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I'll be releasing a new CD titled You Can't Have It on May 8th, 2008. It is the follow up to "American Man" which is still available at Wal*Mart & WalMart.com. You Can't Have It includes 13 new songs and it is a slight departure from American Man. The record still holds strong to my country & southern rock roots but is more guitar heavy and adds a dose of blues and Detroit Soul thrown in for good measure. Release date is set for May 27th on my label, MRC Records Nashville.
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.” 
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. 
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.
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 
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.
