-jr’s Weekend Picks (Sweet Sixteen)
Wow, there is so much going on this weekend. So many fun things!! Are you excited? Here comes Peter Cottontail!
Friday
Early Show: First Stop Friday: Songs from the Moon and 3773
Kelly Bennett has been booking some great monthlies at the Ferndale Public Library and this month is a great new edition. To follow future show, check out the 780s blog. Here are the details from the Event Page:
Make the Library the first stop of your busy, music-filled weekend! A free show each month featuring two local musical acts.
“This month, Songs from the Moon and 3773!
Songs from the Moon will release a new single at this show! Get it here first!
http://facebook.com/songsfromthemoon“
Late Show: Tom And Jesse’s Super Sweet 16
This show is just going to be downright bonkers. Check out the lingo from the Event Page:
“16 bands. No cover. Whole lotta birthday.
9:00 – Main Stage: Ungrateful Daughter
9:15 – Side Stage: Sound and Fury
9:30 – Main Stage: Ronny Tibbs and the 305′s
9:45 – Side Stage: Pewter Cub
10:00 – Main Stage: Patrick Davy and the Ghosts
10:15 – Side Stage: Citizen Smile
10:30 – Main Stage: FUR
10:45 – Side Stage: The Walking Beat
11:00 – Intermission
11:15 – Side Stage: Phantom Cats
11:30 – Main Stage: The Hounds Below
11:45 – Side Stage: The Ashleys
12:00 – Main Stage: Lightning Love
12:15 – Side Stage: Jesse and The Gnome
12:30 – Main Stage: The Handgrenades
12:45 – Side Stage: Good Cop/Good Cop
1:00 – Main Stage: Passalacqua
April 6, 2012
Doors at 8 PM
Free for 21+
$5 for 18-20
The Magnificent Day arrives again – Come join us as Jesse Shepherd-Bates and Tom Bahorski turn 16 (again)! It will be a glorious party at PJ’s Lager House in luxurious Corktown, Detroit. The celebration will feature 16 bands playing 15 minute sets on two stages. Be there or be EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTING.”
Saturday:
Of Mice and Musicians Release Show (South End)
Raprapraprapraprapraprap the night away. Check It:
“Of Mice and Musicians NEW L.P. “BOTTLES AND BONES” release show (South End) featuring sweet-ass music songs by:
Of Mice and Musicians: http://www.reverbnation.com/ofmiceandmusicians
Passalacqua: http://tomandbootsy.com/
House Phone: http://www.reverbnation.com/housephone
Detroit CYDI: http://detroitcydi.tumblr.com/
Clear Soul Forces: http://detroitcydi.tumblr.com/
Show STARTS at 10pm no bullshit!”
Sunday:
Go outside and hunt up some Easter Eggs. Then eat ‘em and watch this over and over:
-jr
& Leather Boots
Hear First: Revoir-Rapier
Revoir is in the midst or readying a new album. Their great debut LP is still up for free download via their bandcamp. Anyways, this is the 1st single off of the forthcoming Rapier. Learn it, live it, love it.
-jr
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-jr’s Weekend Picks (Ready For My Closeup)
It’s that time of the week again where I have the esteemed luxury of telling you what hotspots you should be at so you can be a total hotshot.
Friday:
Detroit Music. A Photographic Retrospective takes place at Whitdel Arts. This event is being curated by Lisa Krug. Chances are you have run into her at a show and if you’ve asked her for her number, you were probably dialing 867-5309 later and didn’t catch on. Google the number if you still don’t get it. Anyways, the retrospective offers work from three photographers whose work you are probably already familiar with. See that Danny Brown picture in the flier? Yeah, that was in Spin like 100 times. Open any Metro Times or Real Detroit and your sure to find photo credits for these snappers. Here’s the Event Page and official promo speak to follow:
“Photographing music is like capturing art in motion. One moment never to be replicated, artfully captured through the eye of the photographer…
Please join Whitdel Arts Gallery for a retrospective exhibition of Detroit music photography with three of the finest examples of photographers the city has to offer.
Doug Coombe Trever Long Marvin Shaouni
Friday March 30th through April 28th 2012
Opening Reception Friday March 30th from 6-9pm
Special Guest: DJ Carjack will be providing music during the reception”
Saturday:
MOBiLOGIX RELEASE wsg SECRETS / SKRAPZ / PHANTASMAGORIA at The Park Bar. Eddie Logix put out one of the best Detroit Hip Hop mixtapes last year. Now he has teamed up with Mobil and they are dropping some new swag. Here’s a taste:
Make sure to swing by The Park Bar as there is going to be a plethora of special guests on deck as well! Here’s the Event Page and official statement:
“MOBiLOGIX
Meet Me @ the MRKT
Record Release Party (also Eddie Logix BDay Celebration)
Saturday 3.31.12
Park Bar (2040 Park Avenue Detroit, MI 48226) (upstairs)
Doors @ 9pm
$8 cover with FREE CD
Performances by:
MOBiLOGIX (Mobil Home & Eddie Logix)
Skrapz
Phantasmagoria
Secrets (live pa)
Sounds by:
DJ polynote, dial81, & 2040
Hosted by:
D. Allie
Special Appearances by:
Angelica Moross, Intricate Dialect, Leaf Erikson, Meel Ticket, Subverse, MidCoast Most, & SelfSays.”
Sunday:
Get some rest dummy. You have to work on Monday! Spend some time watching this all day:
Try Something Different: Drive-In Radio Theater At The MOCAD
This looks to be quite a new and inventive mixture of music and crazy and they do have quite the lineup planned. Check out all the verbage from the Event Page:
“THEATER
Wednesday, March 28, 7PM-9PM, every 20 minutes
Hosted and Curated by The Hinterlands Ensemble
Drive-In Radio Theater
in the MOCAD parking lot
Admission: $5 per car
Tired of screaming at the radio station and not hearing anything back? Still wondering just what that DJ shouting through the airwaves looks like in the flesh? Pull in to the MOCAD parking lot on March 28 from 7-9PM for an evening of taking back the airwaves – drive-in radio theatre style. Enjoy six incredible acts of fifteen minutes a piece from the comfort of your leather/vinyl/leopard-skin seats for just $5 a car!
Watch and listen as The Hinterlands experimental performance ensemble (http://thehinterlandsensemble.org/) brings to life classic sci-fi radio theatre of the 1930s! Experience breaking, popping & locking, and freestyle in a whole new media with Hardcore Detroit (http://www.hardcoredetroit.biz/)! Bust your speakers with the rhymes of Passalacqua (http://tomandbootsy.com/)! Dance wildly in your front seat to the sounds of Duane the Teenage Weirdo (http://www.facebook.com/pages/DUANE/307423941614)! Let the mystifying shadow puppets of Carrie Morris (http://www.carriemorris.com/) mystify you – and more! You will never look at that dial quite the same again. Be prepared for a headlight-flashing, speaker-cracking, window-roll-downing good time.
Note: Attendees can stay for the whole evening or catch a few acts before heading out. “
-jr
Boss Radio
Hear First: Phantasmagoria-Dunes
Released yesterday at 5:00pm, Phantasmagoria unleashed the first single off of their upcoming LP entitled “Currents”. So jam on this until the album drops very soon through Five Three Dial Tone Records.
-jr
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