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The major genres represented in Detroit's music include classical, blues, jazz, gospel, R&B, rock, pop, punk, soul, electronic music, and hip hop. The greater Detroit area has been the birthplace and/or primary venue for numerous platinum-selling artists, whose total album sales, according to one estimate, had surpassed 40 million units by 2000.
The Go was established in Detroit in 1996 by Bobby Harlow, John Krautner, and Marc Fellis. Mentored by Los Angeles producer Kim Fowley, the band signed a record deal with Sub Pop in 1998. Their first album, Whatcha Doin ', featured Dave Buick on bass and Jack White on guitar. The album was produced by Outrageous Cherry frontman
In 1996 he formed his own independent record label, Beats At Will, and released his debut LP Paragraphs in 1999, [3] which was named the best selling Detroit hip-hop album of '99-'00 by Real Detroit Magazine. He followed up in 2001 with his sophomore record, Vices, [4] which is considered by many to be a Detroit hip-hop classic. It earned ...
Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit is a compilation album of American garage rock and punk bands from Detroit, released in 2001. Put together by Jack White of the White Stripes , it featured bands such as the Von Bondies , the Dirtbombs , and the Detroit Cobras .
The album failed to produce any hits. The 1979 self-titled release featured the hits, "Oh Well" and "Turn Up the Radio". This record also featured David Hood on bass guitar from the famous Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama. Their third album (with the addition of new bass guitarist Dan Keylon) was the 1980 release No Ballads.
Stylistically the album is very gritty, and follows the same punk, metal and shock-rock inspired sound of the earlier days of the Alice Cooper Group and the Detroit music scene [5] (Grow, 2021). Inspired by the grandeur of his earlier days in rock and roll, Detroit Stories is full of exaggerated narratives and symbols. [9]
The Romantics are an American rock band formed in 1977 in Detroit.The band is often put under the banner of power pop and new wave.They were influenced by 1950s American rock and roll, Detroit's MC5, the Stooges, early Bob Seger, Motown R&B, 1960s North American garage rock as well as the British Invasion rockers.
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