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City Slang: Weekly music review roundup 27 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
Send CDs, vinyl, cassettes, demos and 8-tracks to Brett Callwood, Metro Times, 733 St. Antoine, Detroit, MI 46226. Email MP3s and streaming links to bcallwood@metrotimes.com. Rock ’n’ Roll Monkey is, ...
Doss The Artist & Hir-O 27 Aug 2013 | 06:44 pm
Doss The Artist w/Hir-O 9 Lives Self-Release Gabriel Doss considers himself and producer Hir-O to be more on the exterior of this current hip-hop crop. Their divergence from traditionally perceived se...
City Slang: Ten things Detroit can learn from Miley Cyrus 26 Aug 2013 | 10:12 pm
1. If you grind Robin Thicke while sticking your tongue out, the buzz on the net will quit focusing on bankruptcy. Get to work, Kevyn Orr. 2. Teddy Bears are not sexy, unless you’re a furry. The furry...
Times Shamrock Announces Sale of Alt-Weekly Division 26 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
DETROIT—Times Shamrock Communications announced today that it is placing its alternative weekly division on the market for sale, which includes the Detroit Metro Times, Detroit’s largest weekly public...
Songs For A Self Conscious Summer 26 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
New(-ish) songs circling the indie-rock galaxy vary from dread to doubt to a blunt takedown. MGMT snared everyone’s attention when, five years ago, they set fire to underground dancefloors with instan...
Remembering The Stuff 26 Aug 2013 | 06:49 pm
While we still have Josh Malerman on the cover, it seems a good time to revisit The Stuff, a horror film from 1985 starring Detroiter Michael Moriarty. Thanks to the glorious people at Netflix, The St...
The Top Collections Most Likely To Be Sold From the DIA 26 Aug 2013 | 05:49 pm
Trips to the Detroit Institute of Arts have been a part of my life since I was 10 years old. My mother would take me once a year, where we would spend all day admiring the vast collections. Getting th...
You Don’t Say. My latest sip of Mumblecore. 25 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
Mumblecore may be remembered for what it never said. That word ^ won’t really mean anything in nine or ten years, I’m betting. But, for now, if you’ve never heard it (and, indeed, most artists ascribe...
City Slang: Mike Hard at the Lager House on Saturday 24 Aug 2013 | 12:42 am
Thrall/God Bullies/They Never Sleep main man Mike Hard plays PJ’s Lager House this Saturday, August 24. Also on the bill is Lava Moth, and Fuckknot, the subject of this week’s City Slang. As Fuckknot’...
Would You Cross a Picket Line for a Quarter-Pounder? 24 Aug 2013 | 12:28 am
In a hush-hush meeting at Cobo last week, fast food workers and union organizers from across the country planned strikes they said would hit at least 15 cities August 29. Organizers said 500 Detroit f...
