Month: January 2016

Where are all my local Michigan music fans at??? Fear not. Let’s just dive right into it. Here We Harbour is a local band from Michigan. This Alternative/Hard Rock band came out with their first EP “Arrivals” last year. This six track EP has a “We Came As Romans”, “Hands Like Houses” feel to it considering these two bands were influences. Some songs off the EP are: “Face Value”, “Forgive, Don’t Forget”, and “Find Me” just to name a few. I first heard of this band last night (Sunday) on “The Homeboy Show on 89x” which is a show that plays local Detroit and Canadian artists every week from 9-10 P. M. “Forgive, Don’t Forget” was the song that was playing on last night’s show. I found myself wanting to check out the entire EP so I did and thought all it took was one song for me to get hooked. 🙂 If I had to recommend a band for humans to check out it’d be this one. Michigan has some pretty amazing talented bands/artists. So go Like, Share, and Listen! 🙂

Website: http://www.hereweharbour.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hereweharbour

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrICQMATOOc8_z8Z4PTczAw

 

 

 

 

Last week we all watched as CT and Faith (Diem’s younger sister) paid tribute to the MTV challenge star who lost her battle with Ovarian cancer on November, 14, 2014. CT and Faith walked out and this seasons rendition of the Challenge “Bloodlines” cast all clapped and as we all were doing at home bawling. I know I lost it. The way the two paid tribute was by demoing “Too Clingy” which for those who watched “Duel 1” then you know the challenge where Diem took her wig off for the very first time on national television and absolutely dominated the competition by winning “Ring Toss” was one hell of a monumental moment in challenge history that will forever be remembered as one of the best moments.  The phrase “Do it for D” was born, and so in last night’s episode of the Challenge CT and Zack both showed up in yet another twisty curve ball that’s been just one of many this season. Both dominated against Jamie, and Mike sending Mike and Abram home. Making Cara Maria and Jamie the champs of last nights elimination round in the pit. Seeing CT compete again was just like old times and amazing as usual because as we all know CT is known as “a challenge legend.” He still has what it takes, and I hope this isn’t the last time we see him, but I do understand if he never wants to do another challenge again. I think Diem would want CT to compete though and do it for her because she will forever live on in the challenge family, and all of us fans as being one of the strongest competitors who never gave up or quit and she was loved by many. ❤

Canadian Pop/Rock band Marianas Trench was formed in 2001 from Vancouver, British Columbia. This 4 member band consists of lead vocalist-Josh Ramsay, lead guitarist=Matt Webb, bass guitarist-Mike Ayley, and drummer-Ian Casselman. Currently the band is signed with 604 Cherrytree record label. Let’s talk albums now. First up was the band’s 2002 EP release of “Marianas Trench.” Then came the band’s first debut album entitled “Fix Me” that was released on October, 3, 2006. On Feb, 24, 2009, “Masterpiece Theatre” was released which was the second studio album. November, 11, 2011 was the release of the third studio album “Ever After.”

Some of the popular singles coming from all three of these albums include “Shake Tramp”, ” “Ever After”, “By Now”, “Say Anything”, “Fallout”, and so much more. In 2009, the song “Cross My Heart” was nominated for four MMVA’s. “Ever After went gold within its first week in 2011. Last year the band released their fourth full-length album.

On October, 23, 2015 “Astoria” was released. This 17 track album consists of songs such as “One Love”, “Who Do You Love?”, ” “Wildfire”, “Forget Me Not”,and the self titled track “Astoria” just to name a few. “Astoria’s” dynamic compositions make it different from previous albums because every song brings something different which makes this album unique and one of the reasons I found it way more appealing than the first two albums. The third album was better, but this one takes the cake for sure. I mean I don’t think there’s one song on “Astoria” that you can’t dance too because I’ve been doing it since I started writing this lol. 🙂 In September of 2015 the band announced their “Hey You Guys” U. S. tour which started in November, 2015.

Links for Marianas Trench below:

www.marianastrench.net

www.myspace.com/marianastrench

http://www.facebook.com/MarianasTrench

Twitter @mtrench