Detroit icon Robert Hood has made multiple contributions to electronic music over his career — from his early work as one of the founding members of Underground Resistance with “Mad” Mike Banks and Jeff Mills to his critical role in the development of minimal techno — under many different names (including Monobox, H&M, The Vision, Inner Sanctum, and…
Electric Forest Festival will return to Michigan’s Double JJ Ranch campgrounds June 25th-28th for its fifth year of big production, big crowds and a massive 2015 lineup. Michigan’s premiere camping music festival brings together fans of all genres to bask in four days of music and arts celebration. The Sherwood Forest’s seven…
Legendary Detroit house icon Andrés (aka DJ Dez Andrés) has announced that he will release his first new music in three years. In 2012, “New for U” put the former Slum Village and Moodymann associate in high demand among the electronic music cognoscenti. Since then the artist has kept busy DJ’ing, putting out remixes, and collaborating with others but had…
With dirty snow and below freezing temperatures, Detroit doesn’t have the most enticing winter landscape. Brave the cold for these shows and they won’t disappoint. ________________________________________________________________________ 2/6 Protomartyr, Double Winter @ The MOCAD MOCAD will host its winter opening with a public preview of their galleries from 7-9pm, followed by performances…
The organizers of Detroit’s Movement Electronic Music Festival have announced the first phase of the 2015 lineup, which includes a wildly diverse list of hometown heroes and international names. The festival’s 10-year history has supported acts within the realms of techno, house, EDM, hip hop and everything in between. This year Detroit…
“Music is the universal language of mankind.” This line out of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Outre-Mer from 1835 seems as old as time itself but has been misquoted often enough that its sentiment rings hollow. The Internet, held in high esteem by many for its democratizing aims, has too often had a flattening effect on music. More of it is…
Secret Friends Fest, a local music festival created by Detroit-area tastemaker Jason Stollsteimer, will return to Ferndale’s Loving Touch (Friday and Saturday) for two nights of regional and national talent. The 2014 Secret Friends Fest included 18 acts, featuring performances by: Silent Lions, George Morris & The Gypsy Chorus, The ILL Itches,…
It’s played host to hometown heroes like The White Stripes, as well as major national acts such as Interpol, Kings of Leon, Mudhoney, Modest Mouse, The Kills, Sleigh Bells, and — well — The National, but starting this spring, one of Detroit’s most beloved and respected rock clubs — The Magic Stick — will see new life as an electronic…
The album has been declared dead nearly as many times as the Motor City has, but if you needed any proof that such bold pronouncements need to be taken with a grain of salt, look no further than the list below. Detroit acts released a veritable treasure trove of great full-lengths in 2014,…
Our city has always been an unyielding spring of exciting new hip-hop and this year was no different. Passalacqua and Tunde Olanrian kept things fresh and unpredictable, stretching the genre so far until it was almost unrecognizable. Danny Brown was the highlight on an album by one of the most explosive young producers in…