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.
The best bands make hard work look easy, and nowhere is that more true than with Detroit garage-punk group Growwing Pains. Two years ago, the five-piece released their debut album 17 Songs About the Same Girl on local imprint Urinal Cake Records, a label known for its dedication to independent artists who largely appeal…
Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche, David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy. The history of music is littered with these sorts of compositional projects, song cycles, and album series — ambitious multi-course aural feasts and sonic feats connected by grand motifs and big ideas. We’re talking huge monstrosities…
View image | gettyimages.com “Something nobody in the rap world thought was possible” is about to become a reality. According to a feature in Hollywood Reporter, N.W.A — the West Coast hip-hop group who popularized gangsta rap in the late 1980s — will be reuniting for a tour in support of the biopic…
The experimental noise underground is known for acts that are as prolific as they are provocative, with artists producing several limited-release runs of work yearly on formats as far afield as CD-Rs or cassette tapes. In our digital era, these media may seem antiquated, but in a genre known for its attention to tactile…
The first words we hear on “KYBM” are “This is unconventional.” They’re an apt description not only for the sound and substance of the second single Tunde Olaniran’s shared from his forthcoming debut full-length, Transgressor, but they sum up the artist himself. Olaniran makes music whose path is completely unpredictable, but whose results are…
If you thought the release of a long-awaited EP from Detroit’s rising electro-pop duo Gosh Pith would mean a break from new material for a while, then you’d be wrong — or at least partly so. Although Josh Smith and Josh Freed put out their debut record, Window, about two months ago, they’ve also…
Widely considered the breakout story of last year’s Detroit rock scene, post-punk act Protomartyr could have easily coasted on the success of their sophomore album, Under Color of Official Right, our pick for the best album of 2014. But they’re not resting on their laurels; today the band announced the upcoming release of their next…
You can’t really talk about trumpeter Dave Douglas’ latest release – the self-titled debut of High Risk – for very long before a couple key points inevitably get raised. Foremost among these talking points is that the quartet from which the album takes its name is really the brainchild of both Dave Douglas and…
Making music is hard work, and if you choose to make it your life’s work, well good luck. The promises of easy wealth and fame that once accompanied the rock star lifestyle have all but evaporated along with the traditional music industry’s dominance. Perhaps your goals are aesthetic rather than financial, but even then…
