From janitor to jerseys – how one Detroit entrepreneur sold off his entire sneaker collection to start Perennial Merchants, an online fashion shop. Having lived in Atlanta, Charles Roberts returned to his hometown of Detroit with a dream. Problem was the capital wasn’t there and working as a janitor on $8 an hour wasn’t going …

Detroit’s SoundBoyMusic channels the spirit of Dilla with his latest project, DeetroitSoundS. Good luck if you’re a producer coming out of Detroit wanting to keep you name away from Dilla’s. Even Black Milk, as diverse as his sound has become over the years, gets the comparison wherever he goes. But some harness the vibe he …

We interviewed Black Milk and asked him about his latest album, No Poison No Paradise, his approach to sampling and some of his favourite albums.

Detroit’s Theo Parrish talks about his love of crate digging in Electronic Beats’ Slices DVD magazine. This is actually from a year ago but it’s new to us so we’ll treat it as such. Electronic Beats is a quarterly-published magazine dedicated to electronic music and as part of their Slices DVD feature, they followed Theo …