Tecuciztecatl, His Name is Alive’s fourteenth full-length, sees the Livonia band expanding their conceptual aims. This “psychedelic rock opera” (their own description) builds on the chamber pop of prior records such as 1996’s nostalgic Stars on E.S.P. while moving to turf one step beyond the jazz madness of 2007’s Sweet Earth Flower….
Detroit’s hip-hop community is seeing renewed attention of late, owing in no small part to Eminem’s “Detroit Vs. Everybody,” which features Danny Brown, Big Sean, Royce da 5’9”, Trick Trick, and Dej Loaf repping their hometown on a track with all-star, chart-conquering force. Dej Loaf’s deadeyed delivery is minimized, however, to a catchy hook…
Without knowing where you’re headed, this music takes you exactly where you want to go. Detroit electronic duo Valley Hush create a sound that’s completely their own, though it’s certainly possible to hear influences as far-flung as indie-pop, trip-hop, and experimental rock. Lianna Vanicelli’s hauntingly beautiful vocals harmonize with Alex Kaye’s smooth guitar riffs…
Popular wisdom holds that electroclash was supposed to have crashed and burned about a decade ago, at least as a going concern for most sonic connoisseurs. But Detroit has always hewn to its own rules, and as recently as last year, acts the likes of ADULT. were releasing work that reveled in turn-of-the-millennium dance-punk tropes…
Every newly announced LP from Black Milk promises to reveal another side of the Detroit MC’s idiosyncratic production, which has changed course several times across six albums. Before going electro on Tronic, Milk explored the Sound of the City and brought wax back by Popular Demand; he later incorporated live-band musicians on Album…
Given some of the troubling lyrics in the recently released “SHADY CXVPHER” that Shady Records released in support of the upcoming Shady XV compilation, it may seem like Eminem vs. the World right now. But on the final track of the album, which hit the Internet today, the Motor City’s resident bad boy shows it’s always…
Listeners who haven’t already been sucked in by Gosh Pith’s self-coined brand of “cosmic-trap” can now get lost in the fog of the electronic duo’s new single, “Smoke Bellow.” On this “early morning soundtrack for Detroit’s sleep-deprived ravers,” singer Josh Smith half-raps atop a skittering beat that morphs over the course of the song. Smith…
Detroit-based electronic duo Sleepless Inn self-released their debut The Rainbow Room EP last April, offering up a slew of mid-tempo dreamy gems. Now they’ve put out their first video, a colorful clip for “Karol Simon,” which was created with the help of Motor City collective #CoOwnaz. It’s clear there are many imaginative minds at work…
In 2001, at the peak of Detroit techno’s third wave, one half of the controversial duo Drexciya broke off to work on a side project. Transllusion’s The Opening of the Cerebral Gate, reissued last month, was a deviation only in name from what James Stinson produced with his former collaborator. In the album’s beats…
Hell can take on many forms; that much is evident on “Scum,” the latest single to be shared from Detroit rapper/producer Black Milk’s forthcoming LP. On the shapeshifting track, the music mutates as verses bounce between Milk and members of Random Axe (Sean Price and Guilty Simpson), as if each man’s personal infernos…