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79.5 Tune In to "Club Level" and Do Double-Duty Vocal Support After a Year Without Tours

S. The New York-based vocalists are the core of disco-soul group 79.5 and they’ve been opening for Durand Jones and the Indications since earlier in the...

Liz Ohanesian

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LIVE REVIEWMagic City Hippies @ The Regent

Magic City Hippies at The Regent (photo by Ashley Prillaman) "What kind of music was that?" my husband asked as we left The Regent on a Saturday night. We had just finished watching Magic City Hippies perform for the second time (the first at the That Tent during Bonnaroo 2019). I scrolled over to...

Ashley Prillaman

PREMIEREFay Ray "Up and Away" and "Restless Sleeper"

Fuehring Fay Ray is not a defunct new wave band. Okay, Fay Ray IS a defunct new wave band, but it's also a very active eight-person funk-tastic soul-pop band out of Chicago. The band's latest double single, "Restless Sleeper /Up and Away," is effervescent, the perfect taste of champagne...

Ashley Prillaman

PLAYING DETROITSarkis Mixes Motown and Funk with L.A Sunshine on 'Tangerine'

Gabe Smith has wandered far from his small hometown of Waterford, Michigan, but hasn’t forgotten the role that his neighboring city of Detroit had in shaping him as an artist and songwriter. After moving to LA in 2014, Smith spent two-and-a-half years touring on the John Lennon Educational Tour...

Sara Barron

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PLAYING DETROITApril Releases Flaunt Detroit's Musical Depth

Instead of highlighting just one, I decided to choose a few of my favorites. From Virginia Violet and the Rays’ punchy “Modern Motown” to Tunde...

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

LIVE REVIEWNikka Costa @ The Teragram Ballroom

I once got discounted tickets to one of these events (Michael Feinstein's show at The Regency), and was surprised by hooting, hollering,...

Ashley Prillaman

PLAYING DETROITWill Sessions Tease New Album, Deluxe

The word “fusion” doesn’t begin to skim the surface of the rich and diverse stylings of Detroit’s hardest working band, Will Sessions. Not easily categorized, Will Sessions' influence spans decades and their accumulative sound swells with an authentically reimagined funk renaissance. Equal parts...

Jerilyn Jordan

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PLAYING DETROITSheefy McFly "Neon Love Affair"

Electrified funk master Sheefy McFly blessed us this week with "Neon Love Affair," a fresh futuristic time-warp that channels the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog (ala rumored composer Michael Jackson) with a serious dose of technicolor sass. Released as a companion piece to his solo art exhibition of...

Jerilyn Jordan

TRACK PREMIERECitrus and Katie "Sludge"

Citrus and Katie's latest track "Sludge" embodies its title, dredging its way through your system and sitting contentedly in your ears. It's parts garage rock, funk, soul, and pop, making for an upbeat fusion track that'll leave you smiling. For the most part, "Sludge" is true to its name as a slow...

Nicole Ortiz

PLAYING DETROITThe Gories Return!

Forged from the weightiness of post-war blues and the primally riotous audacity of 60’s garage punk, scuzz rockers, The Gories, return to their hometown of Detroit this Friday

Jerilyn Jordan

PLAYING DETROITWhen The Party Ends/Begins: A Detroit Techno Playlist

This past weekend marked what most of Detroit consider to be more holy than Christmas. The Movement Festival honors the birthplace of techno and electronic music by throwing the most playfully outrageous three-day party where freaks can be freaks and non-freaks can unearth their spiritual resonance.

Jerilyn Jordan