1/6/2024 0 Comments Flying wedge band![]() ![]() I just wanted to be surrounded by that, and I kind of already knew all the guys who worked there. For years, and years and years, starting at least when I was 16, I was dangling to get a job. That’s how important Car City Records was to me. When I officially got my license it was the first place I drove to. What can you tell me about Car City Records in Detroit? I love the stuff that Urinal Cake Records is doing. And I still feel that in what I am exposed to. Once I started seeing other places, touring and being exposed to ‘scenes’ or whatever you want to call them, to me it always appeared that, ‘Oh… That kind of stuff isn’t happening everywhere.’ Detroit is unique in that realm. I didn’t know what things were like in Seattle or San Francisco, or any of that. Look what’s going on in Detroit.’ Whatever you want to call it: fresh, new, original, invigorating… For me, not having any experience otherwise, I just thought that’s the way it was. I think once bands in that world started touring more, had bigger labels putting out their stuff and people started catching on, it was then, ‘Wow. People were playing in five different bands and they were playing every weekend. I think that made things more interesting for those people. For the most part, Detroit was insular – mostly because of the fact that no one else cared. I feel like for a long time, when I was coming up, people outside of Detroit really didn’t pay attention to what was going on there. What makes the Detroit music community so unique? You have spent a lot of time working within the Detroit music industry. Blackwell’s unmatched knowledge of vinyl production, analog technology and Detroit’s music history has shaped him as an essential piece of the Detroit rock story.īen Blackwell spoke to Detroit Music Magazine regarding rare Detroit vinyl, The Dirtbombs’ newest release and working as Jack White’s right-hand man. Ben Blackwell is Detroit-rock’s renaissance man.Īs a drummer for the highly-acclaimed Detroit garage-rock band, The Dirtbombs, Blackwell has been instrumental in Detroit’s rock culture evolution, and the rebirth of Detroit garage-rock.īlackwell is also the sole founder of Cass Records (which has released records by The Muldoons, The Black Lips and The Go) the official archivist for The White Stripes and director of vinyl manufacturing and distribution at Third Man Records. ![]()
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