In an effort to raise awareness for Detroit’s right to vote, Detroit’s-own Big Sean and self-proclaimed mayor Trick Trick will host an evening of high-level political discussion, candidate education and local music. The community event, coined “Sound Over Silence,” will be sponsored by Detroit’s ASSEMBLE, Vote Detroit, AIDS Partnership Michigan, and Common Cause…
Two iconic musicians joined forces last fall to chronicle the story of one of America’s most significant record labels, and now they’ve reconvened to finish the job. Jack White’s Third Man Records has partnered with John Fahey’s Revenant Records to release The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, Volume Two (1928-1932), the sequel and…
Detroit-born Jack White talks about his rapid rise in the early aughts, and how that sudden fame led him to move from the Motor City to Nashville in an excerpt from an upcoming interview with Dan Rather on AXS TV. “It was very hard for me to move. Detroit — I always imagined I…
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…
#ROC #GOOD #FFOE RT @RocNation: Welcome to the Roc Nation family @BigSean pic.twitter.com/GMbbp1wsXJ — Big Sean (@BigSean) September 12, 2014 Detroit rapper Big Sean has gifted fans with a whole slew of exciting conversation pieces this week, including his sudden signing with Jay Z’s Roc Nation management, and the release of four band-new tracks…
“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…
#451502786 / gettyimages.com Motown legend Stevie Wonder has announced an 11-stop tour celebrating his classic double-album Songs in the Key of Life, in addition to his first Detroit-area performance in more than five years. Wonder’s upcoming tour stop will mark his first performance in the Detroit-area since his 2008 North American tour, which…
Detroit “spaghetti-Western” rockers Flint Eastwood have released a surprise acoustic EP titled, SIMPLE. The release surfaced online Tuesday afternoon, and features two reworked Flint Eastwood tracks (“Billy the Kid” and “Can You Feel Me Now”) in a “simplified” acoustic arrangement. Both tracks were produced by Seth Anderson (Jax Anderson of Flint Eastwood’s brother,…
Detroit’s own Eminem has been awarded the Guinness World Record for Most Words in a Hit Single, thanks to his tongue-twisting MMLP2 track “Rap God.” The song itself contains approximately 1,560 words, and in just more than six minutes, Eminem averages roughly 4.28 words-per-second. The song also includes a 15-second clip, during which Slim…
If you thought Richie Hawtin was done EXploring the intersection of museums and music, you’d be wrong. The second wave Detroit techno artist continues to prove he’s exactly that — an artist — by taking on a commission from the Centre Pompidou in Paris to compose an alternative score for Brumes d’automne, a French silent movie from 1928 directed by the…