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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

Mick Harvey Plays Second Fiddle Wellnew

Harvey is God's gift to public radio (or what used to be public radio), turning his listeners on to the great obscure songbook the way Nina Simone or Johnny Cash did with their own covers albums.

Metro Times | Hobey Echlin | 11-20-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Mick Harvey, Two of Diamonds