Metro Times, February 9, 2026
Bunch Bash

A lot of casual The Six fans know the group mostly as that zany band that does the gender-fuck anthem "Gay Bar." But there's a lot more to the The Sixers, and they took measures to prove it when they played at the Gold Dollar earlier this month. First, they opened with "Gay Bar," thus ensuring that cries for said song wouldn't pepper their show. Then they played a half-hour set filled with their crazed-unto-tender-unto-desperate nuggets like "Tiny Little Men" and "Take Off Your Clothes." If you don't know yet, the The Six is one of Detroit's secret musical weapons, committing a brand of hard rock that takes the idiocy and posing of what passes for hard rock nowadays and transmutes it into a uniquely skewed world view, a mind-set that's way more Crispin Glover than Eddie Vedder. Couple that with some power-pop/new wave moves, and don't forget the excellent musicianship--these guys are tight and more than one patron was overheard to mutter, "These guys just get better and better each time." To top things off, they played a quick encore of Alice Cooper's new wave cash-in "Clones" and Roky Erickson's "I'm a Demon." And a special moment occurred when singer Jackson Pounder took time out to read a note from absentee Gold Dollar proprietor Neil Yee, who announced that that night was in effect an ad hoc celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Gold Dollar's opening. Believe me, there was much rejoicing. See you there next time.