MI Local: A smorgasbord of exciting Michigan music to kick off 2025

Each year starts off a little bit slow, then suddenly accelerates! Very soon, we’ll have a cavalcade of new music premieres from local artists based in Detroit and all across Michigan.

This week, though, I’m digging back into December to bring you some late-2024 releases that you may have missed, including the latest album from acclaimed Ann Arbor-based hip-hop trio Tree City, with a song from their “magnum opus” album, “Pure Levels,” which has been 13 years in the making!

We also heard some eclectic world-music sounds coming out of the Arbor/Ypsi-scene, from the experimental producer/musician Dr. Pete Larson. You’ll also hear some brand new music coming out of Detroit, with alt-country-folk ensemble Poor Player and garage-pop duo Checker!

We kicked off the show with, perhaps, one of the catchiest songs ever(?), with singer/songwriter bRADFORd‘s “Don’t Take Me,” while also sampling some cinematic ambient tracks from Ancient Language and Kalamazoo dreampop duo Overly Polite Tornadoes.

If you want to stay to connected to the local music scene all year long in 2025, then circle every Tuesday on your calendars and turn your proverbial dial to 101.9 for MI Local!

MI Local Playlist for Jan. 7, 2025

• “Don’t Take Me” – bRADFORd
• “Betty Bubblegum” – The Bridge Between
• “We’ll Figure It Out” – Tree City
• “Woodboar” – Dr. Pete Larson
• “Gliding” – Polar Baron
• “Nothing Stays the Same” – Cloverland
• “This Must Be The Place” – Mountain Babies
• “The Block” – Human Skull
• “BeBe” – The Absentees
• “Hungry” – B.Aware
• “Hot Damn” – Checker
• “Face on Me” – Snobgoblin
• “Flame” – Poor Player
• “It’s Dark Now” – Overly Polite Tornadoes
• “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” – Ancient Language