Here’s the DEQ interview::Buckets of Rain: by Rebecca Berger :: Chris Skellenger didn’t let a knee injury stop him from working hard. After he made his way around his urban farm carrying ten pound bags of apples (all while using a crutch), the question of ‘what happened?’ begged to be asked. He said he…
MGUN: By Kevin Reynolds. Photo: by Amy Hubbarth Q: When you google our names the first thing that pops up for you is a Major League Baseball Umpire. I get a Canadian Figure skater. Sport and athletic mentality seem to go hand in hand with Detroit Techno since the beginning with Saunderson, May, Banks, and the…
DJ Godfather, Words by Tara Phillips, Photo by Jeremy Deputat from DEQ #2 (Jeremy Ellis Cover) For the past decade, Brian Jefferies, a.k.a. DJGodfather, has been making a name for himself. Actually, he’s many names: producer, pioneer, CEO, club DJ, etc. Between running four record labels during the day to playing club gigs at…
Issue 9: http://detroiteq.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/DEQ-No.9_Interactive.pdf Issue 10: http://detroiteq.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/DEQ-No.10_Interactive.pdf Distribution: Local Detroit: Hello Records, Peoples Records, Detroit Threads, Paramita Sound, Found Sound, Street Corner Music, Detroit Mercantile, MOCAD, Melodies and Memories, Detroit Mercantile, Nora and more!! Out of Michigan & overseas: Amoeba Music, Juno Records (U.K.), Hard Wax (Germany), Pacific Beach, Clone (NL), Bent Crayon (Cleveland), Gramaphone (Chicago), Redeye…
Alton Miller: 2017 is here and I am reflecting on not only 2016, but also how I have spent the last twenty-five years of my life. My story is very similar to most DJs who decided at a very young age to pursue their dreams and play records as if their life depended on it.…
Cover Story: Steven Reaume::: Photo by Robert Guzman::: Written by Vince Patricola How many of your heroes are musicians or had something to do with music? For me, it’s a majority. As I flipped through the channels on my journey from out east back to Detroit, I heard so many of them. From James Brown…
EMERGENCY! My eyes opened wide as I saw the huge backlit red and white EMERGENCY sign on the back wall. I had a Detroit Receiving Hospital flashback for a split second, but in reality I was a step inside artist Bethany Shorb’s Well Done Goods store. The goat, deer and ram heads adorned in black…
Please come celebrate DEQ Magazine 9&10 release with us at Inner State Gallery on Saturday Feb 25th! No cover, beverages and light food provided! Be the first kid on the block to get your copy!! Merch will also be available. Family friendly!! The 70+ page print/LP combo issue has in depth interviews with Theo Parrish,…
Hello all!! We’re fashionably late with DEQ 9 and 10, looking at early February 2017 release. The last of back issues are in stores not to be reprinted. Get them before they are gone. Here are a few retailers around the world that carry it! Local Detroit: Hello Records, Peoples Records, Detroit Threads, Paramita Sound,…
Delano Smith interview by Kevin Reynolds. Photos by Torrence Allison KR: I had the pleasure of meeting you at Transmat maybe some fifteen years ago via Derrick May. After you left Derrick told me that you were the original DJ. What inspired you to get into DJing and producing? I’m sure at the time you…