#Tunde Olaniran

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 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

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PLAYING DETROITTunde Olaniran Goes a Shade Darker on "Symbol"

Since then, we have been waiting with bated breath for new music. Earlier this month that wish was granted as Olaniran released the incredibly slinky and oceanic...

Jerilyn Jordan

LIVE REVIEWSleigh Bells @The El Rey

In 2010, I woke up each day in Queens, NY and took the N train to the Flatiron district. The walk from the train stop to the publishing company where I worked was just enough time to listen to a few songs off Sleigh Bell's first album Treats. The blare of "Tell 'Em" was the shot of adrenaline I...

Ashley Prillaman

PLAYING DETROITBest of + Most Anticipated

wolf eyes It's New Years Eve-Eve, and I'm flooded with the sounds of the past year. 2015 saw the rise of Detroit music in an unforgettable way. Our musicians took to the stage and to the studio with an unmistakable fire under their asses, in turn producing one of the most emotive soundtracks for...

Jerilyn Jordan

Album ReviewTunde Olaniran "Transgressor"

Named as one of Rolling Stone Magazine’s "Artists to Watch" this month just a week after his wildly anticipated sophomore album Transgressor (Quite Scientific Records) dropped to an outpour of local and national praise, Flint, Michigan native Tunde Olaniran is making seismic waves with no end in...

Jerilyn Jordan

INTERVIEWTunde Olaniran on Otherness, Archetypes, and Activism

It can be a daunting thing to challenge stereotypes day in and day out, work for change as a social activist, and rep a town that most of the country writes off as an impoverished wasteland. But Flint, Michigan-based "Afrofuturist" Tunde Olaniran does all of these things as casually as the rest of...

Lindsey Rhoades