Ferndale Library Recommends: Jeff's Bands to See in Hamtramck for Blowout

The annual live, local music festival kicks off tonight in Detroit, continues this weekend in Hamtramck and wraps up in Ferndale from May 2-4.

The Ferndale Public Library is a venue for this year's Metro Times Blowout, which will feature 200 local bands performing at 20 venues spread between three hip towns: Detroit tonight, Hamtramck on Friday and Saturday, and Ferndale from May 2-4. So, I thought I'd skim through our excellent and wide-sampling Local Music Collection here at the library and pick out the albums of five bands you can see this weekend down in Hamtramck.  [Read: 2013 Blowout Music Festival Schedule Released] Child Bite – Fantastic Gusts of Blood CD - Child Bite Friday - 4/26 at the Polish National Alliance Listen: Child Bite - "Banana Gorgon" Gnarly, noisy, almost a post-modernist's heavy metal spit and fire cooled with freewheeling pop-ballad hooks and quirky, …

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Ferndale Bands Summoned for Epic Halloween Party

Tickets available at the Rust Belt Market and Detroit Comics for Theatre Bizarre Oct. 20 at the Masonic Temple in Detroit.

Last year it was a “... grand experiment that may only happen once." But behold... Another full moon, another resurrecting-lightning-bolt, the unstoppable undead-themed Halloween party, Theatre Bizarre - an enveloping evening of incredible scale, nightmare-never-neverland vision and inter-dimensional proportions - is returning to the Masonic Temple on October 20. The legendary (yes legendary, go Google it, oh ye uninitiated...) “dusk till dawn” outdoor masquerade /freak/goth- rock-n-roll carnival was started a dozen years ago by multifaceted graphic artist (and exceptional on-the-fly carpenter) John Dunivant, in the backyard of collaborator Ken Poirer, beside the original Michigan State Fair Grounds. In 2010, they were shut down by the …

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