SUBPOP Records has our vote and we wanted to let you know about a few of the upcoming shows
One winner will get a pair of tickets
to the following shows and a copy of the latest CD
email motorcityblog@earthlink.net for your shot to win
MALE BONDING
MAGIC STICK DETROIT
Saturday 9/3
w/Love Inks & Deadbeat Beat)
(winner will also get Love Inks 7" vinyl)
Male Bonding is a noise-pop trio from London’s Dalston neighborhood. Nothing Hurts, the band’s 2010 debut was described by Pitchfork as, “…the sound of a fast, fuzzy rock band racing from hook to hook, plowing happily through breakdowns and guitar blasts, springing through scrappy melodies with style. It's one of the happiest surprises of the year so far.” This new Male Bonding album, Endless Now, was recorded at Dreamland Recording Studio in Woodstock, NY, the converted 19th century church that birthed such classics as The B-52s’ "Love Shack" and Dinosaur Jr.'s 1993 full-length Where You Been. The band worked with producer John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Thurston Moore, Dinosaur Jr.) installed behind the altar and came up with an album animated by an infectious, evangelical zeal that reflects their roots in the D.I.Y. indie rock community. Eleven tracks–plus a wee reprise–imbued with the fierce urgency of now, and catchy as all get-out, Endless Now is 36 minutes of songs tailor-made to anchor mix tapes and playlists—if you can stand to separate them from the whole album.
DUM DUM GIRLS
MAGIC STICK DETROIT
SATURDAY 10/15
Write about what you know.
That’s what they say.
But that’s a lot easier said than done when what you know is very, very difficult to bear. That was the challenge Dum Dum Girls’ leader Dee Dee faced when writing the songs for the band’s moving second album Only in Dreams. “The first record was basically the first songs I’d ever written,” says Dee Dee, “and I was thinking nostalgically about being a teenager. This record, it was pretty much impossible not to write about very recent, very real things.”