4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (363+ words) There’s never a shortage of laughs around town thanks to the metro area’s solid network of comedy clubs. This weekend, however, is loaded with headliners in larger theater settings, making for a particularly busy weekend on that front. To wit…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (490+ words) Quite a few changes were part of the 47th annual Detroit Jazz Festival over Labor Day weekend at Detroit’s Hart Plaza — notably that it was held only there, with a third stage along the venue’s riverfront east side in lieu of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (583+ words) Thirty-one years ago, Danny Elfman stepped out of the rock ‘n’ roll world by retiring his band, Oingo Boingo, after a Halloween night performance at Universal Amphitheatre. Elfman, 73, is still doing that work. He scored three films — “Send Help,” “Dead…...

1+ week, 31+ min ago   (259+ words) There are many reasons fans still want to see Eric Clapton perform — up to and including the rare opportunity to be in the room with a three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and bona fide musical icon. Mostly, however,…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (341+ words) O.A.R. may have a new album, “Three Tinted Window,” due out this fall. but the band’s current Three Decades tour — which stopped Saturday night, Sept. 5, at the Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre — is all about the love of what’s come so far — and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (262+ words) A lot will happen at during the four days of the 47th annual Detroit Jazz Festival this weekend at Hart Plaza. Two all-star ensembles got things rolling — Artist-in-Residence Joe Lovano with his Paramount Quartet and the Miles Electric Band celebrating, yes,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1443+ words) As happens every year, the Labor Day weekend brings an unofficial end to summer with more events and activities on the festival front than anyone could hope to do in maybe a year, much less a weekend. Here’s what’s going…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (314+ words) As O.A.R. celebrates 30 years since the group’s formation in Rockville, Maryland, frontman Marc Roberge says it feels like both a long time and no time at all. “It has gone very quick,” Roberge, 47, says via Zoom from the O.A.R....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (500+ words) Cindy Blackman Santana loves all the musical situations she’s been part of through the years — with Lenny Kravitz, Pharoah, Wallace Roney, Joss Stone, Mike Stern and many others, as well as in her husband Carlos Santana’s band since 2015. And then…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (329+ words) Dinosauria: through Labor Day, meet the giants, climb the dinos, step inside the egg or build your own adventure, Detroit Zoo, 8450 W. 10 Mile Road, Royal Oak. Tickets, detroitzoo.org/events/dinosauria/ Sunflowers Festival: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 5 through Labor Day,…...