motown

A British invasion is coming to Detroit. This week a five-day music festival called Detroit a Go Go kicks off in the city. Phil Dick organized that…

Detroiters may get yet another museum honoring the city's music legends: the founder of the Rhythm And Blues Hall of Fame wants to build a museum in the…

No matter where you are, when you say the words "Detroit" and "music," someone's going to exclaim "Motown!"But Detroit's music history is much deeper and…

Detroit music legend Stevie Wonder has a street officially named after him.Stevie Wonder Avenue is on a stretch of Milwaukee Street near Woodward Avenue…

Since it was founded in 1985, the Motown Museum allowed visitors from around the world to visit the historic “Hitsville U.S.A.” recording studios, the…

You’ve surely heard many stories about Motown over the years. Stories of its stars or of the ambitious Berry Gordy Jr. using an $800 family loan to build…

Every Sunday during the spring and summer months, you can swing by John’s Carpet House in Detroit, and hear some of the best local blues musicians jam for…

Tod Machover is a composer and professor from MIT. It’s his job to create a Symphony for Detroit and he’s asking Detroiters for help. Right now he’s…

DETROIT (AP) - Marcus Belgrave, a jazz trumpeter who graced stages and studios with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Cocker and Motown…

Many of Motown's greatest hits were written at a little house on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, the house known as Hitsville USA.Hitsville USA was…