Melissa Behring & Jake Tobias with the Goo Goo Dolls backstage at DTE Energy Theater in Clarkston, MI.
The Goo Goo Dolls
July 22nd, 2010
Fly in July, Celebrate Sun, Summer and Fun!
July 15th, 2010For Immediate Release
July 15, 2010
“Fly in July Midsummer Blow Out”
7 Million Jigawatts Celebrates Sun, Summer and Fun!
Hillman, MI – “Fly in July Midsummer Blow Out!” 7 Million Jigawatts celebrates sun, summer and fun! Detroit’s favorite Rock n Soul Party Band, 7 Million Jigawatts returns to Northern Michigan for another summer concert. After their recently successful performance at the 107.7 The Bay Summer Concert Series, 7 Million Jigawatts fans have been calling non-stop requesting the group return to their Northern Michigan roots. 7MJ sought another opportunity to perform in their hometown. Hi-Way Bar proprietor, Jim Stoddard, offered the band use of the parking lot behind his club in downtown Hillman to hold their All Ages, Free Concert.
Two 7 Million Jigawatts members grew up in Alpena, Melissa Behring & Nathan Montgomery are very excited to reunite with their friends and families for this special evening of music. Performing hits off their recent CD, ‘Taking Flight’ featuring the single, “(I’ve Got You) Covered” from the 2010 Mustang advertising campaign and “Angel (Dressed to Kill)” the recent 107.7 fm favorite, this evening is sure to be one that you do not want to miss. 7 Million Jigawatts performance offers up an enticing mix of rock and soul that tantalizes your auditory senses that can be enjoyed by fans of all ages.
Come be part of this unique event that will stimulate your senses and get your feet tapping. The event, Fly in July Midsummer Blow Out, runs from 7:30-9 pm on Saturday 7/31/2010, is open to all ages and free to the public. The Hi-Way Bar is located at 231 State Street in downtown Hillman.
For more information on 7 Million Jigawatts visit: www.7millionjigawatts.com
Record Stores in Michigan
July 1st, 2010Here’s a handy list of local record stores in Michigan provided by our friends in Dearborn at Stormy Records. Remember, there’s nothing quite like going into a store and browsing through the artwork on the “album covers” and imagining the sounds. I realize this may be a bit old school. However, I was just thinking about how much I would like to go to the local record shop today to find a nice kids recording for my cousin’s new baby. (I’m planning to send her a copy of my friends, the Mydol’s new CD “Family Rules” and another one by They Might Be Giants.)
Go out to your local record store and buy a new CD! Enjoy this beautiful day and stimulate yourself with some new music.
stormy records
13210 michigan ave
dearborn, mi 48126
313-581-9322
ya digg records
1600 clay
suite 210
detroit, mi 48211
313-454-1457
car city
21918 Harper Ave
St Clair Shores, MI 48080
586-775-4770
record graveyard
2926 Caniff Street
Hamtramck, MI 48212-3017 313-870-9647
record collector
327 w 9 mile rd
ferndale, mi
248-548-9888
damon’s
20124 Plymouth Road
Detroit, MI 48228-1238
(313) 838-3500
slick disc
1625 West Road,
Trenton, MI 48183
734.692.1881
hello records
1459 Bagley St
Detroit, MI 48216
(313) 300-5654
peoples records
3161 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201-2723
(313) 831-0864
street corner
26020 Greenfield
Oak Park, MI
48237
(248) 967-0777
book beat
26010 Greenfield Rd
Oak Park, MI 48237
(248) 968-1190
cousins vinyl
13101 Eckles Road
Plymouth, MI 48170-4245
(734) 578-3479
dearborn music
22000 michigan ave
dearborn, mi 48124
313-561-1000
rock of ages
31015 Ford Rd
Garden City, MI 48135
(734) 522-4590
record time 27360 GRATIOT AVE.
ROSEVILLE, MI 48066
PHONE: (586)775-1550
melodies & memories
23013 South Gratiot Avenue
Eastpointe, MI 48021-1627 (586) 774-8480
detroit threads
10238 Jos. Campau
Hamtramck,
MI 48212
313.872.1777
flipside
41 East Fourteen Mile Road
Clawson, MI 48017
248-585-4090
pearl’s music
8100 Kercheval
Detroit , MI 48214
Phone: 313-921-1010
shantinique
8933 HARPER AVENUE
DETROIT , MI 48213
Phone: 313-923-3040
dance zone
23013 gratiot ave.
eastpointe , MI 48205 Phone: 15862948628
solo
30118 WOODWARD
ROYAL OAK , MI 48073
Phone: 248-549-0581
rock-a-billy’s
8411 Hall Rd
Utica , MI 48317-5532
Phone: (586) 731-0188
ann arbor shops
wazoo
336 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2868
(734) 761-8686
encore
417 east liberty
ann arbor, mi 48104
734-662-6776
underground sounds
255 East Liberty Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2119 (734) 327-9239
pjs
617 Packard St Ste B
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 663-3441
puffer reds
113 W Michigan Ave
Ypsilanti , MI 48197
Phone: 734-485-7050
east lansing
flat black and circular
541 E Grand River
East Lansing , MI 48823 Phone: 517-351-0838
record lounge
503 E. Grand River Ave
EAST LANSING , MI 48823
Phone: 517-337-1221
schuler books and music
2820 Towne Center Blvd.
lansing , MI 48906 Phone: 517-316-7495
other cities and areas
record rack
1212 Ludington St
Escanaba , MI 49829
Phone: 906-786-4005
wyatt earp
5204 corunna road
Flint , MI 48532
Phone: 810-733-1031
corner record shop
3562 chicago drive
grandville , MI 49418
Phone: 16165316578
full circle
212 College Avenue
Holland , MI 49423
616-392-9899
discs and tapes unlimited
204 West Grand River STE 140
Howell , MI 48844
Phone: 5175459154
green light music
4717 W. KL Ave.
Kalamazoo , MI 49006
Phone: 269-372-8560
corner record shop
1710 West Main Ste. E
Kalamazoo , MI , Phone: (269)381-0218
capeside
7576 Gratiot
Saginaw , MI 48638
Phone: 989-326-1281
records and tapes galore
1303 Court St.
Saginaw , MI 48602 Phone: 989 7931777
hot tracks
14500 24 Mile Rd
SHELBY TWP , MI 48315
Phone: 586-566-8542
sound it out
418 S. Union St.
Traverse City , MI 49684
Phone: 231-922-1599
A Few Good Eggs Best Book Award Nomination
June 29th, 2010Vote for A Few Good Eggs, to win the Team RESOLVE™ Choice Award Best Book Award
By being a part of the Night of Hope, your vote can help determine this year’s Team RESOLVE Choice Award for Best Blog and Best Book. RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association had over 300 nominations for the Best Book Award. The written word provides powerful support for those dealing with infertility. Blogs and books give advice, helpful tips, sometimes humor, and most of all hope.
Following is an excerpt from “A Few Good Eggs”: The Real Glass Ceiling
“Our society makes us believe women can have it all. We deserve it all. We are entitled to it all. Women rarely attended college a century ago. Fifty years ago, few worked outside the home. We’ve had the vote for less than half this country’s history. Today there are female CEOs, astronauts, and senators. We have proven we can work as hard, nit not harder, than the guys. This we have earned, no one can take that away.
However, we not only think we can have it all, but also feel we should have it all ― that we are entitled to everything because we’ve worked so hard (or have always gotten what we’ve wanted). This is fine if you are talking about a college degree, a better paying job, or a flashy new car. The big shocker for some of us (and we include ourselves in this category) is that we never expected we might not be entitled to birth a baby ― because of our other time-wasting choices (but relevant at the time) we made along the way. But this is the truth. Some of us might not be able to birth a baby.”
About the Authors:
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Brandon Calhoon
June 7th, 2010“The soul of rock n roll. If I can’t feel it, I can’t hear it!”, Brandon Calhoon
Like a modern-day musical superhero, Brandon Calhoon rocks out of Detroit with fists pumping and his guitar wailing. His popularity as a live entertainer has soared since his initial exposure to American television audiences on the Rockstar: INXS show. With the 2009 EP release, “Detroit City”, Brandon explored the culmination of themes from his travels on the road back to Detroit from the West Coast. Since then, he has been hard at work on a new collection of songs. Slated for release in the fall of 2010, his self-titled album, “Calhoon”, contains cleverly crafted Southern rock and blues influenced melodies that any listener can sing along to. Calhoon takes you from Michigan to the Muddy Water Delta and beyond with his new songs.
During the 2010 Memorial Weekend concert series kick off at DTE Energy Music Theatre, Brandon graced the stage with the one and only Eddie Money. During the encore, they performed a rousing rendition of “Detroit City”. Lyrically, Calhoon offers every twisted devilish temptation that a listener would expect from a tune titled after a city known for creating some of the most influential music in history. For the debut release, Brandon partnered with the Blunk Brothers – Chris Plum & Jeff Hupp (Brendan Benson, The Atomic Numbers). Later in 2009, Calhoon signed a deal with North Star Media who also licensed “Detroit City” for use on FX’s TV show ‘Justified’ staring Timothy Olyphant.
For the upcoming 2010 release, Calhoon is recording at the renowned Rustbelt Studios (Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker). Brandon Calhoon says that he has finally found his sound. When speaking about the new record, Calhoon says, “This is what I am about. I had to dive into a lot of styles in order to figure out what I’m supposed to be. I had to find out what my voice is best at.” You could say Brandon Calhoon is the modern day son of the Bob Seger and the Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Brandon Calhoon is now booking for the 2010-2011 touring season. For more information visit http://www.brandoncalhoon.com
New Collection of Works by Graceann Warn
May 20th, 2010With great pleasure, I get to provide a sneak peek into the new collection of works that Graceann Warn will debut this weekend in Ferndale. I am absolutely in love with this piece entitled, Paradiso. Created with encaustic and oil on wood panels.
Paradiso by Graceann Warn
See more of her works at Next Step Studios 530 Hilton, Ferndale, MI. Call 248.414.7050 for an appointment.
Facing Your Fears: Life After War
May 11th, 2010Tim Caldwell Helps Create a Community for Veterans
Tim Caldwell is a Vietnam Veteran, a father, an author, a Professor of Music at Central Michigan University for over 35 years. He is a noted critic of the government’s treatment of troops returning from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other wars. Caldwell has appeared on radio stations throughout the country discussing ways in which these soldiers can reacclimate themselves back into their former lives. He has created a community for veterans who have kept all that they have experienced and seen locked inside themselves. He wants to help them to find the keys to opening up and living their lives again.
In 1969, Caldwell was looking forward to his bright future and new career in a teaching position at the University of Dubuque (Iowa). He had not foreseen war in his future plans. However as fate would have it, his exemption papers were never sent to the government. Caldwell was forced to give up the teaching position and was then drafted and sent to Vietnam. He served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1972 where his life would be forever changed. In the Army, he was trained to be a chaplain’s assistant. In 1970, he was sent to Vietnam, the tour of duty that inspired the creation of his novel, “The Chaplain’s Assistant: God, Country, and Vietnam.” This fictionalized memoir is based on true occurrences and events that happened during Caldwell’s time spent in Vietnam, “Almost everything that happens in the book happened – just not necessarily to me.” In 2009 his book received the honor of being a finalist in the Military Fiction category of the Ellen Reid National Indie Excellence Book Awards. This summer Caldwell will be speaking to the Wounded Warriors Project (WWP) at the Chicago Air & Water show that takes place in August. The WWP provides programs and services to severely injured service members during the time between active duty and transition to civilian life.
On his website http://www.thechaplainsassistant.com, he has created an online forum under the community section where veterans can come to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly about their experiences as a soldier. Friends and families of soldiers, whether they were in Korea or Afghanistan, or any of the wars in between are welcome to participate in the community. He wants to provide a safe place and to help raise awareness that post traumatic stress disorder is a serious and real disease.
For more info visit http://www.thechaplainsassistant.com. He is also available to speak at community and veteran functions, Memorial Day and 4th of July cause-related events, and is available for interviews as well. Please contact Natalie@dreamtownmedia.com or Melissa@dreamtownmedia.com for further information.
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May 11th, 2010Graceann Warn Debut’s New Body of Work
May 7th, 2010“Spring Happening”, Kaiser Suidan’s annual group artist event at Next Step Studios will preview a new body of work by Graceann Warn. Recently her paintings have taken on a new exuberance in color and gesture following a long period of studio work including the completion of a large commissioned painting for Yale-New Haven Hospitals. The “Spring Happening” event will also include the official opening of Next Step’s new sculpture garden featuring ceramic artists Mark Chatterly and Susan Beiner’s work. There will be live music and drinks to compliment this fantastic art event.
A little background on Graceann Warn: she grew up in a small town in New Jersey, where the thought of making a living as an artist had never crossed her mind. She had intended on making a career as a Landscape Architect receiving her degree in that field from U of M in Ann Arbor. After a chance encounter and a rather intense emotional response to viewing a Mark Rothko art exhibit she realized her true calling and decided to become an artist. She merged beautifully with the Ann Arbor artist’s culture and has been one of the lucky ones to make a living solely off of her art. Currently her artistic focus has been on using bright colors in her work such as vibrant reds and explosive oranges.
This year Graceann has been extremely busy with gallery shows scheduled all over the country including Lenox, Massachusetts, Wellfleet Massachusetts, Lincoln, Nebraska, and the critically acclaimed SOFA Chicago art gala at Navy Pier. She will be ending the year with a big solo exhibit starting on November 13th at the River Gallery in Chelsea, MI. The solo exhibit will remain up until January of 2011.
Don’t miss out on “Spring Happenings,” at Next Step Studios in Ferndale located at 530 Hilton between 8 and 9 mile. The event is Free and begins at 6pm and goes till midnight. For more information on Next Step Studios call 248.414.7050 or visit http://www.nextstepstudio.com. Graceann will be available for interviews or for more information please contact Natalie@dreamtownmedia.com or Melissa@dreamtownmedia.com .