It’s the Super Bowl pre-game show: A weekend flurry of riveting live music to match West Michigan’s snow flurries, from Detroit’s GRiZ and country’s Jukejoint Handmedowns to the rap of Rick Chyme and more, shared in Spins On Music pics.
Packing ‘Em In: Detroit’s GRiZ attracted a pumped-up crowd at The Intersection. (Photo/Anthony Norkus Photography)
Consider this a far more entertaining edition of today’s Super Bowl pre-game show.
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No need to even pick up that remote until you’re done scanning this action-packed weekend roundup of photos of concerts from the Grand Rapids area, starting with Thursday night’s shows by Glen Danles at One Trick Pony, the Jukejoint Handmedowns at Fricano’s Pizza and an insanely jam-packed affair at The Intersection featuring Detroit’s GRiZ, who fired up the crowd with his DJ-fired, synth- and sax-imbued music.
It continued Friday and Saturday: Frontier Ruckus’ CD-release extravaganza at The Pyramid Scheme with Grand Rapids’ The Pistolbrides also performing, Rick Chyme and Nixon’s hip-hop show at Billy’s Lounge, Nikki Hill and Delilah DeWylde & the Lost Boys rockabilly-ing the Tip Top Deluxe Bar & Grill, singer-songwriter Tony LaJoye playing Rockford’s Grill One Eleven, and the blues of Lansing’s Root Doctor kicking off live music at the newly opened Rockford Brewing Co.
Fine, now you can tune into the Super Bowl. Or the Puppy Bowl. Or the Lingerie Bowl. Or put on a CD by Bowling for Soup. Or go bowling. Or clean out the goldfish bowl.
Grizzly Guy: GRiZ at The Intersection. (Photo/Anthony Norkus Photography)
Electronic Wizardry: GRiZ had the lights and the music to electrify the crowd. (Photo/Anthony Norkus Photography)
Sax Man: GRiZ at The Intersection. (Photo/Anthony Norkus Photography)
Lights, Music, Action: GRiZ at The Intersection. (Photo/Anthony Norkus Photography)
The Fans: GRiZ drew a monster crowd at Thursday’s show. (Photo/Anthony Norkus Photography)
Thursday Stew: Glen Danles played One Trick Pony with Michael Crittenden & band. (Photo/Aris Hampers)
Jukejoint at the Pizza Joint: The Jukejoint Handmedowns got twangy at Fricano’s Pizza’s Thursday. (Photo/Kay Fricano)
Up-and-Coming Rockabilly: Nikki Hill delivered her soulful strains at Tip Top Deluxe on Friday night. (Photo/Delilah DeWylde)
Rockin’ the Tip Top: Delilah DeWylde with Nikki Hill. (Photo/Courtesy Delilah DeWylde)
Chyme-ing In: Grand Rapids rapper Rick Chyme performed at Billy’s Lounge on Friday, along with Nixon. (Photo/Jon Curtis)
Making a Ruckus: Michigan’s Frontier Ruckus staged a CD-release show at The Pyramid Scheme on Friday. (Photo/Katy Batdorff)
Folk Frontier: The rootsy Frontier Ruckus at The Pyramid Scheme. (Photo/Katy Batdorff)
Pistol Power: Dan Wier of The Pistolbrides, which opened for Frontier Ruckus. (Photo/Katy Batdorff)
Guitar Marksman: Kyle Colter of The Pistolbrides performed at The Pyramid Scheme. (Photo/Katy Batdorff)
Brewery Blues: Root Doctor attracted a standing-room-only crowd upstairs at the new Rockford Brewing Co. on Saturday. (Photo/Spins on Music)
Toast of the Town: Rockford Brewing co-owner Seth Rivard at Saturday’s Root Doctor show. (Photo/Spins on Music)
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