Tone and Niche Concert History

Tone & Niche, an original pop/rock band based out of Detroit, Michigan consists of singer/songwriter Anthony Retka, violinist Nicole Varga, bass guitarist / keyboardist James Sterling Lees, and drummer Roger Dutcher. Tone & Niche’s eclectic mix of violin-led pop/rock and singer/songwriter styles have become a driving force in the Detroit music scene.

Date Concert Venue Location
Aug 19, 2023
Tone and Niche / Kate Hinote & The Disasters / Anthony Retka Lager House Detroit, Michigan, United States
Mar 22, 2015
Remnose / Spaires / Tone and Niche / Ancient Language / Boogie Knights / CBJ Magic Stick Detroit, Michigan, United States
Feb 29, 2012 –
Mar 03, 2012
Metro Times Blowout 2012
Danny Brown / Q / Fur / The Dirtbombs / Wilson / Shades / The Crooks / The Wells / Muggs / Factory Girls / The Congress / Le Ren / esQuire / Outrageous Cherry / Citizen Zero / MuMbLe / The Vatican / The Hentchmen / The People's Temple / The Sights / Fawn / Bars Of Gold / Lightning Love / Child Bite / Instant Party / The Hounds Below / Phantasmagoria / Beggars / Garden Party / The Gardens / Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor / Human Eye / Benthos / Kickstand Band / Wiccans / Rai Knight / Lettercamp / Blackman / Detroit Techno Militia / Passalacqua / Qualia (US) / Big Mess / The Beekeepers (90s Band) / The Prime Ministers / The Pupils / House Phone / Danny and the Darleans / Kodaks / The Juliets / Sex Police / Greater Alexander / Legendary Creatures / Desolation Angels / Beast in the Field / Matt Jones and the Reconstruction / Belle Ghoul / Swimsuit / Black Jake & The Carnies / Doop & The Inside Outlaws / Bad Party / Kenny Tudrick / The Amoebas / Oblisk / Warhorses / Johnny Headband / Good Things / Misty Lyn & The Big Beautiful / Crochetcatpause / Katie Grace / CHAW / Glossies / Destroy This Place / Lord Scrummage / Wrong Numbers / The Hordes / Nobody's Business / detroit 442 / The Summer Pledge / Thumbs Up! / Ricky Rat / Frustrations / The Blue Squares / Precious Few / Cold Men Young / Polish Muslims / Amy Gore & Her Valentines / city love / Dutch Pink / Ozenza / Mass Solo Revolt / Flashclash / Artificial Agent / Golden Torso / Ghoulie / Troy Gregory / Fake Surfers / Sros Lords / Skeleton Birds / Growwing Pains / Old Empire / Patrick Davy & the Ghosts / The Mythics / The Walking Beat / Tone and Niche / Ryan Dillaha / Pink Lightning / Pewter Cub / The Detroit Pleasure Society / Poor Player / Twine Time / String of Ponies / Slaves to the pavement / Betty Cooper / Jeecy and the Jungle / Mick Bassett and the Marthas / Body Holographic / Zombie Jesus and the Chocolate Sunshine Band / Jesse and the Gnome / Superbomb / Electric Lion Sound Wave Experiment / Illymack / Seedsmen to the World / Me & the Ghost / Water Cops / Duane the Teenage Weirdo / After Dark Amusement Park / Six and the Sevens / Robin Goodfellow / Skinny Wrists / Cosmic Light Shapes / Phantom Cats / The Real Spicolis / Butterwolf / Future Slang / The Skye Thomas Experience / Joint Chiefs of Detroit / Songs From the Moon / Audiological / Before Pictures / Timothy Monger State Park / Ryan Racine & Gas For Less / Sugarcoats / Robin Parrent / Lawless Carver / Electric Fire Babies / Looking Up at Down / The Fresh Tones / Waxgordon / Ferndale Acid Scene / Leaves of Red / Gregory Mcintosh / K.i.d.s. Detroit / Estuaries / Heartbreak Dallas and the Unfaithfuls / Nospectacle / Société Moon / The Raw Dealers / Snoil / Kim Fowley & Psychedelic Dogs Show all bands
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Metro Times Blowout 2012 Hamtramck, Michigan, United States
Oct 07, 2011
Tone and Niche / Audra Kubat Lager House Detroit, Michigan, United States
Mar 02, 2011 –
Mar 05, 2011
Blowout 2011
Blockhead / Fur / The Detroit Cobras / The Armed / The High Strung / JTX / The Crooks / Deastro / Golden / Entrails / Conspiracy Of Owls / MuMbLe / Vargas / Octopus / Duende / Bear Lake / The Sights / Fawn / Forget / Bars Of Gold / Child Bite / The Parting Gifts / The Hard Lessons / Phantasmagoria / Zoos of Berlin / The Gardens / Human Eye / Prussia / Atacama / Kickstand Band / Royale / Ashleys / Lettercamp / The Bell Beat / The HandGrenades / The Wolfs / Drags / Big Mess / The Beekeepers (90s Band) / Gun Lake / The Deadbeat Beat / Bad Indians / Eleanora / The Satin Peaches / Legendary Creatures / Blue Snaggletooth / Matt Jones and the Reconstruction / Man At Arms / Magic Jake & the Power Crystals / Bird Names / Swimsuit / Man the Hunter / Doop & The Inside Outlaws / The Ultrasounds / Salt Lick / Tare / Bison Machine / Computer Perfection / Woodman / The Cold Wave / Wolfbait / Chapstik / Glossies / staircase / Charlie Slick / Lord Scrummage / Moon Pool and Dead Band / Destroy This Place / The Black List / The Blue Squares / Cold Men Young / Jeremy Porter & The Tucos / Haute to Death / Illy Mack / Gorevette / Secret Twins / Rogue Satellites / Carjack / Stoopz N Breeze / Vamonos / Bill Bondsmen / Divorce Party / Lightning Bugs / Phantom Shakers / Darling Imperial / Old Empire / Odd Hours / The Meltdowns / Skeleton Birds / Kommie Kilpatrick / Patrick Davy & the Ghosts / The Mythics / Grateful Dads / Pewter Cub / err / Scarlet Oaks / Jehovah's Witness Protection Program / Tone and Niche / EEKS / Phresh Heir / Betty Cooper / Jeecy and the Jungle / Space Band / Mean Mother / Blue Black Hours / The Afternoon Round / Carradine / Mod Orange / Scandinavian Pleather / The Ruggs / Robin Goodfellow / Odayin / Macramé Tiger / Amateur Anthropologist / Aran Ruth / Cheat Sheet / ThreeHives / Songs From the Moon / Neon Escape / Smash Television / Just Boyz / Indian Guides / Aphasiacs / Timothy Monger State Park / Sheefy Mcfly & the Delorean / Robin Parrent / Bright Echo / Derby Mama / Kelly Jean Caldwell / Team Ethic / Galactic Vacationer / The Perrenials / Ryan Racine & Gas For Less / Smackmadam / Sugarcoats / The Displays / Patrick Herek / Murder In The Dark / The Mantons / Small Noises / JSB Squad / Marco Polio and the New Vaccines / Amy Gore & the Squires / Brain Rottar / Snake Oil Slick / Crappy Future / Hi Speed Dubbing / Sharky and the Habit / Lobotomys / Roofbeam Rye / The Actor Repents / Damned Dogs / The Fresh Tones / Eric Villa / Waxgordon / Winter Ruby / The Butt Babies / Patrick Elkins & the Rainbow Vomit Family Band / Whigville / Las Drogas / Over Macho Grande / Italian Picture Factory / The Detroit Party Marching Band / Electric Lions Soundwave Experiment / Grande Nationals / The Jay Vons Show all bands
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Blowout 2011 Hamtramck, Michigan, United States
Mar 27, 2009
Frontier Ruckus / Tone and Niche The Pike Room, The Crofoot Pontiac, Michigan, United States
Mar 04, 2009 –
Mar 07, 2009
The Metro Times Hamtramck Blowout 2009
War / The Detroit Cobras / The Dirtbombs / Chris Bathgate / Deastro / No-Man / Darts / The Meatmen / John Sinclair / Outrageous Cherry / Duende / Octopus / The Silent Years / Lightning Love / Child Bite / Volebeats / Matt Jones / Running / Steven / Zoos of Berlin / The Gardens / Terrible Twos / Great Lakes Myth Society / Devilfish / The Prime Ministers / The Ruiners / The Juliets / Fontana / Leaf Erikson / Black Jake & The Carnies / Silverghost / Fluent / Doop & The Inside Outlaws / Friendly Foes / Audra Kubat / Man At Arms / The Blueflowers / The Decks / Magic Shop / Dead Letters / Woodman / Wolfbait / The Dial Tones / Citizen Smile / Misty Lyn & The Big Beautiful / Chapstik / Pizazz / Last Tourist / Broadzilla / Gorevette / Wrong Numbers / The Word Play / Charlie Slick / Millions of Brazilians / Frustrations / Carolyn Striho / St. Thomas Boys Academy / Marco Polio / Beard of Bees / The Wild Years / Cetan Clawson / Bill Grogan's Goat / Rogue Satellites / Flatfoot / 1592 / Dutch Pink / Bill Bondsmen / Scotch Bonnet / The Uproars / The Oscillating Fan Club / Carjack / Allan James / Fields Of Industry / Old Empire / 60 Second Crush / Grande Nationals / I Speak in Calculus / Tone and Niche / Mazinga / Circus Boy / Scarlet Oaks / Jehovah's Witness Protection Program / Asylum 7 / The Meltdowns / Druid Perfume / Romeo Flynns / Electric Fire Babies / Jo Serrapere / Much Too Much / Bone Orchard Revival / Blue Black Hours / Wildcatting / They Never Sleep / Lee Marvin Computer Arm / The Swamp Sisters / SikSik Nation / The Hadituptoheres / Novada / Elle and the Fonts / I, Crime / The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre / Red China / Bootsey X / Aran Ruth / Switchblade Justice / Bluesong / Alan Scheurman / Il Segreto String Quartet / Mick Bassett and the Marthas / Blasé Splee / Boywife / Sh! The Octopus / Fidrych / The Actor Repents / Solitary States / Blackreign and Ohkang / Kelly Jean Caldwell / Marco Polio and the New Vaccines / Gepetto Files / The Cavity Creeps / THE DETROIT PONY EXPRESS / STARE INTO THE SUN / Love Meets Lust / The Displays / Sex Ghost! / the Lessmores / The Mantons / VIVIAN GEORGE / Battling Siki / The Rue Moor Counts / Philo-san / Spitting Nickels / Decibilt / Cougar the Tiger / The Readies / A Working Model / The Sisters Lucas / Dale Beavers / Motor City Sidestrokers / Lull Tucker / Public Pubes / Satori Circus / Los Vikings Del Muerto / Beverly Freh / Moonsqualler / The Big Beautiful / The Bloodfarmers / Slow Giant / Madame XD / PINKEYE Show all bands
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The Metro Times Hamtramck Blowout 2009 Hamtramck, Michigan, United States
Feb 05, 2009
Cetan Clawson / Tone and Niche / SikSik Nation / Tokyo Sexwhale
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Blind Pig Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Nov 01, 2008
Ether Aura / Tone and Niche The Pike Room, The Crofoot Pontiac, Michigan, United States
Mar 05, 2008 –
Mar 08, 2008
The Detroit Cobras / Thunderbirds Are Now! / His Name Is Alive / Deastro / Nomo / Bump / Outrageous Cherry / The Silent Years / Mitch Ryder / The Hentchmen / The Dead Bodies / Prussia / Ether Aura / Great Lakes Myth Society / Human Eye / Regal / S...
The Detroit Cobras / Thunderbirds Are Now! / His Name Is Alive / Deastro / Nomo / Bump / Outrageous Cherry / The Silent Years / Mitch Ryder / The Hentchmen / The Dead Bodies / Prussia / Ether Aura / Great Lakes Myth Society / Human Eye / Regal / Sunlight Ascending / Sh! The Octopus / Ethos / Metamora / Child Bite / The Hummingbirds / Easy Action / Terrible Twos / Friendly Foes / Muggs / Zoos of Berlin / High Caliber / Process / Kindle / The Satin Peaches / Chapstik / Darling Imperial / Suai / Woodman / Freer / 12 Ton Sledge / Doc Holiday / Fontana / Desolation Angels / Charlie Slick / Wildcatting / Fields Of Industry / Broadzilla / Brandon Wiard / Otto Vector / Superdot / Flatfoot / Bad Party / A Thousand Times Yes / I Decay / Empty Orchestra / Dead Letters / Blasé Splee / Champions of Breakfast / Skin And Bones / Thtx / Fluent / Last Tourist / Frustrations / Spitting Nickels / Black Jake & The Carnies / Coronados / SikSik Nation / The Ruiners / Manna and Quail / Silent Violet / Hatch / Mazinga / Powertrane / The Badways / The Banana Convention / Porchsleeper / Black Mail / The Prime Ministers / Dutch Pink / Liz Larin / I, Crime / Aran Ruth / Loup Garou / Sugarcoats / Novada / The Hadituptoheres / Brave Rifles / Blood Farmers / Doop & The Inside Outlaws / Horse Cave Trio / Mick Bassett / The Muldoons / Scarlet Oaks / Love Meets Lust / The Drinking Problem / VIVIAN GEORGE / The Orbitsuns / Lightning Love / Carjack / The Bloids / Justine Blazer / Soldiers Of Scrape / Bluesong / The Wrenfields / Sunday Painters / Scotty Karate / Mindrought / Detroit Techno Militia / Let's Talk About Girls / Potions / Serenity Court / STARE INTO THE SUN / Indian Guides / Red China / Redhill / Polish Muslims / Enemy Squad / Tone and Niche / The Displays / Sons of the Gun / HUSHMONEY / Devin Scillian / Georgio the Dove Valentino / Lenny Stoofy / Lull Tucker / Cougar the Tiger / Birdgang / Battling Siki / Citizen Smile / Fun Ender / Terrie Lea & The Mustangs / Drunken Barn Dance / DRAGSTRIPPERS / Decibilt / Odu Afrobeat Orchestra / DJ Shortround / Duende / Marsha Carter / David Shelby / Il Segreto String Quartet / Blackreign and Ohkang / Darts / Eons / Blair / The Four Hour Friends / Dondo de la Mancha / Millions of Brazilians / Circus Boy / They Never Sleep / 60 Second Crush Show all bands
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Blowout Hamtramck, Michigan, United States
Jul 13, 2007
Sh! The Octopus / Annie Palmer / Minor Planets / Tone and Niche Small's Hamtramck, Michigan, United States
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