*from Detroit:
The Detroit Artsits Market Biennial opened this past Friday. The show features work from nine emerging and established Detroit-area visual, sound and performance artists. DAM executive director Aaron Timlin speaks about it in Sunday's Free Press.

Our own Liz Copeland returns to Buddha Lounge with Clark Warner to play their latest favorite records at Pop Artificelle III, Friday, October 4th. Do go see Liz's nicely re-designed website by Chad Warner.

*from LA:
Paul Petrunia announced today that "core-programming genius" Jessey Cinis will be his first ever partner at ARCHINECT. Paul and Jessy will begin working on a from-scratch re-design of the top online publication, resource, and community for architecture worldwide. Suggestions for the new site are encouraged: write to paul@archinect.com

*from London:
Jared Louche reminds us that this is his last week as guest host/DJ on Total Rock [3-6pm GMT, 11am-1pm EST]. Friday's in studio guests are Sulpher, who make "full-tilt machine rock" with heavy synths and chainsaw guitars in the spirit of Chemlab and NIN. "[Friday's] show will be electronic and off the map, so come and join us and blow a fuse! -Jar3d"

Maybe it's futile to try and predict trends, but I've been saying this for a while, and based on the fact that you could barely tell the difference between the hipster crowd at the MF party Labor Day weekend in NYC and a regular night at Albion|Batcave, it's only a matter of time before the techno/electro and industrial/goth worlds collide once again. [Scientists say the universe has stopped expanding and is actually now contracting.] It's still going to take electro getting darker and 'punker' yet, and industrial distancing itself from heavy metal and embracing it's cyberpunk roots. I could be way off-base... this is coming from a guy with an asymmetrical haircut who wears a black tie, black shirt, black pants, and combat boots almost every day... Well, we'll see how dark and dirty things get at Luxx tonight. I'm hoping for full-on Blade Runner :)