This week marks five years since the death of acclaimed English neo-soul singer Amy Winehouse. In that time, her legacy has reverberated not only in the documentary films and longform features about her life, but also in the many artists who have been influenced by her distinctive sound. Most of all, however, is the…
The influential music magazine Creem, founded by Detroit resident and record store owner Barry Kramer in 1969, is receiving a feature-length documentary entitled Boy Howdy! The Story of Creem Magazine. Directed and written by Scott Crawford and produced by J.J. Kramer (Barry Kramer’s son), the film will include archival footage and photographs of…
Don’t ever turn your back on Omar-S. Blink and the underground techno/house producer’s likely to have dropped a crispy new release. That’s what happened just a few days ago, when an untitled EP popped up in Resident Advisor’s email without warning, where it is available for free download. The two tracks, “Party Marty”…
Pop up agency Concept56 will culminate during PLEXUS – a “choose your own labyrinth” experiential event that will feature Detroit music, art, and plenty of Jäger.
“The expression you were wearing of emotional pain / Like anybody struggling to keep themselves sane.” Thus begins “Runnin,” the latest track from the peripatetic indie folk duo Ohtis, but the narrator’s detached intonation is worlds away from the anguish the object of his gaze must be experiencing. This first single from the…
A dumpster-diving ex-neighbor of Sufjan Stevens’ Brooklyn studio has posted photos on Reddit of an unreleased album Stalker that he found in the trash.
Last week, a new radio station quietly debuted in Detroit. The Bounce has taken over what was previously known as Detroit Sports 105.1 FM. While some sports fans are displeased, twenty- and thirtysomethings can rejoice, as the new station will play “throwback hip-hop and R&B songs from the ’90s and 2000s,” according to a…
Summer in the Motor City has long been bookended by major music festivals: Movement Electronic Music Festival over Memorial Day Weekend — joined this year by the first (and maybe last) Trip Metal Fest — and Labor Day Weekend’s choice of either Detroit Jazz Festival, Arts Beats & Eats, or the Hamtramck Labor Day…
Moonwalks’ second full-length effort, In Light (The Scales in the Frame), is all blistering guitars soaring eight miles high across the firmament. The Detroit psych outfit have managed to take their wall of sound — huge enough, surely, on 2015’s Lunar Phases to excite any Trump supporter — and make it even bigger. The…
