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This is why “Mad” Mike Banks, one founder of the seminal Detroit producer/DJ collective Underground Resistance, said “techno is deadlier than rap” even though the latter’s the one that yells in your face. Electronic music (modern hip-hop, which is indeed 95 percent electronic, is still 5 percent “real”) takes you from all angles. It implicates you directly as part of the phenomenon—forces (assumes, even) a response because it is effect. It could hurt you or captivate...
This new album from the Von Bondies may be the most compelling reason yet to give Meg White the slip. On Pawn Shoppe Heart, this Detroit quartet combines neo-blues-rock with a monster of a punk rock rhythm section, to often startling results. Is it blues-punk, finally? Almost...
CECIL FIELDER SALARY: $9.2 MILLION 1995 Detroit Tigers The slugger got a big raise and hit 31 homers, but Detroit finished 26 games out of first...
...painful to look at. Stollsteimer’s face is almost unrecognizable—all swollen, purple and bloodied. Adding to the 90210-style smuttiness of the matter, and its appeal to mass audiences, White and the Von Bondies used to be friends. They’re all from Detroit and share a blues-inflected rock sound. Jack White even produced their debut album and dated Von Bondies guitarist Marcie Bolen...
...sixth borough” or the “backyard of the Bronx,” the city suffers from a severe inferiority complex. I think where I live is pretty nice, but I realize the place has a bad reputation. Much like Detroit or Kabul, it’s not a locale that has tourists flocking...