The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s annual meeting of the Governing Members included an announcement related to the organization’s highly-publicized financial obstacles Thursday, December 12. The event featured ushering Chairman Phillip Wm. Fisher, Mayor-elect Mike Duggan and approximately 300 DSO Directors, Trustees, Governing Members, Volunteer Council members, community leaders, orchestra musicians and staff members. …
Andre Drummond, forward for the Detroit Pistons, along with Pistons mascot Hooper, have been featured in a parody music video set to Eminem’s “Berzerk,” from his November release MMLP2. The Pistons promotional video is titled Hooper’s World: Berzerk and includes the authentic audio track from Eminem’s mega-hit. Hooper, the mascot horse, takes the lead…
Paxahau, the creative team responsible for Detroit’s Movement music festival, has released an official trailer promoting 2014’s Memorial Day-weekend electronic celebration, a new supply of available tickets and initial lineup. The festival’s official trailer arrived on December 10 to promote Wednesday morning’s two major announcements: newly available tickets and the revealing of Movement…
The promoters of Toronto’s North by Northeast arts festival/conference (NXNE) have announced the 2014 initial performance lineup, which includes St. Vincent, Omar Souleyman, Juicy J and Detroit’s own Danny Brown. The announcement arrived in conjunction with NXNE’s early ticket release package and the lineup for the festival’s interactive music-conference element (NXNEi). The interactive…
DJ Mo Beatz is Detroit’s faction of the infamous Heavy Hitters DJ crew. He is most well-known for his turntable dexterity, his long-time position at Detroit radio station FM98 WJLB and his role as Big Sean’s official DJ. The well-traveled DJ’s daily show on FM98 WJLB accompanies Detroit’s rush hour traffic: the…
BackBeat Detroit, a music-equipment retail pop-up, may arrive in downtown as soon as spring of 2014. Now two years in the making, BackBeat Detroit looks to serve the music equipment and supply needs of musicians in the city of Detroit while promoting Detroit-made products. The “music convenience store” will carry accessories, such…
Royal Oak Music Theatre is offering a generous Cyber Monday deal December 2, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. for online customers only. The offer is a “buy one, get one free” (BOGO) for all concerts currently available for ticket purchasing. Tickets can be purchased directly through the Royal Oak Music Theatre website….
Saturday evening marked the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s premiere of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Major and the world premiere of David Del Tredici’s Alice in Wonderland-inspired Dum Dee Tweedle from Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass. The two pieces, completely different in style, instrumentation and length, created an undeniably diverse offering…
Ben Blackwell is Detroit-rock’s renaissance man. As a drummer for the highly-acclaimed Detroit garage-rock band, The Dirtbombs, Blackwell has been instrumental in Detroit’s rock culture evolution, and the rebirth of Detroit garage-rock. Blackwell is also the sole founder of Cass Records (which has released records by The Muldoons, The Black Lips and…
Eminem has released his visual compliment to his November MMLP2 hit single, “Rap God.” The video portrays Eminem as a parody-version of British TV personality Max Headroom, a rap battling Slim Shady and a Matrix-like ‘rap God’ – soaking up hip hop culture through a bio-download process and levitating. Eminem’s appearance has…