The Indie News Round Up

Today is Friday, March 23

the Weather today OK
the hi only got to 54* today and next week it will be
a Warmmer 70* With rain in the forcast next week.

Just perfect for WrestleMania 23 Next week in Downtown detroit

Speaking about WrestleMania 23 in a aprirant De Javu The Queen of Soul, Detroit own Aretha Franklin will open up WrestleMania 23 on April 1st by preforming “America the Beautiful”, now it beging to look like 20 years ago because at WrestleMania III in 1987 open up with Aretha Franklin prefroming “America the Beautiful” and the official theme song of WrestleMania III “Who's Zooming Who?”.

Also the the inducter to the Inductees have been announced William Shatner will inducted Jerry "The King" Lawler to the hall of fame and Former base ball player Wade Boggs will inducted "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig, we dont make this up the other Inductees are "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, Nick Bockwinkel, Mr. Fuji, and The Original Sheik.

The event sold out in less than a mintues, but it will be aired on the USA network on tape delay at Midnight.

And do we have Indie News
We Do

and i can confirm [thur pitchfork] that we have a new prefrom on the main stage at the rename Comerica CityFest [Formaly Comerica Tastefest], and safe to say Weird Al will not be the only one playing July 4th on the main stage.

This Band is From the home of the SXSW Festival Austin, Texas,name after a salute to the 1970s German avant-garde band Can, and there Lead Singer sang Elvis Costello on Veronica Mars.

there New album will come out on July 10th it will be the follow up to there break in 2005.

Preforming at Comerica Cityfest Main Stage on July 4

"Spoon"



Last week i was Thump about the white strips tour date, which sadly turn out to be a reprint of the 2005 tour, but this is ture detail have been spill about the White Strips New Album "Icky Thump" that will be released sometime in June.

Accoring to CMJ.com and comfirmed by there press people it will be 13 song long and it will clock over 48 mintues and will feature bagpipe instrumentation.

and you want to know what song that will be on "Icky Thump"
Will he it is

01 - Icky Thump
02 - You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)
03 - 300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues
04 - Conquest
05 - Bone Broke
06 - Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn
07 - St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air)
08 - Little Cream Soda
09 - Rag and Bone
10 - I'm Slowly Turning Into You
11 - A Martyr for My Love for You
12 - Catch Hell Blues
13 -Effect and Cause

and yes there will be a North American tour, if they played detroit yet, There is No word yet if they will answer the called.

Speaking about Answer the called it now had been confrim by pitchfork that Neko Case have answer the called to played Detroit and she will played the Detroit International Jazz Festival on labor day weekend [as first report on this blog sight week ago].

Also Answer in the called to play Detroit and opening up for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will be the Liverpool Band, the Horrors they will opened up for BMRC on May 25th.

Speaking about live dates it lookmlike the former Sleater-Kinney-- guitarist Corin Tucker have been playing around solo, pitchfork reported that she have been playing new stuff and some cover at a Future of Music Coalition event this past November and a Portland's Buckman Arts Magnet Elementary School just last week.

Among the cover she did was Prince When U Were Mind, Dusty Springfield Son of a Preacher Man and the Replacement Can'tHardly Wait, do yo uthink she doing a solo record it may be.

and Last but not leased one of the last bands i listen to on John Peel old radio show just before he died was the famed "The Wedding Present" it was back in July of 2004 and now all the live track have been put together in one great bnox set that will be out on April 3rd.

Complete Peel Sessions: 1986-2004 spreads in-studio sessions, live sets, and band interviews across six discs, and it includes the band's cover of Orange Juice's "Felicity" as well as a venture into Ukrainian folk music.

A Few things before the weekend

Tommorrow will be the show with the "The Display", "Grand Nationls" Saturday Loooks Good to Me and the played back it at the magic stick the show begin at 9 PM and ticket cost $8 bucks.

and i know a lot of you are not NASCAR Fan, but my fave race at everyone fave tracks is this week end "The Food City 500 is this sunday, it 500 laps on a short 1/4 mile and there is a lot of bumping and crashing, so it will be bummpy.

Have a nice Weekend.