Words & Rhythms of The D! - Music Hall - Sat April 26th

Words and Rhythms of the D

Saturday, April 26th 2008

WHO? Talented and Artistic Detroit area Students

WHAT? Words and Rhythms of the D

WHERE? McDonalds 14124 Woodward Highland Park, MI 48203

WHEN? Saturday, April 26th, 5-8 PM

WHY? "Words and Rhythms of the D" Was created as a spin-off from the History of the Word - a spoken word play based out of New York that promotes literacy through poetry.

It also has inspired a monthly series that takes place twice a month at the Jazz Cafe at Music Hall and at select McDonald's locations - two Saturdays a month , hosted by local rapper and poet, Fluent.

Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts Education Outreach Program along with McDonalds have created a program that challenges Detroit area students to express their thoughts creatively in an artistic forum where 45 of the best students works will be included in The Music Hall's first-ever anthology of poetry to be published by the sponsor, McDonalds.

Music Hall's Education Outreach Program hopes to inspire artistically inclined students a chance to compete and perform their literary creations in a setting outside of the school and recreation centers, with the ultimate goal of seeing their works published.

In a city that has a literacy rate of 47% and a high school graduation rate of 24.9%, Words and Rhythms of the D is a fun and competitive way to express the feelings through words, in a healthy and fun environment, one that fosters independent, creative activity that may serve as a spark for more students to read, write and retain hope for their academic future

Music Hall Education Outreach Program encourages all of our media friends- including editors and producers, to consider covering this fun and important literary event. If you seek a positive local story, one that focuses on improving the lowly literacy status quo- Words and Rhythms of the D will provide you with a hopeful and inspirational angle

For more and immediate information visit www.myspace.com/wordsandrhythmsofthed

Contact: Alana Wright at 313 887-8524 alanaw@musichall.org

SAFETY BANG - The Blind Pig - Sat April 26th

The Bang!
Saturday April 26th 2008 - 9PM

The Blind Pig
208 S. First St.
Ann Arbor, MI
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Bang for Cause - Planned Parenthood Benefit Show!

Terrible Twos - UFO Factory - Sat April 26th

Terrible Two's
Tuesday Apr 22nd 2008- 9PM

UFO FACTORY
1345 DIVISION
STE 101
NEW DETROIT
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TERRIBLE TWO'S//FOREST PEOPLE//the PIZAZZ

MCB-VIDEO - Marble Lounge Premiere at The DIA - March 2008

MCB was invited down to the grand opening of The Marble Lounge last month at The Detroit Institute of Arts and had a great time. Look for another great Thursday night party coming on March 22nd with Kronk Boxing and some mexican wrestling and punk bands.

http://www.dia.org/ for more information about Thursday's at The Marble Lounge @ The DIA

For the Love of Glass - Ariana Gallery - Fri April 25th

"For the Love of Glass"

Opening Reception Friday April 25th 2008 - 5-9pm

Show runs Friday April 25 - May 30 1008

Ariana Gallery

119 South Main Street

Royal Oak, MI 48067

Celebrating 21 years of exhibiting Fine Art Glass; focusing on a small select group of glass artists whose design will resonate for years. This years Glass Invitational features over 20 acclaimed artists including Tom Philabaum, Scott Bayless, Ed Branson, Brian Russell and Mark Vandenberg.

Reverend Horton Heat - Majestic Theatre - Sat April 26th

REVEREND HORTON HEAT
Saturday April 26th 2008 - 8pm

The Majestic Theatre
Woodward Ave
Detroit MI

Nashville Pussy * Backyard Tire Fire
$23/$25
All Ages Show

The Orbitsuns - FOUR GREEN FIELDS - Wed April 23rd

The Orbitsuns
Wednesday April 23rd 2008

FOUR GREEN FIELDS DRUNKEN BINGO!

Northwood Shopping Center

13 Mile / Woodward Ave.
ROYAL OAK, 48067

248-288-2088

John Sinclair @ Earthfest 2008 - Crofoot Pontiac

John Sinclair will be in Detroit recording The Detroit Album at various locations for the next week - check out http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/ for his podcast

The Veloras / The Meltdowns - The Berkley Front - Sat April 26th

The Meltdowns
Saturday April 26th 2008

The Berkley Front
3087 West 12 Mile Rd
Berkley, 48072

"Sure to be too much fun. We’ll be pounding out our rhythm and beat noise along with sultry special guests, West coast (of Michigan) garage gals, The Veloras!"

RED BULL AIR RACE is Coming to Detroit May 31st-June 1st 2008

MOTORCITYBLOG will have a few pairs of passes to giveaway for this killer event soon and will be on the ground talking to spectators and interviewing the Red Bull Pilots!

In the meantime check out the press release from todays announcement and go get your tickets online - this is a must see event for sure!

DETROIT ADDS A NEW TUNE TO ITS COLLECTION
The “Motor City” to host third stop of the Red Bull Air Race World Series on May 31 – June 1

April 21, 2008 – Detroit, MI will be the third stopon a ten city worldwide tour to make up the 2008 Red Bull Air Race World Series schedule.

On May 31 and June 1, twelve of the world’s best pilotsincluding three Americans will introduce the Midwest to a new dimension inmotorsport.

The pilots will pull up to 10 Gs with unprecedented skill andprecision in their high-performance race planes just feet above the DetroitRiver in a captivating race against the clock.The Detroit race will follow the first U.S. stop of 2008 in San Diego onMay 3 and 4.

In 2007, more than 50,000 San Diegans came to watch the RedBull Air Race and 4.5 million spectators attended 10 stops worldwide.

The2008 season opener took place in Abu Dhabi, UAE on April 10 and 11 whereBritish racer Paul Bonhomme brought a first-place finish back to GreatBritain.

Tickets to the Detroit race can be purchasedat http://www.redbullairrace.com/

CLEARED FOR TAKE-OFF…SMOKE ON!

“We thank you, Red Bull Air Race, for bringing the World Series right here to Detroit,” stated Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the official launch of the race today at the Detroit City Airport.

“We said this to the Super Bowl, to the NCAA, the best race that you will have in your entire series will be the race in the city of Detroit.” The race will be a ticketed event along downtown Detroit's five-mile long, spectacular riverfront. This Detroit landmark is being revitalized by public and private donations, including a significant investment by General Motors in its waterfront.

Each race will comprise two days of competition: Qualifying Day and RaceDay. The overall series points leader will be crowned Red Bull Air RaceWorld Champion after the season finale in Perth, Australia in November.

In the Red Bull Air Race, the world’s best pilots race at speeds reaching 260mph, enduring forces of up to 10 Gs as they navigate a low-level, aerialrace track made of air-filled pylons.In 2007, more than 400 million viewers watched the races on televisionworldwide.
In the United States, each race will be broadcast on Sunday evenings on Fox Sports Network starting in July.

The Detroit race will air on July 27 and again on October 5.

Johnny Mundane & The Sweetspots - Detroit Derby Girls

Want to catch one of MCB's favorites this week?

Then check out Johnny Mundane & The Sweetspots who play a few shows this weekend including the afterparty for The Detroit Derby Girls over at Bookies on Saturday.

Friday April 25th 2008
9:00P
Bullfrog’s
Redford, Michigan

Saturday April 26th 2008
9:00P
Detroit Derby Girls Afterparty - Bookies Tavern
Detroit, Michigan

Jann Klose - Modern Exchange - Mon April 21st

Jann Klose
Monday April 21st 2008
8:45 PM

The Modern Exchange
12219 Dix-Toledo Rd.
Southgate MI
734-284-2547

BU-CON - Detroit Industrial Projects - Saturday April 26th 6-9pm

Detroit Industrial Projects presents
The BU-CON Afterfutures Group Inc.

An art installation by

Pembroke Davis
Chipp Jansen
Jason LedbetterJeanette Ohm
Kendall Babl

Exhibition - April 26 to May 17, 2008

Opening Reception - April 26, 6-9pm

The BU-CON Afterfutures Group Inc. demonstrates preparedness for a global collapse of energy and communications infrastructure. Contingencies are examined using scale models, maps, graphs, and examples of BU-CON hardware. The subject of survival is approached with optimism. If organizations such as Halliburton and the Michigan Militia emphasize fear and isolation, BU-CON portrays a clear alternative, embracing the problem of continued human habitation beyond the troubled paradigm of the present.

Jeanette Strezinski
Director
strezins@gmail.com
248.250.0330

www.detroitindustrialprojects.wordpress.com

Russell Industrial Complex
1610 Clay Avenue
Second Building
Detroit, MI 48211

Hours: Saturday, 1-5pm or by appointment

The mission of painter and founder Jeanette Strezinski's Detroit Industrial Projects is to "provide artists with an environment where they can showcase their art in an uninhibited setting free of conventional constraints."

MCB-VIDEO - Lawrence Street Gallery Exposures Photography Show

MCB-VIDEO - MAI TIKI

Well - we are back from vacation and ready to get back to posting some of the great events going on around town again....(uh we were doing that mobile why come back at all? we could go to Colorado or Texas next!!) but 1st a little tribute video to the new addition to the MCB staff - Our new tiki god statue - thanks wayne!
visit http://www.maitiki.com/

THE SILVER PIANO Installation - UFO Factory New Detroit - Sat April 19th 7pm

THE SILVER PIANO
Saturday Apr 19, 2008 - 7PM

UFO FACTORY

1345 DIVISION

ste 101

NEW DETROIT, MI 48207

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THE SILVER PIANO - Electric Kalimba Art by Warren Defever, Hitoko Sakai, and Elliot Bergman April 19 Opening Reception 7-11pm


SPREAD THE WORD...

April 19 Opening Reception 7-11pm

April 26 Electric Kalimba performance

April 29 Closing Party

The Silver Piano is an interactive installation / exhibition with kalimbas not only hung on the gallery walls but also with an army of electric kalimbas plugged into amplifiers for all to play

Sometimes referred to as a thumb piano (or mbira, likembe, or sanza), the basic design concept for the kalimba has been around for thousands of years.Inspired by the work of African artists Francis Bebey , Kinshasa'sKonono No.1, as well as American composers Phil Cohran, Yusef Lateef,and Stanley Cowell, three local artists have been hand-craftingelectric kalimbas and have been organizing art exhibits, concerts andinstallations all over the world.Warren Defever, Hitoko Sakai, and Elliot Bergman began makingelectric kalimbas about two years ago.

As members of Detroit faves HIS NAME IS ALIVE and NOMO, these three artists started building their own musical instruments as needed, and soon inquisitive audiences and other musicians wanted to know more about the source of the exoticsounds. They found themselves making more kalimbas and selling themat concerts.

"It got out of hand really quickly," says War, "We've made about two hundred so far. We recently got a grant and did a residency in New York, it was pretty fancy. I'm excited to bring it home to Detroit."

Three events April 19th - 29th provide everything from thousand year old earth-toned electronic music to mountains of droning ringingfeedback.

THE SILVER PIANO is a performance-based piece and acelebration of electricity, traditional music and craft, and magicalvibrations!!!

ARTIST STATEMENT by Warn Defever :

I haven't completely abandoned commercial music or representationalpainting but instead have recently begun a motivational shift fromself-consciously creating objects that were at once explicitlypersonal and (lyrics, songs, photographs, portraits, paintings, etc)to proposing a new relationship between the critic, the collector, andthe casual consumer. The hand crafted kalimba resists persistentassociation and comparison to previous work. Minimalist silver andwooden boxes with small metal tines do not quite confer withsculptural analytic expectations. My previous work thrived in aspecial area I made my own, formed between alternative popular cultureand the imagined mainstream. This new work demonstrates interest inthe specific world of solid objects, objects not in the domain ofabstract insights and symbolic value. The electric kalimba islabor-intensive, an anonymous investment of craft, and possibly noteven recognized by the high-art tradition which celebrates qualitiessuch as illusion, religious feeling, dreaming, and artistic creation.

CHILD BITE RUINED MY LIFE by Jeff Nolan - Sat April 12th 2008

No camera no video right (nah - we have video from A2 that Jeff shot a few weeks back that we opted not to post at the time because he was planning this interview so look for it back here tomorrow)

3/12/08
CHILD BITE RUINED MY LIFE
by MCB contributor Jeff Nolan
http://www.therealjeffnolan.com/

CHILD BITE, BLASE SPLEE, HOTCHACHA, & TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS @ THE CROFOOT PIKE ROOM

After walking a few blocks through some sort of rain/slush hybrid and arguing with the guy at the door that I was in fact on the list to get in, I was in no mood for my digital video camera to take a shit on me. It did and that is why you, dear reader, are not watching this right now.

Blase Splee began the evening with their quirky set of catchy songs that bounce from genre to genre without really committing to one or another. All members were dressed as sharply and as tightly as they played, and even though that sounds awkward and a little creepy its fitting of their unique sound. The strangest thing I find about Blase Splee is that I have inadvertently been hanging out with and listening to these guys for a year or two at their neighbor's house in Royal Oak without really realizing that they had a band. Even better is that they really know how to play.Following Blase Splee was an all girl band named Hotchacha. They vaguely mentioned being from Cleveland or Cincinnati or some such Ohio city, but were just as incoherent when I inquired with the guitarist.

They had a very playful and energetic stage presence with just a tinge of bittersweet angst. How can you not love someone who screams for 3 minutes about the guy who dumped her while chugging a High Life and bouncing around like a wounded animal?The next set was performed by a band who failed to mention their name, but it was just as well as I wouldn't have wanted to remember it after listening to 30 minutes of their shrill and obnoxious tunes. Plus the guitarist was too cool to talk with someone from MCB (evidently he works for another website which shall not be named).Child Bite. Holy Hell, these guys have got it going on. I first saw them a few weeks back when they opened up for Man Man at the Blind Pig.

That show did not nearly do them justice after seeing them at the Pike Room. They started out by raffling off an I-Pod (who does that?) giving out stickers by trading away personal belongings and introducing a bizarre cast of characters who wandered about the room. The characters included a girl in a gold sequin dress with bananas on her head, an asian guy with some sort of weird hairy skull-cap and snakes for arms, and a big fabric rectangle covered in eyeballs who could barely walk. It was a "mythological characters meets Fruit of the Loom" they said.The set was equally unusual and fun.

They featured at times up to 8 or 9 band members who all knew just when their parts were to stop going crazy and play. Constant antics onstage ranged all over the board from dancing/drumming cows throwing streamers at the audience, the guitarist quitting the band ("fuck you guys I quit") to distribute tambourines to everyone who would take one, popping a giant balloon, getting the entire crowd to sit on the floor and chant with the band, to inviting everyone in the crowd to jump onto the stage and go nuts with them (they did).
Wow. If I were you I would be pissed that my camera wasn't working.

CONFAB - CAID - Mon April 21st 2008

CONFAB

Forum to showcase live presentations and creative work by local artistic talents at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit

Monday April 21st 2008


Award-winning architectural firm Rossetti, in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID) is hosting its first annual CONFAB event, a showcase of live presentations and discussions by local designers, artists, musicians, writers and all creative minds, on Monday, April 21, 2008 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Admission to the event is free to the public as well as to those wishing to showcase their work.

Based on a format devised by Klein Dytham and Pecha Kucha in 2003, CONFAB is a place for creative individuals to meet, network, and show their work in a public forum. Each presenter (artist, architect, musician/band, poet, performer or other creatives) is allowed 6 minutes and 40 seconds of time before the next presenter. Anything goes. Presenters may show images of work or they can actually set up a full band or performance. Digital projectors, laptops, sound engineering, DVD players and other technical tools will be provided by CAID.

“The Detroit area has an incredible pool of creative individuals whose work often doesn’t get nearly enough exposure,” said Kelly Deines, IIDA, director of interior design and of the hospitality practice in Rossetti’s Detroit office. “We wanted a forum for local creatives to meet, network, and show their work in public, for their own professional growth, as well as to enhance the cultural experience and landscape for metro Detroiters.”

The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit is located 5141 Rosa Parks Blvd., Detroit. For more information or to register as a presenter contact Kelly Deines at Rossetti, (248) 262-8300.


Rossetti is a multi award-winning international architectural firm, with offices in Detroit, Denver, Los Angeles, Newport Beach and Shanghai. For almost 40 years Rossetti has been recognized as a world-class organization with a visionary perspective for the built environment. The firm’s resume includes high profile worldwide projects such as Olympic facilities in both Shanghai and Beijing China; Ford Field Stadium in Detroit, MI; and the Gates Redevelopment Project in Denver, CO. The firm’s scope of services provided has grown to include completely integrated multi-disciplinary design, through architecture, strategic planning, interior design and graphics. For more information, visit
www.rossetti.com.

RECORD STORE DAY - Your Local Record Store (like RECORD TIME ROSEVILLE) - Sat April 19th

Totally awesome National Holiday like Record Store Day in effect this saturday

Visit your local record store for great deals on all your favs

Visit MCB's favorite record store Record Time Roseville for all kinds of freebies and giveaways and massive discounts and free music concerts by Grayling and Monkey Jacket (yeah!)

Reverend Robert Sexton's All Star Blues Review - CD RELEASE - DeSimones Club House Toledo OH - Sat April 19th

Reverend Robert Sexton's All Star Blues Review
CD RELEASE SHOW
Saturday April 19th 2008

DeSimones Club House
1633 W. Laskey Rd.
Toledo OH