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.
If you caught Shigeto’s dazzling set at this year’s Movement Electronic Music Festival and were hoping to hear some new music from the virtuoso drummer and producer, then you’re in luck. The Ann Arbor native has just announced the debut album from High Risk, a jazz quartet the Ghostly mainstay formed in collaboration with…
Late in January, Ypsilanti-based songwriter Fred Thomas – best known as the leader of the lo-fi indie pop group Saturday Looks Good to Me – released “Bad Blood.” Dirty laundry, the airing of grievances, a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves – in Fred Thomas’ hands these grand statements of self-reproach and repentance…
Detroit filmmaking duo The Right Brothers have released a video for Chicago-based artist Emily Kempf’s “Dynamite,” from her album FEELINGS. The track, which was recorded live on an iPhone4, also bears a local music connection as it features additional drums and production from Eddie Logix, who has been rebuilding his studio with the help…
KMS, the record label started by Detroit techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson in 1987, has been reissuing seminal works on vinyl over the past several years. These include Saunderson’s Just Want Another Chance (made famous by its signature “Reese” bassline), as well as releases by MK, Chez N Trent, and Kreem (the duo of Saunderson…
Iconic ambient techno duo The Orb have revealed the details of their upcoming album, the first for Cologne-based label Kompakt since 2005’s Okie Dokie It’s the Orb on Kompakt, and it is set to feature a tribute to Detroit’s J Dilla. As usual, Moonbuilding 2703 AD will also see Alex Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann…
Halfway through his nearly two-hour set at the Masonic Temple Theatre, Sufjan Stevens took a break from the stirring renditions of the spare, haunting songs off his latest studio album, Carrie & Lowell, to address the audience. In a brief monologue, he reminisced about his childhood in Detroit, from his birth in Hutzel Hospital…
With her fiercely literate brand of rock ‘n’ roll and her uncompromisingly ambitious spirit, Patti Smith is often remembered as she appears on the cover of her 1975 debut album Horses — a steely, androgynous rebel with a cause. But The High Priestess of Punk didn’t stay in New York forever, eventually trading in the…
