After a three-year period of releasing strictly singles and EPs, Detroit-based house producer and DJ Omar-S (née Alex Omar Smith) plans to release a full-length later this month. The Best will comprise eleven tracks and marks Omar-S’s first full-length since 2013’s Thank You for Letting Me Be Myself. The Best is loaded with…
Los Angeles-via-Eastpointe singer JMSN puts in work. What began with his mother cold-calling A&R reps and a young Christian Berishaj recording an entire album (including playing all the instruments) when he was eighteen years old led to a contract with Atlantic Records. After leaving Atlantic, signing to another major label (the now defunct Universal…
Ann Arbor native Colin Stetson is a virtuoso saxophone player whose past collaborations with artists such as Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, and TV on the Radio read as a veritable encyclopedia of experimental musicianship. After Stetson’s last solo effort, 2013’s New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, anticipation for his…
Eminem has been hard at work over the three years since his last studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2. His compilation album Shady XV achieved Gold status, he wrote original music for the film Southpaw, and recently it was confirmed that Eight Mile 2 is in the works. Fans now have even more to look forward to,…
For a quarter of a century, the highly renowned German label Tresor has been boldly challenging genre classifications of all kinds, and as part of its 25-year anniversary celebrations it has announced the release of a collaborative album by Juan Atkins and Moritz Van Oswald. The techno icons first worked together as Borderland in…
Detroit native Jack White recently made an appearance on The Muppets season finale to give the show’s famed house band Electric Mayhem a turn in their ever-rotating cast of backing musicians. His appearance had been promoted in a teaser in which the former White Stripe performed “Fell in Love with a Girl” alongside a…
We’re all trying to survive the harsh winter weeks, and a recently uncovered Danny Brown verse can certainly stoke the fire in one’s gut. Fans of the Adderall Admiral got a gift in the form of the remixed A$AP Mob track, “Hella Hoes,” with Brown’s once lost verse intact. A$AP Mob, a rap…
Chris Bathgate’s output might be called methodical by some, though his die-hard fans may be more apt to describe it as frustratingly infrequent. The indie folk singer-songwriter’s track “Calvary” is the lead single from the recent EP Old Factory, his first release since 2011’s Salt Year. “Calvary” is classic Bathgate, as he returns to form…
The recent water crisis in Flint has dominated regional and international news, inspiring athletes, public figures, and musicians to make cash donations and encourage bottled water donations to help city residents. (The list includes Jack White’s Third Man Records, Pearl Jam, rapper Meek Mill, Wiz Khalifa, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Cher, and more.) …
Bruiser Brigade’s resident DJ Skywlkr has released a track in collaboration with his “day one” homie Dream Beach. “Blue Dream” packs a lot into three minutes, combining the drum patterns and bass found in many of Skywlkr’s beats with Dream Beach’s ethereal and playful song structures. Thankfully, this is the “first of many” according…