Subject: Detroit

• Von Bondies: Boogie Children

  December 12, 2002

• Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze

  August 9, 2007

• America Without Chevys?

  Driving down Vermont Avenue, you might spot, next door to the Islamic Center of Southern California, one of those alarming signs of the times that are multiplying as the economy cartwheels to a crash. It's an anonymous-looking building with a huge parking lot, whose facade simply bears the number 444. For years this address was the site of Vermont Chevrolet Buick, a car dealership whose besieged Koreatown employees had defended it with their own guns during the 1992 riots. Since July, however, i

  December 15, 2008

• Boombox and Lucky 7 Celebrate Anniversaries

  December 4, 2008

• Up in Smoke

  October 25, 2001

• Rock Picks: The Ting Tings, The Fratellis, Rilo Kiley

  Also, Nico Vega, Martha Wainwright and more

  June 12, 2008

• Electromash

  July 29, 2004

• Rock Picks: Dethklok, Billy Bragg, Erykah Badu, Mr. Gnome

  Also, shows by Listing Ship, Detroit Cobras and more

  June 5, 2008

• Richie Hawtin, Moonshadows Summer Sessions and Minuit

  May 29, 2008

• Rock Picks: Siouxsie Sioux, Iron Maiden, Maceo Parker

  Plus other Feb. 14-21 shows

  February 14, 2008

• ¡Ask a Mexican! Catholic Distastes

  Dear Mexican: I’m sad that there aren’t more Mexicans here in the Detroit area.

  December 13, 2007

• Get To Know Your Rabbit

  November 14, 2002

• Great American Garageland

  December 7, 2006

• Rock Picks

  For the week of October 20-26

  October 19, 2006

• Vodka, Vampires & Vikings

  October 19, 2006

• Music Picks

  July 20, 2006

• The Two Scott Sterlings

  Scott Sterling

  April 20, 2006

• Antonio’s Special Seat

  November 10, 2005

• Black Sheep on the Head of a Pin

  May 13, 2004

• The Capital of Car Design

  May 13, 2004

• Hair’s Looking at You

  January 15, 2004

• Saved by the Light

  November 27, 2003

• Curb Your SUV

  April 3, 2003

• Tiny Sparks

  February 27, 2003

• The Year In Music

  January 2, 2003

• Motor City Madness

  December 12, 2002

• Digging the Dirt

  May 23, 2002

• The Nine Lives of Rave

  November 8, 2001

• Music of the Heart and Other Organs

  November 8, 2001

• Black to the Future

  November 8, 2001

• Peppermint Twist

  December 28, 2000

• Paid in Full

  December 7, 2000

• Letters

  November 9, 2000

• Dance Kontrol

  December 17, 1998

• Rocket Reducer

  November 12, 1998

• Hot Shit

  October 15, 1998

• Dopplereffekt: Mysterious Electro Legend Makes First LA Appearance Tonight (MP3)

  For fans of Detroit electro, the mere fact that Dopplereffekt is performing in LA is something of mindblower. A brilliantly executed art project/synthetic-beat-music concern whose member(s) remain anonymous, the group and/or person behind Dopplereffekt has crafted some of the funkiest and propellant TR-808 jamz ever made.

  May 19, 2009

• Techno and Technology: An Interview with Richie Hawtin

  By Liz Ohanesian For Richie Hawtin, 2008 began with silence, ten weeks without so much as a 12-inch single or live engagement from the producer/DJ and his cohorts at Minus Records. It was a time of reflection for the team upon the tenth anniversary of the label and also a time of preparation for the slew of globe-hopping dates set for the rest of the year. In celebration of a decade of pure, underground techno, the Minus family has come together for Contakt, a ten city series of parties, co

  May 30, 2008

• Elzhi's Europass: The Best Rap Album of the Year Thus Far

  One of the more frustrating things about hip-hop heads*, specifically those old enough to remember the first two Golden Ages, is the general groupthink that no hip-hop album made today can possibly be as great as anything made during 88-96. This is just how it goes. Nostalgia is a motherfucker and no matter how dope I think "Cappuccino" and "Royal Flush" are, they will still never give me the charge that I get when a DJ plays "Gimme the Loot" back-to-back with "Hip Hop Hooray." I get it. Sure,

  May 28, 2008

• Detroit Metal City Arrives Stateside Today: Manga About Indie Kid Who Transforms Into Death Metal Icon

  Soichi Negishi might just be the sweetest indie rocker in Tokyo. He loves Swedish pop and Shibuya-kei artists like Cornelius and Kahimi Karie and the movie Amelie. He brings people gifts from his parents' farm, talks to his mom often and seems to like being a role model for his brother. Sometimes, during the day, he will hit the streets and sing pretty love songs for passersby. But Soichi is harboring a dark secret, one he would rather not have his mother or his crush learn. Detroit Metal City Â

  June 9, 2009

• Rock Picks: Electric Daisy Carnival, Explosion in the Sky, Rodriguez

  June 25, 2009

• Tonight at the Silent Movie Theatre: It Came from Detroit, A Film About Motor City Garage Rock

  Tonight at the Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax: The great Don't Knock the Rock series will present It Came from Detroit, a documentary about the Motor City's garage rock scene. The new film traces the rise of the raw, in-yr-face sound generated by a bunch of delinquents like the Gories, Demolition Dollrods, White Stripes, Von Bondies, etc. who were hellbent on speed, distortion and denim.

  July 23, 2009

• Eat What Bourdain Just Ate: Wings, Polish Food and Lebanese Tartar

  Another week, another episode of No Reservations. Bourdain, inspired partially by HBO's critically acclaimed series "The Wire", (a fact that seemed to concern some locals), set out on a Rust Belt episode, highlighting the local fare of Buffalo, Baltimore and Detroit. Baltimore "lake trout", which is famously neither trout, nor from a lake, is not common in Los Angeles. But we do have oysters and crab cakes (though good luck convincing a Baltimorean to agree with you), and you'd be best served t

  July 30, 2009

• Peanut Butter Wolf's Got Shows (In Different Area Codes): Nine Gigs, Nine SoCal Codes, All 90s Music

  Following on the heels of his two previous marathon DJ gigs (eight gigs in a row last year, seven the year before), Peanut Butter Wolf has announced a nine-night tour of the nine area codes stretching from Los Angeles, Orange County to the Inland Empire. Each night the resident Stones Throw DJ will do video sets of music from the 90s. He is encouraging people to dress for the 90s. ​ But this is important: "No backwards jeans allowed. There's only one Kriss Kross." The details, accordi

  August 12, 2009

• Steve Bug Interviewed: On Poker Flat, Minimal Techno and Avaland's Fifth Birthday

  While the likes of Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath (and his Cocoon label), and the Kompakt label crew (Michael Mayer et. al.) get much of the credit for sparking the techno resurgence of late, Berliner Steve Bug deserves just as much reverence. Steve Bug gigs Avalon's fifth anniversary on Saturday​ Like Hawtin and Vath, he's been making and spinning boom-tss sounds since the early 1990s and, as the genre started to experience a second wind at the dawn of the millennium, Bug was there too. His

  August 20, 2009

• DJ Magda Gigs the Standard, Talks Techno

  Magdalena Chojnacka was born in Poland but grew up in the original techno city, Detroit. She started DJing in 1996 and was spotted by techno star Richie Hawtin in 1999. He tapped her to open for him at clubs, festivals and tours. DJ Magda plays the Standard downtown on Saturday night​ It was good timing. Hawtin, a second-wave techno adherent from the nearby Canadian town of Windsor, was shaping a third incarnation for the Detroit-born sound -- "minimal." The idea, at least originally, wa

  September 3, 2009

• Rock Picks: Camper Van Beethoven, Cass McCombs, AC/DC

  September 3, 2009

• Mayer Hawthorne: From Motown to Our Town

  September 17, 2009

• An Interview with Techno Kingpin Juan Atkins: "L.A. is Still Behind the Curve Three or Four Years"

  Cybotron's "Clear," from 1983 More than any other person, Detroit's Juan Atkins is credited with creating techno. Of course, electronic dance music, which fills clubs, warehouses and festivals each weekend, provides sounds for car commercials, movies and public radio, and fuels the technology of contemporary music production, has many streams of influence, including Atkins' own inspirations (radio DJ Electrifyin Mojo, Kraftwerk), second-hand Japanese instruments of the 1980s (Roland drum and b

  September 17, 2009

• Tranny's Rocker

  October 22, 2009