DETROIT
"It's less coooold in the D."
If you're not familiar with T-Baby (a.k.a Latonya Miles), she's the Detroit rapper who shot to viral video fame with her homemade music video "It's So Cold in the D." The video was originally uploaded in 2008, but was recently revitalized by MTV's Beavis and Butthead. Since airing on the show, the video's YouTube views have swelled to over 4 million. And rightfully so --given it's one of the best viral videos I've ever seen. And when I say "best" I mean it's so painfully terrible, it's good. Apparently MTV thought so too. They reached out to T-Baby and offered her $4,000 a year to air the video. T-Baby gratefully accepted and will now get $4k a year for the next five years.
Of all the things Detriot Lions fans have to be thankful for (A 6-2 record, an inspiring head coach, the best wide receiver in football), being graced by the bro-rock of Canada's Nickelback on their annual Thanksgiving showdown is not one of them. Lions faithful are repulsed, in fact. When your team escapes being the running joke of the NFL after essentially decades, you deserve a little something better, right?
Finally! Current plans are underway for a Spring / Summer 2012 Chicago store opening! It seemed as though traveling to the Detroit location was the only option for those craving the soft knits, crisp denim, and tailored shirts and blazers of Madewell.
Note to travelers: don't be getting freaky on a day where national security officials are on edge. You'll get yanked off your plane faster than you can say "Mile High Club."
When airline staff aboard Sunday's Frontier flight from Denver to Detroit noticed a couple in the bathroom for "an extraordinarily long time," they notified the Transportation Security Authority. It quickly turned into a scene reminiscent of a high school gossip movie...starring our scariest government agencies.
The TSA told the FBI who told NORAD, who immediately told two F-16 fighter jets to escort the plane to Detroit's Metropolitan Airport. After a SWAT team with boarded the plane on the tarmac, three people were escorted from the plane in cuffs.
STOP! what ever it is you are doing, dig those headphones into your ear canals, and prepare your mind for this explosion of sultry bass grooves, rat-a-tat-ttacking drums, and raw life - in stereo.
This sounds pretty close to a promo or a plug for The Bright Light Social Hour. Like they are a distant relative of an estranged uncle and we're trying to get in their good graces so we'll be invited over for Thanksgiving dinner; but let me assure you, this album is every bit as important for dance-funk-soul-rock as Girl Talk's Night Ripper was for bringing mash-ups to the big leagues. Or hell - every bit as timely as when we realized that "Parents just don't understand."
The NAACP Detroit chapter's annual fundraising dinner is May 1, 2011. The dinner that usually attracts 10,000 attendees is under fire for bequeathing Kid Rock the chapter's "Great Expectations Award". Protesters to Kid Rock's receiving the award claim his usage of the confederate flag as his backdrop is offensive and clashes with the organizations aims and goals.
Kid Rock has defended his usage of the confederate flag many times. He told the Guardian, "Sure, it's definitely got some scars, but I've never had an issue with it. To me it just represents pride in Southern rock 'n' roll music...”
The NAACP has given awards to questionable recipients: R. Kelly and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
With three separate bands, the release of a highly acclaimed and well constructed tour documentary, and word coming in of plans to make a solo album, Jack White just may usurp James Brown’s self-proclaimed title as the “hardest working man in show business”… if he wasn’t so lackadaisical about setting deadlines.
Indeed, the creativity is unyielding for White, who apparently is still working with his latest collaborative project, The Dead Weather, on their second album, which was “halfway done” as of last October. Also in production is the latest album with longtime musical acquaintance Meg White of The White Stripes (as if you didn’t already know) which is also reportedly due out sometime this year. And even though nothing has been officially announced about new material by The Raconteurs, White’s third musical formulation, it wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine that something of this nature might possibly be brewing within the confines of White’s recording studio in Nashville, TN.
Alex Ridha, the German mastermind behind the skullcrushing electro mayhem of Boys Noize, is one busy man. At 27 years old, he runs white hot Boys Noize Records, plays festivals from Berlin to Montreal, and has even had a song featured in the massively popular Grand Theft Auto IV, so the next time you jack a Lamborghini you can outrun the cops while being assualted with the mindmelting grandeur of '& Down.' Where he found the time to put together Power, his first album since his debut Oi Oi Oi blew up dancefloors in 2007, is a mystery on par with what Daft Punk look like behind the robot helmets.
Besides recently taking jabs at Mariah Carey and all of the other antics he’s usually up to, Eminem seems like a really nice guy. Kind of. Alongside late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, the rapper has chosen to take around 200 laid off auto workers from his home town of Detroit to Jimmy Kimmel Live in L.A. where he will be promoting his upcoming album “Relapse”. The two also wanted to make light of how the recession has been affecting Detroit- and of course, show the folks a smashing good time.
Anthony Rother, Glitch Mob, Benga and Marc "MK" Kinchen are among more than two dozen performers recently booked for Movement 2009, an annual electronic music festival that takes place each Memorial Day weekend in Detroit. The four acts join a roster of 60 DJs and live acts that already includes dance music heavy hitters such as the Prodigy, Afrika Bambaataa, Bassnectar, Derrick May, Carl Cox, Francois K, Z-Trip and Rick Wad.
The official festival runs from May 23rd until the 25th at Detroit's Hart Plaza, while The Prodigy will perform at an opening party on May 22 at the Fillmore Detroit.
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