COVER: In the shadows of Motown
Fledgling hip hop producer turned successful soul singer Mayer Hawthorne gives credit to Detroit’s eclectic scene, his birthplace of Ann Arbor and his parents’ placation techniques
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Author Archive
Ace of bass
To the casual observer, it seems as though Jenny “Vilify” Carmichael has come up fast. Her hugely successful Wednesday weekly, Bass Drive at le Belmont, just turned three, and the Toronto-born DJ moved to town less than four years ago. But she’s been spinning since she turned legal. “I’ve been DJing for about eight years [...]
Gang related
“I like to crew up,” says Rollie Pemberton, aka Cadence Weapon, when asked about his favourite local pastimes. He’s being facetious, and referring to one of his songs (the Soundcloud-only track “Crew Up”), but Pemberton’s crew is for real. Cadence Weapon appeared on the cover of the Mirror back in 2008, when his sophomore album [...]
VIDIOT’S BOX: Oscar Peterson’s Easter Suite and The Strange Case of Alice Cooper
VIDIOT’S BOX: Oscar Peterson’s Easter Suite and The Strange Case of Alice Cooper
Myth vs. man
Willis Earl Beal’s music is raw and roots-based, recorded on the cheap with second-hand and makeshift instruments and promoted with handwritten and hand-drawn ads he posted around Chicago
COVER: Wallflower power
Parenthetical Girls’ founder, frontman and sometimes sole member Zac Pennington explains his roundabout route to music, his fetishistic M.O., his dark past as a music critic and his painful 13 seconds of Portlandia fame
