With vinyl sales at a 26-year high, this year’s Record Store Day promises to be bigger than ever. The annual event, founded in 2007, has already announced its list of exclusive releases that will be available at independent stores on April 16. Today, Third Man Records added a few more entries to the roster,…
Movement Electronic Music Festival has released “Phase 2” of their artist lineup, rounding out an already impressive array of Detroit-based and international artists. This year, Movement celebrates its 10- year anniversary. Although the festival has experienced iterations before 2006 (such as 2005’s Fuse-In, and D.E.M.F.), Movement Electronic Music Festival is now the gold-standard for the…
After a three-year period of releasing strictly singles and EPs, Detroit-based house producer and DJ Omar-S (née Alex Omar Smith) plans to release a full-length later this month. The Best will comprise eleven tracks and marks Omar-S’s first full-length since 2013’s Thank You for Letting Me Be Myself. The Best is loaded with…
For a quarter of a century, the highly renowned German label Tresor has been boldly challenging genre classifications of all kinds, and as part of its 25-year anniversary celebrations it has announced the release of a collaborative album by Juan Atkins and Moritz Van Oswald. The techno icons first worked together as Borderland in…
The recent water crisis in Flint has dominated regional and international news, inspiring athletes, public figures, and musicians to make cash donations and encourage bottled water donations to help city residents. (The list includes Jack White’s Third Man Records, Pearl Jam, rapper Meek Mill, Wiz Khalifa, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Cher, and more.) …
To celebrate Street Fighter V’s recent release, Otaku Gang (Richie Branson and Solar Slim) have unleashed Marshall vs. Capcom, a mash-up album that superimposes lyrics from 15 of Eminem’s hit tracks over music from the popular video games series. The tape is available for download directly onto Street Fighter V, creating opportunities for gamers…
Bruiser Brigade’s resident DJ Skywlkr has released a track in collaboration with his “day one” homie Dream Beach. “Blue Dream” packs a lot into three minutes, combining the drum patterns and bass found in many of Skywlkr’s beats with Dream Beach’s ethereal and playful song structures. Thankfully, this is the “first of many” according…
J Dilla’s Dillatronic represents just one of many posthumous releases from an artist who left behind countless tracks. The producer, who died from Moschcowitz syndrome only three days after his 32nd birthday in 2006, went “through [four] production phases in his professional career,” according to no less than The Roots’ Questlove. “He was able…
Electric Forest Festival — a four-day, multi-genre event with a focus on electronic acts and jam bands — returns to Rothbury, Michigan this summer for its sixth consecutive year. Once again, tickets sold out in record time, well in advance of the lineup announcement. Now the wait is over, as on Tuesday, Phase One…
Next month marks the third annual Hamtramck Music Festival. This three-day event brings together more than 200 bands across 24 Detroit-area venues. HMF is “powered by the people” as the musicians and organizers are all volunteers. Three-day wristbands are just $10, and all proceeds go to the nonprofit group Ben’s Encore, which provides instruments, music lessons, and scholarships to youth…