Where Have all the good Good Record store gone Baby

If you think the dumping of weekday daytime music at WDET-FM(101.9) was bad, The white Stripes Leaving ever other rock bands in Detroit in the dust, and Jack White Leaving Detroit was a minest, and get around the Detroit area bad that is right now, Today MT(Metro Times) shine a Local light on a trouble Problem nation-wide, Yes kids all the good Indie are closing at a arlming rate. Head feather Writer Brian Smith look at this problem in today Metro Times and what he found is not good at the begin of 2000 there was a lot around 3800 stores across the country and 3,500 chain store well to day it less then 2/3 than what is was ouch, and in the tri-country area we have seen or fair Share of good record close like Desirable Disc and Repeat the Beat locations, Rockbox, Record Exchange, Coachman's, Tower, Fun House, East Alley Record, 21 Harmony House locations (the one remaining Harmony House is now an f.y.e. store) that not good and don't for get all the big box store like K-mart, and Media Play and Sam Goody and just recely they close the Old Town Record Store(Hamtramck), and Neptune Record in royal Oak will shut it door's at the end of May and even a good locatioing did not work Like Wendell Music in Royal Oak, and Young Soul rebels at the Stick complex in Midtown, some Blame the web, some blame the Look, Some even blame the rent for the store, and some even blame the pricing for those Big Box retailer Like Best Buy, and target, it a good in deep story it in this week MT, In print and in the metrotimes.com and if you still want to support you local record store here a list of some good Indie store that are still opened:

Hot Hits (Roseville)
the Record Collector (Ferndale)
Buy Rite (Detroit)
Rock-a-Billy's (Utica)
Rock of Ages (Garden City)
Car City (St. Clair Shores)
Dearborn Music (Dearborn, Canton)
Flipside (Clawson)
Tonya's (Detroit)
Street Corner (Beverly Hills)
Stormy (Dearborn)
Peoples (Detroit)
Record Graveyard (Hamtramck)
Switched On (Novi)
Damon's (Detroit)
Record Time(Frendale)

Also in this Week MT and there Ralvial alt. Weekly, Read Detroit Weekly or as they say on the street R.D.W. is having storys at a New CD Put out By The Bellyache Candy Shoppe a venture By Grand Nationals Gritares Scotty Hagen and Michelle Moore. There going to have a CD release Show for the C.D. Sweet Sound Of Detroit Vol No.1 at the stick this week feather short set from the like of Hotness, Sara Celina, Troy Gregory & the Step Sisters, Loretta & the Larkspurs, Grande Nationals, Capitol Cities, the Sirens and the Hard Lessons and yes pleantey of Candy to boot at the stick this Saturday. A review on Monday at Culture City.

And check out this art work for our fave Photo Guy in Detroit and his art work for the Vamps Show in July at the Belmont and his art work for and his art work promoting Riff2 show Detroit Local 101(Tuesday 10-Midnight)

and now for the pages of The Metro Times evil Nemmies The Real Detroit Weekly let take a look at the best selling CD but not in the Billboard Brought and paid for 200 but from the group of Detroit best selling Music Store which Make Up The Detroit Music Retailers Collective or DMRC for short Which include Botht Record Time in Frendale and Roseville, Rock-a-Billy in Utica, Switch on CD's in Novi, Disk and tapes in Howell, and Culture Clash in Toledo, OH so with no freath ado here is this week Top 10 CD in Detroit

And there is a notable death to report Martin Chin died last week after a long hospitalization. Dont know who Martin Chin was he was the owner of The Chin Tiki at 2121 Cass Ave. Two block west of the fox town area, It was A restaurant, nightclub and swinging hotspot, the Chin Tiki opened in 1967, just in time for the Detroit riots, and was shuttered in 1980 when the city hit another downward spiral. In its heyday, the club hosted lavish Polynesian floor shows patronized by famous tinseltown drinkers and sports heroes, Barbra Streisand, Muhammad Ali and Joe DiMaggio among them, But the culture Kids will remember the Chin Tiki as the place where Rabbit (Who was Play By Eminem) work in the Movie 8 Mile.

Chin is survived by his wife Kitty, daughters Debbie and Valerie, and brother Marlin, owner of Chin's in Livonia.

With Chin's death, Chin Tiki's future is bleak. The building's up for sale, and is in danger of becoming another parking lot. is that what wee need in downtown andher Parking Lot in the city that slow becoming a city of Parking Lot come on have they ever hear of the word reuse building!!!

Now out side of the Detroit Metro Area for some indie of news of any form the souced of the dam.

From CMJ

David Bowie announced Monday that he will curate the first High Line Festival in New York City next May. The 10-day festival, at which Bowie will play his first full concert in the city since 2003, was created by Bowie and his two partners to be an annual arts and music event that will take place in the neighborhood surrounding the new park being created on High Line, the city old, abandoned elevated train on the West Side. Bowie hopes to feature emerging talent alongside the "superstars" he intends to book. He will, then, pick a new "visionary" curator for the following summers fest. It's like Manhattan is getting its own All Tomorrow's Parties with the Thin White Duke as its king.
ED: Now that going to be cool indee

Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin is set to release his solo joint July 11 via Anti-/Epitaph. Cold As The Clay honors his favorite influences from the folk world and shows a side of the punk icon that fans have never seen before. Fellow Bad Religion bandmate and Epitaph leader Brett Gurewitz produced the album in a mere seven days, nonetheless.
Tracklist For Cold As The Clay
1. Don't Be Afraid To Run
2. Omie Wise
3. Cold As The Clay
4. Little Saide
5. Highway
6. Rebel's Goodbye
7. Talk About Suffering
8. Willie Moore
9. California Cotton Fileds
10. The Watchmakers Dial
11. One More Hill

From NME.COm

Underworld have announced that they will be doing a unique broadcast this weekend from an Essex studio.The band will be hitting the airwaves on Saturday (May 13) at 10.04pm from Romford's Lemonworld Studio for a hybrid gig-come-radio show.Featuring unheard material, exclusive information and announcements from the group, the show will be the lateinstallmentent of their broadcasts, which have previously been unannounced.Fans will be able to tune in via http://www.underworldlive.com/ or via Dutch radio and television station VPRO who will be syndicating the show live via their terrestrial and digital radio network.


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6. Bruce Springsteen — We Shall Overcome
7. Buckcherry — 15
8. James Hunter — People Gonna Talk
9. Beatles — Beatles Box 2
10. Neko Case — Fox Confessor …

Well it look like the pistons Clevelandg the Celevland Cavs as the kings of the place took a 2-0 Lead yesterday with a 97-91 vitorys over the Cavs, Rasheed Wallace have Benpts and big ben have andore big night at the board with 15 reb. after picking up his 4th Defense player of the year before Lebronme, King Lebron put in 30 pts. in the loss so we now can wrap it upcourthere home corut withSaturdayree on satClevelandht aSaturdayand On saturday Night but the game time and channel it was suppoed to be Dallas ABC but dallas and San Antoneiot is a far more better match-up for the deadest night of the week on TV so it been Downgrade to 5PM on ESPN.

And Now Today Video of the day is some thing from Neko case But Not from here solo work but from her other Band The New Pornographers who will play Comerica TasteFest and we have the date of when are they going to play and what time but that will have to wait for tomorrow But in the meantimeplase check out this video for "used It" the 1 st single Twin Cinama feat. David Cross and Nardwuar The Human serviet

and From the office from countdown
15 shows left for katie on Today
six days untill "Broken Boys Solider
and i know you dont care two mor survier to go
and it going to be 65* and rainy to tomorrow

Good night And good Luck