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Chicago Loves Detroit - May 19th @ Trinospheres
- 5 days ago
- CHICAGO LOVES DETROIT: Recent Short Film & Video Work from Chicago Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 7:00pm, Free Trinosophes (1464 Gratiot, Detroit, MI) Chicago and Detroit are in love. So much so that they have a foreign exchange program for their short films. Christy LeMaster, director of The Nightingale (a microcinema in Chicago) is curating about an hour of Chicago's finest influential and expe[...]
Author archives: Steve Barman
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Ticket Giveaway - Black Moth Super Rainbow 5/10
- 16 days ago
- You guys/ladies/other love Black Moth Super Rainbow so much we thought you'd like to see them for free! March 5/10 Magic Stick, all you gotta do is tell us your favorite bug (comment below or tweet @motorcityrocks). Winner (of ticket +1) will be chosen at random on 5/5 (at whatever time I wake up). Void where prohibited by law, yadda yadda.
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Lovelife - Your New Beloved video
- 18 days ago
- Watch this and know that Wednesday, May 15th at The Shelter you can see Lovelife, Capital Cities and Gold Fields are also on the bill. Doors at 7pm. Show at 8pm. $15. Post-punk R&B meets T-Pain or dark chillwave delights? YOU BE THE JUDGE! let us know what you think in the comments!
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Charli XCX "True Romance" album review
- 19 days ago
- What if there was only one Spice Girl, and she was a witch? Charli XCX "True Romance" 8 out of 10. THIS IS MY FULL REVIEW. 04 Charli XCX - Stay Away Order the debut album TRUE ROMANCE from iTunes or somewhere else.
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Obligatory Blowout
- 23 days ago
- Tonight is the first night of Blow Out the two weekend long music festival of pretty much every band in the Detroit area worth a damn (and then more). Every time I talk to outsiders (people who don't see local live music, not to be confused with The Outsiders), they have no fucking clue what the "Blow Out" or "Metro Times Blow Out" is. Even when I explain that it's Detroit's best music festival pu[...]
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Video Cayucos - High School Lover
- 25 days ago
- Download "East Coast Girl" Michigan has 2 seasons: too hot and too cold (also known as SO COLD). And boring people only talk about the weather, so it is with great pleasure that I pronounce it summer. YES and this is your (first) summer jam! Cayucas pronounced "zRfE-444" is the project of Zach Yudin, a Californian who has spent the last few years working at an independent jazz label ?! I[...]
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Jamaican Queens record release "Wormfood" TONIGHT
- 37 days ago
- Jamaican queens is the hottest band on earth and I mean that in the least sexual way. Their music is like taking a walk through the dream poppies. It's Adderall for your ears, and you don't need to buy it from college kids. It's flowing out of Ryan Spencer and Adam Pressley (Prussia alumni) and Christopher Lazlo Koltay (of the Dirtbombs). The show is at Trinosophes (1464 Gratiot, Detroit) for the [...]
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Axis Mundi Fest 2013 or Axis Mundi Fest II
- 38 days ago
- As a responsible "rock" journalist I must inform you that the coolest most pyschonautic visionary prophets of our modern era are all gathering for a 2 day event. The Axis Mundi is the axis that the earth spins by. The scientist will tell you it's in the NORTH and SOUTH POLES. But we who have our ears to the ground and our fingers on the pulse know that the true axis point lies in Detroit. This Fri[...]
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What about 13013? - last post ever
- 108 days ago
- Don't forget, tonight the world ends. "Bob" is bringing us back to the nother ship. To catch your last terrestrial sounds of praise (in his name) be sure to appear at Small's tonight 8pm, bring $8 dollars. Amino Acids and Carjack headline. Tell your pink loved ones good bye. No need to pack a suitcase. We've packed it for you. More deets
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Morrissey Hospitalized in Michigan
- 112 days ago
- Morrissey, former lead singer of the Smiths and current second coming of Christ, has been hospitalized in William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI. Morrissey's show scheduled for Jan. 24 in Flint, MI was cancelled and a rep for Morrissey has said, "he is undergoing tests for a suspected bladder infection." This is Def-Con 4 for Smiths fans who will no doubt be lining Woodward Ave outside the hos[...]