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Welcome to our final episode of the 2025 Pine Knob season — 41 shows starting in June with Halsey and wrapping up October 2nd with Alice Cooper and Judas Priest. With acts from just about every genre playing during the past four months, there's been something for every music fan and certainly another season of shows that we'll be talking about for years to come.

It's officially fall, but things are not falling off at Pine Knob as it heads to the close of its 53rd year. We'll start with a favorite Pine Knob photo of the J. Geils Band. The B-52s will be bringing its 12-date Cosmic De-Evolution Tour with Devo to town on Thursday, September 25th. The next night, Friday, Sept. 26th, country star Lainey Wilson brings her Whirlwind Tour to Pine Knob for her first performance ever at the venue. It will also be the first performance there for one of her band members, multi-instrumentalist Sav Madigan, who's also part of the Accidentals, a band she and longtime friend Katie Larson formed 13 years ago in Traverse City. Recently visiting town was the British band James, who also played at Pine Knob as part of the 1997 Lollapalooza festival that stopped there for two dates in July of that year.

We welcome one of the venue's regular photographers, who chose a fiery image of Slayer guitarist Kerry King as one of his favorites from over the years. Back on August 4th, the Doobie Brothers, one of Pine Knob's most frequent visitors, opened its latest North American tour there. Also in town recently was Jerry Cantrell, guitarist with the band Alice in Chains, who also tours and records as a solo artist. Coming to Pine Knob on September 10th are the Tedeschi Trucks Band and Gov't Mule, a must-see for guitar fans. We also visited recently with Wesley Schultz from the Lumineers, who will be playing their biggest Detroit area show yet on September 13th at Comerica Park. That same night, Bonnie Raitt will be headlining just across the street at the Fox Theatre. On Saturday, September 20th, Riff Fest returns to Pine Knob, bringing Canada's Three Days Grace along with Breaking Benjamin as co-headliners.

We start with Chris Schwegler and the story of the final photograph from Bob Seger's final hometown concert on June 21st, 2019. In the more recent past, we caught up with Halestorm, who played at Pine Knob for a sixth time on August 19th. In the realm of coming attractions, we have Billy Idol hitting Pine Knob on Thursday, August 28th. Two nights later, on Aug. 30, it's 99.5 WYCD's Hoedown, this time with Dierks Bentley headlining and joined by Zach Top and The Band Loula. The night after Hoedown, on Aug. 31, Tommy Clufetos is bringing his new band, Tommy's Rock Trip, to town opening for Ted Nuget at the Michigan Lottery Amhitheatre.

We kick things off with photographer feature Scott Legato. Scott picks a 2013 shot of the late Ozzy Osbourne, taken during a performance by Black Sabbath as part of its reunion tour. Toto, Men at Work and Christopher Cross are playing Monday, August 11. Five days later, on August 16th, fans of classic rock will be treated to the Brotherhood of Rock Tour 2025, which features Styx, the Kevin Cronin Band from REO Speedwagon and Don Felder from Eagles We move then to Tuesday, Aug. 19, when Volbeat brings its Greatest Of All Time Tours Worldwide to Pine Knob, with support from Halestorm and the Ghost inside.