There’s nothing like a Midwestern rap romance to warm the heart on a chilly November day. Chicago rapper Lil Durk and Detroit’s woman of the hour Dej Loaf show their softer sides and profess their love for one another on the new single “My Beyoncé” off of Durk’s upcoming mixtape 300 Days, 300 Nights….
Lord Sear recently hosted New Jersey rapper Redman on The All Out Show. What should have been a standard episode of the program, which airs on SiriusXM satellite radio, ended up becoming a legendary edition to the series. While Redman was in the studio, the creator of the Shade 45 channel himself — Eminem — called…
Big Sean returned home Friday for an over-the-top homecoming performance that Detroit will never forget. The aptly named one-night concert “Finding Paradise: Live in Detroit,” a play off of his 2015 album title Dark Sky Paradise, boasted appearances by hometown heroes Eminem, Dej Loaf, Royce da 5’9″, Danny Brown, Mike Posner, and…
At this week’s 2015 Automobile Aftermarket Industry Week, hosted in Las Vegas annually during the first week of November, Chevrolet took the prize for “most patriotic super-duty” (not a real award) with a tribute to Detroit’s own Kid Rock. During the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show, geared towards aftermarket product buyers and…
It wouldn’t be Halloween without a little “trick or treat,” and fans of Sufjan Stevens were treated to both at the Detroit-born singer-songwriter’s show in Jersey City last night, when he brought on alt-R&B singer Gallant for a cover of — what else — Drake’s endlessly meme’d hit “Hotline Bling.” Unlike the sincere…
In an attempt to spark excitement for the 2015-2016 season, the Detroit Pistons front office has shared a promotional video featuring all things Detroit. The two-minute plus video, which premiered on the comedy website Funny or Die, follows the tumultuous journey of a Detroit Pistons game basketball as it travels across the…
In the spirit of the Halloween season, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is offering a spine-tingling pops series fit for The Skeleton King himself — “Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton” — which will take place Friday and Saturday (October 30 & 31). Elfman, the musical mastermind behind such Tim Burton-directed…
Members of MC5 appeared at a fundraising event for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Des Moines, Iowa this past Saturday. Among the Detroit proto-punks present was guitarist Wayne Kramer, who declared that “Bernie does kick out the jams.” The Motor City 5 started playing together in 1964 in Lincoln Park, Michigan, and…
In March, Detroit-born singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens released Carrie & Lowell, a welcome return to his folk roots featuring sparse instrumentation, brutally honest, introspective lyricism, and the sort of haunting melancholia that leaves you shaken long after you’ve finished listening to the album. Now Stevens’ has released a new version of the album’s final…
It’s only been a couple weeks since Jamaican Queens released a video for “Don’t Call Me Up,” and they’ve now shared some visuals for another Downers cut — “Never Felt Love.” It seems like both the band and director Brenton Bober are eager for Halloween weekend to arrive. The video calls to mind…