Greet Death has been busy. In 2017, the band released their debut album Dixieland through Flesh & Bone Records, started touring regularly and in new places, and even changed their name – snuffing out their old moniker, Pines, and being reborn under their new, ominous one. “It seemed like we weren’t doing enough,” says guitarist/vocalist
“I started drumming at the age of five – my father bought me a drumset for Christmas, and the rest is history. I’ve been playing ever since.” Watching Eugene McBride play, it’s abundantly clear that drumming is his passion. Today, he lives the life of a professional drummer, traveling the world and playing with a
“Music is the one thing I’m good at, so I just kept doing it,” says Dylan Grantham with a laugh. Although he’s being modest, Grantham’s life has been surrounded by music. He began playing guitar at age nine, learning a lot of the country music his family listened to, and then delving into rock around
Members of the Flint band, Birdhouse, have a hard time describing exactly where they fall on the musical spectrum. “Whenever we post a date on Facebook or a flyer comes out for a show, it’s always a nightmare,” says guitarist, Keith Music. “We get the most bizarre descriptions,” adds lead vocalist, Gabby Davis. “Didn’t someone
Bruce Horn, a Holly native, has been playing in bands since he was 11. “I was 11 with a bunch of dudes in their 20s, and we played one of the last shows at the Capitol Theatre,” Horn recalls. He is also the only member of the Jon Fett Quartet who has been there through
“Save Your Generation was only supposed to be one release,” says Tony Pacheco, the sole laborer of the Michigan music label. Pacheco had prior experience with other areas of the music scene, such as screen-printing, booking shows and networking with bands. “I grew up going to shows at the Flint Local 432 from 1997 onward,”
“People forget where they are, they forget what they look like, and just let themselves move,” says Krista Loutner, lead singer and guitarist of Flint metal band, Sweat, when describing the band’s notoriously bombastic live shows. “People are so worried about whether someone is watching them or how they’re going to look, but sometimes at
The Mott Community College (MCC) Jazz Band & Combo have delighted the Greater Flint Community with outreach performances everywhere from the First Frost event at the Flint Institute of Arts, to Downtown’s 2nd Friday ArtWalks. As a community college, MCC makes it part of their mission to bring music to the community through their music
He travels the world playing music, but Jonathan Diener got his start in Downtown Flint. He remembers, “When I was 14, my parents drove my brother and me to our first show at Flint Local 432, and Saginaw Street was all boarded-up windows. It was like a ghost town – and now, there is this
Local Beecher High School graduate, William Toll, who received his first guitar from his parents at age 14, laughs about his former ‘‘big hair days” and how he used to play in a classic rock and 80s punk band called “Toll,” right after graduation. Thirty years later, his first guitar now hangs alongside 30 more
“A Day in The Life” by the Beatles has been the unchallenged No. 1 radio request across all ages through the years. It took 34 hours to record and was the final cut on their eighth studio album. It was 50 years ago today Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play. The Beatles’ “Sergeant Pepper’s
A flood of emotions overcame Jim Baade as he put the finishing touches on an exhaustive, all-encompassing effort to bring pioneering Flint disc jockey Peter C. Cavanaugh’s 2002 book Local DJ: A Rock “N” Roll History to life. Baade, who has known Cavanaugh since becoming an intern in 1980 at legendary Flint album-rock station WWCK
