Detour is proud to announce the 2008 Rock City Festival, going down June 12 - 14, 2008 at the Majestic Theatre Center and Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID). Each night we’ll take over the Majestic Theatre, Magic Stick, and Garden Bowl, unique venues within the Center that afford music fans three very different perspectives on live music. But Detour also knows how nicely grilled food goes with daytime drinking and loud music, so we’re throwing a barbecue on Saturday afternoon in the CAID’s adjacent courtyard, complete with its own full music lineup. All together, Rock City will feature nearly 50 national and local acts, with each artist representing a portion of contemporary independent music as Detour sees it.
Detroit is still rock city, even if that phrase can mean a hundred different things to as many people, and our festival reflects that notion with a lineup as sonically varied as it is badass. There is Sloan, our BFFs from Canada and keepers of the rock-pop flame. But there’s also the furious optimism of New York City duo Matt and Kim, and the wounded heart hooks of Detroit’s own Von Bondies. There is the Death Set, whose anxious, excited, and babbling electro-pop bubbles out from Baltimore’s thriving Wham City underground. And there are newly-minted local heroes in Terrible Twos, Breezee One, Benny Stoofy, and Deastro, among many others.With Rock City, Detour is repping the sounds of national stages and festivals as much as the loft parties and underground freakouts of the local party scene.
The Internet has transformed how we listen to music — we’ve documented that over our first year of publishing. But it’s also changed how people in other cities, states, and countries listen to ours. Our festival, like Detour itself, is part of that transfer of sound and ideas, and we want you to participate, too. If the Internet has made music closer, Rock City is going to make it a lot louder.
See you at the shows,
The Detour Crew
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