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The Best of Queen
Hard to believe that it’s been more than twenty-five years since the rock universe lost the iconic Freddie Mercury. Unfortunately, I never saw Queen perform live, but I did have a goose bump moment with the band that I’ll never forget. I was one of the 100,000 sun soaked, alcohol-fueled animals on the infield at…
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ROCK ‘N ROLL FAMILY MAN – Mike Peters
Mike Peters Interview Mike Peters and The Alarm just wrapped up their annual tour of the United States with four stops in the State of Florida. We had a chance to sit down with the legendary front man before his show at Orlando’s Social. The Alarm have been sharing their touring experience on a fun…
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Tuesday at The Opry
Performances by Whisperin’ Bill Anderson, Chris Janson, Ella Langley, John Pardi, Riders In The Sky, and Maggie Rose If you want to see music in Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry and the Ryman Auditorium are like air and water, because they are necessities. I had a chance to visit the Ryman on January 29th and…
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The Blue Room Leaves Us Anything But Blue
Oh Boy Records presents Mick Flannery, Emily Scott Robinson and Arlo McKinley It’s Friday night and we all wait patiently outside The Blue Room, which is adjacent to Third Man Records, which is former White Stripes front man Jack White’s project. I know I’m super stoked for this show, as there are three musicians on…
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Plush Makes Great First Impression
We stumbled into a nice surprise on our way to Disturbed’s set in Orlando early this week. As is our typical M.O., we were scrambling to get to our seats in time to catch the opener, Plush. We entered at the wrong side of the newly named Kia Arena (nee Amway Center) and had to…
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Dropkick Murphy’s Sham’Rock Nashville
Dropkick Murphy’s with Pennywise and The Scratch Saint Patrick’s Day came early for Nashville this year as the Dropkick Murphy’s, Pennywise and a young, up and coming band known as The Scratch strolled into Marathon Music Works. On a personal note, the last time that I saw the Dropkick Murphy’s with Pennywise ,was in the…
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Losing a Legend
Iconic Engineer and Frontman, Steve Albini has passed at age 61 Today the world has lost an absolute legend in the music industry. It was announced earlier today that Albini, age, 61, had suffered a heart attack and passed away. Steve was a recording “engineer” or “producer” or maybe producing engineer is the better term.…
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Best Bands of Festival – Welcome to Rockville 2024
I’m just coming down off the cloud that was the 2024 Welcome To Rockville Festival in Daytona. It’s one of the premiere hard rock celebrations on the planet, and a mainstay in Eastern Florida for the last decade. With well over 100 bands in the lineup, I try to balance my days with a mixture…
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Ghost Stories or “How Not To Fear The Reaper”
When it comes to older bands putting out new material it can be quite a gamble. Even for die-hard fans. Mostly we are met with a “passable” new single, maybe a reference to an older hit, or getting a more contemporary artist to guest on a track or two. And maybe, just maybe, if we…
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The Struts Deliver Vicious Show in Orlando
If you didn’t leave the venue brutally exhausted, with a hoarse voice, an aching body and ringing ears, you didn’t do your Struts show properly. The British band delivers an energetic set that feeds off of abundant audience participation. This is not a seated sedate experience, but more of a raucous house party with some…
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