Dan Breitmeyer Jones is a writer and student who lives on Detroit's east side, where he grows vegetables, rides bikes, and listens to trap music.
The piano may be a percussion instrument, but it inhabits an interesting place in instrumental taxonomy. Hammers strike a string, yet the result can be awfully melodic in a way that its cousin, the snare, can’t imagine. This odd piece of half-remembered information came to mind while listening to the new EP Winterludes from…
Don’t ever turn your back on Omar-S. Blink and the underground techno/house producer’s likely to have dropped a crispy new release. That’s what happened just a few days ago, when an untitled EP popped up in Resident Advisor’s email without warning, where it is available for free download. The two tracks, “Party Marty”…
Detroit favorite Dej Loaf has been blowing up. Since dropping her mixtape All Jokes Aside this April, the artist’s exposure has exploded. To keep the party moving along, Dej — with the help of director C.J. South — has gifted her fans with three stylish videos in the past week. Reportedly all three were…
Detroit house impresario and Slum Village DJ Andrés will soon release a brand-new 12” entitled Mighty Tribe. While the musician is being cagey about the exact drop date, FIT Distribution helpfully indicates that it is “upcoming” and is currently available for pre-order on their website. They also provided clips of the three tracks (“Mighty…
Detroit hip-hop mainstays Passalacqua are having fun “At the Party” despite themselves. Detroit Music Magazine premiered the Dr. B-produced track from the duo’s Banglatown EP last year, and now the song has been given the video treatment. In addition to a handful of don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-it cameos from other Motor City tunemakers, the Good Pals-directed piece…
In the universe of Detroit hip-hop, the orbit of Slum Village swings wide. Made up in its prime of the late producer J Dilla and the heavy-hitting rappers Baatin (d. 2009) and T3, this incarnation of the group released two albums — Fan-Tas-Tic, Vol. 1 (1996) and Fantastic, Vol. 2 (2000) — to broad…
The buzz has been huge for Layers, the first new album from Royce da 5’9″ in five years. Lead single “Tabernacle” dropped earlier this month and has been the object of praise pretty much across the board, including landing a spot on DMM’s weekly SoundCloud mix. In the newly released video for “Tabernacle,” directed…
Ann Arbor native Colin Stetson is a virtuoso saxophone player whose past collaborations with artists such as Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, and TV on the Radio read as a veritable encyclopedia of experimental musicianship. After Stetson’s last solo effort, 2013’s New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, anticipation for his…
Chris Bathgate’s output might be called methodical by some, though his die-hard fans may be more apt to describe it as frustratingly infrequent. The indie folk singer-songwriter’s track “Calvary” is the lead single from the recent EP Old Factory, his first release since 2011’s Salt Year. “Calvary” is classic Bathgate, as he returns to form…
Detroit-based indie electro-pop duo Gosh Pith have long described their sound as “cosmic trap,” but with Josh Freed and Josh Smith’s second single off their forthcoming Gold Chain EP, that characterization has never seemed more apt. Through the thrum of “K9″‘s, indeed, trap-inspired bass synths and skittering snares, you can make out the alien…