Music Activities

THE HOLIDAYS TAKE SHAPE: Ice sculpting is a highlight of Midtown Detroit event, which also includes music and dance
Detroit Free Press Fri, 01 Dec 2006 0:17 AM PST
Think of Saturday's competition for art students at College for Creative Studies and Wayne State University as Hands Across Woodward Avenue, Diane Van Buren Jones suggests. At some point, those hands may want to be wearing gloves. The students are participating in competitive ice sculpting, one of the premier events in the multi-venue festival known as Noel Night.

KELLEY L. CARTER: Gospel music to say 'amen' to radio host Detroit Free Press Fri, 01 Dec 2006 1:48 AM PST When it comes to exposing new ears to all things good in gospel, hardly anyone does it better than the Rev. Norma Pender. When she took a job at WMUZ-AM (1340), her boss asked her how long she could talk about gospel music on what became her inaugural show, "In the Spirit with Rev. Mother."

POLICE BEAT Ann Arbor News Fri, 01 Dec 2006 8:10 AM PST Two 19-year-old Detroit women are accused of kicking down the door to an Ypsilanti Township mobile home and assaulting two people inside with a steering wheel locking device after they were asked to turn their music down in their car, police say.

Music Detroit Free Press Fri, 01 Dec 2006 1:47 AM PST Belmont Bar: Grand Marias, Sound & Shape and Sledgehammer, 10 p.m. Sat. 10215 Jos. Campau, Hamtramck. 313-871-1966. Blind Pig: The Disregarded, Motown Rage and Drunken Bus Driver, 9 p.m. Fri. The Slackers, with Deals Gone Bad, 10 p.m. Sat. 208 S. First, Ann Arbor. 734-996-8555.

Nightwatch news: Mucho electronica Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune Thu, 30 Nov 2006 3:15 PM PST Mucho electronica Electronic music fans will have their hands full in the next week. It's the 10th anniversary of Hush, Twin Cities techno DJ Devious One's production company, so tonight he's throwing a party at Foundation featuring Detroit's Rolando, who mixes soulful techno/house. (10 p.m. today, 10 5th St. S., Mpls. $5. 612-332-3930.) On Thursday you can check out house star Kaskade, who's

Chicago is not Ben's Type of Town Black Voices Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:26 AM PST Ben Wallace is averaging 5.6 points a game and 9.4 rebounds a game in his first season in the windy city. You couldn’t get a better NBA lockeroom in recent years than the one that was home to the Detroit Pistons . Rasheed Wallace was always acting big and bad and telling jokes; bold rap music played in the background; Rip Hamilton and Chauncey Billups could be counted on to keep the atmosphere

Patti LaBelle to sing in Detroit on Friday Detroit News Thu, 30 Nov 2006 1:37 PM PST If you want to hear Patti LaBelle sing something from her new gospel album, "The Gospel According to Patti LaBelle," you're in luck.

Popular Wagner® ThermoQuiet® ‘iPad’ Promotion Returns with Special 2-Month Offer The Auto Channel Fri, 01 Dec 2006 8:29 AM PST SOUTHFIELD, Mich.--The Wagner ® ThermoQuiet ® “ iPad ” promotion is still rockin ’ . One of the most popular programs ever offered by Federal-Mogul Corporation ’ s Wagner brake products brand, the ‘ iPad ’ promotion – which enables automotive repair professionals to earn 30GB iPods or $25 iTunes Music Cards – returns for a special two-month run through Jan. 31, 2007. The original program ended in

CD Reviews: The Silent Years; Calexico; Annuals Albuquerque Tribune Fri, 01 Dec 2006 9:26 AM PST Josh Epstein, frontman of this Detroit quintet, writes poetry and has a major obsession with the denizen from Hades (the swaggering rocker "The Devil Wears Sunshine" and "Devil Got My Woman" a forlorn lament with echoey vocals sung through a megaphone).

KRNU Top Ten for the week of Nov. 27, 2006
Daily Nebraskan Fri, 01 Dec 2006 1:04 AM PST
1) DAMIEN JURADO "And Now That I'm In Your Shadow" West coast singer/songwriter's quiet return to beautiful folk melodies. 2) THUNDERBIRDS ARE NOW! "Make History" Detroit post punk. 3) SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE "The Sun Awakens" Psych-folk guitarist Ben Chasny's latest endeavor.