A Detroit institution is back this weekend. Movement Music Festival is one of the longest-running dance music events in the world. From May 24 through May 26, Hart Plaza is going to be filled with ...

A new exhibit set to travel to several cities in the U.S., Canada and Latin America puts a spotlight on techno music, its roots and historical significance. A traveling exhibition opening this month ...

You don’t need to be a music historian to know why it’s called “techno” music. If that isn’t obvious enough, though, the “E” in EDM stands for electronic. But even then, all you have to do to ...

A new exhibit at the Michigan State University Museum celebrates Detroit as the birthplace of techno music in the 1980s and '90s and how the genre has progressed to today. "Techno: The Rise of Detroit ...

I guess it's only fitting that somewhere in a blog about Berlin we'd have to talk about Techno music. But to be sure we were giving the music genre a fair shake, we went to techno aficionado and music ...

A film 12 years in the making, capturing a Detroit music story that took root more than four decades ago, got its long-awaited hometown premiere Thursday night. The screening of “God Said Give ‘Em ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lisa Kocay covers electronic dance music. The Internet and social media revolutionized how music was shared, making music more ...

When the doors opened to the Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM) in Frankfurt’s Hauptwache square, last year, it seemed that club music was finally getting its due. MOMEM was billed as the world ...

Derrick May is not one to bite his tongue. By all accounts, the 56-year-old Detroit native has earned the right to speak his mind and then some: As one-third of the so-called Belleville Three – named ...

To make that happen they use drums and guitar. As well as a “diverse percussion” selection. They then “blend” those regular instruments—both acoustic and electric—with synths and sequencers. The ...