Anarchy in the Home Row

Holy crap, I have to hype this. You all must be made aware. This is the full info on the Rock City Festival, courtesy of Greg Baise, the promoter at the Majestic Theater Center:

On SAT JUNE 19 & SUN JUNE 20 2004
Outdoors Behind the Majestic Theater Center
4140 Woodward, Detroit
All Ages---FREE
Doors at 2PM
Music to 11PM on Two Stages
30 Nationally-Recognized And Up-And-Coming DETROIT Area Acts
Artist Booths
Food & Beverage Booths
www.rockcityfestival.com

Rock City Festival organizers have updated the lineup for the first
annual
Rock City Festival. Already confirmed were artists such as Brendan
Benson,
Detroit Cobras, The Dirtbombs, and the Paybacks. Added to the bill are
renowned Detroit acts Blanche, The Greenhornes, Witches, The Hentchmen,
Pas/Cal, Saturday Looks Good To Me, The Go, Back in Spades, Gold Cash
Gold,
and MAN Inc, et al. The current list follows below. The festival will
take
place outdoors behind the Majestic Theater Center on June 19 and 20,
2004.

Artist booths have also begun to fill, and will include such celebrated
Detroit artists as Niagara, Glenn Barr, Mark Arminski, Rachel Reed,
Carl
Lundgren, Bryan Cunningham, and artists from the Dirty Show. Also
involved
in the festival are local sponsors; these include, among others, Pure
Detroit, WDET, 89X, Majestic Theater, Magic Stick, Small’s, the Lager
House,
Sgt. Pepperoni’s, Times Beach Records, and Metro Times.

The Rock City festival is the product of a team of great Detroit minds
who
have been promoting and organizing shows for years. They realized with
all
the great music in the city, there were no true large-scale rock
festivals.
With such an obvious void to fill, bands and businesses were contacted,
and
the first annual Rock City Festival fell into place.

This event is a free, outdoor, all-ages affair. During the two-day
festival
bands will alternate between two stages; doors each day are at 2 PM.
Woodward Avenue is sure to be crowded, as the festival will be held
behind
the Majestic Theater Center, which is in the heart of Detroit’s
Cultural
Center, eight blocks south of the Detroit Institute of the Arts, and
ten
blocks north of Comerica Park. The expected turnout for the Rock City
Festival is between fifteen and twenty thousand a day.

Band List

Brendan Benson
The Paybacks
Blanche
The Dirtbombs
Detroit Cobras
The Sights
The Greenhornes
The Sirens
The Go
Saturday Looks Good To Me
The Valentinos
Nice Device
Gold Cash Gold
The Avatars
Tranzistors
Thread Counts
The Hentchmen
Pas/Cal
Midwest Product
Outrageous Cherry
The Fondas
Back in Spades
Tiny Steps
MAN Incorporated
Shipwreck Union

Yes, you read that correctly, it's free! Entirely free. This is why they expect thousands of people to swoop down upon midtown Detroit. Get there early to get a decent parking spot or take a shuttle/cab from somewhere else (trust me on this one). Later on that Saturday, your humble narrator, the rock|n|roll|scientist will be DJing in the Garden Bowl, so stop inside and say hi.


I...wanna rock and roll all night...and party every day!