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| Sunday, February 17, 2008 | | · | Tickets Now Available for Just Let Me Breathe Benefit | | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 | | · | Emmanuel Young on WDET w/Howard Glazer, New Release | | Monday, January 28, 2008 | | · | MBnews for January 28, 2008 | | Saturday, January 26, 2008 | | · | Music Review: Blood River by Doop & The Inside Outlaws | | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 | | · | Static Presents: the Polka Floyd show CD Release Party | | Friday, January 18, 2008 | | · | MB Welcomes Mark Farner | | Sunday, December 16, 2007 | | · | MB Welcomes Gifthorse | | Saturday, December 15, 2007 | | · | Happy Christmas (War Is Over) ? | | · | MB Welcomes Wake Of Destruction | | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 | | · | Music Review: Making Me Wonder by Lime Regal |
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Tickets Now Available for Just Let Me Breathe Benefit
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 Tickets are now available for the Rock CF Foundation's "Just Let Me Breathe" benefit to fight Cystic Fibrosis which will take place at the Royal Oak Music Theatre on Saturday, March 15th. This is the fifth consecutive year of the popular benefit organized by Hellen drummer Emily Schaller who suffers from the lung disease and now spreads the word via the Rock CF foundation. Performances by Hellen, South Normal (reunion show), Whitey Morgan, Vin E of Sponge, Rose Harting, and Bull Halsey. Tickets are $20 at the door, or $18 from the Royal Oak Music Theatre website. Official sponsors include the LetsRockCF.org, Spin Magazine, Pure Detroit, Reverend Guitars and The Royal Oak Music Theatre.
Click "read more" below for links.
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Emmanuel Young on WDET w/Howard Glazer, New Release
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 My Milford homie Howard Glazer appeared with legendary Detroit Bluesman Emmanuel Young on WDET's daytime program "Detroit Today" yesterday (Tuesday, February 12th). Young hosted the blues night at Cooley's Lounge on Detroit's far east side from 1978 until 2005and played with such legends as John Lee Hooker, Martha Reeves, Jimmy Reed and Albert King just to name a few. Glazer is currently touring with Young in support of his latest release, "Emanuel Young: Live In Detroit", recorded by Glazer at The Halligan Bar. The CD release party is scheduled for this Saturday, February 16th at The Butcher's Inn at Eastern Market. - Mitch
Click "read more" below for links to the WDET on-air performance, info on the CD Release and Howard Glazer's sites.
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MBnews for January 28, 2008
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 The blurb-bucket is overflowing so I finally had to buckle down and get some news out there. Leading this month, unfortunately, is the death of Bulletproof Moxie guitarist Chad Goklani which we are really sad to hear about. Our thoughts go out to his band mates, friends and family in their time of sorrow. Man, I just saw Bulletproof Moxie a few months back at Small's with Radar Pilot. They had a tight, energetic set as I recall (I'm listening to the two-song disc I picked up at the show as I type). You just never know when something like this is going to happen.
Anyway, we've also got news about National Ghost, Cherri & The Violators, the latest adventures of Chris & The Bogdon Box, Luke Sayers, a South Normal reunion, Mumble and Liz Larin. - Mitch
Click "read more" below. 
Note: *If you'd like your band to be considered for Mblurbs, include editor@michiganbands.com in your e-mail list.
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Music Review: Blood River by Doop & The Inside Outlaws
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 Back in 2005, Don "Doop" Duprie and Ty Stone founded the first incarnation of The Inside Outlaws, 'a nationwide group of singer/songwriters dedicated to developing new talent through education and networking.' That network led to Stone's relationship with Kid Rock and eventually to led to his being signed to Top Dog /Atlantic Records in 2006.
Now Doop has released the result of his collaborations with Stone and the rest of the Inside Outlaws on their 2007 debut, "Blood River". The disc contains ten songs that vary from down-home country ballads to gritty Detroit rock & roll.
Click "read more" for Mitch's review, links and sound samples.
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Static Presents: the Polka Floyd show CD Release Party
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 Ever wonder what the music of Pink Floyd would sound like polka style? Well find out for yourself when Toledo’s own POLKA FLOYD, “Pink Floyd done Polka style” tribute band celebrates their CD release party on Saturday, February 9 at the New Dodge Lounge in Hamtramck.
The POLKA FLOYD show pay tribute to Pink Floyd in their own way and features classic material from throughout the bands history, from early Syd Barrett period to the epic “The Wall.” They have also performed the “Dark Side of the Moon” album in its entirety. The bands debut CD “the Polka Floyd show” features 7 songs including “See Emily Play,” Pink Floyd’s second single.
Click "read more" below for links and to find out how Polka Floyd came to be.
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 Well, this is a very special day indeed. Michiganbands.com would like to give a extra-special welcome to our latest band links submission, Mark Farner (original artists/modern classic rock). For those of you who may be too young to remember or not quite versed in the annals of classic rock history, Mark Farner was the lead singer/songwriter and guitarist for a Grand Funk Railroad - one of the bands who helped put Michigan on the map with songs like "I'm Your Captain", "American Band", "Foot Stompin' Music" and turned classic covers into mega-hits like "Some Kind Of Wonderful" & "The Loco-Motion". Mark went on to write more hits on his own and created The Mark Farner Group which is still pumping out great music and touring to this day. I caught Mark Farner's performance at Mt. Clemen's Stars & Stripes festival last June and, just like Iggy, you'd never know that thirty years had passed - amazing performance! In 2006, Mark Farner - The Rock Patriot released "For The People", the first full-length record he'd released in more than a decade and proof that he's just as fresh and topical as ever. - Mitch
Click "read more" below for a link to the Official Mark Farner website.
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 The saying goes, "never look a gift horse in the mouth". It's supposed to be bad form, but in this case you're going to find a whole lot more than a good set of teeth. Gifthorse is an odd band to come out of Detroit amidst a sea of hip-hop hucksters and garage rock wanna-bees, but imagine a careful blend of CSN, The Eagles, Bare Naked Ladies, Stone Temple Pilots and a dose of The Grateful Dead thrown in for good measure. That's a holiday recipe that will keep your innards warm while the cold wind blows down the Cass Corridor. Definitely not a sound you'd expect to spring from the urban decay of po'town, but then considering how many people have already left Detroit, nobody should be surprised it produced at least one "Tumbleweed" - which is the title of their debut album. There's some real good stuff here. - Mitch
Click "read more" below for the link.
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Happy Christmas (War Is Over) ?
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 Graham Strachan, former lead singer of Robb Roy and current lead singer of National Ghost, just reminded us via e-mail that war is over / if you want it . No, he's not referring to the apathy of American citizens when it comes to demanding accountability from their so-called leaders, he's referring to a cover version of Happy Christmas by John Lennon & Yoko Ono he recorded with Robb Roy & Friends a back in 2002 to benefit childhood cancer research. The CD is no longer available, but you can still hear this rare recording on Graham's website. Chris McCall lends her lovely voice to this track as well as Graham's three daughters. There's other voices mixed in there too; in fact, if you listen very carefully you can hear yours truly warbling his way all the way through. - Mitch
Click "read more" below for links to the song and the story behind the song.
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MB Welcomes Wake Of Destruction
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 I just finished watching the documentary No End In Sight about the disastrous post-invasion fiasco in Iraq that we're suffering to this day. Invading a country is easy, but occupying it turns out to be a tricky bitch. Anyway, when my attention finally shifted back to MB, I found it fitting that the next band we were to welcome was WAKE OF DESTRUCTION, a heavy-metal band out of Lapeer, Mi. There are other disturbing coincidences: both the re-construction of Iraq and Wake Of Destruction began in 2004 but didn't really get off the ground until 2007 (wait, did the re-construction of Iraq ever get off the ground?); both the Iraq War and WOD were conceived in a basement - one at The Pentagon and the other at guitarist Scott Warnke' house; Iraqis shed red on a daily basis and WOD played their first gig at The Red Shed in Caro, MI. Do we really need any more proof that their time has come? - Mitch
Click "read more" below for a link and a poster to their New Year's gig at The Machine Shop.
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Music Review: Making Me Wonder by Lime Regal
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 Though I never received the disc I was told to expect from Lime Regal, I was so anxious to get my ears on it I ponied up the cash and downloaded it from iTunes. Now that the Lansing-incubated, Detroit-forged band is receiving attention from all quarters, they probably don't need the support of little old MB. But unpopularity has never stopped me from sharing my opinions about the local music I really dig. Lime Regal's six-song ep "Making Me Wonder" is definitely now on that list.
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