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Fifth at 40 (2005)
[caption id="attachment_195" align="aligncenter" width="477"] "Soon to be picturesque ruins!"[/caption] It is 2005, 40 years after the Watts riots, the death of Malcolm X and the prime time of Motown...
View ArticleAdieu (2005)
Adieu, Carleton S. Gholz A dance-floor lodestar, spindly mouthpiece and MT cultural documentarian splits for Pitts By Carleton S. Gholz and Walter Wasacz Originally published 8/17/2005 More than 500...
View ArticleDirtbombs / The Cyril Lords at the Magic Stick (2005)
an affordably screamy garage-rock trip… Originally published 12 September 2005 With Jack White otherwise engaged in Chicago, and a dark cloud of violence and tabloid attention hanging over his...
View ArticleFrom Detroit to Tokyo (2007)
Originally published 5/23/2007 From Detroit to Tokyo How DJ Jeff Mills helped shape not just a music scene, but an international culture It’s a brisk winter night in downtown Detroit and Jeff Mills is...
View ArticleThe ‘Close-N-Play’ Interview: DJ Morris Mitchell Reflects On Establishing DJ...
Originally published 28 September 2011 Detroit’s Morris Mitchell remembers a time before mixing records together was the norm. A drummer in local black cover bands like the Black Clergy and Stone as...
View ArticleElectrifying Mojo remembers 1972 (DEQ 2005)
I was in Ann Arbor standing on the corner of Stadium and University (1972). It’s where Discount Records used to be. I had just started working at this Rock and Roll radio station, WAAM. I went to...
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Remembering Steve Nader of Dance Detroit
Longtime DJ and record pool director Steve Nader died on February 14, 2011 two days short of his 58th birthday.
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Octave One on twenty-six years of techno They believe Originally published in the Metro Times on 20 May 2015. The origins of Octave One —primarily Lenny and Lawrence Burden, but initially a band of...
View ArticleThe Detroit I Love: Voom Approaches 25th Anniversary
Consider the dolphins. Dolphins have no hands, so they have no works — no weapons, no records, no history, no government, no property, no law, no crime, no punishment. No dolphin is married to any...
View ArticleThe Music of the Comeback
In Detroit, despite the atrophy of some small music venues, an overlapping network of clubs, talent and production crews continues to mix old and new traditions at the margins, reminding its audience...
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