Michigan Music Archives

Fifteen acts will play short three-song sets covering other Motor City artists

Tags: Michigan Music, Critics’ Picks, Things to Do, Detroit x Detroit, The Loving Touch, metro Detroit music

The project was mostly recorded over a decade ago at The Lands in Ann Arbor, a studio serving as a “launch pad” for many local musicians

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, News, Detroit jazz, Detroit music, Ann Arbor music, Evan Haywood, Marcus Elliot, Ahya Simone

Detroit’s reigning queen of hip-hop says her new music is her best and most mature to date

Tags: Michigan Music, Longform, Television, Kash Doll, Detroit hip-hop, rappers from Detroit, actors from Detroit, Black Mafia Family, Cover Story, Video

This artist is little bit country, a little bit rock ’n’ roll… and a whole lot of Detroit

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, On Tour, Louie Lee, Michigan country music, The Magic Bag, Detroit music, Video

The workshops will be a collaboration between Kubat and guests to write a song inspired by select artworks within the DIA

Tags: Michigan Music, Education, Music, News, Things to Do, Visual Art, Women's History Month, Audra Kubat, DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit music, songwriting workshops, Detroit art, Detroit events, Detroit concerts, things to do in Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA)

The kickoff event highlights ‘Santa Barbara,’ a new LP by Fat Ray executive produced by Danny Brown

Tags: Michigan Music, Critics’ Picks, Music, Things to Do, Nick Speed, Playground Detroit, Danny Brown, Fat Ray, Detroit hip-hop

Summer Krinsky’s experimental electronica weaves in elements of art-pop and indie rock, a mediation between human and machine

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Things to Do, Summer Like the Season, Detroit indie rock bands, Summer Krinsky

The film includes interviews with techno pioneer ‘Mad’ Mike Banks

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Things to Do, Movies, Underground Resistance, Detroit techno, Mad Mike Banks, Video

Bobbi LaNea, one-half of the viral cute girl rap duo, is from Detroit — and proud

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, On Tour, Flyana Boss, The Bosstanical Garden Tour, Bobbi Lanea, Folayan, Detroit music, Detroit artists, Flyana Boss Detroit, You Wish, Flyana Boss new music, Detroit concerts, Detroit shows, Dallas, Slideshow

Khalil Amari Allen was only 18 when he was killed in a drive-by shooting

Tags: Michigan Music, Crime, Music, Things to Do, Detroit hip-hop, gun violence in Detroit, basketball in Detroit

Performers include Natasia, 904 Matcha, Tommy Papi, Racquel Soledad, Jahz Watts, and B Free, among many others

Tags: Michigan Music, Critics’ Picks, Music, Things to Do, Big Pink, Natasia, 904 Matcha, Tommy Papi, Racquel Soledad, Jahz Watts, B Free, Detroit R&B artists

Drink and food specials will also be available for $6 (naturally)

Tags: Michigan Music, Critics’ Picks, Music, Things to Do, Restaurants, Vinnie Dombroski, Sponge, Edo Ramen House, Niagara, Leni Sinclair

Michigan made

Tags: Michigan Music, Longform, On Tour, Frontier Ruckus, Zach Nichols, Matthew Milia, David Jones, Anna Burch, Michigan indie rock, Cover Story, Video

Detroit band mythic in history of rock

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Obituary, Views & Opinions, MC5, Wayne Kramer, Grande Ballroom, Video

‘Canterbury Tales’ is a spiritual travelog of sorts, with sounds of rock ’n’ roll, electric blues, and spiritual jazz — alongside a ‘feeling of nostalgia’

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, News, Evan Haywood, Ann Arbor music, Detroit music, Third Man Records

The guitarist had planned to release a new MC5 album in 2024

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Obituary, Wayne Kramer, MC5, Detroit rock bands, Grande Ballroom

The promotion celebrates the release of the Detroit rapper’s new album ‘Live from the 6’ through 6 p.m.

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Transportation, Icewear Vezzo, Detroit rap, Detroit hip-hop, Detroit Department of Transportation

The youth nonprofit will host its inaugural event for Dilla Day

Tags: Michigan Music, Local Businesses, Music, Things to Do, Spin Inc., J Dilla, Alkebu-Lan Village

The Detroit band says it will donate money to a charity for sexual abuse survivors after the arrest of its ex-keyboardist

Tags: Michigan Music, Crime, Music, On Tour, Mac Saturn, Evan Mercer, FBI, Detroit rock bands

The band says Evan Daniel Mercer, 30, is no longer with the group

Tags: Michigan Music, Crime, News, Mac Saturn, The Fillmore, Detroit rock bands