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Remembering Detroit jazz pianist Charles Boles, dead at 91
The player performed with Aretha Franklin and B.B. King, and held down a Tuesday night residency at the Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe
By Veronica Johnson
Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Obituary, Charles Boles, Detroit jazz, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Gretchen Carhartt-Valade, Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe
Motown Museum unveils immersive exhibits and progress on expansion campaign
New experiences will showcase stories of Motown legends through music and photo archives
By Layla McMurtrie
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Music, News, Motown Museum, Music, Detroit Music, Hitsville USA, The Temptations
Aretha Franklin’s longtime bassist tells all in ‘My Friend the Queen From Her Court Jester Ralphe Armstrong’
Tears of a clown
By Jim McFarlin
Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Books, Ralphe Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
Bootsy Collins to host Detroit Music Weekend this year
The festival began with what would be Aretha Franklin’s final hometown performance
Tags: Music News, Music, Things to Do, Aretha Franklin, Bootsy Collins, music festivals, Detroit Music Weekend, Funk
Jazz is Dead highlights Tribe Records in latest installment
Plus: New music from Detroit rapper Chasey The Illest
By Broccoli and Joe Zimmer
Tags: Local Music, Local Buzz, Jazz Is Dead, Tribe Records, Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Spot Lite, Chasey the Illest, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Aretha Franklin
Spying on the Queen of Soul
For 40 years, the FBI surveilled Aretha Franklin and other Black ‘radicals.’ We got the recently declassified files.
By Jenn Dize and Afeni Evans
Tags: Music News, Music, Longform, Aretha Franklin, Detroit, FBI, Queen of Soul civil rights movement, Cover Story
Detroit Symphony Orchestra will perform live score for Aretha Franklin movie
The one-night only concert will be accompanied by a screening of ‘RESPECT’ starring Jennifer Hudson
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Concert Announcements, Things to Do, DSO, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Aretha Franklin
Leave it to Dominique Morisseau to make us cry (again) with Motown musical ‘Ain’t Too Proud’
Broadway musical about the Temptations gets proper Detroit homecoming with appearances by Otis Williams and Shelly Berger
By Randiah Camille Green
Tags: Culture, Arts & Culture, Dominique Morisseau, Ain't Too Proud, The Temptations, Motown, Detroit Opera House, Arts & Culture
Detroit’s Motown Museum unveils highly anticipated expansion, gets ready to reopen doors
The museum will have a soft reopening and resume abbreviated walking tours starting Aug. 14
Tags: Culture, Music, Motown Museum, Culture, Arts & Culture, Otis Williams, Smokey Robinson
Musical based on Motown’s Temptations heads to the Detroit Opera House
‘Ain’t Too Proud’ will run in August
Tags: Things to Do, Things to Do, Detroit Opera House, The Temptations, Motown, theater
Rolling Stone lists ‘Respect’ as the greatest song of all time
By Alex Washington
Tags: Eminem, Motown, Marvin Gaye, Rolling Stone, Aretha Franklin, Respect, Detroit
Sheila E., PJ Morton, and Damien Escobar among performers slated for the Aretha's Wednesday Night Jazz Series
By Jerilyn Jordan
Tags: City Slang, Sheila E, Prince, Damien Escobar, Will Downing, PJ Morton, Jazz, The Aretha, Aretha Franklin, Detroit, live concerts, Detroit River
National Geographic’s Aretha Franklin series to premiere at Detroit’s drive-in theatre with free screening on 313 Day
Tags: City Slang, Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, Detroit. Monroe Street Drive-In Powered by Emagine, National Geographic’s Genius: Aretha
Michigan musicians cover Aretha Franklin's 'Respect' in honor of International Women's Day
Tags: City Slang, International Women's Day, Respect, Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, Detroit, Video
Jennifer Hudson is a goddamn vision as Aretha Franklin in the new 'Respect' teaser trailer
Tags: The Scene, Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Hudson, Respect, Aretha movie, Queen of Soul, Detroit, Motown
On this day, Aretha Franklin recorded 'Respect' — and the world was never the same
Tags: City Slang, Aretha Franklin, Detroit, Queen of Soul, Respect, Otis Redding, Valentine's Day
Bill passed to name Detroit post office after Aretha Franklin, our queen
By Sonia Khaleel
Tags: News Hits, Aretha Franklin, post office, Jefferson, Aretha Franklin Post Office Building, Detroit
Photojournalist Linda Solomon visits Pages Bookshop in Detroit with collection of intimate portraits of Aretha Franklin
Staff Pick
Tags: The Scene, Aretha Franklin, Detroit, Linda Solomon, The Queen of Soul
Photojournalist Linda Solomon shares intimate portraits of Aretha Franklin in new book
Tags: Local Music, Aretha Franklin, Detroit, Linda Solomon
Bill introduced to name Detroit post office after Queen of Soul
By Faith Janet Coleman
Tags: News Hits, Aretha Franklin, post office, Jefferson, Aretha Franklin Post Office Building
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
By Steve Neavling
Black women-owned cannabis cultivator Calyxeum opens its first dispensary in Detroit
Pot-friendly Michigan music venue scales back programming