Detroit is well-known for being a melting pot of musical styles. From Motown and funk to rock and techno, our residents have celebrated fusions between genres that yield innovative new sounds. This week, the Boulder-based electronic jam band EOTO bring their unique style of dance rock to the Motor City. Detroit Music Magazine had…
Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche, David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy. The history of music is littered with these sorts of compositional projects, song cycles, and album series — ambitious multi-course aural feasts and sonic feats connected by grand motifs and big ideas. We’re talking huge monstrosities…
Royal Oak’s largest summer music event, Arts, Beats & Eats, will return for its 18th year this Labor Day weekend (Sept. 4-7)… and its recently released 2015 lineup is chock-full of nostalgia. Last year’s highly-promoted set from 90s pop-rock group Third Eye Blind hardly compares to this year’s roster, which features megastars of…
View image | gettyimages.com “Something nobody in the rap world thought was possible” is about to become a reality. According to a feature in Hollywood Reporter, N.W.A — the West Coast hip-hop group who popularized gangsta rap in the late 1980s — will be reuniting for a tour in support of the biopic…
Widely considered the breakout story of last year’s Detroit rock scene, post-punk act Protomartyr could have easily coasted on the success of their sophomore album, Under Color of Official Right, our pick for the best album of 2014. But they’re not resting on their laurels; today the band announced the upcoming release of their next…
Vocalist Zee Bricker and instrumentalist Adam Michael Lee Padden are Tart, a Detroit-based duo making songs that are a unique union of sultry blues and shiny electro-pop. After their debut, 2014’s Knots and the single “Rabid Dogs,” the pair have kept busy writing, recording, and playing, and now they’re back with a brand new…
Big Sean has had a big month. The Detroit-bred rapper born Sean Anderson kicked off June with a visit to his hometown, where he unveiled a new recording studio at his alma mater of Cass Technical High School. This 784-square-foot space will become a part of the school’s music curriculum and is a joint…
Singer/rapper Tunde Olaniran’s music eludes easy description. His voice skyrockets into the heavens with gravity-defying aplomb while his lyrics maintain an earthbound consciousness that is the very definition of “keeping it real.” The arrangements are a melange of sugar, spice, and spikes — so even his most pointed barbs go down smoothly. Thus far…
Last year, Seraphine Collective — a Detroit-based community of female-identified musicians and artists — hosted BFF Fest at the Trinosophes café, gallery, and performing arts space in Eastern Market. The result was a progressive, one-day event that highlighted women, people of color, and LGBTQ performers. BFF Fest is happening again this year on…
