Despite moving to England at a young age, new wave icon Lene Lovich says she still feels a deep connection to Detroit, where she was born.

Lovich is set to open for Devo and the B-52s at Pine Knob on Sept. 25 — her first Michigan show is decades.

Before she commanded the stage as new wave’s “Queen of Quirk,” Lene Lovich was a self-described Wednesday Addams — a strange, quiet kid whose eccentric streak would become her signature.

Now 76, the Detroit-born post-punk/new wave pioneer, who first drew major attention in the late 1970s, is still touring and will return to Michigan on Sept. 25 to open for Devo and the B-52s on her first full North American tour in 35 years.

Though she moved to Hull, England, with her mother and siblings around the age of 13, Lovich says Detroit remains “very

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