Local print-weekly Metro Times has released the initial lineup for their 17th-annual Blowout music festival, scheduled for April 30 through May 3, hosted in Hamtramck, Ferndale and Detroit. The event has grown in recent years, providing the Detroit-area with 300 local acts spread across more than 20 venues. Sponsors for 2014’s Blowout includes:…
Detroit’s favorite trap-pop trio has announced a 2014 month-long European tour spanning three countries – Spain, France and the UK. The announcement was posted to the group’s Facebook page on March 24 (accompanied by a violently-psychedelic cat graphic), as the tour’s first performance is scheduled for March 28 at Brise Glace in Annecy,…
UK-based music educators have chosen Detroit as the home of their third music education campus – welcome to The Detroit Institute of Music Education.
It has been confirmed that Danny Brown has not only reissued his 2008 classic Hot Soup on vinyl, but has also made available his 2013 masterpiece Old on the same format.The re-release of Brown’s 2008 Hot Soup is being offered via Underground Hip Hop with a pre-sale ship date of April 15. (Correlating with 2014’s Record Store Day.) The double-LP set…
Eminem and Rihanna have officially announced their Detroit performance date for the highly-publicized, three-city summer Monster Tour: August 22 at Comerica Park. Tickets for Eminem’s hometown-leg of the tour will be made available March 28 at 10 am (EST), though prices are yet to be announced. Registration for pre-sale tickets, available 3/22…
Pharrell Williams’ Academy Award-nominated single “Happy” has gone viral on YouTube – again. Unlike Williams’ original 24-hour music video project (in connection with Despicable Me 2), this two-minute clip features the Detroit Academy of Arts & Sciences elementary school choir’s version of the song. The video was uploaded to YouTube on March 7 by Edward Bone…
Iggy & The Stooges drummer Scott Asheton, a founding member of the Detroit-area proto-punk group, died Saturday evening due to an unspecified illness. He was 64-years-old. After moving to Ann Arbor, MI, from Washington D.C., when he was 14, Asheton began to play music with his brother Ron, and boyhood friend Dave Alexander….
MO POP music festival is scheduled to return to Freedom Hill Ampitheatre, July 12 – with a stellar lineup. Following the success of last year’s debut, Mo Pop is scheduled to bring some of the biggest indie-rock and alternative performers to Michigan for a one-day super-show. Headlining acts include: City and Colour, Young…
Following initial rumors of a “duets” album featuring Neil Young and Jack White, listeners were silenced with a statement from Young assuring that this was not the case. Jack White’s Third Man Records label has been instrumental in the recording of Neil Young’s new covers-album – A Letter Home. Highlighting analog equipment and using…
Arcade Fire made its Reflektor Tour stop at The Palace of Auburn Hills this week – with more than one surprise for attendees. The two-time Grammy Award-winning (eight-time nominated) indie-rock group has been known to play covers of regional favorites, and Detroit was no exception. After performing The Rolling Stones’ “The Last Time” in Louisville, and Prince’s “Controversy”…