4/29: Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons @ Fox Theatre (Detroit), The Besnard Lakes w/ Turn to Crime @ UFO Factory (Detroit), Dream Theater @ Royal Oak Music Theatre, Geoff Tate @ Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase, Local H @ The Magic Bag (Ferndale), Otep w/ Through Fire and Doll Skin @ Harpo’s Concert Theatre (Detroit), Pegboard Nerds w/ Grabbitz @ Elektricity (Pontiac), TV Girl w/ Moonwalks @ Majestic Cafe (Detroit)
4/30: Frankie Ballard @ The Fillmore Detroit, Geoff Tate @ Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase, Toronzo Cannon @ Callahan’s Music Hall (Auburn Hills), Little Green Cars w/ John Mark Nelson @ Pike Room (Pontiac), Frightened Rabbit w/ Cave,an @ St. Andrews Hall (Detroit), Cash’d Out – Trib. to Johnny Cash @ The Loving Touch (Ferndale), Ben Daniels Band @ The Ark (Ann Arbor), Ardalan w/ Sacha Robotti @ The Grasshopper Underground (Ferndale)
5/1: “Stars of Nashville Concert Tour” @ Fox Theatre (Detroit), Seth Glier @ The Ark (Ann Arbor), Russian National Ballet Theatre @ Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts (Detroit), Primal Fear w/ Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody @ The Token Lounge (Westland), Ellen Jewell @ The Magic Bag (Ferndale), The Contortonist w/ Monuments, Entheos and Sleepmakeswaves @ St. Andrews Hall (Detroit)
5/2: Tosin Abasi w/ Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malsteen and Nuno Bettencourt @ Royal Oak Music Theatre, Julian Lage @ The Ark (Ann Arbor), Night Demon w/ Against the Grain and Visigoth @ Small’s (Hamtramck), Amon Amarth w/ Entombed A.D. and Exmortus @ St. Andrews Hall (Detroit)
5/3: Widespread Panic @ The Fillmore Detroit, Teyana Taylor @ St. Andrews Hall (Detroit), L.A. Guns’ Tracii Guns @ Token Lounge (Westland),
5/4: X Ambassadors w/ Robert DeLong and Sara Hartman @ The Fillmore Detroit, Devil You Know w/ Oni @ Ritz Carlton State Theatre, Animal Collective w/ Kaitlyn Aurella Smith @ Royal Oak Music Theatre, Alejandra Escovedo w/ Lucette @ The Ark (Ann Arbor), Ben Miller Band @ Pike Room (Pontiac), Brass Bed @ Kelly’s Bar (Hamtramck), Half Moon Run @ The Magic Bag (Ferndale), Wild Nothing w/ Charlie Hilton @ The Loving Touch (Ferndale), Yuna w/ Bosco and Speakerfoxx @ Marble (Detroit)
5/5: George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic @ MotorCity Casino, Tori Kelly w/ Thirdstory @ Royal Oak Music Theatre, Russ Taff @ Laurel Manor (Livonia), Klaus Johann Grobe @ UFO Factory (Detroit), Karen Rontowski @ Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase, Half Moon Run @ The Magic Bag (Ferndale), Diarrhea Planet w/ Jeff The Brotherhood @ The Shelter (Detroit), Death Valley Girls @ The Painted Lady (Detroit), Buffy Sainte-Marie @ The Ark (Ann Arbor), Boulevards @ PJ’s Lager House (Detroit)
5/6: Marlon Wayans @ The Fillmore Detroit, The Rides @ Michigan Theatre (Ann Arbor), Third Day w/ Steven Curtis Chapman @ Mt. Zion (Clarkston), Tritonal @ Elektricity (Pontiac), Karen Rontowski @ Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase, Gore Gore Girls @ Marble (Detroit), Chris Smither @ The Ark (Ann Arbor), Big Black Delta w/ Sego @ UFO Factory (Detroit)