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.
More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art is widely considered Carl Craig’s finest recorded work and a seminal tract in the history of Detroit techno. Now, the 1997 masterpiece is being remastered and reissued by the artist’s own Planet E label on double-vinyl, CD, and digital formats. The CD version will comprise sixteen tracks, including an…
As temperatures steadily fall in metro Detroit and we begin to grapple with the realization that warm weather won’t return anytime soon, it’s another kind of “cool” that hometown indie-pop duo Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr are interested in. On “James Dean,” a new single released to promote an extensive national tour this fall, the group both…
Producer John Beltran has worked with seminal Detroit techno legends such as Derrick May and released numerous records on Carl Craig’s Retro-Active label. In addition, he’s spent nearly two decades creating music for labels including R&S and Peacefrog that spans terrain as widespread as IDM and jazz-house. This fall, Beltran’s keen musical ear will be…
There was never any need for The Queen of Soul to defend her title. With such indelible songs to her name such as “I Say a Little Prayer,” “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” and “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You),” only a “Chain of Fools” would question…
Detroit roots-rocker Bob Seger has announced a national tour with the Silver Bullet Band in support of his forthcoming album Ride Out, due out October 2014. The run will begin on November 19 at Saginaw’s Dow Event Center and includes a show in Grand Rapids at Van Andel Arena on December 9. Though no Metro…
Livonia-based dream pop act His Name Is Alive will self-release a full-length album entitled Tecuciztecatl on October 28. The LP, which will be distributed by Light in the Attic, is being billed as a “psychedelic rock opera” and comes bearing a synopsis: The rock opera is imagined vaguely in the shape of a 1969 Hammer horror film: bloody,…
Not to be outdone by like-minded producers, Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills announced on his Facebook page that he would not only be composing the score for an upcoming film, but that he would be writing and directing it as well. Life to Death and Back was created as for The Louvre Museum in Paris…
If There’s a Hell Below is the name of Detroit rapper-producer Black Milk’s soon-to-be-released sixth studio album, and if the title indicates where the MC is headed, at least he’s in good company. Guests on the record include kindred spirits such as Ab-Soul, Blu, Random Axe, Gene Obey, and Pete Rock. But on the LP’s latest advance single —…
Two iconic musicians joined forces last fall to chronicle the story of one of America’s most significant record labels, and now they’ve reconvened to finish the job. Jack White’s Third Man Records has partnered with John Fahey’s Revenant Records to release The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volume Two (1928-1932), the sequel and…
Detroit-born Jack White talks about his rapid rise in the early aughts, and how that sudden fame led him to move from the Motor City to Nashville in an excerpt from an upcoming interview with Dan Rather on AXS TV. “It was very hard for me to move. Detroit — I always imagined I…