The Astrological Forecast: 2020 and Beyond Ushers in Profound Social Changes

Jaime Street on Unsplash If you’re like us, 2020 may feel something like the longest roller coaster ride of your life. There...

Between Takes: When You Know It’s a Hit

Welcome to Between Takes; where artists and musicians tell stories about what happens behind the scenes. WDET’s Sam Beaubien has been...

Essential Conversations: John Sinclair Still Hates the CIA

Subscribe to Ann Delisi’s Essential Conversations iTunes — Stitcher — Spotify John Sinclair is an activist, poet, and writer whose life and work is...

Musicians With Mental Illness Strike a Chord in New Documentary

A new documentary called “Orchestrating Change” chronicles two years in the life of a first-of-its-kind orchestra made for musicians with...

Hip Hop Public Health Turns Up the Volume on COVID-19 Safety

Hip Hop Public Health is a non-profit organization founded in 2006 with the mission of helping increase knowledge of healthy...

Liner Notes: Mos Def’s “Black on Both Sides” Turns 21

Welcome to Liner Notes, a collection of audio thumbnail essays that tell the story behind seminal albums that you know...

Between Takes: Dennis Coffey Brings Psychedelic Flair to Motown

Welcome to Between Takes; where artists and musicians tell stories about what happens behind the scenes. WDET’s Sam Beaubien has been...

Check Out These October Releases From Third Man Records

Discovering new music is one of the things you’ve told us you love the most about WDET. To satisfy your...

It’s Halloweek At WDET

Jon Moshier/WDET Join WDET for a week-long celebration of everything scary.  WDET is in the Halloween spirit offering radio programs...

Essential Cooking: Remembering Julia Child, an American Culinary Icon

Julia Child is an American culinary icon. Her magnetic personality was larger than life, and her passion for combining education and entertainment...

London Artist Creates ‘Human Atlas’ of Detroit

London photographer Marcus Lyon has built an artistic practice around creating multi-sensory human atlases that map out the DNA lineage...

At 36, Esperanza Spalding Is Just Getting Started

Michele Giacovelli/Flickr American singer, songwriter and bassist Esperanza Spalding has forged a reputation as one of the jazz visionaries of...