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.
Growth can be a double-edged sword in rap. Even the upcoming N.W.A biopic can’t undo the damage of Are We There Yet? Sean Michael Leonard Anderson, better known as Big Sean, is a far way from Ice Cube’s gangsta-turned-family man fate, but he is growing up. A serendipitous meeting with Kanye West a decade…
In preparation for a Nirvana covers album, the blog Pigeons & Planes reached out to Detroit rapper and visual artist ZelooperZ to provide the cover art. In response, he sent the publication the requested art (which you can see above), but he also included a bonus (surprise!) rendition of Nirvana’s “Negative Creep.” ZelooperZ’s…
Detroit has been attracting many young people in recent years who have an entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to investing in the city’s homegrown talent. This new cohort is mostly composed of twenty- and thirtysomethings — not teenagers — yet it’s a sixteen-year-old who’s behind one of The Motor City’s well-established vinyl record labels. Jarett Koral founded…
Lazaretto sounded like it could have been recorded anytime in the past fifty years, but Detroit’s Jack White proves once more that he is looking to the future when it comes to the promotional cycle for his sophomore solo album. The video for his latest single “That Black Bat Licorice” has just been released,…
He’s given the world so much — including such memorable classics as “Living for the City” and “Higher Ground” — but last Tuesday it was the music industry who returned the love when they gathered at the Nokia Theatre in L.A. to give a tribute to Detroit legend Stevie Wonder for An All-Star Grammy Salute, which aired last…
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…
The Hollywood Vampires are back from the (un)dead. Detroit-native shock rocker Alice Cooper has announced the formation of a new supergroup with actor Johnny Depp and Aerosmith’s Joe Perry called The Hollywood Vampires. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Cooper’s used it before, to refer to his notorious posse of drinking buddies including John Lennon, Harry…
In anticipation of his upcoming third studio album Dark Sky Paradise, Detroit rapper and GOOD Music affiliate Big Sean has released a behind-the-scenes video in which he talks about the importance of patience in his life and how it has helped him throughout his career. The three-minute clip also features collaborators such as…
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…
Legendary proto-punk band Death formed in Detroit in the 1970s and spent years recording music at United Sound Recording Studios before becoming long-forgotten. This all changed in 2009, when Drag City released the act’s 1975-recorded …For the Whole World to See, which was quickly followed by a live shows, an award-winning documentary, and two more albums of previously…