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Weekly calendar
from MT 03/09/22
WHAT’S GOING ON
Greta Van Fleet makes a metro Detroit stop next week.
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MATTHEW DANIEL SISKA
Select events happening in metro Detroit this week. Submit your events to metrotimes.com/calendar. Be sure to check venue websites for COVID-19 policies.
FRI 3/11
No Standing
illed on the flier as a funky ass dance party, this show doubles as a birthday celebration for etroit designer and arble ar regular atie Peters of Streetheart. The night’s lineup is chock full of hip-hop, house, and funk, including Tall lack uy etroit , uscrates Pittsburgh , Selecta Pittsburgh , and e ndres etroit . Top tier producers and your favorite ’s favorite , Peters tells us via Instagram . She would know —Lee DeVito
From 9 p.m.-3 a.m. on Friday, March 11 at Marble Bar; 1501 Holden St., Detroit; ra.co. Tickets start at $6.
SUN 3/13
The local and national enthusiasm for etroit’s hip-hop scene has never been higher. It seems every week a new otor ity artist has an album rising up the pple usic Top 00 chart or popping up on a track with a mainstream artist. nter The Tied In ay oncert, a celebration showcasing etroit’s own hip-hop artists. omedian Ha Ha avis and etroit influencer ustin loyd will host a night that will see performances from ash oll, Pee y, aby oney, Tay , Payroll iovanni, abyface ay, ront Paije, Skilla aby, Pretty rayah, ugg Harden, and more artists yet to be named. The show is being presented by ctive inds and lothing, and also sponsored by cannabis cultivator iola rands and ifteen. Shell Shock’d Tacos will also be on hand serving food.
—Kahn Santori Davison
The Tied in 313 Day Concert will be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 13 at the Garden Theater; 3929 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-832-0888; thegardendetroit. com. Tickets start at $55.
SUN 3/13
Parquet Courts, Mdou Moctar
ow here’s an interesting tour pairing. rooklyn, ew ork indie rock band Par uet ourts is joined on the road by opening act dou octar, a iger-based guitarist known as the imi Hendrix of the Sahara. The selftaught artist first gained prominence in frica through peer-to-peer file sharing networks, and on this latest tour his uni ue blend of Tuareg folk, blues, and psychedelic rock upstaged the main act, at least according to one recent review. Par uet ourts is touring its 202 record Sympathy for Life, which saw the band incorporate dance and techno influences into its post-punk sound. eanwhile, octar’s 202 debut Afrique Victime earned a est ew usic from Pitchfork. —Lee DeVito
Doors open at 7 p.m. on Sunday, March 13 at the Magic Stick; 4120 Woodward Ave., Detroit; 313-833-9700; majesticdetroit.com. Tickets start at $35.
THU 3/17
Greta Van Fleet
reta an leet is a ichigan rock band, but not a etroit band. They’re from rankenmuth. This distinction is clear in the band’s reams in old tour itinerary, which includes stops in basically every big city in ichigan except for etroit ock ity, from arch 0 at alama oo’s ings vent enter to rand apids’ eltaPlex rena on arch 2 then Saginaw’s ow vent enter on arch , lint’s ort inancial enter arch , and the closest thing that could be considered metro etroit, astern ichigan niversity’s onvocation enter in psilanti, on arch . The tour is in support of the band’s sophomore e ort, The Battle at Garden’s Gate, which expands upon its brand of ’ 0s-style rock ’n’ roll revival. —Lee DeVito
Greta Van Fleet perform at the Eastern Michigan University Convocation Center on Thursday, March 17; 799 N. Hewitt Rd., ilan i re a an ee . com. Doors at 7 p.m. Tickets start at $59.



