Thank you for the Birthday wishes! So sweet! And good news – the new music is ready! Recorded and mixed here at Inner Door Music with drums at Pearl Sound in Canton Michigan and mastered at Third Man Records, Cass Corridor in Detroit, it’s going to be soon now! ) https://thirdmanrecords.comhttps://www.pearlsoundstudios.com So hopefully, my next post has one of our new songs included in it where you can listen or download as a bonus! In the meantime, get in the mood for the holiday with a reggae-tinged version of “Silent Night” we recorded for NBC Channel 4 in Detroit’s Live in the D ) See below )
Also, Erin Zindle and are honored to be on The Grammy Awards 2024 First ballot for Best American Roots Song and Best Performance, too. We found out our Michigan musicians The War & Treaty and Billy Strings, in the same category, are nominated for the Final ballot, which is awesome! Congratulations!
We are performing at the J Center /Berman Center for author Gary Graff’s Alice Cooper book this Saturday evening, November 11 at 7:30 pm. Scott Dailey, Michael Bermudez and I are looking forward to a superb night with other artists including Tino Gross and Righteous Deluxe. Details: https://www.michigan.org/event/alice-cooper-75-author-talk-and-tribute-performances
Then the next day, we’re performing at The Farmington Hills Public Library in Farmington Hills ! We are rocking the library at 2 pm before the Detroit Lions Game at 4 pm so you can join us and still make it home to see the game – Join Scott Dailey and me for some new music, poetry, and treats! We really are looking forward to a wide-open show with the baby grand piano, guitar, and some of our new material in different ways. Details:https://farmingtoncommunity.librarycalendar.com/event/music-fcl-carolyn-striho-and-scott-dailey-2406
Then looking at December where we have some more new music coming out and a date with favorites Vinnie Dombroski and The Orbitsuns at the famous Cadieux Café on Friday night Dec. 8th! There are a couple more exciting things coming up in December. And thanks to Depeche Mode for making my birthday an extra treat with tickets to their Detroit show -honored to be on the guest list from the U.K. to Detroit!
We are back soon with live shows, mainly concentrating on releasing the new music this year. Stay tuned! We’ll have each song on all digital platforms, culminating in an album next year, and new tour. In the meantime, I’m back to teaching and writing, and we’re also working on video. After a big trip to northern Italy, the Adriatic Sea, The Alps and even Austria for a day, we’re busy in a creative streak to get the music out – hurray! It was a great summer of shows, with new ones on their way later this Fall with the new releases.We’ve had some good airplay throughout the State and region, too. Thank you x
Also, there’s a new album coming out that features the band I was in for many years with tremendous musicians – it’s Detroit Energy Asylum! “Landslide of Life” is a thrilling and spirited album. With a nice production job by Freddie Brooks, my ex, it’s got 10 songs you must hear. There is also a great cover of Iggy’s “I Need Somebody” So please check Detroit Energy Asylum on Bandcamp for the new album. Here’s a good link and it’s worth it 🙂 https://orchide.bandcamp.com
It has been a wild August, and we’re returning to the studio for final mixes and the stage later in Fall after visiting northern Italy. (We’ll be back over there to perform again). Very grateful, and see you in September !
This Thursday, July 27, 2023, we are playing one of our favorite places, The Whitney at the Whitney Garden Party mansion in Detroit! We are excited to be back at this gorgeous castle with new music, delicious lobster rolls and so much great dishes, drinks, the garden, and even a ghost bar inside! We’ll be playing on the beautiful patio after many great Spring and Summer shows. https://www.thewhitney.com/the-garden-party. https://visitdetroit.com/inside-the-d/whitney-garden-parties/
July 27th is also my late dad’s birthday and another special day for me on July 26th with a 10 year cancer free journey after having breast cancer in 2013 , too.
There’s a new album coming out that features the band I was in for many years, and my songs and my voice and keyboards, with amazing musicians from my former band Detroit Energy Asylum. Detroit Energy Asylum’s “Landslide of Life” is a heartening, thrilling and spirited album and I hope you might check it out. With a nice production job by Freddie Brooks, my ex, it’s got 10 songs you have to hear. There is also a great cover of Iggy’s “I Need Somebody” and much music with Dave McMurray on saxophone and a slew of great musicians. I was lucky to spend some time at Dave’s great gig at Third Man Records Cass Corridor Detroit for Concert of Colors and Blue Note Records in July with Don Was and crew. What a great night! So please check Detroit Energy Asylum on Bandcamp for the new album. The pre-sale link is coming in early August on Bandcamp, too.
I also am honored about having new songs to share with you soon! We had anticipated summer, but the songs will be released this Fall into the end of the year, both as singles and an album. Stay tuned for my new songs with Scott Dailey, and the band. 🙂 Scott and I are excited to release new music this year. It’s really happening!
We have exciting news! Amazing singer/songwriter and violinist/pianist Erin Zindle and I have a new release “The Bridge” coming out on June 3rd! Recorded in Ann Arbor at Big Sky Studios with Geoff Michael, mixed by Jamie Candiloro (REM, Willy Nelson, Courtney Love), and mastered by Greg Calbi (Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin), we couldn’t be happier to release this brand new song we wrote together. With “The Bridge” being released soon on all digital platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon and Bandcamp, the premiere link is athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AdqNc5CQ5Iand a show together planned for July x
There is much going on in June while I ready my other material for release, with Scott Dailey and the band. I’m going to do another post/blog about the second section of June because of that. But in the meantime, we are performing with the full band on Thursday, June 1st at the beautiful Ann Arbor District Library at 630 pm in Downtown Ann Arbor – join us for a set of music together! https://aadl.org/node/614086
Then I’ll be at the Farmington Art on the Grand Kickstart Book Festival on Saturday, June 3rd – join me for a reading at 11:30 am in downtown Farmington Michigan from my book “Detroit (Maiden Energy)” book, as well as many great writers, artists and more here at https://kickstartfarmington.org/fab-fest/
Next is a book Event at the new Schuler Books in West Bloomfield, Michigan on Thursday, June 8th at 6:00 pm. I’m excited to be sharing my book “Detroit (Maiden Energy)” with a new author, Joe Molloy, who is releasing his first book, “Acid Detroit”. Come join us! Details here at https://www.schulerbooks.com/event/talking-detroit-music-carolyn-striho-and-joe-molloy
Much more is coming soon, including my new Releases of New Music Singles and my Album with Scott Dailey and our band. Having just finished a great show in Berkley with Mary McGuire, and at Third Man Records Cass Corridor for Jen Larson’s Hit Girls: Women in Punk, we are ready for our new music and shows!
It’s snowing hard and there’s good news that the new album is coming out this year! Last year had marvelous shows and my December blog named a few of the great ones. This year, we’ve got some gems coming up. In fact, we have some bookings already for 2024, not just 2023 (!) I’m also doing more Book Event shows for my book “Detroit (Maiden Energy).”
We’ve got many new songs and Scott Dailey and I have been writing and recording music that has taken us on a wild, fantastic journey. Also, this year is another Orchide Records Detroit release of my former band Detroit Energy Asylum. It’s a new album of some of my never-heard before songs and a maze of energy music.
As mentioned last month, good news here, too, with Los Angeles’ famous Music Connection magazine naming the Carolyn Striho/Scott Dailey duo as one of the Hot 100 Live Unsigned Bands nationally for 2023 as well! https://www.musicconnection.com/hot-100-live-unsigned-artists-bands-2/
Also, I’ve been included in a new book, “Hit Girls: Hit Girls: Women in Punk in the USA 1978-1983” “ by Jen Larson which spotlights female musicians who were as important to the early punk scene as male musicians. I’m featured in five pages also with my band The Cubes and several other Detroit bands, as well as great bands from all through the U.S., and honored to have contributed. It’s a reminder that this important music started from the soul of so many young teenage girls like me. Hit Girls is at https://bookshop.org/p/books/hit-girls-women-of-punk-in-the-usa-1975-1983-jen-b-larson/17273216?ean=9781627311236
This is a short blog as we’re readying so much material and working hard on it. Can’t wait for you to hear our new music, so please stay tuned.
