Live Music Journal

Concerts & Live Performances Personal Chronology

(This page is a work in progress)

2026

Aug 12 2025 — NewDad, Polaris Hall, Portland OR (With Reza)
May 18 2025 — Sharon Van Etten, Revolution Hall, Portland OR
Apr 11 2025 — Deep Sea Diver, Wonder Ballroom, Portland OR ⭐
Jan 25 2025 — Lady Lamb, Mississippi Studios, Portland OR
Mar 2 2024 — Great Lake Swimmers w/Clem Snide, Wonder Ballroom, Portland OR
Oct 22 2024 — Stars w/Kevin Drew & Nilüfer Yanya, Wonder Ballroom, Portland OR 🌱 (Set Yourself on Fire anniversary tour)
Jul 12 2024 — Les Savy Fav, Revolution Hall, Portland OR
Nov 6 2023 — KISS, Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle WA ⭐
Aug 19 2023 — Japanese Breakfast w/Built to Spill, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland OR
Aug 4 2023 — Big Thief w/Lucinda Williams, McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater, Troutdale OR ⭐

Aug 23 2019 — Iron & Wine / Calexico, Keller Auditorium, Portland OR
Aug 14 2019 — Bad Books, Revolution Hall, Portland OR
May 14 2019 — Lady Lamb, Mississippi Studios, Portland OR
Feb 26 2017 — Sleater-Kinney, Colin Meloy, Quasi, Revolution Hall, Portland OR 🎪
Oct 12 2016 — Erika Wennerstrom (of Heartless Bastards), Mississippi Studios, Portland OR
Aug 26 2016 — Real Estate, Lola’s Room (from Crystal Ballroom), Portland OR
Aug 15 2016 — Broods, Roseland Theater, Portland OR
Mar 25 2016 — Geographer w/The Crookes, Hawthorne Theatre, Portland OR

Jul 19, 2015 — Project Pabst Festival, Weezer / Passion Pit / Alvvays / Amy Mann & Ted Leo
Apr 30 2015 — Leon Bridges, Cliff Bell’s, Detroit MI 🌱⭐ (150-cap jazz club pre-Coming Home)
Apr 2015 — Geographer, The Loving Touch, Royal Oak MI 🌱 (Ghost Modern tour)
Mar 28 2015 — Love Axe, The Berkley Front, Berkley MI 🌱 (local indie show)
Feb 28 2015 — Hozier, Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak MI 🌱 (pre-breakthrough Take Me to Church tour)
Jun 29 2014 — Green Jelly, Mac’s Bar, Lansing MI
Jun 17 2014 — Sharon Van Etten, The Loving Touch, Royal Oak MI 🌱⭐ (Are We There tour)

Jul 2013 — Common Ground Music Festival, Lansing MI 🎪 (AWOLNATION, Cold War Kids, Local Natives)
Jul 11 2013 — Matthew Good, Barracuda Pretty, St. Catherines ON
Jun 12 2013 — The National w/Daughter, The Orbit Room, Grand Rapids MI 🌱 (Trouble Will Find Me tour)
Jun 9 2013 — Lucero, The Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI 🌱 (intimate club follow-up)
Apr 8 2013 — The Joy Formidable, The Loft, Lansing MI 🌱 (Wolf’s Law tour; ~350 cap)
Mar 27 2013 — Lucero, The Loft, Lansing MI
May 14 2012 — Primus, Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor MI ⭐ (3D Tour; Green Naugahyde era)
Apr 25 2012 — Death Cab for Cutie w/Low, The Fillmore Detroit (formerly State Theatre) MI (Codes and Keys tour)

Nov 11 2011 — Blitzen Trapper w/Dawes, Neptune Theater, Seattle WA
Aug 20 2011 — Queensrÿche, Congress Theater, Chicago IL
Dec 31 2009 — Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, Subterranean, Chicago IL 🌱 (New Year’s Eve indie highlight)
Jul 7 2009 — Stone Temple Pilots, Common Ground Music Festival, Lansing MI 🎪 (headlining reunion show)
Mar 28 2009 — The Avett Brothers, The Crofoot Ballroom, Pontiac MI 🌱 (pre-fame I and Love and You tour)
May 26 2007 — Feist w/My Brightest Diamond, Massey Hall, Toronto ON ⭐ (career peak performance)
Nov 14 2006 — Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, The Magic Stick, Detroit MI 🌱 (Knives Don’t Have Your Back tour; intimate piano set)

May 1–2 2004 — Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Empire Polo Field, Indio CA ⭐🎪 (headliners Radiohead & The Cure; also Pixies, Flaming Lips, Air, Killers, LCD Soundsystem)
Sep 13 2003 — Cursive, Majestic Theatre, Detroit MI
Jul 22 2003 — The Mars Volta w/ Rye Coalition, St. Andrew’s Hall, Detroit MI
Apr 12 2003 — Sigur Rós, Fine Arts Center, Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI 🌱⭐ (intimate early U.S. tour show)
Mar 7 2002 — SnoCore Tour — Glassjaw, Alien Ant Farm, Adema, Earshot, Fenix TX — State Theatre, Detroit MI 🎪
Feb 22 2002 — System of a Down, The Deltaplex, Grand Rapids MI
Sep 13 2001 — Tool, Wendler (Teco) Arena, Saginaw MI ⭐ (Lateralus tour; one of first shows post-9/11, intense home-state crowd)
Nov 29 2000 — Chevelle, The Orbit Room, Grand Rapids MI 🌱 (Point #1 tour; pre-breakthrough club show)
Nov 10 2000 — Deftones, Cobo Arena, Detroit MI
Aug 25 2000 — A Perfect Circle, State Theatre, Detroit MI
Jun 22 2000 — Weezer, Metro, Chicago IL 🌱⭐ (1,100-cap comeback show debuting Green Album songs)

Jul 11 1998 — Metallica, Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston MI
Sep 30 1998 — Family Values Tour — Korn, Rammstein, Ice Cube, Limp Bizkit, Orgy — The Palace of Auburn Hills MI 🎪
Mar 3 1999 — Godsmack w/ Pushmonkey, St. Andrew’s Hall, Detroit MI (autographed ticket)
Apr 3 1999 — Elliott Smith, St. Andrew’s Hall, Detroit MI ⭐ (deeply emotional solo performance)
Apr 8 1999 — Finger Eleven, The Shelter, Detroit MI 🌱 (Tip tour; early club show beneath St. Andrew’s Hall)
Nov 23 1999 — Days of the New, St. Andrew’s Hall, Detroit MI

🌱 = small/pre-fame ⭐ = most memorable 🎪 = festival