Here is the WDET radio performance that just aired on Detroit’s 101.9 FM, WDET.

WDET Radio Interview - 11.22.09 by Bumpband

We went into the studios of WDET earlier this month to record a 30 minute segment with Ann Delisi and WDET.  Tune in on Sunday to 101.9 FM here in Detroit, or for all of you out of towners you can click the link above.

Thanksgiving Night at Fishbone’s…Food induced coma, no problem!  Come drink it off with Yorg and Sterr.

We are calling out to all of our West Michigan fans once again.  We are headed back to Grand Rapids to film the music video for the song “Wrong, Right.”  You might remember that we shot a single shot video for “Out of Reach” in GR a year ago.

If you are interested in being in the video, please report at 4:00 PM:

Sunday November 8, 2009

Mulligan’s Pub - 1518 Wealthy Street SE

Those who are participating in the video should expect to block out a couple of hours.

BUMP to rock Harvey’s on the Mall tonight

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

By Sebastian Fryer
Western Herald

Tonight, Oct. 28, at 9 p.m. Magic Hat Brewing Company will be hosting a “Night of the Living Dead” party at Harvey’s on the Mall, with band BUMP providing live, free music.

Formed in 2001, BUMP began by playing shows in East Lansing, Detroit, and Grand Rapids.
Although a relatively new band, BUMP has played hundreds of shows across the country, participated in various festivals, and played with big names such as the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Ted Nugent.
For the past five months, BUMP toured 35 states, promoting their new album, “Forward.”

Although they’ve known for playing shows, BUMP has also been getting involved in other projects.

“There’s just so many shows going on that really the best way to get your music out there is to kind of incorporate it with other things – you know, movies, blogs, TV shows, internet advertising,” songwriter and lead singer for the band, Yorg, said.

Recently, the band was featured in an upcoming film, “Little Murder,” which stars Oscar nominated actor Terrance Howard.

“We went, we thought we weren’t going to get it, we got the call back, and the next thing you know, we’re playing the part of ‘the band’, playing our own music in the movie, and two songs are going to be on the soundtrack,” Yorg said.

Now, BUMP is returning to Kalamazoo.

“We’re excited about [the show],” Yorg said, “We love Harvey’s.”

Yorg explained the band’s history with Harvey’s on the Mall.

“Harvey’s has been along so long,” Yorg said, “Harvey’s has always been a really good music venue.”

Margeaux Bernstein, ‘Alebassador’ for Magic Hat Brewing Company, planned the “Night of the Living Dead” party. The party receives its name from the seasonal 12-pack Magic Hat is releasing.

“We thought of it as an industry night,” Bernstein said, “It’s an opportunity for people who work in the bars and restaurants in Kalamazoo who are college students or whoever that are going to end up working Saturday night.”

The party will feature a costume contest with a $100 prize for best costume. Also, four limited run beers from Magic Hat’s “Night of the Living Dead” 12-pack will be available, including #9, Circus Boy, Roxy Rolles, and Belgian Chocolate Stout.

According to Bernstein, Harvey’s is the top seller of #9 in Kalamazoo. However, she stressed that people come out and try it while it’s still available.

“I thought it would be a great opportunity to support [industry workers] as well as the city of Kalamazoo and throw just a great Halloween costume contest party,” Bernstein said of the party, “It’s an opportunity for them to come out and hang out and dance to some sweet sounds from BUMP.”

“We’re going to be rocking it up,” Yorg said, describing BUMP’s style as “very danceable stuff.”

“We have enough electronic gear on stage to make a Radioshack manager blush,” Yorg added.

Information on BUMP can be found at the band’s Myspace page, www.myspace.com/bumpband. BUMP also has their albums available on iTunes. More information on Magic Hat Brewing Company can be found at www.magichat.net.

IT’S NOT EVERYDAY THAT YOU ARE ALLOWED TO ACT LIKE AN ASSHOLE, SO HIT THE BUTTON LEFT OF YOUR LEFT PINKY FINGER AND BE PROUD THAT TODAY YOU CAN YELL…ERR, TYPE AS LOUD AS YOU WANT!

Detroit rockers get a bounce from new CD & film

By Robert Downes 10/19/09

Northern Express Magazine

Check out Bump’s stage set-up and you’ll have to agree with their claim of being one of the hardest-working bands in America. In addition to a touring schedule that has covered 600 shows in 35 states, Bump packs enough electronic gear onstage to give a Radio Shack manager the giggles, with a spaghetti tangle of wires and sequencers augmenting their guitar-driven sound.

The current lineup includes Yorg on keys and guitar, Chris Sterr on guitar, Clint Carpenter on drums and sequencing and Bryce Carroll-Coe on bass. All four join in the vocals and the band prides itself on its harmonies, “progressive tones” and art-rock approach.

With a new CD and the thrill of performing in a new film, the band rolls into Northern Michigan this week with a show at the Loading Dock in TC this Friday, Oct. 23. Here’s the latest on the band:


NE: What’s new with the band?
Bryce Carroll-Coe: a lot actually. We released our new album Forward, we’ve been all over the country promoting it since February — and, I mean everywhere — we started writing new material for our next release, and we were also cast in an upcoming movie called Little Murder starring Terrance Howard, Josh Lucas, Lake Bell and Deborah Ann Woll. The director liked our stuff enough to put a few tracks on the soundtrack, including “Appolonia” and “Last Chance.”

NE: How did you land your part in Little Murder?
Carroll-Coe: our good friend, Mike Livanos, who was the second assistant director, called us up and let us know they were holding auditions in Detroit for local musicians to fill those roles. We and a few of our close colleagues went in and laid it down. The rest is history.

NE: What did you enjoy about making the film?
Carroll-Coe: Just being a part of making a film is cool.
It would be tough to say what really hits you most when you’re part of that sort of creative/time-sensitive project. But the best part for us was the dinner break. The director called dinner after our first scene was done shooting and everybody bolted for catering. We lazily go off stage and Terrance Howard walks up there and asks Chris if he can play his guitar. They started jamming a little and before we knew it we were all geared up and jamming. He had some really cool song ideas and laid ‘em on us. A few oil-cans of Foster’s and we were done arranging this sweet Latin groove he’d come up with… Waaaaayyy better than any dinner they coulda cooked up for us.

NE: Your third album Forward just came out. What direction did you take with the music?
Carroll-Coe: The simplest one — “just write really good songs and make the most of the parts you use.” Now, I’m not a song writer. My responsibilites lie in arranging and stacking vocal harmonies. But watching Chris, Clint and Yorg write. I saw what was motivating them. They clearly weren’t trying to invent the direction of the songs or the album but, rather, trying to find a way to write that would convey the emotion and style of the songs to a broader audience. This is not an easy task when you’re walking that fine line of more eclectic creativity and trying to be understood by the masses.

NE: Where do you fit in with America’s current music scene?
Carroll-Coe: Tough one. I don’t want to make a comparison to other bands specifically, but there’s a lot of good music popping up all over the place that’s musically focused like we are. Good classic composition, solid instrument tones and quality ensemble vocal arrangements. It’s pretty cool that most of it is rock based.

NE: Are you working any particular musical genre at the moment?
Carroll-Coe: Nah. I don’t think so, but everytime there’s an idea someone will say: “You know? Kind of like that part in that song by so and so.” Having said that, our musical genre ideas are more specifically based on each part rather than each song or album.

NE: When you see relative newcomers like Arcade Fire and Grizzly Bear making it big, do you ever say, “Why not Bump?”
Carroll-Coe: Hell no. This is a tough business but thinking like that will keep you down even longer. Envy is an ugly emotion and it can make you petty and unappreciative of whatever success might come your way. Look, we get to travel, meet new people, see new places and play music everyday. If you’re not in this business for the love of music and entertainment, why are you in this business?

NE: You recently did a show covering the songs of Beck in Detroit. What was that all about?
Carroll-Coe: It’s actually coming up tomorrow at The Majestic Cafe. We’re gonna do half Bump for the first set and half Beck during the second set.
We were having a band meeting and our manager Joe Choma of Grand Circus Media wanted us to brainstorm about some cool show ideas for Detroit. Bump’s been playing in Detroit for a very long time and as dedicated as our fans are it’s nice to treat them to a new experience and a special show. All we needed was the right idea. Covering Beck seemed like a great idea because the music is original and killer and instrumentally we’re capable of it.

NE: Your shows always feature an incredible number of electronic instruments. How did that evolve?
Carroll-Coe: That, I think, was a bit of a collaboration between Clint and Bump’s original bass player NADZ. They got interested in some of those sequencer sounds and grooves and started toying with them. Before they knew it “The Box,” as we call it, kind of became the fourth and a half member of Bump.

NE: Considering the 600 shows that Bump has performed over the life of the band, isn’t it tough hauling all of that gear around and setting it up?
Carroll-Coe: Tough?! Try fun! No, no — gear is tough but that’s part of the whole thing. As much fun as music is it’s still our job. We get up and go to work like any free-lance opportunist, only we get free drinks at work. Our live FOH engineer, Jay Minger (of Aural Pleasure), said it best: “Loading gear in and setting up is part of the physical rhythm of the night.” To be frank, I wouldn’t feel the same without the heavy lifting.

NE: Any future projects in mind?
Carroll-Coe: We’re an ever-growing machine and new ideas and projects are essential to our evolution and success. Like I mentioned earlier, even though we’re still currently promoting Forward we’re already looking forward — pun intended — to the next album. We’ve got so many quality ideas and foundations really early in the songwriting process that we’re all really excited to get down to it. Other than that? Look out for Bump wherever you’re from ‘cause chances are we be playing in your backyard real soon.

Bump performs Friday, Oct. 23 at the Loading Dock in TC; tickets $5 at the door.

Darker Version of Me by Bumpband

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By MINDY NORTON
Sun Weekend Editor

Bump is set to play in Mt. Pleasant.

Music fans can expect a high-energy show next week, when the band Bump plays at Rubbles in downtown Mt. Pleasant.

The Michigan-based band, touring nationally, will return to Rubbles next Thursday, Oct. 22.

The band is promoting its third album, “Forward,” which came out in March.

“We’ve got a lot of awesome songs on it and it’s getting played all over the country,” Bump’s Yorg Kerasiotis said during a phone interview. “Basically, the fans can expect a really high energy, indie progressive rock show that they may not have seen before from a Michigan band.

“It’s really cool, we do a lot of harmonies, a lot of really big dancing rhythms.”

“Forward” has been well received, Yorg said.

“We’ve got to order more, we’ve almost sold out of the initial batch. It’s gotten downloaded all over iTunes,” he said.

The band has played at the Rock ‘n’ Reggae Festival in the area in recent years, but has not played at Rubbles in about six years.

“It’s a great venue, we’re really excited to come back and really do it up,” Yorg said.

Bump has been getting exposure nationwide, and part of that is thanks to a movie. The post-Hurricane Katrina thriller “Little Murder,” starring Terrence Howard, features two songs by Bump on its soundtrack,

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“Appollonia” and “Last Chance.”

“We’ve been trying to utilize as many routes as we can in terms of music,” Yorg said. “Obviously, right now, music is big in advertising and TV shows and movies. We just found an audition, the director loved us, and they’re using two of our songs on the soundtrack and we’re actually acting in the film as a band.

“It’s really cool.”

The movie, which is set in New Orleans, was filmed in the Detroit area. Bump has a role in the film, playing a band at a nightclub. Yorg compared the band’s acting in the film to doing a music video.

The movie also led to a memorable moment for the band - a chance to jam with Oscar-winning movie star Howard.

“He was just filming a scene and they were fixing stuff, so he had like two minutes to wait. And next thing you know, Terrence Howard jumps on stage and asks for a guitar. And what are you going to say? It was really, really something else,” Yorg said.

After forming in the Gross Pointe area, Bump has been touring for eight years, Yorg said, explaining the band is willing to do whatever it takes to find success, be that tours, albums, music videos or film work.

“Anything you’d expect from a band that’s successful, we’ll be doing,” he said.

“… A lot of bands people look up to, the ones that are great, they don’t care about the good or the bad, they’re just doing what they love, and if you do that, good things will happen.

“We’ve had a lot of successes, a lot of failures, but if you look back, it’s mostly successes,” Yorg said. “It’s been great.”

With “Forward” doing well, the band will soon be working on another album.

“Hopefully we’ll keep getting better and better,” Yorg said. “Every album will be different, but it will have that same Bump feel.”

Next week’s show will start after 10 p.m. at Rubbles bar, 112 W. Michigan St. in Mt. Pleasant.