Marshall Mathers is truly masterful with a mic in his hand. From silly, mile-a-minute rhymes to gritty autobiographical stories, the Detroit emcee covers the entire spectrum of a great hip-hop artist. Now fans can get a little more insight straight from the source, via the popular annotation website Genius, formerly known as Rap…
After two successful years at the Freedom Hill Amphitheatre in Sterling Heights, organizers of the Mo Pop Festival announced today that the indie rock-themed event will expand to two stages and two days (July 25 and 26) when it moves to its new home at West Riverfront Park in Downtown Detroit. This year’s…
Detroit techno icon Jeff Mills is no stranger to scoring films. Back in 2000, The Wizard shared his re-imagining of Fritz Lang’s classic Metropolis, and earlier this year he contributed a score for the director’s The Woman in the Moon. For his latest endeavor, Mills tackled Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished 1964 film L’enfer (Inferno)…
The last time Detroit-native electronic artist Jimmy Edgar and Berlin-based producer Machinedrum teamed up as JETS was in 2012, and now they’re back for round two. Their four-track EP The Chants is due out May 11 on the duo’s own Ultramajic label. The pair explain the process behind the new album in press…
After a 10-year hiatus (and some undeniable aging), The Rolling Stones will return to Comerica Park on July 8, as part of the legendary group’s upcoming Zip Code Tour. The 15-city tour, which is scheduled to begin in San Diego and end in Quebec, Canada, will feature The Rolling Stones’ semi-original, and most…
After a slew of recent on-stage controversies (including an attack on Run the Jewels, a ballsy RiFF RAFF shoulder tap and a brutally-punished Lil Wayne bottle-thrower), Danny Brown is the latest to cross paths with a disrespectful concert attendee. While performing in Glasgow, Scotland on March, 28, Brown excited his audience with an…
Motor City electronic artist Terrence Dixon has thrown his support behind a crowdfunding effort aiming to launch Minimal Detroit Lounge, a new club that hopes to launch in May with Juan Atkins confirmed as resident DJ. The venue, which takes its name from a series of Detroit-focused house and techno groups Dixon formed on…
Detroit techno legend Carl Craig and Chicago house heavyweight Green Velvet have teamed up for a collaborative album, Unity. The seven-track album was released through Beatport by Relief Records earlier this week with little fanfare. Twitter and Facebook posts from Craig, Green Velvet, and Relief Records were the only indication that the new work…
As reported a few months back, Detroit techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson visited the Ford Wayne Assembly Plant with field recording equipment and film crew in tow. Now you can watch a short documentary produced from the trip. Throughout the video, Saunderson compares the rhythmic clanking and contrasting analog and digital machinery to the sounds…
High Tech Soul: The Creation of Techno Music, a documentary filmed in 2006, has long been an important document in archiving the history of Detroit’s role in shaping the genre’s legacy but fell out of print quickly after its release. Now the film has been reissued on DVD, giving fans an opportunity to hear…