The Majestic

ANNE DELISI’S ESSENTIAL MUSIC

traci — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:51:29 +0000

DOOP AND THE INSIDE OUTLAWS:::04/17/12:::Majestic Cafe:::FREE!:::8:00 PM:::All Ages

The deep working class roots of singer/songwriter Don “Doop” Duprie echo throughout his music. Front man for the Detroit area alt-country/roots rock band , Doop is a laid off firefighter born and raised in industrial River Rouge, Michigan. He teamed up with legendary Detroit producer Jim Diamond (White Stripes) to record his albums “Blood River,” “Everett Belcher” and now “What am I supposed to do?”

Doop’s songwriting has received national attention, having been hailed “hands down the best songwriter we (Detroit) now have to offer the American World” by Don Zelaznv (AmericanRoots.com).

The albums made the Top Ten List in Metro Times and AmericanRoots.com. “Everett Belcher” won the Detroit Music Award for “Outstanding County Recording” and was named “Album of the Day” by Country Music Pride’s podcast American Daily. Doop’s music has been featured on the American Public Media radio show “The Story,” the award-winning podcast Digivegas.com and the #1 Americana podcast, “Americana Root Roundtable” on NoDepression.com.

Now with Pete Ballard on the pedal steel guitar, Katie Grace on bass and Danny Kanka on drums, Doop and the gang just released their third full length album.

PILLOWTALK

traci — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:49:57 +0000

:::02/24/12:::Magic Stick:::$16.50 ADV. | $20.00 DAY OF:::9:45 PM:::18+

PillowTalk is Sammy D, Ryan Williams and Michael Tello. Based out of the famous Lower Haight District inSan Francisco, PillowTalk’s music fuses classic R&B, boogie and disco with underground house and techno with an original feel. With releases out on Visionquest, Life & Death and Wolf + Lamb, 2012 is shaping up to be a huge year as they hit the road with the live band.

SUPER SUNDAY GAME! Appetizer buffet, prizes, more

traci — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:07:50 +0000

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Sunday Feb. 5 – come watch the Giants/Patriots game with us at the Majestic Cafe or Garden Bowl Lounge!! We’ve got the big screens, an appetizer buffet including pizza, wings, mozzarella sticks, jalapeno poppers, sliders and more with plenty of beer to wash it all down with! and the best part? You don’t have to clean up afterward! 5PM to 10PM, all ages welcome.

$10 buffet

LA DISPUTE

traci — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:53:58 +0000

BALANCE AND COMPOSURE | ALL GET OUT | SAINTHOOD REPS:::05/05/12:::Magic Stick:::$13.00 ADVANCE / $15.00 DAY OF:::7:00 PM:::All Ages

Dispute is five close friends from the Upper Midwest with a mutual passion for using music as a means to express, challenge, inform, and connect, but also as a fantastic excuse to have fun, make tons of new friends, and travel anywhere and everywhere that people will have them. Always learning, often touring, sometimes writing (as much as time and circumstance allows), La Dispute has been making music for 3-6 years now (depending on how you look at it) and intends on continuing to do so for as long as they’re all physically and emotionally able to. Also of note, they love their friends and families immensely and are probably too proud about where they come from. Come say hello and they mean that.

Black Iris Presents RASPUTINA

traci — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:45:09 +0000

:::Monday April 9:::Magic Stick:::$12.00 adv. | $14.00 day of:::8:00 PM:::All Ages

Rasputina works as an anomaly in popular music. By ignoring fashion trends and maintaining artistic integrity coupled with musical enthusiasm, the group has thrived as time has passed. They expose passionate fans to historical tales, and inspire young string players to seek alternatives to the classical world.

Born and raised in Kansas, Melora Creager – who has operated Rasputina for the past 19 years– comes from a musical family and received classical training. At 18 she moved to New York City to attend Parsons School of Design. While majoring in photography she began playing her cello in rock bands and became involved with drag performers. She formed “The Fingerlakes Trio,” a falsely geeky classical group that performed covers of disco hits, before joining NYC’s Ultra Vivid Scene who recorded three albums for cult British label, 4AD. It was her first exposure to the professional rock world – UVS opened for label mates like The Pixies, Belly and Throwing Muses. Following a tour with Nirvana as a cellist on their In Utero tour she desired to do a project of her own, and she created Rasputina.

The concept for the group came to her fully formed; the idea was written as a manifesto. Her intention was to create an electric cello choir – no boys or guitars allowed. Through want ads she recruited like-minded young cellists. Rasputina evolved, employing elaborate costuming, as they were unable to move about while forcibly stationary in their chairs. What began as strictly “Victorian Whites”- bloomers, corsets and hoopskirts – has evolved into an amalgam of historical feminine icons – Indian princesses, Hawaiian handmaidens and fallen medieval queens, and Rasputina keeps their cultish following enthralled with intimate recitals and post-show receiving lines.

This summer, the cello-driven steampunk trio will release their seventh album, Sister Kinderhook. This will be the first full length release by their most recent line-up. Joining Melora is — for the first time ever — a male cellist, Daniel De Jesus and punk-folk drums is Catie D’Amica. The new album was recorded at Filthy Bonnet Studios in Hudson, NY, and produced by Creager.

Black Iris Presents THE REVIVAL TOUR 2012

traci — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:26:15 +0000

CHUCK RAGAN | DAN ANDRIANO | CORY BRANAN | NATHANIEL RATELIFF:::04/07/12:::Magic Stick:::$15.00:::8:00 PM:::All Ages

“The most unique element of The Revival Tour is the camaraderie that it’s based on and the collaborations that are bred from that essence,” explains Americana singer/songwriter and original tour organizer Chuck Ragan. Borne from the rich folk tradition of giving and openness and propelled by an innate need to tell a story in its naked acoustic state, The Revival Tour begins its fifth year with a company of amazing storytellers in Ragan, Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio, The Emergency Room), and longtime Lucero collaborator Cory Branan, Tommy Gabel (Against Me!), and renowned singer/songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff. Sponsored by Daytrotter, Paste Magazine, Ernie Ball and Brixton Clothing, The Revival Tour kicks on March 20th in Dallas, TX, making a stop at Austin’s South By Southwest Music Festival, before circling around North America including Canada, adding many surprise guests along the way (tour dates below).

Loosely structured in the form of old-fashioned folk musician get-togethers, The Revival Tour is an ensemble collective in which the participating musicians collaborate and jam, frequently creating unique and inspired once-in-a-lifetime moments of brilliance – often multiple times in a single night. “I love the volatile, steel-strung, structureless by design, hydra-headed Revival Tour,” says Cory Branan. “I’m stoked as hell to be involved. I always wanted to join a gang!”

Two-time Revival Tour veteran Dan Andriano adds, “I’m just happy to be a part of this again. The time I had with The Revival Tour overseas last Fall was one of the best I’ve ever had. The music, the fellowship, the camaraderie… basically everything Chuck has been building over the past years is, to me, what touring and songwriting is all about. So to be asked to be a part of that again here in the U.S. is a real honor… We’re gonna have a good time!”

Tickets will be available beginning at 10:00am EST today (February 1st) atwww.therevivaltourtix.com, and to make the tour even more special, four separate presale packages will be available to purchase from the site:

1) General Admission ticket with an instant download of the 2012 Revival Tour Sampler (five tracks)

2) General Admission ticket and Limited Edition and numbered Lithograph plus a download of the 2012 Revival Tour Sampler

3) General Admission ticket and Limited Edition New Saw Blade 7 inch Red Vinyl which includes a download card plus an instant download of the 2012 Revival Tour Sampler

4) General Admission ticket and Limited Edition 2011 Revival Tour LP Red Vinyl which includes a download card plus an instant download of the 2012 Revival Tour Sampler

In celebration of this year’s tour, SideOneDummy Records will be releasing a very limited edition die cut 7” on April 3, 2012 in the shape of a saw blade. Featuring two unreleased tracks from Chuck Ragan’s Covering Ground recording sessions (“Field Holler” and “Live By the Sword”), an exclusive red version of the vinyl will only be available with pre-order tickets for The Revival Tour.

Black Iris Presents 5 for $5

traci — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:21:50 +0000

TAOZINS | LAST ACTION HERO | DUE NORTH | MY TIME IN THE ARCTIC | SHARKS NEVER SLEEP:::02/22/12:::Magic Stick Lounge:::$5.00:::8:00 PM:::All Ages

Black Iris Presents THE GENERAL STRIKE RECORD RELEASE TOUR featuring ANTI FLAG

traci — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:15:48 +0000

THE FLATLINERS | HAVE NOTS | WILSON:::03/12/12:::Magic Stick:::$15.00:::7:00 PM:::All Ages

THE GENERAL STRIKE RECORD RELEASE TOUR W/ ANTI-FLAG

Making their debut at a local Pittsburgh radio station in 1993, Anti-Flag got together for the sake of responding to their disgust at religion, nationalism, and fascism. Justin Sane (vocals/guitar), Andy Flag (bass/vocals), and Pat Thetic (drums) bopped around their hometown much to the dismay of skinheads while recruiting a following who proudly wore torn-up upside-down flags as patches. In 1997, after releasing a handful of singles, opening for their idols the U.K. Subs, the Exploited, and the Circle Jerks, and briefly touring the East Coast — which led to the departure of Andy Flag — Die for the Government was released, and 20,000 copies, four bassists, and four North American tours later, Anti-Flag gained their reputation for recapturing the old-school ethics of punk: fast, loud, obnoxious, and anti-everything that ends with an “ism.”

Chris Head was added to the lineup in 1997 and two years later bassist Chris 2 joined on as well to complete the four-piece. Their System Doesn’t Work for You, a reissue of their out of print EP North America Sucks along with additional previously unreleased songs, followed in 1998 on the band’s newly founded A-F Records. They released A New Kind of Army in 1999 on Go Kart Records, hoping not only to push their beliefs to a wider audience but, more importantly, just to play out around the world while flipping two fingers in the air to everyone they’re against. A summer stint on the Warped Tour brought an expanded audience and new friends, including NOFX’s Fat Mike over at Fat Wreck Chords. The label put out 2001’s Underground Network, recorded with the help of Mass Girorgini (Screeching Weasel, Common Rider). Half of the tracks for their next effort, Mobilize, were recorded live in their hometown in December 2001; the disc came out in February 2002, and it fittingly also contained many songs, most explicitly “911 for Peace,” that reflected the recent World Trade Center terrorist attacks.

In early 2002, Sane released a solo record entitled Life, Love and the Pursuit of Justice via A-F, and it mostly contained a sonically stripped-down version of his main band’s political agenda. Anti-Flag’s contribution to the BYO Split Series came out in fall 2002 with their split with the Bouncing Souls, and a year later they issued their next full-length, The Terror State, on Fat Wreck. The four-song EP Live at Fireside Bowl also appeared on Liberation. Released in 2004, the live =Death of a Nation DVD chronicled the band’s U.S. tour in support of The Terror State, and that same year, A-F reissued A New Kind of Army. Not surprisingly, the band also became involved with Punk Voter, a coalition of punk bands and artists who worked to raise voter awareness and participation — namely against George W. Bush — for the 2004 election, and headlined the Rock Against Bush tour. In a somewhat unexpected move, Anti-Flag next signed to RCA in April 2005; they issued For Blood and Empire the following March. In October 2007 the band released A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime on their own A-F label, an EP (with a combination of both new songs and live tracks) whose proceeds went to the Center for Victims of Violence and Crime, a decision made after Chris 2 lost his sister to homocide earlier that year.

PROTEST THE HERO

traci — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:36:21 +0000

PERIPHERY | JEFF LOOMIS BAND | THE SAFETY FIRE | TODAY I CAUGHT THE PLAGUE:::04/11/12:::Magic Stick:::$18.00 ADV. | $20.00 DAY OF:::6:30 PM:::All Ages

Hi, I’m Protest The Hero. I’ve been alive for 20 years now, and I finally have my own kitchen. I’m very excited about this, and generally excited by anything else that falls into the “cute” or “cozy” categories. I learned to play guitar when I was twelve from this guy named Ronnie who came over to fix my parents’ computer. I like quilts. But that’s probably because I’m always freezing cold. I LOVE Nashville. That’s where I live, when I’m lucky enough to be there. I over-think and over-plan and over-organize. I’ve been like this since I was a baby, before I was gigantically tall and over-talkative. These days, I’ve been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: “Things I can change,” and “Things I can’t.” It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-thinking! I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. Love is a tricky business. But if it wasn’t, I wouldn’t be so enthralled with it. Lately I’ve come to a wonderful realization that makes me even more fascinated by it: I have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to love. No one does! There’s no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course.

I know I don’t always say the right thing at the right time or speak up when I should, but I write it all down. I get my guitar and a pen and all of a sudden, I have a chance to say exactly what I meant to say in real life. Some of the things I wrote about are things everyone saw me go through. Some of the things I wrote about are things nobody ever knew about. I’m beyond excited for you to hear these stories and confessions. I think it’s important that you know that I will never change. But I’ll never stay the same either. Must be a Sagittarius thing. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that’s real love. –Protest The Hero

MOTOR CITY FUNK NIGHT feat. RICKY CALLOWAY and WILL SESSIONS

traci — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:05:24 +0000