Category archives: Reviews
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315 days ago
- DJ E Allen Thursdays Bowling is Real Garden Bowl. This week The Handgrenades, Michael Mars and The God Particle, The Violent Lights and Julian Paaige
Kommie Kilpatrick “Nature Sounds” Tape Release at PJs Lager House Saturday July 14
Top Five Pop Punk Summer Songs of my Youth"
Blink 182 – “The Rock Show”
I can pontificate and wax nostalgic all day long about the best soul songs I’ve ever[...]
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315 days ago
- It’s beautifully arranged. Dude’s album Kid Gloves--I mean. Plug ‘smartly’ in for ‘beautifully’ and the message stays the same. Tony DeNardo (the Dude/the Muggs) has tapped into a special pocket of sound. The album heads back a few decades in its production, building around a core of songs and plugging in horns and mellotron for purpose of flair.
Enhanced by the production, the songs flaunt the[...]
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315 days ago
- Electric Corpse was forged when a re-animated corpse was struck by a bolt of New Wave. The resulting creation recorded a self titled EP and then set a small Vietnamese village, Chang-Po-Shi, ablaze.
Screamed one villager: "Please stop burning us! Some of your guitar riffs remind me of the Pixies!"
There were no survivors.
The EP is a solid blend of shoegaze guitars, reverb drenched vocals[...]
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320 days ago
- An ode to the era of Shrimper cassettes has arrived in the assortment of lo-fi bliss that is Somebody Should Give That Guy A Hug. Its short as fuck--there's 4 songs and the whole thing is over in less than 3 minutes--and the songs are catchy folk dirges with occasional clatter going on over top. "The Bridge of the River Chipola" is easily the most beautiful song heard in recent memory and details [...]
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326 days ago
- Last weekend, we sent MCR cub reporter Max Daley to cover The Wicked Carnival known as the Insane Clown Posse at The Emerald Theater. Max hits the skins in The Phantom Cats, a band whose music and shows are about as far removed from the juggalo subculture as you can get. Here is the account of Max's trial by fire:
“What can I expect tonight? This is my first I.C.P. concert.” I asked Cindy and Lex[...]
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327 days ago
- Fight! Fight! Fight! is a title not meant to actually condone fisticuffs but rather a call to listen to electro-pop music. Its the first release from The History of Panic and the album itself has been sometime in the making. Gerald Roesser (formerly of Pas/Cal) started the project in 1999, however he spent 10 years training with Yoda on Dagobah and then two years just making a ton of sandwiches fo[...]
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330 days ago
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Columbus, Ohio’s Watershed plays Small’s this Thursday. Bassist Joe Oestreich has a new book out--a memoir of his life on the road with the band. This is more than just another band passing through Detroit on tour, though. A good chunk of the band’s history and subsequent content of Oestreich’s book take place in the area.
They’ve come a long way since they contributed a track to A Fist F[...]
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330 days ago
- The following review is contributed by Jaye Allen Thomas of Rogue Satellites. Odd Hours releases their new EP this Saturday at The Old Miami and will be accompanied by Future Slang, Ferndale Acid Scene, and N-2 Submission ft. The Impaler. With out further ado, Mr. Thomas:
Odd Hours’ new Solar Plexus Power of Babooshka EP begins with the flickering static of a detuned radio and a wicked drone th[...]
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333 days ago
- Each week, we pour over the numerous decisions corporations have made and single out two for praise or ridicule. Our rating system is simple, either the decision was "rad" or "fucked". No middle ground at MCR.
RAD Broadband service providers who stand up for customers. Just weeks after Verizon successfully argued they shouldn't have to hand over customer IP's, Comcast scores a similar victory. [...]
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341 days ago
- Joe Bailey watches from the lighting booth.
“Ok…so we’re going to let it play till about…a minute-fifty,” he explains, “Just start out in the chair and let the music work in until it’s like you have to move.”
On stage Jeffrey Howson is at his mark. Tenuously he sits in a chair; Mary J. Blige pulsing through the air and into his body. He timidly and then confidently glides. Finally it overtak[...]
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342 days ago
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You can catch Fawn's release party tonight at The Loving Touch in Ferndale. They will be accompanied by Fur and Jamaican Queens.
Info on Fawn here
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