detroit

04 Jun 2019

You’ll RAVE About the Birthplace of Techno’s Biggest Party!

True electronic dance music and (and even hip-hop) fans should check out Movement Music Festival. Why? Because Detroit is the birthplace of techno music and has celebrated this in festival form since 2000 (MMF was fully established in 2006 after taking over for its predecessors). Yes, Euro dance floors are

Curtis Conrad Schabath 0
10 Aug 2018

World’s First Floating Halfpipe and Art Show

Many great mashups have happened throughout the years; Jay-Z and Linkin Park, peanut butter and jelly, frisbee and golf, you know, disc golf. Well, not all combos are the greatest but who wouldn’t love some extreme sports like vert skateboarding and BMX  AND an art show…. on a boat. Yes,

Curtis Conrad Schabath 0
13 Jul 2018

How a Dope Music Festival Should Be: Mo Pop

Why Your Festival Should Be Like Mo Pop If you haven’t been to a music festival you’ve either been captive, super broke, or living under a rock in a country without music festivals. For the rest of us, even if you’ve just been to one, you know that some aspects

Curtis Conrad Schabath 0
28 Jul 2017

Detroit’s Mo Pop Festival is on Fire this Weekend

Some call it Lolla Lite, others call it Bunbury .5, and the rest of us know it as MO POP FESTIVAL! Whatever you call it, but don’t call it passed 11 PM (woo dad joke!), Mo Pop is chock full of fun for everyone and every part of your brain,

Curtis Conrad Schabath 0
19 Oct 2014

Win Tickets for Moodymann @ Public Works SF!

  On Saturday, October 25, 2014 catch the Detroit record producer Moodymann, known for his soulful productions and iconic Afro. Though he generally keeps a low-profile, refusing interviews and limiting promotional material, Dixon is considered to have ‘developed hybrid modes of recording and performance incorporating analog and digital media’. Tickets

illyannam 0
08 Oct 2012

Perfecting the Impulse Move

You’re young. Nothing is tying you down. Why not get out and experience the world? Friends have looked to me for relocation tips just as often as they have teased me for moving so frequently. “How did you find a job so quickly?” “How do you pull it off each

Kristin Fehrman - Diva of Deals 0
04 Apr 2010

Michigan Has Great Music! (Or, Good for Something Other than Euchre!)

I only know a few things about Michigan, and I have to say, I’m not too impressed.  I know there are some lakes around it, the weather is shitty, guys from Detroit are assholes, cars are made there, and part of it’s shaped like a mitten. Something I can’t dispute,

Christy Jovanelly - Cheapskate Commentator 0