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Frontier Ruckus' Matthew Milia remembers the night "Black Holes" first started forming: a dead-winter cold night in Michigan that helped create this song of an entrance into adult tragedy.

Michigan three-piece rock band Cheap Girls plays Slowdown tonight. Frontman Ian Graham talks about touring, recording their newest album, beer and the politics of music.

The Michigan indie-folk band's frontman says "a certain outer-body charisma" takes over him at festivals.   See if their Maha performance becomes a "psychadelic experience."

Chris Bathgate, from Ann Arbor, Mich., crosses lines of history, politics and music in this Ingrained video filmed at Slowdown.

Music is in this guy's blood — his grandparents once traveled as circus musicians, and his ancestors played music on civil war frontlines. But he does his own thing, something wholly unique.

This electronic pop band from Detroit performs "Bats" on a residential street in Royal Oak, Mich., on day 13 of the Love Drunk Video Tour.

Frontier Ruckus (Detroit, Mich.) performs "Mona and Emmy" in a downtown Omaha alley, a few hours before their show at The Slowdown.

Frontier Ruckus would hate for you to get the wrong impression because of its rural, meandering sound. Frontman Matthew Milia doesn't feel that a banjo and a singing saw means rolling hills and whiskey.

Bright Eyes plays to 20,000 and a super moon, and Deer Tick channels Nirvana on SXSW's final night. Plus, Rural Alberta Advantage, DJ Jazzy Jeff and Drag the River.