Milo Minute: James Linck, Agent X, Tart and Prude Boys
Each week, Detroit music journalist Jeff Milo previews some of the best live shows happening in the region.
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Longtime Detroit music journalist Jeff Milo’s byline appears in publications locally and globally. He’s been plugging ears into the Detroit scene for years with his prolific Deep Cutz blog and his YouTube series, The Milo Show.
Each week, Milo gives us a rundown of can’t-miss shows in and around the Detroit area.
Friday, February 22th
James Linck and Eddie Logix at Donovan’s Pub
James Linck is back in town, after having been in California for a bit, making a go of it with the music game in an admittedly bigger arena. Linck cut his composing and performing teeth in Detroit, starting out more than 10 years ago. Friday’s show starts at 9 pm, with producer/hip-hop artist Eddie Logix providing atmospheric ambiance and beats at the beginning and to close out the evening, sandwiching Linck’s performance–all part of a curated program hosted by Sound & Silence, an online music zine that’s a collective of several arts and culture writers, including a few from the Great Lakes area.
Mike “Agent X” Clark at the Northern Lights Lounge
Clark, known as Agent X when he’s at the wheels of steel, was strongly influenced by the energies of jazz, funk and the music of the disco era. He was snuck into some of the hottest local dance clubs as a teenager to absorb the adrenaline-pulsing energies of the music and he would advance his sensibilities as a DJ when he got started at underground parties and turntablist battles. He has also learned from some of the best, including Detroit DJ Ken Collier. This house music party will have some infusions of tropical, soulful, latin and disco-tech, with guest DJ Harkati and Tony Nova, as well as some percussive feats from Dr. Tingle Fingers and Madam Butterfly.
Saturday, February 23rd
Tart and Prude Boys Welcome Indiana’s Chives to Outer Limits
This bill features two rock trios who are considerably disparate in styles. Tart blends metal and electro-pop with a bit of early Millennial-New York punk, while Prude Boys captures something closer to CBGBs or sort of a 70’s-feeling hybrid of indie rock, catchy pop melodies, and shreddy solos. There is a third local artist on the lineup, the songs of singer/songwriter Haley Bea McNichol, which is minimal, strummy, dreamy, hazy bedroom pop. Indiana’s Chives rounds out the bill, and they’ve got a wobbly-kind of funky experimental take on indie-rock that you just gotta hear.
Junglefowl, Towner, Little Traps, and No Men at new Ann Arbor Venue
Ypsilanti’s vibrant music scene is where you’ll find Junglefowl, a formidable garage-pop duo, and Little Traps, a sweet and melodic folk trio. The groups will play a new venue, Lo-Fi, that just opened right in the very heart of downtown Ann Arbor. The space is “low,” in the sense that it’s a downstairs club, and it has incredible aesthetic…It feels like a hideaway club, but it’s decked out in dazzling turquoise and magenta, with artist Jeremy Wheeler’s design of a dragon stretched across the bar in neon lights. Towner is an up and coming Ann Arbor music project that joins this lineup, along with the Chicago post punk outfit No Men.
