The Watts Club Mozambique was established in 1969 by Detroiter Cornelius Watts to showcase local talent.
read moreJohn Lee Hooker played his first gig at Apex bar back in 1943.
read moreBookies was ground zero for the Detroit New Wave scene and home for Detroit’s punk rock scene
read moreThe Graystone became Detroit’s “cradle of jazz,” and many greats including Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Guy Lombardo took the stage here and became nationally renowned while playing at the Graystone
read moreArcher Record Pressing, is one of 12 record pressing plants left in the US. It is the plant where most of the classic Detroit Techno vinyl records were pressed.
read moreThe Music Institute was Detroit’s answer to such legendary house and garage clubs as New York’s Paradise Garage and Chicago’s Powerplant.
read moreExplore the building featuring labels, record stores and a museum where historic techno relics are showcased and the HQ of the collective Underground Resistance.
read moreThe Packard Plant was designed by Albert Kahn. It was a automotive manufacturing center from 1903 to 1962. While the parties migrated week to week in the 90’s, the infamous Packard Plant, a long abandoned auto factory that in recent years became the primary party space monument to urban decay and the illegal underground party scene.
read moreA behind-the-scenes look at the Sun Ra Day Festival film series—mentorship, community collaboration, and honoring Sun Ra’s Birmingham roots.
read moreFree Harlem screening of the film God Said Give ’Em Drum Machines highlights Detroit’s Afro-American roots in techno.
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