Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 29/04/2009
If the Hollywood stars continue to align in Michigan, will Detroit become the next Baller-wood? Maybe so. But 35-year-old Patrick Grayson warns Detroit's young people not to add an Academy Award to their rap star dreams. As an instructor at a grassroots production studio, he insists that his students keep it real.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/01/2009
Psychedelic wig-outs from the vaults of Detroit's Westbound Records, which was established in 1968.
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
I seem to have become somewhat of an obituarist. The pantheon of disco DJs lost one of its demigods when Barry Lederer (September 9 1944 - May 31 2008) died earlier this week. Now you may ask, if Lederer was a demigod, who were the true gods in disco-DJ-mythology? Most commonly cited in this category are [...]
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
On Friday we started looking back to June 1972 with the survey from WCUE in Akron, Ohio. Lurking below the familiar hits that haven’t been off the radio since that week were a few others worth noting, and here we go: “Automatically Sunshine”/Supremes. This is the post-Diana Ross edition of the group, which slowed down barely [...]
Metal Lungies (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
;”> ”The Light” was a second single released by Common in support of his 4th album, Like Water for Chocolate. It’s produced by Jay Dee, before he took on the J Dilla alias. Jay employs an oft used drum break by the Detroit Emeralds and tweaks the snares and hi hats to make them sound [...]
Solid Gone (Free subscription) | 21/04/2008
I was talking to my Elder Daughter the other day about radio. Apparently "no-one listens to the radio anymore". This is patently not true; she just means that amongst her friends and contemporaries radio is less popular. I find this depressing, possibly because radio has always been part of my life. It will have started back in 1970's. Dad used to work shifts and Mum worked part-time in the...
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