http://www.metrotimes.com/blahg/musicblahg.aspMetro Times: Music Blahghttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/musicblahg.asp?perm=1114Frontier Ruckus takes their backcountry show to the camp grounds of Bonnaroo and Mayer Hawthorne introduces the rowdy crowd to "Maybe So, Maybe No."    As I return from yet another exhausting Bonnaroo and attempt to recharge my batteries, it's half heartedly that I say next year will be a tough one to attend. Each year the common complaint among those in the live music scene is that it is by far the "most corporate" festival on the circuit, however, I've always asserted if you're standing around wondering what Garnier Fructis is doing there, instead of going to see music, you've officially fucked up. What keeps Bonnaroo alive every year is that it is a challenge to self proclaimed music fans. It is an open invitation to come discover new music, and every year they put out a lineu...Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:16:46 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/musicblahg.asp?perm=1112From our grumpy copy editor, a guy who's known to actually venture out from time to time, and brave other human beings ....  Went to see Gordon Lightfoot at the Fox Theatre Sunday evening. He mentioned his first concert in the States was in '65 at Masonic Temple, with Oscar Peterson and Vaughn Meader (a comedic JFK impersonator obviously on the way out by 1965). My friend thought he might have seen Lightfoot in the late '60s, but couldn't be sure.The singer's voice, at 71, was less resonant, trailed off into high wisps. It was hardly like on records -- but acceptable when listeners got used to it. And Gordon Lightfoot has 45 years of his songs to sing. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" with its Detroit references, other ship songs, broken romance songs, faster country, even re...Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:20:32 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/musicblahg.asp?perm=1111With all that's going on in the Gulf -- you know, with what could be up to one-million gallons of crude gushing from the center of the globe per day thanks to the assholes at BP and Haliburton -- it seems the devastation in Haiti, a nation still left in shambles from the horrendous earthquake that rocked the country on January 12,  has taken a back seat in the media mobile. An estimated 230,000 Haitians lost their lives as a result of the earthquake, with another 300,000 left injured and over one million left homeless. By of Los Angeles with strong ties to Detroit, group of artists is asking the public to remember the difference each of us can make for the aching Haitian population. The project, which is a collection of music from some of the world'...Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:24:18 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/musicblahg.asp?perm=1110          The two biggest acts from Detroit took the main What Stage yesterday back to back as Jack White's The Dead Weather's set was fueled by lead singer Alison Mosshart's animalistic antics, but Stevie Wonder would easily prove to be the show of the entire weekend, lifting all witnesses a higher ground.                 Stevie started things off with some funky keytar as he sauntered on stage grinning ear to ear. Then he dove into classics such as "Uptight Alright," and "Higher Ground" before delivering a bouncy interlude via "Heard It Through The Grapevine," and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered." For the most part, Wonder would mostly stick with his "classics," as he ran...Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:08:55 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/musicblahg.asp?perm=1109     Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} With spotty wi-fi, hot mud, stinky hippies and a flow of overwhelming mediocrity from The Kings of Leon on the main stage, here are day 1 and 2 updat...Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:03:51 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/musicblahg.asp?perm=1107New this week here at The Metro Times Music Blog, we'll be bringing you the latest on all of the Detroit area's finest who are making the trek down to Manchester, Tennessee's annual Bonnaroo Music Festival. We'll wade through the sea of the two hips--the patcholi stinking hippies and PBR schwilling hipsters--to bring updates on Detroit heavy hitters like Stevie Wonder and The Dead Weather, as well as smaller bands like Frontier Ruckus, Mayer Hawthorne & The County (both named in Rolling Stone's essential sets) Mike Posner,Diane Burch and Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas. I'll do my best to keep everyone updated with daily pictures and videos...hopefully. Stay tuned!While this year we'll be focusing on all things Detroit at the Bonnaroo, this will be my fifth straight year heading to...Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:53:56 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/musicblahg.asp?perm=1089Just in time for Detroit's upcoming annual Movement music festival comes a splendid "Oral History of Detroit's Electronic Music Festival" from Resident Advisor, which bills itself as "the leading online electronic music magazine." It's a pretty excellent piece, featuring comments from a large assortment of talking heads, including superstar DJ/producers like Kevin Saunderson and Richie Hawtin, local scribes such as MT's own Walter Wasacz and Carleton Gholz and the Freep's Brian McCollum...and even former Detroit mayor Dennis Archer. Click here to read the entire RA piece... An overhead view of the rainy first day of the very first festival...(Below): Hawtin ...Tue, 18 May 2010 16:38:48 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/musicblahg.asp?perm=1087Many of us were saddened to hear the news that Ronnie James Dio passed away yesterday morning (Sunday, May 16th) at age 67.   The former Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio singer was widely hailed as possessing one of metal's most exceptional voices, as well as being one of the sweetest men in popular music. With his own band, Dio, he recorded one of the genre's classics — the Holy Diver album.   While Ozzy Osbourne will forever be considered Sabbath's number one singer, the Heaven and Hell album that the English band recorded with Dio – who was born a Yank in Portsmouth, New Hampshire -- revitalized their career and the record remains a fan favorite to this day. The reconstituted version of that era of Sabbath, now dubbed Heaven and Hell, played a much-praised show here jus...Mon, 17 May 2010 17:12:33 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/musicblahg.asp?perm=1086Hank Jones, one of the most elegant pianists in all of jazz, died after a brief illness Sunday at age 91 in New York City. The eldest and last survivor of the famed Jones Brothers of Pontiac, Hank wasn't a composer like Thad, or a revolutionary instrumentalist like Elvin. His name isn't intrinsically linked to any major band or group — like the Basie band or the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra or the classic Coltrane quartet that made Elvin a jazz star. But if it's hard to point to any impact on the course of jazz, there's no denying how the music (and the lives of listeners and his fellow musicians) was enriched by his presence.  He was born in Vicksburg, Miss., but the family relocated above the Cotton Curtain to Pontiac. His father became a General Motors lumber inspector. Both his...Mon, 17 May 2010 15:22:57 ESThttp://www.metrotimes.com/blog/musicblahg.asp?perm=1084Need a dose of British folk-rock goodness to give you a Hump Day boost? You may want head to the Pike Room next Wednesday, May 19th to catch Turin Brakes (http://www.myspace.com/turinbrakes) do an acoustic set that is sure to be as harmonically tight as it is dreamy. Their fifth album, Outbursts, is out now on Cooking Vinyl and serves as a perfect introduction to their quiet, edgy genius. In advance of the show, Metro Times' Laura Witkowski talked to one-half of the duo, Gale Paridjanian, about the tour, Detroit, and their, um... high-pitched voices.   Metro Times: Your song "Feeling Oblivion" from your 2001 debut The Optimist is a personal favorite song of mine. I once put it on a mixtape for somebody who, though they also loved the song, refused to believe...Fri, 14 May 2010 12:13:53 EST