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Underground Persistencenew

How the Movement festival keeps it cred as dance music hits mainstream.

Metro Times | Hobey Echlin | 05-24-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Major Lazer, Chuck D, DJ Psycho, Jeff Mills, OctoRed

How Did Drew Cohen Go from a Hip-Hop DJ to Mayer Hawthorne, Soul Man to the Stars?new

Blame it on the times; honky hip-hop's blunt delivery just doesn't seem as likable as a nerd who looks like a Nixon campus-campaign volunteer -- complete with black frames, cardigan sweater, skinny tie, high-water cuffs and all, crooning comfortably in a Pharrell-falsetto against a backdrop of a double chin and double-digit unemployment.

Metro Times | Hobey Echlin | 09-29-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Mayer Hawthorne, Drew Cohen, Strange Arrangement, hip-hop, soul music

After a Lauded Major Label Debut, Hush Hits Rock Bottom and Rises Againnew

Within two years, he'd gone from Detroit hip-hop's other "white meat" to an unemployed, grieving father of three with a family and a mortgage. Hard up for cash, he took a job working the night shift at a factory that was an hour-plus drive away. He'd get home and during the hours before his sons got up for school, he'd make music.

Metro Times | Hobey Echlin | 08-25-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Open Book, hip-hop, Hush

Three Brothers, Two Bands, One Writer, and a Reunion Show That Hits Homenew

Neither Anne Be Davis nor Harry Chronic Jr. played into local Detroit scenesterism — nobody would take kids from Grosse Pointe seriously, after all … except Meg White, and you see where that's gotten her.

Metro Times | Hobey Echlin | 08-04-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Anne Be Davis, Detroit music, Harry Chronic Jr., reunion shows, cancer