Next month marks the third annual Hamtramck Music Festival. This three-day event brings together more than 200 bands across 24 Detroit-area venues. HMF is “powered by the people” as the musicians and organizers are all volunteers. Three-day wristbands are just $10, and all proceeds go to the nonprofit group Ben’s Encore, which provides instruments, music lessons, and scholarships to youth…
In our city’s constantly evolving musical landscape, The Erers pay tribute to its legendary garage rock roots. Their infectious sound finds its residence between a heavy three-chord riff foundation and the echoes of psychedelic blues-rock jams. After more than a year of anticipation, The Erers (pronounced “Erz”) are ready to share their newest release,…
“Cynthia Vortex aka Trip Memory Illness,” the final track on Wolf Eyes’ latest album, I Am a Problem: Mind in Pieces, is an eight-minute-long lysergic slide deep into a troubled psyche, punctuated with incomprehensible, garbled moans, droning subsonic bass frequencies, lurching guitar riffs, electronic slicing and dicing, and a forlorn flute solo. It’s a…
“I should be dead! I should be dead!” These words could be heard resonating throughout the Majestic Theatre last November. It was Bruiser Thanksgiving, and ZelooperZ was giving one the best performances of the night. Now, he’s released an official version of that track, featuring absolutely unreal production from the prolific Bulletproof Dolphin collective….
West Detroit supergroup Doughboyz Cashout self-released BYLUG World late last year as a free mixtape, and not — as many were hoping — a proper full-length from their home on Jeezy’s CTE World label (their last official output from the imprint was a 2013 remix of “Mob Life,” which had come out a year…
Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills recently released Exhibitionist 2 – Part 3, the the last of three 12″ EPs in the Exhibitionist 2 vinyl series that paralleled an interactive double DVD + CD experience of the same name. The collection was put out as installments over the course of five months through Mills’ label,…
Nestled between a vegetarian-friendly diner and a gourmet bagel shop on Michigan Avenue in Corktown — Detroit’s oldest, but also one of its hottest, neighborhood — PJ’s Lager House has long been known as a hangout spot for local bands such as The White Stripes and a destination for touring rock acts looking to…
Jack White expanded his Third Man empire into the realm of print publishing back in 2014. This month sees the release of two new collections by a couple of veteran Detroit musical figures. John Olson is best known as a member of the experimental noise-punk trio Wolf Eyes. Life Is a Rip Off: Part…
In what has become an unofficial AMA-style tradition for the Detroit rapper, Danny Brown fielded questions from fans on Twitter Friday night and revealed that a follow-up to 2013’s Old could be on its way very soon. When asked by one of his followers whether he had any plans to livestream himself playing video…
Detroit proto-punk legend Iggy Pop (The Stooges) has teamed up with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal to create an album titled Post Pop Depression, due out March 18 via Loma Vista/Concord. Recording sessions were completed in secret at Homme’s studio in Joshua Tree, California. Both artists…