Last year, Seraphine Collective — a Detroit-based community of female-identified musicians and artists — hosted BFF Fest at the Trinosophes café, gallery, and performing arts space in Eastern Market. The result was a progressive, one-day event that highlighted women, people of color, and LGBTQ performers. BFF Fest is happening again this year on…
This weekend, Tec-Troit takes over Detroit with three full days of electronic music. The festival is the largest free electronic music festival in the city since the loss of Detroit Electronic Music Festival. Tec-Troit features some of the best hometown talent, from local favorites to internationally respected artists. This year’s Tec-Troit boasts three…
Saturday (June 20) marks the annual “Woodbridge Merrick’n Summer” – where local artists will take over the Woodbridge neighborhood in Detroit for a full day of music. The lineup features more than 20 acts, including hometown favorites ADULT., Ritual Howls, MPV, Javelins, James Linck, Jaws That Bite, Little Animal, Ancient Language and others….
Sir Richard Branson loves Detroit. The British entrepreneur just announced direct flights to and from Detroit Metro to London Heathrow via his own Virgin Atlantic airlines. The maiden voyage of this new route featured celebrity passengers, including Mr. Branson himself, as well as the cast of “Motown: The Musical.” As passengers embarked…
When many people think of Nick Cave, they may immediately think of The Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party, rock music’s reigning “Prince of Darkness,” whose death-obsessed lyrics and dark baritone voice have made him a staple among lovers of the post-punk era. But there’s another Nick Cave, arguably as important to the cultural…
Detroit-native producer/emcee Black Milk will host a spectacular tour stop at Midtown’s Garden Theater on June 20, which will showcase multiple styles of homegrown talent and big Detroit names. Since the release of 2014’s If There’s a Hell Below, which featured Pete Rock, Bun B and fellow Random Axe members, Black Milk has…
A full year after it was first announced, Jeff Mills’ Exhibitionist 2 will finally see release. The CD + DVD package is due out September 2015 — 11 years after the first project of that name — and will be accompanied by a series of three EP releases that serve as “an introduction to…
Last summer, a little earworm of a track seemed to sprout out of nowhere, gaining heat in the streets and then setting fire to the charts. “Try Me,” the straight-shooting single from Detroit emcee DeJ Loaf was an unexpected success story from a city that by now should be used to them, but the…
Fresh off a much-lauded performance last weekend at Governors Ball in New York City, Weird Al Yankovic made a stop at Jack White’s Third Man Records in Nashville to make a very unique kind of recording. The reigning king of song parodies tried his hand, and his vocal cords, out in the Voice-O-Graph booth,…
Detroit’s very own Slum Village return with their eighth studio album, Yes!, which is scheduled for release June 16 via Ne’Astra Music. Almost the entire record features beats from none other than the late J Dilla, who was an original member and producer of the group. The current Slum Village lineup comprises T3, Illa…