Bailey Zimmerman, Still Remains, more (Photo Recaps)-Local Spins

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From Grand Rapids to Muskegon to Kalamazoo, live music fans experienced lots of new acts and environments while also embracing some tried-and-true favorites — all recapped in images at Local Spins.

Adoring Crowd: Cellphones were buzzing for Bailey Zimmerman’s Grand Rapids tour stop. (Photo/Jamie Geysbeek)

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West Michigan’s music week was a mix of the new and the old: fresh band projects, emerging artists and new venues balanced with old favorites and dependable, jam-packed standbys.

There were the tried-and-true shows at popular clubs: The Tossers (the ‘world’s loudest folk band’) and Belfast Gin filling Grand Rapids’ Tip Top Deluxe Bar & Grill to the gills; Gyasi, The American Hotel System and After Midnight rocking The Stache inside The Intersection; metalcore faves Still Remains delivering their high-energy salvo at The Pyramid Scheme, along with Hollow Front and Amoura.

Then there was the new:

• Fast-rising, 24-year-old country star Bailey Zimmerman “(“Rock and a Hard Place,” “Religiously”) got the weekend started early on Thursday with a fan-inciting set at GLC Live at 20 Monroe in Grand Rapids, with Josh Ross and Brandon Wisham also on the bill (view the set list here);

Gyasi (Photo/Paul Jendrasiak)

• Southwest Michigan’s The Fat Animals — getting set to release a new album — played the new ThunderBird in Kalamazoo (located in the former Arcadia Brewing building);

• West Michigan Americana band Roosevelt Diggs unfurled a first-ever, sold-out “vinyl experience” release party for its latest album, “Reverie,” at Muskegon’s Starlight Room with special guests Joe Hettinga, Keala Venema and Eric Engblade;

• Jay Gavan & The Flying Leaps pumped up Kalamazoo’s Bell’s Eccentric Cafe with Helen Yee, as Yee unfurled her brand new album, “Orchestrope”;

• Michigan songwriters Cole Hansen, Mark Jewett, Sylver King and Julia Pagac unfurled an intimate evening at The Clover Room in Kalamazoo;

• Grand Rapids’ The Still Wonder staged an album-release show for their new recording, “Letters,” at Rockford Brewing;

• The star-studded new John Mayer tribute band, Vultures (featuring several members of the West Michigan band Brena), revved up an enthused crowd during a charity event at the new Gilmore Event Center in Plainfield Township.

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