Over the last 15 years, Blunk Street Music owners Chris Plum and Jeff Hupp have collectively covered the world in supporting their brand of Detroit Rock and Roll.

:: Chris Plum, PH. D ::
Chris is the lead singer/songwriter for one of Detroit’s most beloved bands “The Mood Elevator” (which included pop sensation Brendan Benson of ‘The Raconteurs’ fame), has provided music for The Detroit Redwings, performed music for commercials and has rocked late night television, as well as syndicated television shows. Chris has toured the world opening for bands like The White Stripes, Beth Orton, Sonic Youth and The Flaming Lips. He also appears in the now-legendary indie films, “It came from Detroit” and “Detroit Rock Movie.”

:: Jeff Hupp ::
Partner Jeff Hupp has played over the years with countless Detroit area bands and artists. As bass player in the semi-legendary Detroit band, “The Atomic Numbers”, Jeff toured the States and played major music festivals, including South by Southwest, North by Northeast and CMJ Music Marathon. Jeff & the Atomic Numbers has had music placed in several advertising campaigns, including the Budweiser “unsigned music search”, and has had music appearing in film, within the Jeff Daniels 2001 movie “Supersuckers.” Jeff has also worked in the Detroit advertising world for over 15 years, working for J. Walter Thompson, the Digital signage start-up, Destination Media and Yahoo!.

COMPOSERS

:: Art Hays ::
New York-based Art Hays has been performing and writing music professionally since 1989. While at University of North Texas on a jazz music scholarship, he toured Texas and the South, playing sax with funk band Goodfoot and also led his own three-piece rock band, Fletcher. After moving to New York, Art toured US, UK, Canada, and Australia with Matchbox Twenty playing sax and guitar on the Mad Season Tour from 2000-01. He also performed with them on Jay Leno, David Letterman, VH1, and Rosie O’Donnell. Art was also a member of Carbondale, who signed with RCA in 2001. Their CD, ’cause 7 ate 9, was produced by John Fields in 2002.

Since then Art has produced independent singer-songwriters in the New York area and has written music for commercials and industrial spots. His music was also featured as part of the ‘08 Beijing Olympics broadcast on NBC as well as The Oxygen Network and Access Hollywood. Two co-writes are a part of the soundtrack for the documentary “FEAT.” He performed music for the films “Meet The Spartans” and “Lost Boys II” and has recorded music for the EA video games “Boogie” and “American Idol.”

Art keeps a healthy songwriting schedule.

:: Zach Shipps ::
Emerging from the fertile turn-of-the-century Detroit scene, Zach recorded and toured with a variety of rock and garage-pop acts including Brendan Benson (Raconteurs), Mood Elevator, Nice Device, Atomic Numbers, and his current band, the UK chart-topping disco-freakshow Electric Six. Although the band plays upwards of 150 shows a year in locations as far-flung as Japan, Russia, New Zealand and Argentina, he’s an in-demand Detroit producer, player, mixer, and re-mixer, having done work for a breadth of clients / acts including EA Games, Milk, Warner Bros UK, Ace Hardware, Ford, Mitsubishi, The Hard Lessons, 80’s punk legends The Meatmen, UK electro pioneers Ladytron, and a slew of other Detroit bands… in addition to producing / recording / co-writing his own band’s last five albums. Along the way, he has amassed a large, freaky collection of unique recording gear and a house full of instruments. Most recently, he composed and produced the music for Milk’s successful “White Gold” TV and web campaign, now two years running:   www.whitegoldiswhitegold.com.

:: Andy Reed ::

Located in the remote hinterlands of mid-Michigan, singer/songwriter/producer Andy Reed runs his own analog and digital recording studio, “Reed Recording Company”. Andy started his career as a third of Michigan power-pop trio “The Haskels” by recording the band’s debut with none other than Pop sensation, Brendan Benson (now of The Raconteurs fame) at the helm. A few years later Andy joined ½ of Detroit’s “The Atomic Numbers” to form the low-fi heroes “The Rioteers”. Finally, Andy tired of the band mutations, and embarked on a solo career. He signed with the indie pop label Kool Kat Musik, and has released two records to date. His latest record, “Fast Forward”, was well received and appeared on several 2008 “years best albums” lists. Andy continues to run his surname studio and continues to work with numerous Michigan bands, as well as national acts, including the Michigan natives, The Verve Pipe. Andy is currently holed up in his studio writing and recording his next solo record. Pray for him.

:: Kristin von Bernthal ::
Kristin is the newest addition to the Blunk Street family. A self-taught instrumentalist since her pre-school days, she began writing songs in high school, and later, wrote and arranged songs with her band, Lollipop Guild, garnering A&R interest from several major labels in the 90s. She has since composed music for local and national ad campaigns and collaborated on various musical projects around the Detroit area, singing and playing guitar, keys, bass or drums, and showcasing her songs in an occasional solo acoustic performance. Her vocal work can be heard on releases for Tim Diaz, Dick Siegal, Brandon Calhoon, Taproot, Electric Six and countless others, as well as in the recent film rock opera, “Milkquarious”. She currently arranges rock songs and performs with The Barrettes Ladies Barbershop Quartet and continues to record various artists in her home studio.