With vinyl sales at a 26-year high, this year’s Record Store Day promises to be bigger than ever. The annual event, founded in 2007, has already announced its list of exclusive releases that will be available at independent stores on April 16. Today, Third Man Records added a few more entries to the roster,…
Detroit hip-hop ambassador Big Sean and LA singer/songwriter Jhene Aiko have unveiled a new musical collaboration titled Twenty88. A @Twenty88 Twitter account has shared two brief videos teasing new material, which will seemingly be unveiled on the first of April. The duo will also make their television debut as Twenty88 on Jimmy Kimmel Live!…
On January 10, 2016, the music world lost one of its most legendary creators — David Bowie — only two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his final album, Blackstar. The storied rock ‘n’ roll icon has since been immortalized by an endless current of tribute performances, Ziggy-themed dance parties,…
The buzz has been huge for Layers, the first new album from Royce da 5’9″ in five years. Lead single “Tabernacle” dropped earlier this month and has been the object of praise pretty much across the board, including landing a spot on DMM’s weekly SoundCloud mix. In the newly released video for “Tabernacle,” directed…
Movement Electronic Music Festival has released “Phase 2” of their artist lineup, rounding out an already impressive array of Detroit-based and international artists. This year, Movement celebrates its 10- year anniversary. Although the festival has experienced iterations before 2006 (such as 2005’s Fuse-In, and D.E.M.F.), Movement Electronic Music Festival is now the gold-standard for the…
After a three-year period of releasing strictly singles and EPs, Detroit-based house producer and DJ Omar-S (née Alex Omar Smith) plans to release a full-length later this month. The Best will comprise eleven tracks and marks Omar-S’s first full-length since 2013’s Thank You for Letting Me Be Myself. The Best is loaded with…
Los Angeles-via-Eastpointe singer JMSN puts in work. What began with his mother cold-calling A&R reps and a young Christian Berishaj recording an entire album (including playing all the instruments) when he was eighteen years old led to a contract with Atlantic Records. After leaving Atlantic, signing to another major label (the now defunct Universal…
Ann Arbor native Colin Stetson is a virtuoso saxophone player whose past collaborations with artists such as Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, and TV on the Radio read as a veritable encyclopedia of experimental musicianship. After Stetson’s last solo effort, 2013’s New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, anticipation for his…
Eminem has been hard at work over the three years since his last studio album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2. His compilation album Shady XV achieved Gold status, he wrote original music for the film Southpaw, and recently it was confirmed that Eight Mile 2 is in the works. Fans now have even more to look forward to,…
For a quarter of a century, the highly renowned German label Tresor has been boldly challenging genre classifications of all kinds, and as part of its 25-year anniversary celebrations it has announced the release of a collaborative album by Juan Atkins and Moritz Van Oswald. The techno icons first worked together as Borderland in…