Steve Barman

Steve Barman

Steve Barman likes pizzas, kittens, bad movies, sexy sexy sex and the occult.

Author archives: Steve Barman

  • Chicago Loves Detroit - May 19th @ Trinospheres

  • 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[...]
  • Ticket Giveaway - Black Moth Super Rainbow 5/10

  • 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.
  • Obligatory Blowout

  • 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[...]
  • Video Cayucos - High School Lover

  • 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[...]
  • Axis Mundi Fest 2013 or Axis Mundi Fest II

  • 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[...]
  • What about 13013? - last post ever

  • 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
  • Morrissey Hospitalized in Michigan

  • 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[...]