Westword Music Showcase Tickets on sale now

If you didn’t pick up your tickets for this year’s Westword Music Showcase during our special Voice Deal of the Day pre-sale over the weekend, don’t sweat it. Tickets are now officially on sale, and they’re still ridiculously cheap. Okay, so they’re not ten bucks cheap anymore, but still less…

The “Black and Yellow” Nuggets remixes, rated

Like every other athletic team in America, the Nuggets have plenty of fan tribute remixes of Wiz Khalifa’s unlikely jock jam “Black and Yellow.” Sports, in general, attracts some truly horrific rap remixes, and this song has seen some real abuse in the ill-advised hands of fans. There are, however,…

Tonight: B. Dolan at Summit Music Hall

Part conspiracy theorist, part activist, B. Dolan is a multi-faceted force to be reckoned with. As a rapper, the East Coaster brings his slam poet style to life with post-apocalyptic stories of a desolate earth, utilizing beats from the dubstep to marching band variety to take on his science fiction…

Catch Lungs, One Be Lo, Guilty Simpson, Elzhi at Marquis, 03/04/11

CATCH LUNGS With One Be Lo • Guilty Simpson • Elzhi Food Chain • Fresh Breath Committee 03.04.11 | Marquis Theater Detroit hip-hop was definitely in the fucking building for Catch Lungs’s CD release party. In addition to the fellow locals in Food Chain and Fresh Breath Committee, One Be…

Tonight: Weedeater at 3 Kings Tavern

As if it’s not obvious by the name, Weedeater is a weed band — but not a weed band in the Cypress Hill, Slightly Stoopid or Sublime sense. Weedeater still promotes weed smoking, yes, but it’s about a lifestyle — a heavy, heashy one that lends to fans participating in…

$10 Westword Music Showcase tix on sale now!

Earlier this week when we announced the headliners for this year’s Westword Music Showcase, we mentioned that you’d be able to pick up tickets for just ten bucks. Ten bucks for Chromeo, Yo La Tengo, Del the Funky Homosapien with a full band, Murder By Death, Young the Giant, Epilogues…

Three new electronic-music residencies announced

As last weekend’s LOVE event indicated, the underground electronic-music scene in the metro area is alive and kicking. This month alone, three new residencies are kicking off at various locales; keep reading for the details…

Tonight: Lisa Shaw at Jet Hotel

Lisa Shaw’s smooth, sultry voice is utterly unmistakable. Arguably the most noteworthy singer in contemporary house music, the modern-day diva has worked extensively with the one-and-only Miguel Migs on numerous tracks for Naked Music and Migs’ newer label, Salted. Shaw’s ubiquitous vocals are practically synonymous with deep, soulful house. Fans…

Tonight: Jeff Austin & Friends

Jeff Austin is an integral part of the worldwide jam and contemporary bluegrass community — the staple mandolin player is a founding member of Yonder Mountain String Band, and over the years, he has played with the likes of Keller Williams and members of String Cheese Incident and North Mississippi…

Hindershot

It’s Only Blood, the debut release from six familiar faces led by Stuart Confer, is about apathy. All four songs address not feeling when you should, and let’s just say the perspective isn’t exactly hindsight. The title track starts the seven-inch out quietly, building to a pop about halfway through…

Innerstate Ike’s Moolah Water flows

In the independent hustle of hip-hop, the mantra is: Get in where you fit in. It’s all about expansion, new business ventures and more compelling promotion of the music. Under this guise — and similar to the quarter-water-turned-multi-million-dollar-business-venture of 50 Cent — Innerstate Ike is launching his own brand of…