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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Milo's Trip

Local Record Label Hosts Showcase, Supports Fellow Underdogs

Find out how local musicians from Ferndale are teaming up to help promote other 'underdogs,' and check out this show Nov. 30 featuring some of the bands.

You have no idea what you're missing.  That's the idea behind Dead Letter Office - a local record label launched last summer, helmed by longtime musical collaborators and respective singer/songwriters Brandon Frye and Kyle McBee, both of Ferndale. Whether it was for the blue collar hero types whose devastatingly beautiful ballads never reached a deserving amount of ears or for the current crop of hipster-chic pop-rockers eager to uncover and flourish a few of their more esoteric or against-type tunes, Frye and McBee wanted their label to be unique by unsealing the lost or undeliverable "letters" (i.e. "songs") of the local music scene.  Dead Letter Office is starting small by featuring their friends' works on cassette tapes. By early …

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Milo's Trip

Milo's Trip: Ferndale Bands Join a Cult Down in Detroit

...a Rose Cult, that is; Northend Studios hosts Ferndale's Crappy Future, Michael Mars & the God Particle, performing with The Rose Cult. Plus celebrate the launch of a new Ferndale-based record label at the Berkley Front.

Sublimely swirled tones and the dark, dreamy haze of reverb, that tickling disorientation of Doors-ian organs and the steady clap-jangle of a tambourine...psychedelic folk crackles upon the bonfire of broodish/meditative blues-rock, done up right by Detroit-based quartet The Rose Cult.. Have a listen: The Rose Cult - "Daisy Chain" (stream/MP3)  This track's featured on their forthcoming album (expect a release show around November). If you stream it now, though, then I think you'll find it affects an evocative late-summer sensation: the tawny-tinged ethereal glow of a fading sunset as cosmic crickets start kicking up at the gravel-road's ditches, marched along with woozy allure as the stars start glowing above in the terror-twilight-skies …

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