POSTED // Oct 10,2007 - City Weekly has tried before to interview Oderus Urungus, lead front-thing of shock rockers GWAR. Same thing happens every time: Guy takes over the interview, leaving us with little more than random soundbytes, jokes that are marginally funnier than David...

POSTED // Oct 3,2007 - You don’t see Earl Greyhound comin’. Their name, and the ostensibly pretentious cover of the Brooklyn trio’s eponymous debut EP, conjures a tea-sippin’ neo-wave band. The album art for their LP bow Soft Targets (Some Records) showing...

POSTED // Sep 19,2007 - “Matt Cronk’s office,” urps David Yow in his best temporary receptionist’s voice: hungover, but increasingly jolly thanks to a little hair o’ the dog. The notorious one-time lead vocalist of ’90s noise/post-punk legends...

POSTED // Sep 19,2007 - Ron Shock has been a great many things in his 65 years. A sampling, in chronological order: student of the priesthood, car thief, member of a chain gang, jewel thief, prison inmate, vice-president of a Fortune 500 company (MacMillan Publishers), a concert-promoter’s...

POSTED // Sep 5,2007 - Venusian rockers Valient Thorr have landed their vintage Chevy van in Detroit to greet a welcoming committee of devotees called Thorriors. De facto leader, singer and sweat-swallower Valient Himself strolls through the gathering in a Vincent Vega haze,...

POSTED // Aug 22,2007 - Jason Molina is calling from the United Kingdom, not Ohio, because things change. Just as his first noteworthy band Songs: Ohia eventually became Magnolia Electric Co., his place of residence, too, has changed. Transience, you see, is his thing. By any...

POSTED // Aug 20,2007 - Apart from a guy in a clown costume and the tall, husky guy with the even huskier ’fro, you can’t tell the comedians from the crowd at Wiseguys open-mic night. Among the four-dozen people gathered in the West Valley comedy club, all look like...

POSTED // Aug 8,2007 - You heard it hear first: Mark Mallman is the Mallwolf. He also screens his calls because, apparently, there is a Beckinsale-esque young lady packing a snub-nosed .38 loaded with garlic-tipped silver bullets lurking in the fog. Or just a superfan—but...

POSTED // Jul 18,2007 - I’m holding on, baby,” says Bettye LaVette, the Great Lady of Soul, relaxing at her home in Detroit. She’s not just giving a casual, keep-on-keepin’-on reply; for some 45 years, LaVette has kept singing even when nobody seemed...

POSTED // Jul 6,2007 - If Boston-based roots-rocker Sarah Borges ever gets sick of touring, she has a bright future in marketing. Told that City Weekly heard her album while hostage in a huge Interstate-215 traffic jam, she says, “It’s too bad we couldn’t...