Blogs: The Subterraneans

Young’un electronic up-comers are set to dish out hearing loss Saturday night. Zedd, Porter Robinson and headliner Skrillex announced the final stop of their Global Dance tour a few months back, so the day’s finally here for dub dudes and bass heads to do their thing in Royal Oak. Having played together for a...
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Allan Ester, a longtime Detroit DJ and the progeny of Detroit’s first generation of underground DJs like Ken Collier, gave a sermon on Sunday at the Made in Detroit stage. It was one of the finest sets I have ever seen him deliver. Singer Michelle Weeks joined him for one song and he finished...
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Morris Mitchell began DJing on one turntable in 1971. Within a few years he began promoting and DJing parties as “True Disco” with Renaldo White and Ken Collier. Mr. Mitchell, who has been retired from DJing and promoting since 1998, is the only living member left of that original disco crew. Yesterday was his...
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In its third and final (we think) round of announcements for this year’s Movement Festival, Paxahau has saved the most inspired booking for last. Yes, we’re talking about the double-bass ‘n’ drums attack of the Dirtbombs, heading by vocalist-guitarist Mick Collins, a pioneer of ’80s garage rock who also had a fancy for the...
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In its third and final (we think) round of announcements for this year’s Movement Festival, Paxahau has saved the most inspired booking for last. Yes, we’re talking about the double-bass ‘n’ drums attack of the Dirtbombs, heading by vocalist-guitarist Mick Collins, a pioneer of ’80s garage rock who also had a fancy for the...
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The news in round two of Paxahau’s announcements of its 2011 festival schedule includes the live debut of Carl Craig’s 69 — that’s six-nine, by the way, not sixty nine, a project launched 20 years ago and one of the first to break up the beats of Detroit techno’s heretofore silky 4/4 productions —...
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