The Michigan City Vandals

Michigan City Vandals

Opening slots-
My Chemical Romance
Good Charlotte
No Doubt
Bowling for Soup
Garbage
They Might Be Giants
The Outkast
Fishbone
Hank III
Veruca Salt
Rollins Band
Smithereens
John Mayer
Incubus

-Featured artist on MTV online
-Featured songs on HBO original program 'The Cathouse'
-The Doors Tribute Album - remake of 'The End' featuring Jeff Coffin.
-Song featured on film soundtrack for Cinema Concepts film ‘Kathy T Gives Good Hoover’.
-Oxygen Network featured artist on 'Pure Oxygen'.
-ABC Network's 'Beat Street' with Doug Banks and Dede McGuire@ featured artist and co-host.
-Trio Network- 'What A Good Day' used for used for 'Blip TV' title track-release date spring 2008
-LA Weekly/OC Weekly/Village Voice Media/Rolling Stone.com-reviewed and recommended show picks.

Local Media Contact: Julee Laurent
For Immediate Release
October 27, 2007
Telephone: (269) 983-0146 office
(574) 315-5501 cell
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'Rock band to donate 100% of album sales to build Habitat for Humanity home'

The Michigan City Vandals (MCV) are releasing their first full length album on November 3, 2007 and plan use 100% of their album sales to build a Habitat for Humanity home in Benton Harbor, MI.

The band feels that recording and releasing this album has become a community effort to help the Benton Harbor Habitat for Humanity affiliate.

“When we decided to donate the money and try to build this house, we realized we needed to come up with the funds to actually record the album. We are not currently on a label and were going to try to pay for it all by ourselves, but then the most amazing thing happened,” explains Bassist and Lead Singer for The Michigan City Vandals, Julee Laurent. “Peak Audio in South Bend donated all the tracking and mixing for four of the songs, and then Tom Jennings and Dave Maki at Czars in Saint Joseph, MI said they would record us live and mix it for us to supplement the studio tracks. It was an incredible feeling to see how this music community comes together and still believes that music can change the world.”

The idea came to the band when some of its members were in Guadalupe, AZ on Whirlpool’s® Second Annual Building Blocks Blitz helping Jose Molina and his family build their first home. The Building Blocks program, which is a partnership between Habitat for Humanity and Whirlpool®, is a signature program created by the appliance brand to raise awareness of the affordable housing crisis and to help eliminate substandard housing in the United States.

“To stand next to someone and help them build their home is more fulfilling than a record deal or fame. Those things don’t last, this house will. The Molina’s will watch their grandkids run around in it and they will maybe take a second mortgage to send their kid to college and change generational cycles, all because they have a home and a safe place. This is what Habitat does, and I am just glad we can be a part of it in any little way we can. It’s the proverbial pebble in the water causing a tidal wave or the butterfly flapping its wings. In the end, its how we helped other people, not how we helped ourselves,” says Laurent.

The Michigan City Vandals will be holding a record release party at Czars 505 in Saint Joseph, MI this Saturday November, 3 with a South Bend release party currently in the works. They are planning a regional tour for this winter in hopes of raising $75,000 so that they can break ground on the house in summer of 2008. The album is currently available on www.michigancityvandals.com by snail mail or digital download. Individual tracks are also available on myspace.com/michigancityvandals.