Monthly Archives: March 2008

Metro Times Blowout Opening Night Party (Wednesday)

By Scotter | Published: March 6, 2008
If there is one thing that sucks about working for a multi-million dollar corporate entity (among many thousand other things), it’s that you have to wait till after work to blog about the shows you saw the night before. So even though I’m posting this less than 24 hours after the events you’ll find herein, [...]
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Searchin’ for my bootleg: The Velvet Underground as Guitar Pop Heroes

By Todd | Published: March 3, 2008
Ever since the recent emergence of the “lost” Velvet Underground song “I’m Not a Young Man Anymore,” I’ve been on a huge VU kick, digging through old bootleg recordings and demos, official or otherwise, reminding myself why I fell in love with the band in the first place. I can’t think of any other band [...]
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The Post-Rockist’s Metro Times (Hamtramck) Blowout Picks

By Scotter | Published: March 3, 2008
I’m coming upon my one-year anniversary of being back in sunny Detroit, my home town, after spending four glorious years in Washington, DC, with its national erection (aka. the Washington Monument) in view for all to see and occasionally walking by Ian MacKaye in Adams Morgan or Ian Svenonius being a creep at a dance [...]
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The Magnetic Fields at Town Hall in NYC, February 2008

By Richard | Published: March 1, 2008
Photo Credit: Kathyrn Yu The Magnetic Fields in New York City was a fragile performance by a band that seemed like they might blow away and disintegrate in the lights of Times Square if the audience all exhaled at the same time. Stephin Merritt slouched in a stool throughout the performance. The speakers were turned [...]
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White Hinterland – Phylactery Factory

By Todd | Published: March 1, 2008
(I originally wrote the following review for Playback:STL) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] White Hinterland – “Dreaming of Plum Trees” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] White Hinterland – “Hometown Hooray” (both from Phylactery Factory) There seems to be an emerging trend of conservatory-trained songstresses with a penchant for poetry turning the [...]
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