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| Who's Got A Golden God? Ain't Tellin. |
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 One of the highlights we caught at the Metro Music Expo was the performance of one of the Fox Rocks 2008 finalists, Garden City's AYNTELLYN (pronouced Ain't Tellin' - ed: do you know how hard it is to find a band on the internet when they get fancy with the spelling?). Of particular interest were the lead vocals as delivered by Dino Johnson. Johnson has been blessed with the golden locks and a golden baritone that screams CLASSIC ROCK! - which should make them a shoe-in for the grand prize - an opening slot for Lynard Skynard at DTE on September 21st, 2008. In fact, Johnson's voice is such a draw that even when he sang karaoke at the DJ's Pro Audio booth he drew a sizable crowd.
Click "read more" below for links to the band, newspaper articles about the band and links to the Fox 2 contest.
Note: UPDATE: ****Ayntellyn WINS!!!**** the Fox Rocks 2008 Battle Of The Bands and will go on to open for Lynard Skynard!
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| National Ghost's Ice Cream Head Added To MB Videos |
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 Spent a couple of days at the Metro Music Expo this weekend and took in a bunch of live performances, including Graham Strachan's latest project National Ghost which performed on the Lounge Stage this past Sunday afternoon. They played a bunch of selections off their forthcoming debut which is slated for release at Jacoby's on November 1st - so mark your calendars. One particular song they performed, a little ska ditty called "Ice Cream Head", is a bona fide ear worm that has infected our household ever since I recorded it on video (pls forgive the camera work). Click the pic for the vid or click "read more" below for all the pertinent links.
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| Femme Metal Fest Scheduled for Fenton, Sat. Oct 4th |
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 Female fronted rock/metal bands are taking the forefront in music and making their mark in the industry. We, here in Michigan are fortunate to have some of the hottest up and coming female fronted bands.
I wanted to let you know about a special event happening on Saturday, October 4th at MoDoggies in Fenton, Michigan. Reckless Entertainment is proud to present the all female fronted Femme Metal Fest w/ Mound Round Engine, The Beauty Fire with Publik Parking and Dendura co-headlining. This is the only festival dedicated to women singers in Michigan. Dendura has recently signed with Killzone Records, has an album coming out w/ Grammy Producer Neil Kernon and has done a theme song with Comedy Central (Monsters Ballz) and was recently in Metal Hammer. Publik Parking recently signed with Revolution Music Records, is #1 on myspace for Michigan metal, and is one of the most respected hard rock/metal outfits in Flint, MI. The amazing, The Beauty Fire is also from Flint and Clarkston, Michigan and Mound Road Engine is a high profile band from Detroit, Michigan.
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| First Annual Metro Music Expo Launches |
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 Musicians and music lovers of all ages and skill levels will not want to miss the first annual Metro Music Expo, September 12-14 at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi, MI. The MME is a weekend jam packed with music, education, networking and fun! The Metro Music Expo will feature continuous live music on two stages, a sprawling retail area encompassing records, wearables and collectibles and educational presentations which will present expert discussions on current and perennial hot topics in the music industry, audio and stage lighting clinics.
Click "read more" below for the official press release, details and links.
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| Cobalt Party Revolution lands on Soundtrack! |
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cashtill writes  The Cobalt Party Revolution track, Who Wants to Party has landed on the soundtrack for the film, Ping Pong Playa, starring Jimmy Tsai and Roger Fan and directed by Jessica Yu. The song is featured predominantly in the movie as well as in the trailer (see it here, CPR comes in at :46 sec). The film hit select markets on September 5th with a nationwide release planned shortly thereafter; Already the film has garnered huge praise. The soundtrack will be released via Lakeshore Records on Sept. 30th. (pre-orders now available via amazon.com) Lakeshore Records have released several successful soundtracks such as Napoleon Dynamite, The Last Kiss (in which the CPR track "stand around (don't just) appeared in the trailer) and Superbad).
Click "read more" below.
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| Magic Stick To Raise Money For Wounded Soldiers |
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 The Magic Stick will hold a benefit for wounded Afghanistan & Iraq war veterans on Thursday, September 11th featuring performances from QUESTIONS * FRUSTRATIONS * THE HIGH STRUNG * THE DIRECTIONS * THE KOFFIN KATS * ELECTRIC LIONS * DUENDE * FRIENDS OF DENNIS WILSON * PINKEYE * SIKSIK NATION * STARE INTO THE SUN * MICK BASSETT AND THE MARTHAS * 7PM * $5 SUGGESTED DONATION AT THE DOOR * AA. Proceeds will benefit Soldier's Angels, (soldiersangels.com) a volunteer-led nonprofit organization dedicated to providing aid and comfort to US Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force and Coast Guard service men, women and families.
Click "read more" below for a better look at the poster and links.
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Posted by mitch on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 @ 18:46:27 EDT (2808 reads)
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 Hey bandheads, didn't think you'd ever hear from me again, eh? What's that? You don't care? Tsk, tsk, you should get so much attention. Well, I felt the whim to submit some new MBlurbs for your perusal. Oh, feel free to submit your own - that offer has only been available since 2001 so if you haven't yet contributed, you can take that as a hint.
In this edition of MBlurbs we'll be covering Liz Larin's foray into avante garde with New Music Detroit, Kitty Donohoe's attempt to levitate The Pentagon with her 9/11 music, Nadir's dose of tear gas courtesy of the Republican National Convention, National Ghost's latest attempt to acheive validation at the MME, Chris McCall's extra-musical "Contact" in Ypsi and finally, Radar Pilot's national health care policy - since nobody else seems to have one that works. Click "read more" below for the 411. - Mitch
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 While Repugnicon presidential candidate John McCain sings "bomb, bomb, bomb......bomb, bomb, IRAN" to salivating American defense contractors and fear-mongered voters who still see Islamic terrorists around every corner, I thought we'd take the high road here and introduce you to an actual Iranian named Farzad Ajory who shares the American affinity for shredding metal and creating websites only a music geek would love. According to Farzad's biography, he studied in Tehran under the tutelage of Farhang Mostagh for three years (which apparently means something in Tehran) and developed further on his own until his music was "liberated" by western digital music technology. Since then he's been recording instrumentals based on improvisation that are expressed in "space rock", prog and metal which you can find on his official website. Farzad may or may not have an actual Michigan music connection, but if we told you we'd have to kill you. So let it suffice to say that you can find Farzad Ajory in the Original Artists / Instrumentalists category of our Band Links section.
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