Tag: detroit

This is likely the least influential sentence I'm ever going to write, except for the next one. This entire paragraph won't sell a single...

Everything written about Eddie Fowlkes these days has the feeling of a pamphlet or a petition seeking redress for some awful historical travesty. I...

Melodymathics is a new-ish label with a mission to "showcase newcomers" alongside established artists. Mission accomplished. I've heard at least four records from Gari...

As a hired hand for Trax Records, Bud Pressner mastered a staggering number of classic Chicago House records in the 1980s. This is the story...

Paxahau, promoters of this May's Movement festival in Detroit have announced Phase 1 of their 2014 event line-up and it's everything you'd hope it...

This is what editors used to call "burying the lede", back when there were still gainfully employed editors who could tell you what a...

There is nothing more refreshing than change and people that aren't afraid to embrace it. Detroit's Hugh Cleal and Bryan Jones came together to...

Years ago, I knew this crazy Serbian poet/philosopher. With his flowing beard and hair and world-weary grimace, give him about ten years and a...

5 Magazine risks becoming, in essence, Rick Wade Monthly, but I can't pass on a good record because an artist is on a roll....

DETROIT - born and raised and residing in - that's the first and the second and the last thing you need to know about...

This is an interesting project from a new label out of Denver called The Playground: vinyl only, limited edition and (I think) hand-stamped, with...

This year's Movement Festival 2013 by Paxahau definitely didn't disappoint, equipped with five technologically spruced up stages (Red Bull Music Academy, Beatport, Underground, Made...

I am trying to hold my shit together here and I don't think I'm doing too good a job of it. In "Analog XTC",...

Chuck Daniels has been DJing since 1988, and has performed across North America and Europe. A native of Detroit, he's DJed or hosted at...

Lights burn out; hype fades away & becomes subject to ridicule; bottle rockets roar and then pop. But if you're looking for a guide to...

You have to respect the cheek of a label that titles their very first release Classics 01. That's what Hold Youth, a French vinyl...

While road tripping to Iowa with Detroit phenom Terrence Parker, we were regaling each other with stories of recent parties we'd attended. When he...

Something happened. At some point, we lost our way. "Chicago House" to me was anything but what "Chicago House" now means in the wider...

The end of every summer gives the promise of a new school year complete with new friends, classes and abundant activities. But for many...

Out of everyone from the Siamese Twin cities of Chicago and Detroit (one has the heart, one has the brains, and I'll let you...