Making music is hard work, and if you choose to make it your life’s work, well good luck. The promises of easy wealth and fame that once accompanied the rock star lifestyle have all but evaporated along with the traditional music industry’s dominance. Perhaps your goals are aesthetic rather than financial, but even then…
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…
Saturday (June 20) marks the annual “Woodbridge Merrick’n Summer” – where local artists will take over the Woodbridge neighborhood in Detroit for a full day of music. The lineup features more than 20 acts, including hometown favorites ADULT., Ritual Howls, MPV, Javelins, James Linck, Jaws That Bite, Little Animal, Ancient Language and others….
Sweet, yet serious; sassy, but sincere. These are just two of the contrasts one can use to describe Valley Hush’s exceptional new EP Don’t Wait. The second record from producer Alex Kaye and vocalist Lianna Vanicelli — following last September’s To Feel Small — is a multidimensional offering that demonstrates the wide range of…
Jamaican Queens introduced us to their turbulent pop two years ago with the release of Wormfood. After garnering acclaim and winning over new fans on national and European tours, the band started working on a follow-up. The resulting album, Downers, is a drug cocktail equal parts elation and depression with heaving, fuzzy synth lines…
In what should be a highly auspicious announcement for Midtown Detroit, particularly following recent developments on the new arena for the Detroit Red Wings, Shinola founder Tom Kartsotis has partnered with Detroit-native Jack White to purchase the building that currently houses the Shinola Flagship store at 441 W. Canfield in Cass Corridor. This deal…
Since releasing their first official single “Waves,” Detroit’s ‘cosmic-trap’ duo Gosh Pith have been sharing new material every few months. Each successive track they’ve put out has garnered considerable praise from taste-makers throughout the blogosphere, and with the release of “Vietnam Junkie” Josh Smith and Josh Freed have completed the six-song collection that comprises their debut EP, Window. Better still, they’ve made…
Last year saw the release of In Transient Light, a fuzzy collection of songs from Detroit duo PALACES. The band showed an affinity for shoegaze guitar tones and lo-fi recordings, creating a dark atmospheric sound all their own. The band have since performed with a wide range of acts touring through Detroit, winning over more…
Late in January, Ypsilanti-based songwriter Fred Thomas – best known as the leader of the lo-fi indie pop group Saturday Looks Good to Me – released “Bad Blood.” Dirty laundry, the airing of grievances, a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves – in Fred Thomas’ hands these grand statements of self-reproach and repentance…
