Err’body’s always talking about Detroit’s music scene. Here a few tracks from bands that are just getting started in Detroit, currently recording in Detroit, repping Detroit on the west coast and making believers out of the fact that Detroit isn’t just about electronic music and garage rock. Have a listen.

The latest Detroit sensation touring the west coast and getting airtime on KCRW, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr:

Brand-spanking newly signed Madis One to Blank Artists in Detroit with a little samplage of Bjork:

Bjork sample, madis music by MADIS ONE

The Auctioneers, a band not from Detroit (NYC), but currently recording an album here and playing shows around town:

And finally, the most astonishing addition to the lineup, Detroit’s best old-time country western band. These guys do nothing nothing like the new stuff coming out of Nashville; think more like Waylon Jennings, and these guys just kill it. Here’s a Johnny Cash cover they do particularly well, thats also rumored to be the opening track on their new album released October 12 on Bloodshot Records: