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This Sunday, Michigan-based noise trio Wolf Eyes will be playing at the Owl in celebration of the late-night watering hole’s two-year anniversary. This show is part of a live music series that’s been going on at the bar since the winter, and has grown exceptionally since its first few shows, which featured mainly local garage acts. In June the bar booked its first big-time event: a “secret show” of sorts with legendary electronic-psych group Silver Apples. Word on the show was spread by passing along plastic apples, painted silver and stenciled with a small black owl. They’ve advertised for Sunday’s show in a similarly oddbal way: Gossip Wolf columnist J.R. Nelson found out about it when he was handed an envelope full of black glitter and an actual wolf’s tooth, engraved with the Roman numeral II in honor of the bar’s birthday.
