The sound down there will always suck. There's a reason that the
great concert halls of the world are not reinforced concrete boxes.
And it smells bad down there too.
What it would take to fix the space would be several tens of thousands
of dollars of acoustic treatment. And it would still be an
Agreed - stating that "underground" music, as a meaning of outside of
the mainstream and fulfilling an alternative vernacular, does not mean
it has to be relegated to a stage "underground" I.e in a nasty
basement with kids on drugs rubbing their sweaty nasty on you (as
opposed to the good o
If Paxahau has finally done something to address the truly awful
acoustics of the underground stage then I'll be impressed, but I don't
have high hopes that that space will sound any less horrendous than it
has every time I've gone down there.
The fact that "Detroit techno has always been unde
Has anyone seen the setup of the Detroit stage this year? Has anyone heard the
sound? Let's reserve judgment until we see/hear the results shall we? And
looking at the line up I see real Detroit artists on all of the stages.
Personally, I kind of like that the Detroit stage is underground. Detr