Woodstand Bandz and Boyz and Tigers

So...this is a happening of sorts...
with lots of assured energies and fuzzed-out pop music played at raised volumes...

Detroit pair, Kickstand Band and Woodman, journey west, meeting Ann Arbor's Boys Themselves and Grand Rapids' Valentiger inside the humble hallow of Woodruff's...

I bring this up because it allows me to encant that the tawny bearded dad rocker from Woodman crafted what I thought was one of the most distinctive contributions to Five Three Dial Tone's recent White Stripes compilation... a pared back, gothic-folk fogged, mellowed musing on "Dead Leaves & the Dirty Ground." But I think the link to that particular track's stream is broken... thanks internet.

This is at least something...

It also allows me to attempt linking to this track from the Kickstand Band...

Along with this fine video of the dynamic pop/rock display of the Boys Themselves...

Thursday Documentary 10.21.2010 from Desmond Simmons on Vimeo.

And, an MP3 for the Eastern Mitten music types to get a taste of GR's Valentiger - "Leaving Town"