There will be a shakedown at Levitt Pavilion. It will be in the parking lot next to the venue from 2:30-5:30 and there will be vendors! Hope to see you there!

We’re back for the second of two festival bookings to close out the Dogs’ June slate before their regular summer tour schedule resumes. The band most recently hit up Northlands up in New Hampshire last weekend, and now find themselves nearly a thousand miles westward in Michigan for the 14th edition of Electric Forest.

This festival originally launched as Rothbury Festival in 2008 before it re-branded a few years later with its current moniker. It's been a staple of the Western Michigan scene ever since, hosting EDM and jam acts annually since '11 (with a brief hiatus at the start of this decade for obvious reasons). The fest has always been here at the Double JJ Resort, a local four-seasons farm-turned-retreat spot that first opened in 1937 as the Jack and Jill Ranch. EF describes it as "the biggest western style dude ranch east of the Mississippi.” I don’t know how to fact-check that so let's just take their word for it.

The Dogs played this shindig once before during a run of eight consecutive festival shows in summer ‘23, and this part of Michigan has also been host to multiple bookings in nearby Grand Rapids (1 hr SE) and Kalamazoo (2 hr SE) in the last year. The Mitten has been a rapidly rising market for the band - u/ThatDoodch loves to remind people he was one of maybe 10 attendees that were present at the first Dogs show in Michigan just under four years ago.

It’ll be a much larger crowd for their 15th show in the state tonight, that’s for sure. Electric Forest is sold out! Around 50,000 are expected to be here throughout the weekend, and while all are not necessarily gonna see the Dogs, there is a great chance we end up welcoming some new heads to the Pound this weekend.

The band goes on The Observatory Stage at 10:30 PM Friday night and has 75 minutes to do their thing. I’m not aware of a livestream for this one, but there’s been a bunch of new live videos posted on YouTube this week you can check out if you’re jonesin’ (including the full two-night run in Seattle from this January). We’re only two weeks away from the return of proper headlining shows starting Friday, July 10 in Canandaigua!

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TICKETS

• 🎟️| Official SOLD OUT!
• 🎟️| Cash or Trade

INFO/FAQ

• 🏟️| VENUE: Double JJ Resort, Rothbury, MI
• ⛅| WEATHER: 73° / 54° ⛅
• 🚪| DOORS: 2:00 PM EDT
• 🎶| DOGS: 10:30 PM EDT
• 📺| STREAM: N/A
• ✅| TOUR GAMES: Guess the Setlist!

PRE-SHOW TUNES

• 2023-06-25 - Rothbury, MI - Last time the Dogs were at Electric Forest, Jeff Arevalo was still in Goose! He featured on percussion for the Bent>Ghost Riders>Strange sandwich here, during what I've always thought was a great setlist for an EDM fest.

• 2024-11-17 - Grand Rapids, MI - I’m throwing this one here selfishly because it is the only Michigan Dogs show I’ve ever attended, and I will always take a chance to glaze Nov. 2024 whenever possible. This show marked the end of a three-night run around the Great Lakes, and had some surprise appearances from Sneezy, who had been on the road opening for the Dogs throughout the midwest.

SETLIST

Live Setlist

One Set: Craig and Pat, Chop Shop, Look Johnny II, Dangers of Rah Rah, Appleseed, Let U Go-> EDM Song, Bulls on Parade[1]

[1] Rage Against The Machine

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Okay - take two! These are what I believe to be the highest altitude Dogs shows on record (thank you very much to u/DearChicago1876 who correctly pointed out on the original post that I mistakenly left Dillon off the list).

I attempted to get the altitude for the specific venues the band played when possible (e.g., Dillon Amp is at a lower altitude than the city itself), When that info wasn't available, I fell back to the city's listed altitude online.

Did I miss anything?

City	State	Altitude (ft)
Dillon	CO	9050
Frisco	CO	9026
Winter Park	CO	9000
Crested Butte	CO	8924
Vail	CO	8120
Buena Vista	CO	7960
Del Norte	CO	7884
Avon	CO	7431
Santa Fe	NM	7198
El Prado	NM	7123
Ridgway	CO	6985
Bond	CO	6739
Steamboat Springs	CO	6695
Basalt	CO	6611
South Lake Tahoe	CA	6237