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by Metro Times music staff on November 7, 2007 at 12:00AM

For many years, Blue Cheer was in the Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest rock band on Earth; their cover of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" is often cited as one of the original metal songs. With that in mind, we asked the still-going-strong California trio's bassist-vocalist Dickie Peterson for his five favorite "ear-bleeding songs" (and he took the head cheese theme to heart as well).
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by Metro Times music staff on October 31, 2007 at 12:00AM

Among other things, Detroit-born rock star Alice Cooper is well-known for his fetishistic relationship with horror, in both film and ironic turn of phrases (hear "Dead Babies," etc.). True, others have appropriated Cooper's love of horror, but without the irony.
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by Metro Times music staff on October 24, 2007 at 12:00AM

The Mount Clemens-based rapcore unit Critical Bill has been creating its unique blend of hard rock and hip hop (the band has a DJ in its ranks) since 2002. Having served up four smokin' albums during that time, the band returns to Detroit this week, in the midst of a national tour, so we thought it an appropriate time to ask the group's Mike Scott for his five favorite songs that mention Detroit in their lyrics.
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by Metro Times music staff on October 10, 2007 at 12:00AM

Erik Adams and Annie Moss wrote about the local music scene on their Just Haircuts and Jackets (justhaircutsandjackets.blogspot.com) Web site for more than a year. As a fitting eulogy to the now defunct blog, these experts on mitten state music gave us their top five Michigan songs: 5.
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by Metro Times music staff on October 3, 2007 at 12:00AM

After nu-punk steamrollers Hot Water Music broke up, three-fourths of the band went on to create the Draft — a more "indie-fied" version of their past selves. And what better way to shed the skin of yore than to hawk up some mawkish sentimentality and hard-to-come-by honesty?
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by Metro Times music staff on September 26, 2007 at 12:00AM

Kurt Cobain faves the Melvins still rock. Here, leader King Buzzo burps up his Top Five Last Meal Requests from Death Row: 5.
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by Metro Times music staff on September 19, 2007 at 12:00AM

Turbonegro is one of the greatest pure rock 'n' roll bands in the world today, bar none. And since these crazy Norwegian dudes are sooo Motor City, we tapped Turbo' guitarist Euroboy to weigh in on D-Town rock ...
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by Metro Times music staff on September 12, 2007 at 12:00AM

Although they reside in our fair city, the members of the Amino Acids claim to be extraterrestrials from a distant planet. Nevertheless, they’ve lived in Detroit long enough to comment on the scene here, in addition to other earthly topics.
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by Metro Times music staff on September 5, 2007 at 12:00AM

Ok, this dude Tony Sakich mans the counter at Record Time in Roseville, one of the best and truest record stores in Michigan. So why should you give a shit?
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by Chris Parker on August 22, 2007 at 12:00AM

Burning Brides love their rock hard and hook-y. While occasionally lost in stoner-metal rabbit holes, it's never far from melody, a propulsive bottom-end and raging riffs.
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by Metro Times music staff on July 4, 2007 at 12:00AM

Rasputina is two chicks wielding amped-up cellos and a groove-heavy dude drummer — a many-headed beast of baroque pop, rock 'n' roll and classic songsmithing. Its songs slide gracefully from gentle refrain to coarse exhortation.
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by Metro Times music staff on June 20, 2007 at 12:00AM

There are many reasons to dig Piebald, that popping guitar-crunch quartet from outside Boston. Its songs take a wonderfully powerful yet decidedly literary tact.
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by Metro Times music staff on April 4, 2007 at 12:00AM

The hard R of a heartland drawl and clangy Fender distortion: "Plain-faced" doesn't even nail how straightforward the Offramps really are. What can they say?
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by Metro Times music staff on March 14, 2007 at 12:00AM

With all the jostling, good-natured yelling and heroic drinking most Metro Times Blowouts entail, it's no wonder that each year our "overheard" file overflows with entries. This year's event was no exception.
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by Metro Times music staff on February 21, 2007 at 12:00AM

Florida's Underoath exploded onto the metalcore scene in 2004 with They're Only Chasing Safety. The terrific Define the Great Line followed last year, and it added melody and more dynamics without sacrificing the intensity of the sextet's metal-hardcore hybrid.
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by Metro Times music staff on February 14, 2007 at 12:00AM

The slow-mo episode wrap-up song has been a staple of TV drama since at least summer 2005, when Claire drove off at the end of Six Feet Under to the strains of Sia's "Breathe Me." And it's a (sickeningly) perfect device because the song usually acts as both an amplifier and a mirror for the emotions, tensions and fears in the storyline. There's no shortage of artists with songs ready to provide that tearful heart-shaped bump, but Detroit's Silent Violet (aka Mariam McCarthy) is right there too.
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by Metro Times music staff on February 7, 2007 at 12:00AM

Detroit's Hotwalls aren't interested in broken noses or power chords. Like a crop of notable local groups (the Silent Years and Prime Ministers included), the quartet makes straightforward pop that acknowledges contemporary indie rock but thinks music should mostly be about, you know, having a good time.
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by Metro Times music staff on January 24, 2007 at 12:00AM

Like most Detroit stalwarts, Hell City Records has an oil-and-water relationship with our town. Jason Lockwood, godfather and guru of the local imprint, knows that agitation is usually the quickest way to unity, especially when everyone's an underdog.
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by Metro Times music staff on January 10, 2007 at 12:00AM

Not only does Emily Haines not fit the model, she doesn't want it. Knives Don't Have Your Back, the first solo album from the Metric vocalist and member of Toronto's Broken Social Scene, wears its piano hush like so many singer-songwriter albums.
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by Metro Times music staff on December 27, 2006 at 12:00AM

"Disconet was a remix service in the 1970s and early '80s that provided extended edits and mega-medleys," Mike Trombley says from his new HQ in Philadelphia. The ex-Sights drummer and full-time disco freak DJ returns to the D this New Year's Eve to spin records at the Eagle, tag-teaming with Stallone (Sam Consiglio of Tamion 12-Inch) and Relaxer (Scott Zacharias).

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