Remember – if you send it, it will get reviewed. That’s the City Slang promise. It doesn’t matter what genre the music is – as long as it has a Metro Detroit connection, it’ll get in. Preferably, we’d like to concentrate on new releases but, while we’re getting warmed up here, feel free to...
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There’s always been something about Lady Te that exudes the confidence and moxy of a person who’s going to make it in the music world no matter what. The Cass Tech graduate and Wayne State University student had one hell of a summer, winning a handful of key hip-hop showcases in New York including...
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An article published in Slate by Jonah Weiner on the subject of underground rap sees Weiner talk a good, hard look at our boy Danny Brown. In the article, Weiner calls Brown’s XXX the finest underground rap album of the year so far. “A Detroit-based MC, Brown was affiliated for a time with 50...
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Psych-pop trio Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s eponymous debut seems, on its surface, to demonstrate the evoling trend (or coincidence?) that’s seen spats of contemporary bands embracing, if not flaunting, a lo-fi sound, (fuzzed-out reverb and effects-drenched vocals). Where some of these bands catch flack for coming off as contrived, perceivably reaching-for (i.e. manipulating)...
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The Detroit edition of the traveling Red Bull Academy closed down after six days Saturday night, after workshops featuring Detroit artists from Motown arranger Paul Riser to MC5 axman Wayne Kramer, from Mike Banks and Nick Speed to Jim Diamond. For the closer it was the group Tribe, which fittingly captured much of the...
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Detroit’s own Alice Cooper played the Whisky a Go-Go club in LA on September 15 in support of his new Welcome 2 My Nightmare album. This was the first time Coop had hit the stage at the Whisky in 42 years. According to a press release, Rob Zombie introduced Cooper, saying, “I feel like...
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