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Michiganbands Welcomes Severance
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 After devoting six years to the female-fronted modern rock band Avenue, a popular act that enjoyed coverage by major media outlets in Michigan, guitarist/songwriter Todd Schoeneman decided it was time to put some passion back into his music and explore stylistic and emotional avenues he wasn't able to before. To aid him in the new venture, Shoeneman recruited Mark Pilotto on lead vocals, Jeff Korner on bass and Justin Sowers on drums. The band would be called Severance (as in severing ties with the past) and his goals would be nothing less than ambitious. "We want to be the best band in Detroit. We want people to remember us when we finish a set," Schoeneman wrote in his band's MySpace bio. Severance is currently in the studio finishing up their debut release, but have a benefit show planned for May and will be partcipating in Emergenza in June. Click "read more" below for links.
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MB Welcomes Scott Cooley, Indecision, Our Fate In Hell & Zero Down
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Well, the band links are piling up which means it must be time to get some work done. But instead of giving each of these fine, homegrown acts their own well-deserved space on Michiganbands.com, I'm going to be lazy and lump them all together under this one article heading ( send your complaints to Dept. Of Local Music Volunteers, c/o someone who still gives a shit). So click "read more" below and let me introduce to you the cavemanic musical stylings of Scott Cooley, the original and cover-band versions of Indecision, the alcohol & hate-fueled screams of Our Fate In Hell, and finally we'll explore Zero Down's tenuous connection to Mitch Ryder via the mysterious "Rico".
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Michiganbands.com Welcomes Unbound
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 Somewhere safe in the cozy bedroom community of Lainsburg, Mi (population <2000 with a total area of 1.7 sq mi. - don't get much cozier than that, eh?) hides the budding musical explorations of Unbound, our latest entry to the Original Artists / Hard Rock & Metal category. This young foursome, including brothers Zack & Josh DeBrabander (vocals and drums respecively) Ben Oxendale (Guitar) & Dustin Phelps (Bass), played their first gig as the cover-band Quantum Suicide in a local battle of the bands, earning a respectable second place finish. But the boys soon felt the need to throw off the shackles of mimicry and create their own metallic musings, which have spawned such titles as "Internal Combustion", "Funkenstein", "Shed The Shadows" and "Of Sin & Sanctity" - all of which you can hear by clicking "read more" below for their MySpace link.
Note: logo written on trapper-keeper during health class.
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MB Welcomes After The Money Is Gone
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 Pretty much every day now I wonder what's going to happen to me when I can't work anymore and my government hands me an I.O.U. written on toilet paper for all those years of paying into social security, having been gullible enough to believe in a social safety net. What's going to happen when I can't even afford to live in the trailer park, when I'm eating expired cat food out of the Wal Mart dumpster and spend my days wandering the road sides, yelling at cars as they pass me by? I wonder what's going to happen After The Money Is Gone - which is the name of our latest band submission in the original artists / alternative category. ATMIG is a three piece from Detroit who describe their music as 'fun, varied and concise' - very unlike my personality, daily routine and writing style respectively. But it's nice work. Who knows, maybe I'll manage to hold on to my iPod, recharge it at a public park, and ATMIG's music can cheer me up as I wander the streets, looking forward to a swift and painless death. - Mitch
Click "read more" below to find out what happens After The Money Is Gone.
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Michiganbands.com Welcomes The Degenerates
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 You might think of Grosse Pointe Park as the monied cocoon of Detroit's old-school gentry, but in 1979 it produced at least four Degenerates - all of whom are members of our latest band submission in the Original Artists / Punk category. Noise-makers Scott Bowman, John Butterfield, Robin Corely and Robert VanSiles stank-up such dusty old joints as TRAXX on Gratiot Avenue where they recorded the abominable song "Armageddon". The band threatened to resurface a couple of times in the 80's but eventually died a very slow and deserving death. Until now, that is. It seems the information age has smiled upon their festering copulation of tracks and deposited them online and on disc. if you're brave enough to approach this throwback to sticky floors of punk-clubs-gone-bye, proceed by clicking "read more" below.
Note: drawing by some old degenerate.
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Michiganbands.com Welcomes Westfall
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 Ever since Chad, Erik and Bobby shared a bus route together as school kids they knew they were headed in the same direction. Those formative years, along with a shared love for classic and modern rock, would forge a bond that would last twenty years, seven of which have already been dedicated to making music together. In a fit of irony, the trio left the band "Destyned" to become Westfall, named after a movie they all liked and often found themselves quoting to each other. In December of 2006, Westfall released an eight-song debut entitled, "Changes." half of which can currently be heard on their MySpace page. But there's two other tracks on there as well. - could it be a preview of things to come? It might be, but to find out for sure you'll have to click "read more" below for the link. But before you go, help us welcome Westfall to Michignabands.com as our latest band link submission in the Original Artists/Modern Classic Rock category.
Note: photo by Shane Grush
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Michiganbands.com Welcomes Quiverbone and FlintDrive
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 In honor of all things strange and mettalic, Michiganbands.com would like to welcome our latest band-link submissions in the original artists / hard rock category, Quiverbone and FlintDrive. Quiverbone hopes to revitalize the hard rock scene in their area by "exemplify(ing) the essence of live performance" and claim their purpose is to deliver a high-energy show every time. And how do they do that? "We rehearse as if we have an audience of a thousand," Chip says in his link description. You can find selections from Quiverbone's live EP, "To Hell WIth That Smell" on their MySpace page. Click "read more" below for links.
From the Terrible Ted School of Hard Rock (complete with camouflage and zebra-striped jackets) comes FlintDrive, regulars of The Machine Shop who have opened shows for such bands as Jackyl, Silvertide and Tantric - and have the posters to prove it. The band has been together for five years in various incarnations and have just added vocalist Ron Russell and bassist John Dashner to the line-up. They have two songs on their MySpace page, "Division In Time" and "Changes" and will be appearing live at The Corunna St. Bar on March 8th for anyone who wants to hear them live. To hear the studio versions, click "read more" below for all the links.
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Michiganbands.com Welcomes UV Hippo
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 Somewhere way down on the Muskegon River in the heart of Big Rapids country (below the ring finger on the "heartline" of your Michigan hand) lives a rare creature known as the Ultraviolet Hippopotomus. Besides wallowing in the muck to stay cool (don't we all from time to time) this radiating river cow has been known to make unusual sounds that can only be appreciated by dedicated music freaks - particularly those near Ferris State University. Some say it sounds like rock. Some say it's more like jazz. Still others report electronica, reggae and even bluegrass emanating from the massive orifice of this unpredictable menace. The only way to know for sure is to check them out for yourself in the Original Artists / Jam category of our band links section. Or you can just click "read more" below and we'll give you all the links you need. - Mitch
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Michiganbands.com Welcomes NightStrike
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 Way back in 1988 a pair of young Kiss fans from Ontonagon, Mi (way up dere in da western U.P., eh) would find musical communion during a stay at K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base for the U.P. Winter Olympics. Exactly one year later, and at that very same location, the pair would join two other budding musicians to perform in front of a thousand people as the hard rock band NightStrike. Over the next eight years they would release three full-length albums ("Street Justice", "NightStrike" and "Road To Nowhere") of hometown rock until family life and work would scatter the band members throughout the state. But a chance encounter and impromptu set at Stubb's Bar on Labor Day 2004 brought the band back to life. So inspired by their fan's enthusiasm they decided to record a fourth NightStike album called, "One Hit To The Heart" and proceeded with the "One Hit Tour" in 2006/07, concluding with a homecoming show at the Ontonagan Theatre. That show was recorded and released as their first live DVD, "Coming Home Alive". Michiganbands.com would like to welcome NightStrike to our band links section in the Original Artists / Hard Rock Category.
Click "read more" below for links to the entire NightStrike story, including pictures from those formative years.
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Michiganbands.com Welcomes Subgenius
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 Michiganbands.com would like to welcome Subgenius to our band links section in the original artists / hardcore & metal category. Subgenius is a progressive funk/metal & hardcore four-piece from Ypsilanti, Mi (located in the butt of your Michigan mitten) who seek 'only to be taken seriously, while not taking (themselves) too seriously.' The band specializes in 'peculiar, atonal dissonant silliness' and currently have two songs available on their MySpace page, "The Robotic Hymn of Doom" and "Tall Tales", the latter of which is also a video. Wicked stuff. Click "read more" below for all the links.
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