CONCERT REVIEWS

CONCERT REVIEW: SLIPKNOT’s Massive KNOTFEST ROADSHOW Annihilate Nashville (September 20th, 2022)
Words by Montana Bullock Veteran metal masters Slipknot brought their Knotfest Roadshow to the Bridgestone Arena on September 20 with special guests Ice Nine Kills…

CONCERT REVIEW: SCORPIONS Prove to Houston They Still Have Tons of “Gas In The Tank” (September 17th, 2022)
Words by Samantha Buckman There are numerous indomitable musical giants staring down the beast of aging and giving a firm middle finger to any talk…

CONCERT REVIEW: COLLECTIVE SOUL and SWITCHFOOT Take Pompano Beach on a Trip Down Memory Lane to the 90s (September 16th, 2022)
Photos by Joel Barrios If one were to have taken a survey of Generation X trustees of the 90s alternative rock craze on their thoughts…

CONCERT REVIEW: SHINEDOWN’s Planet Zero Tour Brings the Musical Heat to Mainsfield’s Rainy Tuesday Night (September 13th, 2022)
This past Tuesday night the Planet Zero World Tour rolled into the Massachusetts’s Xfinity Center on a very humid, on and off rainy night but…

CONCERT REVIEW: AIRBORNE Runs Wild at Gramercy Theater, New York (September 9th, 2022)
On Friday night, the Australian group Airbourne drew a packed house on opening night of their U.S. & Canada Tour at The Gramercy Theatre in…

CONCERT REVIEW: GHOST, MASTODON and SPIRITBOX Bring Intense, Technical, Theatrical and Eye-Opening Musical Fest to Tampa (September 6th, 2022)
While rock music is alive and well, witness the countless mid-capacity theaters with sold out shows and festivals that are drawing forty thousand plus people.…
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EPICA – 20th Anniversary Event [Livestream Review] (September 3rd, 2021)
he European metal scene has come a long way in the past two decades, following a seemingly miraculous rebirth of the melodic strain with a…

CONCERT REVIEW: JORDAN RUDESS Dazzles The Audience in An Spellbinding Display of Talent to Close Solo Tour (August 6th, 2022)
There are two types of rock music aficionados. Those who would immediately know who Jordan Rudess is, and those who would raise an eyebrow when…

CONCERT REVIEW: ACE MONROE Owns the Night at Music Hall Huntsville, AL (July 29th, 2022)
Whenever I am asked about an opening band for a concert, my advice is always to show up on time for the opener. Never intentionally…

CONCERT REVIEW: GLASS ANIMALS Made Giant Waves During Nashville Tour Stop (July 28th, 2022)
English-American based indie rock extraordinaire Glass Animals brought their “Dreamland” tour promoting their third full-length album to Nashville, TN on July 28th. The tour kicked…

CONCERT REVIEW: MACHINE GUN KELLY Gives Minnesota a Rock Spectacle to Remember (July 28th, 2022)
MacMachine Gun Kelly – born Colson Baker, 32 – shut the house down on Thursday, July 28th 2022. The Excel Energy Center, filled with over…

CONCERT REVIEW: A Night of Aristo-Fun with THE ARISTOCRATS (July 23rd, 2022)
On a Saturday night in a dark Tampa-area bar, 3 of the finest musicians out there played their heart (and limbs) out to a thrilled…

CONCERT REVIEW: JOSH GROBAN Dazzles an Ecstatic Audience at Toronto’s Budweiser Stage (June 28th, 2022)
On a night where the wind chill provided a much needed cool off from the first days of summer in Toronto, Josh Groban dazzled and…

CONCERT REVIEW: BLACKBERRY SMOKE Certainly Smokes the Roof Off at the Sand Mt. Amphitheater, AL (June 24th, 2022)
If you think that Southern Rock died with Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers Band, then you obviously have never been introduced to Blackberry Smoke.…

CONCERT REVIEW: PUSCIFER Bring an Existential Reckoning to Brooklyn – Kings Theatre (June 25th, 2022)
After a six year hiatus, Maynard James Keenan’s Puscifer are in the midst of a 22-date stateside tour that brought the performance-art troupe to the…

The Live and UnZoomed Tour: STYX, REO SPEEDWAGON and LOVERBOY Prove That Rockers May Grow Old, But Rock Never Does (June 19th, 2022)
With each passing year the list of icons of rock’s early days still manning the stage and bringing this now vintage sonic expression to the…