Detroit roots-rocker Bob Seger has announced a national tour with the Silver Bullet Band in support of his forthcoming album Ride Out, due out October 2014. The run will begin on November 19 at Saginaw’s Dow Event Center and includes a show in Grand Rapids at Van Andel Arena on December 9. Though no Metro…
Livonia-based dream pop act His Name Is Alive will self-release a full-length album entitled Tecuciztecatl on October 28. The LP, which will be distributed by Light in the Attic, is being billed as a “psychedelic rock opera” and comes bearing a synopsis: The rock opera is imagined vaguely in the shape of a 1969 Hammer horror film: bloody,…
After a brief teaser video, Detroit-rapper Royce da 5’9″ and DJ Premier have announced a collaboration project titled PRhyme, which will include countless high-profile features. The entirety of PRhyme will be produced by DJ Premier, marking Premo’s first full collaboration album since his involvement in Gang Starr. In addition to utilizing only one producer, all samples…
Detroit-native funk collective Will Sessions has announced via social media a new set of “Mixtakes,” which will feature legendary Detroit performers Dennis Coffey and McKinley Jackson. The group’s first “Mixtake” series focused on recreated sounds from favorite songs. The two-part series was visually-documented by The Work, and offered as a digital and physical…
The Redford Theatre will host a three-day marathon of screenings for the 1961 classic musical “West Side Story” this weekend, in addition to welcoming a very special guest. Rita Moreno, who was awarded an Academy Award for her role as “Anita” (of the Puerto Rican Sharks gang), is scheduled to appear at all three…
Aretha Franklin’s “diva covers album” will be gracing the ears of Detroit listeners digitally by September 30, according to reports by Showbiz411’s Roger Friedman. The album, which is tentatively titled Aretha Franklin Sings Songs of the Great Divas, has been announced for release just before the Grammy Awards deadline thanks to legendary record…
Not to be outdone by like-minded producers, Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills announced on his Facebook page that he would not only be composing the score for an upcoming film, but that he would be writing and directing it as well. Life to Death and Back was created as for The Louvre Museum in Paris…
In an effort to raise awareness for Detroit’s right to vote, Detroit’s-own Big Sean and self-proclaimed mayor Trick Trick will host an evening of high-level political discussion, candidate education and local music. The community event, coined “Sound Over Silence,” will be sponsored by Detroit’s ASSEMBLE, Vote Detroit, AIDS Partnership Michigan, and Common Cause…
Two iconic musicians joined forces last fall to chronicle the story of one of America’s most significant record labels, and now they’ve reconvened to finish the job. Jack White’s Third Man Records has partnered with John Fahey’s Revenant Records to release The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volume Two (1928-1932), the sequel and…
Detroit-born Jack White talks about his rapid rise in the early aughts, and how that sudden fame led him to move from the Motor City to Nashville in an excerpt from an upcoming interview with Dan Rather on AXS TV. “It was very hard for me to move. Detroit — I always imagined I…