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Imagine square dancing at cirque de soleil or smoking a hookah while wearing lederhosen and you might begin to approach the bizarre synthesis that is The Polka Floyd Show, a band who channels Pink Floyd through the medium of Polka music. Their self-titled debut gives a unique spin on seven classic Pink Floyd tracks from six different albums that span three decades. 
The anticipation of hearing new music from The Process came loaded with expectations based entirely on 2002's "Blood & Bones", a great collection of reggae gems that I put among the best local records I've heard in the past ten years. So I couldn't help but hope for a repeat performance on their 2006 follow-up, "Weapons of Mass Percussion". And a repeat performance is pretty much exactly what I got - just not in the way I expected. -Mitch
Band: Cowboy Messiah
Every once in a while we pluck a review from our submissions and put it up here on the front page. We don't get nearly enough reviews of rap and hip hop around here (you'd think we only listen to rock) so I thought it'd be a good opportunity to feature one. So let me introduce Isabelle Esling, a blogger from France (see correction below) who submitted a review of "Trashed in Detroit" by Mutha. Click "read more" below for the review. 
Early last year, Eyestrings sent us a copy of their excellent 2004 debut, "Burdened Hands". It quickly made it into my iPod and I even scribbled some notes, but it never got the full treatment. Pretty soon, their sophomore release will be available (slated for a Sept. 05 release) so you progressive fans have just enough time to fully digest the debut before progressing any further. Click "read more" below for the review and song samples.
John Ludi is the latest persona of a local music veteran whose spent better than twenty years creating music both with bands such as "Pliny The Elder" and "Soft War" and as a solo artist. After returning to Michigan three years ago, battered and bruised from a soul-searching trek across America, John Ludi turned his thoughts inward and began his latest, and perhaps greatest work, entitled "Rise Above or Fall Below". Click "Read More" for a review and song samples. 
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by Eric Empson
My experience with the band Mumble has been a unique one. I've seen two stellar performances at the monthly tribute nights at the Elbow Room in Ypsilanti and on both occasions their interpretations of Radiohead and David Bowie classics were powerful and played with creativity and precision. So I already knew they were tight performers, but I didn’t have any sense of what their own material might sound like - until now.
From the "better-late-than-never" section, Mitch Phillips dusts off the old CD pile and comes out with The Bomb Pops 2002 release, "Things They Say" which features six tracks of pogo punching pop that'll make you wanna tear your t-shirt, dye your hair green and stick a safety-pin through your nose. Clocking in at a total of 13.6 minutes, this CD, unlike Mitch, wastes no time in getting to the point. Click "read more" below for the review.
On a random trip through the band links, I came upon a song by 
Kristy Hanson was good enought to send me a CD for review back in.... well, ok, let's not go there. But she's been waiting, and she's been waiting, and she's been waiting...and finally, somewhere between meeting domestic responsiblities and weathering health crises in my family of origin, I've managed to write a review of Kristy Hanson's six-song sophomore release entitled (what else?), "She's Been Waiting".
