Kid Rock soars in Grand Rapids: The Spins on Music photo gallery
One of Michigan’s favorite native sons pumped up a sellout crowd during his concert at Grand Rapids’ Van Andel Arena on Wednesday night, part of his Rebel Soul Tour 2013.[…]
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The Best of New Year’s Eve & beyond: The Grand Rapids concert guide
The Big List highlights The Ragbirds & Crane Wives, Starlight Six, Outer Vibe & Jesse McCartney, tributes to Buddy Holly and The Beatles. It’s all there on New Year’s Eve[…]
The Verve Pipe, Quadraphonic, The Weatherheads: West Michigan’s concert weekend in photos
West Michigan’s pre-Christmas musical revelry had things jingling merrily from The Intersection to the lakeshore, shared in photos at Spins on Music. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting[…]
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Jesse McCartney, Baby Bash, Sylvia Yacoub, The Outer Vibe fire up Grand Rapids’ Hot-FM New Year’s Eve Party
For a photo recap of Grand Rapids’ outdoor New Year’s Eve bash and more, click here. The Hot FM party returned Monday to Monroe Avenue near Rosa Parks Circle downtown[…]
ArtPrize music showcase perseveres through rain, chill on Day 2 (video)
The show really must go on: Most scheduled acts on the second day of the ArtPrize Musicians’ Showcase performed in spite of Friday’s rainy weather. It continues Saturday and Sunday[…]
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ArtPrize hits soft opening note; SCMC music showcase kicks off weekend
ArtPrize Musicians’ Showcase at Grand Rapids’ St. Cecilia Music Center saw small but mindful audiences; nearly 50 acts to play indoors and out over the weekend. The crowds weren’t imposing,[…]
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ArtPrize singing new tune: Bands, songwriters vie for $10,000 in prizes
WEATHER NOTICE: Due to rainy conditions, outdoor performances may or may not take place as part of the St. Cecilia music showcase. In the event of rain, bands/performers will be[…]
ArtPrize Week 1 Music Guide: Grand Rapids’ best live shows with Jesus & Mary Chain, Minus the Bear, Crane Wives, ArtPrize Musicians’ Showcase
Grand Rapids’ live music options abound as ArtPrize kicks into gear this week, ranging from Rise Against and Stepdad to West Michigan’s best bands on display. If you’ve been[…]
Some of Midwest’s best live music showcased in Grand Rapids
Midwest Arts Conference being held for the first time in West Michigan draws performing arts industry reps, dynamic performers. (Video) Rhonda Vincent, The Second City, Susan Ashton, John Berry, The[…]
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Ralston & Friends charm crowd at Meijer Gardens’ final Tuesday concert of summer
Ralston Bowles, Sweet J Band, ‘mystery guest’ Brian Vander Ark, Lux Land, Peter Mulvey create perfect musical ending to Tuesday Evening Music Club (video) GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP — An[…]
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West Michigan concert guide: Wynton Marsalis, Soul of the City, Ralston & Peter Mulvey, Labor Fest
West Michigan concert hoopla continues in earnest as Labor Day approaches with Grand Rapids’ Soul of the City, Wynton Marsalis, Ralston and more. Ralston & Friends, Peter Mulvey: Tuesday Evening[…]
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Rockford Barnstormer: A barnload of riveting West Michigan music for a worthy cause (video)
The first Rockford Barnstormer showcased bands Potato Moon, Hannah Rose, Nicholas James & The Bandwagon and many more, family fun and a good cause: aiding area refugees. It may[…]
Miranda Lambert delivers star power, throngs to Rock the Rapids opener
Country star Miranda Lambert draws a huge and enthusiastic opening-night crowd for downtown Grand Rapids’ Rock the Rapids festival. On Monday, the “Fastest Girl in Town” helped make Rock[…]
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West Michigan concert guide: Grace Potter, Bonnie Raitt, GRandJazzFest, City Lights, Hoxeyville
A bracing week of West Michigan concerts: Grand Rapids’ City Lights Music Festival, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Bonnie Raitt, GRandJazzFest and Hoxeyville top the Spins on Music list. Grace[…]
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Cowpie Music Festival pumps up fans with Michigan-bred bands
Expanded Cowpie fest on Shagbark Farm south of Grand Rapids survived rainy opening night; thrives Saturday with fine mix of Michigan bands. Video, photos From Mudpie to Cowpie … just[…]
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The Head and The Heart puts body and soul into Meijer Gardens concert
Seattle indie-folk/rock band The Head and The Heart revved up an exuberant, young crowd on Thursday. (Review, photos, video) For 19-year-old John Vouaux of Bay City, driving clear across the[…]
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Snakes, alligator, contortionist, Boyz II Men part of 2012 Rock the Rapids
Rock the Rapids in late August will bring six days of concerts and some unusual street entertainment to downtown Grand Rapids. Alice Cooper, one of Rock the Rapids’ 2011 headliners,[…]
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West Michigan concert guide: Kansas, The Head & The Heart, Matisyahu
West Michigan’s concert guide for July 30-Aug.5 includes the Coast Guard Festival. Elsewhere in the state, there’s Coldplay, Sugarland, Chicago, Matt Giraud. David Thom Band 9:30 p.m. Monday Free The[…]
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West Michigan concert guide: Lyle Lovett, Mississippi Heat, Billy Currington, Jukes final weekend
Late July’s live music scene is firing on all cylinders as Spins on Music’s West Michigan concert guide shows. And the Detroit Tigers are now fired up, too. Edye Evans[…]
Stand up, sit down, fight, fight, fight: Observing concert etiquette or anything goes (commentary)
It’s “you make a better door than a window” vs. “get up and party to show the band you care.” Right about this time every year, in the midst of[…]
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Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Stu Cook: Still honoring ‘the original band every night’ (Sunday music profile, video)
Creedence Clearwater Revisited 7 p.m. Wednesday $51 ($49 for Meijer Gardens members) Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids Township Get ticket information here. In the late ’60s and[…]
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GRAM on the Green kicks off with An Dro; summer series features eclectic list of regional acts
GRAM on the Green will turn into GRAM in the AC tonight after all. With the temperature soaring to record-breaking triple-digit levels, Grand Rapids Art Museum officials this afternoon (July[…]
The hottest Fourth of July show ever: Donald Kinsey, Kari Lynch, Garrett Borns, The Outer Vibe fire up downtown Grand Rapids (video)
It was a Fourth of July to remember. On the hottest day of the year thus far, with the temperature reaching a searing 99 degrees, thousands flooded the banks of[…]
Electric Forest: The groovy musical weekend escape in review (videos, photos)
For four days or so, Electric Forest was an escape from the real world. More than 25,000 jam-band and electronic music fans – the more outrageously colorful and silly the[…]
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Huey Lewis, 4th of July celebration, Honor By August, Bad Veins, Brandi Carlile & a beach bash: Concert picks of the week (videos)
Huey Lewis & The News, Katie Todd 7 p.m. Monday $75 ($73 Meijer Gardens members) Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park It’s so hot, chickens are laying hard-boiled eggs. Sorry,[…]
Electric Forest goes wild: The music festival by day and by night (photos, videos)
Everything is different in the dark. Way different. In daylight, Electric Forest sweats with a sun-splashed milieu that sort of celebrates Michigan’s great outdoors – concertgoers gyrating and hula-hoopers hooping[…]
How hot was Meijer Gardens’ Gov’t Mule concert? Sizzling (photos, video)
The temperature was in the 90s at showtime, but nothing was hotter than Warren Haynes’ guitar work as Gov’t Mule made its Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park debut on[…]
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The Electric Forest music guide: Daily concert picks by Spins on Music (videos)
It doesn’t have the big-name headliners of Rothbury past – Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Snoop Dogg – but this weekend’s Electric Forest at Double JJ Resort some 24 miles[…]
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Electric Forest, Lil’ Ed & Blues Imperials, Gov’t Mule, Emmylou Harris, Rufus Wainwright: Concert Picks of the Week (videos)
Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials WLAV Budweiser Blues on the Mall Series 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Free Rosa Parks Circle, downtown Grand Rapids June’s final week builds nicely to quite[…]
Founders Fest taps keg on massive summer street party with Soulive, UV Hippo, more; Frank Salamone tribute nearby (videos)
It was a celebration worthy of John’s Day. No, I didn’t see any guys strolling around with bushy oak-leaf crowns, but I saw plenty of unusual headgear at Saturday’s Founders[…]
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Under-the-Radar Weekend Picks: Tip Top Deluxe’s One-Year Anniversary and prog-rock’s The Crimson ProjeKct
As complicated as it may have been to renovate an old, long-dormant tavern and convert it into a keen new music venue, Ted Smith concedes that adjusting and reconstructing attitudes[…]
Al Green keeps things short, sweet and oh-so-soulful in homecoming concert at Meijer Gardens (video)
It’s nowhere near his biggest hit, but when Al Green sings “Tired of Being Alone,” he fuses all of the elements that have made him a Grammy-winning superstar of soul:[…]
Al Green, Founders Fest, Vital Information, Cheap Trick, Frank Salamone tribute and more: Concert picks of the week (videos)
Al Green 7 p.m. Monday The concert is sold out. Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids Township I fondly recall many things about soul singer Al Green’s much-ballyhooed[…]
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Rock the Rapids goes country: Miranda Lambert and Toby Keith added to Grand Rapids festival lineup
Country superstars Miranda Lambert and Toby Keith will play the six-day Rock the Rapids music festival in downtown Grand Rapids in late August. Lambert, touring behind her latest album, “Four[…]
Jimmy Cliff, Homemade Jamz, Foreigner, Steve Miller, Our Lady Peace, Pinback and more: Concert picks of the week (videos)
Vincent Hayes Project Huntington Rogue River Blues Series 7 p.m. Tuesday Free Garden Club Park, Rockford I mentioned the Carnival of Madness tour in a recent post. Well, it’s festival[…]
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Shinedown, Evanescence, Papa Roach, Halestorm bring Uproar Festival and Carnival of Madness to Rock the Rapids
The “leaks” have begun. As is Rock the Rapids’ habit, the first two of six dates of the August downtown Grand Rapids music festival were announced today: Shinedown, Papa Roach,[…]
Roger Waters unleashes ‘The Wall’ in Grand Rapids: Brick-by-brick highlights of the ‘Mother’ of all rock concerts
It makes perfect sense. That Pink Floyd visionary Roger Waters at one time studied to be an architect before pursuing his music career really paid off with the crowning achievement[…]
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Roger Waters, Melissa Etheridge, Buttermilk Jamboree, Local First Street Party, a 1993 tribute: Concert Picks of the Week (videos)
Roger Waters’ “The Wall” 8 p.m. Wednesday $66.50-$214.35 Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids Let’s hope the sun keeps smiling as it did on Festival Sunday, because outdoor summer music hoopla[…]
B-52s endure rain, chilly weather to heat up Meijer Gardens dance party on opening night
Quirky doesn’t begin to describe the opening night of Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park’s 10th summer concert series. How about abnormally wet and extra-terrestrially weird? Not only was Friday[…]
Royal Oak festival seeking West Michigan bands for Labor Day weekend performance slots
Grand Rapids’ Festival of the Arts will raise the curtain on summer entertainment this weekend with dozens of bands, dance groups and solo artists playing several stages over three days.[…]
The B-52s, Festival of the Arts, Ronnie Dunn, Against Me! and more: Concert picks of the week (videos)
2012 Festival of the Arts Noon Friday-7 p.m. Sunday Free Throughout downtown Grand Rapids I literally ran out of gas on my way back into town on Monday, but there’s[…]
Grand Rapids’ Jukes Bar to close in July; music club plans high-profile final show
Amid all of the new music venues and nightlife concert opportunities that Grand Rapids has spawned in recent years, there’s now some sobering news to report: Jukes Bar on Leonard[…]
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shannon Stephens, Keys N Krates, Marcia Ball and more: Live music picks of the week
Shannon Stephens 7 p.m. Friday Free Schuler Books & Music, Grand Rapids (28th Street) Seattle singer-songwriter Shannon Stephens plays a bluesy folk-rock with her “Fabulous Friends” that’s earned attention from[…]
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Garrett Borns, The Crane Wives, Kari Lynch, The Icicles, Ralston and more in lineup for Meijer Gardens’ Tuesday Evening Music Club
Boasting 17 of Michigan’s most dynamic bands and performers, 2012’s edition of the Tuesday Evening Music Club series at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is sure to pack the[…]
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Bonnie Raitt, Steve Miller Band, Gavin DeGraw/Colbie Caillat sell out Meijer Gardens shows; six others nearing capacity
Bonnie Raitt’s done it again. For the second straight time, the blues guitarist-singer’s scheduled concert at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park has sold out on the first day of[…]
Theory of a Deadman, Alcoholic Faith Mission, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Cinco de Mayo jazz, Aris Hampers’ birthday with Ambrosia: Under-the-Radar concert picks (videos)
Caroline Herring 7:30 p.m. Monday Free, donations to KidsFirst One Trick Pony, Grand Rapids Grand Rapids is always looking for an excuse to party. This week, it doesn’t need one.[…]
Record Store Day rocks West Michigan: Fans love indie record shops, and that’s vinyl (video)
If the turnout Saturday at just two of West Michigan’s most popular independent record shops is any indication, Record Store Day had things spinning toward its biggest success story yet.[…]
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fun., Bruce Cockburn, Guggenheim Grotto, Bob Marley, Record Store Day and way more: Under-the-Radar Concert Picks
Jim Avett 7:30 p.m. Monday Free admission, $10 donation suggested for In The Image SHOES program One Trick Pony, Grand Rapids If you thought last week was nuts, take a[…]
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Al Green, Bonnie Raitt, Jimmy Cliff, Gov’t Mule, Emmylou Harris, Andrew Bird, Foreigner pump up Meijer Gardens summer series
This summer’s garden party just got a whole lot more interesting. Soul singer and hometown hero Al Green, blues legend Bonnie Raitt (with Mavis Staples), reggae icon Jimmy Cliff, jam[…]
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Soulive, Toubab Krewe, Seth & May to rev up 2012 Founders Fest; Detroit guitarist Tim Bowman to headline new GRandJazzFest
Today’s anti-summer weather might not scream shorts and hula hoops, but live music’s favorite time of year is on the doorstep as evidenced by this week’s Grand Rapids festival announcements.[…]
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