A capacity crowd of Theresa Caputo fans gathered at the Sound Board at MotorCity Casino and Hotel Sunday afternoon. Caputo is the star of TLC’s “Long Island Medium,” which beings its fourth season this month. The show follows her life as a wife, mother and a psychic medium who speaks to the dead. The reality … Continue Reading →
Short takes on five recent or otherwise notable singles: Mariah Carey, “Almost Home” (from “Oz: The Great and Powerful”) Given the title and the source, you’d expect a maudlin ballad, but Mimi’s contribution to the upcoming “Oz” soundtrack is a thoroughly modern production with whirring electronic flourishes and an up-tempo beat. After some awkward … Continue Reading →
Brit rockers the Darkness brought their catsuits and scraggly hair to the Majestic Theatre Friday night, and put on a fun, free-spirited, hard-rocking 90-minute show for a hard-partying Detroit crowd. The band hit the stage and thrust into “Every Inch of You,” the opening song from the band’s 2012 album “Hot Cakes.” It’s a perfect … Continue Reading →
Ed Sheeran’s a star. No two ways about it, the 21-year-old Brit sensation — who played to a rapturous, sold-out Fillmore Detroit Thursday night — has elite levels of charisma and starpower, and he showed them off in a tremendous 100-minute concert Thursday that he managed to carry entirely on his own, with only the … Continue Reading →
Plenty of respected actors and even a few Oscar winners show up in “Movie 43,” a bottom-of-the-barrel scraping exercise in scatological humor, fart jokes, bathroom gags and “outrageous” behavior. A cast this talented — Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, Hugh Jackman, Greg Kinnear, Dennis Quaid, Elizabeth Banks, Halle Berry and Richard Gere are among … Continue Reading →
There is a new “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” movie out today. Its title is simply “Texas Chainsaw.” The “Massacre” is implied. Since Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original, there have been five entries in the “Texas Chainsaw” franchise, few of them notable, save for 2003′s brutally effective Michael Bay-produced reboot. The latest movie ignores all of them and … Continue Reading →
Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin are America’s hottest couple. The duo reprised their crazy shtick on CNN’s wholly whacked out New Year’s Eve broadcast, creating two and a half hours of must-see television live from their stoop above Times Square. Their show was flip, irreverent and fun, with Cooper playing the straight man to Griffin’s … Continue Reading →
We already took a look back at the year’s Top 25 singles, now here’s my list of 2012′s best albums. Full disclosure: As a consumer of music, I have migrated heavily away from albums and toward singles. I believe in albums and support the album format in theory more than I sit down and listen … Continue Reading →
Las Vegas rockers the Killers sauntered onto the stage at Eastern Michigan University’s Convocation Center Thursday night and immediately launched into “Mr. Brightside,” the band’s biggest hit. They didn’t even bother dimming the houselights, they kept them up the whole song. Essentially, they opened with their closer moment. Now that’s swagger. It’s good to see the … Continue Reading →
Electronic music artist and producer Bassnectar brought an explosion of huge bass drops and glitchy dubstep beats to the Fillmore Detroit on Wednesday, night one of his two-night stand at the venue. (He plays again tonight.) The crowd came dressed to party in tank tops, short shorts and less, articles of clothing that defied the … Continue Reading →