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.
Continuing his streak of non-solo, non-album-related projects — which will soon include a children’s book — Detroit emcee Danny Brown has brought his unmistakable voice to network television. Last night’s premiere of the new ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat featured Brown rapping the theme song. The show is based on the memoirs of chef Eddie Huang,…
As previously reported, a track-by-track archive of Detroit rocker Jack White’s performance last Friday at New York’s Madison Square Garden is now available to stream via Pandora. His show was notable for not only featuring Run the Jewels (El-P and Run the Jewels) in the opening slot — a set that included surprise guests such as…
Following on the success of last summer’s album CHURCH, Detroit rap act Passalacqua are preparing to embark on their first full-scale national tour. The duo of Blaksmith (Brent Smith) and Mister (Bryan Lackner) will join Height Keech and Eze Jackson for the inaugural North American edition of the Rap Round Robin. This annual tradition,…
As winter storms loomed over much of the Northeast last night, Detroit rapper Big Sean took to social media and shared a cryptic image of black clouds with the words “DARK SKY PARADISE” superimposed over them. Earlier that day, the G.O.O.D. Music artist tweeted “done,” likely referring to finishing his third record. Other individuals who…
We’ve already learned that Jack White’s show next Friday, January 30 at NYC’s Madison Square Garden will feature Run the Jewels (El-P and Killer Mike) as his opener, but today we’ve received word that the performance will also be livestreamed by Pandora. Furthermore, Third Man Records has curated a digital mixtape on the Jack White…
“Music is the universal language of mankind.” This line out of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Outre-Mer from 1835 seems as old as time itself but has been misquoted often enough that its sentiment rings hollow. The Internet, held in high esteem by many for its democratizing aims, has too often had a flattening effect on music. More of it is…
As part of his homecoming last summer, Jack White donned a vintage Detroit Stars jersey and threw the ceremonial first pitch at a Tigers game at Comerica Park. To commemorate the occasion, Topps is releasing a new baseball card featuring the rocker as part of the 2015 Topps Series 1 set. The First…
The annual South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival (SXSW) began in 1987 and has grown to encompass not only music, but also film and emerging technology. The music festival, however, is now the largest of its kind in the world, with more than 2,200 official performers and bands playing in more than 100 venues….
Detroit rapper Eminem once famously used an interpretation of Aerosmith’s “Dream On” for the chorus of his track “Sing for the Moment,” but on Sunday he made a terminally ill teenager’s dream come true, and this time it was with relatively little fanfare. Seventeen-year-old Gage Garmo, a student at Rochester High School, has fought…
It’s been almost five years since the Detroit-born singer-songwriter put out his last proper full-length album, The Age of Adz, but he hasn’t stayed quiet. In that time, he’s released an LP and an EP with his side project Sisyphus, scored a documentary about rodeos, collaborated with Nico Muhly and Bryce Dessner on classical music,…