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.
Windy & Carl’s 2012 album We Will Always Be came with a caveat — a confessional blog post about marriage’s trials that, depending on your worldview, either upheld or undermined the work’s title. With tracks as generous and genuine as what they ended up recording, songs like “Remember” or “Nature of Memory”,…
When you think of jazz, Ghostface Killah and Detroit’s Danny Brown don’t immediately jump to mind. However, these two maestros of rap have lent their rhymes to music by Toronto’s post-bop trio BADBADNOTGOOD. The single is called “Six Degrees,” and it’s part of a 10-inch record scheduled for release on June 24 via Lex/eOne….
In celebration of his self-run label FXHE Records’ tenth anniversary, the notoriously cryptic Detroit house producer Omar S is releasing the second in a series of mix CDs, due out next month. Omar S first announced this project in January to Juno Plus, stating his intention of including previously released material from the…
Detroit’s experimental post-punk five-piece Bars of Gold have released the first video from their stunning sophomore LP, 2013’s Wheels. The clip for “Blue Lightning” cycles through a refracted set of close-ups of the band members’ faces as they undergo some playful – but disconcerting – transformations. This, combined which the neon-colored, but slightly…
Detroit’s own Jack White shared a new track Friday from Lazaretto, his upcoming sophomore solo LP from Third Man Records. “Just One Drink” is the third cut he’s revealed ahead of the June 10th album release. Unlike the previously-released instrumental number “High Ball Stepper,” “Just One Drink” kicks off with fuzzed-out, bluesy guitar…
As promised on an announcement via his Instagram account yesterday, Detroit’s very own Eminem has released a video for the latest single from his multi-platinum selling album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 just in time for Mother’s Day. The clip for “Headlights” — directed by renowned filmmaker Spike Lee — depicts a reconciliation…
The Detroit five-piece Fireworks’ 2011 record Gospel was pure pop-punk that smelled like teen spirit: frontman David Mackinder reflected on adolescent angst as if in need of tranquilizers, yet the slower-paced alt-country touch on songs like “The Wild Bunch” foreshadowed maturity. Nevertheless, on Fireworks’ third full-length studio release, there is no real release…
Jack White and Ben Blackwell of Third Man Records have released a video outlining the groundbreaking features of the whimsical new vinyl release of Lazaretto, referred to as the “ULTRA LP.” In addition to updated track versions, and both a matte and gloss finish (one for each side), the album contains several never-before-seen features,…
In June 2012, a documentary premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, whose poster declared in all caps “BEFORE THERE WAS PUNK, THERE WAS A BAND CALLED DEATH”. This film – entitled after the last four words of that tagline – tells the story of the eponymous band, a proto-punk group who formed in…
Despite a successful inaugural year for Detroiters in 2013, Laneway Festival has announced its postponement of Laneway Detroit 2014 “due to timing.” Originally hosted in Melbourne, Australia, in 2004, St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival chose Detroit as its first American outpost after co-founder Danny Rogers spent time in the city. Nearly 7,500 attendees descended…