Go It Alone
The Making of 95 Miles Down The Road
95 Miles Down The Road (feat. Mayaeni)
Detroit Bass Player Interview
There You Go (Live at Campus Martius Park – Detroit)
95 Miles Down The Road feat. Nadir (Live at Campus Martius Park – Detroit)
Overdraft (Live at Campus Martius Park – Detroit)
XD Artist To Watch: Steffanie Christi’an
Often times when presented with Rock N’ Roll, we imagine big haired white men playing guitars on stage and screaming at the top of their lungs. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with that as I just finished playing Bad English’s epic, monster ballad “When I See You Smile.” However, we are living time where we are redefining music and making it our own. Often times, we’re taking back our sound and introducing it to a new generation of music lovers. XD’s new artist to watch, Steffanie Christi’an, is the true definition of a Black woman who definitely rocks.
Steffanie Christi’an Way Too Much Album Photo Shoot
Iayaalis
IAYAALIS is a creatrix – a female creator and multi-talent whose critically-acclaimed rhymes, singing voice, spoken word, poetry, prose, and visual art, have wowed free-thinking, progressive audiences all over.
No other artist expresses the essence of intellect and spirit quite like “the mad mutha eloh ” whose acronymic name, i.a.y.a.a.l.is (“i-yall-EE”) – I Am You Are And Love IS – suggests her universal purpose: to dazzle the dome and send the soul.
With each endeavor, IAYAALIS etches a permanent mark for herself and her art without compromising her artistic approach or spiritual ideals. And, as IAYAALIS told The Nashville Scene “What’s happening here is so fresh and new… I’m telling you, when somebody finally taps into that, it’s going to break wide open.”
IAYAALIS.COM
DJ Butterface
Whether the sound is progressive house, industrial, breakbeat, hip hop or rock, multi-instrumentalist/producer Michael J. Bazini (aka DJ Butterface) moves the crowd.
The New York City native’s electro-centric soundscapes can be heard in video games and on television for clients like HBO, CBS, MTV and Acclaim Entertainment. His remixes and mashups power the club attacks of artists like Public Enemy, Martin Bisi, The Superions, Paranoid Social Club, Nadir, John Haze, and The Invisible Kid. He’s also the keyboardist and sonic sculptor for the experimental band Controlled Bleeding.
No matter the musical style, you can bet Bazini will find the core emotion, the heart of the sound, the rhythm of the dance.
Michael J. Bazini (aka DJ Butterface) on Facebook
Michael Turner
Detroit-born Michael Turner’s flair blends classic Motown soul with electric Rock City swagger.
The resulting confection is a riveting brand of guitar-driven Rock/R&B that brims with passion, fire and grace.
Though he is best known as the charismatic lead singer of the hard-charging Detroit powerhouse, Jiva, Turner has crafted a solo project that puts his rich vocals and powerful lyrics behind the wheel of a high-octane rock and soul muscle car. Prepare to eat his dust…
Michael Turner on Facebook
Steffanie Christi’an
Steffanie Christi’an is Way Too Much.
Stuff Tina Turner, Rage Against The Machine, and Alanis Morisette into an industrial-grade mixer and crank the sumbitch up to 12. Add a fifth of Hennessey, light up a Newport and watch the roof explode.
Unmeasurable energy. Enormous passion and power. A phenomenal set of pipes. These are the qualities that have attracted collaborators like Big Proof of D12 (RIP), and producer Emanuel Kiriakou. They are on display when she opens for artists like Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, and Taproot. They are the reason she’s the secret weapon of jessica Care moore’s Black Women Rock revues, where she routinely holds her own on stage with rock goddesses like Res, Joi, Tamar Kali, Dionne Farris, Imani Uzuri and more.
Steffanie Christi’an gives you more in-your-face, Detroit rock and roll than you can handle. She’ll leave you spent, exhausted, and mesmerized, motionless on the floor, begging for one more hit.
Learn More at SteffChris.com
Reavis Mitchell
Reavis (Rev) Mitchell once led a double life.
By day, he was a U.S. government computer scientist, helping to adapt Global Positioning Systems (GPS) from their original military applications to civilian uses. At night, his alter ego stalked stages and studios as an award-winning hip hop artist and producer, powering the pioneering Nashville hip hop quartet Utopia State, and developing explosive musical productions for a long list of clients like Sony Music, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, USA Networks and a bevy of major label and indie artists.
But eventually the music took over. Reavis, the scientist, went rogue, leaving government work behind to design the Beat Thang Mobile Music Production System, while Rev, the artist/producer, continues to break the sound barrier with his company, Soulbeat Productions, and an ever expanding client base. Now Reavis Mitchell, the Scientist/Producer/Artist, emerges from his secluded Nashville laboratory, exposing experimental new forms that extend the outer limits of hip hop, soul and funk music.
SoulbeatPro.com
Christopher Spooner
Christopher Spooner’s bass is an extension of his arm.
He’s the musical quarterback of choice, holding down the pocket for fierce Detroit artists like Mayaeni, The Saints of Soul, Steffanie Christi’an, Nadir, The YOU Band, Paul Miles, Hush and more.
As a composer and producer, Spooner’s pocket and bass guitar are at the center of a dance floor igniting funk and soul flamethrower. Fiery, undeniable, 70s and 80s inspired hip hop funk grooves thump your speakers like the man’s hands thump the strings.
Christopher Spooner on Facebook
