Khalid graduated from the same high school as Madonna and used to live with a Jamaican Queen, but he has always and will forever worship at the church of Björk.
Jeff Mills has, in recent months, announced a film project for The Louvre and a live album released in collaboration with pianist Mikhaïl Rudy, but this week the seminal Detroit techno artist topped those stories. Mills took to social media to share that he is preparing a multimedia experience inspired by the iconic Stanley…
After making a splash earlier this week with trendspotters by debuting the video for “Ghosttown” on the live-streaming app Meerkat, the Queen of Pop took to more traditional media last night for the ongoing promotion of her latest album, Rebel Heart. The Detroit-native artist appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she…
Continuing his mission to chronicle the history of early American popular music, Detroit rocker Jack White has teamed up with legendary singer-songwriter T-Bone Burnett and Hollywood icon Robert Redford as executive producers of American Epic, a three-part documentary series, feature film, and series of recordings. According to a press release, the Bernard MacMahon-directed series,…
After two successful years at the Freedom Hill Amphitheatre in Sterling Heights, organizers of the Mo Pop Festival announced today that the indie rock-themed event will expand to two stages and two days (July 25 and 26) when it moves to its new home at West Riverfront Park in Downtown Detroit. This year’s…
He traces her shadow with his shoe… the swim instructor can’t quite pronounce his name so instead calls him “Subaru”… when he was three or four she left them behind at a video store: There is no lack of faithfully recalled memories on Sufjan Stevens’ seventh full-length Carrie & Lowell, but they can’t bring…
Motor City electronic artist Terrence Dixon has thrown his support behind a crowdfunding effort aiming to launch Minimal Detroit Lounge, a new club that hopes to launch in May with Juan Atkins confirmed as resident DJ. The venue, which takes its name from a series of Detroit-focused house and techno groups Dixon formed on…
High Tech Soul: The Creation of Techno Music, a documentary filmed in 2006, has long been an important document in archiving the history of Detroit’s role in shaping the genre’s legacy but fell out of print quickly after its release. Now the film has been reissued on DVD, giving fans an opportunity to hear…
Madonna, over nearly three decades of Re-Invention, Blond Ambition, and Causing a Commotion, had proved untouchable when it came to pushing buttons – whether she targeted society, sexuality, or spirituality. Yet the past ten years saw her lose touch, in spite of her bids for relevance. It’s not completely her fault; after all,…
Detroit duo Passalacqua kicked off a burgeoning REVIVAL of conscious rap last summer with their captivating sophomore full-length CHURCH, an album recorded in collaboration with Seth and Jax Anderson of Flint Eastwood (known together as SYBLYNG) that was eagerly awaited but easily lived up to the hype. Prior to the release of CHURCH, Blaksmith…
Last night, Motown icon Stevie Wonder appeared on CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman in support of his Songs in the Key of Life tour. He gave a rousing performance of “I Wish” to the studio audience at the Ed Sullivan Theatre and sat down with the host for an interview about the 40th…