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Celebrating not only 25 years of their sophomore album Freek Show but the release of their re-recording of the album, Twiztid hit the stage at Saint Andrew’s Hall on Thursday night. Fright Fest, an annual juggalo tradition on Devil’s Night, saw Twiztid kick off the second leg of the Freek Show tour alongside label mates ABK, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, and The ROC. The tour continues down across the east coast.
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Detroit hip-hop horrorcore duo Twiztid is kicking off the second leg of its Freek Show tour at Saint Andrew’s Hall on Devil’s Night with their special annual show, Fright Fest. The tour, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of their sophomore album Freek Show, takes them across the east coast through mid-November. Post-tour, the duo are prepping for Astronomicon 9, their family-friendly pop-culture convention. This year the con returns to the Ann Arbor Marriott Ypsilanti at Eagle Crest on April 10-12. Tickets and more information are available at twiztid.com.
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As the lore of Detroit hip-hop’s yesteryear continues to grow, so has the desire to see all the legendary locations associated with it. The movie 8 Mile boosted the notoriety of the Shelter (within Saint Andrew’s Hall), while The Hip Hop Shop was more recently featured on Netflix’s The Evolution of Hip-Hop. Enter Kris Hoff, a 26-year veteran of the touring industry who owns Distinctly Detroit Tours, a company that will be hosting an upcoming “Hip-Hop History Tour.”
“I was looking for something fresh and innovative for a Detroit tour because I was tired of doing the same thing for 26 years,” Hoff told WJR 760 am in an interview that aired July 18. “I don’t feel that there’s enough people that know how great Detroit is and there is so many things here that is undiscovered by people.”
To assist with the curation Hoff reached out to veteran emcees Ron “Phat Kat” Watts, Ronnnie “Killa Ghanz” Kelly, and Jerry Flynn Dale, whose Def Sound studio became Michigan’s first hip-hop landmark in May of this year.
“[Hoff] came here because she thought Detroit was a great hip-hop city and she noticed there was not a hip-hop tour in Detroit,” Dale says.
Dr. Khalid el-Hakim is the founder of the Black History 101 Museum. He was previously the vice president of Proof’s Iron Fist records and has been an avid hip-hop memorabilia collector since the early 1980s.
“It’s not surprising, we have a long history of hip-hop in Detroit,” he says. “Some of the first Fresh Fest concerts happened in Detroit. Hump the Grinder was one of the first backers… It’s all history and it’s all important. It’s also important who tells the story.”
Participants of the tour will make stops by The Hip Hop Shop, Def Sound Studio, J Dilla’s childhood home, the Rhythm Kitchen, Future Funk Records, and more.
For Dale, Future Funk Records was one of his starting spots. Standing as a small store front, its owner would put out a makeshift stage in front where aspiring emcees like him and Kalimah “Nikki D” Johnson would rap and encourage each other. Along with The Hip Hop Shop, the Rhythm Kitchen held hip-hop-themed events sponsored by clothing designer Maurice Malone.
“They were instrumental places to Detroit hip-hop,” he says. “They were incubators, I can’t imagine hip-hop in Detroit with them.”
Detroit is not the first city to offer tours exploring its contributions through hip-hop. Tours in Atlanta will take you to the Trap Music Museum, while tours in Los Angeles offer narrated trips to the homes where movies like Friday and Boyz n the Hood were filmed. For Detroit, one of the biggest highlights for participants will be taking a drive by the previous home of J Dilla within Detroit’s historic Conant Gardens neighborhood. Artists such as Common, Erykah Badu, and Q-Tip are a few of the heavyweights that spent time in Dilla’s basement studio inside the home.
“People loved J Dilla worldwide,” adds el-Hakim. “It’s something about him and his legacy that’s mythical. It’s a mythicism behind him that people are into.”
He also believes there is even more history to unearth, but Detroit needs more artists to write down their history. “It’s so many artists in Detroit that have made amazing contributions but are overlooked because it’s not documented anywhere,” says el-Hakim. “If we don’t write our stories and share them with the world, they get lost in history.”
Dale says the tour has received support from the Mayor’s office and the Detroit Historical Advisory Board. Dale, Watts, and Kelly will share the responsibility of narrating the tour. In the future they plan on expanding the tour with stops at venues like Harpos, the C-Note Lounge, and the Ebony Showcase Lounge.
“I want them to experience Detroit hip-hop in its stages,” he says. “We have big rappers here. We have Big Sean, we have Em, ICP, we have all the younger rappers that’s here like Tee Grizzley. I want them to understand that hip-hop is not just some thuggery stuff that we’re doing. We’ve put a lot of work into this. We used Motown as the blueprint to expand this to a national stage.”
The Hip-Hop History Tour of Detroit starts at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 11 at the Fisher Building. More information is available at distinctivelydetroit.com.
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The roll-out for the latest Jack White record continues to be anything but usual.
After surprise releasing the album as an unmarked test pressing quietly given away for free to customers at his Third Man Records store last month, the rock star and his new band are embarking on a tour of small venues.
That includes an upcoming date at Detroit’s 1,000-person Saint Andrew’s Hall on Monday, Aug. 5.
Tickets for members of the Third Man Records “Vault” fan club go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, followed by general on sale at noon. Non-Vault members can enter a lottery for a chance to get tickets at laylo.com/jackwhite/DETROIT.
Dubbed No Name, the new album will be officially released on Friday. Unlike White’s past solo albums, which have dabbled with country, jazz, and hip-hop sounds, it has more of a stripped-down, back-to-basics feel reminiscent of the Detroit garage rock scene he came up in with his former band the White Stripes.
For this tour, White has enlisted a new backing band made up other longtime members of the Detroit rock scene: Dominic Davis on bass backing vocals (who has been performing with White since he launched his solo career in 2012), Patrick Keeler (the Raconteurs, the Greenhornes) on drums, and Bobby Emmett (Sturgill Simpson, the Sights) on keys.
The tour has included a benefit show for the American Legion Hall in Nashville, as well as stops at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia and Terminal West in Atlanta, which all have capacities of under 1,000.
The last time White performed in his hometown of Detroit was as part of a star-studded concert to celebrate Ford Motor Co.’s rehab of the historic Michigan Central Station in June. In 2022, he sold-out two back-to-back shows at the Masonic Temple, which can hold some 4,650 fans.
(White’s nephew/Third Man Records historian/former Metro Times contributor Ben Blackwell tells us White has never played at Saint Andrew’s in any of his main musical projects, though he performed there in the ’90s as part of the country band Goober and the Peas. He also joined the Hentchmen on bass for a couple of songs on July 25, 1998. Thank you, Ben!)
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Music fans can score tickets to some of this summer’s hottest concerts for just $25, all-in.
Now in its 10th year, Live Nation’s Concert Week promotion features discounted tickets to more than 170 shows in Michigan, including acts like Missy Elliott, Vampire Weekend, Jennifer Lopez, the Roots, Santana, Janet Jackson, Orville Peck, Thirty Seconds to Mars, and more.
The promotion runs from May 8-14 at livenation.com/concertweek and spans music and comedy.
The general on-sale begins at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 8 and ends at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14 while supplies last. When you select your show, select the ticket type labeled “Concert Week Promotion” and proceed to checkout.
Live music company AEG Presents is also running a similar $25 all-in ticket promotion from May 7-15.
This year’s participating Concert Week shows in Michigan include:
• 9/4/2024 – Green Day & Smashing Pumpkins
• 6/30/2024 – AJR
• 7/31/2024 – Jennifer Lopez
• 8/9/2024 – Xscape and SWV
• 8/15/2024 – Missy Elliott
• 8/23/2024 – Incubus & Coheed and Cambria
• 10/11/2024 – Maxwell and Jazmine Sullivan
• 10/14/2024 – P!nk
• 10/15/2024 – P!nk
• 11/20/2024 – Creed
• 6/6/2024 – Hootie & The Blowfish
• 6/14/2024 – A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie
• 6/15/2024 – Styx & Foreigner
• 6/21/2024 – Maroon 5
• 6/23/2024 – James Taylor
• 6/25/2024 – Santana
• 7/2/2024 – Janet Jackson
• 7/6/2024 – Kidz Bop Kids
• 7/7/2024 – Third Eye Blind
• 7/17/2024 – Chicago & Earth, Wind & Fire
• 7/21/2024 – Train & REO Speedwagon
• 7/23/2024 – Limp Bizkit
• 8/1/2024 – Dan + Shay
• 8/4/2024 – John Fogerty
• 8/6/2024 – Thirty Seconds To Mars
• 8/7/2024 – Five Finger Death Punch
• 8/10/2024 – Barbie Symphony
• 8/15/2024 – The Doobie Brothers
• 8/23/2024 – Bret Michaels
• 8/30/2024 – Rob Zombie
• 9/10/2024 – Cage the Elephant
• 9/11/2024 – Staind & Breaking Benjamin
• 9/13/2024 – Lynyrd Skynyrd & ZZ Top
• 9/19/2024 – The Marley Brothers
• 9/21/2024 – Megadeth
• 9/28/2024 – RIFF Fest Featuring Godsmack
• 5/29/2024 – NEEDTOBREATHE
• 6/8/2024 – Parker McCollum
• 6/9/2024 – Maggie Rogers
• 6/12/2024 – A Day To Remember
• 6/14/2024 – Billy Currington & Larry Fleet
• 6/15/2024 – Brothers Osborne
• 6/18/2024 – Pixies & Modest Mouse
• 6/26/2024 – Bryson Tiller
• 7/6/2024 – Whiskey Myers
• 7/12/2024 – Mother Mother & Cave Town
• 7/18/2024 – Jamey Johnson
• 7/27/2024 – 311 & AWOLNATION
• 8/10/2024 – Lamb Of God & Mastodon
• 8/11/2024 – Tedeschi Trucks Band
• 8/16/2024 – Bush
• 8/17/2024 – Cody Jinks
• 8/20/2024 – Lindsey Stirling
• 8/22/2024 – Deep Purple
• 8/24/2024 – O.A.R. (…of a revolution.)
• 8/25/2024 – The Roots
• 8/31/2024 – Wallows
• 9/20/2024 – Clutch & Rival Sons
• 9/25/2024 – The National & The War on Drugs
• 9/30/2024 – Meghan Trainor
• 6/4/2024 – Orville Peck
• 6/15/2024 – Donny Osmond
• 6/25/2024 – Roger Daltrey
• 7/5/2024 – The Beach Boys
• 7/16/2024 – Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
• 7/20/2024 – Warren Haynes
• 7/26/2024 – Thomas Dolby (Totally Tubular Festival)
• 7/28/2024 – The Music of ABBA with the DSO
8/10/2024 – Classic Albums Live – Purple Rain
• 9/23/2024 – Vampire Weekend
• 5/14/2024 – Sean Paul
• 5/15/2024 – Joyner Lucas
• 5/18/2024 – Patton Oswalt
• 5/20/2024 – The Amity Affliction
• 5/21/2024 – Gary Clark Jr.
• 5/25/2024 – Echo & The Bunnymen
• 5/29/2024 – Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls
• 5/30/2024 – The Allman Betts Band
• 5/31/2024 – Ashley McBryde
• 6/2/2024 – Tank
• 6/3/2024 – All The Smoke
• 6/6/2024 – Jacob Collier
• 6/16/2024 – The Teskey Brothers
• 7/1/2024 – Hawthorne Heights
• 7/12/2024 – Funny Marco & Bobbi Althoff
• 7/20/2024 – Marcus King
• 7/24/2024 – Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox
• 8/27/2024 – New Found Glory
• 9/1/2024 – The Gaslight Anthem
• 9/19/2024 – Manchester Orchestra
• 10/1/2024 – Underoath
• 10/3/2024 – Alec Benjamin
• 10/19/2024 – Dane Cook
• 10/29/2024 – Lawrence
• 11/21/2024 – Mike Birbiglia
• 12/12/2024 – The Dead South
• 7/13/2024 – It’s Time, Girls Night Out/ Kierra Sheard
• 5/9/2024 – Kamasi Washington
• 5/13/2024 – Uriah Heep & Saxon
• 5/14/2024 – Better Than Ezra
• 5/18/2024 – SiM
• 5/21/2024 – In Flames
• 5/23/2024 – The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula
• 5/24/2024 – X Ambassadors
• 5/28/2024 – Erra
• 5/30/2024 – Little Big
• 6/4/2024 – Sebastian Bach
• 6/6/2024 – Andy Frasco & The UN
• 6/15/2024 – Dexter and the Moonrocks
• 6/16/2024 – PVRIS
• 6/23/2024 – The Spill Canvas
• 6/29/2024 – Medium Build
• 7/9/2024 – jxdn
• 7/27/2024 – Bowling For Soup
• 8/10/2024 – Five For Fighting
• 8/28/2024 – The Beths
• 8/29/2024 – Built To Spill
• 9/27/2024 – The Airborne Toxic Event
• 10/11/2024 – Giolì & Assia
• 11/5/2024 – Drive-By Truckers
• 5/15/2024 – Jeff Bernat
• 5/22/2024 – BashfortheWorld
• 6/2/2024 – Autumn Kings
• 6/21/2024 – Driveways
• 6/28/2024 – The Early November
• 7/5/2024 – Every Avenue
• 7/10/2024 – Frances Forever
• 7/15/2024 – Mates of State
• 7/22/2024 – Nico Vega
• 7/28/2024 – Caspian
• 7/31/2024 – Wilderado
• 8/27/2024 – King Buzzo
• 6/11/2024 – Styx & Foreigner
• 8/1/2024 – Jordan Davis
• 8/16/2024 – Cage the Elephant
• 9/19/2024 – Dierks Bentley
• 5/8/2024 – Wage War & Nothing More
• 5/14/2024 – Uriah Heep & Saxon
• 5/17/2024 – Patton Oswalt
• 5/18/2024 – Rodrigo y Gabriela
• 5/30/2024 – Marcus King
• 6/1/2024 – Celeste Barber
• 6/6/2024 – Ancient Aliens Live
• 6/24/2024 – The Used
• 7/23/2024 – Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox
• 8/3/2024 – In This Moment
• 8/6/2024 – Collective Soul
• 8/9/2024 – Chevelle
• 9/13/2024 – Kenny Wayne Shepherd
• 9/17/2024 – Descendents & Circle Jerks
• 9/18/2024 – Dashboard Confessional
• 9/23/2024 – Lake Street Dive
• 9/26/2024 – Clutch & Rival Sons
• 10/5/2024 – Ricky Montgomery
• 10/11/2024 – Dispatch
• 10/13/2024 – Judah & the Lion
• 11/14/2024 – Nurse Blake
• 11/29/2024 – Underoath
• 12/10/2024 – The Dead South
• 6/16/2024 – Donny Osmond
• 9/7/2024 – Stayin’ Alive – A Tribute to the Bee Gees
• 11/7/2024 – Dane Cook
• 5/17/2024 – Alpha Wolf
• 5/22/2024 – X Ambassadors
• 5/24/2024 – Bodysnatcher & Spite
• 5/29/2024 – Sebastian Bach
• 6/13/2024 – Dexter and the Moonrocks
• 8/6/2024 – Old 97’s
• 5/18/2024 – Royal Blood
• 6/29/2024 – Hawthorne Heights
• 8/1/2024 – Bowling For Soup
• 11/22/2024 – Local Natives
• 11/13/2024 – Nurse Blake
• 5/8/2024 – Shakey Graves
• 5/9/2024 – Sisters In Law Podcast
• 5/18/2024 – Architects
• 6/6/2024 – Whine Down with Jana Kramer
• 6/22/2024 – Al Di Meola
• 6/23/2024 – Hiatus Kaiyote
• 6/29/2024 – Leo Skepi
• 7/2/2024 – Future Islands
• 7/16/2024 – Hobo Johnson
• 7/20/2024 – Let’s Sing Taylor
• 7/23/2024 – Charley Crockett
• 7/26/2024 – Taking Back Sunday
• 7/31/2024 – idobi Summer School
• 8/9/2024 – The Struts
• 8/10/2024 – Andrew Bird
• 9/10/2024 – Peter Hook & the Light
• 9/13/2024 – Sheng Wang
• 9/14/2024 – Jim Breuer
• 9/28/2024 – Girls Gotta Eat
• 10/3/2024 – Hatebreed
• 10/4/2024 – Aries Spears
• 10/11/2024 – Chromeo & The Midnight
• 10/23/2024 – Jose González
• 10/24/2024 – Tori Kelly
• 7/8/2024 – Darl Hall & Elvis Costello
• 7/30/2024 – Still Woozy
• 9/14/2024 – Sum 41
• 6/8/2024 – Ancient Aliens Live
• 7/23/2024 – Lyle Lovett
• 8/31/2024 – Bikini Kill
• 9/13/2024 – Noel Miller
• 9/22/2024 – Bored Teachers
This article was updated with information on the Concert Week promotion by AEG Presents.
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