Rachel Gleason – For The Win
Rachel (Fantastic) Gleason slam-dunked a victory in the March 2016 Mentally Distilled Slam. A member of the Diatribe and an accomplished singer-songwriter, comedian, activist, and poet, she regularly [Read more...]
Fresh Outlook: An Interview with E-Will
It's springtime in Michigan. Birds aren't chirping. Flowers aren't blooming. Snow is falling. A caveat that I shouldn't go outside, yet rather continue hibernating with my endless array of frozen [Read more...]
Growing Pains – Ali Smith
Ali Smith featured alongside Motif for their combined twenty-first birthday party at The Drunken Retort in March. The crowd enjoyed honest, important poetry on topics such as abuse, disorder [Read more...]
LOUIS – Everywhere At Once
Grand Rapids, Michigan is a town known for great beer and an entrenched and established local music scene, dominated by veterans with sizable fan bases and audiences; however matters of scale can’t [Read more...]
The Queen of Performing – Siaara Freeman
Siaara Freeman took the stage twice (so far) this year at The Drunken Retort, kicking up laughs and howls from the entire room. Her personal, energy-charged performances connect deeply [Read more...]
Filthy, Grimy, Beautiful | DJ CHöFF
I’m sitting on the floor of his olive-green living room, failing to combat Bruce the dog’s sloppy kisses. There’s colored Christmas lights strung from one end of the house’s interior to the other, and [Read more...]
Obese Ghost Children “Spöke”
Post precociousness, used to braggadocios shit / but settled down, once given all my recommended dosages / of hopelessness, supposed to keep the prose so lit / but lubricated haters with my [Read more...]
Jake Down and The Midwest Mess – Locust
The Grand Rapids indie folk rockers Jake Down and the Midwest Mess recently spent some time in the studio with producer Jake Rye recording a new single. The song, Locust, which features bassist Jake [Read more...]
Radi8er – Local Music, Worldwide.
Musical sounds and styles are directly influenced by their surrounding environment. The brains behind Radi8er understand this and help music lovers embrace it. The new music platform, [Read more...]