Erika Linenfelser's house is at 257 Leicester Court, in the North End. The garage and the yard behind it are also Foxglove, a non-profit vinyl listening garden that has been running there since 2023 and remains the only one of its kind in Detroit. The 2024 season opened on Memorial Day weekend with a Movement-week day party.
Foxglove unveiled its new four-point sound system, custom-built in Detroit. The flyers said built in Detroit, by Detroit, for Detroit. The flyers were not wrong.
The concept is unusual enough that explaining it takes longer than visiting it. There is a garden. There is a garage.
There are records, but only records. DJs play vinyl, sometimes things they would not play in a club because the format won't carry them. Whodat does deep selections instead of house.
Mr. Twista does the kind of mixing that taught half the people in the room how to mix. The sound system, four points instead of two, fills the yard in a way the old PA didn't. Linenfelser cofounded Foxglove and runs it.
She lives in the house. The events happen in her backyard. The 501(c)(3) status is hers to maintain.
The neighbors get a stake too. To pull a city permit for a larger event, Foxglove has to collect signatures from 75 percent of them, a threshold she's hit more than once. Some of the rest filed noise complaints.
By March 2026, the city had denied a Movement permit, and she was telling Resident Advisor she might have to relocate. That's a different story. In May 2024, the story was the system.
Cinthie, DJ Cent, Kiernan Laveaux, Rebecca Goldberg, BEIGE, SABETYE, and JEM played the day party. Twelve hours of sets in a garden, every track on wax. Twenty-one and over.
Thirty dollars at the door. A listening bar in a garage built in someone's backyard does not scale. That's the point.
Foxglove never tried to be Marble Bar. It tried to be a place where the records you brought mattered as much as the records on the wall, and where the closer DJ went on at 10:30 because some people have to work tomorrow.
257 Leicester Court, North End. Enter at 267 Leicester. 21+. Seasonal programming.
