In chronological order Joyce Manor w/ AJJ & Mannequin Pussy (Frankie's Toledo, OH 2/04) Lemuria (Performing "Get Better") w/ Cayetana & Mikey Erg (Grog Shop Cleveland, OH 2/09) New Found Glory (Performing S/T and Sticks & Stones) w/ Trash Boat (Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, OH 4/04) Every Time I Die w/ Wage War & '68 (Basement Transmissions Erie, PA 5/09) Sorority Noise w/ Mat Kerekes, The Obsessives & Mccafferty (Mahalls Cleveland, OH 5/12) Chance, The Rapper w/ DJ Oreo & King Louie (Nationwide Arena Columbus, OH 5/16) Third Eye Blind (Performing S/T) w/ Silversun Pickups (Jacobs Pavilion Cleveland, OH 7/08) The Menzingers w/ The Sidekicks & Shitty Neighbors (Frankie's Toledo, OH 7/26) Rancid w/ Dropkick Murphy's, The Bouncing Souls & Jake Burns (Jacob's Pavilion Cleveland, OH 7/31) The Lawrence Arms (Performing Oh Calcutta! & Buttsweat & Tears) at Riot Fest 2017 (Chicago, IL 9/16) Manchester Orchestra w/ Tigers Jaw & Foxing (The Fillmore Detroit, MI 9/26) Paramore w/ Best Coast (Akron Civic Center Akron, OH 10/15) The Front Bottoms w/ Basement & Bad Bad Hats (House of Blues Cleveland, OH 10/25) PKEW PKEW PKEW at Fest 16 (Gainesville, FL 10/28) The Flatliners (Performing The Great Awake) at Fest 16 (Gainesville, FL 10/28) Against Me! (Performing Reinventing Axl Rose) at Fest 16 (Gainesville, FL 10/28) PUP at Snowed In 2017 (Agora Theatre Cleveland, OH 11/25) Jeff Rosenstock (Performing "Worry") w/ Laura Stevenson & Christmas Farren (First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA 12/15) Say Anything (Performing "In Defense Of The Genre Disc 2 & ...Is A Real Boy") w/ Radar State & Backwards Dancer (Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, OH 12/17) The Sidekicks (Performing "So Long Soggy Dog & Sam") w/ Delay, Signals Midwest, Annabel & Two Hand Fools (Mahalls Cleveland, OH 12/28)
1. Modern Baseball- Union Transfer- October 14th. Played all of Sports and closed the show with 3 straight performances of Your Graduation. Never before had been to Philadelphia so it was one of the best times of 2017. 2. Knocked Loose- Mansfield Warped Tour - Very chaotic and violent set. 3. Grayscale- Fall River VFW - grayscale played a floor headlining show in a VFW room. Crowd was sick band was super hyped to be doing it. 4. Thrice- Circa Survive co headliner - Boston House of blues- Incredible Musicians 2nd time seeing them they never missed a beat 5. Mayday Parade- A lesson in Romantics 10 year tour- Boston House of Blues - basically sung along the entire time, knuckle puck also killed it that night. 6. Free Throw- Sonias in Cambridge - Headlining show, crowd was super tight and everyone was just having a blast singing along 7. The Menzingers- Upstairs Palladium- Sold out. Never sweated so much in my life. Middle of July, 90+ degrees outside
In no order here are some of my favorites from the past year off the top of my head: Wu Tang Clang - Riot Fest (Chicago) Pkew Pkew Pkew - The Fest (Gainesville) Rancid/Dropkick Murphys/Bouncing Souls (Cleveland) The Suicide Machines/Bad Cop Bad Cop/Direct Hit/Rebel Spies/The Eradicator (Chicago) The Lawrence Arms/Nothington/Sass Dragons (Chicago War on Christmas night 3) Power Trip and Iron Regan (Cleveland) The Menzingers/Jeff Rosenstock/Rozwell Kid (Detroit) White Reaper (Columbus) John Moreland and Iron and Wine (Chicago)
Bill Callahan, Nathan Bowles @ Third Man (Nashville) Kamasi Washington, Moonchild @ Marathon Music Works (Nashville) Bon Iver @ The Ryman (Nashville) Fleet Foxes, Beach House @ Red Rocks (Denver) Noname @ Exit-In (Nashville) Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, Jen Cloher @ The Ryman (Nashville) Lambchop @ The Belcourt (Nashville) James Mcmurtry @ 3rd and Lindsey (Nashville) Craig Finn, John K. Sampson @ City Winery (Nashville) Kendrick Lamar @ Bridgestone Arena (Nashville) Hiss Golden Messenger @ Grimeys (Nashville) Joan Shelley, Jake Xerxes Fussel @ The Basement (Nashville) Gorillaz, Vince Staples @ Red Rocks (Denver) Black Joe Lewis @ The Mercy Lounge (Nashville) Xenia Rubinos @ The High Watt (Nashville) Robbie Fulks @ The Station Inn (Nashville) Jason Isbell @ Grimeys (Nashville)
Paramore - Akron U2 - CLE Travis Scott - CLE The Weeknd - Detroit Manchester Orchestra - Detroit Two Door Cinema Club - Columbus The Head & The Heart - Ann Arbor Mumford & Sons - Boston Chris Stapleton - Cuyahoga Falls Halsey - CLE Caamp - Lakewood/ Cleveland Heights The Front Bottoms - CLE/ Columbus