Quelle Chris just released the first singles via iTunes from his forthcoming album Shotgun & Sleek Rifle, due out on November 15th on Synergy Works. The new single “Symbolic (Basquiat)”...
J1 has become a staple of the Los Angels hip-hop scene, but he’ll always represent the Midwest. Originally hailing from Cleveland, J1 (aka The Deer) grew up a bit of bad kid but through music...
Detroit house music legend Kenny Dixon Jr. (aka Moodymann) joined Dam-Funk & Master Blazter on stage at the Magic Stick in Detroit on Friday night to perform their rendition of the Sexual Harrassment...
If you follow Dopehead on Twitter, you know he hates haters and wack rappers. Hey, who doesn’t? The Detroit emcee is continuing the Bruiser Brigade assault on the music industry after his fellow...
Last week, Black Milk and Danny Brown announced the release of their collaborative Black and Brown EP on November 1st. Now, we get a little taster from the project with the track “Zap”. Black...
Detroit emcee/producer Quelle Chris just dropped a free self-produced demo EP titled The S.O.N.. Quelle is a favorite here at The Loop Detroit and the new EP serves to wet the taste-buds for his first...
Exile goes back to his rapping roots on for his new album, 4Trk Mind. After years as a driving force for Los Angeles’ hip-hop scene producing highly touted albums for both Blu and Fashawn along...
Mayer Hawthorne just dropped the video for his new single “The Walk” from his second full-length album How Do You Do. The Mr. & Mrs. Smith influenced video has The Mayer and his sexy...
Earlier, we had mentioned about the vinyl release of Black Milk’s Live At Third Man, the concert he did down in Nashville at Third Man Records after he recorded a couple songs with Jack White...
The long rumored collaborative project from Black Milk and Danny Brown has been given an official release date of November 1st on Fat Beats Records. The Black and Brown EP is 10 tracks deep and will...
More remixes? One of the favorites over here, Creep, have released the You (More Remixes) EP full of additional remixes of their track featuring Nina Sky. For this release, the duo got remixes from...
Yes, another SebastiAn post is in order. The Mayer Hawthorne featured track “Love In Motion” from SebastiAn’s debut album Total got the remix treatment from the crown prince of modern...
Mystery looms on the who exactly The Black Opera is. Through their visual demonstrations and online social media, the crew has raised a call to arms to stand up and revolutionize the injustices in...
Back In 2009 and 2010, Detroit band Will Sessions did a series of Big Band shows in the city with the likes of Guilty Simpson, Phat Kat, and Black Milk. For each show, the band backed the Detroit emcees...
The Katacomb season continues with Phat Kat‘s new video for “F.A.N.S.”, track we previously heard from its vinyl release on Funk Night Records. The video is directed by Shernay Latouche...
We all loved Elzhi‘s recreation of the classic Nas record Illmatic as Elmatic when it dropped a couple months ago, but dropping September 27th are the instrumentals from the album produced by...
The Blonde Collective (aka Blonde.) is a t-shirt label started by Detroiter Brad Hicks, launched in 2009, and The Loop’s own K-Fresh curated their most recent mix for their upcoming fall season....
Last week, the Detroit electronic music community lost a pioneer in our movement as author and freelance journalist Dan Sicko passed away from ocular melanoma, a rare form of eye cancer, at his home...
Couple months ago, I was able to talk with emcee Tech N9ne over the phone – an interview for a Real Detroit Weekly (read here) preview piece for his July 16th show at the Emerald Theater in Mount...
The time has arrived. The Fool’s Gold debut from Danny Brown, an album for free download titled XXX. Since I was exposed to Danny Brown from Nick Speed a good five years ago, I knew he was going...
