March 4th-Rock-n-Roll Mardi Gras at the Roche Bar in Port Huron

It's party time with Wheels On Fire (from Athens, Ohio), blues stomper Dale Beavers and local trouble makers the Riverside Shakes.

For all the details check out the link at BlueWaterBeat.org

HUE BLANC'S JOYLESS ONES "LIVE" at the Roche Bar in Port Huron Tuesday Oct 26th

Twisted and gnarled sound blasts of two guitars and two drummers from Algoma, Wisconsin (population 3,357).

Check this interview with them
http://smashintransistors.homestead.com/midwest_gentlemen.html

Read a review of their album from a couple years back on Victim Of Time
http://www.victimoftime.com/articles/breaking-sounds-hue-blancs-joyless-ones-arriere-ga/

Listen to some of their music here
http://www.myspace.com/hueblancsjoylessones

Thursday July 29th-The Sugar Stems LIVE at the Roche bar in Port Huron

The Sugar Stems feature Drew of the LegHounds/Jetty Boys fame, Betsy and Stephanie of the Flips and JonE from bands such as the Catholic Boys, Teenage Rejects, Tuff Bananas etc. Check out more about them at their Myspace page.

Sort of a last minute show announcement here but it'll be a good one. Many thanks to Johnny and Suzie of the Roche Bar for always providing a place where band's doing their own music can play in this otherwise podunk town called Port Huron.

Some LIVE Rock-n-Roll Fun at the Roche Bar in July

Gorevette: Featuring the legendary Nikki Corvette and Amy of the Gore Gore Girls
http://www.myspace.com/gorevette

From sunny California The Pleasure Kills play New Wave/Power Pop. Good times and dancing will happen!
http://www.myspace.com/thepleasurekills

Also on the bill-the Blue Water Area's best at "1!2!3!4! Fun Punk" The McFlys.
http://www.myspace.com/themcflys

Rock-n-Roll Show at the Roche this weekend

Saturday October 10th go check out Drum Kit (Lafayette, Ind) and Mellows (Ann Arbor)
at the Roche Bar in Downtown Port Huron, Michigan

Band from Italy and more this weekend in the Port Huron area

Also, On Saturday the 16th Miss Chain and the Broken Heels are playing the Painted Lady in Hamtramck with the Smith Westerns

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Live music starts around 4pm.

http://www.myspace.com/misschainandthebrokenheels
http://www.myspace.com/smithwesterns
http://www.myspace.com/themcflys
http://www.myspace.com/subourbonson

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From this past Saturday

The Readies and the Magic Shop played the Roche bar in Port Huron this past Saturday. It was pretty bad ass. The Readies are Dan Kroha (the Gories, Demolition Dollrods) new rock-n-roll trio and the Magic Shop are a loud bit of jangle that includes Steve Nawara of Rocket 455 and Detroit Cobras fame on guitar and vocals. Bunch of pics Dale Merrill took and commentary over at Smashin' Transistors. Go check it out! And yes...these were all shot on actual film.

The Readies and Magic Shop get the Roche a-shakin' this Saturday!

The Readies (feat. Detroit garage-punk legend Danny Kroha of the Gories/Demolition Dollrods fame) and Magic Shop (who include "local dude" Jake & one time Detroit Cobras/Electric Six Steve) @ the Roche Bar in Port Huron this Saturday Night August 9th.

The Readies got a biker soul/T. Rex on rocket fuel thing
http://www.myspace.com/thereadiesdetroit


Magic Shop got a bit of a jangly stoned cowboy vibe.
http://www.myspace.com/magicshop313

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Miss Chain & the Broken Heels, the McFlys and Subourbon Son 8/15 at the Roche.

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Pink Reason and the Thomas Function-Thurs Oct.11 at the Roche!!!

THIS THURSDAY NIGHT!!!!

PINK REASON and the THOMAS FUNCTION!!!

The Roche Bar

Downtown Port Huron

Pink Reason is always Kevin DeBroux and practically never anyone else. The self-released Pink Reason debut seven-inch from 2006 was an itch of such beguiling psychic ache that all the inhabitants of Siltbreeze Island scratched it until they bled. On this first full length, the resident of Green Bay, Wisconsin, continues to ooze muzzy melancholia by the bucket, ably and formidably clearing house in Sanguine Manor, whose previous tenants include Royal Trux, The Jacobites, Phantom Payne, Black Vial, and other marginal inhabitants whose sticky fingers glimmer in stoned adulation.
Dominated by creeping synths, stark strums and rickety percussive splats that complement De Broux's heartscraping vocal catharsis, Cleaning The Mirror journeys far beyond any known perspective, practically insinuating an alternate otherworld where Tim Buckley's Lorca and Jandek's Ready For The House have been hybridized into a ripe-for-plucking masterpiece. Or, shunning hyperbole in favor of acronym, Pink Reason's modern day DIY is very FYI that you should check out PDQ.

Look for Pink Reason live via land, sea and air throughout 2007.



One of my top 2007 finds (and perhaps yours as well - the word is most definitely out) is a young band from Huntsville, AL called THOMAS FUNCTION. Reminscient in so many ways of a stripped-down, keyboard-augmented, less grandeur-bound TELEVISION, two of their three 45s are among the finest & most deceptively catchy records of our aging decade so far. (I say 2 of the 3 because I haven't heard the new one yet - the label says it's "in the mail"). I think the main guy's vocals come off as so much more real than others looking to recreate a pre-punk history for a post-punk world, and THOMAS FUNCTION are the sort of band that's going to appeal equally aging record dorks like myself and the new gaggle of teenage hipsters. Apparently the garage punk congnescenti dig 'em too. See you what you think by downloading two of their best so far. (From Detailed Twang)

Some Goings On this weekend

One man roots rock-n-roll band Subourbon Son will be having his CD release party at the Roche Bar in Port Huron Saturday night. Also on the bill local fun-punks the McFlys and Ohio's Death By Rodeo. Showtime is around 10pm and there's no door charge.

Fans of sex kitten Brigitte Bardot are having the 10th annual Brigitte Bardot Vidfest from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Quay Street Brewing Co. in Port Huron. Each year, fans celebrate the birthday of the international movie star in the basement of the brew pub, 330 Quay St. A collection of rare movies and documentaries, some never seen in Port Huron, are shown on the wide-screen, high-definition television.Examples of film art that promoted her career, which lasted from 1952 until she retired from films in 1973, will be on display as well as rare lobby cards, posters, movie stills and autographs.

The films scheduled are Paparazzi(1963), Et Dieu crèa le femme(1956), Voulez-vous danser avec moi?(1959) and La bride sur le cou(1961). The event is free.

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Pink Reason w/the Thomas Function in Port Huron on Oct. 11th

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One Man Band Fest and Art Show at the Roche Bar TONIGHT!!!

Tonight see musical ingenuity happen at the Roche Bar in downtown Port Huron. If you've ever asked yourself "Who needs pesky band members when you can do it all by yourself" you should stop by and check it out.

Article on Subourbon Son from the Port Huron Times Herald.

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