Rag Wrap – March 11th, 2009

Congratulations to Ferndale-based designer Derek Kuschel for creating the winning logo for the 2009 Detroit Electronic Music Festival contest.

Rolling Stone has a crappy time at this year’s toned-down Auto Show and takes the requisite tour of abandoned skyscrapers from Detroitblogger John.

Iggy Pop will release a jazz album this spring. Explains Iggy: “At one point, I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music, and I was starting to listen to a lot of New Orleans-era Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton type of jazz.”

Metrotimes relives the Blowout and checks out 800beloved’s Sean Lynch’s crib. Also, they review the latest album from Hellmouth, ex-Suicide Machine Jay Navarro’s niilistic new band.

Real Detroit talks to Troy Gregory.