A onetime MT editor once chirped that all award shows suck — until you win. And this year we can say with some jaundiced certainty that the 2010 Grammy Awards don’t suck. Here’s why: Detroit-related releases are up for not one, not 10,but 30 awards, give or take. That includes the more high-profile hit-makers...
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Jack White didn’t think that auctioning records online could create such a dust-up with his fans. But that’s exactly what happened this week when White’s Third Man Records imprint decided to auction off five limited-edition newly reissued White Stripes debut LPs on their own eBay page. The bidding on all five copies immediately went...
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Here’s a new video from local emcee Moe Dirdee that’s bound to be a Detroit hip-hop anthem soon enough. It’s called “You Don’t Belong in Detroit” and is full of enough grittiness and straight up ‘tude that people in the city need to get behind this song. The reality is, most outsiders don’t belong...
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One of Detroit’s most exciting new hip-hop groups just (re)released a free EP to all of their fans and it’s definitely worth a listen. The EP is called Gas Leaks and it was meant to be a three-song prequel to Gas Mask, the full length album that members of the Left (Journalist 103, Apollo...
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The first three White Stripes albums, 1999′s The White Stripes, 2000′s De Stijl and 2001′s White Blood Cells are getting the full-on audiophile treatment, remastered for the first time in a total analog mastering chain from the first generation master tapes. Each will be pressed on heavy, 180-gram vinyl while the “heavy board” jacket will see art...
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Just yesterday, I was looking at some killer photos of late actor Steve McQueen as he was preparing to star in the classic 1963 film The Great Escape. No matter who you are, your cool factor does not, or will ever,  mirror McQueen’s. Believe it. But then I started thinking, can Detroit rapper Magestik...
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