Unlike the steady but assured ascent of their career’s trajectory over the past few years, the latest single from Detroit “trap-pop” group Jamaican Queens begins in fits and starts, as if trying to find its footing. The track’s title, too, indicates some degree of uncertainty — “Bored + Lazy” — with the punctuation a (plus) sign that there’s…
As temperatures steadily fall in metro Detroit and we begin to grapple with the realization that warm weather won’t return anytime soon, it’s another kind of “cool” that hometown indie-pop duo Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr are interested in. On “James Dean,” a new single released to promote an extensive national tour this fall, the group both…
There was never any need for The Queen of Soul to defend her title. With such indelible songs to her name such as “I Say a Little Prayer,” “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” and “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You),” only a “Chain of Fools” would question…
The Detroit-based electronic project Gosh Pith have been pretty mysterious up to this point, releasing just one single a couple months back accompanied by a small handful of local shows. With the new video for their song “Waves,” Gosh Pith reveal themselves a little more. The clip — directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman — features an Elvis…
If There’s a Hell Below is the name of Detroit rapper-producer Black Milk’s soon-to-be-released sixth studio album, and if the title indicates where the MC is headed, at least he’s in good company. Guests on the record include kindred spirits such as Ab-Soul, Blu, Random Axe, Gene Obey, and Pete Rock. But on the LP’s latest advance single —…
BeatKing brings Danny Brown in for a guest appearance on his latest single “Rambunctious,” but it’s the Houston rapper and not Detroit’s prevailing hip-hop heavyweight who name-checks another Motor City musician. Comparing his voice to Stevie Wonder is among the many hashtag-ready boasts the MC makes on this cut – which also features RiFF RAFF – from Underground…
“It’s not enough that I love you / There’s all these things that I have to prove to you” So sings Jack White in “Would You Fight for My Love?” the third single to be released off the Detroit rocker’s sophomore solo album Lazaretto. He may be singing to an unimpressed lover, but it’s also…
Though alternative hip-hop can break through to mainstream audiences, oftentimes it’s because the musicians have bent, broken, or completely thrown away the “rap rules.” Beyond the golden age of hip-hop and glossy radio rap, many sounds have tested the limits of genre and the patience of listeners: clipping.’s earsplitting sheets of harsh noise, Death Grip’s…
Although he hasn’t released any new solo work since last year’s masterful album Old, Detroit rapper Danny Brown’s distinctive voice hasn’t gone quiet by any means. Artists as varied as post-bop trio BADBADNOTGOOD, speed-rap’s roadrunner Busdriver, and maximalist Glasgow producer Rustie have called on Brown’s talents for their own tracks. Jumping on that bandwagon are California five-piece The Neighbourhood,…
This spring brought us music from Sleepless Inn – the duo of Laura Finlay and Eddie Logix – that floated amidst electro-pop images culled from beach vacation postcards of days gone by but transmitted across channels less of the English variety than the televised sort. To create their evocative sound, Finlay and…