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On its forthcoming album, the Detroit band imagines America as an aging hotel. “Sounds We Cannot Hear” suggests it could be their most accessible release yet.
DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: Protomartyr’s “Sounds We Cannot Hear”
On its forthcoming album, the Detroit band imagines America as an aging hotel
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It’s rare for an opener to upstage the headliner, especially when the main act is backed by an entire orchestra.
Arooj Aftab, St. Vincent Bring Very Different Shows to Detroit Opera
Sometimes less is more.
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Don Was and his Detroit All-Star Revue resurrected a beloved WGPR-TV dance show at the Concert of Colors.
‘The Scene’ Came Back to Detroit
Don Was and his Detroit All-Star Revue resurrected the beloved WGPR-TV dance show at the Concert of Colors.
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“It doesn’t take much to convince me to try a new Asian restaurant, and Rollin had me at ‘combo boxes,’” our reviewer writes of Rollin, a new eatery in #Detroit where orders are picked up from a locker with the wave of a phone.
Keep Rollin!
The Instagram ads did their job connecting me with Motor City Food Co.’s newest eatery, where orders are picked up from a locker with the wave of a phone.
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The Detroit-based artist’s first solo show explores identity, vulnerability, and the diaspora.
Isaiah Philip Finds the Whole Person in a Single Coil
The Detroit-based artist’s first solo show explores identity, vulnerability, and the diaspora.
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The Detroit indie rock band exudes cool on its latest album.
DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: Deadbeat Beat’s “Mellow”
The Detroit indie rock band exudes cool on its latest album.
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In Detroit, there’s always a lot of action in liquor store parking lots. Fender benders. Loitering. Impromptu barbecue pop-ups. Arguments and negotiations. Entrepreneurs hustling their wares. And now… a World Cup watch party.
In a Liquor Store Parking Lot, the Cass Corridor Watches the World Cup
These watch parties have become bigger than the game itself.
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A University of Michigan exhibition marks America’s 250th with an unflinching look back — but stops short of the present.
A Buffet of Protest Ephemera at UMMA’s “American Sampler”
A University of Michigan exhibition marks America’s 250th with an unflinching look back — but stops short of the present.
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For Akea Brionne, whose first solo museum exhibit opened at Cranbrook Art Museum in June, everything in this world is covered with glitter.
Akea Brionne’s New Work is an Afrosurrealist Dream
With lots of glitter.
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