from the Detroit Metro Times: 15 bands to watch

First we had some lame band indie band named Gravy Train, now someone's calling themselves Man? What is wrong with hipsters today, jeez..

Throwback! Gaze is now. If only because reverb never stops until someone turns off the pedal. ;-) But I will keep this name in mind.

Ned-- I can pretty much guarantee you will like Dykehouse.

1.) Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2.) Peter Gabriel - UP
3.) Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
4.) Elvis Costello - When I was Cruel
5.) Jim Roll - Inhabiting the Ball
6.) Steve Earle - Jerusalem
7.) Beck - Sea Change
8.) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
9.) Robert Plant - Dreamland
10.) The Soft Boys - Nextdoorland

Exciting, huh?!

(Though, okay, I actually like the Queens of the Stone Age and Robert Plant albums. But that's just 'cause I'm an old coot from the '70s.)

Deke Leonard

Hmm.

This typo entertains me so.

I miss Orbit, too. Instead we're stuck with Real Detroit Weekly. Bleah!

Tamion 12" are like Adult. Jr. but without the songs or production skills to back in up. They might be getting better, but I found their recordings and live sets to be lackluster at best.

Perspects is Ian R. Clarke. Ian was the other half of Le Car with Adam Lee Miller (from Adult.) Perspects has the distinction of being one of the very few artists who have recorded with Ersatz Audio that are anywhere near as good as Adult. themselves. He just put out a record on Interdimensional Transmissions a couple months back that was quite solid (and quite solid from a music nazi like me is high praise.)

If there is somebody around here who needs to write about dance music for Metro Times, it is Andy Kellman. He is OTM 99.987% of the time. Aaron W is a pretty sharp fellow as well.

Real Detroit is vomit. A few friends from the 313 list and I put together a FAQ for people coming into Detroit for the first DEMF. They "borrowed" the events section of this FAQ. When I say "borrowed" I don’t just mean the same information typeset differently, I mean the same info down to the typos and a couple lineup mistakes. They literally cut-and-pasted it and printed it in their handout for the DEMF.

But but but that was my point! *weeps*

If there is somebody around here who needs to write about dance music for Metro Times, it is Andy Kellman.

Rah! I second and third this. :-)

(We all know about Ned, etc.)

OH NO!!

There goes the PHEAR again!

Yeah, that list is a funny thing. How did the Elevations get on there? Eric & Co. put on a fine show and are all good people, but still, they've been a band for, what, 3 months? Does the cute top-heavy sidekick chick know how to sing into her mic yet?

Oh, and both the MT & Real Detroit music/film staff(s) are almost completely out of it, in different ways. Mr. Aaron W. above can probably fill in more details.

Dammit, if the Amino Acids are on there, what about the Clone Defects? And ditto the Rioteers for the Riots...

-- Kingfish (jdsalmo...), May 10th, 2003."

The Clone Defects are so awful.

Hey Jeremy! What up dog? I'm pleading the fifth on local papers... I need them to write about Ghostly.

And Dykehouse roxx u r all gay.

Whiskey And Women will be a compilation classic in 20 years, and Lizard Boy and Rouge River Rebel are excellent examples of primal rock power. They are awful in the best way possible.

I am not exactly sure what they are like these days. I haven't had a real conversation with anyone involved in that band since 1995. I would imagine that they could be very difficult to deal with, especially if you are 17 and not a violently ideological rocker.

That is what I like about them, they are being the kind of person I never could be. Those guys all got into Punk in high school and never ever let it go, they have a highly defined stance and they work within insanely strict stylistic boundaries. I would never allow my musical life to revolve around what they are doing, but I find them to be a very interesting tangent. It is like what happens when you get a bunch of guys who take this shit seriously and live their life out according to it. They work shitty jobs, get drunk all the time, and write really dumb Dead Boys knock-off songs about girls.

I like it because they have a worldview that is drastically different from mine, and their records allow me a glimpse into what is going through their heads musically. It isn't something that I would want to be personally involved with, and I have no intimate connection to it whatsoever. I even find the purism a bit much, but I like the extreme nature of it.

I keep their 7's right next to my Burial Mix 10's on my record shelf. I listen to a lot of different stuff these days, most of it very far removed from anything the Clones are involved with. They are ugly and stupid and primitive, and they are priceless after you have listened to a lot of very clean and refined music. I can earn more hipster points by listening to Teutonik Disaster and Arthur Russel, but sometimes I want to pogo like a close-minded mongoloid. The Clones fill that slot in my collection, so for me they are classic. YMMV

Very very good. I think them and Pas/Cal deserved to be on this list, but that's just my opinion. They're both indie rock in a world of garage rock. Tres sad.

will godzuki ever release anything ever again?

Dion is playing guitar in The Go (yawn) and I think Godzuki officially broke up a few years ago... next time Dion is staring at my girlfriend, like he was at the Rapture last weekend, I'll be sure to ask him.