Boston metal-punk Phantom Rider
Detroit/Ypsilanti crusher-crust Knotwork
Jail - “The path treaded alone and cold.Filled with broken bones and nameless headstones.Gone flawlessly according to plan.Through shifty go betweens in a poisoned land.Tap into the ether.Feel the blackness and bring it on.”
Metro Detroit punx Teknokrat
Human Toys (from France!) - “If you get your kicks from short, snappy Ramones-style pop tunes, then look no further. Poupée, on vocals and theremin and Jon Von on guitar and vocals bring you 13 new songs that grab your attention as they fly by. 2025 seems to be the year of great, short albums, but, as ever, it’s quality over quantity/time… It’s been done to death, but it’s not easy to write short, catchy songs, and the Toys really have nailed it… It’s not big, it’s not clever, and it’s all the better for it. It’s pure fun with great tunes, and there is a hint of The Rezillos here and there. I don’t know if there’s bass when they play live, but there’s plenty on the record, allowing the likes of ‘I’m Sick Of You’ to have the required clout. If Spotify is good for anything, you can listen to it and then order the album. What are you waiting for?” –rpmonline
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The Gobs - “My initial thought seeing this single was “Wow, a Goodbye Boozy band with songs that run longer than two minutes?” Took me a minute-and-a-half to realize that this isn’t a single at all; the A and B-sides are just two different EPs. More lo-fi, synth-driven egg-punk that we’ve come to expect from this label. However, each song has a different vibe to it. There’s a diverse range of gear used on each track, specifically the different drum machines featured throughout. The GOBS bounce back and forth between sounding like PRISON AFFAIR, ’90s dream pop, and sinister darkwave. Really freshens things up and keeps them from sounding like the hundreds of other egg bands out there right now.” –maximumrocknroll
Ménage Détroit - “This Detroit-based guitar-and-drums duo delivers two tracks, “I’m a Fool” and “Would You Say (I’m in Love),” firmly rooted in ’60s/garage rock influences. The playing is loose and raw, with a gritty, unpolished energy that fits their sound but the muddy production doesn’t do them any favors. Lyrically, the tracks delve into themes of love, loneliness, and heartache, capturing a classic melancholic vibe. If you’re into the rough edges of rock, this pair would be right at home opening for any number of bands from the Crypt label from the ’90s. I’d love to hear them revved up to eleven, but they’re currently at about four.” –maximumrocknroll
The Quitters - “I like this. A lot. It’s super lo-fi, but also super catchy (those two can go hand in hand. for sure). It’s fuzzy, but jangly at the same time. It’s got a somberness to it, but it’s not a downer. In terms of the sound, I guess I’d call it “indie,” if that’s okay with you. The production is perfect for the sound. This is pretty outstanding for a debut effort. Great guitar sound. These guys are from Detroit, so you know they’re tough. The mood they create reminds me a bit of the DANDY WARHOLS. Really great shit here.” –maximumrocknroll
Autobahn, from New York City, vast-american skies of noise, Can for the insurgent age, bubblegum Glenn Branca, three-pieces in orchestra, together, bodies in drone, for glowing return of strings, snare, cymbals-in total light. Findlay Fullarton (guitar/electronics), Louisa Tantillo (cello/bass), Liam Barton (drums).
“Zastava is a music maker of motor city’s new generation worthy of knowing their names, which are Mateja Matic, Arman Bonislawski, Cam Frank, and Ollie Elkus. On a night out in the East Village, I caught their set and though I had heard the recordings and been a fan, I was struck by their live performance. I was captivated. Inspired, even. I felt like I wished I had learned to play guitar instead of earning an English degree. Their fervor and precision chaos applied to an on-stage presence that was both confident and scrutable, assembled yet dangerous, combined with songs that are genuinely danceable and undeniably alluring and specifically and emphatically not the same old half-hearted sadboy dogshit being chucked out by the flacid idiots who happened upon a pirate stream of the Meet Me in the Bathroom documentary their first year at NYU film school and who plague dozens of curated ‘hot new indie’ Spotify playlists, all in my view added up to one thing for Zastava: quality. Zastava had the room - it was completely theirs - and their music earned them the right to it.” –monsterchildren.com
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank focused on U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Founded in 1921, it is an independent and nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with longstanding ties to political, corporate, and media elites.
“Jon is the front man of Plum, an upand- coming East Bay indie rock band. Plum is centered around Jon’s melancholic, reflective songwriting, involving heavy use of drones and space, as well as dramatic emotional builds. Their songs can be thought of as fleshedout singer-songwriter music that draws from varied traditions—from ambient to emo, shoegaze to drone, Slowdive to Sparklehorse. In many ways, this inventive approach to songwriting, alongside the members’ deep knowledge of and affinity for different genres of music, creates a band that is hard to pin down to one subgenre of indie rock.” –thesanfranciscan
Quality Cinema Band is a four piece rock and roll band based out of Detroit, MI. The band formed in the summer of 2022 and put out their debut album in 2024 with a vinyl release through Remove Records. The band is currently working on their 2nd album.
Ypsilanti’s Geranium Red is “Alt. rock, multi-instrumentalists whose dynamic and emotive compositions evoke engaging performances. Eclecticism and intentional therapeutic expression drives our work and offers audiences vulnerable relatability.”
“Lester. is a Michigan based project by Celeste Janae Jones. Celeste sings and plays guitar, as well as writes all of the music. The group also consists of their partner, Austin Staeoeczyk, on bass and Gabe Wood, of S@YP, on drums (although sometimes for live performances they use other drummers). I first heard about Lester. as I was preparing to attend PugFest 2 over the summer and instantly fell in love with their sound. “ –widrfm
“Jeremy Porter grew up in Marquette, a small town in Michigan's upper peninsula, where he was a founding member of one of the UP's first punk bands - The Regulars. He moved to Detroit and tore through the 90s and 00s fronting bands like SlugBug, The OffRamps and Fidrych (as well as a solo stint) through 2 decades of recording and touring before forming The Tucos in 2009. Gabriel Doman (Hotwalls) and Jake Riley (Big Shoals, Jake Riley & The Social Workers) round out the trio.”
“Hello! I am Chris. I find under the moniker Glencoe. I have just released my first full length album University Street. I am an Americana Artist. I’d love to come play your living room, kitchen, bathroom whatever! I just want to get out and play and grow my audience! Thank you!” –glencoe
“Shady Cove is the Portland, Oregon-based dream pop duo of Sarah Rose and Sarah Nienaber… It’s a tender slice of dream pop with a folk quality to it with a sun-soaked pristine dreamy nature that feels full of emotion and melancholy.” –weallwantsomeone.org
“Nancy Friday (lo-fi dream-pop/folk)” –wdet
Arlo Betley, bass whiz of Sugar Tradition, will be performing his own material.
Rat Paws: “Thrashing in the basement since 2011.”
Detroit’s favorite monthly horror-schlock screening night returns! This month with Wes Craven’s The People Under The Stairs
“When you hear Necromoon, you might not know the genre. But you know the mood. “I do think we fall into the shoegaze pond, but we’re indie rock nerds with a shoegaze blanket,” drummer James Wadsworth said. “We love Radiohead, Grizzly Bear, Deerhunter. We love shoegaze, too, the greats like Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine and all that stuff. We didn’t want to be your average shoegaze band.” They are not your average band, and when you see them live that is evident. With lights turned down, Wadsworth’s drumming fades into the sonic backdrop spawned by Connor Corwin’s guitar work and Tessa Brumbeloe melodic voice and bass. “We put a lot of effort into our live shows,” Wadsworth said, noting it can often be difficult to tell when one song ends and another begins. “We practice hard and are very mindful of the flow of our set. We don’t like to talk and a lot of people don’t really want to hear you talk, especially if you’re a small band.”” –whatzup.com
“Career Funeral is a four piece, Detroit-based band formed in 2021 by two roommates. Self-labeled as “softcore," Career Funeral blends together elements of grunge, shoegaze, and hardcore to create their “wall of noise” sound. Their sophomore EP “Funny Until It’s Not” will be available this coming fall/winter on all streaming platforms.” –rockindetroit
Low Exposure is… Robin Parrent & Katherine Deal
Tired are a slow core band from metro detroit.
“Rose Chamber, named after what might be my favorite Mutually Assured Destruction song, is the duo of Ace Stallings and his Sentinel bandmate Evan Schlomann. On Twitter, Stallings says, “I’ve always wanted to try my hand at doing a synth/new wave project. Rose Chamber is for fans of various 80’s inspirations.” The duo’s new four-song debut cassette State Of Affairs is still tough and muscular, and it makes great use of Ace’s titanic bellow. The songs are short, and the riffs are hard. But the whole sound is really on that vampire shit — drum machines, one-finger keyboard riffs, evil basslines, reverb and echo all over everything. Highlight “Past Sins” sounds a bit like what might’ve happened if Glenn Danzig had tried to become Peter Murphy. It’s really good!” –stereogum
“Olinda are back with their latest single ‘Reverie’, another masterclass in indie pop in 2023. Like a lost cut from an old FIFA soundtrack that never was; springy guitars and synthesized nods to Psychedelic Furs give way to a chorus straight from the Gallagher brother’s song sheet. As with last single ‘Dreams in Transit’, its 4 minute run time eludes the listener and does nothing to diminish from its pure, pop credentials. The vocals employ a higher register than previous singles, with frontman Josh Klein sounding at his most angelic when in fact ‘every day feels like hell.’ Lyrically we encounter a sense of camaraderie in mutual despair, the yearning for brighter days, the lost art of…I don’t know…having a bloody laugh? Musically ‘Reverie’ features some of Peter Burke’s finest guitar playing yet. Sleek and measured trills lead to a solo that could make John Squire just stick to the paintbrush for good. And while our singer’s malaise is at the forefront, a bopping synth line remains all the more apparent and infectious.”
Oasis is reuniting? So is Fake Oasis, from last year’s OLL Halloween Cover Show. With an all-star lineup of Joey Hannabarbara (Menage Detroit, Toeheads), Craig Brown (Craig Brown Band), Jamie Spiker (Wild Shape), Evan Eklund (Frontier Ruckus) and Quennton Thornberry (Expest Prude Boys)
After Jeff Clarke moved from Edmonton, Canada, in 2000 to escape a life as a laborer in the Alberta oil sands, his musical journey began with a 56-hour bus ride that took him to Montreal, Quebec, where he formed the legendary band Demon’s Claws. A release on the German underground label P-Trash was followed by several tours of Europe and the U.S., until finally the American indie label In the Red Records took notice of the band and released two studio albums.
His boisterous garage rock compositions once led to King Khan identifying him as one of the “unsung heroes of rock n’ roll.” and for several years he has also been a member of the US garage rock band The Black Lips (Fire Records).
DJ Jam Jam will be playing Michael and the Slipper Tree and the Ghostbusters Theme Song
Speenskin grazes in sun-dappled meadows, moonlit backyards and in the basins of sand dunes, playing liminal parlor music for your favorite dive bar. They are a band and recording project composed of Sam, Molly, Derrick & Finn. Complete with upright bass, drums, classical guitars and hushed harmonies, the group is from the little parts of the countryside and now resides in Northern Vermont. The four piece births a delicate and sincere combination of folk, spooky-country, slow-core, and jazz-infused slacker rock.
Propolis is “The loudest band at the potluck”
Lester is “Music for anyone”
“Danny VanZandt’s hooky and playful take on indie rock draws on the wryer side of the 1970s’ singer-songwriter movement, as well as the American indie rock scene of the 1990s.”
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Bring on the big weekend with a kickoff celebration for the ages!
“Those groovy weirdos from Cincinnati CHONCY are back with a 12” vinyl follow-up to last year’s hit tape. Decked out in glitchy scratch-off ticket chic, this rollicking record further demonstrates the band’s “kitchen sink” style, in which elements of punk, post-punk, and hardcore are pieced together to create an ambitious sonic collage. Smart, uninhibited, and overflowing with ideas and energy, this set of songs defies succinct description, offering a poignant surge of originality in each track. Foaming at the mouth one moment and snapping into a friendly guitar jangle the next, there’s never a dull moment. Having an average weekend? Put this on the turntable and monotony doesn’t stand a chance.” –maximumrocknroll
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H8 Mile - “…as with many albums by the great hardcore bands of yore, is short – 9 tracks clocking in at 15 minutes – and fits on a single 7” record. Emerging from the Detroit DIY scene, Spread the Love propagates a grit & grime, us-against-the-world mentality. This record is a handmade delight, packaged in a black & white sleeve and featuring a handwritten center label. The cassette version is dubbed on a clear glitter cassette.” –360degreesound
Gerber & the Babies - “Fremont Canning Company, owned and operated by Dan Gerber, was looking for a baby face for its new baby food campaign, which was to start in the later part of 1928. To find a baby face that it believed would best represent the new baby food, the Fremont Canning Company conducted a contest in the summer of 1928. Many drawings and paintings were submitted. Some were elaborate baby portraits in oil paint, while others were simple sketches. Dorothy Hope Smith of Westport, Connecticut, an artist specialising in children's drawings, submitted an unfinished charcoal drawing, that was closer to a simple sketch than a professional drawing. Smith told the judges that, if the sketch were selected as the winner, she would finish it professionally. The drawing won but, to her surprise, the judges wanted no changes to it.” –wikipedia
The always-free HAMTRAMCK LABOR DAY FEST AFTERPARTY tradition continues with a bang! Tin Foil will be performing at their album release party for their third record Chicken Sandwich - released a day prior on August 29 from Almost Ready Records and Sweet Time Records! Come pick up your copy at OLL!
Also playing, Dig! recording artists The Ar-Kaics take their cues from the first wave of ‘60s punk — American teenagers taking cues from the British Invasion, in turn taking cues from pilfers of the hinterland originators — with the added vantage of several subsequent decades worth of wayward balladeers, no names and psychedelic rock hangovers.
Keep the party going at your Hamtramck Labor Day Festival AFTERPARTY HOME of OUTER LIMITS!
Local heart-throbs Werewolf Jones will be on location to knock your sweaty, Jos. campau-worn socks off!!
“Grimy garage punk slithering out of Detroit’s streets. WEREWOLF JONES deliver thirteen tracks of bad attitude with fast punk that interestingly uses a surf-style drum beat, all double snare hits and rolls. I imagine the drummer holds his sticks sideways like a jazz player, but my search for live pics didn’t confirm it. It totally works though, and gives the songs a rollicking propulsion that makes them seem even faster than they are. On a few tracks, the band veers into sludgy noise rock territory, sounding like TONGUE PARTY or WHORES. “Bigmouth,” for instance, has a plodding caveman riff that works like a shovel breaking through rocks. Among the faster garage-influenced songs, “Lock the Door” reminds me of ZEKE with a hilarious non-solo where the bass and drums play and the lead guitar just emits a distortion feedback tone. It’s this kind of tongue-in-cheek casualness that makes this such a fun, albeit heavy, record. Similarly, “Eating Life Shitting Skulls” is over four minutes of that surf beat with shrieked vocals and clean, reverbed surf licks played at half-speed. It’s weird and wonderful. Loud, slimy, with speed and humor to spare, this is a great punk record.” –maximumrocknroll
TsuShiMaMiRe are a legendary Japanese rock trio formed in 1999 featuring Mari (vocals, guitar), Yayoi (bass, bv)
These girls have captivated audiences around the world for over 23 years, spanning thousands of live performances, 15 US tours, and 20 full length releases. Among many other achievements, their music has been featured on TV, film, animation, and video games.
TsuShiMaMiRe’s musical style ranges from hardcore noise to introspective indie rock, with traces of heavy funk disco and pop sentimentality. Mari’s quirky lyrics question social conventions and the anxieties of everyday life, rebellion, and love. Her vocals excel in melodic expressivity, ranging from child-like wonder to tragic despair. Yayoi’s groove is like that of a vengeful banshee in the throes of passion, suddenly pivoting from the stoic determination of a samurai in battle to the elegance and light-heartedness of a Japanese house cat. Meanwhile drummer Maiko locks down a constant punk backdrop, rallying the front pair but keeping them from toppling over the edge into insanity. The ferocity of these three warrior princesses culminates in a live show that is simultaneously upliftingly theatrical and brutally honest.
21st century Raincoats-esque troubadours ZEM bring their new sound to the bill.
“Clementine Was Right is the songwriting project of Denver- based poets Mike Young and Gion Davis. Chronicling years of uprooting, the music gallops and sways through lyric-driven, hook-smeared bootgaze and western emo, harmonizing and storytelling.”
“Rose St. Germaine brings you face-to-face with a world where nothing “is” purely wrong or right.”
Carmel Liburdi is a Detroit based musician and multimedia artist. Everything they do is inspired by the human condition, and focuses on humanity/the experience of emotion and having a body. Their visual artwork centers body positivity, sex positivity, as well as fantasy and macabre themes. Carmel has been performing their original songs in the Detroit area and all around the US since 2015, with albums released as far back as 2010. Their music is regularly featured on local NPR, and has been nominated for multiple Detroit Music Awards.
YOUR NUMBER ONE DETROIT LIONS WATCH PARTY IS BACK AT THE OUTER LIMITS LOUNGE. FULL WALL PROJECTOR, PURE OCTANE, ALL GRIT.
The mighty; The Muggs, Detroit’s best-known blues band and elder statesman of rock return to the Outer Limits Lounge for a blistering September night performance!
“If you've followed their 20-year run as a band, then by now you might already have your own idea of what the Muggs sound like. But I realize I was wrong. Because what it comes down to is a pair of lifelong best friends simply following their hearts toward whatever sound felt truest and most invigorating for them, first and foremost. And it's the heart that comes through most of all; what winds up happening is the band's passion for Beatles-esque melodies, '60s pop harmonies, and sludgy '70s electric blues powerfully transmits” –metrotimes
Electric Bug is a garage/psych rock band based in Detroit. Alexander Jarmoluk, Arlo Betley, Merrick Deluca, and Revi Deluca, combine vintage combo organ tones with rock and punk influences drawn from a variety of eras.
The Bungalows
YOUR NUMBER ONE DETROIT LIONS WATCH PARTY IS BACK AT THE OUTER LIMITS LOUNGE. FULL WALL PROJECTOR, PURE OCTANE, ALL GRIT.
Caley Conway “when the ever-busy Milwaukee singer-songwriter finds herself caught in the humdrum duties of daily life. There are things to do—or not—people to see—or not—and the ones and zeros of technology to attend to. And then, suddenly, she’s off and dreaming, belly laughing with a distant friend or considering taking up “the work of birds.” When she comes back down to Earth, more often than not, she finds bliss in a comforting middle ground. “There aren’t enough hours in the day, I’ve counted,” Conway sings early in the record, before slyly adding, “For loving you.”
Dreams, and the sometimes lovely, sometimes painful realities that anchor them, are subjects Conway knows a thing or two about. The past decade has found her cutting a constant but elusive figure in the Milwaukee music scene and beyond, sharing local stages with Field Report and Julia Blair, sharing national stages with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker, and releasing a steady stream of stellar solo work. Twenty-twenty-one’s Bliss Or Bust featured three tracks of wry, head-in-the-clouds indie folk. Only A Dark Cocoon, released in late 2022, untangled Joni Mitchell’s classic “The Last Time I Saw Richard” and reconfigured it into three original songs of hazy and jazz-inflected post-rock. Dusty country ballads and cheeky odes to cheese populate the discography margins.”
“Slow Country,” the latest single from Detroit-based singer/songwriter Conor Lynch, takes the listener to a cool, breezy place to help them forget their troubles and pass the ever-decelerating minutes. Structurally simple, the song sleepily glides through four quick vocal lines accompanied by fuzzy acoustic guitar tones and wistful pedal steel to amplify the calm and collected feelings evoked through the lyrics. Despite the textures of the track being rather thin, the instrumentation employed by Lynch only adds to this theme of simplicity. The line “Don’t know how long I can stay / ‘Least a minute lasts an hour in this place” perfectly articulates the feeling of sitting down with this gentle country jam – your troubles melting away for what feels like much longer than two and a half minutes. This feeling is amplified even further when watching the beautiful one-take music video that accompanies the single, in which the camera slowly pulls out from a close-up of Lynch to reveal a sea of bright orange trees perched on the edge of a Detroit cityscape. Lackadaisical, nostalgic piano notes fade in, mirroring the dominant guitar line as the song concludes, and all that’s left to do is hit replay for another few minutes of bliss.” –swimintothesound
“TWIN DEER, AN INDIE POP GROUP HAILING FROM DETROIT, IS KNOWN FOR BLENDING POWERFUL POETRY WITH IRRESISTIBLY CATCHY MUSIC. LED BY SINGER-SONGWRITER MEGAN MARCOUX, THE BAND'S UPBEAT SONGS CREATE A VIBRANT AND ENERGETIC ATMOSPHERE, MAKING THEM THE PERFECT SOUNDTRACK FOR A DANCE PARTY.
WITHIN THE TWIN DEER REPERTOIRE, YOU'LL FIND SONGS THAT DELVE INTO THE COMPLEXITIES OF LOVE, LIFE, AND LOSS, EXPLORING THE FULL EMOTIONAL SPECTRUM, AND OFFERING A PROFOUND AND RELATABLE MUSICAL JOURNEY. THE COLLECTIVE TALENT OF MEGAN MARCOUX, TOM SKILL, BILL KAHLER, AND ROB DUNCAN WEAVES A NARRATIVE THAT DEEPLY RESONATES WITH LISTENERS.”
YOUR NUMBER ONE DETROIT LIONS WATCH PARTY IS BACK AT THE OUTER LIMITS LOUNGE. FULL WALL PROJECTOR, PURE OCTANE, ALL GRIT.
Detroit’s favorite monthly horror-schlock screening night returns!
"They thrive on the chaos of an unforgiving world." - Pitchfork
"Unabashedly political and DIY." - Loud and Quiet
"The poster boys for alternative and experimental hip-hop." - The Quietus
Baltimore-based experimental hip-hop duo Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals embody this ethos of cutting through pretense with their raw, unfiltered creativity and incisive commentary. Known for their boundary-pushing DIY approach, the duo has achieved a cult-level following experimental hip-hop, blending chaotic, genre-defying production with unapologetic social critique and dark humor.
YOUR NUMBER ONE DETROIT LIONS WATCH PARTY IS BACK AT THE OUTER LIMITS LOUNGE. FULL WALL PROJECTOR, PURE OCTANE, ALL GRIT.
The great Outer Limits SUMMER STROH DOWN returns! A high in July weekend rager of the best local and regional rippers around!
FRIDAY July 25
-POP-UP food out back on the patio from Koprova Slovak Kitchen!
8:30 Credit Card
9:10 Dori
10:00 Kill the Hippies
10:50 TY
11:40 Zastava
SATURDAY July 26
POP-UP food out back on the patio from Koprova Slovak Kitchen!
8:30 Mod Lang
9:20 Deno
10:10 Shitdels
11:00 Lavender Jets
11:50 Human Eye
SUNDAY July 27
Daytime show! Bar open at 1pm - FLEA MARKET on the patio - BBQ POP UP
2:00 Pontiac Stags
3:00 Plushies
4:00 Secondary Colors
5:00 Slizz
6:00 Deadbeat Beat
7:00 Chloe Drallos Group
8:00 Hall Pass
“Glowing Brain have constructed for the record. The mash-up of different sounds and genres from Glowing Brain is quite original and downright technically impressive especially when they blend Punk Rock with a gloomy Space Rock environment.
The vocals from both Conrad Nichols and Doc Miller both have a “NO FUCKS GIVEN” attitude in how they’re delivered but it’s quite refreshing to hear these style of vocals that allows the message of the album to hit HARDER than you initially anticipate that left me quite breathless at times.
Overall, Memory Distortion is a wickedly subversive album that’s hidden under the pretence of a Punk Rock/Speed Metal/Stoner Metal album that makes it such an even better album on every level possible. This is stirring stuff with Glowing Brain delivering a masterclass of FUCKED UP and HIGHLY AGGRESSIVE grooves from start to finish.” –outlawsofthesun
SuperDevil “Ass shaking devil music for sinners!” –facebook
Jail “We tend to let other people tell us what we sound like rather than create a framework that would give our sound away off the bat. It's a shame when you look at a flier and you can predict every style of each band by logo/artwork. We pull from a lot of heavy influences. We can be too punk for metalheads and too metal for hardcore kids. We thrive on crusty crossover.” –Jail
Your favorite monthly horror-schlock screenings return with the amazing Slimeball Cinerama!
Crystal Spiders “…delivers a burly fusion of its heavy metal and stoner rock influences, blending the energetic jauntiness of ’80s heavy metal with the thick guitar tones of ’90s stoner soundscapes. Stoner grooves are the priority, even when paired alongside classic metal acrobatics.” –angrymetalguy
“Formed in 2020 by Pat and Jordan, CLEEN is a highly influential stoner rock band that has left an indelible mark on the music scene already. Fueled by their passion for heavy riffs and mind-altering grooves, the band quickly gained recognition for their unique sound.” –cleenband.com
Angel of Mars "If you are familiar with subgenres like doom, stoner, sludge - it’s definitely that. The grooves are solid - the layers make it really shine." –galacticdust.
Solar Monolith “Hailing from the greater Detroit MI area & originally formed as a trio in 2019; reformed, distilled, streamlined & crystalized in March 2021 as a Bass and Drums duo.” –bandcamp
A night of goth, death rock, batcave, and dark post-punk!
“For years New York’s Katie Battistoni has been publishing intimate recordings of her savvy, smartass songs under the name Katy The Kyng. For her new album Selfies Of You, set for release through Ryley Walker’s Husky Pants label, she seems to be taking things in a full-band direction. Lead single “Shithole” is a minute and a half of scrappy guitar-pop with sharp edges — a little bit Liz Phair, a little bit GBV — and it descends into a little cartoonish keyboard action at the end. “I’m a shithole, baby,” she sings on the chorus.” –stereogum
“Haunted by a mysterious woman with a brown paper bag for a head, guitarist Kirsten Carey created Throwaway, an angular post-punk band that acrobatically leaps around virtuosic riffs and unexpected rhythms. Carey's garnered a reputation as a fearless and genre-defying guitarist - she's featured as a soloist on clipping.'s track for the Rick and Morty album, praised by the Quietus as one of the highlights of the 2024 Skanu Mezs festival alongside Autechre, and opened for the Sun Ra Arkestra in duo with Tyshawn Sorey.”
Secondary Colors “retro 60s, feel-good music. The 20-something musicians have captured the sound of early Brit rock as well as the harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young but with modern lyrics.” –rockatnight
The Magnavox’s “This is a great TV, it's a reputable company. Screen is large enough that I can see everything well, has a nice remote, colors are amazing, and price is reasonable. Doesn't take up too much room for a big screen. Sometimes picture is too dark during night scenes.” –consumeraffairs
“Rising up in 2023, Cherry Drop hails from Detroit and brings back what its members missed most about Rock n Roll. Dangerous, fast, loud and exceptionally groovy. This band only has one mission, to make you move, and failure is not an option.” –rockindetroit
Remove Records crew will be spinnin’ on the decks!
Friendship: Music for sleeping and waking, walking and driving, hunting and fishing, for loitering outside a roadhouse on the haunted tundra. Okay in elevators, not great for dinner. On Caveman Wakes Up Friendship’s new album and second for Merge Records, the band’s historically capacious definition of country music grows wider still. Shambolic guitars are offset by flute pads, bleary poetry is set against a Motown rhythm section, a song about Jerry Garcia and First Lady Betty Ford fades out with a drum solo, like if Talk Talk came from a dingy Philadelphia basement, and was fronted by James Tate. Songwriter Dan Wriggins’ ragged baritone cuts through eleven murky, swirling country-rock songs with profound lyrical substance and sincerity. Like an alarm clock incorporated into the edge of a dream, Caveman Wakes Up belongs equally to the conscious and subconscious mind, fraught with background, steeped in reference and experimentation, delivered casually and as a dire warning, dedicated, above all, to music’s creative soul.
Get off work. Get on the subway, maybe your bicycle. Put your earbuds in. A pop song only lasts a couple minutes, but can create a universe. 2nd Grade’s new 23-track album, Scheduled Explosions, is another entry in Philadelphia songwriter Peter Gill’s rapidly expanding catalog, and simultaneously his most focused and expansive work yet.
Scheduled Explosions was home-recorded with friend and engineer Lucas Knapp (who recorded 2nd Grade’s breakthrough album Hit to Hit); it’s an odyssey of 60s-inspired dream logic driven by melody, charted through an environment of ambient violence and existential dread, and touching down in a pantheon of prolific pop weirdos like Robert Pollard, Alex Chilton, Lily Konigsberg, Chris Weisman, and Nate Amos. The work of a visionary at the height of his worldbuilding powers, Scheduled Explosions is a heat-seeking missive addressed to the past, present, and future of rock & roll.
“Idle Ray is Thomas’ conscious return, after more than 20 years in the game, to how he started: recording guitar-based pop songs on his 4-track. And he’s taking the opportunity while traveling through the past to explore it from new angles. On “Polaroid,” Thomas looks through the viewfinder and sees an old way of living in sharp, self-aware focus, his voice bouncing atop a handclap-enhanced beat that recalls his old band, Saturday Looks Good To Me. He emerges alone with his guitar from behind the bristly cloud of fuzz that’s been building to let a little light in with the refrain, cleanly capping the song at both ends. “I used to have a Polaroid camera/I took it with me everywhere/I used to take pictures of people/so they’d remember I was there.” The narrator is a foil to the one in “House Show, Late December,” Aftering’s muted centerpiece, who carried a disposable for a different reason: searching for meaning in everything — “a vacant storefront, telephone wires, a cloud” — everything, that is, except people.” –dustedmagazine
A super-group of big stars: Ava from Shadow Show, Antonio of Sugar Tradition, Ben with Fen Fen, and Alex coming fro Secondary Colors… Mod Lang is a powerhouse of harmonies, riffs and good times, great oldies!
Hailing all the way from Switzerland, Leopardo: “This album starts off with a beautiful, bizarro warble of a song that could have been a lost track from SWELL MAPS’ 1979 opus A Trip to Marineville. The album takes off from there with experimental looping tape sounds, off-kilter timing, mesmerizing Dean Wareham-esque vocals, and plinky melodies reminiscent of the VASELINES. Hints of TELEVISION PERSONALITIES and PERE UBU pop in and out. I’m sure the band could and probably has drawn VELVET UNDERGROUND comparisons, but in a more focused sense, it’s the vision and spirit of JOHN CALE that shines out from this unique body of work.” –maximumrocknroll
Pizza King Girl is the newest art-project from Zara McCord, who you may know from a brief stint with the Craig Brown Band, or a slew of great acts throughout the recent years from Fort Wayne, IN. Or from her roll as “office coworker” in web mini-series The Gourmet CEO Turns Out to Be My Baby’s Daddy. Expect some zaniness! and some tunes to get stuck in your head.
Rounding out the bill is Bonnie Hook
Lavender Flu: “Prolific Portland Deadheads go into the NU SHOOZ studio and make something truly special. I wonder if these guys are into SIMPLY SAUCER, because to my ears Barbarian Dust has that kind of spaced-out, mantra-like proto-punk sound that I like in Cyborgs Revisited. The warped, string-raking of “Hair Lord” sets a pummeling tone before yielding to the more mid-tempo psych-pop of “Mow the Glass.” The whole record is full of so many good and surprising ideas. Unlike the more deconstructed-sounding (and also excellent) Tomorrow Cleaners, everything here sounds perfectly in place, even the tunes that end abruptly. It’s like it was meant to be even when they’re adding elements that are not typically punk. Is that an EBow on “Keyboard Christ”? It still works! To say nothing of the VENOM cover. I have listened to this so damn many times and the various sonic turns it takes are burned into my brain forever. I think people will still care about this record ten years from now.” –maximumrocknroll
CAD & the Peacetime Consumers: “This ripe ripper from Detroit has been hounding the stereo for the past couple of weeks and it’s as raw a slice of motor city rock as you’re likely to hear in 2023. Built out of the city’s penchant for quarter-draft trog-rock mayhem, Christopher Alan Durham and his assembled Consumers set the sandpaper to work on the fidelity and let these nine nuggets of pelvic punk and barnacled R&B rumble where they wanna. There’s more to the mayhem than bites at first blush, though. While the record is littered with whiskey wailers covered in a thick nicotine haze, “Bite Down” sees a juxtaposition of psych-folk flutes hit the mix. “Party Store” breaks down in the dawn light like Johnny Thunders’ most sensitive strummers and there’s an almost country amble to the mop water wallow of “Trips.”” –ravensingstheblues
Genetic Armageddon “Element 115 is a mysterious, superheavy element that has 115 protons in its nucleus. It is said in the UFO community to be the power source for dimension bending alien spacecraft. It is also found in the tone of Timmy Vulgar’s gravity defying riffs. To describe Timmy’s Organism as heavy, is as fundamental in concept to our human existence as the drone of blood pumping in beat to our hearts.” –C.W
“Force Model is a Los Angeles-based band known for their aggressive yet catchy sound, influenced by '90s alt-rock, post-hardcore, and power-pop.” –googleAI-overview
“Cheddar… excellent” –see/saw.fun
H8 Mile - “This isn’t great.” –maximumrocknroll
Head on out to the patio window for a special pop-up cafe exploring the flavors of Slovakia and the Eastern Bloc! From Kôprová Slovak Kitchen – First Tuesday of every month!
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CALLING ALL SPUDS
The Hysteric Narcotics burst onto the Detroit rock and roll scene in 1983. With their first gig at Paycheck’s Lounge opening for the phenomenal Bootsey X and the Lovemasters, the four-man version of the group made an indelible splash on the city that is now more famous for its music than it is for its automobiles.
The Flipsters deliver hip-shakin' mid-century sounds for the now crowd. Led by the guys responsible for the 3-D Invisibles, the Volcanos, the Hellbenders, the Meltdowns and more.
The Britemores are a Detroit rock and roll supergroup featuring Jonny Chan (New Dynasty 6, Split Signals), Jeff Meier (Detroit Cobras/Rocket 455/ Nathaniel Mayer/ Gino Washington), Adam Stanfel (Melvin Davis, the Party Stompers) and Jerry Barterian (Hysteric Narcotics)
Norcos y Horchata: ““Unkind Sometimes” starts off with such gross, distorted, driving bass that it could be the dumpster baby of your favorite FEEDTIME or NO BAILS tune. When the song kicks in, the vocals remind me of the darker NAKED RAYGUN songs, with a little NOMEANSNO seasoning for that extra aural punch. The flipside of this lil’ spinner hits with some guitar feedback/pedal knob-twisting that pulls me back to the TRANS MEGETTI’s 1999 opening track “Rio Nexpa,” wherein it builds a tension that makes my legs sweat. It bursts into a ’77-style thug bar pounder, and out of nowhere Annie comes in delivering “Everyone hide your head, everyone will soon be dead.” She only plops in once to deliver this, which emphasizes the band’s attuned craftsmanship to impact and craving more. I mean, come on, a great song with a greater hook only one time in the song! It is both genius and irritating. I don’t know if this song is about the end of the world or the end of a friendship, but either way, it is worth a spin. This is the perfect two-sider that makes me bummed that I slept on getting their LP. I think I should mention this has folks that were in BILL BONDSMAN, BUMP-N-UGLIES, DEVIOUS ONES, the PUTZ, and many others.” –maximumrocknroll
“Ultraman are a punk rock band from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 1986, with members Tim Jamison (vocals), Rob Wagoner (guitar), John Corcoran (bass), Bob Zuellig (guitar), and Mike Doskocil (drums).” –wikipedia
"The Antibuddies have a uniquely sarcastic and snarky style of political messaging that makes their songs memorable, entertaining, and motivating. Like Dead Kennedys and War on Women (whom they have opened for), this band understands that incorporating a hefty dose of sarcasm can be an effective way of relaying their feelings while still drawing attention to what’s going on in the world. While many of the EP’s tracks are about societal issues such as feminism and upholding radical values, the band also leaves room for songs about pro wrestling” –fulltimeaesthetic
On their second record as The Convenience, Like Cartoon Vampires, New Orleans multi-instrumentalists Nick Corson and Duncan Troast embrace a hypnotic physicality and collage-y, spur-of-the-moment approach to composition. The result is an avant-rock soundworld, peppered with spidery, atonal guitar work, pointy rhythms, and strident feedback, which may strike as a total reinvention following the sugary funk-pop of their 2021 debut album Accelerator. With their second LP, following their inspiration meant creating with their hands much more than buttons or switches. Sessions were characterized by gnarly, improvisational jams as they tinkered with everything from cassette loops, found sounds, and 808s. Tracks like “Target Offer” and “Fake the Feeling” quake with ear-splitting guitar feedback, while “Pray’r” and “Rats” eschew their groove worship in favor of haunting minimalism. Song after song, Accelerator’s pop influences are traded in for more eccentric frontiers, with the clear common denominators of their first two records being the duo’s spellbinding, funky instincts and a mastery of texture. Lyrically, Like Cartoon Vampires collects dispatches from a dying empire–characters are devoured by alienation and vanity, though society doesn’t bat an eye. But make no mistake, these songs are not merely disaffected ennui–music-making and collaboration are intensely emotional practices for The Convenience, and they reflect a shrieking lust for life.
Low Exposure is Robin Parrent & Katherine Deal.