HiTech WSG Caged Lotus
This is an 18+ event with standing room only | 17 under with a parent or guardian Advance tickets may also be purchased in person at the General Store by card only (no cash) VIP Tickets include a reserved seat in the loft area of the back room. A mix of Ghettotech, house, Rap & Miami base, HiTech are on a mission to destroy stereotypical “bottle service” club culture by bringing raw energy, humor, dancing and moshpits back to electronic music. In the process, they’ve become one of the most talked about live acts since their debut last summer.Comprised of MCs/producers King Milo, Milf Melly and DJ 47Chops, HiTech released their albums HiTech & DETWAT last year on FXHE label, hitting The Fader’s Top 10 and Pitchfork’s Top 50 Albums of 2023 lists, racking up fans including Earl Sweatshirt, Danny Brown, Pink Siifu, Show Me The Body & Crystalmess and playing much lauded shows everywhere including Berghain, The Lot, Rinse, The Face’s Rated and across PFW. Hilarious and raunchy, HiTech are also outspoken and principled.With a summer full of festivals and news that HiTech and Detwat are being re-released on streaming services this summer, HiTech are bringing Detroit back to the global stage. Caged Lotus is a Kalamazoo-based hip-hop collective known for its high-energy performances, genre-bending sound, and deep roots in Southwest Michigan’s creative community. Emerging from the Vine Neighborhood music scene, the group brings together a diverse roster of artists who blend rap, alternative hip-hop, live instrumentation, and experimental influences into a sound that is uniquely their own. The collective was founded on the idea of “growing out of the muck”—transforming life’s challenges into art, connection, and creative expression. Since their formation, Caged Lotus has built a reputation for electrifying live shows, collaborative showcases, and community-driven events that spotlight both established and emerging talent. More than just a music group, Caged Lotus has become a creative movement dedicated to cultivating opportunities for artists and fostering a vibrant local music culture. Current members include Headband Henny, Daniel Brock, Taxi Cab, and Peace. On July 10th, Caged Lotus brings its signature energy, powerful lyricism, and immersive stage presence to the legendary Bell’s Eccentric Cafe, delivering a performance that showcases the collective’s evolution and the thriving spirit of Kalamazoo’s independent music scene.
The Flying Leaps WSG Two Dollar Bills & Dolphin Strangler
This is a 18+ event with standing room only I 17 under with a parent or guardian. Advance tickets may also be purchased in person at the General Store by card only (no cash). THE FLYING LEAPS From Kalamazoo, Michigan, this multi-instrumentalist quartet features eclectic originals and arrangements by Abe Savas, Jeff Hale, Jesse Williams and Jay Gavan. With influences that arc from classic rock to yacht rock to heavy metal to surf rock and soul, this is a band that will not let you rest on your laurels. Get ready to be surprised!! TWO DOLLAR BILLS Two Dollar Bills are a 5-piece alternative rock band from Kalamazoo, Michigan. They play original music with influences that combine 60s and 70s power pop with modern indie and alternative. Will Gavan, Bradyn Weatherwax, Mark Warden, Patrick McLaughlin, and Luke Feister are currently in the process of completing their self-titled debut album Two Dollar Bills, scheduled for release this August! DOLPHIN STRANGLER Dolphin Strangler are a Michigan trio based in Cincinnati’s Northside neighborhood. They play guitar-heavy, instrumental jams.
KALAMASHOEGAZER 17
18+ Standing Room Only Show | 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian KALAMASHOEGAZER 17, The longest running Shoegaze & Dreampop Festival in the US, in Kalamazoo, MI. 17 years.
KALAMASHOEGAZER 17
18+ Standing Room Only Show | 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian KALAMASHOEGAZER 17, The longest running Shoegaze & Dreampop Festival in the US, in Kalamazoo, MI. 17 years.
The Corn Fed Girls and The Analog Radio Hour
This is an 18+ seated event | 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian Advance tickets may also be purchased in person at the General Store by card only (no cash) The Corn Fed Girls One part salty breakup, two parts bear hug. The Corn Fed Girls are original acoustic Americana from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Their sound is earthy and innovative, traditional instrumentation with lush vocal harmonies and a folky aesthetic. Members have played in many of the regions favorite bands over the years including Knee Deep Shag, Daddy Long Legs, Red Sea Pedestrians, Doxie, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Sundog and others. The Corn Fed Girls are a favorite on the Michigan folk festival circuit. The Analog Radio Hour Jazz standards from years gone by performed by Kalamazoo musicians, some familiar and some maybe long forgotten, sing along if you know the words! Mike Fuerst is the featured vocalist with local legends The Birdseed Salesmen providing the instrumental magic. Stories about the songs will be shared in a unique way, with a little “theater” just for fun.
KALAMASHOEGAZER 17 – 2 Day Pass
18+ Standing Room Only Show | 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian KALAMASHOEGAZER 17, The longest running Shoegaze & Dreampop Festival in the US, in Kalamazoo, MI. 17 years.
The Insiders: A Tribute to Tom Petty
This is a 18+ event with standing room only| 17 under with a parent or guardian Advance tickets may also be purchased in person at the General Store by card only (no cash) Close your eyes and you won’t know the difference. Open them and you still might befooled. The Insiders present the premier Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers experience.With 6 veteran musicians and decades of combined stage and touring experience, TheInsiders are genuinely running down the dream. It all starts with frontman Max Lockwood. “I grew up listening to Tom Petty. My momwould play the Greatest Hits record while she worked out. I’d sit at the top of the stairsand listen to those songs—it was my most requested CD as a young kid.” In high school,Lockwood’s band Big Dudee Roo started covering Petty songs at their frequent showsin West Michigan. “Tom Petty was part of the great American landscape to me—alegend by the time I was musically conscious. We got a great crowd reaction with Pettytunes, and people frequently commented that I sounded a lot like him.” Nothing has changed with time. After the passing of Tom Petty in October of 2017,Lockwood organized the band by pulling together some of his favorite musicians for abenefit concert. After a sold-out show that raised thousands for a local domesticviolence shelter The Insiders decided they wouldn’t back down. “We try to honor whatMr. Petty and the Heartbreakers have done for rock and roll each night. We’re fans ofthe music first and foremost. These songs are woven into the fabric of the Americanidentity.” They’ve found no shortage of demand, selling out shows everywhere they go.Local Spins’ John Sinkevics had this to say: “The Insiders set the bar at a new level forTom Petty tributes.” The Insiders are based in Grand Rapids, Michigan and currently tour the Midwest andbeyond. They are available for public and private functions.
John R. Miller w/ Wayne Graham
This is an 18+ | 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian Advance tickets may also be purchased in person at the General Store by card only (no cash) John R Miller is a true hyphenate artist: singer-songwriter-picker. Born in the Washington, DC area and raised in West Virginia, Miller has built a reputation as a thoughtful, boundary-pushing voice in alt-country and Americana, drawing from punk, traditional Appalachian music, and less conventional rock influences. Every song on his thrilling debut solo album, Depreciated, is lush with intricate wordplay and haunting imagery, backed by a band that is on fire. One of his biggest long-time fans is roots music favorite Tyler Childers, who says he’s “a well-travelled wordsmith mapping out the world he’s seen, three chords at a time.” Miller is somehow able to transport us to a shadowy honkytonk and get existential all in the same line with his tightly written compositions. For more information on John R. Miller, and to catch him live, visit jrmillermusic.com.
Pride After Party with DJ MERCURY ULIA & DJ CLUBKID
This is a 18+ event with standing room only | 17 and under with guardian $5 suggested ticket donation at the door DJ Mercury Ulia “Watching clips doesn’t accurately convey what this is all about. I feel like to fully understand & receive this for what it is, you really do just have to come to a show to experience a liveset for yourself,” Mercury Ulia (musical alias of Julian Gonzalez) elucidates. They’re a longtime singer, songwriter, music producer, & DJ hailing from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Debuting in Kalamazoo at 2025’s Pride Afterparty, they’re returning to the stage of Bell’s Eccentric Cafe to close down this year’s festivities. As a DJ, their mission is to bring the genre of Hardstyle to ears & stages who are foreign to the music. “It’s a bit funny; I’m honestly quite quiet & reserved, but I’ve been told the music I play & how I perform is quite a drastic contrast from my personality. The music almost appears like a contradiction of me in that sense, but it’s actually a very genuine side of who I am.” DJ ClubKid has been a staple in Michigan’s queer nightlife industry 20+ years as an MC, Performer and designer! Recently being named DJ of the year, ClubKid is one of the most sought after DJs in Michigan. With a wide range of music spanning top40 pop hits, club anthems, dance music and remixes. DJ ClubKid aims to recreate the not so distant memory of a time before camera phones and social media when people would come together on the dance floor surrounded by each other engulfed in the music, dancing without apprehension.
Pokey LaFarge w/ Cicada Rhythm
This is a 18+ event with standing room only| 17 under with a parent or guardian Advance tickets may also be purchased in person at the General Store by card only (no cash) For two decades, Pokey LaFarge has walked his own effortlessly cool road as an exceptionally iconoclastic troubadour – forthright, genuine, and markedly keen to put it all out there. Rent Money now sees him pushing forward yet again in what can be safely declared his finest collection to date, both as an heartfelt expression of personal experience and as no-nonsense social commentary. With its twanging guitars, plucky rhythms, and undeniably captivating melodies, the album soars and swings, its joyous refrains belying the inescapable undercurrent of constant worry and angst that permeates these troubled times. As always, the Illinois native deftly traverses the genre boundaries, seamlessly integrating the myriad strains of 20th-century American music with a freewheeling command of earnest songcraft, inspired performance, and subversive creativity. Rent Money stands tall as an indisputable high-water mark for Pokey LaFarge – a defining collection from a one-of-a-kind artist of rare ingenuity and uncommon candor, now as ever, determinedly crafting a sure-footed brand of deeply human music all his own. “People are always going to tell you what they think you should play,” says Pokey LaFarge, “what you should sing about, how you should sound, how you should look, how you should act. And I’ve always just been like, nah. Nope. I’ve just completely gone my own way, and hopefully I’ve been honest and authentic in the process. “I’m just trying to make music that AI can’t replicate. Things are so homogenized right now. That’s what I’m really, really, really resistant to, especially when it comes to music. I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to conform.”
