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PLAYING DETROITSix Tiny Desk Contest Submissions from Detroit

Audra Kubat reps Detroit in NPR's Tiny Desk Contest this year. Photo by Daniel Land. For indie bands on the rise, it's become a rite of passage to perform a live set in Bob Boilen's office as part of NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series, which has been ongoing since 2008. But since 2014, the inception of...

Sara Barron

PLAYING DETROITCritics Loathe Eminem's "Revival"

If you haven’t noticed, the past couple of months have seen Eminem emerge from his private life - one I imagine as a healthy balance of dysfunctional family time and sitting in dark corners thinking of puns - to voice his contempt for our country’s governing body via a trail of singles, ending with...

Sara Barron

NEWS ROUNDUPGeorge Martin, Tiny Desk, and Iggy Pop

George Martin Dies Let's get the bad news out of the way first: George Martin, famed Beatles producer, has died at age 90. Martin spent seven years working with the Fab Four, helping them arrange and shape their sound. His closeness with the band earned him the nickname “the fifth Beatle,” though...

Emily Daly

NEWS ROUNDUPAward Shows, Tiny Desk Concert, and Eartheater

Vote For The Best 'Tiny Desk Contest' One-Person Band Around this time last year, every social media feed you had was suddenly flooded with home-made videos featuring small desks, coffee tables, or some sort of writing surface. Every friend you had in a band made one, along with everyone who had a...

Emily Daly

LIVE REVIEWBAM’s RadioLoveFest presents Ira Glass

Ira Glass with members of Monica Bill Barnes Dance Company, shot by David Bazemore Radio could easily be thrown under the bus as one of the least relevant media outlets these days - right above cable television and print journalism. It seems easy to dismiss the radio as a physical object...

Madison Bloom

PREVIEWRadioLoveFest @ BAM

Who says radio is dead? Between June 4th and 8th, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will host an anomalous little festival merging the worlds of radio, theater, music, and storytelling in order to celebrate the hundred-year-old medium. The highlight of the fest is likely to be a Saturday June 7th...

Madison Bloom