Reptar makes their way to the Crofoot on Saturday, May 11th.
You gotta give a band a lot of credit for picking a band name that people are going to think are bad- well, except Hoobastank- because no one know what that band was thinking when they dreamed up that name. But for the guys [...]
Trivium rips up the Machine Shop in Flint this Saturday.
Since the release of their latest album, “In Waves” last August, the guys in Trivium have been seemingly on tour and haven’t really stopped. Their first tour on this cycle was opening for the prog-rock titans Dream Theater, followed by a support gig for In [...]
La Dispute brings their honestly refreshing punk to the Magic Stick this Saturday.
Anybody that follows the hardcore/punk/metal scenes here in Michigan know that there’s a burgeoning scene, borne out of the rage and anger that people have when living in an economically depressed state like this. But showing some hope from the west side [...]
Fresh of the mega critical buzz he got last year, Danny Brown plays his first Detroit area show at the Emerald Theater this Saturday.
In Detroit, hip-hop breakout acts have been few and far between since Eminem blew up and the demise of Slum Village. But 2011 was a sign that Detroit’s hip-hop scene may [...]
The airy and profound School of Seven Bells hits the Magic Stick on Monday, April 30th.
The sub-genre of Dream pop has been quite the commodity over the past several years, with many from the indie world giving the quiet and serene art form a valiant try. But one of the groups doing it the [...]
Keenan Mitchell's soaring vocals lead Fort Lean to the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor on Saturday,
With the guys coming from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, also home to indie darlings MGMT and Das Racist, the guys who form the quintet Fort Lean seem to have their sound moving in a different direction than the previously [...]
Coming straight outta Kansas, Origin brings the tech metal to Harpo's this Wednesday.
Taking their cues from the golden age of death metal in the early to mid-90’s, the guys in the Kansas based band Origin has toned their technical death metal over the past 15+ years. Coming from a scene in [...]
Battlecross makes their first apperance on a major metal tour opening for Origin at Harpo's April 25th.
If you’ve been around the Detroit metal scene for a while, the guys in Battlecross are a fixture of the scene. Whether they were on one of their numerous opening slots at any venue in town, [...]
God Forbid bring some modern metal balance to the Overkill tour, which hits Blondie's April 24th.
Things in the camp for the New Jersey metal band God Forbid look a bit different for the release of their newest album than it did three years ago when releasing their 2009 album “Earthsblood”. Shortly after [...]
Finally! The long awaited grudge match between Jon Jones and Rashad Evans takes place this Saturday.
Has it really been seven weeks since the last major UFC pay-per-view event? I swear, it felt like an eternity for me and many other fight fans as we have waited patiently. We sat through [...]