The 2025 Concert List
This year I crossed the 600-mark for shows attended or worked *that I’ve ranked. Throw in the unranked ones and all the comics and I’d be pushing 700. I often think of what it would be like to own a music venue, at least to save money. Kidding aside, there’s so much work behind the scenes that goes unnoticed. One missed mark or mic feedback could ruin someone’s night. So can mistiming the lights, or the pyro, or the lasers, or the fog, or the fake blood. The beer is too warm. The water isn’t hot enough. There are no clocks. The clock is too bright. The bathrooms are upstairs. The intermission was too long. It was too loud. It wasn’t loud enough. People were talking too loud. Singing too loud. Not enough people were singing. The monitors malfunctioned. The guitarist started too early. The singer is off-key.
And yet, almost none of that happens almost every time. And when it does happen, it’s singular and rarely ruins the show for everyone else.
I want every show to be the best show after the best show after the best show. But it can’t happen that way. I have to go to work when work feels like work. I have to attend, even when attending means driving 3 hours away. I have to stand, even when standing is crushing my back and knees. I have to sit when sitting is squeezing me into small spaces. I have to talk to people to solve their problems, when talking is the last thing I want to do because this is my favorite song, but if your problem persists then work feels too much like work at work.
I want you to have the best time because I want to have the best time. And when it’s clearly not the best time for either of us, we have the next show, which is going to be the best show ever, until it’s not.
It could be.
I want it to be.
That’s why I saw 130 of them in 2025. We got close on a few, and we might get even closer next year.
C = Comedy
123 = Indicates ranking at the time of the show, not overall standing. Click to see the full running list. Skip to the bottom for my Top 5s.
January
262. Tycho [Bad Tuner]
When people ask me what kind of music I like, Tycho is pretty close to one of my daily drivers — Chillwave. A little ambient, not too flashy but just enough to move moments along. I’d say this is what I listen to about 1/3 of the time, and it’s great for long sauna sessions. or tuning out the office radio.
433. Highly Suspect [James and the Cold Gun, Family Dinner]
Family Dinner had a nice sticker. That was the highlight of this show. Highly Suspect ... their crew was not dope this time around.
401. Dylan Marlowe [Brian Fuller, Tyler Chambers]
February
393. Muscadine Bloodline [Colby Acuff]
Muscadine Bloodline was, as the kids are saying — mid. Though, they did have a great merch promo — buy two shirts get a free post-show meet and greet. So, kudos for the ingenuity.
85. Wallows [Deb Never]
Wallows is so far the lone entry to the Top 100 this early on, but I knew that before the year started. You’re not going to have a bad time at one of their shows, regardless of age.
489. Goose Night 1
502. Goose Night 2
A rough start on the memory banks. I can’t say that I enjoyed most of these early-year shows, but boy were these among the worst of the worst. Could it have been the ejections during Goose, the fights during Goose, the barefoot dancer in the bathroom during Goose, getting wook flu from Goose?
Probably.
Jam shows have a time and place. They play for any time they want, and my place is going to be anywhere not in the venue hall.
Oh, and some fan shoulder-checked an EMT on the way to a call.
354. Bryce Vine [Jayo]
C. Mo Amer [Paul Ellia, Cipha Sounds]
After stuffing my mouth with a handful of fruit snacks, I opened the security office door to my ex-girlfriend entering the Yondr bag line. Easily the most deer-in-the-headlights I’ve felt since I heard my labrum tear. It was the first time we saw each other after she bought me pizza and wings to soften the blow of her ending things. It’s OK. She won’t read this, she doesn’t have social media.
Comedy show was fine.
263. Bilmuri [Ally Nicholas]
Worked in the barricade for this one but some dude kept crankin’ his hog behind me. 10/10 would let him do it again.
315. Wilder Woods [HAFFWAY]
Wilder Woods is the solo project of Bear Reinhart, lead singer of Needtobreathe. I can’t say I was a fan going in, but this was the best of a handful Christian crossover artists I’ve worked. Also great shag carpet addition to The Intersection stage. The shining star was Haffway, the singer-songwriter project of Sam Westhoff, who had one of the better stripped-down sets of the year, and one of the best songs to boot, however, the album version is better than the acoustic.
213. Ella Langley [Carter Faith]
After a distressing opening 30 minutes responding to a slew of medical emergencies, Langley put on a show with clear “I saw them before they got really famous” vibes. I’m not making my Chappell Roan mistake again.
March
488. Ian Munsick [Myron Elkins]
HM. Super Future [okayjake]
I never know how to properly rank EDM shows. I was there. I heard noises. I bopped around. I bought merch.
But I don’t hold on to the songs or tracks, so it’s a never-ending struggle of being unable to identify which artist I thought was good or if it’s something I’d want to see again. I think the festivals are far easier to rank because there’s just so much more stagecraft that accompanies each performance.
509. Cooper Alan [Neon Crows]
195. Martha Wainwright
Good show, great album anniversary, just wished she’d sing in French but she skipped all those tracks.
382. Russell Dickerson [Jake Scott]
April
262. Killswitch Engage [Kublai Khan, Fit for a King, Frozen Soul]
C. Taskmaster GR
The British version of Taskmaster is one of my all-time favorite shows, so I was elated when GR was going to have a local edition that featured one of my friends, no less. Reuben was robbed!
HM. Papadosio
Not quite in the same vein as EDM or Goose, but I was drawn to the merch table yet again. Does good music translate to merch sales, or good designs? For me, I think I’m just a sucker for good stickers.
100. Bright Eyes [Cursive]
Conor Oberst has never disappointed me. I like one Cursive song which led me to believe I liked more, but I did not.
398. G-Eazy [Marc E Bassy, Goody Grace]
Damn, it happened again. I thought I was working Jeezy, not whatever in the white rapper BS this was. The middle-aged women people loved it, though, so the energy of the room glossed over a lot of my nitpicking.
C. Matt Matthews [Eunice Elliott]
Not only did MM have the largest array of merch for any comedian, he had more than most musicians, aside from Tool or 311. Everyone on his tour was very nice to deal with, even though his stickers were expensive (as were the opener’s). I was on load-out that night, so I had to lock up after the artists left. Now, most comics just ride up tot he venue from their hotel or the airport, but recall the amount of merch? This load-out took some time.
If you’re a guest at 20 that does well enough to sell the place out, you get a spot on our Green Room wall and are asked to sign it. As I’m waiting for the driver to do final inspections, out steps from the bus the Alabamian comedian in a grey and white fleece robe with matching slippers. I have never seen, nor likely will again, an artist at any venue wear such attire.
“Oh my gawd, look at yewww! I guess I have to sign a wall or sumthin'?”
“Yes, right up the stairs.”
“Ok, James and the Giant Peach, lead the way.”
We — MM, his tour manger/husband, and social media manager — all ascend the artist stairwell. MM asks how tall I am and I respond. To which he says, “Oh my gawd … so big”
C. Marc Maron [Ali Makofsky]
After one or two reschedules, I can’t remember, Maron crushes. It’s the same set as his HBO Max special, which got an OK number of laughs, but did better in the GR room, which is ironic.
156. Free Throw [Ben Quad, Harrison Gordon]
First time at Lansing’s Grewal Hall. Solid venue, good sound. Tightly packed, not a lot of ventilation. Would be fun to work in. After loving Free Throw for a while now and working Ho Ho Hot Mulligan the December prior with Ben Quad and Harrison Gordon, I knew I wasn’t missing this show. Definitely did not disappoint.
189. Jack White [Easers]
Which is weird because this show did disappoint. I think Jack White in any room is still going to be in the upper half of my charts, but this time around it felt too cumbersome. I blame the phones. The phones at the first show at 20 all those years ago were Yondr bagged, and I was really looking forward to that same experience.
The lack of Icky Thump also attributed to this ranking. Heard it in 2018, nada in 2022, and nothing in 2025.
134. Trivium [Bullet For My Valentine, August Burns Red, Bleed from Within]
200. Iron & Wine [Jobi Riccio]
The music was good but the show was something unique. Manual Cinema. It felt like being in 3rd grade again about to learn fractions on the overhead projector but also kindergarten because we got a puppet show. The only thing missing was some fruit punch and a nap.
C. Sheng Wang [Kevin Camia]
484. Eazybaked [Capochino, Lowke]
139. Spiritbox [Loathe, Dying Wish]
Man, I though Bilmuri was distracting behind me, but having to catch crowdsurfers and act vigilant while Courtney LaPlante looked like this behind me? Stay strong with eyes forward, buddy.
31. Shinedown [Beartooth, Morgan Wade]
Not Switchfoot* And it was everything I wanted it to be. Beartooth … not much more to say. The band just keeps getting better.
308. TECH N9NE [Hollywood Undead, Set It Off, Zero 9:36]
Hey, I worked both these bands and didn’t do grievous bodily harm to myself.
May
47. Linkin Park [grandson]
Emily Armstrong fits like a glove with Linkin Park. The show allowed for enough room to breathe with the heavier Chester Songs and reintroduced the band’s direct forward. There were waves of emotion throughout, and you could tell by design the band wanted moments where the crows could sing more to let some of that tension out. My mom and I saw Queen a few years back with Adam Lambert. Not to knock Lambert, who is a great singer, but he didn’t need to be there if there would not be anything “new.” Armstrong brought something new to a band that clearly wanted to continue and have something important to say.
300. Marilyn Manson [Black Satellite]
You know, a jug of Spirit Halloween fog is fine, people. We don’t need music halls to look like the graveyard from Thriller.
221. Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers
Great band, great merch, good vibes. I want to be more in on this band but there’s a creeping sense of them turning into a jam band that prevents me from further fandom.
275. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah [Knifeplay]
330. Memphis May Fire [Casket, Wind Walkers, Elijah]
494. TRSH [doan, Summerbruise]
488. Citizen Soldier [10 Years, Thousand Below]
I kept peaking out from this show to watch AngelMaker in the front room. I didn’t know this lineup would be more of a group therapy session than a rock show.
355. Pop Evil [Devour the Day, ONI]
373. Seether [POD, nonpoint]
POD should have headlined.
HM. Titan to Tachyons [Dark Sky Burial]
Mercifully released for the night before Mevlins and Napalm Death played to a crowd of dozens. The noise from these two “bands” could make the Citizen Soldier audience seek shock therapy.
221. Hippie Sabotage [Carpetman]
Carpetman was a trip. It was a pretty easy show until two TikTok girlies went on a tirade at the barricade then punched a woman in the merch line.
21. Kishi Bashi wsg Tall Tall Trees [Oshima Brothers]
SPOLIER ALERT: Best show of the year. He sings, he plays violin, he has a keytar, he loops. It’s honestly insane to watch live just how creative some musicians are.
It might go unappreciated, but he had an easel with album covers swapped out to denote which ‘packet’ of songs were from which albums and in chronological order that completely satisfied my over-analytical brain.
Oh, and a DANCING STEAK.
265. Rainbow Kitten Surprise [New Translations]
For music meant to be more uplifting they sure do have some mean fans. Not Goose mean, but not far off.
196. Ice Nine Kills Night 1 [The World Alive, The Funeral Portrait, Melrose Avenue]
205. Ice Nine Kills Night 2 [Hail the Sun, TX2, Dark Divine]
Love a theme. Love quality set pieces with theatrics. Don’t know why they needed so many different openers. I would’ve liked to see more from The Funeral Portrait and Dark Divine and less of Melrose Avenue and Hail the Sun. I mean, I had no choice while on the clock, but you get the idea.
330. Bronson Arm [Wipes]
In all of Lorne’s DAAC shows, I probably liked Wipes the most.
146. An Evening with Valerie June
The Big Room at Silva is cool but needs to absorb sound better. Other than background noise levels, I look forward to more shows here.
223. Hippo Campus [Hotline TNT]
June
145. StaticX [GWAR, Dope, A Killer's Confession]
Second run through with GWAR. Absolutely annihilated with “blood” at the back of the head, arms, and hands. Caught at least three surfers while being sprayed.
306. GRIDLIFE Night 1 [Levity, Dr. Fresch, Rossy]
294. GRIDLIFE Night 2 [Sullivan King, NGHTMRE]
I was going to post a bunch of photos and do a bigger post on the festival itself and then I just … didn’t. But I still might, so I’ll wait until I decide what to do. Or not.
80. Horse the Band [Melted Bodies]
My friend Jon gave me inspiration to combine two concert tees as one and lo and behind within the same 10-day period both Horse the Band and Band of Horses played in GR. With help from my mom sewing the back of the BoH shirt to the back of the HtB shirt (with accompanying sleeve star) all I can say is — masterpiece. I’ve only wore it to one other show, but it will be a staple for many shows to come.
383. Ryan Adams
360. The Gaslight Anthem [84 Tigers]
246. Sleep Theory [Nevertel, Oxymorrons, Strayview]
315. Band of Horses [Secret Guest]
Full disclosure — I never actually listened to Horse the Band before buying the ticket. To my surprise it was the far better show of the two similarly named despite me being a big fan of BoH. What are other similar band names I should be on the lookout for?
207. Youth Fountain [Sad Park, Good Terms]
165. The Black Crowes [The Band Feel]
491. Chase Rice [Tyler Halverson]
97. Billy Corgan & The Machines of God [Return to Dust]
This is the closest I’ll ever get to seeing The Smashing Pumpkins, and that’s OK. Going back to the Linkin Park/Queen argument, Billy Corgan is the main driving force of that band, so what does it matter if the other members aren’t present when 90% of the driving force is still showing up? It doesn’t.
His new band is good. They played for over 2 hours and did Bullet with Butterfly Wings, 1979, and Tonight Tonight. If you’re complaining after all that I hate to break it to you, every time you think about buying concert tickets, just stay home and twiddle your thumbs in darkness.
189. The Fray [verygently]
Considerable improvement from the show I worked at Summerfest when I was a teenager. Easy option to work or attend in the future.
240. The Psychedelic Furs [The Chameleons]
July
177. Phoneboy
My breakout band of the year with one of the best albums to boot. Thoroughly energetic mid-afternoon Summerfest Ground stage act and one fo the main reasons I chose that weekend to head back to Milwaukee (along with my family and baseball).
376. Phantom Planet
444. I Don’t Know How But They Found Me
Really wanted IDKHOW to be good but that man had the stage presence of a coat rack about to tip over. I don’t think that was his fault, however. They should’ve been the headliner and I’m sure the show in GR the following day was significantly better. They’re also opening for Boys Like Girls this spring so fingers crossed I just had an off experience.
553. Sebastian Bach
Speaking of off, wht the fuck was that? Bach claimed he had “mic” problems and that the sound guy was preventing the audience from an authentic rock show. The reality was he didn’t have it.
351. Everclear
It was 100 degrees. Music was good but we were suffering early heat exhaustion.
200. Spiritbox [We Came As Romans]
So, we headed for shade instead of another ground stage. Bad Omens was the headliner but I may have fallen asleep during the last couple Spiritbox songs and we left during the second intermission. But I got a (sweaty) Dale sighting, so that’s a plus.
146. The Warning
I watch this Goo Goo Dolls Iris video from time to time and wish I could capture that feeling more often. There’s really nothing like a good rain show (with no lightning). Passion Pit in 2016 is the closest I’ll get to achieving this rainswept audiological euphoria. The Warning show proved to be the best of Summerfest with its slight yet persistent drizzle and the trio of hard-rocking hermanas.
305. Upheaval Day 1 [Rob Zombie, Architects, The Plot in You]
75. Upheaval Day 2 [Falling in Reverse, Dead Poet Society, Wage War, Vended]
Zombie had a dead crowd. Most of GA looked like they were filing a David Attenborough documentary. Only time I've seen VIP out-energy GA.
I'm surprised I hadn't worked TPiY before this weekend, but I'll work them again for sure after they had one of the best breakdowns of the summer. Architects I'd like to see indoors.
As for FIR, I'm still probably not a fan, but like NIN a couple years ago, the spectacle is worth it, but I doubt their going to miss my lack of Spotify streams.
565. LoCash [Prior Noon]
190. Dinosaur Jr [Snail Mail, Easy Action]
This would be higher if Snail Mail played Ben Franklin.
410. Hatebreed [Bleeding Through, Gridiron, Gore., Snuffed On Site, Incite]
49. Flipturn [Joe P]
I missed Joe P last year in the Stache and would not miss this show (so I worked it, win-win). Flipturn also made several entries in my Spotify Wrapped over the last few years. Hard to pinpoint my favorite moment from this night, just a relentless barrage of feel-good tunes. It’s what Hippo Campus was for me the first time I saw them.
August
455. In This Moment [Wargasm, Kat Von D, The Pretty Wild]
The Pretty Wild are going places if they stop touring with any of the other bands.
71. Train [Edwin McCain]
I was skeptical of my dad when he requested this show at Meijer Gardens. Yes, the tickets were steep, but I wasn’t sure how into Train we’d be. Color me more than impressed. What a show top to bottom, side to side, and everywhere in between. From the originals to the cover medleys, to his frickin’ kid crushing Led Zeppelin, this was a show I pigeonholed for mid-200s but was pleasantly surprised with an ear-to-ear grin by the end of the night.
C. Rick Glassman [Michael Lenoci]
I used to listen to podcasts of my favorite comedians all the time. Let’s Make it Weird with Pete Holmes, 2 Bears with Tom & Bert, Gianmarco Soresi’s and Take Your Shoes Off with Rick Glassman. My mom and I were also fans of the show Undatable with him, Brent Morin, Ron Funches, and others. Lately, I find the pods hard to listen to if I want to buy stand-up tickets because too often the act is in the pod. So, to make the comedy shows better I cold turkey’d the pods. And you know what?
It helped.
Now, if there’s a podcast that came to town, I know that’s a different show. If Bad Friends came to town, no doubt I’d want to be there, but when Santino tours, I’m not mainlining his show before seeing/working him as it diminishes the experience. Rick is extremely funny both in the pod and in the act, and going back into the pod after seeing him has made the pod experience better, knowing that the odds of seeing him live again are lessened.
Thank you for reading Circular Reasoning with Jon Rzepecki.
C. Josh Johnson [Logan Nielsen, Manda]
His meet and greet line shouldn’t be that long. Retirees came up to him showing pictures of their grandkids and talking about his comedy “changed their lives.” He’s 35.
84. Breakaway Day 1 [Zedd, Gryffin, Disco Lines, Frank Walker, DJ Mandy, Klo, RIINK]
457. Breakaway Day 2 [Rezz, IsoXo, Tape B, Viperactive, Nikita The Wicked, Lowke, Blüejay]
I made friendship bracelets for both days. They were very popular.
247. STS9
C. Jessica Kirson [Collin Chamberlin]
HM. Return to the River Day 1: [The Glitch Mob]
171. Bully [Jawdropped]
Missed her at Summerfest but got the opportunity for her rescheduled Grand Rapids date. Lucky For You is an addictive summer road trip album, like when Sheryl Crow had her mid-90s edge.
352. SLUR [Coyote, Barefaced]
September
209. Rilo Kiley [Dean Johnson]
331. Peach Pit [Miya Folick]
102. The Front Bottoms [Sincere Engineer]
They’re a 1-star Michelin band — never not seeing them if they’re in my city. They toured Back on Top which isn’t my favorite (or top 3 of their albums) but the crowd swung back into fervor during the 8-song encore when lead singer Brian Sella donned a bra thrown on stage and mimed eating a woman’s grandmother’s ashes she had in a vial she temporarily lost then handed (to me first) to him on stage.
358. Prof [Snott Nosed Rez Kids, Reeves Junya]
243. Goth Babe
I bought a ticket to the Quinn XCII show solely to see Goth Babe play one song my aunt and I missed when he got rained out of his early-evening set at Kilby Bloc Party. Worth every penny.
461. Northlane [Like Moths to Flames, Windwaker]
341. Powerwolf [Dragonforce]
Another Dale sighting. … My Friends!
261. Carcass [Brujeria, Necrot, Hedonist]
Of all the other bands this year, this was the only one to feature groupies in the most classical sense.
223. Cannibal Corpse [Municipal Waste, Full of Hell, Fulci]
Deodorant may be the enemy of metal heads, yet you can tell they use nice shampoo for their long hair. Makes no damn sense. Compels me though.
564. Marianas Trench [The Summer Set, Senses]
57. Franz Ferdinand [Master Peace]
Shout out to Alex on the tix, needed this one bad. Soon to be immortalized on the 2025 edition of my 20 Monroe framed pieces.
October
75. Tune-Yards [Ringdown]
There’s this new relief when I hit 100 shows. I’m more open to how wonderful shows can be, and more critical. I desperately want to be entertained when attending shows versus working, when I tend to be in a more “customer service” mode. But when the show hits right, the universe aligns, and I may even do a little dancing. It does not happen often, and usually when I’m not in my home city (this show was in Kalamazoo).
535. Marc Rebillet [Capyac]
No thank you.
341. From Ashes to New [Magnolia Park, Until I Wake, Not Enough Space]
174. Saint Motel [Adan Diaz]
Game 5 of the NLDS between the Brewers and Cubs. I walk into The Intersection to clock in and see the lead singer of Adan Diaz wearing a Cubs shirt. We chat by the merch booth.
He performs in a fresh shirt. The Brewers win (their last game of the postseason) and I got them to sign my setlist, which may or may not have happened under duress.
565. Maddox Batson [Ryder Grimes]
285. Counterparts [Thrown, 156/Silence, Split Chain]
Ominous stage setup.
157. Lawrence [Jacob Jeffries]
Sneaky good band. Clearly a bunch of musical theater kids given a decent budget. I’d like to see them and Lake Street Dive do a Meijer Gardens show.
230. Cage the Elephant [Hey Nothing, Vlad Holiday]
They hired Manson’s fog guy.
269. Neon Trees [Twin Shadow]
Wanted to see Twin Shadow for a while and due to Trump’s visa crackdowns, I did. Should’ve left after that.
189. Off with Their Heads [SMUG LLC]
The whole band was dressed as different Kenny Powers. Powerses?
C. Michael Blaustein [Neel Gosh, Monty Geer]
517. Deadflower [Point Blank Society, Focus Ring]
357. Dylan Gossett [Buffalo Traffic Jam]
November
94. Josh Ritter [Tre Burt]
My agency does the ads for St. Cecilia Music Center, so if you’ve seen their ads were swayed to buy a ticket, congrats, I’m in your head. In my head for the last 17-odd years was the opening lyrics of To the Dogs or Whoever by Josh Ritter after a watching a video from a YouTube channel that doesn’t exist anymore while I was studying for some accounting midterm I Cd or Dd before switching majors and subsequently the course of my entire adult life.
Normal stuff to think about.
79. A Day to Remember [Yellowcard]
Third song in, Lights and Sounds, couldn’t be happier. The album came out during my senior year of high school, but I hadn’t discovered it until I downloaded Limewire in college and burned too many CDs while juggling football and accounting classes. It was too many things.
98. Chiodos [Hawthorne Heights, Emmure, Big Ass Truck]
I misattributed a bunch of HH songs to other bands, knew more Chiodos songs than originally though (zero, but none by ridiculous title names), and was bemused by Big Ass Truck. Emmure … odd placement for this tour. It worked, but it shouldn’t have.
126. Durry [Vial]
Years ago they played at Midtown and promised that when they returned, they wanted a bunch of big boys like myself start a super-sized mosh pit during Big Boy. They did not play that song. Everything else was good.
250. The Band Camino [Almost Monday, In Color]
Headlights was in my top plays all year and it didn’t hit me that it was the same band until the chorus. In Color is returning soon and I’ll definitely be in attendance. The rest of the show was fine just not for me.
450. Tee Grizzley
87. Carter Vail [Arts Fishing Club]
150. Thursday [Free Throw]
453. Lucius Fox [Kat Karnage, The Blank]
323. Whitechapel [Bodysnatcher, AngelMaker, Disembodied Tyrant]
435. Sevendust [Cory Marks]
C. Demetri Martin
He needs a video screen.
581. Yung Gravy
Horrendous, but everyone knew that going. They had to. There’s no other explanation.
December
C. Tom Papa [Sarah Tiana]
124. Currents [Invent Animate, 156/Silence, From Joy]
Ass kicked. At least 100 solo catches.
357. Nonpoint [Boy Hits Car, Aurorawave]
I went viral. The kid helped views, even though he didn’t do anything. Freeloader.
349. Afterglow NYE [Big Gigantic, HEYZ, Jason Leech, Flats Stanlie]
I had to eject a couple the minute of midnight. Has to be a record for 2026 across all venues. What were they doing? Too much, even for NYE.
Top 5 Non-Festival Indoor Shows
Kishi Bashi wsg Tall Tall Trees and Oshima Brothers at The Pyramid Scheme
Shinedown with Beartooth and Morgan Wade at Van Andel Arena
Linkin Park with grandson at Van Andel Arena
Flipturn with Joe P at The Intersection
Franz Ferdinand with Master Peace at St. Andrew’s Hall
Top 5 Sets
Top 5 Songs
Lights and Sounds — Yellowcard
Sound of Madness — Shinedown
Circle With Me — Spiritbox (Grand Rapids)
Headlights — In Color
Better If Worse — HAFFWAY
Top 5 Moments
Rock Monahan (son of Pat) singing Over the Hills and Far Away with Train and crushing it.
Carpetman. Whatever this is, it’s not normal. I forgot I was working.
The breakdown of Forgotten setting the tone at Upheaval
Getting sprayed by GWAR only to move and the guy in front of me open his mouth to … receive
My awkward hallway encounter with a robed comedian, his husband, and social media manager
