If you already have not been exposed to these local powerhouses, you need to get on them NOW!!! Back 40: Some righteous funkgrass from the Ann Arbor area. Covert Operations: String Cheese, GD, Phish, Santana thrown in a blender. From the Flint Area Jam Samich: Prog Rock out of the Waterford Area Macpodz: Disco Bebop out of Ann Arbor. They all put on some killer live shows, you gotta see to believe.
Don't leave out the Sprout boys, those guys melted my face off once. It was awesome. And Greensky Bluegrass is as good as it gets. I hear that Dave Bruzza is Sam Guidry's daddy. If you want to check out some free Ultraviolet Hippopotamus go to: http://www.archive.org/details/uvh2007-10-19.uvh2007-10-19.sbd.flac
Rootstand/Tree Town Underground - Great 'grass... Nomo - funky and jazzy... Dirty Americans - some great straight up Detroit rock n roll...
this is deer country and braed mape brown are playing saturday december 29th at 8pm at the blue note in pontiac.
I'm seeing the english beat and the Rx Bandits next friday. And that saterday I'm seeing westbound train with bedouin soundclash.
check out blue black hours- heavy groove oriented psychedelic rock. reminiscent of old Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath, but with a fresh sound. lot's of jam/improv. they're playing the Hamtramck Blowout 2008 on Friday and play a couple times a month in the Detroit area. http://blueblackhours.com