Carolyn Striho to Bring Detroit Musicians and Poets Together at Aretha’s Jazz Café
Longtime Detroit rock musician and poet Carolyn Striho has long envisioned a special concert event: a wondrous evening that merges music and poems from...
Stevie Wonder Announces Detroit Shows for ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ 50th Anniversary...
Stevie Wonder is marking the 50th anniversary of his landmark 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life with a world tour, and two...
Ebony Riley: An Interview with the Detroit Native About Her Debut Album, Modeling Career
Ebony Riley rose to fame as a model under the name Riley Montana. The Detroit native walked the catwalk for some of the biggest...
Why the Detroit Jazz Festival Matters Now More Than Ever
It’s not cheap to keep a music festival free.
It is, however, important that we’ve got access to arts, culture, and music, the mediums we...
Meet the Detroit Sound Conservancy: The Group Helping to Preserve the Motor City’s Music...
Detroit is a city with a pioneering musical spirit and a history that goes beyond the signature sound of Motown, from jazz to funk...
Martha Reeves on Her New Album, Her Motown Legacy
After helping to define the Motown Sound with numerous hits with Martha and the Vandellas, Martha Reeves, like fellow octogenarians Mick Jagger and Paul...
Jack White’s Pine Knob Show is Sold Out — But You Can Stream It
Jack White’s first ever concert at Pine Knob Music Theatre this weekend is sold out. But fans who couldn’t secure a ticket can stream it...
How Music Tied Ryan Patrick Hooper to His Dad and Impacted His Career
In every song I love, there’s a note of my dad.
I was raised on the music he’d play in the family car, blasted through...
How Miles Davis Kicked His Heroin Addiction in Motown
If you visited Detroit in fall 1953, maybe you came to Briggs Stadium to catch a Detroit Lions game during their second NFL Championship...
Jeff Daniels: The Man and His Music
Music has been a constant in Jeff Daniels’s career from his early days as an actor in New York City in the late 1970s....
2026 Metro Detroit Summer Events Preview: Music
May 29–31
Songs of America: Celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and vocalists Melinda Doolittle and Jimmie Herrod as they perform jazz...
Can You Dig It? Experience Motown’s History of Psychedelic Soul at New Exhibition
From the late ’60s through early ’70s, Motown Records artists contributed to a defining sound that would reshape music, culture, and fashion. Dubbed the...
Where to Celebrate Record Store Day in Metro Detroit
Celebrated on the third Saturday of each April, Record Store Day has been a tradition since 2008. Since then, the number of participating independent...
Melissa Etheridge Talks Rock Hall, New Album, Bob Seger, Detroit Lions
Melissa Etheridge is staring down quite an itinerary in 2026.
She has a batch of headlining tour dates kicking off March 26 at the Music...
Audra Kubat on New Music, Her Life as a Detroit Singer-Songwriter
If you’re a consumer of local music — whether that means attending local shows or flipping through the local music section at your nearest...
Holland-Dozier-Holland: 27 Hits Written by the Motown Legends
The following are just some of Holland-Dozier-Holland’s famous Motown songs, including smash hits from The Supremes, The Four Tops, Martha and the Vandellas, and...
Brian and Eddie Holland: The Men Behind The Motown Sound
Although many songwriters, producers, arrangers, musicians, and performers helped to create the infectious Motown sound, none surpass the legendary songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland (H-D-H)....
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of George Clinton’s Parliament Funkadelic
Visit the website georgeclinton.com, and the first thing you’ll see is a disarming, dynamic video rendition of the Funkadelic classic “One Nation Under a...
Techno: A Beginner’s Guide to the Detroit-Born Genre
Techno may pulse through clubs and festivals throughout the world today, but its humble beginnings are based in Detroit. Originated in the early 1980s...
The White Stripes Take Their Place in the Rock Hall with Help from Iggy...
The White Stripes were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday night (Nov. 8) before a capacity crowd inside the...
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