City Slang
Saturday, May 13, 2017
Brightmoor rap game takes a hit as five people are indicted on racketeering, narcotics, firearms offenses
Posted By Violet Ikonomova on Sat, May 13, 2017 at 10:07 AM
A grand jury has indicted five members of Brightmoor's Young and Skantless street gang on a range of charges following a decade of purportedly wild-ass behavior by the crew. The racketeering indictment unsealed in federal court Friday describes the group as dominating Brightmoor by developing a reputation for ruthless violence....
Friday, April 21, 2017
'Blue Series' book is for the Third Man records diehard
Posted By Lee DeVito on Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 1:29 PM
When Jack White launched his Third Man Records in 2009, among the label's first releases were experimental, one-off collaborative singles known as the "Blue Series." Nearly a decade later and 40 singles later, Third Man is taking a look back at the series with a hardcover book in time...
Monday, March 20, 2017
Detroit artists make a splash at SXSW
Posted By Kathy Vargo on Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:36 PM
Detroit was well-represented in Austin, Texas last week at the South by Southwest festival, which now draws hundreds of thousands of attendees and performers from across the U.S. and from over 80 foreign countries. Competition to showcase at SXSW is fierce, and Detroit and Michigan-based artists managed to snag a good portion...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Hamtramck Music Festival schedule fractures amid controversy
Posted By Ana Gavrilovska on Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 4:16 PM
If you follow local music at all, it’s been impossible to miss first the rumblings and then explosions about Hamtramck Music Festival reverberating across the Detroit Internet. Now in its fourth year, the Hamtramck Music Festival (which was a cover feature for Metro Times last year) brings together over 180 bands...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
This weekend: "The Boss" vs. Bob Seger — or the next best thing to it
Posted By Michael Jackman on Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:30 PM
This weekend, concertgoers in Port Huron are going to witness a kind of once-in-a-lifetime experience. It will be a confrontation of the classic rock giants, a battle between two rock behemoths seldom seen sharing the same stage: Bob “Silver Bullet” Seger versus Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen. Too good to...
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Aaliyah's music inexplicably surfaced on Apple's music services last night
Posted By Lee DeVito on Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:29 AM
For years, much of the late Detroit pop star Aaliyah's best music has been noticeably absent from digital download and music streaming services. But as Fader reports, Aaliyah's posthumous 2005 greatest hits comp Ultimate Aaliyah unceremoniously surfaced on iTunes and Apple Music Wednesday night. The comp features some of Aaliyah's best songs,...
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Only 253 days until the Juggalo March on Washington, D.C.
Posted By Michael Jackman on Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 7:26 AM
In 2017, Washington, D.C., is going to be full of hallucinatory spectacle thanks to the incoming Trump presidency. That's a cinch. But at least some of the capital’s colorfulness this fall will come from underground hip-hop artists and pop culture icons Insane Clown Posse, who have announced a Juggalo...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Watch: Drummer B drops 'Time Travel' video
Posted By Lee DeVito on Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 7:30 AM
Detroit producer and Danny Brown collaborator Leonard Ware, aka Drummer B, has released a new video and details on an upcoming release. Titled Space Bounce, the project — the follow-up to last year's The People Mover — includes seven tracks recorded at United Sounds studios in Detroit. It features jazz great Allen Barnes...
Monday, December 19, 2016
The sad reason Aaliyah's music has disappeared from the Internet
Posted By Lee DeVito on Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 1:49 PM
When I was at Hour Detroit magazine, I wrote a short article to mark the 15-year anniversary of the untimely death of Aaliyah. One of the main threads I attempted to pursue was to answer the question of why her music — critically acclaimed, arguably now even more so than...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
ICYMI: The Four Tops and the Temptations played a surprise show at the White House
Posted By Valerie Vande Panne on Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:37 AM
Earlier this month, Motown musicians the Four Tops and the Temptations surprised folks on the White House tour with a performance of their classics and Christmas carols. Watch the video here. ...
