this week from the Update

Greetings Fellow Music Lovers

Man what a great summer its been. I have seen Phish 6 times and have two on deck. Went to Rothbury (coordinated the Yellow Balloon Group for the second year in a row) and saw String Cheese Incident reunite for a full show, plus a special sound check show and have seen scads of good local venue music. But I must ask, where is the summer heat. Hmm, someone forgot to tell the weather gods, it is the end of July.

There is more in store for this week and the weeks to come. Scads of local shows and even a few festivals. You know how I roll here, break it down real slow . . .

Tomorrow

Inkface and the Digital Dream The Blind Pig

Who Hit John? The Circus (Ann Arbor)

Earl Klugh Trio Chene Park

Times New Viking/ Magic Stick

Lowers

Robin Horlock Sean O'Callaghan's (Plymouth)

Neko Case/Jason Lytle Crofoot

Title Fight/Foundation/ Static Age (Romeo)

Mothers of Mercy

Nadir Memphis Smoke

Rick Charming Pub 13 (Ypsilanti)

Thursday

Grievous Angel The Ark Right On Billy, Nolan and Roscoe!!!!!

Greg Laswell/Elizabeth Blind Pig

and The Catapult

Ragbirds 10K Music Festival Detroit Lakes, MN Congrats to our dear local friends who made it to

this wonderful National Festival

Macpodz 10K Music Festival Detroit Lakes, MN Congrats to our dear local friends who ALSO made

it to this wonderful National Festival. See Birds and Podz perseverance pays!!!!

Covert Operations The Circus

Smokey Robinson DTE

Gucci Mane Chene Park

Robin Horlock The Whitney

SSM The Belmont (Hamtramck)

Friday

Sonny Landreth The Ark

Tinsley Ellis Callahan's

Brando and Friends Dick O'Dow's All things Jerry Garcia Band, Allmans, Floyd, Stones and Dylan

Cheap Trick/Def Leppard/ DTE

Poison

Bobby Brown Chene Park

The Dead Weather/ Fillmore

Screaming Females

Rick Ross Phoenix Center Pontiac

Obits Disappears The Pike Room

Good Sir Con Artist The Factory (Rochester)

Saturday

Frontier Ruckus The Ark

Lucky Brown The Berkley Front

Covert Operations Small Planet East Lansing

Inkface & the Digital Dream The Loft

Foreign Born/The Veils The Pike Room

Avant/Keith Sweat Freedom Hill

Brand New Sin Token Lounge (Westland)

Sunday

Icubus DTE

Sick Puppies/Hurt/The Veer Union The Machine Shop

Shows next week of note

Jackson Browne-Meadow Brook Mon 7/27

Dave Matthews Band with Old Crow Medicine Show-DTE Tues 7/28

David Lindley-Jackson Browne's long time guitarist The Ark Wed 7/29

Gaelic Storm The Magic Bag Wed 7/29

Brando and Friends Dick O'Dow's Thur 7/30

The Crystal Method Crofoot Thur 7/30

Anita Baker DTE Fri 7/31

WARP Tour Coamerica Park Fri 7/31

August Festivals worth seeing

Dunegrass Empire MI July 31-Aug 2 http://dunegrass3.org/?page_id=27

This festival has always been special to me. It has scaled back to its more local roots. Michigan and Midwest favorites The Macpodz, Covert Operations, The Ragbirds, Rootstand, My Dear Disco and the Ultraviolet Hippopotamus are featured. This show will also highlight some great local (Benzie and Grand Traverse County) pickers. I sure hope I can pull the time to make this show.

Hoxeyville Music Festival Hoxeyville MI August 21-23 Boy has Kalamazoo Michigan's Matty Beck (now of Passion Presents in Arcata CA and Phish Tour's Waterwheel) pulled the proverbial rabbit out of the hat. Matty is family to me and he has gone to the wall to bring an amazing lineup to this festival. Hot Buttered Rum, Greensky Bluegrass, Melvin Seals and JGB, ekoostik hookah, EOTO, Todd Snider, the Macpodz and Ragbirds just to name a few. This show will have it share of pickers too with Detour Bluegrass, Great American Taxi and Breathe Owl Breathe

Between Dunegrass and Hoxeyville, you could just plant yourselves upnorth for a few weeks. Plus I seem to get flyered with tons of little festies during August when I go to the bigger ones up there.

Shows down the line-stay tuned

Arts Beats and Eats and Detroit International Jazz Fest Labor Day weekend

Dally in the Alley Saturday September 13

Karl Denson and the Tiny Universe Saturday September 13

Bop (harvey) reunion show Rick's American Cafe East Lansing, MI Nov 13 and 14th

I Now have a Blog. Come join and add shows, show revues, MP3's and comments . If you have a band or know a band that you wish to spotlight and the band plays in the 313, 248, 586, 734 and 810 area, sign up and share the love.

http://detroitmusicupdate.blogspot.com/

PLEASE remember to support local live bands:

Brando Creasman, www.brandoncreasman.com, Lucky Brown Music www.myspace.com/LuckyBrownMusic, The Macpodz, www.macpodz.com, Mifune, www.mifunemusic.com, The Great Divide, www.myspace.com/greatdividelive Grievious Angel http://drumdancerrecords.com/grievousangel/index.php, Jill Jack, http://www.jilljack.com/, Billy Brandt, www.billybrandt.net, Distorted Soul (featuring Nadir), www.distortedsoul.com, Flop House Band, www.flophouseband.com, Back Forty backfortymusic.com, Covert Operations http://www.covertopsband.com Rootstand www.rootstand.com, Jam Samwich http://jamsamich.com, David Nefesh www.davidnefesh.com, The Ragbirds www.theragbirds.com, , PAPA www.papatunes.com, Bitter Herbs www.myspace.com/bitterherbs, Greensky Bluegrass www.greenskybluegrass.com; THTX www.myspace.com/THTX and Sentimental Shark, www.sentimentalshark.com to name a few.

PLEASE remember to support local venues:

The Magic Bag www.themagicbag.com
The Majestic Theatre www.majesticdetroit.com/
Saint Andrew's Hall www.livenation.com/venue/getVenue/venueId/1776
The Crofoot www.thecrofoot.com
The Royal Music Theater www.royaloakmusictheatre.com/
The Blind Pig www.blindpigmusic.com/
Blondies (New Club in the Big D) www.myspace.com/officialblondiesnightclub
Museum of Contemporary Art www.mocadetroit.org

GO OUT AND SEE LIVE MUSIC!!!!!


Much love in the 313, 248, 586, 734 and 810

Miko

Author of the occasional Detroit Metro area Live Music Update