SUBSTREAM is featuring illymack and our labelmates (Deastro, lettercamp) on Substream Likes v.2 out Sept. 23!
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Sweden + illymack!
September 12, 2011 by admin
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Summer in the City
August 23, 2011 by admin
September 1st
illy mack is hosting a garden party at The Whitney in Detroit (Woodward Ave.)
FREE Show!
Starts at 5:30, we play 2 sets, 1/2 off drinks and appetizers!
September 2nd
we’ll be playing at Arts Beats & Eats
in Royal Oak, MI!
“Fun, irreverent, and one of the best live bands in Detroit, Illy Mack are one of the festival’s can’t-miss sets.” Read more (including a Q&A) at Urbane Life
Friday 9/2/2011
FORD FOCUS ALTERNATIVE STAGE
12:30 p.m. Illy Mack
2:00 p.m. Phantasmagoria
3:30 p.m. Fawn
On July 30, illy mack had the wonderful opportunity to play at the Maker Faire at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. We got to show off the Drum Stick Guitar Head extension invention and see/do some really neat things! Some of which is discussed here.
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ILLYMACK PLAYS EMINEM/DR.DRE AT ‘DETROIT BY DETROIT’
April 3, 2011 by admin
“‘Perhaps one of the toughest challenges was taken on by Illy Mack, who will tackle the music of Eminem. “I’ve been listening to Eminem since puberty,” says David. “We’re going to be rapping and playing the backing beats live.”‘
-Detroit Free Press
Rachel May
“Maybe it was the onset of midnight… the first sip of the third high life… or the fact that Illy Mack’s Steve Kendzorski so effectively mimiced the beats and bass lines of classic Eminem tracks (“Forgot About Dre” – “My Name Is” – “Lose Yourself”)… It also helped that the duo,already known for pullnig out a new cover almost every-other-show…from Stevie Wonder to Cee-Lo to the Beatles,really held it down, vocally, matching even the motor-mouthed cadence required for the chorus of “Dre…” but also the necessary physical delivery – anthemic for “Lose Yourself,” and sardonic for “My Name…”"
“it was just…essentially, pardon my low brow diction… ‘bad-ass’”
-DeepCutz
“Did you have Illy Mack playing as Eminem in your fantasy band league? That one is definitely going to throw off everyone’s bracket!”
-The Michigan Blogger
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Metro Times : Wonder Twins
March 22, 2011 by admin
“…She plays keyboards, cymbals, saxophone and guitar, and he plays a snare and bass drum with his feet while he plays bass. It’s like four people in two.”
“Illy Mack, the band, was really fun. Jen David is a riot on stage. I love the whole ‘drumstick taped to the end of my guitar so I can play cymbals’ thing…both she and Steve Kendzorski are multi-instrumentalists. Simultaneous multi-instrumentalists.”
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Real Detroit Weekly : Movement & The Spin
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“A two-piece that managed to work in live drums, live bass, keyboards, guitar, saxophone and more into a stripped-down, female-fronted, lo-fi pop assault.”
“It’s somewhere between a young girl’s take on the classic Motown girl sound and a half-nod to The Beatles…It’s just a matter of time for these two, Detroit. Don’t sleep on it.”
Real Detroit Weekly
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The best Detroit music of 2010
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“Any band that uses an ironing board as a keyboard stand is worth seeing live at least once. This modest two-piece goes from garage to avant-soul in one set.”
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