A film 12 years in the making, capturing a Detroit music story that took root more than four decades ago, got its long-awaited hometown premiere Thursday night. The screening of “God Said Give ‘Em ...

On Nov. 1, New York dance-music promoters Verboten put on a party in a warehouse space in Brooklyn. Even with a ridiculous $40 cover charge (welcome to Nü-Brooklyn, a.k.a. Manhattan minus bottle ...

Blackout Mixmag is an editorial series dedicated to Black artists, issues and stories, first launched in 2020. Our next round of features are co-guest edited by Kevin Saunderson and Kwame Safo (AKA ...

Chicago house, hyperpop, classic ’70s disco: The pop star’s new album is a tour through some of the genre’s most well-known touchstones as well as more underground sounds. By Michaelangelo Matos ...

*This Simon Reynolds essay is great. I feel I must annotate the whole thing. Oh wait wait wait – I have to appropriate it in toto – that's it. "While on the face of it the album seems to traverse a ...

Techno has been around since the 1980s. It's roots are entrenched in Detroit, but the sound has spawned many different takes on the sound worldwide. The funny part about techno, and dance music in ...

Manchester Metropolitan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. In the wake of the demolition of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, something strange and wonderful happened.

Ah, the 80s, it put Miami on the map with Miami Vice. It was the decade known for largess and wealth. Tom Wolfe dubbed it the "splurge generation" -- it was at least until the Savings & Loan crisis ...

On Memorial Day weekend, a persistent thud spreads over downtown Detroit from Saturday afternoon to Monday morning, originating from the center of Hart Plaza and continuing to the after-parties that ...