Tonight’s Detroit Music Awards ceremony will award Detroit musicians from all genres with one of the most well-known local music trophies in Southeast Michigan. The foundation’s members choose their favorite local representation of ten musical genres: Folk/Acoustic, Blues, Jazz, Gospel, Country, Classical, Rock/Pop, R&B/Hip-Hop, Electronic and World. The three-part award process includes…
The Henry Ford Museum has announced an exciting new rock-n’-roll exhibit fit for a diva. Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power (May 17 – August 17) will highlight the contributions of the music industry’s most influential and controversial female artists of the last half-century. The exhibition promises the inclusion of “music sheets, handwritten notes,…
Detroit foursome Protomartyr suggest a garage rock group gone the way of Joy Division. As a post-punk blitzkrieg piles atop frontman Joe Casey, his vocals convey a complete world-weariness equally well whether they’re sung or snarled. Arriving on the heels of their debut LP released last year, Protomartyr’s follow-up Under Color of…
Tom Weschler, legendary photographer, former roadie, and author of Travelin’ Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes with Bob Seger, has spent more than 50 years documenting the entertainment industry in Detroit. Weschler’s photography collection, consisting of countless artists who have performed in the Detroit area, is the focus of his newly-published Indigogo…
Following the vinyl-collecting festivities of Record Store Day 2014 (April 19), Detroit-area pop/rock-duo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. played to a sold-out audience at Royal Oak Music Theatre. Tickets for the highly-anticipated performance were offered by the band for less than a dollar ($0.89) and sponsored by 88.7 FM 89x. The concert featured appearances…
Detroit proto-punk trio Death has officially released its second archival full-length studio album within the last three years, titled Death III. After dipping into obscurity for more than 30 years, the surviving members of Death celebrated a reanimated success after one of their sons found a collection of master recordings in an attic….
Michigan-based production house Never Say Die MI has released the first video from The Living Room Sessions Vol. 2 (a music video and recording series focused on intimate performances – this time in Detroit) which features a live performance by Jamaican Queens. Organizers, producers, and associates of The Living Room Sessions includes: Leah…
As part of Third Man Records’ celebration of Record Store Day 2014, Jack White successfully broke a world record with the “World’s Fastest Released Record.” The Third Man team aimed to beat the current record holder which, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is the Warchild charity album Help, recorded in September of…
Fans may well have needed to take shelter at several points during Schoolboy Q’s sold-out show Friday night at Saint Andrew’s Hall. As the concert came to its climax with the rapper’s highest-charting single “Man of the Year,” the crowd literally executed the lyrics’ exhortations to “bounce.” With each thud of the beat,…
To the dismay of electronic music fans everywhere, the highly-anticipated Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF), and its counterpart Federation of Electronic Music Technology FEMT have announced postponement until July of 2015. The festivals’ cancellation will not affect Movement Electronic Music Festival on Memorial Day weekend, but it will lighten Detroit’s electronic music events calendar. The…