After more than 15 years of publishing music, entertainment, news, politics, events, dining, and editorial content, local weekly Real Detroit Weekly will cease to exist as it is merged with competitor weekly The Detroit Metro Times. The announcement was made via Metro Times‘ blog Monday evening, and posted to both publications’ social media outlets. The…
Despite a successful inaugural year for Detroiters in 2013, Laneway Festival has announced its postponement of Laneway Detroit 2014 “due to timing.” Originally hosted in Melbourne, Australia, in 2004, St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival chose Detroit as its first American outpost after co-founder Danny Rogers spent time in the city. Nearly 7,500 attendees descended…
Tonight’s Detroit Music Awards ceremony will award Detroit musicians from all genres with one of the most well-known local music trophies in Southeast Michigan. The foundation’s members choose their favorite local representation of ten musical genres: Folk/Acoustic, Blues, Jazz, Gospel, Country, Classical, Rock/Pop, R&B/Hip-Hop, Electronic and World. The three-part award process includes…
The Henry Ford Museum has announced an exciting new rock-n’-roll exhibit fit for a diva. Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power (May 17 – August 17) will highlight the contributions of the music industry’s most influential and controversial female artists of the last half-century. The exhibition promises the inclusion of “music sheets, handwritten notes,…
Record Store Day is a holiday celebrated on the third Saturday of April each year (April 19 in 2014) and is geared towards vinyl aficionados, 45″ collectors, and those who appreciate a good, old fashioned discount. Originating in 2007, the internationally-recognized holiday is known for its annual supply of special-edition releases distributed to local vinyl shops,…
Alternative print weekly Metro Times’ 17th annual Blowout music festival has finally announced its 300-band lineup spanning more than 20 venues in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Ferndale from April 30 through May 3. Though many performance times have been omitted from the initial schedule, acts and excluded venue times are expected to be…
Detroit radio station Channel 955 announced a major hip hop event Friday via Twitter, which is scheduled to feature Detroit’s own Big Sean at Joe Louis Arena on June 14. The station’s “Big Show at The Joe” will feature performances by Sean, as well as Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, and Trey Songz in…
24-year-old Detroit-area producer Max Landry has released a new music video for his cover of 50 Cent’s “21 Questions” via Shot Selection productions and Detroit production company B!GG. After graduating from the prestigious Berklee College of Music of Boston in 2012, Landry has been working with some of Detroit’s most influential artists…
UK-based music educators have chosen Detroit as the home of their third music education campus – welcome to The Detroit Institute of Music Education.
In preparation for 2014’s Red Bull Music Academy (an applicant-only workshop/conference consisting of hand-selected musicians worldwide – this year hosted in Tokyo, Japan), Red Bull has set-up shop in the birthplace of Motown. A lucky (and talented) group of 20 hand-picked applicants from the Midwest region will push their creative boundaries with the help…