#retro

PLAYING DETROITPrude Boys "The Outlaw"

The Outlaw, though only two tracks long, make for a grungy Lee Hazelwood x Nancy Sinatra reboot while garnering imagery of seduction and escape with their uniquely refined and playful nostalgia.

Jerilyn Jordan

PLAYING DETROITMayer Hawthorne "Cosmic Love"

Detroit-adopted Ann Arborite and premier Motown revivalist, Mayer Hawthorne, returned this week with another funk infused groove, "Cosmic Love" from his fourth solo studio LP (his first in three years) due out this spring. If you’re unfamiliar, you might think Hawthorne is just another white boy...

Jerilyn Jordan

PLAYING DETROITThe Belle Isles, SHELLS, Stef Chura and Mega Bog

Erin Birgy of Mega Bog Photo by Andrew Swanson My first musical outing of 2016 was also the first of the year for The Seraphine Collective, "an inclusive, supportive, and active community of feminists designed to foster creative expression and camaraderie among underrepresented musicians and...

Jerilyn Jordan

PLAYING DETROITMoonwalks "Lunar Phases"

Few bands are as aptly named as psychedelic Detroit four piece, Moonwalks, whose upcoming release Lunar Phases could act as a wild, yet tailored, road map to uninhabited galaxies and black holes, alike. The band's first LP, scheduled to release via cassette tape and digital download later this...

Jerilyn Jordan

TRACK OF THE WEEKBETS "Don't Give A F#CK"

Sleep in late. Roll out of bed disheveled. Creep up the volume on our track of the week BETS "Don't Give A Fuck." Over an entrancing retro beat, "I don't don't don't give a fuck, don't don't don't give a fuck" teases the sultry bicoastal singer/songwriter before warning, "Everybody knows...I never...

Sophie Saint Thomas