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.
At the beginning of the year, Detroit-born singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens indicated via a website post that he would be contributing to a long-awaited Arthur Russell tribute compilation from the Red Hot Organization. The album, Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell, now has an official release date of October 21 via Yep Roc. In addition, Stevens’…
Jack White hasn’t just been pressing records lately; he’s also been setting them. In April, the Detroit-born rocker announced and released the “World’s Fastest Released Record,” a direct-to-acetate live version of the title track from his sophomore solo album, Lazaretto, which was completed in under four hours. Then, when the album proper itself — packaged as an Ultra LP…
Detroit may have fallen on some hard times of late, but its musical spirit is soaring like never before. That’s the main takeaway from the seventh episode of Noisey’s Made in America series, which focuses on the diverse music being made by local artists. Past installments of this Budweiser-sponsored series have featured cities such as Memphis…
Detroit’s Kid Rock is no stranger to salacious news stories, but when his name was splashed across headlines in association with a glass dildo a few weeks ago, the self-proclaimed cowboy remained quiet on the subject — until now. The rapper-rocker took to his website last night and published two letters he states…
In the early aughts, two musicians — separated both by genre and geography — decided to collaborate on a set of tracks that would eventually comprise a full-length album. Painstakingly created over ten months through a process of mailing CD-Rs back and forth, the project eventually adopted the name The Postal Service after the organization that assisted in…
Jack White’s label Third Man Records has announced the launch of a new publishing wing, Third Man Books. The imprint’s first title, Language Lessons: Volume I, is a box set comprising a 321-page collection of poetry, prose, and art, as well as a double-LP compilation. It will be commercially available August 5. Language Lessons comes in a hardcover…
He is an icon of Detroit techno’s second wave, yet that statement alone not only obscures, but also misrepresents, the truth about Richie Hawtin. To start, he isn’t truly from Detroit, but rather Windsor; moreover, his background reads like a travelogue, with stops in England, New York, and Berlin. Nevertheless, Hawtin’s mind-bending, minimalist…
Philadelphia-based Freeway’s reputation had been in dire need of a rehabilitation since 2007, when the rapper parted ways with Roc-A-Fella: enter a collaboration with Gregg Gillis, a.k.a Girl Talk. At first glance, their partnership on this year’s Broken Ankles EP might not have seemed like a natural fit, but Girl Talk’s vibrant take on pop’s…
Beck has been surprising listeners for twenty years with his eclectic, genre-spanning approach to making music, but fans of the singer-songwriter were given a truly unexpected treat Saturday night at the Fox Theatre, where he was scheduled to perform as part of his tour supporting his latest album, Morning Phase. When supporting act The Ghost of a Saber…
Busta Rhymes joins forces with Detroit’s hip-hop bad boy Eminem on the Brooklyn-based, gravel-voiced rapper’s track “Calm Down,” though judging from the comic book-inspired artwork on the single’s cover, the collaboration is less about teaming up than it is about settling scores. The track — our first taste from Busta Rhymes’ forthcoming…