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| Saturday, April 12, 2008 | | · | Don ''Doop'' Duprie & Ty Stone To Perform At The DMAs | | Tuesday, April 08, 2008 | | · | 7th Annual MCMF Acoustic Showcase This Thursday | | Saturday, April 05, 2008 | | · | MB Puzzler | | · | Michiganbands.com Welcomes Unbound | | Monday, March 31, 2008 | | · | MB Welcomes After The Money Is Gone | | Saturday, March 29, 2008 | | · | Michiganbands.com Welcomes The Degenerates | | Thursday, March 27, 2008 | | · | Back In LA LA LAnd With Ty Stone | | Saturday, March 22, 2008 | | · | Michiganbands.com Welcomes Westfall | | Saturday, March 15, 2008 | | · | MB Welcomes Love Meets Lust | | · | Dendura Joins Unexpect and Shadowside at the Flight of the Valkyries Festival |
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Don ''Doop'' Duprie & Ty Stone To Perform At The DMAs
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 Detroit singer-songwriter Don “Doop” Duprie, a three time nominee in the 2008 Detroit Music Awards and fellow rock nominee Ty Stone will be performing at the Detroit Music Awards on Friday, April 25 at the Fillmore Theatre. They will be taking the stage with an all-star band made up of some of the city’s finest talent. Doop & Ty will be representing the Inside Outlaws singer-songwriter collective that night. Both artists are nominated for awards this year; Doop for Outstanding Country artist, songwriter and recording for his debut album “Blood River” and Ty Stone for “Outstanding Rock/Pop Songwriter.”
Click "read more" below for details, links and the concert poster.
Note: photo & poster credit: steve adams
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7th Annual MCMF Acoustic Showcase This Thursday
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 The 7th Annual MCMF Acoustic Showcase will take place this Thursday, April 10th at Memphis Smoke in Royal Oak. This year's event will be hosted by multi-DMA winner Jill Jack. Performers will include past and present winners and nominees as well as up and coming talent, including Rock The Vote's Michigan correspondent Nadir, guitar journeyman Billy Brandt, folk chanteuse Jo Serrapere, electro-acoustic punk freestyler Carolyn Striho, Americana classics The Wrenfields, a rare appearance by L.A. transplant Michael On Fire and much more. Music begins at 8:00 p.m. $5 donation at door.
Click "read more" below for a complete line-up and links.
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In the right-hand column of the home page you'll notice a box that says "MB Puzzler" which is a new feature that has been added for the exclusive purpose of giving away free CDs. Unscramble the band name and search our site for related articles or links to that band to find a hidden hyper-link that will take you to a puzzle page. Be the first to solve the puzzler and e-mail your answers to editor@michiganbands.com and you win a free CD or other swag by that artist. Good Luck!
Note: You must be a registered user of Michiganabnds.com and logged-in to see the MB Puzzler block.
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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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Back In LA LA LAnd With Ty Stone
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 Back in 2002, before he was signed to Top Dog, Ty Stone was just another struggling bandhead with a guitar, a dream and maybe enough attitude and a good enough voice to make that all work out for him. But the only way to find out for sure was to make some tough choices and risk everything he knew; he left his friends, left his band and left Michigan 2500 miles behind to find his fortune in Los Angeles - which, lucky for us, took him right back home to Michigan. Ty kept in touch all along the way and shared his LA stories with us in three installments: "How To Get A Gig In LA", "Mojave Marinola & The Desert Dream" and "How I Got A Decent F***'n Record Deal".
Now, six years later and much richer for the experience, Ty is back in LA to do some business and figured it would be a perfect time to reminisce and add another chapter to the story (thanks for remembering us Ty).
Click "read more" below for Ty's latest and links to all the rest.
Note: photo of Ty when he still enjoyed long-hair and relative anonymity.
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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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MB Welcomes Love Meets Lust
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 Back in the late seventies the integrated circuit found its way into the music biz and begat synthesizers which brought a "new wave" of music to flush out the tried and tired. At the same time, the long hair and blue-jeans of the 70's gave way to spiky clipper-cuts, shiny Rayon shirts, skinny ties, big-block "Frankie says..." t-shirts and day-glo pink, green and yellow stretchies of the 80's - which were perfect for rock fans who wanted to dance again. It was a weird time for music and fashion, eventually giving way to a backlash of Grunge and guitars in the 90's. But in pop culture everything old is new again and New Wave is no exception. Which brings me to our latest band link submission in the newly created Synth Pop / New Wave category; the music of Love Meets Lust perfectly recaptures the vibe of 1980's New Wave. If you dig the selections of XM's "Fred" station (44) you're going to dig Love Meets Lust. But better than satellite radio, you can go see Love Meets Lust live and local at The Bellmont in Hamtramck on Sunday, March 16th with Malbec from Los Angeles, CA.
Click "read more" below for the links to their MySpace pages and gig info.
Note: photo credit: Steve Cherry of Hamtramck Star
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Dendura Joins Unexpect and Shadowside at the Flight of the Valkyries Festival
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faith148 writes:
 Dendura (USA), the Egyptian-inspired, female-fronted progressive band with belly dancers, will join co-headliners Unexpect (Canada) and Shadowside (Brazil) for the second-annual Flight of the Valkyries festival at Station 4 in St. Paul, MN, on Saturday June 28. Flight of the Valkyries is the only festival in the USA to feature a complete lineup of female-fronted metal bands.
“I'm really pumped about the festival,” says Dendura drummer Justin Lee Dixon. “Exposing your sound and style to a whole new group of people is always exciting and, being that all the bands are female fronted, we are all happy to be a part of an event that is bringing together this ever-growing genre of music. But what I anticipate the most is sharing the stage with many talented musicians.”
Belly dancer Abida Blaze, who is known for her exotic, mysterious moves, will join Dendura onstage at the festival.
Click "read more" below.
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