A new exhibit set to travel to several cities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America puts a spotlight on techno music, its roots and historical significance. A traveling exhibition opening this month ...
A teenage Jamie Hodge enchanted the international underground-dance community in 1993 with his debut 12-inch as Born Under a Rhyming Planet, Analog: Heaven. Techno figurehead Richie Hawtin released ...
George Orwell's 1984 starts with, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." Nights of techno ravers end similarly—dancers stepping out of the club after a long night ...
Jason Moran plans to blend genres in one of his performances as the Detroit Jazz Festival's artist-in-residence this year. "I'm thinking that I have to figure out a way to represent for Detroit's ...
Fusions, like politics, make strange … no, let’s just say interesting bedfellows. And as lots of jazz and techno fans know, Carl Craig is at the fused intersection of their genres. One of his projects ...
A new exhibit at the Michigan State University Museum celebrates Detroit as the birthplace of techno music in the 1980s and '90s and how the genre has progressed to today. "Techno: The Rise of Detroit ...
Sometimes the cover art on a record captures the mood of the musical proceedings perfectly. Back photo: plaid bermudas and glow-in-the-dark argyle socks looming over a pair florescent multi-colored ...
On Nov. 1, New York dance-music promoters Verboten put on a party in a warehouse space in Brooklyn. Even with a ridiculous $40 cover charge (welcome to Nü-Brooklyn, a.k.a. Manhattan minus bottle ...
"Maybe myself and another artist can churn away for an hour," he teases. By Gary Graff Jason Moran plans to blend genres in one of his performances as the Detroit Jazz Festival’s artist-in-residence ...
Jason Moran plans to blend genres in one of his performances as the Detroit Jazz Festival’s artist-in-residence this year. “I’m thinking that I have to figure out a way to represent for Detroit’s ...