Lets face it. There is not too many emcees in the game today that shake things up with the buzz that manifests for them. In the 80s and 90s, we had countless artists from the inner cities of America...
When it comes down to it, no matter how many times people try to throw stones at Detroit or put us in a bad light, we are a very helpful breed of people. An example of this comes from Detroit natives...
As a member of the Detroit Entertainment Commission, Detroit electronic music pioneer Carl Craig has helped pushed through a resolution to have a plaque honoring the late James “J. Dilla”...
The day has finally arrived. Welcome to the launch of The Loop Detroit. I would not say this is just a new site, but more of a transformation of my previous site Renaissance Soul Detroit (www.rensoul.com)....
This past February, the Suite For Ma Dukes was performed in Cedar Falls, Iowa by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jason Weinberger. As a long time J. Dilla fan, Weinberger...
The official schedule for the 2010 Movement Festival at Hart Plaza this Memorial Day weekend has been announced. You can view it at movement.us or download the PDF.
Also, they have an application...
(source: press release) Paxahau announced today Ricardo Villalobos will be performing in Detroit for the Movement Electronic Music Festival Powered by Ford Fiesta; the addition of a 5th stage sponsored...
House Shoes presents: Marv Won – Way of the Won LP
This is the shelved album from Marv Won of the Fat Killahz. I’ve had most of this album for a while now and I was like “DUDE!! Drop...
Now available for the first time digitally is 1st Down A Day Wit The Homiez EP via iTunes. For anyone that doesn’t know 1st Down was a duo structured like Gang Starr with Phat Kat on the vocals...
One of Detroit’s next upcoming emcees Danny Brown just laced me with his track from the forthcoming J. Dilla album Jay $tay Paid, dropping on Nature Sounds next month. Enjoy.
LISTEN: J. Dilla...
If you have enough money in these hard times after buying Rick Ross this week and hopefully NOT buying Asher Roth, the sophomore album The Art Of Link from Detroit’s Big Tone seen its release via...
Recently released via Capitol Records is the Nat King Cole remix album titled Re:Generations which features the likes of The Roots, TV On The Radio, Cee-Lo Green, Nas, Cut Chemist, will.i.am, Natalie...
Detroit area emcee Theologic is set to release his new album Innerworld on April 25th. The album is mostly self-produced but features production from Jae-ss, Che’ Nazzarith, and IWight along with...
Here’s the video for Octane’s “Leave Me Alone” from Octane & Illites album The Forgotten…Chosen. The song is produced by 14KT of the LabTechs/AML and the video is directed...
New York/Detroit producer/drummer Daru along with recent Dwele/Slum Village collaborator AB just dropped their new project A.W.I.P. (A Work In Progress) for free download. The project features guest...
The good people at Jazzy Sport in Japan just laced me with DJ Mitsu The Beats’ second album Word To The Wise, due out in May. The album include the track titled “Elzhi” featuring Elzhi...
Right now, DJ Dez is killin’ it out in Japan schooling them on Detroit. Coming soon through Kenny Dixon Jr.’s Mahogani Music label is the new album titled Andrés II from Andrés, Dez’s...
While the NCAA Final Four was in town, I played at yet another Blackbyrd Revue show at the Jazz Cafe in Detroit in the Music Hall with Allan Barnes & The Gorilla Funk Mob spinning Jazz records....
Detroit emcee (and even comedian) SelfSays takes us on a hilarious trip in the woods of Michigan talking about the types of things that give him inspiration, and messing with nasty ass socks. The video...
The former cool kid of our Detroit hip hop scene and now Detroit’s ambassador via Los Angeles DJ House Shoes is set to release The King James Version, his tribute to the greatest to ever do it,...
