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Detroit's Weekend Concert Planner - Feb. 15th-17th

Written by MCB Staff

Friday, 15 February 2008

FRIDAY
Puddle of Mudd @ Emerald Theatre - It seems like if they put out a single, rock radio will eat up every last morsel of it. With their new album, Famous, which came out this past fall, the band continues their rock radio dominance. The first two singles, the lead title track and “Psycho,” topped the rock charts and is once again a force to be reckoned with.
Tickets are $25 and are available at www.ticketmaster.com. (Puddle of Mudd also plays the Machine Shop on Saturday as well, tickets are SOLD OUT.)

Black Dahlia Murder @ Majestic Theatre - After stealing the show from Cannibal Corpse back in the fall, the local death metal rockers have constantly improved over the past few albums. Their latest, Nocturnal, stays heavier than hell and turns things a little more melodic at times as well. Canadian thrash metallers 3 Inches of Blood will provide support, with their Fire Up The Blades being a surprise gem last year.
Tickets are $15 and are available at www.ticketmaster.com.

Exodus @ Harpo’s - The Bay Area old school metal heroes have returned with their new album, The Atrocity Exhibition…Exhibit A album back in October. Surprisingly, new metalheads have warmed to the band’s first single “Riot Act” and has given the band a new lease on life after the 2002 death of original lead singer Paul Baloff. New Orleans underground sensation Goatwhore opens the show.
Tickets are $20 and are available at www.ticketmaster.com.

SATURDAY

Coheed & Cambria w/ Linkin Park & Chiodos @ Joe Louis Arena - Coheed has been on a tear of touring since the release of their No World For Tomorrow album debuted in the Top 10 back in October. After a headlining run, and an acoustic set at The Night 89x Stole Christmas, the California band jumped on one of the biggest tours of this early year. After their first single, “The Running Free,” did well on the charts, the band is pumping their new single “Feathers” and is hoping for the same success. Since the last time we checked in with these guys, the new album has received a lot of love from critics. The Linkin Park tour is supposedly Coheed’s first venture into arenas, but somebody here at MCB seems to remember a 2006 arena show at Cobo with Avenged Sevenfold.

Odds are that most of the hardcore Linkin Park fans will already know and be into Coheed’s prog-rock approach before all the frat guys take over the main floor and dumb down the place. Also, Flint’s own Chiodos continues to relish in the success of their Bone Palace Ballet album, which also debuted in the Top 10 earlier in the fall. After their highly sold out club run before the end of last year, this is Chiodos’ first venture into arenas since their Taste of Chaos run in 2007.
Tickets range from $38 to $45.50 and are available at www.olympiaentertainment.com.

B.B. King @ Fox Theatre - The blues legend may have passed the 80 year mark, but B.B. still is one of the hardest working men in show business. King is still touring twice yearly, and still doing his brand of music justice after all of these years.
Tickets range from $32.50 to $65 and are available at www.olympiaentertainment.com

Wild Sweet Orange @ The Crofoot - Before their first full length album is due out sometime later this week, the Birmingham, Alabama band is out promotion their The Whale EP. The five song EP showcases their southern rock flare with a little mix a folk as well. The music on The Whale plays into the band’s sobering but realistic attitude about the world around them and the road that they see. Opening for local folk-rockers Manna & Quail.
Tickets are $8 and are available at www.ticketweb.com.

Louis C.K.@ Royal Oak Music Theatre - The comedian is back on the radio after his HBO show, “Lucky Louie” was mercifully cancelled after its first season.
Tickets are $25.50 and are available at www.tickets.com.

Spice Girls @ The Palace of Auburn Hills - When they were at the Palace in ’98, tickets sold out in no time flat, with every 13-year-old buying tickets all over the place. Ten years later, the buzz on this reunion is barely a whisper. Odds are, those 13-year-olds in 1998 have moved on to way different music, leaving the nostalgia factor of this show very low. It sounds like “Girlpower” has died bigtime, with the light sales for this show.
Tickets range from $72 to $122 and are available at www.palacenet.com. .

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