Mike. - Upside Down Tour Pt. 3

mike. brings his Upside Down Tour Pt. 3 to Hole⁴⁴ in Berlin on October 1, 2026. Behind the dot is Michael Francis Seander from Rhode Island, who first stood out as a college pitcher at Duke and Georgetown and then, after an elbow operation, swapped the bat for the mic. Under the name Mike Stud he surfaced in 2010 with the track “College Humor,” followed by the mixtape debut A Toast to Tommy (2011), named after his Tommy John surgery. Rather than taking the route through the majors, he built his fanbase on tour and within the college circuit and released music independently: the collab Click with Huey Mack (2012) as well as Relief (2013), Closer (2014), These Days (2016) and 4TheHomies (2018).

Over the years the party pose receded and the tone grew more personal and melodic. Mike Stud became mike., and the line continues with the highs. (2021), Why Not Us? (2022, with Skeez), Love, (2023) and the lows. (2024). Live he blends melodic hip-hop, pop-rap and singing, fluidly shifting between rap sections and hooks, and speaks in a clear first-person voice about career detours, intimacy and doubt. The set draws from a catalogue that stretches from the early mixtape energy to the more reflective songs of his latest releases—productions that leave room for voice and lyrics. In Berlin, mike. demonstrates how his sound has made the leap from the campus to a more mature, personally grounded form.