DECEMBER 2012 EVENTS!

CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S ALMOST 12/21/12!! WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?!? HOPEFULLY A SHIFT IN CONSCIOUSNESS...

...TIL THEN HERE ARE SOME COOL SHOWS HAPPENING IN THE DETROIT/YPSI/ANN ARBOR AREA! I'VE BEEN POSTING THESE EVERY MONTH OVER AT MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS AND I'M HAPPY TO START CONTRIBUTING TO UFO FACTORY, WHICH I AM A LONGTIME FAN OF.


Wed Dec 5 - 25 Years of Jazz at U-M: Alumni Concert also featuring Creative Arts Orchestra. Featuring Andrew Bishop, Jeremy Edwards, Dean Moore II, Vincent Chandler, Justin Walter, Amy Bormet, Jordan Young, Matt Dievendorf, Jordan Shapiro, Abby Alwin, Bethanni Grecynski, Ben Rolston, Matt Bauder, Jason Stein, Dan Bennett, Matt Endahl, Tim Flood, Jesse Kramer and Alana Rocklin.
  at Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center, Ann Arbor 8 PM. also live broadcast 8-11 pm on WCBN

Part of the 25th Anniversary of Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation Celebration at the University of Michigan.

Wed Dec 5 - Fred Thomas, Hugh J Noble (UK), Actual Birds at 3rd Deathstar 613 N Main St, Ann Arbor, early all ages show 7-11pm

Wed Dec 5 - King Khan & BBQ Show, Digital Leather and Bad Indians - free show at Blind Pig Ann Arbor doors 9 pm

Wed Dec 5 - TIMMY'S ORGANISM + JOHN WESLEY COLEMAN III + PRETTY GHOULS + Keep On Trash! D.J.'s at Painted Lady Hamtramck

Wed Dec 5 - In Fact, Nightbeast,and Jim Cherwick @ Woodruff's Ypsi

Fri Dec 7 - Billowing/Failing Lights/DJ Shelley Salant at Cafe Ollie Ypsi

Fri Dec 7 - Monster Drawing Rally at MOCAD 8 pm

Sat Dec 8 - Cheerleader, Sweat, Swimsuit, 1876, Katie Stanley at Flint Local 432

Sat Dec 8 - Tiny Expo 2012 - Ann Arbor's biggest little indie arts & craft fair is back again! The Tiny Expo will feature local artists and crafters selling their wares, displays of unusual merit, food and coffee. 10 am - 7 pm at METAL 220 Felch St Ann Arbor

Sat Dec 8 & Sun Dec 9 - DIYpsi Indie Art Fair 36 Artists Selling the Best in Handmade! at Corner Brewery Ypsi
Saturday December 8: 11-7
Sunday December 9: 12-6


Tues Dec 11 - The Pharmacy + tba at PJ's Lager House Detroit

Wed Dec 12  - The Rebel Kind on the WCBN Local Music Show 9-11 pm

Thu Dec 13 - HEALTHY OR HUNGOVER: LIVE AND RATED R cooking demo with NIMAI LARSON of PRINCE RAMA at SALT & CEDAR  2448 Riopelle Street, Detroit, Michigan 7:30 pm

Fri Dec 14 - Prince Rama w/ Lord Scrummage at MOCAD

Fri Dec 14 - Gardens 7" release show w/ Moonhairy, Feelings & DJ Wade Kergan at Jumbo's 3736 3rd St Detroit

Fri Dec 14 - Especially Good (Detroit, FIT Sound/We Can't Be Friends  Records) + Alta Castillo (ex-member of Paik + ex-member of Tamion 12 Inch/Bad Party) + DJ Bill Spencer (Hello Records) at Donovan's Pub Detroit

Fri Dec 14  - 40 Days of Teeth: seven female dancers in collaboration with Ann Arbor composers: Samn Johnson, Known Moons and Our Brother The Native. This FREE performance traces and reacts to Franz Kafka's short story, Ein Hungerkünstler, and will be supplemented by Samn reading excerpts from his translation of the text. at 1250 N Main St, Ann Arbor, 9 pm



Fri 12/21/12 - Shift in consciousness hopefully occurring

Fri Dec 21 - Swimsuit + Priests (DC) + TBA at End of the World show at Lager House Detroit

Fri Dec 21 - Pussy Pirates, the Nothing apocalypse reunion show at Blind Pig Ann Arbor

Fri Dec 21 - Raid on Harper's Ferry/Wooden Pipe/DJ Chuck Sipperley at Cafe Ollie Ypsi

Sat Dec. 22 - The Webbs (Detroit) + guests at Donovan's Pub Detroit

Wed Dec 26 - PROTOMARTYR, PARQUET COURTS , KOMMIE KILPATRICK, TURN TO CRIME, GREG BAISE at JUMBO'S 3736 3rd St Detroit

Fri Dec 28 through January 1st - Mittenfest VII: 12/28 - 1/1 at Woodruff's Ypsi w/ a million bands. benefit for 826 Michigan.

Mon Dec 31 - Dec. 31 - NYE Bang! feat. DJ Pauze and Charles Trees at the Blind Pig Ann Arbor

Mon Dec 31 - Hiawatha Bailey, the Cheetahs, Fuckin' A, the Wild Ones, Eat Meter at 605 N Congress Ypsi

please note listings after 12/21/12 might prove irrelevant


POSTED BY SHELLEY