New Show Alert: WDET’s “The Don Was Motor City Playlist” Spotlights Detroit Music and Deep Cuts

There’s a new show coming to WDET. Blue Note Records President and music industry powerhouse Don Was is launching a...

Introducing “The Don Was Motor City Playlist” on WDET

Blue Note Records President, six-time Grammy Award Winner and music industry powerhouse Don Was is launching a weekly broadcast program...

There’s a Wine for Everyone in Chris Hunter’s World

Subscribe where ever you listen to podcasts: Apple Podcast — Spotify — Google Play — Stitcher — TuneIn — NPR Most people don’t have refined pallets for wine ... yet. That’s...

The Obsidian Theatre Virtual Festival Uplifts Underrepresented Voices Through Art, Honors Diversity of Black Stories

At the core of the Obsidian Theatre Festival is the desire to amplify the diversity of Black stories across the...

Check Out These March Releases From Third Man Records

Discovering new music is one of the things you’ve told us you love the most about WDET. To satisfy your...

WDET’s Chris Campbell Says Detroit’s Reach on Music Extends Far Beyond the City

Detroit has always been a superpower of music, with homegrown artists like Aretha Franklin, Jack White and Juan Atkins. Entire genres were born...

Amp Fiddler, Motown’s Progressive Funk and Soul Man, Connects the Dots of Detroit’s Rich Musical Heritage

Growing up as one of five children steeped in Motown, soul and jazz, Joseph "Amp" Fiddler was surrounded by music from...

Harvey Ovshinsky Dives Into Detroit’s Underground and Alternative Media Scene in His New Book “Scratching the Surface”

Harvey Ovshinsky is a veteran educator and a multimedia journalist whose lifelong passion for telling Detroit stories was once described by...

Detroit Documentary Photographer Shares the Narrative that Fuels Her Art

Courtney Wise Randolph writes about Detroit's movers and shakers for Detour Detroit. Once a month, she stops by CultureShift to...

Now Showing at the Detroit Film Theatre: “Stray” and “The Inheritance”

CultureShift on 101.9 WDET-FM gives you a front row seat to the latest films playing at the Detroit Film Theatre (DFT). Jake...

Irish Immigrants Found Land, Opportunity and a Mini “Emerald Isle” in Michigan

Frank Murphy might be Michigan's best-known Irish American. He was the 55th mayor of Detroit and the state's 35th governor. President...

Biology Major Turned Singer/Songwriter, Detroiter Madelyn Grant Releases Her EP “Purpose”

Like so many musicians who were born and raised in Detroit, it was the Motown sound that inspired Madelyn Grant...