If you’ve never heard of the fetching-but-tough 21-year-old Detroit rapper named Lady Te (and you won’t be alone if you haven’t), she’s hoping you’ll know her name by the end of this week. The 2008 Cass Tech graduate and current Wayne State student just released a new music video yesterday claiming that she’s the...
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I’m not sure how I missed this when it came out a couple of weeks ago but I’m just getting around to checking out FowL’s latest vid for the song “Ambassador Bridge.” Folks should remember FowL for outrapping all of his opponents in that Red Bull Freestyle Competition in front of local luminary Eminem...
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A take on the vengeful play of one, and maybe all, teams in the NFL playoffs. DIRTY BEARS City of the dislocated shoulders, Penalties protested, Concussion discussion dismissed And cheered over. The violent game, Our time in obsession, A full expression, Phony and routine; A head-to-head mindless meeting. And the blind don’t notice the...
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From MT intern Jeremy Winograd … Robert Plant & the Band of Joy Ann Arbor, MI- Hill Auditorium January 21, 2011 “It’s a wonderful thing, this Band of Joy,” announced a still lion-haired Robert Plant early in the band’s set. “Everyone is smiling all the time … and no one’s had a drug in hours!” Yeah,...
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Can any other modern band equal the level of irrational emotion that greets the Strokes at every turn? Ten years ago, they were perhaps the country’s most relentlessly hyped band; that condition quickly dissipated and now this week, with the announcement of both a new album in March and a headlining spot at Coachella,...
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There’s a very well-done Jack White/Third Man Records piece on the cover of this week’s Nashville Scene, that city’s alt weekly, in which White talks of Detroit, Nashville and the overall mindset and philosophy behind his Third Man Records. Ben‘s Blackwell and Swank are quoted. There’s even subtext that suggests Third Man can save...
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