Joe Zimmer cried both times he saw Neutral Milk Hotel. He is currently awaiting an interview for his application to be Drake's lint roller of record. That's probably all you need to know about him.
Resident neo-grunge rockers MPV (aka My Pal Val) definitely know a thing or two about gigging in Detroit. The trio have been a staple for some time now, playing every dive bar and DIY space in the city, or in Michigan for that matter. It’s no surprise then that the video for “Mister Sister”…
Detroit’s very own Danny Brown recently sat down with journalist Hattie Collins as a part of Red Bull Music Academy’s tour stop in Glasgow. For well over an hour, the rapper discussed his early affinity for Wu-Tang and admiration for his local heroes The White Stripes. Brown also touched on his influences, including Dr….
Marshall Mathers is truly masterful with a mic in his hand. From silly, mile-a-minute rhymes to gritty autobiographical stories, the Detroit emcee covers the entire spectrum of a great hip-hop artist. Now fans can get a little more insight straight from the source, via the popular annotation website Genius, formerly known as Rap…
Detroit techno icon Jeff Mills is no stranger to scoring films. Back in 2000, The Wizard shared his re-imagining of Fritz Lang’s classic Metropolis, and earlier this year he contributed a score for the director’s The Woman in the Moon. For his latest endeavor, Mills tackled Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished 1964 film L’enfer (Inferno)…
As reported a few months back, Detroit techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson visited the Ford Wayne Assembly Plant with field recording equipment and film crew in tow. Now you can watch a short documentary produced from the trip. Throughout the video, Saunderson compares the rhythmic clanking and contrasting analog and digital machinery to the sounds…
For eighteen years now, the Metro Times Blowout has been one of the premiere showcases for local talent in the greater Detroit area. Guaranteeing this year will be the most insane party yet, Andrew WK will return to his home state to headline one night, as well as definitive hardcore act Fucked Up. If…
Dead vegetation photographed in stark black and white provides the backdrop for Autumn Nicole Wetli’s newest video. Filmed over the course of a vacation in California, Wetli (who also performs in Rebel Kind) sings of heartbreak in her signature country-tinged drawl and kicks up some dirt in her abandoned lover’s face. “I Still…
Detroit-born singer-songwriter Sufjan Steven’s triumphant return to the folk frontier will arrive on March 31 in the form of his new album Carrie & Lowell. Steven has already shared “No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross” from it; now he has given us our second preview of his new work, and yes, there is…
Metalheads and punks rejoice, as the second annual installment of Berserker is set to take place at The Loving Touch in Ferndale from March 12–14 with a free kickoff event on March 11. This year’s event boasts over fifty acts from all over the state and the country, with fifteen sets taking the…
In 2008, Elzhi’s The Preface was lauded as one of Detroit’s best hip-hop albums of the year. Seven years and one Kickstarter project later, the former Slum Village member plans to release his follow up project Lead Poison. “February” is our first glimpse at what the artful emcee has been up to. A…