I had the occasion this evening to speak with Ian MacKaye, the former frontman of Minor Threat and Fugazi, who will be visiting Ypsilanti this Friday evening to play an all-ages show at the Dreamland Theater alongside Amy Farina, in their heavy yet minimalist two-piece band
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Dischord’s Ian MacKaye on touring as a family, building community, making the world a better place, and what he’s got in mind for Ypsilanti this Friday evening
Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Crimewave USA, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged 1968, alternative art venues, Amy Farina, churches, D.C. riots, DC, Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, Dreamland Theater, Fugazi, great interviews, Ian MacKaye, interviews, liberation theology, Minor Threat, music, music industry, music venues, Pancake Mountain, performance venues, punk rock, religion, Saint Stephen and the Incarnation, Shelley Salant, The Evens, Voting Rights Act, Vowel Movement, WCBN 18 Comments
The long weekend of patriotic booger scraping…
Speaking of boogers, did anyone notice that a member of the punk-rock-for-kids band The Boogers left an angry note here on the site in response to someone who had implied, after seeing them play at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, that the Ramones would not have approved?
Posted in Mark's Life Also tagged boogers, Clementine, home repair, painting, Ramones, The Boogers 5 Comments
Patrick Elkins & the Rainbow Vomit Family Band sing to Ann Arborites about their yoga pants
I never really thought of Patrick Elkins & the Rainbow Vomit Family Band as a kids’ band, but there they were, playing the Ann Arbor Summer Festival today, on the same bill as The Boogers, so I guess it’s official. And I think that’s a good thing. As far as I can tell, there’s a […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Ypsilanti Also tagged Aimee Adams, All Messed Up on Fun, Ann Arbor Summer Festival, Anton Newcombe, B-52s, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Chelsea Jordan, Chris "Legs" Pierce, cults, Ian Fulcher, Jason Voss, MC Trashpedal, octopus ballet, Patrick Elkins, Patrick Elkins & the Rainbow Vomit Family Band, Top of the Park, yoga pants 17 Comments