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.
BeatKing brings Danny Brown in for a guest appearance on his latest single “Rambunctious,” but it’s the Houston rapper and not Detroit’s prevailing hip-hop heavyweight who name-checks another Motor City musician. Comparing his voice to Stevie Wonder is among the many hashtag-ready boasts the MC makes on this cut – which also features RiFF RAFF – from Underground…
“It’s not enough that I love you / There’s all these things that I have to prove to you” So sings Jack White in “Would You Fight for My Love?” the third single to be released off the Detroit rocker’s sophomore solo album Lazaretto. He may be singing to an unimpressed lover, but it’s also…
If you thought Richie Hawtin was done EXploring the intersection of museums and music, you’d be wrong. The second wave Detroit techno artist continues to prove he’s exactly that — an artist — by taking on a commission from the Centre Pompidou in Paris to compose an alternative score for Brumes d’automne, a French silent movie from 1928 directed by the…
Though alternative hip-hop can break through to mainstream audiences, oftentimes it’s because the musicians have bent, broken, or completely thrown away the “rap rules.” Beyond the golden age of hip-hop and glossy radio rap, many sounds have tested the limits of genre and the patience of listeners: clipping.’s earsplitting sheets of harsh noise, Death Grip’s…
Although he hasn’t released any new solo work since last year’s masterful album Old, Detroit rapper Danny Brown’s distinctive voice hasn’t gone quiet by any means. Artists as varied as post-bop trio BADBADNOTGOOD, speed-rap’s roadrunner Busdriver, and maximalist Glasgow producer Rustie have called on Brown’s talents for their own tracks. Jumping on that bandwagon are California five-piece The Neighbourhood,…
Late last week, Jack White’s Third Man Records announced the release of Bathtub Love Killings, the first full-length album from St. Clair Shores native Olivia Jean, due out on October 14 of this year. Jean, a multi-instrumentalist who got her start making music with the surf rock band Idée Fixe, first caught White’s attention after a secret Dead Weather…
This spring brought us music from Sleepless Inn – the duo of Laura Finlay and Eddie Logix – that floated amidst electro-pop images culled from beach vacation postcards of days gone by but transmitted across channels less of the English variety than the televised sort. To create their evocative sound, Finlay and…
Jessica Hernandez understands better than most how to craft a vision through sound. Each track we’ve heard from her, especially those off the five-song EP Demons from last year, is a musical universe entirely unto itself. She makes magic with her songwriting, striking vocals, and backing band’s arrangements — Demons draws much of…
Drone warfare has been all over the news for quite some time now, but you don’t often hear about attacks like this. On Saturday, the Detroit proto-punk group Death and Los Angeles hardcore punk band Trash Talk both played shows at the former Michigan Theatre as part of a Zumiez Best Foot Forward indoor skateboarding event….
In case the recent torrential downpours were not a sufficient cleansing for the Motor City, Detroit hip-hop duo Passalacqua have sent forth their own ritual purification — except this one is more visual than it is diluvial. Ahead of the August 19 release of their second full-length album CHURCH, Blaksmith (Brent Smith) and Mister (Bryan Lackner) joined forces with The Right…