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July 04, 2009

Nightspots

Elbow Room

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This Ypsilanti tavern features live music and/or DJs Mon.-Thurs., 9 p.m. a.m., and Fri. & Sat., 10 p.m. a.m. Also, occasional Sun., 8 p.m.-midnight. No cover ($5 suggested donation), dancing.

 

July 1: Child Bite.

Ferndale postpunk art-rock band. Opening acts are Deleted Scenes, a highly regarded Talking Heads-style pop-rock quartet from NYC and D.C., and The Ferdy Mayne, an Ypsilanti folk-rock trio.

July 2: "Mofo Karaoke."

With "the standard karaoke playlist crap plus 2,500+ obscure and awesome songs."

July 3: Misty Lyn & the Big Beautiful


href="http://arborweb.com/articles/misty_lyn___the_big_beautiful.

html">See review.
Local country-inflected folk-rock band led

by singer-songwriter Lyn. Opening acts are Scarlet Oaks, a

Detroit quartet that plays soulful country-rock, and Black Lodge,

a Detroit band that plays melodramatic post-punk pop.

July 4:

TBA (possibly closed).

July 6: Laith Al-Saadi.

Soulful acoustic rock and blues covers and originals by this local singer-guitarist.

July 7: "Tiki Tuesday."

The Elbow Room Tiki Tuesday band plays surf music and various exotica. Also, performance by the belly dancer Aurora and magician Scarboni.

July 9: "Mofo Karaoke."

With "the standard karaoke playlist crap plus 2,500+ obscure and awesome songs."

July 10: Dirt Road Logic

Local 70s-style rock 'n' roll band fronted by singer-guitarist Eric Kelly. Opening acts are The Afternoon Round, a local Americana rock band, and Chef Chris & the Rump Shakers, a blues quartet led by vocalist and blues harpist Chef Chris Sirvinskis.

July 11: The Disregarded

Self-styled "dirt-hop" quartet from Oakville who blend American roots music with urban rap and gospel-tinged choruses. Opening acts are Devil Elvis, an Ypsilanti rockabilly singer-songwriter, and Las Drogas, an Ypsilanti band that plays loud, raucous, melodic, bluesy surf-guitar rockabilly.

July 13: Laith Al-Saadi.

Soulful acoustic rock and blues covers and originals by this local singer-guitarist.

July 14: Chris Bathgate.

Local singer-songwriter who writes heartfelt, poetic story songs in a variety of moods.

July 15: Wild Years.

Local electronic folk-rock band.

July 16: "Mofo Karaoke."

With "the standard karaoke playlist crap plus 2,500+ obscure and awesome songs."

July 17: Downtown Brown.

Detroit postpunk metal-funk trio. Opening acts are Cranberry Lincoln, an Ypsilanti acoustic folk-rock duo, and Nathan K, a local indie folk-pop band.

July 18:

TBA.

July 20: Laith Al-Saadi.

Soulful acoustic rock and blues covers and originals by this local singer-guitarist.

July 20: Colossus

Raleigh (NC) metal band.

July 21: "The Cycle"

DJs Blakguts and Joe Vargas spin funk, soul, and indie dance records.

July 22: The Goddamn Gallows

Lansing psychobilly quartet. Opening acts are Los Duggans, an L.A. psychobilly quartet, and Trace the Veins, an Ypsilanti punk-rock quartet.

July 23: "Mofo Karaoke."

With "the standard karaoke playlist crap plus 2,500+ obscure and awesome songs."

July 24:

TBA.

July 25: Gepetto Files

Idiosyncratic local marionette troupe that specializes in off-the-wall, postpunk explorations of American cultural archetypes that are simultaneously weird, hilarious, provocative, sophomoric, and haunting. Opening act is Jehovah's Witness Protection Program, a local acoustic pop-folk band.

July 27: Laith Al-Saadi.

Soulful acoustic rock and blues covers and originals by this local singer-guitarist.

July 28: "Elbow Deep"

Gay and lesbian gala with Detroit DJ Humanfly.

July 29: Neptune

Detroit experimental rock band. Opening acts are Orange Robot, a Detroit avant-rock band whose music suggests elements of Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, and Radiohead, and Elle & the Fonts, the stage name of Elle Sawa, a Ferndale emo singer-songwriter who bills herself as "a horrible guitar player [who] likes to think she makes up for it through her exceptionally amusing stage presence and vocal performances."

July 30: "Mofo Karaoke."

With "the standard karaoke playlist crap plus 2,500+ obscure and awesome songs."

July 31: Matt Jones

Local pop-folk singer-songwriter. Opening act is This Is Deer Country, a Houghton pop-folk acoustic quintet, led by singer-songwriter Kate Pote, that slowcoustic.com calls "music you drift along to and feel intoxicated by."


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