#El Club

PLAYING DETROITSaajtak Share Ethereal Live Performance of "Spokes"

Experimental art-punk band saajtak takes the most enticing aspects of free improvisation, opera, electronic and jazz music and melds them to create complex sonic narratives. The Detroit-based group - made up of Alex Koi (vocals), Simon Alexander-Adams (electronic artist), Jon Taylor (drums), and...

Sara Barron

PLAYING DETROITAncient Language Embraces Change on Third LP 'HYGGE'

Jarvis started Ancient Language in 2011 as a solo hip-hop/house project, but in the last seven years his music has gone...

Sara Barron

PLAYING DETROITY La Bamba Bring Latin Folk to El Club

Instead of eating tacos and getting drunk on tequila like a dumb American this Saturday (which happens to be Cinco de Mayo), Detroit residents would be better off seeing Y La Bamba at El Club. Mexican-American singer-songwriter Luz Elena Mendoza has combined traditional Mexican folk music with...

Sara Barron

PLAYING DETROITRhye and Boulevards Romance El Club

Rhye — the sultry bedroom R and B project of Canadian singer and multi-instrumentalist, Michael Milosh — came to Detroit’s El Club last night with special guest Boulevards. With both artists’ subject matter centered around the art of love-making, the show ended up feeling like a two-hour sex marathon,...

Sara Barron

PLAYING DETROITTunde Olaniran Goes to Bat for Sleigh Bells at El Club

Feeling under the weather, lead-singer Alexis Krauss enlisted local artist Tunde Olaniran...

Sara Barron

PLAYING DETROITSnoh Aalegra Captivates El Club

Masses of R and B junkies flocked to Detroit’s beloved El Club this weekend to see Toronto’s Daniel Caesar. However, if the crowd came for the heavenly vocals, hooky chorus lines and earnest lyricism that Caesar has come to be known for, they were pleasantly surprised by his opener, Snoh Aalegra - the...

Sara Barron

PLAYING DETROITTRIP METAL FEST 2017

Memorial Day weekend means one thing and one thing only for most of Detroit: techno. For the past 17 years (on and off due to regulatory restrictions, budgeting issues and exponential crowd growth) Detroit celebrates its role as the birthplace of true, nitty-gritty electronic music. From the likes...

Jerilyn Jordan

PLAYING DETROITMother Cyborg Teases Debut LP

Mother Cyborg by Ara Howrani For Diana Nucera, a.k.a Mother Cyborg, it's been a long time coming. Her long-awaited debut album Pressure Systems drops this week, and based on the two teaser singles "Earth Dreams" and "3souled Women" we are all wildly ill prepared (but so ready) for the journey....

Jerilyn Jordan