Metro Detroit’s biggest concerts of the summer

4140 Woodward Ave., Detroit; majesticdetroit.com

5/13: Babyfxce E, Luhh Dyl

5/16: Demon Hunter, Convictions, Cultist

5/20: Clara La San, Sausha

5/21: Courtney Barnett, Truman Sinclair

5/22: Between The Buried and Me, Thank You Scientist, The World is a Beautiful Place, I Am No Longer Afraid to Die

5/23: Thornhill, 156/Silence, Fox Lake, Vianova

5/24: Austeria, Haylee Wood b2b 2ar, Cass, DJ Goose, Jude Harris

6/16: Dexter and the Moonrocks, Cigarettes @ Sunset, High June

6/18: Joshua Slone, Jake Minch

7/31: Infected Mushroom

8/16: Jutes, With in Color, Wilt

8/18: Chance Peña, Hans Williams

500 Temple St., Detroit; themasonic.com

6/24: The Human League, Soft Cell, Alison Moyet

7/24: Men at Work, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Shonen Knife

8/7: Sam Barber, Waylon Wyatt, Wild Horses

Meadow Brook Amphitheatre

3554 Walton Blvd., Rochester Hills; 313presents.com

5/16: Satchvai Band, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai , Animals as Leaders

5/31: Primus, the Claypool Lennon Delirium, and The Fearless Flying Frog Brigade

6/25: Tobymac, Zach Williams, Seph Schlueter, Jamie Macdonald

7/24: Emmylou Harris, Graham Nash

7/29: Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Spacey Jane

8/8: Howard Jones, Wang Chung, the English Beat, Modern English

8/15: The Beach Boys

8/21: Brandi Carlile, I’m With Her

8/28: Koe Wetzel, Shane Smith and the Saints, Bayker Blankenship, Logan Jahnke

8/30: Needtobreathe, Drew & Ellie Holcomb

Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre At Freedom Hill

14900 Metro Pkwy., Sterling Heights; 313presents.com

5/13: Yellowcard, New Found Glory, Plain White T’s

5/23: The Kid Laroi, Tommy Richman, WizTheMc

5/30: Triumph, April Wine

6/5: Parker Mccollum, Max Mcnown, Kassi Ashton

6/9: Mt. Joy

6/12: Jimmy Eat World, Sunny Day Real Estate, the Get Up Kids

6/13: Turnpike Troubadours, Muscadine Bloodline, Katie Pruitt

6/25: Young The Giant, Cold War Kids, Almost Monday

7/15: Sarah McLachlan, Allison Russell

8/15: Motionless in White, Lorna Shore, Fit For a King, Static Dress

8/19: Lindsey Stirling, Pvris

8/20: Empire of the Sun, Polo & Pan, Midnight Generation.

8/22: Billy Currington, Kip Moore, Kenny Whitmire

8/28: The Fray, Dashboard Confessional And Colony House

8/29: The Rock Orchestra performing Metallica, AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park, System of a Down, Guns N’ Roses, Evanescence, Papa Roach, the Cranberries, and more

Pine Knob Music Theatre

33 Bob Seger Dr., Clarkston; 313presents.com

5/23: Kid Cudi, Big Boi, A-Trak

6/5: Kesha, Chromeo, Sizzy Rocket

6/15: The Strokes, Thundercat, Hamilton Leithauser

6/16: MGK, Wiz Khalifa, Mod Sun

6/18: Santana, the Doobie Brothers

6/19: Sammy Hagar, Rick Springfield, Dauzat St. Marie

6/21: Godsmack, Stone Temple Pilots, Dorothy

6/27: Darius Rucker, Corey Kent, Lauren Alaina, Austin Williams, Jacob Hackworth, Atlus, Kevin Powers

7/3: The Guess Who, Don Felder

7/10: Jack Johnson, Hermanos Gutiérrez

7/11-7/12: Luke Bryan, Shane Profitt, Lauren Watkins, Raelynn, DJ Rock

7/13: Muse, Bloc Party, the Temper Trap

7/17: Hank Williams Jr., Sammy Kershaw, Mary Kutter

7/18: The Black Crowes, Whiskey Myers, Southall

7/24: Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz

7/26: Kidz Bop Live

7/30: 311, Dirty Heads, Ocean Alley, Rome

7/31: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Foreigner, Six Gun Sally

8/1: Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band

8/2: Evanescence, Spiritbox, Nova Twins

8/4: Avenged Sevenfold, Good Charlotte

8/5: Train, Barenaked Ladies, Matt Nathanson

8/6: 5 Seconds Of Summer, the Band Camino

8/15: Hilary Duff, La Roux, Jade Lemac

8/16: Five Finger Death Punch, Cody Jinks, Eva Under Fire

8/21: Deep Purple, Kansas

8/22: Willie Nelson & Family, the Avett Brothers, Lukas Nelson, Stephen Wilson Jr., Sierra Hull , Don Was & The Pan-Detroit Ensemble

8/23: TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, En Vogue

8/28: Tim Mcgraw, 49 Winchester

8/29: Toto, Christopher Cross, the Romantics

Royal Oak Music Theater

318 W. 4th St., Royal Oak; royaloakmusictheatre.com

5/15: Patrick Warburton

5/27: Ryan Bingham and the Texas Gentlemen

6/7: Corinne Bailey Rae

6/16: Taking Back Sunday, Bayside

6/18: Connor Price, Nic D

7/8: The Marvelous Miss Gender Starring Bosco

7/10: Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band

8/12: The Psychedelic Furs, Living Colour

8/31: Peter Hook and the Light

5/23-5/25: Movement Music Festival (Hart Plaza, Detroit) with Carl Cox, Sara Landry, Dom Dolla, and more

5/30-5/31: Tied Down Detroit (Russell Industrial Center, Detroit) with Blood for Blood, Carryon, Straight Ahead, Nails, Negative Approach, Terror, and more

6/19-6/20: Pug Fest 4 (The Orchid Theatre, Ferndale and The Crofoot Ballroom, Pontiac) with Algernon Cadwallader, Heart Attack Man, Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), Kerosene Heights, and more

6/25-6/28: Electric Forest (Double JJ Resort, Rothbury) with Illenium, Excision, GRiZ, Kaskade, Chris Lake, the String Cheese Incident, and more

7/31-8/2: Pig & Whiskey with Reverend Horton Heat, Goober and the Peas, the Verve Pipe

7/15-7/19: Concert of Colors (Detroit) with Don Was Detroit All-Star Revue Salute to The Scene, Hassan Hakmoun, Nikki D and the Sisters of Thunder, Martha Redbone

9/4-9/7: Detroit Jazz Festival (Hart Plaza) with Joe Lovano, Ron Carter, Bob James, Ravi Coltrane, Artemis, Kurt Elling and Yellowjackets, Delcon Lamarr Organ Trio, and more

This article appears in May 13-26, 2026.

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Leyland “Lee” DeVito is the editor in chief of Detroit Metro Times since 2016. His writing has also been published in CREEM, VICE, In These Times, and New City. More by Lee DeVito

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