September 27, 2015
3 themes at the DIY Street Fair and a day in the life of a middle-aged Ferndalien
All of Ferndale is partying up at the DIY Street Fest tonight and I’ve got some serious boots-and-pants jamz pulsing...
Music Corner
September 5, 2015
Gird yourself for the change of seasons with Low’s new album, ‘Ones and Sixes’
I arrived late to the Low party — though that’s a terrible analogy, considering the band has been peddling its...
August 6, 2015
D.C. punk doc ‘Salad Days’ illuminates a vital corner of 1980s underground culture
For a musical genre that ironically came to be defined by its straitjacketed sameness, the 1980s hardcore punk scene in...
July 19, 2015
Tame Impala’s new album ‘Currents’ leapfrogs decades
Rock ‘n’ roll is one of those things that lives on as much in funny stories as in the music...
July 14, 2015
Let’s go to Pluto with NASA — and Siouxsie, circa 1989
It’s a big day for us space geeks, as NASA’s New Horizons probe sends home the most detailed image of...
June 19, 2015
Music Corner: Preview the new album from trippy San Francisco songwriter Meg Baird
The last decade or so has seen a renaissance of left-field psychedelic folk-rock, led by bands like Grizzly Bear, Akron/Family,...
June 10, 2015
What’s it like to run a record store in 2015? My interview with Wazoo owner John Kerr
“Notebook dump” is an old newspapering term for material gathered in the course of reporting a story that never gets...
June 6, 2015
Vinyl’s resurgence a welcome trend for Ann Arbor’s long-running record stores
I recently wrote a freelance story exploring the business of running a record store in my home town: It wasn’t...
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