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Baker's Keyboard Lounge closes for renovations, plans June return under new management
The world's oldest operating jazz club is getting new bathrooms, a refreshed stage, and a new management team before reopening on Livernois.
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MusicReview
Monday at Movement 2026: DJ Minx and Dom Dolla close a packed Hart PlazaPaxahau's twentieth Movement closed Memorial Day with a full Hart Plaza. DJ Minx at the Pyramid, Dom Dolla at the Movement Stage, Sillygirlcarmen on the Detroit Stage, and the day-three crowd that Hart Plaza counts on every year.By Shawn · May 26, 2026
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Movement 2026 opens at Hart Plaza with rain, techno, and tens of thousandsThe annual Memorial Day weekend techno festival kicked off Saturday at Hart Plaza with Dom Dolla, Carl Cox, and Sara Landry headlining. Rain was present. The crowds were not deterred.By Shawn · May 24, 2026
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Detroit's Museum of Electronic Music is looking for a buildingAdriel Thornton wants to give Detroit techno a permanent home.By Priya · May 23, 2026
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Movement picks: Carl Craig twice, Dopplereffekt, Juan Atkins with BerlinMovement picks include Carl Craig back-to-back with Chicago's Cajmere, a Borderland collaboration between Juan Atkins and Berlin's Mark Ernestus, and Dopplereffekt closing Monday at the Waterfront Stage.By Marcus · May 22, 2026
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At Movement this weekend, women DJs are no longer an exceptionStacey Hotwaxx Hale has been on the Movement lineup since the festival's first year. DJ Stacye J, DJ Killa $quid, and others who followed her are at Hart Plaza this weekend.By Priya · May 22, 2026
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Detroit's first Juneteenth music festival features Kash Doll, Babytron and Fetty WapDetroit will host its first Juneteenth music festival this summer, with Kash Doll, Babytron, and Fetty Wap headlining the inaugural event.By Jamie · May 21, 2026
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Pine Knob opens Saturday, Kid Cudi headlines season launchPine Knob Music Theatre opens its 2026 outdoor season Saturday with Kid Cudi, launching a 45-show summer schedule that includes a rare suburban set from Detroit native Jack White.By Marcus · May 21, 2026
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Detroit Techno Week is official, timed to Movement's return to Hart PlazaMayor Mary Sheffield signed a proclamation designating the Memorial Day stretch as Detroit Techno Week, honoring Paxahau's two decades producing Movement.By Shawn · May 20, 2026
MusicNews
'Big Jim' O'Brien departs WCSX, stays in DetroitJim O'Brien, known as Big Jim on Detroit classic rock station 94.7 WCSX, announced his departure Thursday. He told the Free Press he is not leaving Detroit and has no intention of slowing down.By Jamie · May 15, 2026
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Concert of Colors to pay tribute to WGPR-TV's 'The Scene' at July festivalThe Don Was Detroit All Star Revue brings back Detroit's answer to Soul Train with a tribute to The Scene at the Detroit Film Theatre on July 18, dedicated to Concert of Colors founder Ismael Ahmed.By Marcus · May 15, 2026
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Vinyl lounge and cafe coming to Southwest DetroitTigris Hi-Fi, a vinyl listening lounge and cafe, is opening this summer at 2545 Bagley St. in Southwest Detroit.By Shawn · May 14, 2026
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Danny Brown is always onto the next thingDetroit rapper Danny Brown returns to Movement for his fourth appearance, bringing 15-plus years of catalog to the Waterfront stage and a new dance track that's become the city's spring anthem.By Marcus · May 14, 2026
MusicSpotlight
After the pulse drops on KerchevalWhen Movement clears out of Hart Plaza, West Village's Foxglove becomes one of the clearest readings of how Detroit comes down.By Samantha · May 12, 2026
MusicSpotlight
Editor's note: ahead of Movement 2026Hart Plaza in May, before the stages go up. The river is still doing what the river does. The festival isn't here yet. We're getting ready to cover it.By Shawn · May 7, 2026
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The Movement 2026 lineup, decoded: who's playing whereResident Advisor published the full Movement 2026 lineup in March. Six stages, over a hundred artists. Here is what the bookings signal.By Marcus · May 3, 2026
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Yungblud sold out Freedom Hill on a cold Friday with Return to Dust openingYungblud sold out the Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill on Friday, May 1, on a cold night with Los Angeles band Return to Dust opening.By Marcus · May 2, 2026
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Movement 2026 returns Memorial Day weekend: what to knowMovement Music Festival returns to Hart Plaza on Memorial Day weekend, May 23 through 25, 2026. Three days, six stages, Paxahau's twentieth at the helm.By Shawn · May 2, 2026
MusicNews
The DSO brings a concert of Detroit composers to Music Hall this seasonThe Detroit Symphony Orchestra programs fifteen works by living composers this season, with a dedicated concert at Music Hall rooted in the city's own musical voices.By Marcus · Apr 30, 2026
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Pig & Whiskey moves from Ferndale to Corktown for its 2026 editionPig & Whiskey announced Thursday that the 2026 edition of the music-and-barbecue festival is moving from downtown Ferndale to Corktown, July 31 to August 2.By Marcus · Apr 30, 2026
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Bar Chenin became Michigan's only James Beard award finalist on March 31The James Beard Foundation announced its 2026 finalists on Tuesday, March 31, 2026.By Samantha · Mar 31, 2026
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Hamtramck Blowout 2026 dropped the wristband back to twenty bucks and pulled in 130 actsThe 2025 Blowout sold 220 acts across 25 venues with a thirty-five-dollar wristband.By Samantha · Mar 5, 2026
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Jeff Mills announced another album before the last one was coldJeff Mills and Jean-Phi Dary announced a new Tomorrow Comes The Harvest album in February 2026. It is called Forbidden Planet.By Marcus · Feb 15, 2026
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DJ Minx signed to RekidsDJ Minx signed to Rekids in early 2026 and released the Energy EP in February. The title track features Kendra Foster.By Priya · Feb 15, 2026
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Tec-Troit is moving to JuneTec-Troit announced in early 2026 that the festival is moving from August to June for the 2026 edition.By Marcus · Feb 1, 2026
MusicLegacy
Castalia served its last drinks on New Year's Eve and closed with the afterlife menuCastalia served its last drinks on December 31, 2025, eight years after Kevin Peterson and Jane Larson opened it in the lower level of an 1890s Victorian on Second Avenue.By Jamie · Dec 31, 2025
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Jeff Mills put out the Liquid Room record again for its 30th anniversaryJeff Mills released i9 (2025 Version) on July 18, 2025, marking 30 years since his Live at Liquid Room Tokyo session.By Marcus · Dec 3, 2025
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Kyle Hall dropped four albums in nine monthsKyle Hall released four full-length records between May 2025 and January 2026, all on his label Forget The Clock.By Marcus · Dec 1, 2025
MusicReview
Saksey's opened off Parker's Alley with Cap'n Crunch sundaes and Teeny 'tinisSaksey's opened on Friday, November 14, 2025, with eight tables and 55 seats in the basement of Gilly's Clubhouse at 1550 Woodward. The entrance is in Parker's Alley.By Jamie · Nov 14, 2025
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Castalia announced its closing on October 27 and called the timing a chance to go out on topOn Monday, October 27, 2025, Castalia posted on social media that it would close on New Year's Eve.By Marcus · Oct 27, 2025
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Autechre played the Russell Industrial CenterPaxahau booked Autechre at the Russell Industrial Center on October 21, 2025.By Jamie · Oct 21, 2025
MusicReview
Marble Bar turned 10 the only way it knows howMarble Bar turned 10 on October 3 and 4, 2025, and marked the occasion by booking Octave One live and Danny Daze on the same weekend.By Samantha · Oct 3, 2025
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DJ Stingray brought the Echogenesis Tour to Lincoln FactoryDJ Stingray 313 played Lincoln Factory on September 27, 2025, as part of his Echogenesis Tour. Akua and 1morning were on the bill.By Marcus · Sep 27, 2025
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Foxglove ended its 2025 season at Dreamtroit with Juan Atkins and a family-friendly day partyFoxglove closed its 2025 season on September 20 by leaving the garden. The garden, the Leicester Court yard that has been Foxglove's home in the North End since 2023, only holds a few hundred people.By Samantha · Sep 20, 2025
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Ladder 4 became the first Detroit restaurant ever recognized by 50 BestOn September 9, 2025, the World's 50 Best announced Ladder 4 Wine Bar as the inaugural recipient of the Resy One To Watch Award for North America.By Jamie · Sep 9, 2025
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Tec-Troit went off in AugustTec-Troit ran August 15 to 17, 2025, at The Container Globe. Free, three days, a lineup that leaned hard into Detroit's own catalog.By Marcus · Aug 15, 2025
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Charivari stopped being one festival and became fiveCharivari Detroit ran August 14 to 17, 2025, across multiple venues instead of one. The festival dropped its single-site Fort Wayne model.By Marcus · Aug 13, 2025
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Sterling Toles and the hybrid Detroit hip-hop / electronic veinSterling Toles has been making music in Detroit for more than two decades. Most of it sits where the city's hip-hop, jazz, and electronic traditions overlap, and most of it has been heard outside the city before it gets a Detroit listen.By Jamie · Jul 22, 2025
MusicReview
Juan Atkins brought Cybotron to GlastonburyCybotron played Glastonbury on June 27, 2025, inside the Block9 IICON structure.By Jamie · Jun 27, 2025
MusicSpotlight
From J Dilla to HiTech: Detroit hip-hop and electronic still share the same roomJames Yancey died in February 2006. Nineteen years later the Detroit hip-hop catalog he helped build is still in conversation with the city's electronic scene, and the conversation is structural, not coincidental.By Jamie · Jun 25, 2025
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Planet E put out the Carl Craig documentary soundtrackPlanet E released the soundtrack to Desire: The Carl Craig Story in summer 2025. The compilation tracks the documentary's chronology.By Jamie · Jun 15, 2025
MusicProfile
DJ Holographic and the new wave of Detroit DJsAriel Corley has been DJing in Detroit as DJ Holographic for most of the last decade. She is one of the names that the next-wave question lands on first, and the touring schedule explains why.By Marcus · Jun 12, 2025
MusicSpotlight
Movement 2025 took its 25th anniversary as a question, not a victory lapMovement Music Festival closed its 25th edition on Memorial Day. What the anniversary framing actually meant on the ground was less a celebration than a question put to the room.By Jamie · Jun 2, 2025
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The Underground Stage at Movement 2025: where the deepest sets livedThe Underground Stage at Movement 2025 sits in the amphitheater bowl Noguchi cut into the slope. The 2025 booking confirmed it as the festival's harder, more architecturally precise corner.By Marcus · May 28, 2025
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Movement 2025: the sets that defined the weekendBy the end of Monday night, several Movement 2025 sets had separated from the rest of the lineup and become the weekend's reference points.By Marcus · May 27, 2025
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The Pyramid and Waterfront stages at Movement 2025The Pyramid and Waterfront stages at Movement 2025 sit on opposite ends of Hart Plaza. The two stages are the festival's middle tier, and the bookings reflect that.By Jamie · May 26, 2025
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Monday at Movement 2025: closing day under the Detroit skyMovement 2025 closed Monday night, May 26, 2025, under a clear Detroit sky and a crowd that had thinned only slightly from Sunday's peak.By Marcus · May 26, 2025
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Underground Music Academy took the stage at MovementUnderground Music Academy took over the Detroit Stage at Movement 2025 on Sunday. It was UMA's first festival showcase.By Priya · May 25, 2025
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The three godfathers played Hart Plaza togetherCarl Craig went back to back with Moodymann on the Stargate stage on Saturday night of Movement 2025. Mike Banks was in the booth with them.By Marcus · May 25, 2025
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Theo Parrish and Moodymann played Lincoln Factory for 12 hoursThe Nothing Is Strange party at Lincoln Factory on Sunday of Movement weekend 2025 had one lineup: Theo Parrish and Moodymann.By Marcus · May 25, 2025
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No Way Back turned 30 and nobody left before dawnInterdimensional Transmissions ran No Way Back 2025 on Sunday night at Tangent Gallery, billed as a 14-hour Techno Thanksgiving.By Marcus · May 25, 2025
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Sunday at Movement 2025: Day Two delivered the deepest setsSunday, May 25, 2025, was the second day of Movement 2025. The crowd at Hart Plaza ran heavier than Saturday by 6 p.m. and the deepest Detroit programming was concentrated in the afternoon.By Marcus · May 25, 2025
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Father Dukes headlined MovementFather Dukes played a Movement 2025 stage on May 24. She came out of Seraphine Collective's beatmatch brunches two years earlier.By Priya · May 25, 2025
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Soul Clap's House of EFUNK turned 11Soul Clap's House of EFUNK ran its 11th edition at TV Lounge over Movement weekend 2025. Two nights. Deep lineup.By Samantha · May 24, 2025
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Saturday at Movement 2025: opening day at Hart PlazaMovement 2025 opened on Hart Plaza at noon on Saturday, May 24, 2025. The 25th anniversary edition ran a full slate across all six stages from the first hour.By Marcus · May 24, 2025
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Movement 2025 kickoff: parties opened Friday before Hart PlazaThe Movement 2025 afterparty circuit opened Friday night, May 23, twelve hours before the festival's first set on Hart Plaza.By Marcus · May 23, 2025
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HiTech had the yearHiTech released HONEYPAQQ Vol. 1 on May 23, 2025, and spent the rest of the year doing everything else. Coachella. Berghain. Primavera. Roskilde.By Marcus · May 22, 2025
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Kevin Saunderson put his son on the first e-dancer album in 25 yearsKevin Saunderson released a new e-Dancer album on May 21, 2025, the first under that alias in more than two decades. His son Dantiez produced it with him.By Marcus · May 21, 2025
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Movement 2025 by the numbers: 25 years, six stages, 115 artistsTwenty-five years. Six stages. One hundred fifteen artists. Three days. The numbers behind the 25th edition of Detroit's flagship electronic music festival.By Marcus · May 20, 2025
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The Movement 2025 lineup, decoded: who's playing each stage, why it mattersThe Movement 2025 lineup runs to 115 artists across six stages over three days. The bookings break into roughly four bands and each stage is built around one or two.By Marcus · May 19, 2025
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Inside Paxahau: how Detroit's festival institution programs MovementPaxahau Event Production has produced Movement since 2006. The company started in 1998 as a Detroit promotion crew and has run the festival under five different mayors.By Marcus · May 18, 2025
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What to know about Movement 2025: a guide to Memorial Day weekend at Hart PlazaThe 25th annual Movement Music Festival runs May 24 through 26, 2025, at Hart Plaza. Three days, six stages, 115 artists across the weekend.By Marcus · May 15, 2025
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DJ Minx: Detroit house's matriarchyJennifer Witcher founded Women on Wax Recordings in 1996. Twenty-nine years later DJ Minx is one of the most established Detroit house DJs touring, and the only one of her cohort who built a label specifically to amplify women in dance music.By Marcus · May 6, 2025
MusicSpotlight
Pocket Change's first rooftop pop-up brought Mink's Sarah Welch and Cameron Rolka shucking above GratiotThe first Sunday after Pocket Change opened, the third-floor rooftop was hosting a husband-and-wife oyster pop-up.By Samantha · May 4, 2025
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Mister Joshooa played Panorama BarMister Joshooa played his first Panorama Bar set on April 26, 2025, as part of a Klubnacht lineup.By Marcus · Apr 26, 2025
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Inside the North End record shop keeping Detroit techno's vinyl archive aliveSomewhere in Detroit, the retail counter inside the Submerge building, has run on appointments and word of mouth for two decades. The crates are the city's vinyl spine.By Shawn · Apr 20, 2025
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Kyle Hall: the Detroit prodigy who never left the cityKyle Hall founded Wild Oats Records in 2009 when he was seventeen. Sixteen years later he is still in Detroit, still releasing records, and one of the most consistent house and techno producers the city has produced since.By Marcus · Apr 8, 2025
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Kerri Chandler's recurring Detroit workKerri Chandler is from East Orange, New Jersey. He has played Detroit house rooms with enough consistency over three decades that the city treats him as something close to family.By Marcus · Apr 2, 2025
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Theo Parrish at Sound Signature: 28 years of Detroit deep houseTheo Parrish founded Sound Signature in 1997. The Detroit deep house label has run for 28 years on a consistent aesthetic, a tight catalog, and a refusal to release at major-label pace.By Marcus · Mar 22, 2025
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Hamtramck Blowout 2025 expanded to 220 acts and 25 venues, but the wristband price went upThe 2024 Blowout reboot had 17 venues, 150 bands, and a twenty-dollar wristband.By Marcus · Mar 20, 2025
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Jeff Mills and his jazz band released a new album in MarchJeff Mills released a new Spiral Deluxe album on March 14, 2025. It is called The Love Pretender.By Marcus · Mar 14, 2025
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Dirty Shake opened on 313 Day with a wraparound patio, boozy slushies, and a hummerSandy Levine and Doug Hewitt opened Dirty Shake at Forest and Second on March 13, 2025. They picked the date for the obvious reason.By Samantha · Mar 13, 2025
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DJ Stingray and the steady Detroit DJ workSherard Ingram has been the steady DJ in Detroit electro and techno since the late 1990s. The DJ Stingray work is what he has done in the years since Drexciya stopped touring.By Marcus · Mar 12, 2025
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Detroit raised money for Shake ShakirA benefit for Anthony Shake Shakir happened at Tangent Gallery on March 1, 2025. The room was packed.By Priya · Mar 1, 2025
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A 909, a Saturday night, and Jeff Mills walking back into DetroitCarl Cox pulled out of Movement three months before the festival. Jeff Mills is taking his slot.By Marcus · Feb 20, 2025
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Omar-S: Detroit's most prolific solo techno projectAlex O. Smith has been releasing as Omar-S on his own FXHE Recordings since the early 2000s. The catalog is among the most prolific in active Detroit techno, and Smith does it almost entirely solo.By Marcus · Feb 5, 2025
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Detroit house: where it diverged from ChicagoChicago house and Detroit house are usually filed as the same lineage. They are not. The two cities share a starting decade and a roster of mutual influences, then diverge sharply around 1990 in ways that still define both scenes.By Marcus · Jan 30, 2025
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Yvonne Byrd opened Minnie's Detroit on Trumbull, the fourth Detroit bar she's ownedYvonne Byrd has run a bar in Detroit since 2008. Vondie's on the River was the first, named after her childhood nickname. It ran until 2012, when the lease wasn't renewed.By Samantha · Jan 25, 2025
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Stacey Pullen and the Detroit techno middle generationStacey Pullen has been touring as a Detroit techno DJ for more than thirty years. The middle-generation status is partly a function of when he started and partly a function of staying in the city.By Marcus · Jan 18, 2025
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Transmat: Derrick May's lasting Detroit imprintDerrick May founded Transmat in 1986. The catalog is small, the influence is not.By Marcus · Jan 10, 2025
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Robert Hood and the minimal Detroit techno traditionRobert Hood co-founded Underground Resistance with Jeff Mills and Mike Banks. He left in 1994 to start M-Plant and put out Minimal Nation, the record that named a subgenre.By Marcus · Dec 22, 2024
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Metroplex Records: Juan Atkins's foundationJuan Atkins founded Metroplex in 1985 out of his mother's house. The catalog is the foundation document for a genre.By Marcus · Dec 5, 2024
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Planet E Communications: Carl Craig's Detroit institutionCarl Craig founded Planet E Communications in 1991. The label has run continuously since, which in Detroit techno is its own kind of accomplishment.By Shawn · Nov 22, 2024
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Moodymann: the Detroit producer who keeps the underground undergroundKenny Dixon Jr. has been releasing as Moodymann since the early 1990s. The Detroit house producer has done it through one label, his own KDJ, and a refusal to leave the city or the catalog.By Marcus · Nov 8, 2024
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The High Dive reopened in October with new owners, a hibiscus tea base, and Jeopardy nightsDavid Lew, the L.A. artist who goes by Shark Toof, sold the High Dive in September 2024.By Priya · Oct 15, 2024
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Submerge: Underground Resistance's headquarters and Detroit's techno archiveMike Banks established Submerge in 1992 as a distribution hub for Detroit's independent dance labels. The building at 3000 East Grand Boulevard now holds the closest thing the city has to a living techno archive.By Shawn · Oct 5, 2024
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Jeff Mills: the second-by-second precision of a Detroit masterJeff Mills has been DJing professionally since the early 1980s. The Detroit techno producer's catalog runs across more than three decades and roughly 60 releases on Axis Records, the label he founded in 1992.By Marcus · Sep 30, 2024
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Florian East opened in Hamtramck after eighty years without a brewery and put the name on the front in seven languagesThe last brewery in Hamtramck closed in 1941. Auto City Brewing Company, gone since the early 1940s.By Priya · Aug 29, 2024
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Mike Huckaby's lasting Detroit house legacyMike Huckaby died in April 2020 of COVID-19 complications. Four years later the Detroit house producer's records are still circulating, his teaching is still cited by Detroit DJs, and the catalog he left has not aged.By Marcus · Aug 18, 2024
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Collect beer bar opened its license at 4 p.m. on a Friday and was pouring beer at 4:10Collect spent six years on the second floor of a Gratiot building in Eastern Market, above what used to be Gather. In June 2024 the lease ran out.By Priya · Aug 16, 2024
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From Detroit to Berlin: how the city's sound went globalDetroit techno was a UK and German phenomenon before it was a Detroit one. The Berlin half of that story runs through one club and one record label, both founded inside two years of the Wall coming down.By Marcus · Aug 10, 2024
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Paramita Sound earned national bar honors and Andrey Douthard kept the menu the sameWhen USA Today named its first 27 Bars of the Year in July 2024, the only Michigan entry was Paramita Sound, the Black-owned wine bar and record shop on Broadway.By Marcus · Jul 29, 2024
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The Music Institute and the room where Detroit techno became a sceneThe Music Institute opened on Broadway in late 1988 and closed in late 1989. Less than 18 months. Long enough.By Marcus · Jul 4, 2024
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How techno started in Detroit: the Belleville Three storyThree Black teenagers from a Detroit suburb — Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson — built the foundation of techno between 1981 and 1988. The story is shorter and stranger than the genre suggests.By Marcus · Jun 12, 2024
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Stacey Hotwaxx Hale: the Detroit DJ who never stopped workingStacey Hale has been DJing in Detroit since the 1970s. The 'Godmother of House' framing is not a marketing line; it is what people in the city have called her for decades.By Marcus · May 30, 2024
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Movement 2024 by the numbersPaxahau released attendance and operating figures Tuesday from the 24th edition of Movement. The numbers, in plain terms: the festival held.By Marcus · May 30, 2024
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The Skrillex booking, and what it said about Movement 2024Sonny Moore closed the Movement Stage Sunday night under the name he stopped being able to outrun. The booking had been a subject of argument since February.By Jamie · May 28, 2024
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Monday at Movement 2024: Memorial Day closes hardMovement 2024 closed Memorial Day, May 27, with the day-three lineup that runs Detroit harder than the rest of the weekend. DJ Stingray, Robert Hood, Octave One, and the Carl Craig closing set.By Marcus · May 27, 2024
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Sunday at Movement 2024: a night the crowd didn't leaveDay two of Movement 2024 was the day the festival had been arguing about for three months. Skrillex closed the Movement Stage. The crowd that showed up for him stayed.By Marcus · May 26, 2024
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Saturday at Movement 2024: the festival came back fullMovement 2024 opened Saturday, May 25, with a Hart Plaza crowd that was the largest on a festival opening day since the pre-pandemic editions.By Marcus · May 25, 2024
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Erika linenfelser turned her North End yard into Foxglove and a custom four-point sound systemErika Linenfelser's house is at 257 Leicester Court, in the North End.By Jamie · May 25, 2024
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What to know about Movement 2024: 24 years on Hart PlazaMovement Music Festival runs May 25 through 27, 2024, at Hart Plaza. The 24th edition. Six stages, 115 artists across the weekend, three days for a Memorial Day weekend pass that starts at $225.By Marcus · May 22, 2024
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The Hamtramck Blowout returned in 2024 with new organizers and the same scrappy energyNine years after Metro Times stopped producing it, the Hamtramck Blowout came back.By Priya · Mar 1, 2024
MusicSpotlight
The Aladdin Sane opens beneath Book Tower with 32 seats and a bowie-coded cocktail menuMost new bars in Detroit pick a moment to announce themselves. The Aladdin Sane skipped the moment.By Jamie · Jan 15, 2024
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Movement 2023 was the festival's full return: a recapMovement Music Festival ran May 27 through 29, 2023, at Hart Plaza, the 23rd edition and the first Memorial Day weekend that ran without pandemic-era operational constraints. Total attendance roughly 109,000.By Marcus · May 30, 2023
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Bonobo at Movement 2023: a quieter Detroit nightSimon Green closed the Movement Stage Sunday night under the name he has been using for twenty-five years. The set was the quietest Memorial Day Sunday closer Movement has booked in recent memory.By Jamie · May 29, 2023