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.
Fans of avant-garde music have had much to celebrate recently in Detroit, with the continued success of collectives like New Music Detroit and their annual Strange Beautiful Music marathon, MOCAD’s and Trinosophes’ diverse sonic programming, and the announcement of the first Trip Metal Fest, which will offer a left-field alternative to Memorial Day weekend’s…
With vinyl sales at a 26-year high, this year’s Record Store Day promises to be bigger than ever. The annual event, founded in 2007, has already announced its list of exclusive releases that will be available at independent stores on April 16. Today, Third Man Records added a few more entries to the roster,…
J Dilla’s Dillatronic represents just one of many posthumous releases from an artist who left behind countless tracks. The producer, who died from Moschcowitz syndrome only three days after his 32nd birthday in 2006, went “through [four] production phases in his professional career,” according to no less than The Roots’ Questlove. “He was able…
“Cynthia Vortex aka Trip Memory Illness,” the final track on Wolf Eyes’ latest album, I Am a Problem: Mind in Pieces, is an eight-minute-long lysergic slide deep into a troubled psyche, punctuated with incomprehensible, garbled moans, droning subsonic bass frequencies, lurching guitar riffs, electronic slicing and dicing, and a forlorn flute solo. It’s a…
West Detroit supergroup Doughboyz Cashout self-released BYLUG World late last year as a free mixtape, and not — as many were hoping — a proper full-length from their home on Jeezy’s CTE World label (their last official output from the imprint was a 2013 remix of “Mob Life,” which had come out a year…
Nestled between a vegetarian-friendly diner and a gourmet bagel shop on Michigan Avenue in Corktown — Detroit’s oldest, but also one of its hottest, neighborhood — PJ’s Lager House has long been known as a hangout spot for local bands such as The White Stripes and a destination for touring rock acts looking to…
In what has become an unofficial AMA-style tradition for the Detroit rapper, Danny Brown fielded questions from fans on Twitter Friday night and revealed that a follow-up to 2013’s Old could be on its way very soon. When asked by one of his followers whether he had any plans to livestream himself playing video…
Months after a rare performance at The Masonic Temple, it was announced today that German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk will make history with a first-ever appearance at the 10th anniversary of the Movement Electronic Music Festival. The GRAMMY® Lifetime Achievement Award recipients will headline the event, which takes place Memorial Day weekend, May 28–30,…
The Audubon goes aural on Clyde Moop’s latest release, but Wavy Lab Volume 2 Phase 1 is no run-of-the-mill audio book. Instead, it’s an immersive sonic environment populated by mallards and Molly Soda, pekins and pot smoking, sandwiches and “stuff for sale.” Anyone familiar with the Scrummage and #CoOwnaz-affiliated producer would not expect anything…
Clyde Moop’s Wavy Lab Vol. 1 is a love letter to the classic ’90s sounds of Detroit’s ghettotech scene, a genre that started in the city’s dance clubs but cross-pollinated with electronic styles as varied as house, techno, UK garage, jungle, hip-hop, and R&B. The music was loose-limbed and lewd, with fast, four-on-the-floor rhythms…