Tag Archives: 1999 in Detroit

In July 2000, soon after Slum Community released its long-awaited Fantastic, Vol. 2 record, the Detroit-based hip-hop trio released a few of their old material over the short album Greatest Kept Top secret. Clocking at significantly less than 30 minutes, done with some remixes, and related to the one-off moniker …

Detroit natives Judah Johnson acquiesce making use of their own naturalness like a music group, not entirely consumed with a number of the Engine City’s finest. They’re quite happy with producing music for themselves, which combines sludgy space rock and roll elements with minor jazz affects for an alluring indie …

Detroit-based industrial-metal musician Klayton (given birth to Scott Albert) started his many well-known project, Celldweller, in 1999 following dissolution of his prior rings Circle of Dust, Angeldust, and Argyle Park. Celldweller’s self-titled debut record, an ambitious fusion of trance, drum’n’bass, steel, and alternative rock and roll, made an appearance in …

The Chromeflies were a concept that were tossed around by Michael and Andrew Nehra for a couple of years before it became possible. Both musicians had been on the highway with Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Shock, burning the renowned Detroit vocalist while alternately preparing their eventual parting of methods. That became …

Fusing the power of Midwest garage area rock and roll using the hook-laden melodies and lovelorn lyrics of vintage force pop, the Singles certainly are a rock and roll & roll strap whose members began producing a name for themselves in Michigan and so are still offering their devotees bright, …