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....

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...

From the late ’60s through early ’70s, Motown Records artists contributed to a defining sound that would reshape music, culture, and fashion. Dubbed the...

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 is staring down quite an itinerary in 2026.She has a batch of headlining tour dates kicking off March 26 at the Music...

If you’re a consumer of local music — whether that means attending local shows or flipping through the local music section at your nearest...

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...

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)....

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 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 were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday night (Nov. 8) before a capacity crowd inside the...

In 1986, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted its inaugural class, which consisted of 16 artists. The honors bestowed upon inductees have...

The White Stripes are part of a stacked 2025 induction class for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, whose induction ceremony airs live...

Michael Abels has a special affinity for Detroit and its classical music scene. It was here that the Los Angeles resident attended the Detroit...

When you have a predominantly Black city like Detroit colliding with the wider African diaspora, a kind of new synergy is bound to happen....

For the second time since the festival’s start in 2013, country music’s faithful won’t be flocking to Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan, for...

As the sister of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr., Esther Gordy Edwards served in a variety of prominent positions within the company that...

Detroit’s own Jack and Meg White have finally achieved Rock and Roll Hall of Fame status. The news was announced Sunday night. In their inductee...

"I love hip-hop the most," says Nadim Azzam, “but people seem to like when I sing.”Azzam, an Ann Arbor musician who describes his sound...

When you hear the name Ray Parker Jr., chances are your mind goes to the Ghostbusters theme song, not Motown. But the writer and...