2023
Highway project threatens historic Detroit recording studio via Axios
One good building: Groundbreaking to preserve an old Detroit jazz venue via Outlier
Blue Bird Inn restoration aims to entertain new generation of Detroiters via Bridge Detroit
Detroit Sound Conservancy celebrates historic Blue Bird Inn rehab with free party via Metro Times
Detroit’s Blue Bird Inn jazz club gets massive renovations via American Black Journal PBS
2022
Local Nonprofit Breathes New Life Into Historic Blue Bird Inn via Hour Detroit
Bringing Back Blue Bird via The Detroit Jewish News
Fight continues to save Detroit’s United Sound Systems Recording Studios via CBS Detroit
Amazon doles out $250,000 to seven Detroit nonprofits via Detroit News
Push to rehab Detroit’s historic Blue Bird Inn seeks to revive sweet sounds via Detroit News
Emmett Till’s Chicago home will get money designated for preserving Black history via NPR
Emmett Till’s Chicago home among sites granted funding earmarked for preserving history via CNN
Detroit Sound Conservancy: Blue Bird via BLAC
The Blue Bird Inn Will Fly Again via Michigan Chronicle
Rehab of historic Detroit jazz club the Blue Bird Inn enters next phase via Metro Times
Detroit Sound Conservancy Shares Big Steps, Renderings for Blue Bird Inn via Altnubian
Efforts to restore Detroit’s historic Blue Bird Inn move on to next phase via Model D
Winter 2021
Michelle Jahra McKinney and DSC featured in Wayne State alumni magazine via Wayne State
Michelle Jahra McKinney appears on Stateside to talk about our Detroit music tour via Michigan Radio
Summer 2021
Winter 2021
Blue Bird Inn spared from demolition after historic designation via Detroit Free Press
Fall 2020
Summer 2020
Spring 2020
Reviving Detroit’s Historic Blue Bird Inn via Belt Magazine
Winter 2020
Saving Detroit’s Musical Legacy Becomes High Priority for Local Historians via WDET’s Culture Source
Detroit music legends tell their stories at special celebration event this week
Fall 2019
Summer 2019
Call & Response, a celebration of Detroit’s sonic resistance in Ann Arbor via All About Ann Arbor
Spring 2019
Live in the D: Uniquely Detroit – The Blue Bird Inn is back!
Detroit Sound Conservancy works to restore iconic jazz club Blue Bird Inn via WDIV/Click On Detroit
“Detroit jazz club Blue Bird Inn gets a new lease on life” via Metro Times
Winter 2019
The Week in Detroit… via The D Brief
MDOT to transplant legendary Detroit recording studio for I-94 rebuild via Crain’s Detroit
Detroit’s historic United Sound Systems studio spared from demolition via Michigan Radio
Kresge headed back to neighborhoods with $1.5M via The Detroit News
Winter 2018
The Organization I Love : 2018 : Detroit Sound Conservancy via The Detroit I Love
LaVell Williams via Michigan LGBTQ Remember
Fall 2018
“Detroit musician, mentor LaVell Williams dies” via The Detroit News
Summer 2018
‘A legend from our house’: Detroit mourns Aretha Franklin via The Guardian
Spring 2018
Season 9, Episode 5 of Destination Michigan on WCMU
18 Detroit neighborhood groups split $1.5M in Kresge grants via Curbed Detroit
Fall 2017
Can the National Theatre be saved? via Curbed Detroit
Within A Conflicted Present, The Sounds Of ‘New Detroit’ Mine Its Past via NPR Music
Summer 2017
John Lee Hooker To Be Inducted Into Detroit Sound Hall of Fame on 100th Birthday via WDET
“Celebrating the History of Detroit’s Iconic United Sound Systems Recording Studio” via WDET
Spring 2017
“How Detroit Sound Conservancy helps restore Motor City music history” via Detroit Free Press
Detroit Sound Conservancy on MetroArts Detroit
Winter 2017
“Could Detroit Show Us the Way to a New Future of Work?” via Metropolis.
Spring 2016
We got a shout out from writer Mike Rubin on the New York Times Popcast.
“Meet the Nonprofit Fighting to Preserve Detroit’s Music History” via Red Bull Music Academy
Fall 2015
“Giving United Sound, Detroit’s other landmark music studio, its due” via Model D.
Summer 2015
“A Non-Profit Races the Clock to Preserve Detroit History” via Crave
“Graystone jazz artifacts, forgotten in Detroit skyscraper, now being preserved” via MLive
Spring 2015
“An insider’s cultural guide to Detroit: The Motor City moves on” via The Guardian
“Detroit Sound Conservancy Remembers Detroit Gay Clubs” via Between the Lines
Fall 2014
Blog post via the Sound Studies blog Sounding Out
Spring 2014
Interview with WDET’s Travis Wright
Article on #detsound conference at Deadline Detroit
Winter 2014
Interview by the Boston Globe.
Fall 2013
Article at the Grammy Foundation
Summer 2013
Interview on WAYN’s Michigan Movement
Summer 2012
Interview on WDET’s Craig Fahle Show
Article in the Metro Times’s City Slang Blog.
Spring 2012
Article in Model D. describing the genesis of the DSC.