pm.

-BANDS(confirmed at press time):
ISLES OF ESP www.myspace.com/ericdilworth ELECTRIC FIRE BABIES www.myspace.com/electricfirebabies
OLIVIA MANCINI & THE [...]

Rustbelt Studios Showcase at Hard Rock Cafe

[ June 18, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Join On the Rocks Detroit and Rustbelt Studios as we present a very special night of music at Hard Rock Cafe! Jody Raffoul, Bear Lake, and Pale Hollow will be representing some of the amazing talent who’ve recorded at Rustbelt. Hard Rock gift certificate giveaways too! This event will be recorded for an upcoming Rustbelt [...]

Black Dice with Wolf Eyes and Awesome Color at the Crofoot

[ June 18, 2009; 7:00 pm; ] MOCAD and the Crofoot present
Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 7PM
MUSIC: BLACK DICE W/ WOLF EYES and AWESOME COLOR
$10.00 in advance / $12.00 at the door
tix available at <theCrofoot.com>

BLACK DICE — the massive experimental rock trio pays a long-overdue return visit to Detroit at the MOCAD. With their new record REPO, this Brooklyn trio has never [...]

Terminal Pub Crawl with the Von Bondies

[ June 13, 2009; 6:00 pm; ] You must pass through at least 3 of the terminal bars to pass through Gate 84 to see the Von Bondies with VHS or Beta for the official Air Race After-Party; shuttle service provided by the Night Move between Gate 84 and participating terminal bars.  Bars include Bookies, Harry’s, Town Pump, Delux, Loco Bar & [...]

Detroit Wig-Out at the Magic Stick

[ June 6, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Get a wig.Wear a wig.
Wig out in Detroit June 6.

Where: The Magic Stick, the iconic Detroit rock-n-roll club at 4120 Woodward Avenue; (313) 833-9700

When: Saturday, June 6, 2009; doors open 8:00 PM

Why: In the spirit of eccentric coiffure and to benefit Gilda’s Club Metro Detroit.

Entertainment: Black Jake and the Carnies, Dale Beavers & Bootsey X, [...]

Ingray CD Release at Hard Rock Cafe

[ May 28, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Recently chosen to represent Detroit in the Hard Rock Café’s international “Ambassadors of Rock” competition, Ingray’s music is truly a global rock and roll experience. “Our influences are not local, they are from different parts of the world. As a result, we bring a unique spirit to the stage along with a bond of friendship, [...]

It Came From Detroit and Stayed There

It Came From Detroit is perhaps one of the most culturally relevant documentaries of a particular time and place in music ever made. A documentary film five years in production (and almost mythic in stature—spoken of widely as the pinnacle tome on the Detroit “garage” scene, a claim made fervently by even those who have never seen it), It Came From Detroit chronicles some 20 years of Detroit’s thriving independent rock-and-roll subculture—Detroit “garage,” as it came to be known all over the world.