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Detroit

  • News

    May 23, 2012

    Greyhound: Piss Poor

    A disabled passenger sues the Dirty Dog for allegedly making him pee in a cup.

  • Film

    April 25, 2012

    It Came From Detroit: Rock History From Iggy Pop to Jack White

    A disabled passenger sues the Dirty Dog for allegedly making him pee in a cup.

  • Calendar

    March 21, 2012

    Black Milk

    A disabled passenger sues the Dirty Dog for allegedly making him pee in a cup.

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Tell Me About That Album: Speed of Darkness by Flogging Molly

    Combining traditional Irish folk with the brash swagger of punk rock, Flogging Molly wrote their latest LP in a Detroit basement and recorded it in an old church. The result is the band's fifth album, Speed of Darkness, a song cycle steeped in faith, resilience and community. We caught up with guita ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    Tell Me About That Album: It's a Corporate World by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

    2011 was a good year for the Detroit pop duo with the silly name. They released their major label debut It's a Corporate World in June and spent much of the remainder of the year touring behind it. The band will ring in 2012 with a string of high-profile dates on the West Caost supporting Fitz and t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Holy Cannoli Brings Detroit-Style Pastries to Seattle

    ​In Detroit, pizza is square; hot dogs are topped with chili, mustard and onions and cannoli are stuffed with custard. The custard comes as a surprise to cannoli eaters who were raised in New York and New Jersey, where immigrant bakers adapted to the dearth of fresh ingredients by filling the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Persian Paradise Found

    Back before Iran brought to mind ayatollahs, chadors, and heavy eyeliner, it sparkled as a global beau monde. I knew this even as a kid growing up in Detroit because Persian pastries rocked my world. By my way of thinking, any culture that fashioned desserts both refined and hearty had to be world-c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Seattle is the Third Most Miserable City in the Country

    ​Face it, you're miserable. Here it is two days from April and it's still rainy as shit and windy to boot. The Huskies are out of the Big Dance, the Cougs are out of the small one, the mayor has a 28 percent approval rating and the police force might shoot you if you look at them funny. In fac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Death At The Burger King

    ​There are good ways to die and there are bad ways. The good ways include: 1) Quickly 2) Quietly, in your sleep, at the ripe old age of 275 3) Atop or beneath the supermodel of your choosing And the bad ones are so numerous as to make listing them pointless. I mean, is being eaten by a sha ... More >>

  • Music

    September 22, 2010

    The Virgin's Guide to Decibel Fest

    Put your hands up 4 Seattle!

  • Film

    June 9, 2010

    The Karate Kid: Jackie Chan Remakes the 80s Demi-Classic

    Put your hands up 4 Seattle!

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2010

    Steel Pulse

    Put your hands up 4 Seattle!

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    Counting Down My Top 10 Records of 2009, Pt. 3

    This is the third post in a ten-part series. You can view part one here, and part two over here. ​ This summer, local label Light in the Attic reissued Rodriguez's sophomore recording, Coming From Reality, which the Detroit-based singer-songwriter originally released in 1971. Reading with th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 11, 2009

    Dan Hawkins

    This is the third post in a ten-part series. You can view part one here, and part two over here. ​ This summer, local label Light in the Attic reissued Rodriguez's sophomore recording, Coming From Reality, which the Detroit-based singer-songwriter originally released in 1971. Reading with th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 11, 2009

    Raphael Saadiq

    This is the third post in a ten-part series. You can view part one here, and part two over here. ​ This summer, local label Light in the Attic reissued Rodriguez's sophomore recording, Coming From Reality, which the Detroit-based singer-songwriter originally released in 1971. Reading with th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2009

    Bettye LaVette

    This is the third post in a ten-part series. You can view part one here, and part two over here. ​ This summer, local label Light in the Attic reissued Rodriguez's sophomore recording, Coming From Reality, which the Detroit-based singer-songwriter originally released in 1971. Reading with th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 19, 2009

    The High Strung

    Friday, August 21

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Speaking of Living Colour

    They were my first inkling that black musicians and rock, especially heavier rock/metal, belonged in the same sentence. As a seven or eight-year-old kid in Detroit -- long before I heard about Jimi Hendrix or Bad Brains or Black Merda or Fishbone, hell before I even really knew about Chuck Berry o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    Et Tu, Forbes? Mag Says Seattle's a Bad Place to Buy a House

    Last week, AutoVantage told us we're not such courteous drivers. This week, Forbes kicks us while we're down, telling us we're not such a good place for real estate investment. The magazine ranks us the 23rd best market--out of the nation's 25 largest--to buy a house. Apparently, we're a bad place t ... More >>

  • Music

    June 17, 2009

    Rocket Queen: Coming From Obscurity

    Light in the Attic reissues another Sixto Rodriguez album and welcomes him to Seattle.

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2009

    Twiztid

    Sunday, May 17

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    There's Eating Locally...

    ...and then there's eating locally in Detroit, which is another thing entirely.

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    Music April Fools Jokes

    You've got to wake up pretty early to fool the writers here on Reverb. And it's always hard to trust the news that you read on April 1st. That's why we're not falling for any of these fake music stories that we've stumbled across today. Comerica Park becomes Kid Rock Field: Kid Rock acquires the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    Detroit: Where Everything's Worse Than Anywhere Else

    Economy got you down? Look to Detroit. In fact, if just about anything's got you down, look to Detroit. Things are so fucked up there, in so many different ways, that whatever pickle you're in will seem pretty paltry by comparison. Case in point: the Detroit suburb of Pontiac is laying off every emp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    Free MP3: Von Bondies -- "Pale Bride"

    Detroit garage rock band, the Von Bondies, recently released their third studio album, Love, Hate, and Then Theirs You, and are now touring behind it. They're scheduled to play Neumos March 8th, and I for one, and interested in giving them a second chance after being turned off by their sound in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    My President is Black...

    Today is a great day in America. Not only did those of us who watched the inauguration get to see Barack Obama become the nation's first black president, but we also watched the Bush regime (finally!) leave Washington. On the surface at least, it appears that a change has come.The same can be sai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Armond White on Notorious: It's Morally Bankrupt

    This just in: Critic Armond White drops the hammer on Notorious. He ignores the comedic flow of the movie--which mimics that of Biggie's "Gimme the Loot"--and instead couches it in the culture (blamed on Clinton-era greed) that birthed it. But look at the hip-pop star the Bush era gave us: 50 Cent. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 17, 2008

    Dan Hawkins: Detroit: Arsenal of Democracy

    This just in: Critic Armond White drops the hammer on Notorious. He ignores the comedic flow of the movie--which mimics that of Biggie's "Gimme the Loot"--and instead couches it in the culture (blamed on Clinton-era greed) that birthed it. But look at the hip-pop star the Bush era gave us: 50 Cent. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2008

    Mulally's $1 Fake-out

     FoMoCo's MulullayAs the CEO of Boeing Commerical Airplanes in Seattle, Alan Mulally, now Ford Motor Co. CEO, knew how to feed at the public trough for his multi-billion-dollar private corporation. He helped steer Boeing and its new 787 production line towards a $3.2 billion, 20-year tax break ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    Neil Young Offers Advice To Auto Industry

    Basically, his opinion echos that of many of forward-thinking Americans: Pull your head out of your ass, Detroit, and start manufacturing goddamned green vehicles! How To Save A Major Automobile Company Auto manufacturers taking advantage of a government bailout must only sell clean and green v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2008

    Detroit Leads Seattle in e-Scandals?

    Basically, his opinion echos that of many of forward-thinking Americans: Pull your head out of your ass, Detroit, and start manufacturing goddamned green vehicles! How To Save A Major Automobile Company Auto manufacturers taking advantage of a government bailout must only sell clean and green v ... More >>

  • Diversions

    December 12, 2007

    Why Are the Catholics Always Causing Trouble?

    Basically, his opinion echos that of many of forward-thinking Americans: Pull your head out of your ass, Detroit, and start manufacturing goddamned green vehicles! How To Save A Major Automobile Company Auto manufacturers taking advantage of a government bailout must only sell clean and green v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2007

    Moscow Rock City

    Basically, his opinion echos that of many of forward-thinking Americans: Pull your head out of your ass, Detroit, and start manufacturing goddamned green vehicles! How To Save A Major Automobile Company Auto manufacturers taking advantage of a government bailout must only sell clean and green v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2007

    The Week Ahead

    Basically, his opinion echos that of many of forward-thinking Americans: Pull your head out of your ass, Detroit, and start manufacturing goddamned green vehicles! How To Save A Major Automobile Company Auto manufacturers taking advantage of a government bailout must only sell clean and green v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2007

    Detroit Dogs

    Basically, his opinion echos that of many of forward-thinking Americans: Pull your head out of your ass, Detroit, and start manufacturing goddamned green vehicles! How To Save A Major Automobile Company Auto manufacturers taking advantage of a government bailout must only sell clean and green v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2007

    Weekend Review: Adult.

    Basically, his opinion echos that of many of forward-thinking Americans: Pull your head out of your ass, Detroit, and start manufacturing goddamned green vehicles! How To Save A Major Automobile Company Auto manufacturers taking advantage of a government bailout must only sell clean and green v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2006

    Lard Is My Co-Pilot

    Basically, his opinion echos that of many of forward-thinking Americans: Pull your head out of your ass, Detroit, and start manufacturing goddamned green vehicles! How To Save A Major Automobile Company Auto manufacturers taking advantage of a government bailout must only sell clean and green v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2006

    LQA Snow Pizza Report

    Basically, his opinion echos that of many of forward-thinking Americans: Pull your head out of your ass, Detroit, and start manufacturing goddamned green vehicles! How To Save A Major Automobile Company Auto manufacturers taking advantage of a government bailout must only sell clean and green v ... More >>

  • Music

    June 14, 2006

    Dig This

    Thee Emergency do it loud.

  • Food

    May 4, 2005

    The Deli Decalogue

    Can Goldbergs' lead us to a pumpernickel, pickle, and pastrami Promised Land?

  • Music

    September 1, 2004

    Mastodon

    Also: Monster Magnet, The Killers, Garden State, Geri Allen, DJ Shadow, Merge Records, The Meat Purveyors, and Slum Village.

  • Music

    June 25, 2003

    Loud, Fast, and . . . Sob

    The Clone Defects throw a pity party.

  • Music

    June 12, 2002

    Days of our nights

    The Clone Defects throw a pity party.

  • Music

    July 4, 2001

    Mr. (and Ms.) White's neighborhood

    It's a beautiful day for the friendly, enigmatic rock duo from Detroit, the White Stripes.

  • Music

    March 14, 2001

    Motor city devils

    Assault and the Pu Bahs put a fresher, dirtier spin on Detroit techno.

  • News

    January 10, 2001

    Striking Lessons

    In Seattle's newspaper strike, both management and labor learned from Detroit's five-year-long labor dispute.

  • News

    November 29, 2000

    Who cares?

    In the age of the Internet and 24-hour cable news, does a newspaper strike matter?

  • Music

    September 22, 1999

    Fire starters

    A new generation confirms that Detroit's rock legacy is steeped in the city's riotous atmosphere.

  • Film

    August 11, 1999

    KISS this

    Detroit Rock City works like a teen dream.

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