Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing, hosted the event, which was set up by Fusion Shows, a booking agency for local Michigan bands, and recently national bands as well.

The show opened with two Michigan bands — Apollo, an alternative band from Detroit, and Good Weather for Airstrikes, an indie-rock band from Howell. Good Weather for Airstrikes frontman James Radick said he has enjoyed his band’s exposure of traveling throughout the state and playing with bigger acts.

“It’s phenomenal, we’ve gotten the chance to play with some really, really good acts like the Annuals, As Tall As Lions and other great bands,” Radick said. “It’s a really great experience to be able to be exposed to that new fan base that hasn’t listened to us and hopefully bring some of our fan base out to get them into the bands that we like.”

The Annuals, from North Carolina, has been on tour with Chicago-based Company of Thieves. Genevieve Schatz, lead singer of Company of Thieves, described their music as a mixed bag of nuts.

“You reach in there and you get a little bit of everything,” Schatz said. “A lot of the music is just about following your dreams and risking everything to do it and not taking no for an answer.”

Schatz said she also finds their music inspiring.

“We were huge fans of them before we found out that we had the same manager,” she said. “So when that happened we both freaked out and we said, ‘Let’s go on tour.’ It’s been amazing — every night I’m so inspired by them.”

After the Company of Thieves set, the Annuals set up the small stage with two drum sets, a keyboard, an accordion, a harmonica and plenty of guitars — leaving just enough room for the six-piece-band.

The Annuals have been on the move the past two years promoting their most recent album, “Such Fun,” and an additional upcoming EP. In addition to coast-to-coast touring, they have played several large summer concerts such as Lollapalooza and were on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” twice.

Though the exposure has been nice, frontman Adam Baker said he would be doing what he’s doing regardless of the publicity.

“It means a lot to us and it means a lot that anyone is paying any sort of attention at all but it would have been happening regardless,” Baker said. “If it went away, it wouldn’t be the end of the world. I’m more just so, so happy that people come to shows like this in (Lansing). It’s so cheesy, but if there’s one or two people there that came that are having a great time, I came to the right place. There’s nothing I would be doing that would be any more fun.”

Similar to Company of Thieves, Baker said it is very difficult to describe the Annuals’ music.

“That’s always been the hardest question to answer. I can hear all the roots spot on like, Paul Simon there, Radiohead there, Björk a little bit there, Johnny Cash is over here holding up the rhythm section,” Baker said. “But I mean that’s the good part about music though — it’s supposed to be indescribable.”