TUESDAY MARCH 25- 9 P.M.- $10
BURNT ONES, RAW McCARTNEY, AND MEXICAN
KNIVES
BURNT
ONES- “This is the Season of the Ditch
- to either be left behind in one creatively or to take those first steps down
an unknown path at a crossroads that provides no turnaround and leaves the past
where it belongs. Burnt
Ones aren't new to the journey and they’ve come to a place on
“You'll Never Walk Alone” where only trailblazers shall pass. From the
first guitar notes leads a strong verbal provocation, calling bullshit on the
complacency of the oft-trad R&R set in these times and urging us to now
spread the new gospel. That now is 2013 and that new gospel informs us that the
salad days of S.F.’s garage rock revival are over. In its wake, resulting sounds
have split and splintered for the better and Burnt Ones’ current offering is no
exception. Their second LP calls to mind the American heritage of rambling
seekers kicking about a new idea with an old set of tools - affirming that its
what you make of it and how far you take it that counts. Taking it far, far out
there, the themes of isolation, loneliness, and survival found therein reveal
the growth of this three piece, having learned that moving inward is often the
only way of moving onward. With blinders up, Burnt Ones have given us a record
that white-knuckles down a dark passage of mental abuse and on through to
spiritual release. Unencumbered by the fear of new frontiers, the band have
extended a hand to the listener, urging us to forge ahead, to diverge from the
two-lane blacktop, break from the grids of any map and speed off into the
void.”
RAW
McCARTNEY- It is said that Raw has come
back from the land of the dead to give us rock n roll in its nastiest purest
most unadulterated puss spewing form. In doing so hoping to release us from the
prison of our minds. Shamanistic at its core. The live show is meant to exorcise
that shit you call a mind.
MEXICAN
KNIVES- "Just one listen to tracks like
“Killer Snake” or “Nightmare” and it’s easy to tell that the kids in Mexican
Knives are fellow record collecting geeks, as their influences are rich and run
deep. Grabbing their favorite parts of surf, punk, goth, garage, Dischord
records, gospel, and old R&B, The Knives create a dirty and nasty sound that
manages to be both incredibly original and steeped in tradition." (ATOMIC
LEG DROP ZINE)
WEDNESDAY MARCH 26
- 7-9 P.M. - $10
SINGING IN
THE D W/ MARCIA PILICIOTI
SINGING IN THE D- Marcia Pilicioti hosts this
event, which will encourage singing and mingling. There is a $10 cover that
Marcia will collect to go toward expenses and accompanists. Event is from 7-9pm.
Mingling is encouraged before and after.
THURSDAY MARCH 27 - 9 P.M. -
$6
BEND SINISTER,
RONNY TIBBS & THE 305s, AND SIX AND THE SEVENS
BEND
SINISTER- Bend Sinister seem to
almost revel in their ability to confound listeners and industry types
throughout Canada. They are a melodic, piano and organ driven band fronted by a
fun loving and free spirited singer yet they are signed to a metal label. They
churn out blisteringly fast prog influenced songs followed by chirpy and
cheerful Beach Boys type pop songs. They are the types of musicians who have
both Hall and Oates and Iron Maiden in their vinyl collections.
And they're not afraid to admit any influence, or try any new sound.
Because as frontman Dan Moxon loves to say during their live shows: “ Hey
man, don't take yourself so seriously.”
OFFICIALDOM
RONNY TIBBS &
THE 305s- Ronny Tibbs is a metro
Detroit songwriter. He and DJ/producer Super Death recorded his first self
titled EP summer of 2010. RT teamed up with the 305's for their first full
length "33".
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SIX AND THE
SEVENS- Britpop comes to Detroit in the
form of Six and the Sevens. Riding waves of guitars and true three-part
harmonies, Six and the Sevens deliver that perfect combination of hooky-rock and
infectious pop. About their first record, Songs About Girls, Detroit’s Metro
Times says “the treat is in the tunes.” Six and the Sevens' second record, Not
What Ships Are For, was hailed as a "slightly sweeter, polished version of the
Sights."
OFFICIAL SITE
OFFICIAL SITE
FRIDAY MARCH 28- 9
P.M.- $5
SALT CITY, THE
WALKING BEAT, THE HIGH STRUNG, AND JEECY AND THE JUNGLE
SALT
CITY- We come from salt and to salt we
shall return. Outlaw music.
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THE WALKING
BEAT- The Walking Beat formed in
early 2012, culminating a year of false starts and mistrials for
singer/guitarist Steve McCauley. After the breakup of his previous band Scarlet
Oaks, the Detroit songwriter struggled to find the right combination of forces
to align for the type of project he envisioned. With a foundation of songs
ranging from hard-driving rockers and 70s glam shuffles to country-western
waltzes and Townes Van Zandt-inspired ballads, McCauley sought to assemble a
band with refined and unique arrangements highlighting the simplicity, grit and
raw energy of rock and roll in its purest form. BANDCAMP
THE HIGH
STRUNG- Stephen Palmer once worked at a
mental home for dangerous criminals. While there, he was required to play
acoustic songs for the patients (through Plexiglas). One patient was more
enthusiastic than others, often reciting poems in a loud voice as Palmer
finger-picked. One day, Palmer said to himself, 'Well, screw this. Me and this
guy are good!" He assisted in freeing Ricardo "Outlaw" Gorgon as the other aids
slept, and quickly (on a napkin) changed his name to Josh Malerman, hoping to
avoid detection. While driving away, "Malerman" demanded they pick his "friends"
up. Palmer understood these friends must be members of the horrifying "Puke
Gang" but acquiesced, unable to calm the poetry spewing madman. Informed that
Derek "Firestarter" Berk was working at a donut shop, Palmer figured he would
get himself a glazed, and kill two birds with one stone. Berk readily agreed to
quitting his job. Berk also knew the whereabouts of Chester "Chad" Stocker, who,
Berk insisted, was now "the Prince of the Homeless" and sat in a throne beneath
the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor. Men and women brought him
canned goods in exchange for nuggets of wisdom (such as, "man can't fly without
machinery" and "books are simply the alphabet rearranged many times"). Removing
him from this lifestyle was difficult, but to Palmer's extreme satisfaction,
Stocker was very willing to play bass guitar, and Berk (who naturally beat
things up) sat down at the drums ("Malerman" still doesn't know what a rhythm
section is). Alas, still hiding from the executives at the mental home, some
bosses, and Stocker's followers, the band makes records with regularity and
plays live shows all the time.
JEECY AND THE JUNGLE- "When you venture out to listen to Jeecy and the Jungle,
grab a seatbelt and buckle up for a fun, raucous ride in a blender of rock,
punk, blues, r&b. It’s Detroit’s music history packed into one band with
more energy than ten 5-year olds on a sugar high."
-Ann Delisi, 101.9 WDET, 2013
SATURDAY MARCH 29-
9 P.M.- $5
PULP CULTURE,
TRUMAN, NARCO DEBUT, AND LAWLESS CARVER
PULP CULTURE-
Pulp Culture is a
four-piece band of dedicated, multifarious musicians from southeast Michigan,
incorporating a wide array of influences and ideas into music and sound. Seeking
to elucidate truth and varying levels of aural intensity via shifting
compressions of sound waves, the band was started in the summer of
2012.
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TRUMAN- Truman is a
dynamic, atmospheric rock band from Ypsilanti,
Michigan.
NARCO DEBUT-
"We're
being called a lot of things lately -- from Indie, to Emo, to Post-Whatever it
is they think is "in." Perhaps that's intentional. Maybe we want them to figure
it out," says the band.
LAWLESS
CARVER- Lawless Carver is Adam, Andy,
Dustin, Hunter & Ryan. Lawless Carver has been embraced by the tough
Ypsilanti show-going scene, and has begun branching outward, playing shows
from Detroit to Ann Arbor, and a Simulcast Worldwide Performance. Their
instrumental signature has gathered a following among many music bases, and are
often asked to rejoin bands of varying styles for upcoming shows.
SUNDAY MARCH 30- 9 P.M.-
$6
DCTV, SPACESHIPS,
AND CONGRESS
DCTV-
French-American post-punk
outfit DTCV was formed in Los Angeles in 2012 by Guylaine Vivarat
(ex-Useless Keys, Tennis System), novelist/screenwriter James Greer, and Chris
Dunn, a recent transplant from Chicago. Known for its incendiary live shows, the
group has been compared variously to Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma, and
“post-Nico Velvet Underground with Debbie Harry on vocals.”
DTCV has thus far released two
EPs, Very Fallen World and Basket of Masks. A full length
album, However Strange, was released in late August 2012 on cassette
by Burger Records to coincide with a national tour opening for Guided
By Voices in September of that year. All three of these earlier releases will be
reissued in January 2014 by Mock Records under the title The
Early Year. The groop recently released Hilarious Heaven, an ambitious
(read: contains free jazz saxophone skronk and flute solo(s), a piano ballad in
French, synth-pop, a Monks cover, and two songs that surpass the eleven minute
mark) double album recorded by Steve Kille of Dead Meadow, on Xemu Records.
The brilliant artwork was supplied by Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices. DTCV
will be touring extensively throughout 2014 in support of both Hilarious
Heaven and The Early Year. (The title for the former was taken from
James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. FYI.)
SPACESHIPS- "Spaceships is Jessie Waite and Kevin
LaRose. We play bedroom-garage style
rock and roll for the kids. We live in
Los Angeles, and we write songs about life, mountains, and also other things
like death and working," says the band.
CONGRESS- Grown men banging out basement
rock. Beer dads on ice, skating out tiny Mona Lisa's, contemplating the punk
aesthetic while domesticity looms. Working all day/week/month/year while
dreaming up distorted party jams, brooding blues and new classics with solvable
mysteries and heavy debts. Eric Gallippo (Man at Arms,
Fields of Industry), Jim Cherewick (local singer/songwriter legend, Long
Whisker), Aaron Quillen (Lawnmower, Natural Monuments, Computer Perfection, Lone
Wolf and Cub), and Ed Golembiewski (Fields of Industry, Team Ethic, Invader,
Boywife) bring old power and urgency to new sounds.Buds playing what they wanna
hear and hope you will, too.
MARCH 31- TIGERS' OPENING DAY
APRIL 2- TELEPATHIC TELEPHONES FILM SCREENING
APRIL 8- PROTOMARTYR RECORD RELEASE AND TOUR KICK-OFF SHOW
APRIL 11- NEW YORK CITY'S THE MEN
APRIL 15- $3 TAX DAY SPECIAL SHOW W/ PINK LIGHTNING AND THE FUNERAL & THE TWILIGHT
APRIL 24 - 26- INTERNATIONAL POP OVERTHROW
MAY 7- WHITE HILLS AND AMY GORE AND HER VALENTINES
MAY 8- BLACKSTONE RANGERS (TEXAS, SAINT MARIE RECORDS)
MAY 10- MARGARET DOLL ROD RECORD RELEASE PARTY
MAY 16- THE THORNBILLS W/ MID-CENTURY MODERN IN SUPPORT