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.
Eminem isn’t the first artist most parents think of when exposing their young children to new music, but that’s all about to change. The enfant terrible of rap is now infant-friendly, thanks to the work of Rockabye Baby. This company, who transform popular music hits into beautiful instrumental lullabies, have set their sites on the Detroit MC…
Detroit rock god Jack White can now add public intellectual to his resume. The former member of The White Stripes will participate in a roundtable discussion tonight at Yale University on “Exploring the Rise and Fall of Paramount Records.” White should have a lot to contribute, as his Third Man Records label joined John Fahey’s…
In 2001, at the peak of Detroit techno’s third wave, one half of the controversial duo Drexciya broke off to work on a side project. Transllusion’s The Opening of the Cerebral Gate, reissued last month, was a deviation only in name from what James Stinson produced with his former collaborator. In the album’s beats…
Since releasing their debut album, Wormfood, just over two years ago, the Detroit-based band Jamaican Queens have earned critical acclaim and become Motor City music royalty. But the group appears unbounded – either by city limits or stylistic conventions. Despite the title of their recently released single, “Bored + Lazy,” Jamaican Queens are…
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced the nominees for its 2015 induction, and among the list were The Marvelettes, an all-girl group that scored Motown its first number one single in 1961 with “Please Mr. Postman.” That song was later covered by The Beatles, but it’s only one of the many hits…
It’s been difficult to escape DeJ Loaf’s song “Try Me,” the past few months, as well as its numerous remixes from the likes of Wiz Khalifa, E-40, Vado, Lil Durk, and Lil Mama. Just today, the track landed at #1 on the Billboard Emerging Artists chart. Now, it has been reported that the Detroit…
Hell can take on many forms; that much is evident on “Scum,” the latest single to be shared from Detroit rapper/producer Black Milk’s forthcoming LP. On the shapeshifting track, the music mutates as verses bounce between Milk and members of Random Axe (Sean Price and Guilty Simpson), as if each man’s personal infernos…
Unlike the steady but assured ascent of their career’s trajectory over the past few years, the latest single from Detroit “trap-pop” group Jamaican Queens begins in fits and starts, as if trying to find its footing. The track’s title, too, indicates some degree of uncertainty — “Bored + Lazy” — with the punctuation a (plus) sign that there’s…
The history of techno is inextricably linked to Detroit, but if there’s any other city that’s played a formative role in the genre’s development, it would be Berlin. In 1991 — just two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall separating East from West and mere months before Germany unified — investor Dimitri Hegemann…
Isaiah “Ikey” Owens, keyboardist for Detroit rocker Jack White’s backing band, was found dead this morning in his Puebla, Mexico hotel room. According to a Facebook post from Jack White, “Out of respect for Ikey, the remaining shows of the Jack White Tour in Mexico have been cancelled.” News of Owens’ death was…