There’s been a recent (and developing) trend of several electronic dance music artists experimenting with some degree of live instrumentation and analog recording methods; after all, both live instrumentation and analog recording methods add an […]
Tag: Detroit
After playing over 140 shows to support their 2012 release, Dye It Blonde, the members of Smith Westerns returned to their hometown of Chicago, IL to write and record the material that wound up comprising Dye it […]
Originally from Detroit and now residing in New York, singer/songwriter Alex Winston’s debut effort, King Con was released early last year to critically praise. She’s playing sporadic live dates while working on a new album, which is […]
Detroit’s Guilty Simpson and Philadelphia’s Small Professor have collaborated on what may arguably be one of the best hip hop albums this year, Highway Robbery, which Coalmine Records will release on September 24th. Unlike most contemporary and […]
One of Detroit’s renowned emcees Guilty Simpson and Philadelphia-based producer Small Professor are collaborating on a new album, Highway Robbery which Coalmine Records will be releasing on September 24th. The second single off the forthcoming album, “It’s […]
Mick Collins, the Dirtbombs’ frontman has been threatening that their next album would be a bubblegum pop-inspired album over the past decade, and in some way fans and critics have treated it as a bit of […]
One of Detroit’s renowned emcees Guilty Simpson and Philadelphia-based producer Small Professor are collaborating on a new album, Highway Robbery which Coalmine Records will be releasing on September 24th. The first single off the new effort, “On […]
The Growlers have been especially prolific as they released the Hung at Heart full-length earlier this year, and then went back into the studio to record a bunch of newly written material which will appear on […]
Just before Elephant Stone was to embark on their Eastern US tour to support their sophomore self-titled effort, they enlisted the Horrors’ Tom Furse to remix album single, “A Silent Moment.” Interestingly, this remix and […]
Washed Out’s Within Without landed at number 24 on this site’s Best of 2011 List thanks in part to Ernest Greene’s cooed vocals backed by sleek, icy snyth lines played through gentle layers of reverb and delay pedals and backed […]
The Portland, OR-based trio of WL formed in the serendipitous manner that most bands seem to form – guitarist Michael Yun and drummer Stevie Sparks had just relocated to Portland from Detroit, Mi when they […]
Seattle, WA-based quartet La Luz have developed a reputation for a sound that is heavily informed by the girl groups of the 50s and 60s – we’re talking about four part harmonies (which you’ll hear […]
Washed Out‘s Within Without landed at number 24 on this site’s Best of 2011 List thanks in part to Ernest Greene’s cooed vocals backed by sleek, icy snyth lines played through gentle layers of reverb and delay pedals […]
The Detroit-based duo of Adult. will be releasing their fifth full-length album, The Way Things Fall this month through Ghostly International. The band just released the official video for one of the album’s first singles “Idle (Second […]
Formed in 2001, Japanther is the music and art project of duo of Matt Reilly and Ian Vanek. And in the decade of recording and performing, the band has developed a reputation for unusual live shows — […]