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.
Carl Craig has already announced the reissue of his seminal album More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art, but now the second wave Detroit techno legend is ready to embark on another act of creative revolution. The veteran of the Motor City’s electronic music scene has shared details on an international event concept entitled Detroit Love. …
Every newly announced LP from Black Milk promises to reveal another side of the Detroit MC’s idiosyncratic production, which has changed course several times across six albums. Before going electro on Tronic, Milk explored the Sound of the City and brought wax back by Popular Demand; he later incorporated live-band musicians on Album…
Given some of the troubling lyrics in the recently released “SHADY CXVPHER” that Shady Records released in support of the upcoming Shady XV compilation, it may seem like Eminem vs. the World right now. But on the final track of the album, which hit the Internet today, the Motor City’s resident bad boy shows it’s always…
He’s already won 25 Grammy Awards and been nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but on November 24, Motown icon Stevie Wonder will join another rarified group. The musician is set to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the nation’s highest civilian honor, during a ceremony at the…
Last week, Detroit rapper Eminem announced the upcoming release of “SHADY CXVPHER” featuring Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse (Royce Da 5’9″, Crooked I, Joe Budden, and Joell Ortiz). This cypher — which was filmed to promote the forthcoming compilation album Shady XV — dropped this afternoon, just a few days later than initially expected. Even with the delay, the video promises…
Two icons of Motown will bring their talents to The Great White Way this winter. The Temptations and Four Tops have been tapped to play a one-week engagement at Broadway’s Palace Theatre from December 29 through January 4. Robert Ahrens, Eva Price, Manny Kladitis, A Broadway Concert Event, and Live Nation Entertainment…
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has announced a series of concerts in tribute to Simon & Garfunkel. The performances will be given under the direction of the much sought-after Pops Conductor, Michael Krajewski, and will include many of the folk-rock duo’s greatest hits such as “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Kodachrome,” and “Mrs. Robinson.”…
Usher may be making a stop at the Palace of Auburn Hills tomorrow as part of his fall tour, but the R&B star took a smaller — albeit, equally important — tour today through downtown Detroit. His guide? The billionaire developer and Usher’s partner in the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, Dan Gilbert. Gilbert, who owns…
If it weren’t for the credits splashed across the screen in a font reminiscent of pulp magazines or midcentury adventure novels, you might think the trailer below were for an upcoming foreign film destined for the arthouse circuit. But what you’re actually watching is a teaser of the video for “Bored + Lazy,” the new…
Nearly two months after announcing the upcoming release of a compilation album, Shady XV, Eminem took to Instagram and shared the artwork for the double-LP. Now the Detroit rapper has posted the tracklist for the project, which will comprise one disc of the greatest hits from the Shady Records label and one disc of new music — not only from…