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Michael Mars And The God Particle

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 …

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Milo's Trip

Milo's Trip: Ferndale Does Dally

The 35th annual Dally In The Alley street fair is this weekend down in the Cass Corridor (2nd Avenue and Forest, outside the Wayne State Campus).

As you amble through the alleyways outside Wayne State this weekend, scoping makeshift shoppes of wonderful wares from local crafters/designers, sipping motor city microbrews and waving through a sea of particularly provocative people-watchable fare, make sure to slide up to one of the four main performance stages at this annual culture fair to support some of your neighbors.  Excitingly (at least for this obsessive frequenter of local rock stages), Dally features the reignition of a few bands whom I've not seen, regularly at least, in a while: Alley Stage Allan James & The Cold Wave - A different kind of 90's-rock revivalism; not some guitar-goring fuzz refresh or breezy-rollicking sunsoaked-pop thing, but more an alt-folk trip, heavy on …

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