Magic Stick Information and Event Guide

4120 Woodward Ave Detroit, Michigan 48201

Events:

RJD2
$15 in advance, all ages
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-04-18 20:00:00

XBXRX
"Fueled by explosive adolescent energy and brimming with rebellion against the complacency of their conservative hometown, XBXRX has blinded their audiences with racks of colorful flashing li...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-04-19 20:00:00

Will Hoge wsg. Deadstring Brothers, Matt Mays, and El Torped...
Presented by Live Nation. Tickets are available at livenation.com, at any Ticketmaster outlet, or by phone at 248-645-6666!
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-04-26 20:00:00

RUSSIAN CIRCLES [w/ Rescue, LaSalle, and The Pop Project]
Farewell show for RESCUE, who "happily dart between styles, trying on Pavement as an influence before detouring into vintage 4AD and back toward conventional indie rock tarted up with cello o...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-04-28 20:00:00

TRANS-AM [w/ Zombi and Psychic Paramount]
"In the course of seven years, Trans Am have created a body of work that is as inventive as it is referenced, as engaging as it is frustrating and as exhilarating as it is liberating. Trans A...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-04-29 20:00:00

Richard Lloyd and The Oscillating Fan Club
Late show with doors opening @ 10pm Richard Lloyd founding member of Television
Category: Music, 22:00:00, 2007-05-14 22:00:00

The Hold Steady
Door: 8PM. Cost: $12. Ages: 18+. http://theholdsteady.com/shows.php
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-05-15 20:00:00

The Bravery
Presented by Live Nation. Tickets are available at livenation.com, at any Ticketmaster outlet, or by phone at 248-645-6666!
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-05-26 20:00:00

THE FUCKING CHAMPS [w/ Birds Of Avalon and Red Fang]
Undeniable instru-METAL from these bay area champs. From Matador Records' brilliant bio of the band: " Listen to 'Greatest Fucking Hits', and you will cascade on the g...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-05-30 20:00:00

Helmet
Helmet returns after a seven year absence, suiting up for a new album called 'Size Matters' and a tour featuring founding member/frontman Page Hamilton. Much of the original lineup are...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-08-29 20:00:00

The Riverboat Gamblers
The Riverboat Gamblers came out of Denton, TX, in 2001. Valient Thorr features Ralf, Sascha, Carsten, Udo and Markus.
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-08-30 19:00:00

Downtown Brown
Downtown Brown is a punk, funk, metal band with influences of emopop, techno, and Christian death metal.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-08-31 20:00:00

Downtown Brown
Downtown Brown is a punk, funk, metal band with influences of emopop, techno, and Christian death metal.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-08-31 20:00:00

Detroit Cobras
The Detroit Cobras are a garage-rock revival band formed in 1995 by guitarist Steve Shaw. Shaw recruited fellow Detroiters Maribel Restrepo on guitar, Jeff Meyer on bass and Damian Lang on drums to fi...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-09-01 21:00:00

Detroit Cobras
The Detroit Cobras are a garage-rock revival band formed in 1995 by guitarist Steve Shaw. Shaw recruited fellow Detroiters Maribel Restrepo on guitar, Jeff Meyer on bass and Damian Lang on drums to fi...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-09-01 21:00:00

Akron/Family
Akron/Family are four extremely nice, sincere and well-mannered young men from rural America who came to NYC in 2002 to make music, hoping to find a thread of real magic still winding through this cit...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-06 20:00:00

The Brothers Cortez

Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-09-07 21:00:00

His Name Is Alive
His Name is Alive features the sensuous and hypnotic vocals of gospel singer Lovetta Pippen, muted R&B, crackling gramophone-filtered jazz, funky bassline and infectious lyrics.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-08 20:00:00

His Name Is Alive / Human Eye
HUMAN EYE 12:30 HIS NAME IS ALIVE 11:30 F'KE BLOOD 11:00 COMMON FAMILIES 10:30 HNIA'S NEW ALBUM "XMMER" IS RELEASED ON SEPT 18 BUT WE GOT COPIES EARLY SO WE'R...
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-09-08 21:00:00

Silver Apples
Silver Apples was formed in 1967 as an electronic rock duo featuring Dan Taylor and Simeon Coxe.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-09 20:00:00

Hopesfall
Hopesfall performs a unique blend of hardcore and emo.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-10 20:00:00

Heavy Trash
Heavy Trash features Jon Spencer of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Matt Verta-Ray of Speedball Baby.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-09-13 21:00:00

Ska Prom 2007
Ska band Mustard Plug originates from Grand Rapids, MI.
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-09-14 19:00:00

Franz and Shape

Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-09-15 21:00:00

Aesop Rock
New York City-based hip-hop artist Aesop Rock debuted with 'Float,' one of the most intense albums in the history of hip hop.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-18 20:00:00

Mystery Jets
The Mystery Jets not only feature a father and son in the band and cite King Crimson and Syd Barrett as influences, but hail from that legendary bastion of bohemia on the Thames, Eel Pie Island -- a p...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-19 20:00:00

The Aliens
Presented by Live Nation. Tickets are available at livenation.com, at any Ticketmaster outlet, or by phone at 248-645-6666!
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-24 20:00:00

The Black Lips
Black Lips' music is overwhelming, refreshing and unparalleled by their peers.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-25 20:00:00

Subhumans
England's Subhumans were one of the more noticeable bands in the anachro-punk scene from 1980 to 1985. Angry, intelligent lyrics and music more diverse than most punk groups made them one of t...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-28 20:00:00

Qui
Qui was founded in 2000 by drummer/vocalist Paul Christensen and guitarist/vocalist Matt Cronk in Los Angeles, CA. Their idiosyncratic blend of punk, noise, metal and experimental genres, coupled with...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-30 20:00:00

The Pipettes
Presented by Live Nation. Tickets are available at livenation.com, at any Ticketmaster outlet, or by phone at 248-645-6666!
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-10-03 19:30:00

Escape the Fate
This Las Vegas quintet plays rock, punk, hardcore and emo.
Category: , 18:00:00, 2007-10-04 18:00:00

Matt Pond PA
Presented by Live Nation. Tickets are available at livenation.com, at any Ticketmaster outlet, or by phone at 248-645-6666!
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-05 20:00:00

Magnolia Electric Company
Magnolia Electric Company plays the kind of rock you'd expect to hear in the '70s.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-06 20:00:00

Ken Andrews / Charlotte Martin w/ First Wave Hello
*18+ event* Presented by Live Nation. Tickets are available at livenation.com, at any Ticketmaster outlet, or by phone at 248-645-6666!
Category: Music, 19:00:00, 2007-10-08 19:00:00

The Raveonettes
The Raveonettes are a powerful rock band. The band describes their music as "whiplash rock 'n' roll."
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-16 20:00:00

High on Fire
High on Fire, featuring former members of the defunct, post-metal outfit Sleep, shares a similar penchant for brutal audio assaults as well as furious and unrelenting bouts of mind-altering heaviness.
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-10-18 19:00:00

Do Make Say Think
Do Make Say Think is a Toronto-based avant-garde quintet.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-21 20:00:00

Iamx
Presented by Live Nation. Tickets are available at livenation.com, at any Ticketmaster outlet, or by phone at 248-645-6666!
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-22 20:00:00

The Weakerthans
Hailing from Canada, The Weakerthans is a four-piece folk/rock/punk band.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-24 20:00:00

Zombie Dance Party

Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-27 20:00:00

Malajube
Malajube is a Canadian pop-rock quintet that in 2004 quietly impressed hungry listeners with their debut record 'Le Compte Complet' and more recently has drawn a wide amount of praise ...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-05 20:00:00

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Jones, the first lady of funk and soul, has performed with the Four Tops, The Drifters and Maceo Parker. She is backed by The Dap-Kings, a group of musicians from The Soul Providers and The Mighty Imp...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-14 20:00:00

Rx Bandits
The Rx Bandits are an Orange County ska band.
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-11-15 19:00:00

Handmade Detroit Holiday Market

Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-16 20:00:00

From First to Last
Hailing from Georgia, From First to Last is a post-hardcore band.
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-11-17 19:00:00

Buck 65
Buck 65 raps about real stories, rhymes with real emotion and makes beats that declare the artistic validity of the sampling process.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-20 20:00:00

Hard Lessons CD Release Party

Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-23 20:00:00

The Acacia Strain

Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-11-25 19:00:00

Citizen Fish
Citizen Fish are a ska punk band that have been together since the early 1990s. The band is known for their lyrics, which often make strong social and political statements, dealing with themes such as...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-27 20:00:00

Shonen Knife
Shonen Knife formed in 1981 in Osaka, Japan, when founding members Naoko Yamano, Atsuko Yamano and fellow office clerk Michie Nakatani decided they needed a distraction from desk life. They spent the ...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-29 20:00:00

Prefuse 73
Scott Herren, also known as Prefuse 73, is an Atlanta, GA, based experimental hip-hop producer.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-30 20:00:00

Big D and the Kids Table
Boston's Big D and The Kids Table debuted their fast paced style of ska-punk in 1995. But, like most ska bands, the line-up revolved between their 1997 debut, 'Live,' EP and th...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-01 20:00:00

The Salt Miners

Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-07 20:00:00

The Casualties

Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-08 20:00:00

Spitalfield
Formed in the suburbs of Chicago in 1998, Spitalfield plays punky alternative rock with some pop sensibilities.
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-12-09 19:00:00

The Fiery Furnaces
The Fiery Furnaces are a rock band that has played around the world and has a growing fanbase.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-13 20:00:00

Streetlight Manifesto
Combining countless influences, but focusing on ska, punk and reggae, the Streetlight boys command a sound all their own.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2008-01-11 20:00:00

White Williams

Category: , 20:00:00, 2008-01-17 20:00:00