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Review: New Kids on the Block: May 30, Van Andel Arena (Photo Gallery)

It was 27 years ago that New Kids on the Block released its breakthrough pop album Hangin’ Tough and began packing massive venues across the world with Beatlemania-style frenzies. That nostalgic vibe was thick at Van Andel Arena Saturday night when the group, along with openers TLC and Nelly, took over the venue with its Main Event tour.

Sounds 01 June 2015
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Finding Common Ground: Fest Brings Flaming Lips, Snoop Dogg to Lansing

For years, West Michigan concertgoers with eclectic musical tastes and festival appetites have had one reasonable option to satisfy their craving: Lollapalooza. But in Lansing, the often-overlooked music festival Common Ground provides a similarly vast array of genres. And this fest is cheaper, closer, spread over six days and provides attendees with a little more elbow room.

Sounds 29 May 2015
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Sound Garden: A Meijer Gardens Concert Series Breakdown

With a lineup that encompasses deep Afro-Cuban jazz, classic rock, country, comedy and dance, the 2015 summer concert series at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is filled with perennial favorites and some new faces. 

 

This year’s season repeats 2014’s expanded schedule of 30 shows, which run between early June and early September. “It seemed like, because last year was so successful, that this was a good number to shoot for,” said Meijer Gardens spokeswoman Andrea Wolschleger. 

Sounds 29 May 2015
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The Melvins Sell Out (the Pyramid Scheme)

So you slept on snagging tickets to the Melvins show June 16 at the Pyramid Scheme. And, like clockwork, it sold out quickly. Well, we’ve got the next best thing: a conversation with guitarist/vocalist Buzz Osborne, the heavy-as-hell sludge band’s chief songwriter. 

 

King Buzzo chatted about the band’s latest LP, Hold It In, which features Osborne and drummer Dale Crover – but also Butthole Surfers members Paul Leary (guitar) and bassist JD Pinkus. The veteran doom band is also reissuing Electroretard on June 2 – it will be packaged with The Bulls & The Bees EP. Here’s what Osborne had to say.

Sounds 29 May 2015
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Marilyn Manson packs The Orbit Room

Throughout the mid-to-late ‘90s, the ethereal image of a long-haired and lanky Marilyn Manson squirming about on stage while shouting about sodomy engrossed rebellious teens — but more importantly it horrified worrywart parents. That’s a trick from the ol’ Alice Cooper playbook: Terrify old people and the kids will flock to it.

Sounds 18 May 2015
  • Grand Rapids
  • Orbit Room
  • marilyn manson
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Tune In: Resurrecting GR’s Radio Mojo

For almost a decade, radio station WSRX broadcasted from the basement of the student center at Grand Valley State University — then Grand Valley State College. Lore has it that one enterprising and curious young man once took a hit or three of LSD and put in a 48-hour stint as deejay.

Sounds 06 May 2015
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May's local music news

A rundown on notable news and events from the West Michigan music scene.

Sounds 06 May 2015
  • local music
  • west michigan
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The Omecs Echo West Michigan’s Primitive Past

Michigan is responsible for spewing out some primal iconic garage rock bands. From high velocity acts like The Stooges and MC5, to the primitive sounds of the Gories, White Stripes and the Hentchmen – Michigan is notorious for its noise. But it’s not all about the Motor City.

Sounds 06 May 2015
  • Pyramid Scheme
  • west michigan
  • the omecs
  • holy wave
  • garage rock
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Carving a Path: Colony House goes its own way

Life on tour agrees with Colony House, and things have only gotten better since the group found a sound representational of its true inspirations. Since two of the members are children of Steven Curtis Chapman, a Grammy-Award winning Christian singer-songwriter, the pressure from record labels to head in their father’s direction could have nudged Colony House to follow someone else’s vision. But the trio has ultimately played to their strengths to churn out melodic, guitar-driven indie rock. 

Sounds 06 May 2015
  • Grand Rapids
  • NEEDTOBREATHE
  • colony house
  • steven curtis chapman
  • caleb chapman
  • devos place
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NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Pokey LaFarge Sticks to His Roots

More than a decade after hitchhiking his way out of small town Illinois, singer-songwriter Pokey LaFarge has come to proudly embrace his Midwestern roots. Fresh-faced and 17, LaFarge left home in 2001 with little more than a mandolin, an honest appreciation for American history – both musical and otherwise – and the sort of audacious ambition only greats like Hemingway and Kerouac can rouse in a young man.

Sounds 06 May 2015
  • Grand Rapids
  • The Pyramid Scheme
  • pokey lafarge
  • caroline rose
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Built to Last: Indie rock innovators Built to Spill rekindle the flame

Even though Built To Spill founder Doug Martsch has been an indie-rock icon for more than two decades with a direct influence on bands like Modest Mouse, Death Cab For Cutie and others, he remains humbly honest about what he does for a living and his title as an innovator.

Sounds 06 May 2015
  • Grand Rapids
  • built to spill
  • wooden indian burial ground
  • founders brewing
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A Lot Like Birds Land in Grand Rapids with I the Mighty

Two California-based post-hardcore bands, A Lot Like Birds and I the Mighty, open the ’68 show at The Stache. The two bands, both on the Equal Vision Records imprint, are no stranger to the road or touring together.

Sounds 05 May 2015
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LISTEN to a new Jake Simmons & the Little Ghosts Song

Kalamazoo-based band Jake Simmons & the Little Ghosts releases its new record, "No Better," this month. The ship date for the vinyl/CD is Tuesday, May 12 - but you can hear the debut of "Toledo" right here.

Sounds 01 May 2015
  • Kalamazoo
  • Jake Simmons
  • Jake Simmons and the Little Ghosts
  • no better
  • toledo
  • new album
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Members Only: Meijer Gardens launches pre-sales for Summer Concerts

As Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park gears up for another summer of concerts, one could hearken back to the American Express slogan of yore — membership has its privileges. With the members-only presale launching on April 25, the annual scrum for the most popular of the season’s 30 performances will begin.

Sounds 24 April 2015
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The Local Commuters: Country Roads, Driving Home

The Local Commuters: Country Roads, Driving Home

Devin Weber, frontman for Grand Rapids alt-country band The Local Commuters, admits it’s taken a lon...
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The Fray: How to Save a Band

The Fray: How to Save a Band

Nearly a decade after their last album together, multi-platinum pop-rock band The Fray weren’t dead,...
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From Stages to Sunlit Kitchens: The Avett Brothers' Journey To Rediscovery

From Stages to Sunlit Kitchens: The Avett Brothers' Journey To Rediscovery

For Seth Avett–one half of the folk-rock duo The Avett Brothers–there’s no such thing as an ordinary...
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