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DJ Mackinthedark is the creator of LOVE&CO and the kind of artist who doesn't ask permission from a genre. A proud member of The Switchblades out of Detroit, she's built her sound the hard way — by feeling it out, blending the unexpected, and refusing to let any single box hold her.
She describes her approach as ADHD on Wax — and that's not a disclaimer, that's the whole point. Her sets move the way her mind does: instinctive, layered, surprising, and completely intentional once you're inside it. She's not learning to DJ. She's learning to bend sound into something only she could make.
LOVE&CO is what happens when a Detroit-rooted creative takes genre into her own hands. Watch the featured video and explore the growing catalog — this is what the next wave sounds like before the world catches up.
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ADHD on Wax. Member of The Switchblades out of Detroit. Creator of LOVE&CO. She's taking genre into her own hands — blending unique sounds that don't ask permission. The music moves the way her mind does: instinctive, layered, and completely her own.
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STV Radiomeltdown Newsletter — Vol. 1 · Issue 02 · May 2026
Before Snoop Dogg laid his first verse. Before Tupac recorded All Eyez on Me. Before Dr. Dre built the sound that defined a decade — there was a bass player from Detroit named Tony "T Money" Green, and without him, none of it sounds the way it does.
The story starts in Detroit, 1975. L.J. Reynolds of The Dramatics spotted a young Tony Green playing at a local club and knew immediately. After one audition, Tony had the bass chair — and he held it for over 20 years. He played on the group's gold album, wrote four tracks including their last top 10 hit "Welcome Back Home," and in 1978 joined Ron Banks and George Clinton to co-write "One of Those Funky Things" for Parliament's Motor Booty Affair — one of the most sampled songs in hip-hop history, with credits spanning DMX, EPMD, Erykah Badu, Ice Cube, Tupac, and Gang Starr.
Then came Death Row. In 1993, Tony became the band director and bass player for Death Row Records. His signature grooves powered the G-Funk era from the ground up — Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle, Tupac's All Eyez on Me, the Grammy-winning "Let Me Ride" remix, and soundtracks for Poetic Justice and Above the Rim. He was also the man who walked George Clinton down the hallway and introduced him to Dr. Dre. The rest, as they say, is history.
Now Tony T Money Green is coming to Detroit Vinylfest on May 3, 2026 — and STV Radiomeltdown is proud to put this legend on the cover. Detroit in every note. Legacy in every groove.
Musicians are fighting back against artificial intelligence — but history says they've been here before. More than 1,000 musicians, including Paul McCartney, signed a protest aimed squarely at AI-generated music. Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, and Pearl Jam have all added their names to open letters denouncing what they call an attack on human creativity.
But this isn't the first time the industry has waged war on a machine. Scroll back to 1982, and the music world was having nearly the exact same fight — just with synthesizers instead of algorithms. The British Musicians' Union attempted to ban synths outright. Queen printed "No Synthesizers!" on four album sleeves. Gary Numan described open hostility from people who thought technology had replaced talent.
Sound familiar? The question now is whether AI is simply the next synth — or something categorically different.
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By 1985, Rick James was coming off one of the most productive runs in Black music — and he walked into his personal studio in Buffalo and made one of the most polished albums of his career. Rolling Stone called it a waste. They were wrong.
The title track hit the Top 5 on R&B, hit number one on Dance Club Songs, featured Smokey Robinson in the video, and Rick performed it live on The A-Team. The album never crossed over the way Street Songs did — but it never got a fair shot. It didn't even get a proper US CD release for decades.
Throwin' Down dropped in 1982 — one year after Street Songs sold nearly four million copies worldwide. That's an impossible follow-up slot. Dance Wit' Me hit number 3 on R&B and featured legendary jazz-funk vibraphonist Roy Ayers across seven full minutes of pure groove.
Most people have never sat with this track because the shadow of Street Songs was too long. The album went gold, hit number 13 on the Billboard 200, spent 10 weeks at number 2 on the R&B albums chart. Super Freak just owned the whole conversation.
Hard to Get is what happens when Rick James writes a spiritual successor to Super Freak and nobody notices because the original is too legendary to compete with. The same DNA is in there — that riff, that bounce, those absurd backing vocals — but it stands on its own.
It hit number 15 on R&B. For most artists that's a career moment. For Rick James in 1982, sandwiched between Super Freak and his Temptations collab on the same record, it practically disappeared. Rick's own estate called it the "get-up-and-boogie feel-good track." Hidden in plain sight for 40 years.
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Detroit bass legend Tony "T Money" Green will be at Detroit Vinylfest — and if you don't know the name, you know the music.
His bass lines are the foundation of some of the most sampled records in hip-hop history — from The Dramatics to Parliament-Funkadelic to Death Row Records where his grooves powered Snoop, Tupac, and Dr. Dre through the entire G-Funk era.
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Thursday afternoon, prom was Saturday, and the clock was ticking. Most places would have turned us away. Mr. Bernard didn't flinch.
He took care of Braylen from start to finish — found the right suit, got everything fitted on the spot, kept it super affordable, and made sure the only thing left was taking the pants up a little. What should have been a stressful scramble turned into one of the best shopping experiences our family has ever had.
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