There's more music in the world than any one person can digest, as you know...

Dave Lawson spends his days dreaming up playlists, -spends his nights shuffling sheaths of vinyl together into a crate, then heads out to a pool hall, where, between pints of Porters, he quizzes himself on music.

Not necessarily just -which song to play next..., but which song will fit best , which will match or meld itself to the styles and personality of his "special guest DJ..."

So goes the formula of his all-vinyl DJ series, Tuesdays In The Forest (inherited six months back from local wax-fanatic/poet/drummer Richie Wolhfiel) - And tonight, the Forest becomes overrun by Zombies - for Zombie Dance Party 8.

Mr. Lawson, who also writes and records with hook-and-harmony preservationist group, The Pop Project, had only just figured out what-he-was-going-to-be-for-Halloween, yesterday afternoon. "I seem to do pretty well (each year)," he admits. "I never really plan it out; often, like with picking out records, you just work with what you have and as time approaches -you start thinking more and more..."

And then you just play (it).

This year's Zombie Dance Party is hosted in Ferndale for the first time in seven years, after six years spent down in Detroit venues, it's transition north is similar to another music fest, The Blue Moon In June, -which was also at the Loving Touch.

"Ferndale definitely seems to be the suburb of the creative class," Lawson said, "so that makes sense that that (those transitions) would happen."

ZDP instigator and host, Carey Gustafson, submitted that Halloween in Detroit is just too vibrant of a happening - something at MOCAD, something at Theatre Bizarre - all happening so close together, -that audiences can become torn. Why not just throw it in the suburbs again?

"I think it's really moved to Ferndale," said Lawson, "because of (Forest) nights that Carey and I have been doing and sort of realizing that it just makes sense to support those..."

The Pop Project, meanwhile, recently returned from Minneapolis, where they were recording their follow-up to 2008's Stars of Stage and Screen.  Lawson described the new batch of 15 songs as "a step further down the road towards kind of funkier material that we touched on a bit with Stars, some of the more 80's-inspired stuff. But, at the same time, there's other stuff that isn't anything like that. We (with Zach Curd, Will Yates and Adam Kempa) just more comfortable than ever dabbling in different genres and not even worrying about what our sound is...what the band is...we just enjoy playing different types of music as we do it."

And so - let the hecticness of Halloween commence, tonight, with Zombie Dance Party - sneaking in, early this week, before all the bigger explosions of weekend parties.

Tonight will feature The Beggars and "The Monks" (cover band), the latter of whom performed for the first time at the Lager House last weekend - stacked into a bill that featured a number of enthusiastic cover bands - including local prog-dashed baroque-pop group Computer Perfection interpretting UK's legendary ambient/dream-pop group Broadcast... The rewarding thing about that, for the listener/audience is, whether it's brilliant or a bomb, it inevitably leads you to pick up some of your old favorite records and dive back in -

So, then, zombify yourself and boogie-for-all-your worth, -utilize this still-yet-tolerable weather, not too cold yet that one could survive the outdoor air with whatever kind of shredded-up undead costume you choose to don
...because it'll be "winter soon" enough.

Exact To Me (Sea & Cake - Nov 4 - Magic Stick)

I've been listening to the Sea & Cake longer than I've been (properly) writing about music.
In a weird way, a both assuring and unnerving way, we haven't really wavered that much or tumbled off our respective paths, heretofore. Still steady, still just doing it.



Photo: Megan Holmes

 Which, after the third cup of coffee, leads me to scream out, inside my skull - why, why I'm still writing about music?

And then sigh. Why does Sea & Cake still sound so good? Or, rather, how...(?)...or maybe it just sounds good to the arty, white argyle boys of surburbias, wallflowering along their way - inspired by these four shrewd post-rockers, made to sound subtly bad-ass by their exacting hone of jangly, driving post-rock, dazzled with a meshing sensibility for space-jazz as for ambient electronica...

Listen: The Sea & Cake: Up On The North Shore



Still airy in essence, last spring's Moonlight Butterfly rang with a renewed confidence in experimentation, dashing in jittery, fuzz storms from synthesizers loop-de-looping over the breathy vocals for extended 5 (or even 10) minute rock ruminations that show no sign of worry for where the song will go...

Sea & Cake - Nov 4th - Magic Stick - along with fellow purveyors of experimental post pop with easygoing élan, Brokeback...

And this New York trio, Adam's Castle, churning out good ol' cerebral post-rock, with tunes like the one-inside-the-youtube-box below:

We Want Maximum Fun

Yes, yes,... Halloween time in the city. I've just returned from the store, a bag full of individually wrapped plastic tubes filled with syrupy fake blood. Ready to be gruesome.

And the noble/novel venture of local musicians taking on other bands has grown almost intractable - there are half a dozen seasonal music masquerades happening around Detroit.

But, still, thankfully (as has been the case before), they're not all on the same night.

And so my mind drifts back to the night that really set this off, at least for me, -at least in terms of the traditional, store-bought-wig variety of theatrical band nights... Because, yes, there've been other evenings and alley-hidden arenas in the past that featured much more provacative, avant-garde costumed-escapist performances - be it the smoke-flumed sonic scabridity and cardboard squashing spills of Princess Dragon Mom or the midnight howlings of bedraggled garage rock from the Wolf Man Band.

But this is, we'll say, the more traditional route.  

So, if I want to go back the night, the off-setting moment that got all bit all these Detroit bands with the Halloween bug - it'd be four years ago when Child Bite took on Nirvana - complete with three straw-blonde, brow-blurring wigs, striped sweaters and flannel - rampaging through an inevitably mosh-inspiring set of Incesticide ditties. I think we also saw the Strokes that year... But this Detroit quartet's Nirvana trip really sunk its teeth in...stays with me today.

So after three years, now going on four, the Crofoot Halloween show has always had one constant returning performer -

"Every year," said Child Bite singer/keyboardist/guitarist Shawn Knight (pictured-above), "we choose a band that not only we like (Rage Agaisnt The Machine 2009, Black Sabbath 2010), but that we know lots of other people like too. I think it's self indulgent and not-in-the-spirit of the event to do something obscure. We want maximum fun."

Plus, with their closing set, it just makes sense to take on a "big time artist" that would realistically be a headliner at any festival. Specificall....Nine Inch Nails.

"NIN have enough popular songs that we are physically capable of playing, and they are gnarly as hell."

But learning all those songs is a ton of work, even just for a half-hour set's worth. Still, CB (Sean Clancy, Brandon Sczomak and Ben Moore) "have a blast" each time. Being that band that's done it every year, and always closing the night gives them "a sense of belonging and pride. I like traditions, like the Hamtramck Blowout..." -which, CB has played each year since 06 - "...this is something people can count on us for, every year."

Taking on another band, whether it's Joy Division, Beck or Johnny Cash, can teach you something about yourself, in a weird blurring of identities and consciousness. "For being such a weird band," Knight said, "it's funny how naturally these 'normal' songs come to us."


PRUSSIA: horror trailer from SINGLE . BARREL . DETROIT on Vimeo.

(a "horror trailer" from a recent Child Bite tour - featuring Prussia - produced by Single Barrel Detroit)
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Halloween aside, Child Bite finally secured a new van - as their previous transport was driven to death in classic road warrior fashion. "This one cost real money, not some Craigslist piece of shit. But it won't die anytime soon either. Her name is Kate Moss. Our old van was named Kathy Ireland, -named after a debate we had regarding her status as either a bikini-babe or a super-model (you decide). We bought Tyra Banks recently in Flint, but her underside was rusted to shit so we kicked her to the curb.

They've finally got a new drummer too, that being Ben Moore - who settles in after a year or so's worth of revolving percussionists. "Things will be a little different from earlier eras," Knight posits. "Expect future output to be louder, heavier! Our ears are giving out so we have to keep turning up."

A split EP with Baltimore's Dope Body will be out, likely in time for their show together, Nov 11th at the Loving Touch in Ferndale, plus a full CB-only-EP sometime in January-ish. There's also a "4-way Black Flag covers 7" vinyl" coming. Plus a tour. You know...

No One's Leaving

The Music of Occupy Wall Street (from CBS News)

Jeff Magnum, Talib Kweli, Anti-Flag And The Music Of Zucotti Park (from HuffingtonPost)

Occupy Wall Street Launches Doc Filmmaker (from IndieWire)

Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo Photographs Occupy Wall Street Protest (from Pitchfork) 

Creepy-Cheapy

"We are too ethnic to look anything like them... so we will just do what we can to pull off the look."

Asim Akhtar knows that his band, Oblisk, bare a lot more brown skin then the pale Mancs they intend to mimic next Saturday at the Crofoot, that being the revered post-punk band Joy Division.

Halloween in Detroit means a lot of things. A lot of messy, beautiful, brutish things that could stretch the senses... For many it means an inherently auditory-based costume - a twist upon the threadbare escapade of cover songs - in Detroit it's taken further.

Here, just as likely in many music mecca's this time of year, the streets, the home studios, basement practice spots and eventual stages are flush with a crop of bands eager to embody iconic bands for an entire night's worth of material.

Forget if Akhtar looks anything like the wiggly crooner Ian Curtis - the make-up is the music. Though, "I will be shaving my beard," Akhtar reveals, "for the first time in four years...if that counts for anything."

"It's a strange concept," Akhtar said, diving into another persona, not just for a night, but in the nuanced scenario of singing their words / playing their notes. "The best part about it is that it feels like you are playing completely for the people. Emulating a band nobody has seen live...for the sake of good fun, for those who love Joy Division..."

Oblisk become Joy Division - Friday, 10/28 at the Crofoot - This is the Pontiac music barn's fourth consecutive year culling a 20-some-odd band bill's worth of musicians-as-other-musicians - You can hear Radiohead, Bjork and Beck, you can hear the Stooges. You can even hear Van Halen, The Monks and Michael Jackson.

You can kinda 'see' them as well...

But hear them out.

Full line up here.

Oblisk, meanwhile, are getting close to wrapping up their third LP, recorded with Chris Koltay. Listen to them here.

Rapping Up

You can't write it better "keepin-it-old-school" cliche stories than this one

 - not only did Guided By Voices, renowned lo-fi indie-rock kings of Dayton OH, reunite their "classic" line up (that being the integral recording/touring members to their most celebrated era of releases) - but they recorded their new album (their first proper since their initial ostensible 'swan song' in 04's Half Smiles of the Decomposed), inside a garage!

....ahh, memories... 

No studio for the lo-fi lords - they opted for plugging in and tracking inside the living rooms of friends and the basements of former band members.

Twenty one new songs are on the way from these valiant trebble-kickers of two-minute-pop-masterpieces. Let's Go Eat The Factory dawns on Jan 1st, 2012 - via GBV Inc!

Early forecasts assure enthusiasts of this "classic" era that they won't be dissappointed - and yet, there's reports of more synthesizers?--even utilizing samples-- on this new one, which features a track called "Doughnut for a Snowman," something lead singer/writer Bob Pollard considers "the goofiest, twinkliest song I've ever written..."

Stay tuned.
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On the local shores

Detroit hip/hop duo Passalacqua have their 2nd release ready -just in time for their scheduled slot on a CMJ showcase - Zebahazy  Summer drops sometime next week. Wonder-boys Blaksmith and Mister perched and poetically promulgate their latest raps in front of the cameras of local production crew Throwback Media - trading off a preview of tracks (below).

Later on, Nov 4 (at 7pm) -Passalacqua play inside the Ferndale Public Library - with aptly-named, up-and-coming phunk-soul-rollers Ferndale Acid Scene.

Local Curiosities

Fall is upon us...
...Comes in colors everywhere...

Here, then, are some local happenings you might want to venture outside for (before the dagger chill of another Michigan winter sets in...)

Here's one:

A celebration of fall, tweed, bikes and Detroit - and maybe some music? Any local musician in the Woodbridge / Wayne State area who might be up for slinging the acoustic guitar on their back while they pedal their 10-speeds or Schwinns is likely more than welcome to provide some live soundtracks for these intrepid travellers in their tweed toggery. They launch nearby the Woodbridge Pub and wind up at Belle Isle - ride along... (and sing along?)

Here's another:

"Halloween-y" Shows (2 Nights) at PJ's Lager House 10/21 & 10/22

Night 1
The HandGrenades as The Supremes (one request: "Love Is Like an Itichin in My Heart")
Citizen Smile as U2 (Ach-twenty-something, baby)
Paul Cook / Ben Luckett / Andrew Hecker as Link Wray and the Wraymen (stately choice)
Eddie Baranek / Eric Allen / Kyle Schanta as Neil Young (epic)
Eric Allen / Molly Jean / Maria Nuccilli / Zak Frieling as 2010 Fruitgum Co. (Think Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" and other saccharine sing-alongs)
Secret Twins as The Wipers (nice!)
The Crooks / Eddie Baranek as The Doors (...show me the way to the next whiskey bar)
Patrick Davy & the Ghosts as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Mojo)

Night 2
Jesse & the Gnome as Radiohead (do "Idioteque" - I dare ya)
Body Holographic as ESG (Get Funky)
Scarlet Oaks as Broadcast (very nice!)
The Olives (Milwaukee, WA) as The Go Go's (I could use another vacation)
Head On Electric (Milwaukee, WA) as Nirvana (easy on those Incesticide selections, they can really stir up some moshing)
Woodman / Hentch / TJ & Alex as The Monks (Detroit's go-to Halloween party cover band tries on yet another...
Deleano Acevedo / Tiffany Gazic as Johnny Cash & June Carter (should be interesting. Might we hear "Jackson?")
Loretta Lucas / Derek Standon / Kelly Jean Caldwell / J-Rowe as Fleetwood Mac (go their own way)
Craig Brown / Todd McNulty lead an AC/DC trip (dirty deeds indeed)
Zak Frieling / Chris Campbell / Teddy Stavridis / Scott Dunkerly as The Dead Boys (quite the local punk power squad - but do they know what love is?)

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Well, if, maybe - a Halloween cover-band concert is too old fashioned for you - then how about this? Luchadores!? Spanish Vampires?


Community Art Gallery Whitdel Arts presents a double film screening: "Santo y Blue Demon contra Dracula y el Hombre Lobo"
& "Dracula" (the 1931 Spanish version)

Doors open at 7:30pm. Films start at 8:00pm. Each film is around 90 minutes, with a 10 minute intermission in-between.

But who am I to tell you where to go... truly, ...there's so much out there in this city - so many bands, so many genres, so many weird places (even KittenAid, Sunday at the TrumbullPlex) 

There are things to talk about - be constructive

More on the Occupied...

 Boston Public Radio's On Point broadcast a story yesterday, definitely one thing (among all) to be considered...

"What do they want? Where’s the movement headed?"

...Or check out the show's main site here to read the more than 1,700 listener comments...

Something happenin here, to be sure... Whether it's exactly clear, may be answered this weekend, locally, when we see if more Michigan cities, like Detroit?...join in on the movement...

Rolling Stone reported that stalwart Rager-against-Machines, Tom Morello (currently known as "The Nightwatchmen") performed in Manhattan, today, to serenade the Occupiers: "Take it Easy, but Take it." 

Indeed...
Where is this movement headed?

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For further ruminations upon music, particularly it being the primary outlet for crystallizing and communicating man's guttural growl of general objection, I'd recommend a book I've been reading, myself - (In fact, it's author, Dorian Linskey, recently blogged about the Occupy Movement.

Linskey, who writes for the Guardian, is careful not to glorify the protest-song or the protest-singer, calling many of its hacks and hockers as "didactic" and not dancing around the risk of being derivative or contrived...

He quickly shifts to the more profound works like Holliday's "Strange Fruit," marking it as the point in history (1939) when protest songs began working their way into the mainstream, away from picket lines.

Done right, at the right time, with the right words, one can spark true inspiration and speak for the dozen, two dozen, or two hundred that are marching around you...

Music may be the ultimate, or at least quickest/most-cathartic... art of the protest -
a spasm back against that certain ache in his neck, his feet, his heart, that he just can't ignore anymore - whether it's dejection or disenfranchisement... You can all hear the words, coaxing with their melody but barbed with their message and you can all hear the warm rich timbre of the acoustic guitar, the tambourine, the shuffling feat - entices you - more than the denser abstractions of film or painting -

You can sing along -

We Were Talking About The Space Between Us All...

The steady drizzle of this day has lead my distract-able mind to scroll YouTube for "Rain" by the Beatles.

This is mere moments after I was charmed by a brand new Beatles cover (a venture always considered indomitable or brash by mellowdramatic musicphiles) by a local outfit - Enjera - streaming here.

And a none-too-conventional one, Harrison's psychedelic Hindustani-trip "Within You Without You" - quite a wavy and highly wrought drift, percolated by the piquant sitar and massaged by the hollow-plod of tablas.

Enjera is spearheaded by Alex Wand, a curious character who may just be one of the most eclectic songwriters, at least when set against the current scene of the Mitten state's indie-rock and folk fare, as Wand also fronts the unique-in-itself trio called Light In August, which itself blended a jazz sensibility upon a softened post-rock experimentalism.

Enjera, meanwhile, employs (and flourishes) Wand's wide penchant for instrumentation tapped from a range of Eastern folk traditions, particularly those from India, including one of LiA's characteristic sonic strokes (the flute) combined with the Bangladeshi-version of that same instrument, the bansuri. Hey, even a tuning-fork wobbles its resonance through these dreamy tunes. Rachel Woolf and Sean Wassermann contribute...

While the Beatles and George's Shankar-spurred song started this rant, I'd much rather show you Enjera's range by streaming an original....




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Keep your eye-and-ear on Wand - he's currently wrapping work on a film score and after that, a storytelling album.

Everybody IS In

Two hours after landing in Portland, I was swept up into a happy horde of buoyed blue-collars, neo-hippies, graying free-spirits and anyone else awake enough to know that the way things' are goin just don't feel right...

Rain coats and wind-breakers wrapped an animated and exlcamatory assemblage strolling across the tracks meant for that hip-town's light-rail train transports, enveloping my red-knit cap with their cardboard signs, their voices ("They Got Bailed Out, We Got Sold Out") echoing off the buildings in the city center, on their way to fill up Pioneer Park; their shoulders sardine'd, their feet stomping together, their voices expressing an amalgam of disagreements and flares of general fed-up-ness. The crowds reached up to 5,000, so the Internet tells me.

The 99%... Such a swift stroke to join the upper-middles to the lower-lowers, the Unions to the Communes, the Dutch Colonials to the Condominiums to the Couch Surfers - no longer a side to be on, but a round, encompassing pie "piece," a PacMan shaped piece, biting and spewing-out that 1%-sized sliver.

And to think that it was happening in two dozen other cities - more so. Until three or so weeks ago, back before the Mace-sprayed-round-the-country, this was a comparably modest mustering focused only at/on Wall Street in New York.

Now, it's going to be everywhere - including Detroit, next Friday. Lansing and Ann Arbor will also be "occupied..." Find your invites, your info and your where's and what's on Facebook.

And maybe it's hyperbole, but... as Reuters put it up: "Wall Street action part of global "Arab Spring"?"

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In any case... Having gotten back into town today laced with this "mad-as-hell"-esque motivation, my musican sensibilities have leaned towards styles exemplary of similar angst, detraction and communnal edification:
folk and punk...

Not that I'm not self-conscious about whittling certain bands, be they Kommie Kilpatrick or Jacuzzi Boys to just one guttural bark of a cliched word - punk... But you can at least get a picture of what I mean - the energy. Rock n' roll has always been about reckless abandon, sex, drugs, fast-dancing and head-banging. Indie-rock can be too maudlin. Punk was born by upstarts who didn't quite know where they were going, why they were stampeding their foreheads straight against the wall or exactly who they needed to talk to, specifically, to get their grievances answered - sorta like some of the people I stood with, in Portland.

But perhaps, its that encouraging to merely see such action...  And, perhaps it's trite for me to go wondering, all bright-eyed about it, what role our music community can play... Will Detroit or Ypsi locals, be they psycher's, folksters or punkers hop into the backs of flat-bed trucks ala Tom Morello's "Nightwatchman" or even further back off on some deluded Dylan trip...

And maybe it's even more trite to remark, again, (as any blog would) upon the reach, the connective capabilities of the Facebook... the double edged sword, somehow both a profound resource and a perfidious diversion...

Still yet, Facebook has, in some small way, supplanted the back-of-the-bar as the premier source of band-to-band/musician-to-musician networking - most often it's between facebook-messaging where most side-projects and next-new-things are born...

So what else can all these connected-bands do, besides right new songs together and organize just another ol' Saturday show?
How best to occupy...our time...our connectedness...


Anyway...
Here's some things to see:

Detroit-loving Miami trio Jacuzzi Boys comes to the Lager House this Saturday -along with Ann Arbor's tumble-rockers Everybody's In and two brand-new Detroit punk outfits - Twine Time and Growing Pains.




Twine Time, meanwhile, feature one member of Kommie Kilpatrick, a quintet that revives the elbows-up-esque punk tornadoisms of the seminal hardcore era, who, by the way, are hosting a house-party show that same day... down on Commonwealth in Woodbridge (more info here), --Also playing that early evening (4:30-ish) is Deadbeat Beat (-which, subsequently, features another member of Twine Time), but also: Rall Tide, and some out-of-towners, Ypsi's Bad Indians and one out-of-stater: Colleen Green (<--stream the latter's EP "Cujo" here. 

And then that leads into that evening's Magic Stick show featuring national punk-esque lo-fi-pop sensations the Dum Dum Girls.

Energy!

And...since I did mention folk - one couldn't go wrong with this pairing: Misty Lyn & the Big Beautiful with Timothy Monger - Saturday at Ann Arbor Folk foundry, the Ark.


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And on a final note...

if I'm on a rant about energy - then I have to mention Scottie Stone - a veritable machine of a drummer fueled by a heart of gold that's all too eager to remind you about how lucky, with the musical community, that we have, here...

It's the dude's birthday - he plays with Dutch Pink, who joins Macrame Tiger and String of Ponies at the Berkley Front on Friday night.

It's That Time of Year

I'm off for the week folks...headed out to Portland... I'll be back Tuesday - here's a quick on-the-fly interview concerning my favorite time of year with one of my favorite local characters:

"Halloween in Detroit! Epic!"

A few words from local songwriter/sparkplug/one-man-audience and music-enthusiast Frank Woodman, concerning the crazy, curious and inspiring energy that radiates throughout the Detroit's rock clubs as Halloween gets closer and closer...

See: Zombie Dance Party 8 -at the Loving Touch - Oct 25 (part of the "Tuesdays in the Forest" DJ series and featuring: "Living, breathing performances by The Beggars & "The Monks"..."

"I think the music "scene" and it's players are first and foremost huge music fans and what could be more fun than "dressing up" as your heroes?" said Woodman. 

"Collecting candy dressed as Superman has turned into donning David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust outfit for the pure joy of it. "Whatcha' got cooking for Halloween?" starts in August now, with bands thinking about their cover band year round. " It's really exciting to step away from your own band a bit and try something new."

"'This year we should do this band!' is the battle cry."

Woodman, along with John Szymanski (of the Hentchmen), Alex Glendenning (of Dead Beat Beat) and T.J. Gretch - have performed three straight years' of Zombie shows where they've interpretted three different punk rock icons - from the Sonics, to the Cramps, to -(shown above^), the Mummies.

"So, 4 years into this, it's more exciting than ever. We're welcoming a newbie this year: Jake Culkowski from The Detroit Cobras, Magic Jake and the Power Crystals and Sugarcoats will be joining myself, John Hentch, Alex Deadbeat and TJ Grech for The Fake Monks.

The Monks, Woodman noted, will be an interesting challenge - distinguished for their exacting musicality and thus a considerable stretch away from the notoriously sloppier or chaotic bands they'd covered in the past.

Other Monks shows, beside the 10/25 Zombie Dance Party, will be Friday, October 21rst at PJ's Lager House. Friday, October 28th at The Crofoot and a full set full of surprises at The Park Bar on Saturday, October 29th.
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Halloween in Detroit

Theatre Bizarre - the local psychedelic performance-art troupe aims to open up a portal inside the Masonic Temple - come get initiated (on Oct 22nd)! Costumes mandatory!

Listed performers, so far, include:
The 3-D Invisibles / Easy Action / Satori Circus / Squidling Brothers Circus Sideshow / Hayley Jane / Fur / Carjack / Escape Suspension / The World's Largest Tesla Coil Orchestra and many more.....

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Creepy Cheapy Musical Masquerade at the Crofoot means a chance to see a head-spinning amount of ambitious cover bands  - Oct 28th:

School of Rock as MICHAEL JACKSON’s THRILLER

Car Parts as ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS

Mister as BECK

Liz, Regan, Dina and Jen as THE SHIRELLES

Fawn as BLONDIE
Wilson as AC/DC
ChildBite as NINE INCH NAILS
Bahamut as WHITE ZOMBIE
Oblisk as JOY DIVISION
Jesse and the Gnome as RADIOHEAD
The Marvins as STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
Marble Fauns as ABBA
Man Halen as VAN HALEN
Brent “Black Smith” as JAY-Z
Creepy Crawlers as INSANE CLOWN POSSE
Pupils as BJORK
Citizen Smile as U2
Brain Stew as GREEN DAY
Woodman as THE MONKS
Golden Torso as IGGY & THE STOOGES
Pink Lightning as MICHAEL JACKSON
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And if all that's not enough - Prussia's Single Barrel Detroit-produced-music-video, "What Am I Gonna Tell Your Mom?" went live this week via Impose Magazine. 
More info here.


(photo: Trever Long)











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....and I know I'm missing something...

OH, but of course...
The Urban Harvest Night! -presented by the Royal Oak Community Farm - That's this weekend Oct 8th at Royal Oak Farmer's Market (5pm - 11pm) "...a great night out while giving back to the community"

Live music featuring: • Local Student Music Groups • DJ Melissa English
• Jeremy Porter and the Tucos • Green Collar • The History of Pan!c
• The High Strung


Food? • Antica Pizzeria’s wood fired pizza  • Café Muse
• Inn Season Cafe  • Lazybones Smokehouse • Cacao Tree Cafe
• Donut Kebabs  • Caramel Apple Drizzle




Activities for kids (some of which might involve pumpkins) and spirits to sip for the adults: like Bell's Octoberfest and spiked cider


That should be it for now...

I'll be back soon...