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Machina
 
Started in 1996 in Ann Arbor, MI at the University of Michigan's School of Music, this group recently moved to Chicago. Of the group (which Orbit Magazine likens to "...Black Sabbath meets Captain Beefheart vs. Ethyl Merman"), The Detroit News says "Maschina is probably the most theatrical rock band to emerge from the Detroit scene since Alice Cooper. And Maschina is way, way more ambitious than the Coop."

"It's not rock, really," says City Detroit Magazine's David Livingstone, "though there are elements of it and innumerable references to it. It's not jazz, not in terms of anything resembling the commonly-held notion of the world. And it isn't Art-anything, unless you allow a much more generous than usual helping of humor into the proceedings. What's certain: it's almost unbelieveably technically proficient; it's got speedmetal energy and Zappa-esque complexity. It's very funny. And it's a hell of a lot of fun."

For more information, visit their website: http://www.maschina.com/

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