(eight days untill tastefest)

At least the rain stay away for the TV and a gig

Last night in cluture city it was a nutty night to do two things one watch all the good show or good out to see a well name band at a small club, Well i wind up doing both as i watch the TV fare like so you can think you can dance on fox i was good and filping to Countdowm and filping at 9 PM to the new NBC show and brovo Celeb poker showdown. I was going to go early to the the Bell rays at small but it was rain with tunder and lighting it made it too dangers to goo to small untill 11:30 PM when it was safe to go.

The show was good, The Bellrays was awsome and so was SSM, and because of the weather i miss the sirern but i saw them on sunday so that OK.

Only one note from detroit rock city.

It look Like The Thunderbirds Are Now! will have to wait for there follow up to "Justamustache", according to Frenchkiss Records to cmj.com There follow up Make History will now be release in October the CD was going to drop in september but there going to fine tune it.

Lead singer and guitarist Ryan Allen wrote in an e-mail to cmj.com, "We're going to take a look at some songs and shine them up a bit," "We were already in a good place when we deemed the album ‘done' the first time, but we're excited that we've been given a chance to listen to it for a while."

John Schmersal of Enon mixed most of Make History and Eli Janney of Girls Against Boys also helped mix about half of the songs. The band enlisted the help of Chris Zane, who has worked with Les Savy Fav, Supersystem and Calla in the past, for what Allen called "phase 2 of the mixing process." Working with Zane at New York's Gigantic Studios, TAN! hopes to have Make History wrapped up by mid-July.

And thouse who wating to hear the new songs live they will playing string of summer dates including two at the Stick Next wednesday and on Sept 23.

ANd now the follow are post from the otuside the 313 from other we sight

After cranking out three studio albums in 2005, Ryan Adams hasn't made much of a peep this year, save for a legal beat-down on some overenthusiastic file-sharers back in March. (Side-note: nothing breeds new fans like litigating your current ones, just ask Lars Ulrich.)

While it's already halfway through 2006 and there's not a single whiff of new Adams material, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals have announced a string of summer tour dates. Before the trek begins in full force in July, the band will play two warm-up gigs tomorrow night in New York City, first at the Arthur Lee of Love benefit show at the Beacon Theatre, then late night at the Bowery Ballroom.

The shows keep Adams on the road through August, including a stop at Nashville, Tennessee's Ryman Auditorium, once home to the Grand Ole Opry and site of his infamous 2002 "Summer of 69" meltdown.

In a February interview with Spin, Ryans claimed the heckling trauma forced him into therapy, and that his fans are "a bunch of fucking cocks. They come to my shows to provoke me." It's unimaginable that anybody in the staid, reserved crowd at Chicago's Lollapalooza will do anything to provoke him when he wraps up his tour there in August.(pitchforkmedia.com)

Texas indie-pop band Voxtrot are set to expand their reach beyond the blogosphere, as they have signed with the Playlouder label, an imprint of the multi-tentacled Beggars Group that is also home to Serena Maneesh. Currently, Playlouder has no plans to put out the band's previously self-released EPs Raised by Wolves and Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives, so Voxtrot won't really be on their radar until the band completes their first album, which is tentatively scheduled to be released early next year. They'll head into the studio this fall..(pitchforkmedia.com)

When an artist dies, the hyperbole begins, and James "Jay Dee /J Dilla" Yancey's case has been no exception. For every "J Dilla Changed My Life" t-shirt, (the proceeds from which go to the Yancey family), there's something like Common's recent statement in XXL: "When we think of John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye, J Dilla will be going down along that history line of greatness," which does little more than create unreasonable expectations for potential new fans, in addition to making us wonder about Common's command of the language.

Fortunately, the exaggeration has been tempered by the promise of new music. The Shining, which is the first of two completed J Dilla albums rumored to be released later this year, has finally received an official release date, and there is a tracklist as well. According to a press release, the album was "over 90% done" when Dilla passed away in February, and it was completed by Karriem Riggins ("longtime associate" of Dilla's). It has now been scheduled for an August 22 release on BBE Records.

Dilla's previous collaborators included everyone from A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul to Ghostface Killah, and The Shining is no exception in the guest department. But the real treat is that The Shining features "Dilla himself as MC and-- for the first time ever-- singer."(pitchforkmedia.com)

Keith Richards may have backed out of his cameo in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, but that hasn't stopped the film's director from working with some of his other favorite rockers on another project.

Big names (Bono, Sting, Lou Reed, Nick Cave), pretty big names (Rufus Wainwright, Richard Thompson, Lucinda Williams, Jarvis Cocker, Bryan Ferry, Van Dyke Parks), smaller names (Antony, Akron/Family, Jolie Holland), and baffling names (Ralph Steadman? John C. Reilly?! That Prairie Home Companion role must have really spoken to him) alike will contribute to Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys, a two-disc compilation due out August 22 on Anti-.

The album was produced by Hal Willner, the man behind multiple tribute compilations, including the bizarre Closed on Account of Rabies: Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, which featured a Christopher Walken reading of "The Raven" alongside contributions from Iggy Pop and Jeff Buckley. Although Rogue's Gallery is not the official soundtrack to Pirates of the Carribean, the idea was dreamed up by Pirates director Gore Verbinski and lead pirate Johnny Depp while filming the movie, because they were, y'know, at sea a lot.

Verbinksi explained the origins of the idea as follows: "I slowly became fascinated by the idea of a contemporary reinterpretation of the sea chantey. I imagined the artists that I listen to and respect doing their take on this age-old music: the song of the sea." He asked Depp for his input, since "he has a great musical aesthetic" and "I've always believed Johnny is a musician first and the actor thing is just his day job." (pitchforkmedia.com)

Once again, the innovative kids behind Seattle's non-profit all-ages arts and music space the Vera Project have outdone themselves with an epic week of fundraising-- the fourth annual A Drink for the Kids, taking place June 24-30. No, it doesn't involve giving eight-year-olds alcohol, but it does involve something called "Iron Composer".

Following six days of events, the Showbox club will host "Iron Composer #13" a raucous comedic and musical competition featuring "Saturday Night Live" comedian (and former Trenchmouth member) Fred Armisen taking on Martin Crandell and David Hernandez of the Shins in a battle of extreme absurdity.

According to a press release, during the "Iron Chef"-inspired game show, Armisen and the Shins "must compose a song in 45 minutes based on a random interview with an audience member, while being distracted and confused by the outlandish characters behind Iron Composer, the audience, five ‘Mystery Turmoils', and consuming five mandatory shots of vodka in 45 minutes." The competition will be judged by comedians Cross, Todd Barry, and Jon Benjamin.

Yeah, this sounds like the best thing ever.

The event will also feature a performance by Pleaseeasaur (a dude who dresses up, often like a polar bear, and dances to his own experimental karaoke/exercise videos/musical revue), because it just wasn't crazy enough already.

Folks hungry for more "Iron Composer" should keep their eyes on the Game Show Network, because it's being turned into a TV series. Folks thirsty for more charity can spend the week before the big event going to select Seattle bars, buying some drinks, and knowing that a portion of liquor sales will go to the Vera Project. (pitchforkmedia.com)

Thank God there are still a few non-indie rock wolves out there, right? Those who dig noize and a little blood under the fingernails are in luck, ‘cause Wolf Eyes, kings of all that is screechy and avant, have big news. Their new album, Human Animal, is due out September 26 on Sub Pop. Meanwhile, anticipate the vertigo with their 12" single, "The Driller" backed by "Psychologist", streeting July 25, and this mind-burning tracklist:

01 The Driller
02 Four Strings of Satanic Heritage
03 Rationed Rot
04 Leper War
05 Human Animal
06 Rusted Mange
07 A Million Years of Graveyards
08 Noise Not Music
09 Lake of Roaches


Human Animal is Wolf Eyes' first album with new member Mike Connelly (of Hair Police) and without Aaron Dilloway, although Dilloway mixed the record. Oh, and "Noise Not Music" is a cover of a song by a band called No Fucker. You're familiar with the works of No Fucker, right?

Wolf Eyes are headed out on their first-ever Australian tour tonight. They'll be accompanied by metal-gloom locals the Gray Daturas and (yes, Mom) some Neosporin. In October, they'll support Human Animal with a North American trek. (pitchforkmedia.com)

Remember Feist's new album Open Season? The collection of remixes, rarities, acoustic tracks, collaborations, and covers that came out on Arts&Crafts in Canada in April? Remember how we said that it isn't that great? Well, now Feist's southern North American neighbors will be able to decide for themselves, as Cherrytree/Interscope Records will put out the disc in the U.S. on July 18.
Tracklist:

01 One Evening (Gonzales Solo Piano)
02 Inside+Out (Apostle of Hustle UnMix Live at the BBC with Janice Long)
03 Mushaboom (Mockey mix)
04 Gatekeeper (One Room One Hour mix)
05 Lonely Lonely (Ungodly Hours mix)
06 Mushaboom (Postal Service mix)
07 Snowlion (with ReadymadeFC)
08 Tout Doucement
09 Simple Story (with Jane Birkin)
10 Gatekeeper (Do Right mix)
11 Mushaboom (VV mix)
12 When I Was a Young Girl (VV mix)
13 Mushaboom (k-os mix)
14 One Evening (VV mix)


In the meantime, Feist is in Europe chipping away on her follow-up to Let It Die. On Saturday, she'll return to her home continent for a series of North American festival appearances, including one in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. Wait, salmon don't actually have arms, right? (pitchforkmedia.com)

Petra Haden, beloved vocalist/violinist for the Decemberists, will be perusing other avenues of adventure after touring exclusively with the Decemberists for most of last year.

"It's an amicable thing; we still are friends," reads a posting on the band's official message board. "For one thing, we initially had asked her to come aboard as a touring musician for just the Picaresque tours. We hadn't really expected to take her on as a full-time part of the band. There was some talk about that happening, but in the end, after the tours were over and we were back in the comforts of our homes it didn't necessarily still make sense."

But don't you worry about Ms. Haden; she has plenty of activities to keep her busy. She's currently writing songs and playing shows in New York with Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto) in a project called If By Yes. She's also working on her next solo a cappella record (the first one was 2005's Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out) in her hometown of Los Angeles. And as if that's not enough, Haden is going on tour with the Foo Fighters later this summer as part of their acoustic band. Isn't there some sort of fine for trading Colin Meloy for Dave Grohl?(cmj.com)

Pete Yorn kicks off his first acoustic tour this week and will work overtime by playing in-store sets at several of his stops. Each of the "mini-concerts" will be recorded as part of the limited edition CD series, Live From..., and each CD will be sold exclusively at the store that hosted the performance. If that's still not enough Pete Yorn for you, fans ordering his forthcoming album, Nightcrawler, at these performances will receive the limited edition six-song EP, Westerners. Yorn says the EP is a the final in his "lonesome cowboy triology" which includes his 2001 debut, musicforthemorningafter and 2003's Day I Forgot.(cmj.com)

Pete Doherty Journals to Be Published

The tortured rocker's journals dating from 1999 to the present, covering drug battles and his relationship with Kate Moss, will hit shelves in mid-2007.
(From spin.com)

Twenty volumes of Pete Doherty's journals, including drawings, poetry, photos and film reviews, will be bound together in a hardcover book which will be released in March 2007 by Orion Publishing Group Ltd. Doherty's journals chronicle his rise from relative anonymity as a young, broke poet serving popcorn in a movie theater, to his rise to fame with the Libertines, to his present well-publicized battles with addiction. "It is intimate, honest stuff, very readable and very funny in places; pretty dark in others," Orion commissioning editor Ian Preece said of the book.

While Doherty failed to appear at an event at London's Boogaloo pub Wednesday to announce the publishing deal, he released a statement saying, "I am very happy to have a book coming out with Orion and to share a bookshelf with H.G. Wells, Ian Rankin, and Stan Bowles."

Ex-Verve Frontman Arrested for Disorderly Conduct

Richard Ashcroft allegedly burst into a U.K. youth club, demanded to work with the troubled teens, and refused to leave.
(SPIN.com)

Richard Ashcroft, former Verve frontman, was arrested on Monday (June 19) after allegedly bursting into a British youth club in an intoxicated state, demanding to be allowed to work with the troubled youth, and refusing to leave. The club's staff called the police and Ashcroft was taken into custody, fined for disorderly conduct, and released, according to U.K. tabloid The Sun. One of the nearly 60 teens hanging out at the Wiltshire club told the paper Ashcroft "looked like a tramp. He was disheveled and unshaven," while another said he "wasn't aggressive" and "kept hugging some staff and kids," saying that he "wanted to work with the kids, that he wanted to do 'good things.'"

New Portishead Album Imminent?

Nine years after the release of their last studio album, Portishead say some new material is starting to materialize.
(Form SPIN.com)

It's been nine years since Portishead released a studio album (1997's Portishead), but the trio may finally be coming out with some new material. A recent post on the band's MySpace page revealed they are coming back. " We've had our meeting with the label; it was really positive...which makes the whole thing so much easier to deal with nice people," the post read. "The tracks are in a right mess but sounding like an album for the first time in years." The post went on to describe the new tracks as "a bit weird," and took aim at some artists they'd like to stop being compared to: "It's nice to think us old gits have a few tunes in us without sounding like coffee table Zero 7-Moby-chill out shit!!" No word on when fans can expect to actually have a new album in their hands.

Now here is the play list for Detroit Local 101 on Melody Licious Birthday
PLAYLIST FOR WEEK ..22 (6/20/06)

1) Obie Trice Wanna Know
2) The Whiskey Diaries Soul City Rocker
3) Jason Croff When The City Wakes
4) SSM Worst Of Me
5) New Grenada Emulated
6) The Prime Ministers Four Stars
7) Fifth Period Fever Hard Times
8) Ancourage She Dreamt of Texas, 1970
9) Desolation Angels Stuck Here With You
10) The Hotness Mistake
11) Audra Kubat Garden
12) Great Lakes Myth Society Love Story
13) Wolfbait Broadsword
14) Koffin Kats Chainsaw Massacre
15) Shipwreck Union Out Of The Woods
16) Nuke & The Living Dead Drunk On Formaldahyde
17) Rescue I Am The Queens
18) The Beggars Thieves
19) Heads Will Roll Paper Trail
20) Lime Regal Walkin Dude
21) The Salt Miners When That Old Lid Closes In On Me
22) Sunday Painters Another Loose End
23) The Spitunes From The People
24) The Phage Sucka
25) The Avatars Revolution Revival
26) 500 Ft of Pipe Dope Deal
27) Aquarius Void Walk Behind
28) The Paybacks Stranger In The House

and now here what selling in Detroit This week

dmrc top 10

1. Five Horse Johnson — Mystery Spot(1)
2. AFI — December Underground(New)
3. The Racontuers — Broken Boy Soldiers(3)
4. Gnarls Barkley — St. Elsewhere(4)
5. Bouncing Souls — The Gold Record(New)
6. Zero 7 — The Garden(New)
7. Walkmen — 100 Miles Off(New)
8. Dabrye — Two/Three(New)
9. Head Automatica — Popaganda(New)
10. Les Claypool — Of Whales and Woe(7)

And Now two more video as tastefest is almost eight days away

ERIC BURDON AND THE ANIMALS
Tuesday, July the 4th
Main Stage - 3:00 PM




Unlike other British Invasion acts, The Animals were a rough-and-tumble band with an early blues influence that made The Stones sound like Herman’s Hermits. Led by Eric Burdon, who later recorded “Spill the Wine” with War, they were the loudest voice on the radio. Hear him sing some of his classics as well as songs off his latest solo release, “Soul of a Man.”

THE SIGHTS
Sunday, July 2
Park Stage - 9 p.m.




As one of Detroit’s premier rock ‘n’ roll bands, The Sights’ combination of raw energy with pop sensibilities blended with their appreciation of rock’s past make them an indelible force on the scene, and beyond. See The Sights’ stellar show and rock with the best

And now it time to see if the avg. reader is better the The New Music Express, it time for the My NME single of the week, This week this a good one three good well names band but one winner.

This Week winner by the N.M.E.

Outkast - Might "O" - (it a download only)
(www.outkast.com or www.myspace.com/outkast)
They went the distance to channel Cab Callaway, it no Hey yah but it a good track that good with the lyrcir, The rapping is good as well, this is coming from a non - rap fan.

This week 1st runner up

One of my new Fave bands on my space

The Long Blondes - Weekend Without Make-Up - (Rough Trade)
(www.thelongblondes.co.uk or www.myspace.com/thelongblondes)
A fabules song from this fashionable and very lovle Five peice band Sheffield, England, it a mondenr twist on a classic 60's tune and form all the press pic i seen very pretty as well, could i date one of you girls.

This Week 2nd Runner Up

Also a band i am warming up too

Serena Maneesh - Drain Cosmetics - (playlouder)
serena-maneesh.com or www.myspace.com/serenamaneesh
It is the perfect track it remind me of all thouse thouse showgazer bands like My bloodey Vatltine and Lush with a little Ravonetts in between it the prefrct song from the prefrct band from Norway.

So out of the three song this week.
Outkast is good
The Long blondes are lovely which i could give all three girls in the long blondes a rose at the stick in your first detroit gig.
But this week we have a clear winner from the second runner up postion.

This week winner of the My NME single of the week is

Serena Maneesh - Drain Cosmetics

It is a very great song good sound work big time, this is the prefect track it you have the CD and want to play it on a DJ night, a well done Track



It join the past winners since i start my blog sight way back May 8

My NME Single of the week

June 10 -
June 3 - Keane - "Is It Any Wonder"
May 27 - You Say Party! We Say Die! - The Gap
May 20 - Tilly and the Wall - Night of the Living Dead/The Ice storm, Big gust and you.
May 13 - Jim Noir - My Patch
May 6 - The Dastuns - Stuck Here For Days

Reg. NME single of the week

June 10 -
June 3 - Razorlight "In the Morning"
May 27 - Muse - "Supermassive Black Hole"
May 20 - Tilly and the Wall - Night of the Living Dead/The Ice storm, Big gust and you.
May 13 - The Aliens - Allenoid Starmonica EP
May 6 - Primal Scream - Country Gril

So that it for this post of it came from culture city Next week were going to be inside a week untill tastefest and for thoust of you who have never been to taste fest to see what it look like, that a look at this clip from last week at the 2006 MuchMusic Video Awards in toronto, ON, Canada i like our MTV VMA but cooler because it is in a cool cites like Toronto.

As the Awards was playing inside they also have bands out side they have band playing out side of the City tv Building on West Queen Street in Downtown toronto and one of the bands play there is Metric who play it hit monsters hospail as yes for thouse of you who saw Metric at St. Andrew Hall back in April yest she look diffence but hey she can shur stage dive.

It Mostly Cloudy and 73* Tomorrow and the tigers and the cards goes at it a comerica Tomorrow
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK!!!



Live at the MuchMusic Video Awards 06/18/06


The Music video for monsters hospail