Entertainment & Nightlife

Motown roots, late nights, and the shows worth the ticket.

The electronic sound born in Detroit fills clubs on every continent. The city that invented it is fighting to keep its claim.

For local acts, the road from a Detroit dive to a national tour is long, unglamorous, and paved with van breakdowns. A few are making it.

A quiet, devoted jazz scene endures in Detroit's clubs, carrying forward one of the city's oldest and most sophisticated musical traditions.

Between the arenas and the festivals, a network of small clubs is where Detroit's musical future actually gets built — one sweaty show at a time.

Detroit has become an essential stop on the global arena-tour circuit. The reasons say a lot about the city's music-mad audiences.

On any given night across the state, amateurs are grabbing the mic. It's the most democratic, and often the most fun, corner of nightlife.

Interactive theater, projection spectacles, and multi-sensory events are drawing crowds who want to be inside the entertainment, not just watch it.

Beyond the headliners, the state's festivalgoers keep coming back for something harder to bill: belonging.

As the world streams, Detroit's crate-diggers keep the city's record shops busy — proof that in a music town, the physical object still matters.