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Detroit music, reported from inside the room. Techno and house first, with anything else that's born here.
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Four hours from Detroit, Electric Forest was worth the drive, storm and all
Four hours up the road, Electric Forest sold out for its 14th year.
SBy Shawn · Jun 29, 2026
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Spot Lite and UFO Bar close at the end of June as owners leave nightlifeRoula David and Jesse Cory will close Spot Lite on June 28 and UFO Bar on June 30, stepping away from nightlife. UFO Bar's space is set to reopen as Detroit Vinyl Bar.By Marcus · Jun 17, 2026
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Inside the trees: a Detroit reader's field guide to Electric Forest 2026Electric Forest runs June 25 to 28 in Rothbury, a few hours west of Detroit, and one of its co-headliners grew up just outside the city.By Shawn · Jun 12, 2026
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Baker's Keyboard Lounge closes for a refresh, with a June return on LivernoisDetroit's oldest continuously operating jazz club shut its doors on Livernois for a roughly month long renovation, with new bathrooms, a refreshed stage and bar, and a new patio promised for a June reopening.By Shawn · May 30, 2026
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DJ Minx and Dom Dolla close Movement 2026 on Memorial Day MondayMovement's twentieth year under Paxahau closed Memorial Day at Hart Plaza with DJ Minx finishing the Pyramid Stage and Dom Dolla closing the Movement Stage.By Shawn · May 26, 2026
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Detroit's electronic music museum still needs a homeMODEM lost its Packard Plant site when the city killed that redevelopment, and now its founder is hunting for a more central building.By Strait Journal · May 23, 2026
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A Movement weekend built on Detroit techno, with Carl Craig twice and a Borderland setCarl Craig plays Movement twice, Juan Atkins reunites with Moritz von Oswald for a Borderland set, and Dopplereffekt closes out a Saturday night when the festival returns to Hart Plaza May 23 to 25.By Marcus · May 22, 2026
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Detroit's first Juneteenth music festival features Kash Doll, Babytron and Fetty WapThe inaugural Hart of Detroit Summer Festival takes over Hart Plaza on June 19 with Kash Doll, Babytron and Fetty Wap headlining an all-day Juneteenth lineup.By Jamie · May 21, 2026
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Pine Knob opens its 2026 season Saturday with Kid Cudi and a new marqueePine Knob Music Theatre launches a 45-show outdoor season May 23 with Kid Cudi, anchored by Jack White's first-ever outdoor set in July and a debut digital marquee at the Clarkston gates.By Marcus · May 21, 2026
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Detroit makes it official: Techno Week lands as Movement turns 20Mayor Mary Sheffield signed a proclamation naming May 18 to 25 Detroit Techno Week, timed to Movement's 20th edition at Hart Plaza.By Shawn · May 20, 2026
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'Big Jim' O'Brien exits WCSX after 24 years, says he is staying in DetroitJim O'Brien, the longtime 'Big Jim' of 94.7 WCSX, announced the end of his run at the classic rock station and said he plans to stay in metro Detroit.By Jamie · May 15, 2026
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Concert of Colors to pay tribute to WGPR-TV's 'The Scene' at July festivalDon Was and his Detroit All Star Revue will salute WGPR-TV's 'The Scene' at the DIA on July 18, in a set dedicated to late Concert of Colors founder Ismael Ahmed.By Marcus · May 15, 2026
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Vinyl lounge and cafe coming to Southwest DetroitTigris, a hi-fi listening bar and cafe, is set to open this summer at 2545 Bagley St. in Southwest Detroit.By Shawn · May 14, 2026
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Danny Brown brings 15 years of catalog to Movement's 20thDanny Brown headlines Movement's Saturday bill at Hart Plaza, arriving on a recent EDM pivot and a new dance single that has become a Detroit spring anthem.By Marcus · May 14, 2026
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After the pulse drops on KerchevalWhen Movement clears out of Hart Plaza, the city's come-down lands in smaller rooms. Foxglove, a vinyl-only listening garden in the North End, is one of them.By Samantha · May 12, 2026
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Yungblud opened his 2026 world tour with a sold-out night at Freedom HillYungblud launched the IDOLS world tour in Sterling Heights on May 1, playing a sold-out Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill with Return to Dust opening.By Marcus · May 2, 2026
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Pig & Whiskey leaves Ferndale for Corktown in 2026The barbecue-and-music festival returns July 31 to August 2 in a new Corktown home after years on Ferndale's Nine Mile, with a Corktown address still to come.By Marcus · Apr 30, 2026
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Sterling Toles and the slow build of a Detroit soundFive years after Manger on McNichols put him in front of a national audience, the east-side producer is still working the way that made the record, building tracks over years instead of weeks.By Jamie · Jul 22, 2025
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From J Dilla to HiTech, Detroit hip-hop and electronic music keep sharing the same roomsTwo decades after J Dilla's death, the producers and venues that link Detroit hip-hop to the city's electronic scene still overlap, and HiTech's 2025 run shows the wiring is intact.By Jamie · Jun 25, 2025
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DJ Holographic and the next wave of Detroit DJsAriel Corley has spent more than a decade building DJ Holographic into a Detroit-rooted, genre-fluid touring act, and the bookings show why her name keeps coming up first.By Marcus · Jun 12, 2025
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DJ Minx and the long build of Women on WaxJennifer Witcher started the Women on Wax collective in 1996 and turned it into a record label in 2001, and three decades on she remains one of Detroit house's most established touring DJs.By Marcus · May 6, 2025
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Carl Craig, a documentary, and the long arc of Planet EA feature documentary on the Detroit techno producer reaches the city in May, more than three decades into a career built on his own label and the Detroit Love showcase.By Marcus · Apr 15, 2025
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Kyle Hall: the Detroit producer who never left the cityKyle Hall started Wild Oats as a teenager in 2008 and has kept the label, the studio, and his whole career rooted on Detroit's west side ever since.By Marcus · Apr 8, 2025
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Kerri Chandler's recurring Detroit workDropped: the article's core premise (a 2025 Movement booking and a near-annual Detroit residency pattern) is not supported by any primary source and is contradicted by the published 2025 lineup.By Marcus · Apr 2, 2025
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Theo Parrish and Sound Signature: 28 years of Detroit deep houseTheo Parrish founded Sound Signature in Detroit in 1997 and has run it for nearly three decades on slow vinyl releases, a tight catalog, and total creative independence.By Marcus · Mar 22, 2025
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DJ Stingray, the Detroit electro DJ who kept Drexciya's tempoSherard Ingram became DJ Stingray as Drexciya's touring DJ, and he has carried the fast, masked electro set out of Detroit and across the world ever since.By Marcus · Mar 12, 2025
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Omar-S: Detroit's most prolific solo techno projectAlex Smith has run FXHE Records out of Detroit since 2003, producing, pressing, and releasing a deep catalog of raw techno and house almost entirely on his own terms.By Marcus · Feb 5, 2025
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Detroit house and Chicago house: where the two splitChicago and Detroit house share a decade and a roster of mutual influences, then split around 1990 in ways that still define both cities' records.By Marcus · Jan 30, 2025
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Stacey Pullen and the second wave that stayed on the roadThree decades into a touring career, the Detroit producer is best understood as the connective layer that kept the city's techno moving between its founders and its festival-headliner generation.By Marcus · Jan 18, 2025
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Robert Hood and the minimal Detroit techno traditionThe Detroit producer left Underground Resistance in 1994, founded M-Plant, and put out Minimal Nation, the record that gave a subgenre its name.By Marcus · Dec 22, 2024
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Moodymann: the Detroit producer who keeps the underground undergroundKenny Dixon Jr. has built a thirty-year house catalog on his own terms in Detroit, releasing as Moodymann through the labels he controls and a vinyl-first habit he has never given up.By Marcus · Nov 8, 2024
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Jeff Mills, the Detroit master who plans his sets to the secondFrom his Wizard radio years to Axis Records and an orchestral second act, the Detroit techno DJ has built a four-decade catalog on his own terms.By Marcus · Sep 30, 2024
MusicSpotlight
How Hart Plaza carries Detroit's festival calendar, one weekend at a timeThe 45th Detroit Jazz Festival closed downtown on Labor Day, the latest anchor on a riverfront plaza that hosts several of the city's biggest festivals across the warm-weather months.By Strait Journal · Sep 8, 2024
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Mike Huckaby's Detroit house legacy is still in rotationFour years after the Detroit deep house producer and teacher died, his records on Deep Transportation and S Y N T H still circulate and the producers he trained still cite him.By Marcus · Aug 18, 2024
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Stacey Hotwaxx Hale: the Detroit DJ they call the Godmother of HouseDetroit DJ Stacey Hale, known across the city as the Godmother of House, played the Movement Stage at this year's festival and keeps teaching the next wave of women behind the decks.By Marcus · May 30, 2024
MusicSpotlight
What Movement 2025 said about where Detroit techno is goingDropped: the original piece's analysis rests on fabricated stage and set assignments that contradict the festival's official 2025 schedule.By Marcus · Jun 8, 2025
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Movement 2025 put Detroit's own back at the center of the lineupThe 2025 edition leaned on four Detroit showcases and a first festival slot for the Underground Music Academy, while a late headliner swap reshaped the main stage.By Jamie · Jun 2, 2025
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What the Stargate Stage played at Movement 2025Dropped: the original review's Stargate Stage lineup is fabricated and contradicts the official set times.By Marcus · May 30, 2025
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The Detroit Stage at Movement 2025: a city writing about itselfRecommend drop: the original is factually wrong at its core, with fabricated stage assignments, lineups, a non-existent Robert Hood booking, and invented Mixmag and Resident Advisor sourcing.By Marcus · May 29, 2025
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The Underground Stage at Movement 2025: where the deepest sets livedDropped: the original article's core premise is factually false. None of its named Underground Stage anchors (Sara Landry, DJ Stingray, Sama' Abdulhadi, Daria Kolosova) played that stage, and several did not play Movement 2025 at all.By Marcus · May 28, 2025
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After Movement: where Detroit's techno weekend went once Hart Plaza closedMovement's 20th edition closed each night at Hart Plaza, but the city's clubs and warehouses kept the music running until daylight.By Samantha · May 28, 2025
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Movement 2025: the showcases that anchored the 25th anniversaryMovement marked 25 years at Hart Plaza over Memorial Day weekend, and the published set times point to the Detroit Love takeover and the city's own roster as the weekend's center of gravity.By Marcus · May 27, 2025
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The Pyramid and Waterfront stages at Movement 2025The original article's stage lineups are fabricated; the real Movement 2025 bookings contradict its entire premise.By Jamie · May 26, 2025
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John Summit Closes Out Movement 2025 at Hart PlazaMovement wrapped its three day run at Hart Plaza on Memorial Day, with John Summit taking the final slot on the Movement Stage.By Marcus · May 26, 2025
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Sunday at Movement 2025: Day Two delivered the deepest setsDropped: the original article's Sunday lineup is factually wrong against Movement's official set times.By Marcus · May 25, 2025
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Saturday at Movement 2025: opening day at Hart PlazaOriginal recap dropped: its core premise is false. Carl Cox did not headline Movement 2025 (he postponed to 2026; Jeff Mills replaced him), it was the 20th anniversary not the 25th, Detroit Love ran on the Stargate Stage not a separate Detroit Stage, and most per-stage rosters are fabricated.By Marcus · May 24, 2025
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Movement 2025 starts early: Friday opening parties before Hart PlazaMovement's official opening parties at Spot Lite and Lincoln Factory ran Friday night, a day before the festival's first set on Hart Plaza.By Marcus · May 23, 2025
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Movement 2025 by the numbers: 25 years, six stages, 115 artistsThe 25th edition of Detroit's flagship electronic music festival returns to Hart Plaza over Memorial Day weekend with six stages and more than 115 artists across three days.By Marcus · May 20, 2025
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Movement 2025, stage by stage: how the bookings line up across Hart PlazaMovement 2025 spreads more than 100 artists across six stages over Memorial Day weekend, and each stage is built around a different slice of the techno and house spectrum.By Marcus · May 19, 2025
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How Paxahau programs Movement, Detroit's festival institutionPaxahau has produced Movement since 2006, building the Memorial Day weekend lineup over a long planning cycle, and the 2025 edition leans hard into Detroit programming.By Marcus · May 18, 2025
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Movement 2025: what to know about the 25th festival on Hart PlazaDetroit's electronic music festival marks its 25th edition over Memorial Day weekend with six stages and roughly 116 acts on the riverfront.By Marcus · May 15, 2025
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What to know about Movement 2026Detroit's techno festival marks 20 years under Paxahau over Memorial Day weekend, with Carl Cox, Dom Dolla, and Sara Landry on top of a 115-plus lineup spread across six stages at Hart Plaza.By Marcus · May 7, 2026
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Three Detroit acts to watch at Movement 2026DJ Minx, Terrence Dixon and a Kyle Hall back-to-back are the three hometown sets worth planning around when Movement returns to Hart Plaza this May.By Marcus · May 7, 2026
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Detroit's underground answer to Movement 2026 is a four-day run at the TangentMovement holds the Hart Plaza contract, but Interdimensional Transmissions programs Memorial Day weekend's other half from the Tangent Gallery, anchored by the long-running No Way Back.By Marcus · May 6, 2026
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TV Lounge, Marble Bar and Spot Lite anchor Movement weekend's offsite calendarThree Detroit rooms hold the bulk of the official afterparty schedule for Movement weekend, the late-night counterpart to the festival at Hart Plaza.By Samantha · May 5, 2026
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Where the parties go after Movement: a guide to the Detroit afterhours circuitMovement is three days at Hart Plaza and three nights almost everywhere else, and the afterhours circuit runs on independent venue bookings the festival never officially lists.By Samantha · May 4, 2026
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Paxahau at 20: the company that kept Detroit's festival aliveThe 2026 Movement Music Festival is Paxahau's twentieth at the helm, two decades after the Detroit company stepped in to rescue a festival that had run through three producers and lost money for years.By Marcus · May 4, 2026
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Movement 2026: the lineup, decoded for Paxahau's 20th yearPaxahau revealed a 115-plus act bill for Movement's 2026 edition in late January, the festival's 20th under the Detroit company. Here is what the bookings signal.By Marcus · May 3, 2026
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Movement returns to Hart Plaza for Memorial Day weekendDetroit's electronic music festival runs May 23 through 25 at Hart Plaza, the twentieth edition produced by Paxahau.By Shawn · May 2, 2026
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Somewhere in Detroit opens its doors, putting the city's techno vinyl within reachThe record shop inside the Submerge building on East Grand Boulevard, long known for running by appointment, now lets the public walk in on Saturday afternoons.By Shawn · Apr 20, 2025
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Lincoln Factory, the Marble Bar team's warehouse room inside DreamtroitDetroit's Marble Bar crew opened a warehouse-scale room inside the $30 million Dreamtroit complex, and its first months filled fast with the kind of long-set techno nights smaller clubs cannot hold.By Samantha · Apr 10, 2025
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Metroplex Records is the founding document of Detroit technoJuan Atkins started Metroplex in 1985 out of his mother's house, and the catalog he built there set the template the whole genre followed.By Marcus · Dec 5, 2024
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Planet E Communications: Carl Craig's Detroit institutionCarl Craig founded Planet E Communications in 1991 and has kept it running on his own terms ever since, an unbroken Detroit techno label built around independence rather than scale.By Shawn · Nov 22, 2024
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Submerge: Underground Resistance's headquarters and Detroit's techno archiveOn East Grand Boulevard, the building that distributes Underground Resistance's records also holds Exhibit 3000, billed as the world's first techno museum.By Shawn · Oct 5, 2024
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From Detroit to Berlin: how the city's sound went globalDetroit invented the music, but the infrastructure that carried it worldwide was built in Berlin, and the line that runs between the two cities still holds more than thirty years on.By Marcus · Aug 10, 2024
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The Music Institute: the Broadway room that gave Detroit techno its first homeFor roughly 18 months on Broadway, an alcohol-free after-hours room gave Detroit techno its first dedicated dance floor before the bills caught up with it.By Marcus · Jul 4, 2024
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How techno started in Detroit: the Belleville Three storyThree friends from Belleville High School built the foundation of Detroit techno in seven years, then watched the genre they named go global without them.By Marcus · Jun 12, 2024
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Movement 2024 by the numbersDropped: the original is a fabricated statistics dossier attributed to a Paxahau figures release that does not exist, and its few checkable claims are wrong.By Marcus · May 30, 2024
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After Movement 2024: the afterparty circuit that ran the late hoursMovement filled Hart Plaza over Memorial Day weekend, but the festival's real late hours belonged to a citywide circuit of clubs and warehouses, anchored by a No Way Back run that turned Sunday night into a continuous block of music.By Samantha · May 29, 2024
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Movement 2024 closes Monday with Borderland, Seth Troxler and a Fatboy Slim send-offMovement's Memorial Day finale ran the Movement Stage from Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald's Borderland through Seth Troxler to a Fatboy Slim close, with Terrence Parker and a deep Detroit Stage bill running alongside.By Marcus · May 27, 2024
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Movement 2024, Sunday: a storm cleared Hart Plaza, then the headliners came backSevere weather pushed Movement's second day off its grounds before 7 p.m., and the festival reopened in time for Richie Hawtin and a Kevin Saunderson set with Idris Elba to close the night.By Marcus · May 26, 2024
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Movement 2024 opened with Stacey Hotwaxx Hale and a Detroit Love closeMovement returned to Hart Plaza on Saturday, May 25, with the Godmother of House opening the main stage and Carl Craig's Detroit Love closing the Pyramid.By Marcus · May 25, 2024
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What to know about Movement 2024 at Hart PlazaMovement returns to Hart Plaza for Memorial Day weekend with six stages, more than 100 artists, and a run of showcases anchored by Detroit Love, KMS Records, and a Metalheadz anniversary.By Marcus · May 22, 2024
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How Movement survived on Hart PlazaMovement returns to Hart Plaza for Memorial Day weekend, the latest edition of a Detroit festival that has changed names, owners, and economics since 2000 while staying put.By Shawn · May 21, 2024
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Movement 2023 closes its 17th year at Hart PlazaDetroit's Movement Music Festival ran May 27 to 29 at Hart Plaza, drawing more than 30,000 people a day across six stages.By Marcus · May 30, 2023
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Bonobo warmed up the Movement Stage before Skrillex on the festival's final nightSimon Green brought a DJ set to Hart Plaza on Memorial Day, opening the Movement Stage's closing run that Paxahau handed to Skrillex and Underworld.By Jamie · May 29, 2023
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Submerge opens its doors before Movement weekendThe Underground Resistance headquarters on East Grand Boulevard holds the archive Movement is built on, and every spring the world comes to stand in it.By Marcus · May 2, 2026
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The DSO leans on living composers this season, with Michael Abels in residenceThe Detroit Symphony Orchestra is programming fifteen works by living composers in 2025-2026, anchored by composer-in-residence Michael Abels and a calendar that keeps reaching back into the city's own musical history.By Marcus · Apr 30, 2026
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Castalia, the fragrance-paired Midtown cocktail bar, will close New Year's Eve after eight yearsThe Midtown bar known for pairing cocktails with perfume says it is closing on its own terms, with new ownership taking over the room in 2026.By Marcus · Oct 27, 2025
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Foxglove moved its 2025 season closer to Dreamtroit, with Juan Atkins headlining a family day partyFoxglove ended its 2025 season on September 20 by leaving its North End garden for the larger Dreamtroit warehouse, where Juan Atkins headlined an 11 hour, family friendly day party.By Samantha · Sep 20, 2025
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Movement marks 25 years at Hart PlazaDetroit's flagship electronic music festival returned to Hart Plaza for Memorial Day weekend with more than 115 artists across six stages and a lineup built around the city's techno lineage.By Jamie · May 24, 2025
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Pocket Change opens above Gratiot with a red neon sign and a rooftop patioNelson Kazan's first bar with his own name on the door sits on the second floor across from Eastern Market, marked only by a neon COCKTAILS sign.By Jamie · Apr 23, 2025
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The High Dive reopens in Hamtramck under new owners, with a non-alcoholic menu and offbeat weeknightsAfter Shark Toof sold the Victorian-themed bar in September, Leonard Lopp and Dwayne Wickersham reopened it in October with house-made drinks, trivia and movie nights, and a softer turn away from all-techno bookings.By Strait Journal · Oct 15, 2024
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Jack White sits in with the Hentchmen as Hamtramck's free Labor Day fest turns 44The 44th Hamtramck Labor Day Festival ran free and volunteer-run over the long weekend, with Jack White announced to join his old garage band the Hentchmen for a few songs on the closing night.By Strait Journal · Aug 31, 2024
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Paramita Sound is the only Michigan bar on USA TODAY's first Bars of the Year listUSA TODAY's inaugural Bars of the Year list named just one Michigan spot, the Black-owned wine bar and record shop Paramita Sound on Broadway downtown.By Marcus · Jul 29, 2024
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Foxglove returns to the North End garden with a custom four-point sound systemDetroit's only vinyl-only listening garden opened its 2024 season over Movement weekend, debuting a four-point sound system built in the city.By Jamie · May 25, 2024
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The Hamtramck Blowout came back in 2024, run by the Labor Day crewNine years after Metro Times last produced it, the Hamtramck Blowout returned March 1 and 2 across 16 venues as a fundraiser for the Labor Day Festival.By Strait Journal · Mar 1, 2024
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Jeff Mills group sets a new Tomorrow Comes The Harvest album for early 2026Detroit techno figure Jeff Mills and his trio Tomorrow Comes The Harvest will release a new album, Forbidden Planet, on his own Axis Records in early 2026.By Marcus · Feb 15, 2026
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DJ Minx makes her Rekids debut with the Energy EPDetroit house pioneer DJ Minx released her first record for Radio Slave's Rekids label in February, a two-track EP whose title cut features Grammy winner Kendra Foster.By Strait Journal · Feb 15, 2026
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Tec-Troit returns to June for 2026Detroit's free techno festival Tec-Troit is set for June 26 to 28, 2026, back in June after a one-year run in August.By Marcus · Feb 1, 2026
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Jeff Mills reissues his 'i9' for the 30th anniversary of the Liquid Room setJeff Mills put out a new 2025 version of 'i9' on Axis Records, the first piece of a wider 30th anniversary program around his 1995 Live at Liquid Room set in Tokyo.By Marcus · Dec 3, 2025
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Kyle Hall put out four records in nine monthsThe Detroit producer released four records on his Forget The Clock imprint between May 2025 and January 2026, a pace almost nobody else in the city is keeping.By Marcus · Dec 1, 2025
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Autechre brought its first North American tour in a decade to the Russell Industrial CenterPaxahau presented the British electronic duo at Building 6 on October 21, the Detroit stop on Autechre's first North American run in ten years.By Jamie · Oct 21, 2025
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Marble Bar turned 10 the only way it knows howMarble Bar marked a decade in New Center with a two night anniversary built on Detroit techno, headlined by Octave One live and Danny Daze.By Samantha · Oct 3, 2025
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DJ Stingray 313 takes the Echogenesis tour to Lincoln FactoryInterdimensional Transmissions brought DJ Stingray 313's Echogenesis tour to Detroit's Lincoln Factory, with Akua, 1morning, and local DJ Aki on the bill.By Marcus · Sep 27, 2025
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Charivari traded its single site for the whole cityCharivari Detroit returned in August 2025 as a four-day, multi-venue run across the city's clubs, retiring the single-site festival it staged at Fort Wayne for a decade.By Marcus · Aug 13, 2025
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Juan Atkins took Cybotron back to GlastonburyDetroit electro originator Juan Atkins brought his reactivated Cybotron project to Block9's giant IICON head at Glastonbury, performing new Tresor material with Laurens von Oswald and DJ Maaco.By Jamie · Jun 27, 2025
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Planet E releases the Carl Craig documentary soundtrackCarl Craig's label put out the soundtrack to his career documentary, a 17-track set that pulls rarities from across his catalog and aliases.By Jamie · Jun 15, 2025
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Underground Music Academy took the Detroit Stage at MovementOn Sunday, Waajeed's Underground Music Academy ran the Detroit Stage at Movement for the first time, putting its students in front of the festival crowd.By Strait Journal · May 25, 2025
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Three founders of the Detroit sound shared one set at MovementCarl Craig, Moodymann and Mike Banks closed the Detroit Love showcase together at Movement 2025, then released the set as an official Resident Advisor podcast.By Marcus · May 25, 2025
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Theo Parrish and Moodymann headlined a 12-hour Movement Sunday at Lincoln FactoryLincoln Factory's Nothing Is Strange party ran 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. on Movement Sunday with Theo Parrish and Moodymann on top of a deep all-night bill.By Marcus · May 25, 2025
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No Way Back marks 30 years of Interdimensional TransmissionsDetroit label Interdimensional Transmissions ran its annual No Way Back overnight at Tangent Gallery on Memorial Day weekend, this year doubling as the label's 30th birthday.By Marcus · May 25, 2025
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Father Dukes plays Movement 2025Detroit DJ Father Dukes, who came up through Seraphine Collective's Beatmatch Brunch, took a slot at Movement over Memorial Day weekend.By Strait Journal · May 25, 2025
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Soul Clap's House of EFUNK hit its 11th year at TV LoungeSoul Clap and Paxahau ran the 11th edition of the House of EFUNK afterparty across two nights and three stages at TV Lounge over Movement weekend, with a new vinyl compilation premiering at the door.By Samantha · May 24, 2025
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HiTech had the yearRecommend drop: the original is an unqualified victory-lap profile, but its July 11 Majestic show was canceled after a member was publicly accused of sexual assault, so the celebratory framing is no longer accurate or safe to republish.By Marcus · May 22, 2025
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Kevin Saunderson revives E-Dancer with his son, the alias's first album in 25 yearsDetroit techno founder Kevin Saunderson brought back his harder-edged E-Dancer alias in 2025 with a self-titled album made alongside his son Dantiez, the first E-Dancer full-length since 1998.By Marcus · May 21, 2025
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Mister Joshooa took a Detroit club career to Panorama BarDetroit's Mister Joshooa, the music director who built TV Lounge into one of the city's longest-running clubs, made his Panorama Bar debut on a Berghain Klubnacht.By Marcus · Apr 26, 2025
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DJ Minx took the floor at Pistons halftimeDJ Minx played a Detroit Pistons halftime show at Little Caesars Arena in March 2025, two years after her first appearance at a Pistons game.By Strait Journal · Mar 15, 2025
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Jeff Mills returns to jazz fusion with a new Spiral Deluxe albumDetroit techno figure Jeff Mills released The Love Pretender, the second album from his jazz fusion group Spiral Deluxe, on March 14, 2025 through his Axis label.By Marcus · Mar 14, 2025
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Detroit techno turns out for Anthony Shake ShakirA benefit at Tangent Gallery brought the city's founding techno generation together to support producer Anthony Shake Shakir, who is in long-term care for multiple sclerosis.By Strait Journal · Mar 1, 2025
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Jeff Mills takes Carl Cox's Saturday headline slot at MovementCarl Cox postponed his Movement set to 2026, and the festival named Detroit's Jeff Mills to headline Saturday in his place.By Marcus · Feb 20, 2025
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The old Lincoln motor factory is a techno venue nowA 1908 auto plant on Holden Street reopened in September 2024 as Dreamtroit, pairing affordable artist housing with a warehouse music venue run by the Marble Bar team.By Strait Journal · Sep 15, 2024