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Luis Croquer, photo by Dave Lewinski                 for Hour Detroit   We’ve just received this news from the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s PR Coordinator Carlie Dennis: Following a three-year term as Director and Chief Curator at MOCAD, the highly successful Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Luis Croquer...
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Sometime soon after the Movement Electronic Music Festival,  Detroit-based writer Jean Alicia Elster was biking down the Dequindre Cut when she came across this little bird. “Could it be?!” She thought.  “Was Bansky here?” She knew what happened last time Bansky paid Detroit a visit, so she snapped a few photos and shot us an email...
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Move over, Mitch. Step aside, Terry. Daniel Zott and Joshua Epstein — perhaps better known as break-out indie pop stars Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. have put down their guitars and taken to the Web with a new Detroit centric sports blog on ESPN’s wesbite. Awesome. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.’s debut LP It’s A Corporate...
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Since 2009, Kresge Arts in Detroit has poured more than a million bucks in the Detroit art community, and a good chunk of that change has gone straight to artists via the KAID Fellowship, which Metro Times has covered rather extensively. The Karmic suport has been leading up to Art X Detroit, a five-day arts experience...
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Fast forward to tomorrow: Detroit punk rock torchers, Tyvek storm the stage at Club Le Carambolage, in Baden, Germany. It’s just another night on their blitzkrieg run through Europe, tearing through 40 shows in 40 days throughout the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Croatia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Spain, and then, eventually, back up to Germany...
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Curated by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s Luis Croquer (the museum’s impeccable director and chief curator) come two wondrous exhibitions to consider — one solo and the other a carefully plucked orchestra of artists. One show runs thru March and the other until April’s end. But tonight is the night to gaze upon and...
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It’s a corporate world after all… One of Detroit’s most stunning new acts heading into the new year, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr, have announced the release of their anticipated full-length debut, It’s A Corporate World on Quite Scientific Records on April 26th. This oil painting of DEJJ members Daniel Zott (left) and Josh Epstein (right) shown...
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If you’ve yet to ponder the Academy Award-nominated short films of the season or the special relationship between baseball and American Jews. Or if you’d enjoy letting your mind wander in wonder with Brazilian garbage pickers working in the world’s largest trash heap, or a barfly curmudgeon who grows a pair of angelic wings, or a...
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Tomorrow night, at 323 East, artist Matt Eaton presents an exhibition of new work. It’s his first solo show. Matt is the brother of acclaimed pop/street artful icon Tristan Eaton (Thunderdog Studios) who now works out of New York, and though both bros have been influenced by graffiti, that much is apparent, their approach to the...
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Fresh off their eight-shows-in-five-days rip through New York for CMJ, Detroit’s biggest buzz band since someone else, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. continues to traverse (dig this recent nod from ESPN) through the obstacles of indie stardom. It’s incredible that so much hype has been produced off of their debut four-song EP Horse Power. The DEJJ camps says...
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