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 ...

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 ...

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 ...