{"id":2012604,"date":"2025-09-10T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2012604"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:02:11","slug":"mi-local-interview-with-new-music-detroit-plus-exclusive-drey-skonie-premiere-diy-street-fair-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mi-local-interview-with-new-music-detroit-plus-exclusive-drey-skonie-premiere-diy-street-fair-more\/","title":{"rendered":"MI Local: Interview with New Music Detroit, plus exclusive Drey Skonie premiere, DIY Street Fair + more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/shows.audiocdn.com\/s\/wdet\/mi-local\/mi-local-09-09-25\/embed\/standard-horizontal\/v2\" width=\"100%\" height=\"173\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week, I had two in-studio guests for <em>MI Local<\/em>, starting with a brief visit from Detroit-based soul\/R&amp;B balladeer <strong>Drey Skonie<\/strong>, leader of <strong>the Klouds<\/strong> band. The group treated WDET listeners to an exclusive preview of their new single, out this Friday, \u201cLike A Train,\u201d which you can hear about five minutes in to the show!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We got started with brand new tracks from Tiffadelic and Fizzy Fresh, and then segued into an interview with the aforementioned Drey Skonie.<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned <strong>Tiffadelic,<\/strong> with her signature blend of darkwave, synth and goth-electronica, will be\u00a0 having a release party for her album \u201cRetrosynthesis Vol. 1 at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theringwald.com\/\">The Ringwald Theatre<\/a> in Ferndale on September 26.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fizzy Fresh<\/strong> are a new electro-pop duo that you can catch next weekend, at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ferndalediy.com\/\">D.I.Y. Street Fair<\/a> in Ferndale, Sunday, September 21, at 4:00 pm, on Troy St. at Woodward Ave., next to the W.A.B.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of plans for live music, my second in-studio guest was the accomplished pianist and local music collective facilitator Justin Snyder from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newmusicdetroit.com\/\">New Music Detroit<\/a>, discussing this weekend\u2019s Strange Beautiful Music 18.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Snyder\u2019s bonafides include two master\u2019s degrees in Collaborative Piano, one from the University of Michigan and one from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.<\/p>\n<p>New Music Detroit is a collective of musicians dedicated to performing groundbreaking musical works from the late-20th century to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re behind the annual multi-day new music marathon concert<strong> Strange Beautiful Music<\/strong>\u00a0which runs the gamut of new music \u2013 from contemporary classical and world music to experimental \u201cout\u201d jazz, free improvisation, techno, electronica, neo-soul, ambient, and music that defies genre! Find info and tickets <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newmusicdetroit.com\/sbm-1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along with my conversations with Justin Snyder (NMD) and Drey Skonie and the Klouds, I also featured new music from indie-rockers <strong>MAS<\/strong>, who have an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNrTxTtWjDQ\/\">album release party<\/a> on September 20 at the Lexington, along with a new song by <strong>Mountain Club<\/strong> (MTN. Club) ahead their <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thelagerhouse.com\/events\/2025-09-13\/mountain-club-the-city-lines-origami-phase\">album release party<\/a> at the Lager House this Friday!<\/p>\n<p>Two guests in one hour, plus a handful of local music premieres\u2026 what a night!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>See the playlist below and listen to the episode on-demand for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>\u201cI Try\u201d \u2013 Tiffadelic<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cMissing Piece\u201d \u2013 Fizzy Fresh<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cLike A Train\u201d \u2013 Drey Skonie &amp; the Klouds<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cBeisbol Cats\u201d \u2013 Mountain Club<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cThis Is Over!\u201d \u2013 MAS!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cEx-Lion Tamer\u201d \u2013 Ryan Allen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cParanoid\u201d \u2013 Idiot Kids<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cBeautiful ((Spaced Out))\u201d \u2013 La Cecille (supercoolwicked)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cSan Trou Ni Fin\u201d \u2013 Joo Won Park<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cForest Clearing\u201d \u2013 Alex Koi &amp; Kirin McElwain<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cThe Middle\u201d \u2013 Na Bonsai\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source wdet.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I had two in-studio guests for MI Local, starting with a brief visit from Detroit-based soul\/R&amp;B balladeer Drey Skonie, leader of the Klouds band. 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