Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story. While not as famous as Bill Graham's
Fillmore Theaters, from 1966 to 1970, Detroit's
Grande Ballroom hosted national acts such as
Cream, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, and Pink Floyd. The brainchild of
Russ Gibb, with help from activist
John Sinclair, the Grande provided a stage for local bands like
The MC5,
SRC,
The Rationals,
The Amboy Dukes,
The Frost and the
The Stooges. The Grande had it's own psychedelic poster artists
Gary Grimshaw and
Carl Lundgren.
Leni Sinclair took
pictures.
Local boys from the Grande that went on to national prominence included
The Bob Seger System,
Alice Cooper, and
Grand Funk Railroad.
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posted by marxchivist
on Jun 20, 2012 -
8 comments
DetroitTechno.org presents a documentary (
1 2 3) about the history and politics of techno with a focus on the
Detroit Electronic Music Festival, now called
Movement, from its inception in 2000 until the most recent one in 2010.
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posted by gman
on May 15, 2011 -
26 comments
If you like meaty filthy 60s-70s rock by sometimes severely ripped blokes &b.b.b.babes — like I know I do — then bite on these two crispy mix streams and the extensive opinionated textual japery and idolatry from Brit musician, musicologist,
Julian Cope that accompanies them. This man writes
books on music. Why is he giving it away?
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posted by Twang
on Jan 6, 2011 -
21 comments
DJ Assault (born Craig De Sean Adams, aka
Craig Diamonds "The Street Narrator") is a Detroit-based music producer, who was part of a movement to bring
ghetto-tech, aka booty house,
from the urban streets of Detroit to the suburban club circuit. With his
Jefferson Ave. label, he's bringing it directly to you, via the internet,
for free.
Four albums,
22 EPs,
11 DJ mixes, and
three bonus collections of rap and "accelerated funk", all streaming and downloadable. [Warning: most music is NSFW or those sensitive to repetitive, crude lyrics]
posted by filthy light thief
on Dec 13, 2010 -
25 comments
Midwest label
Suburban Sprawl puts out a CD of X-Mas music every winter. They've collected the last eight years of them
here. Highlights include The High Strung, The Hard Lessons, and the common lament, "Santa Just Crashed Into My House and He's Drunk as Fuck."
posted by klangklangston
on Dec 1, 2010 -
16 comments
Dirtbombs' drummer Ben Blackwell has created a
map of Detroit of labels offering "vinyl releases throughout all eras". He also has a
blog and participated in the SXSW panel "How to Make Money With Vinyl" (
mp3) as an employee of Third Man Records.
posted by dobbs
on Nov 19, 2010 -
6 comments
Detroit's Greatest Hits (That Should Have Been) Here we've compiled our very own Top 40 list of Detroit songs or albums that were overlooked or undervalued — which naturally includes, to a lesser extent, the overlooked or undervalued artists who created them. These are songs that not only give up the goose bumps, or teach us something that we didn't already know, but records that hook us and make us want to share them.
posted by louche mustachio
on Nov 12, 2010 -
29 comments
Death were a
proto-punk trio of black Jehovah's Witnesses based out of Detroit back in 1974. They were almost signed to Columbia, but bailed on the label when Columbia wanted them to change their name. Instead, they self-released a 7" which is now
quite a collector's item, influenced as it was by,
“Iggy and Stooges, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper and The Who”.
But the story doesn't end there. Recently, Bobby Hackney, whose father played in Death along with two of his uncles, learned of the band and, lo and behold, his dad found the master tapes for their unreleased full-length in his attic. Is a new chapter in
punk rock history about to be written?
posted by stinkycheese
on Jun 11, 2008 -
35 comments
