BRANCA SCHOEN

ANN ARBOR, MI—Like the spirit of rock ’n’ roll itself, Glenn Branca could only have come from that brutal, sweet land of mad poets, the good ole U. S. of A. Like Walt Whitman and Iggy Pop before him, this composer of guitar symphonies is one of those self-styled primitives, an avatar of the barbaric yawp, and tonight in Detroit he even looks the part.