On June 8, 2024, the Michigan Central Station, the 13-story behemoth built in 1914 that sat abandoned and befouled along Michigan Avenue in the Corktown neighborhood since 1988, reopened to the public. Now owned by Ford, it is no longer a train station but will house, I dunno, some sprocket division or whatever for the car company. This local news shouldn’t interest CREEM readers that much at first. Subscribers to Basement-Dwelling Losers Monthly, on the other hand, might remember the MCS fondly as the location where two robots beat the shit out of each other in the 2006 Transformers movie. Besides its civic, architectural, or robot-apocalyptic meanings, what does Michigan Central's reopening mean for the music fan?

Well, for one, they threw a big concert in there on June 8.