Detroit Metro Times
The Detroit Metro Times is a free weekly newspaper distributed in the Detroit, Michigan, area.
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Art Ensemble of Chicago: Ancient to the Future
Profile by John Sinclair, Detroit Metro Times, October 1988
A SMALL ARMY of instruments is what you see first – an entire stage full of saxophones, drums, gongs, percussion implements of every description, bicycle ...
Robert Lockwood Jr.: Blues From The Delta
Profile by John Sinclair, Detroit Metro Times, Summer 1990
THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA, that fertile strip of silt-rich land stretching south from Memphis to Jackson on the east and Vicksburg on the river, has for ...
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Grow Fins (Revenant); The Dust Blows Forward (Rhino)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Detroit Metro Times, 7 July 1999
NOW THAT Don Van Vliet’s abandonment of music in favour of his career as a painter appears to be permanent, what are we finally to ...
The White Stripes: London Loves Us: The White Stripes
Report and Interview by Robin Bresnark, Detroit Metro Times, 8 August 2001
DETROIT, YOU HAVE a secret admirer. Admittedly, we're not terribly local, not all of us are single, and you certainly wouldn't want to come round ...
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Mills, Detroit Metro Times, 14 August 2002
IT'S A SUNNY spring morning in the Motor City but the wind whipping across the Detroit River makes it feel a lot more like winter. ...
Report and Interview by Fred Mills, Detroit Metro Times, 25 June 2003
SOME MIGHT SEE it as a generational passing of the torch: an established music icon sharing the stage with a younger rising star, and there’s ...
Interview by Fred Mills, Detroit Metro Times, 22 October 2003
"'JAM PUNKS'?!? Uh-oh..." Is the guttural noise coming over the phone line a mock groan or the sound of genuine exasperation? I honestly can't tell, ...
John Holmstrom: Floating in a bottle of formaldehyde
Interview by Jeffrey Morgan, Detroit Metro Times, 4 February 2004
EVER SINCE R. F. Outcault's irreverent creation, The Yellow Kid, first appeared as an incidental character in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World on Feb. 16, ...
MC5: DKT/MC5: The Truest Possible Testimonial
Report by John Sinclair, Detroit Metro Times, 9 June 2004
IT'S BEEN MORE than 10 years since Wayne Kramer, Michael Davis and Dennis Thompson took the stage together in Detroit at Rob Tyner's memorial concert ...
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Mills, Detroit Metro Times, 1 December 2004
DETROIT, CIRCA 1969: The house lights of the packed Casino Royale dim. The club's vibe is electric, the fog of cigarette and reefer smoke thicker ...
Iggy Pop, The Stooges: The Stooges: Raw Power Revisited
Interview by Fred Mills, Detroit Metro Times, 10 August 2005
Warning: The following article does not constitute an endorsement of current phonographic products. – Editor ...
Maria Muldaur: Sweet and Sassy, Bawdy and Blue
Profile and Interview by Kirk Silsbee, Detroit Metro Times, 29 August 2007
WHEN SINGER Maria Muldaur takes the stage at this week's Detroit Jazz Festival, it will be a culmination of a chain of events that run ...
Ted Nugent: What an asshole! — Ted Nugent: Love Grenade (Eagle Records)
Review by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 12 September 2007
New records shows who's the real asshole ...
Retrospective by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 16 January 2008
ALMOST FAMOUS was probably the big bang that finally pushed it over the top. Doesn't matter that director Cameron Crowe — a former CREEM and ...
CREEMed: The life, death, and strange resurrection of America's only rock 'n' roll magazine, Part 2
Retrospective by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 23 January 2008
Last week, we examined the Detroit origins and early history of CREEM, "America's Only Rock 'N' roll Magazine." This week, we take a look at ...
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 27 August 2008
DEE DEE SHARP is a perfect ambassador for the Jazzfest's Detroit-Philadelphia summit theme. After all, 'Mashed Potato Time', her timeless 1962 hit, mentions a Motown ...
Cheech & Chong: Lost in the ozone again
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 17 September 2008
CHEECH MARIN AND Tommy Chong require little introduction. The countercultural comedy heroes turned movie superstars took several decades off to pursue solo careers (and Chong ...
J. D. Souther: J.D. Souther comes back
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 5 November 2008
THOUGH HE'S ONE of the most underrated composers of the rock era, J.D. Souther's songs — especially those he wrote for the Eagles — are ...
The Notorious B.I.G., Puff Daddy: Notorious (dir. George Tillman Jr.)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, January 2009
Despite some excellent acting and drama, Notorious biopic whitewashes Biggie Small’s gangsta life and death ...
The Stooges: "Come on, Ronnie, tell em' how I feel!"
Special Feature by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 14 January 2009
IT WASN'T always this way. Years ago, TV commercials and film soundtracks didn't feature the guitar sound Ron Asheton pioneered with the Stooges. Even in ...
Comment by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 25 February 2009
THE BIRTH OF Motown isn't the only 50th anniversary pop music is noting this year: 2009 also marks the 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly's death. ...
The Satin Peaches: Fuzzy and sweet
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 25 March 2009
"THESE DETROIT-BRED cuties are so goddamned good … Think '60s Brit-pop with bluesy piano strut and raggedy garage-rock thrown in for good measure. [The song] ...
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 13 May 2009
WHEN IT COMES TO Eminem, a lot of backstory probably isn't necessary. Especially in Detroit. But, really, that's pretty much true anywhere in the civilized ...
Todd Rundgren: Hello, it's Todd
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 1 July 2009
WE CAME UP with our own theme for Cityfest this year — namely, second acts or second chances. F. Scott Fitzgerald once said there are ...
? and the Mysterians: ? & the Mysterians: Life on Mars
Report and Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 15 July 2009
'96 TEARS' IS one of the greatest rock 'n' roll songs in the history of the genre. In fact, it may be the greatest. John Lennon reportedly ...
Irma Thomas: Time's still on her side
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 2 September 2009
NOTE: This is the complete transcript of an interview that appeared in the paper edition of Metro Times in an abridged form. ...
Death Becomes Them: The World's First Black Punk Band Killed Naysayers With Power Chords
Retrospective and Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 23 September 2009
THE HISTORY of rock 'n' roll is littered with dozens of such stories — great bands discovered years after their initial obscurity has faded into ...
Iggy Pop, The Stooges: The Stooges: Kill City Dreaming
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 7 October 2009
Iggy Pop and James Williamson talk Raw Power, their rift and reunion, Ron Asheton and the glory that (still) is Detroit ...
Roky Erickson: He has never been here before …
Interview by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 28 October 2009
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE certainly other candidates, the man born Roger Kynard Erickson 62 years ago in Dallas, Texas, just might be the greatest rock 'n' ...
Retrospective by Don Waller, Detroit Metro Times, 7 April 2010
Raw Power finally gets its due ...
The Runaways: Queens of noise: The Runaways
Film/DVD/TV Review by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 7 April 2010
Kristen Stewart's Joan Jett is one of many killer riffs that makes The Runaways. ...
Retrospective by Don Waller, Detroit Metro Times, 7 April 2010
ON AUGUST 12th, 1975, the Runaways played their first gig — at Back Door Man fanzine founder Phast Phreddie Patterson's parents' house in north Torrance, ...
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band: Dow Event Center, Saginaw
Live Review by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 29 March 2011
Seger in Saginaw: Michigan's original rock 'n' roll son "officially" kicks off his tour ...
Review by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 11 May 2011
After 24 years, the band's approach still runs smoothly ...
Jack Oblivian: Rat City (Big Legal Mess Records/Fat Possum)
Review by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 21 September 2011
Reminiscent of the White Stripes? Yes, because Oblivian was an influence ...
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (Sour Mash/Universal)
Review by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 28 December 2011
Tunes so good, you'll forget there was another Gallagher brother ...
Remembering the writer Richard C. Walls
Memoir by Bill Holdship, Detroit Metro Times, 22 May 2017
Detroit-based writer Richard C. Walls died in hospice care over the weekend. Walls was a longtime writer for Creem, and reviewed films as recently as ...
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