A new book looks at Detroit’s music scene from the ’60s until present day

Joe Molloy shares the musical and social history of Detroit.

A new book from Repeater Books examines the history of Detroit’s music scene from the 1960s until today.

Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music, written by Joe Molloy, casts light upon Detroit in the 1960s as an “unequalled hotbed of radical activism, urban unrest and sonic innovation”.

The book draws from writer, cultural critic and theorist Mark Fisher’s idea of acid communism and covers everything from “incendiary garage rock, to European-influenced techno and experimental hip-hop crews”.

Acid Detroit is available to buy now.