It’s More Than Exhaustion: You’ve Reached “Surge Capacity”

After eight months of pandemic-related self-isolation, illness, and disruption of daily life, it's no surprise that many of us are...

COVID-19 Tests Before Sex. This Is Dating During a Pandemic

"Is anything casual anymore?" That's the question writer and stand-up comedian Ginny Hogan poses in an article published earlier this year in...

Essential Conversations: The War and Treaty

Subscribe to Ann Delisi’s Essential Conversations iTunes — Stitcher — Spotify There’s something special about the husband/wife vocal powerhouse The War and Treaty, and...

Publisher Lawsuit Against Internet Archive Puts Future of Book Ownership In Question

This past March, the Internet Archive created the National Emergency Library in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  The lockdown...

The Progressive Underground’s Primer to Trip-Hop

Over 26 years ago, before it was made famous by the likes of Massive Attack and Portishead, trip-hop was a...

Between Takes: How Amp Fiddler Met George Clinton

Doug Coombe Welcome to Between Takes; where artists and musicians tell stories about what happens behind the scenes. WDET’s Sam...

Listen to Matthew Dear’s Song Sampling the Ford Mustang Mach-E

The all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E has a unique back story. Engineers had their work cut out to create a vehicle...

Between Takes: The Motown Sound That Started in the Upper Peninsula

Welcome to Between Takes; where artists and musicians tell stories about what happens behind the scenes. WDET’s Sam Beaubien has been...

Essential Cooking: 100th Anniversary of Prohibition

What did Prohibition have to do with America’s appreciation of Italian food? A lot, it turns out. Essential Cooking host...

Exploring America’s Historic Thirst for Crap

In Wendy A. Woloson’s new book “Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff In America,” she connects our present day consumption...

Hang Out With WDET (Virtually) at the 2020 Detroit Podcast Festival

The Detroit Podcast Festival returns this year as a virtual conference. A weekend full of workshops and panel discussions will...

The Motor City’s Techno Legacy Arrives at the Detroit Historical Museum

When the Movement electronic music festival launched in 2000 under the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) banner, no one knew...