MI Local: Ann Arbor’s The City Lines premiere video for new single, ‘Blood and Smoke’
An echo-splashed guitar rises, a tender and melodic voice sails in, and a steady driving beat starts to pick up....
The Metro Events Guide: Global celebrations and good trouble
The Concert of Colors is back in full swing, but it's not the only global festival in town. This week,...
In The Groove: Butcher Brown, bigboihums, Jadu Heart, Mieke Miami
New music from Mieke Miami, Annahstasia, Perfume Genius, Jadu Heart and more. Check the playlist below and listen to the...
The Metro: African World Festival returns to the heart of Detroit
The African World Festival is an annual event hosted by the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. It’s...
The Metro: Celebrated Detroit artists to fuse Arab, Armenian sounds at Concert Of Colors
Sounds from across the globe are coming to Detroit this weekend for the 34th annual Concert of Colors music festival....
The Metro: Marcus Samuelsson is savoring Detroit’s global food scene
The world can learn a lot from Detroit. Last week, the nonprofit Global Citizen came to the Hudson’s building to...
The Metro: New book explores the true meaning of ‘Black Power’
"Black Power" is widely known as a political slogan — a rallying cry to mobilize Black Americans to attain social,...
In The Groove: The first public radio show to play Justin Bieber + Jeff Tweedy together!
How exciting to be, what I believe, the first public radio music show to go from Justin Bieber’s excellent new...
The Progressive Underground Pick of the Week: ‘KTYWS’ by SAULT
Chris Campbell here with The Progressive Underground, bringing you this week’s Pick of the Week — and let me tell...
MI Local: Jessie Berkshires’ ‘Sad Girl Summer’ + Corazon Szell and North Ingalls Band
We're residing in that swooning and wistful nexus of emotions that a certain strain of electro-pop can conjure on this...
In The Groove: Fresh selects from Clipse, Madlib, Juan Wauters + Concert of Colors highlights
Fresh selects and first spins from Juan Wauters, Clipse, Madlib, Folk Bitch Trio and more. Plus, a quick preview of...
The Metro: Malcolm D. Lee talks new book, continuing legacy of his film ‘The Best Man’
In the 1999 film, "The Best Man," we were introduced to novelist Harper Stewart (Taye Diggs), whose writes a book...