Black artists in Detroit in the early 1980s ventured into the future to create a transformative global genre: techno. Why it matters: Their legacy of experimentation and liberation, built on ...

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 ...

Juan Atkins is considered one of the pioneers of Detroit techno. Credit: Courtesy of Paxahau As a founding figure of techno, one of modern-day music’s most influential genres, it’s somehow surprising ...

What is a night out? In my limited world-view as a white kid from western Michigan, I would think it means pregaming with some friends and then ending up in a room that’s way too small and way too hot ...