The world needs rock’n’roll: Ryan Allen talks about his projects, Revolution Summer vibes in BIG LIFE, and love for Detroit’s music legacy

Detroit is a city that has notoriously birthed groundbreaking and genre-shaping musical artists, such as Iggy & The Stooges, Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger, Aretha Franklin, The White Stripes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Eminem, George Clinton, J Dilla, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Four Tops, Alice Cooper, and many more. Multi-instrumentalist, singer, and modern day Renaissance man Ryan Allen is actively doing all he can to not be part of The Last Rock Band and to make his mark on Detroit and the music world thereover. Allen has been making, recording, and playing music since 1992 having spent time as part of The Cold Wave, Destroy This Place, Friendly Foes, Red Shirt Brigade, Ryan + Jono (with Jonathan Diener formerly of The Swellers,) Speed Circuit, and Thunderbirds Are Now!....

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