Dopapod, Jake’s Music Festival, La Dispute, Houndmouth, Yellowcard: Weekend Photo Gallery (4/12/15)

Lots of musical goodies to devour the week after Easter, including Michigan acts Asamu Johnson, E Minor, The Extra Texture, Shane Tripp, PotatoeBabies and a ton of others at Jake’s Music Fest.

 

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Spring break week for many didn’t mean taking a break from live music, because a broad mix of shows popped up all over West Michigan, some of it captured in images at Local Spins:

• Grand Rapids’ La Dispute launched the week at Calvin College on Tuesday with a homecoming show that offered up a different spin on its post-hardcore rock, a benefit for The DAAC (Division Avenue Arts Collective) that drew a solid though not capacity crowd;

• Asamu Johnson & The Associates of the Blues made their SpeakEZ Lounge debut in front of a lively crowd as part of the Local Spins Wednesdays series, with drummer Roberta Bradley creating a bit of a stir among some musicians in the audience who hadn’t seen her perform since her days with Roberta Bradley & Gypsy;

• Dopapod and East Lansing’s Desmond Jones turned up the heat for jam-band fans at The Stache inside The Intersection on Wednesday night;

• In a triple album-release show at Founders Brewing Co., Grand Rapids bands with a psych-rock bent — The Extra Texture, Shane Tripp and Matt Ten Clay & The Howlers — uncorked sets for an approving crowd on Thursday;

• The same night, northern Michigan singer-songwriter E Minor played One Trick Pony in Grand Rapids with bassist Caul Bluhm, following that with an in-studio performance for Local Spins on WYCE on Friday and a show at Rockford Brewing in Rockford on Saturday;

• Jake’s Music Festival literally cranked it up to “11” Saturday with a bevy of West Michigan bands at Wealthy Theatre in its 11th annual benefit for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation — a rollicking and rousing affair that included sets by Spinal Tap tribute Sext Farm, PotatoeBabies, Otis Blueswell Jr., TruckStop Cobras, JOE, Emma Loo & Sam, Greg Nagy, Lipstick Jodi and Fathom 19. PotatoeBabies may have stolen this year’s show with its audience-interactive, toilet paper-and-vinyl-spewing, tight-and-rousing comedic rock but Sext Farm took no prisoners either, delivering over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek metal and prog-rock that would have made Nigel Tufnel and David St. Hubbins proud;

• While Indiana’s Houndmouth (with opener Parker Millsap) ignited The Intersection’s main showroom on Saturday with indie-rock, alt-country and roots rock, The Stache hosted the pop/rock of Ryan Cabrera, Secondhand Serenade and more.

• Yellowcard brought its national tour to Grand Rapids, wrapping up the weekend on Sunday night with a show at The Intersection.

WEEKEND PHOTO GALLERY: April 12, 2015
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La Dispute, Asamu Johnson photos by Anna Sink
Dopapod, Desmond Jones photos by Eric Stoike
The Extra Texture, Shane Tripp photos by Anna Sink
E Minor photos by Tori Thomas
Jake’s Music Festival photos by Anthony Norkus
(TruckStop Cobras, Fathom 19, Greg Nagy, JOE,
PotatoeBabies, Otis Blueswell Jr., Sext Farm)
Ryan Cabrera, Secondhand Serenade photos by Eric Stoike
Houndmouth, Parker Millsap photos by Anna Sink
Yellowcard photos by Eric Stoike

VIDEO: Highlights from Jake’s Music Festival (April 11, 2015)

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