NOISE: Local Music Beat

Weekend Riff: MSU Professors of Jazz Go Carribean, All Get Out at the Loft, Lansing Metal from Genocya

Lansing Music: This weekend brings entertainment from the MSU Professors of Jazz in Old Town, Lansing metal band Genocya and much more

Show tonight: MuteMath sheds self-doubt for 'Odd Soul'

Lansing Music: MuteMath plays the Loft tonight

Alternative rock band MuteMath went back to basics on their new album, “Odd Soul,” out Oct. 4. According to drummer Darren King, the New Orleans gentlemen needed to shed any self-doubt or worry and get back to making music that they, as a collective bunch, loved and felt was authentic.

Helping Hand: Donate to the Robert Busby MSU Jazz Scholarship Fund

Donations for the Robert Busby MSU Jazz Scholarship Fund are being accepted now

The Robert Busby MSU Jazz Scholarship Fund is in need of donations, and now is the time. Meegan Holland of Small Things Productions, who books shows for Creole Gallery and is a loyal supporter of local music and art, says the fund is currently depleted.

Weekend Riff: Lansing Metal Band Dagon Releases CD, Mustard Plug at Mac's, the Meatmen at the Loft, Lansing Symphony Orchestra Chamber Series

Weekend music picks include an ecclectic mix of the Meatmen, Mustard Plug, Dagon and more

Locals Only: Mason Singer-Songwriter Releases Album, Plays Mac's With He Is We

Grant Woell releases his new album Sept. 27 at Mac's

Mason-based singer-songwriter Grant Woell is going places, fast. This year has brought him gigs all over the country, plus a new album produced by Skillet lead guitarist Ben Kasica. What’s more, all of the hard work is sandwiched between Woell’s busy high school schedule.

Weekend Riff: Lansing Symphony and Ten Pound Fiddle Season Openers, MI Fest Preview With Raconteurs Interview

 
Check out our interview with the Raconteurs in this week's What's On

Concert Review: Seether, Three Days Grace, Escape the Fate Play to Sold-Out Michigan Crowd at Uproar

Seether, Three Days Grace and more play to sold-out crowd at DTE Energy Music Theater

Weekend Riff: First Annual Tejano and Latino Music Festival in Lansing, LEAK Back to Schook Party, Kid Rock at the Allegan County Fair

The first annual Tejano / Latino Music Festival, LEAK and more make up this weekend's music picks

Concert Review: Rock Allegiance Brings Buckcherry, Puddle of Mudd, Papa Roach, P.O.D. and More to Soaring Eagle

Soaring Eagle hosted a packed bill of rock last weekend with the Rock Allegiance Tour

Labor Day Weekend Riff: Michigan Mosaic Music Festival in Lansing, 22nd Annual Blues for Dystrophy Rocks the Green Door, Be in Elliot Street Lunatic's Music Video

Labor Day weekend packs music from Elliot Street Lunatic, the Dangerous Summer, Root Doctor, Frog and the Beeftones and more