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MOVEMENT: ADULT. – Phantasmagoria – Chrome Sparks – Daft Punk

Jeff Milo — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:48:42 +0000

Movement: Words: Jeff Milo Dance moves: Jeff Milo Writing about music can be invigorating and unnerving all at once. I’m forced to stand up while writing this, headphones plugged into a dying laptop that’s set onto a high enough counter, so that I can move, if just a little, while writing… Piston pump my knee, [...]

Bizarre Gets Turnt Up

iSPY Team — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:43:38 +0000

by Stephen Hollowell Bizarre can be vulgar, goofy and serious — sometimes all on the same track. The Detroit rapper is most well known for his work with the group D12, which also included Proof (who was shot and killed at a Detroit nightclub in 2006) and Eminem. In February of 2012, Bizarre announced his [...]

Black Moth Super Rainbow at the Magic Stick [Review]

iSPY Team — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:08:36 +0000

review by Ian Wolfe photos by Matt Morely Under a thin veil of darkness, the crowd murmured amongst themselves while anxiously waiting for Black Moth Super Rainbow to take the stage on May 10 at the Magic Stick in Detroit. After a moment, they made their way to the different instruments set up around the [...]

Lullabies & Nightmares

Jeff Milo — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:20:12 +0000

Justin Walters’ dreamy free-jazz and the mighty EVI 5.17.13 @ Blind Pig (w/Colin Stetson) PHOTO: by Doug Coombe Interview: Justin Walter http://music.justinwalter.net/ Most of the week – I’m the indie-rock guy. The punk guy. I dabble in hip-hop, I don’t do country-western but I do do country-rock. I need to expand more. Then I find [...]

Drink of the Week: Tri-City Brewing’s Dragon Slayer

Tammy and Patti — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:15:56 +0000

I am one of those people who tries to do the things that I say I will do. On the larger scale, I announced during some high school class or another that I would be a lawyer, live in Ann Arbor and never have kids. Note that I got my law license in 1997 and [...]

The Great Gatsby

Drew Waller — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:33:58 +0000

FILM: The Great Gatsby DIRECTOR: Baz Luhrman TOWERS: 3.5 out of 5 Nick Carraway [played by Tovey Maguire] starts this grand adaptation of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel as our narrator recounting the losing side of an epic story of love, loss, class and corruption in the late 1920s. All in front of his [...]

2013 Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair // iSPY Magazine Stage NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

iSPY Team — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:10:41 +0000

Purity Ring at the Crofoot Ballroom [Review]

Paul Kitti — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:07:16 +0000

Entering the Crofoot Ballroom on Saturday, it was immediately clear that squeezing myself to front and center would be a lost cause. So I stood in the back, a couple steps above the main floor, where I had a clear line of sight between the head of a stormtrooper and a pair of outstretched hands [...]

Synth Wizards Return: Champions of Breakfast Wednesday at Woodruff’s

Jeff Milo — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:36:10 +0000

You thought they were goners, but the Champs came back. They just couldn’t stay away. A lot’s changed since the Champions of Breakfast regularly wielded their salacious swords on our local stages, discharging lascivious laser beams in curious displays of 22nd-centurian medieval vaudeville. Their cheeky, transcendent presentations often launched the duo, Val Hundreds and Moses [...]

James Blake at the Majestic [Review]

Drew Waller — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:50:32 +0000

Story and photo by Drew Waller. It’s fitting that Blake mentions his admiration for throwback tracks from gospel greats like Rev. James Cleveland, as you could tell his “disciples” were representing in the hundreds and in rapture at the prospect of having him stop in Detroit to perform from tracks off his latest album at [...]