The third week in May revved up with Ryley Walker, the return of Nathan Kalish & The Lastcallers, Buses by the Beach and the Local Spins Third Anniversary Celebration at Rockford Brewing with Devin & The Dead Frets, who also appeared on the 39th edition of Local Spins on WYCE. Check out the photos, listen to the podcast.
Evoking Emotions: Devin & The Dead Frets revved up Rockford Brewing on Friday night. (Photo/Anthony Norkus)
Any number of West Michigan acts could carry that “up-and-coming” label.
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In Studio X: Devin & the Dead Frets at WYCE on Friday morning. (Photo/Local Spins)
When it comes to the rock scene, Grand Rapids’ Devin & The Dead Frets certainly fall into that category, with a growing reputation for genre-shifting, sweat-drenched rock shows and growing fan anticipation for a new studio album that could be released by late summer or early fall.
“Our attitude is sincere and slightly pissed off. We’re just trying to play music that people get emotions evoked by,” guitarist and singer Devin Weber said during the most recent episode of Local Spins on WYCE (88.1 FM).
“We feed off of the crowd. We want to have energetic shows where everybody has a lot of fun and just feels the urge to dance and hopefully can’t help but not. … There’s a certain pop element too, but we try not to have too much. We like to say we’re a guitar band.”
The band — Weber, Jordan Kerbyson, Eric Batenburg and Zach Nelson — proved that definitively not only in WYCE’s Studio X on Friday morning when it played a couple of brand new songs, but again late Friday night when it headlined the packed Local Spins Third Anniversary show at Rockford Brewing. The Honeytones opened the evening, which also included the tapping of the first-ever Local Spinsation Ale.
Listen to the podcast of Friday’s entire show here (including the debut of tracks by Kaitlin Rose and Silverstiles) and check out the photo gallery below — a gallery that also includes photos from Ryley Walker’s Tuesday night Live at Wealthy concert at Wealthy Theatre with Grand Rapids’ Riley Brothers opening the show, Nathan Kalish & The Lastcallers’ Wednesday night performance at SpeakEZ Lounge (with special guests) and some highlights from the weekend’s Bus Benefit presented by Buses by the Beach in West Olive.
(Read more about Buses by the Beach in this Local Spins roundup of Saturday’s live music lineup.)
LOCAL SPINS WEEKEND PHOTO GALLERY (May 25, 2015)
Ryley Walker, Nathan Kalish photos by Anna Sink
Devin & The Dead Frets, Honeytones photos by Anthony Norkus
Buses by the Beach photos by Taylor Mansen and Jon Shears
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