206 W. Michigan Ave., Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti
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This downtown Ypsilanti coffeehouse-bar features live music Tues.–Sat. and occasional Sun. & Mon. 8–11 p.m. Cover (usually), dancing.
Upcoming Events
March 3, 2025: “Gear Lords: A Night in Electronic Music.”Monthly gathering of live electronic production musicians, using beat machines, samplers, modular systems, synths and similar instruments.
March 6, 2025: Microplastics.
Local indie pop band. Openers: Holy Profane, a Detroit lo-fi psychedelic folk-punk band, and Lyloc, a local alternative rock band.
March 7, 2025: Lawncare.
Local indie rock ’n’ roll quartet. Openers: Kix94, and Bitch Kraft, a Detroit rock ’n’ roll trio.
March 8, 2025: “734 Saturdays.”
Open mic, along with a featured performer TBA. Sign-up starts at 7 p.m.
March 11, 2025: Piotr/Thollem/Abby.
Jazz trio with the acclaimed avant-jazz and post-classical composer-keyboardist Thollem McDonas and 2 local musicians, multi-instrumental reeds player Piotr Michalowski and cellist Abby Alwin.
March 12, 2025: Shells.
The stage name of Shelley Salant, who plays moody, expansive electric guitar pieces. Openers: Shades, a Michigan-bred Brooklyn-based composer and electronic musician, and Koltay, a Detroit ambient musician.
March 13, 2025: Skinned Knees.
Ypsilanti indie pop-folk singer-songwriter. Openers: Ethan WL, a Boston experimental noise rock singer-songwriter & guitarist, and Hunter & the HasBeens, an Ypsilanti rock trio fronted by vocalist Hunter Walrod.
March 14, 2025: Tyler Austin Baker.
Detroit outlaw country singer-songwriter. Openers: Turner Porter, a Detroit-based country-flavored Americana singer-songwriter, and Critter Ruwart, a country-folk singer-songwriter from Wyoming.
March 15, 2025: Bimbo.
Marquette noise-rock brother-and-sister duo. Openers TBA.
March 18, 2025: Kenji Lee & His Fortune Teller Trio.
Jazz ensemble led by saxophonist Lee, whose music also draws on Japanese folk music, Western classical music, and punk.
March 19, 2025: Bubba Fontaine.
Experimental composer from Indiana who performs on his own custom-made “noise box” instruments. Openers: Galen Bundy, a local jazz keyboardist, and John Collins McCormick, an experimental noise composer-musician from Parma (MI).
March 20, 2025: Jim Cherewick.
Versatile veteran local postpunk rock ’n’ roll singer-songwriter. Openers: Edgar Cayce & His Guitar, a Saginaw anti-folk singer-songwriter & guitarist, and Dollie Rot, a local acoustic bedroom-pop singer-songwriter.
March 21, 2025: Perfect Strangers.
Detroit alternative rock band. Openers: Raincheck, a Detroit-area alt-rock band, and The Telephone Poles, a U-M student pop-rock band.
March 22, 2025: The Hourlies.
Detroit rock band. Openers TBA.
March 25, 2025: Tom Green & Jeffrey Freer.
Jazz piano duo.
March 26, 2025: Mercer Patterson Quintet.
U-M music student jazz ensemble led by composer-pianist Patterson.
March 27, 2025: Strawberry Launch.
NYC psychedelic dream-pop quintet. Openers: Laura Blackford, the local post-rock ambient trio Soft Mesh, and the local indie rock band The Nuts.
March 28, 2025: Birder.
New Ypsilanti band fronted by a pair of singer-songwriters. Openers: the Lansing rock quartet Harper, the Detroit-area rock trio Riot Course, and the Lansing indie singer-songwriter Zora Rooibos.
March 29, 2025: Stomp Rockets.
This energetic local garage-punk quintet is the latest in a long, storied line of great bands fronted by the charismatic vocalist Dan Mulholland. Openers: Mazinga, a popular veteran Ypsilanti Detroit-style rock ‘n’ roll band, and other bands TBA.
March 30, 2025: The Wholesome Boys.
Nashville quartet known for its high-energy rock’n’roll story songs. Openers: Cracked & Hooked, an Ypsilanti rock band whose music is said to occupy the territory “somewhere between Paul Westerberg and Neil Young,” and Bren ’n’ Co., a local rock band led by singer-songwriter & guitarist Brendan Collins.
Past Events
March 3, 2025: “Gear Lords: A Night in Electronic Music.”Monthly gathering of live electronic production musicians, using beat machines, samplers, modular systems, synths and similar instruments. (More Info)
February 7, 2025: “Songwriters in the Round.” (More Info)
February 5, 2025: “Gear Lords: A Night in Electronic Music.” (More Info)
February 1, 2025: James Bourland & the Staches. (More Info)
