Check Out One of The Best Detroit Rock Bands You've Never Heard Of

[Susang]

They're back with a new album and are playing the Magic Stick this Saturday. Wish I could be there to re-live my sordid youth. }( Would somebody please go and be my proxy?

From the Detroit Metro Times:

Formed in late 1976 with one foot in the ’60s garage and the other in the Dolls, Stooges, early-Roxy, Velvets quagmire, Cinecyde’s debut single came out concurrently with early punk sides. Though the musical language and attitude are parallel, Reichel says he wrote “Gutless Radio” before he’d ever heard the Damned or the Ramones.

The Cinecyde oeuvre includes a slew of singles that underscored the band’s penchant for reaction, including another cheeky dig at radio called “Rock Meat and the Hard Ons” and a 1989 single, “Burn the Crack House Down” (which was, incidentally, co-written by then-drummer Robert Mulrooney, or, as he’s better known, Bootsey X).

Cinecyde has recently been snatched up for distribution by a couple of Euro labels, who have either released or re-released four of Cinecyde’s Tremor full-lengths — I Left My Heart in Detroit City, Let’s Talk, Magnetic Attraction/Hypnotic Repulsion and You Live a Lie, You’re Gonna Die.

The quartet’s latest title, Like a UFO, serves as an apt descriptor of a local band that has flown low and stuck to its guns despite numerous personnel upheavals, crappy gigs, paltry record sales, and the occasional abduction (Olenski was once carjacked and kidnapped before a gig in 1989).

Cinecyde has made such an impact in certain circles that its own material has been bootlegged on punk comps. Getting your music bootlegged and released is a sign that there is an audience, that somewhere someone recognizes and appreciates your work.
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=6646