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THE DISPLAYS (8:15 pm, Majestic Theatre) While most ninth graders are tucking their boners in their waistbands and considering whether to shave that scum-stache off their top lip, the young turks in the Displays are busy dissecting classics by the Stooges and newer jams like the Sights' Are You Green?. Pretty good for kids? How about just pretty friggin' good? LISTEN |
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BLASE SPLEE (9:00 pm, Garden Bowl) A wise soul once described these guys as "Like Child Bite covering the Beatles." We think that's pretty accurate, since we are that wise soul. LISTEN |
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TIGERCITY |
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CHILD BITE (9:30 pm, Magic Stick) What more can be said about Child Bite (or THE BITE, as one local soundman calls 'em)? With more facial hair than a ZZ Top convention, their squiggle-skronk jams come down on our heads like a guillotine dipped in Kool-Aid. Hey hey hey! This is for the 20 years of parents demanding they turn the music down. They turned it up instead, and sideways. And now they will cut off our heads. LISTEN |
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MAS! (10:00 pm, Garden Bowl) Mas! may be hard to find on MySpace (Come on dudes, myspace.com/nextlev? That shit is confusing), but their indie pop hooks are certainly worn on their sleeves. Which reminds us, we really need to get our record player working again so we can spin Superchunk's "The Freed Seed" 7." That record rules. LISTEN |
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BAD VEINS |
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APES (10:30 pm, Magic Stick) Ever wonder what the Doors would sound like if they were into beating people up instead of existential poetry? That's Washington, DC's Apes, man. And they're ripping your arms off and pummeling you with the wet end. WATCH |
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PRIME MINISTERS (11:00 pm, Garden Bowl) If Nick Lowe is the Jesus of cool, then the Prime Ministers are his power-pop disciples, spreading the good word to anybody who will listen. This is pure pop for now people. Right here. Right on. LISTEN |
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PAS/CAL (11:15 pm, Majestic Theatre) Are they a band? Are they not a band? We don't really care, because they said they would play Rock City, and that's all we really need. Think the ariel pop of the Shins mixed with the progressive boing-boing of Stereolab, and you'll be close to the magic created by Detroit's very own Pas/Cal. LISTEN |
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TERRIBLE TWOS (11:30 pm, Magic Stick) Tired of all those annoying mall punks tripping you up on your way to the Apple Store? The mangled mutts in Detroit's Terrible Twos eat those little fuckers like Thickburgers at Hardee's. And their too fast, too furious punk steez makes "Beat on the Brat" sound like a traditional hymn. If there's one Detroit band that's on the cusp of causing mass national hysteria, these walking haircuts are it. LISTEN |
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THTX |
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THE VON BONDIES (12:15 am, Majestic Theatre) Why should you care about seeing the Von Bondies at this year's Rock City Festival? Is it because this is their first show in Detroit proper in four years? Or that "C'mon C'mon" still sounds as strong today as it did when it came blasting from our speakers back when it was released in 2004? Nope. It's cuz not only is leader Jason Stollsteimer still a bonafied rock star (just look at that hair!), but because their new jamburgers are so white-hot and tasty that every living soul from here to Timbuktu should be devouring them like White Castle after a night of heavy boozing. That's why. Post that to your blog, bitch. WATCH |
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LEE MARVIN COMPUTER ARM |
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ZOOS OF BERLIN (1:00 am, Garden Bowl) There's some bands that force a certain kind of jazziness that comes off nothing short of pretentious. Then there are other groups, like Detroit's Zoos of Berlin, that make it look easy. It's not because they spend their Sunday afternoons listening to Thelonious Monk, though they probably do. It's because their musicianship, grace, and elegance come not from the brain, but from the heart. Think on, dudes. LISTEN |
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