Solid State Sounds - Michigan Music Archive

07/19/2025

Do you remember The Ones? ... more here:

The Ones – “You Haven’t Seen My Love” (1967)

07/06/2025

SRC vs MC5? Was there a beef? Read the latest from Solid States Sounds. Check out what SRC lead singer Scott Richardson told the Detroit Free Press in April 1969 -- in the days leading up to the Detroit Pop Festival at Olympia Stadium.

What SRC singer Scott Richardson said back in '69

06/29/2025

This Lansing band jammed with Steve Wonder in their living room -- read the story below via Solid State Sounds!

"We were with Stevie for a week"

06/22/2025

Today on Solid State Sounds, we dig back to when Marshall Crenshaw shouted out Fortune Records' own Nolan Strong & The Diablos. Read it here: https://substack.com//note/p-166538814?r=3jl7h9&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

06/22/2025

Today on Solid State Sounds, we dig back to when Marshall Crenshaw shouted out Fortune Records' own Nolan Strong & The Diablos. Read it below. And, for more Michigan music obscurities, subscribe to Solid State Sounds on Substack ... it's free:

Crenshaw: "The best record ever made in Detroit is ‘Mind Over Matter’ by Nolan Strong"

06/20/2025

MAGIC: Lansing’s lost soulful-progressive rock band: "I came home from the war and tried to acclimate myself to not being in the jungle" ... Read the whole story, here:
https://solidstatesounds.substack.com/p/magic-lansings-lost-soulful-progressive

06/18/2025

When Alex Chilton and his Memphis band Big Star played six nights in a row in Lansing at The Brewery (aka The Silver Dollar) ... a new story via Solid State Sounds - Michigan Music Archive:

"Alex started eating those fried mushrooms on stage..."

06/17/2025

This Grand Rapids band released some of the state's most primitive sounds ever laid down! Read up on The JuJus via Solid State Sounds - Michigan Music Archive! Just published today:

HEAR the primitive 'Back from the Grave' alumnus

06/15/2025

A look back at Del Shannon through local, Michigan newspaper clips! See it here:

Plus Battle Creek Enquirer (1961) and Detroit Free Press (1962) clips

06/14/2025

New from Solid State Sounds — a look back at West Michigan’s The Barons:

LISTEN: “Try a Love With Me” b/w “Don’t Come Back No More”

06/11/2025

Solid States State Souds, our Michigan music archive has a new blog on Substack digging deep into our state’s dynamic music history. Our first story is on The Blue Echoes — Lansing’s first ever rock ‘n roll band. Click here to read the story. You can also subscribe for free for weekly stories on throwback/wild Michigan music.

Go here: https://solidstatesounds.substack.com/p/the-blue-echoes-lansing-mis-first