Seeing Boy George with Culture Club was always on my bucket list, and I recently got to check it off. Also on the tour (“The Letting It Go Show”), and checked off my concert list, were Berlin and Howard Jones. It was an all-star 80s line-up! The start time of the […]
Weezer is on a 30-city run of shows—Weezer’s Indie Rock Road Trip—and one of the stops was in Columbia, Maryland, at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Joined by Joyce Manor and Future Islands, they arranged an awesome playlist—all while snapping selfies and enjoying life on the road. There was a little mix-up at […]
Band History Blink-182 has had a stop-and-go sort of existence throughout their years since forming in 1992. They replaced their original drummer Scott Raynor in 1998 with Travis Barker. In 1999, Blink-182 was everywhere after the release of Enema of the State, the band’s third studio album. Breaking into the mainstream, the band […]
So, it’s taken me a bit to digest what happened between September 9-12. If you were anywhere near social media, or even watching national news, you may have caught wind of the debacle that was the Blue Ridge Rock Festival. In addition to there being a lot of production issues, the event […]
Last week, I had the pleasure of catching Wallows on their sold-out show at Rams Head Live! in Baltimore, MD, for the Nothing Happens Tour. For those not familiar with the band, Wallows is made up of Braeden Lemasters (guitar, vocals), Dylan Minnette (guitar, keyboard, vocals), and Cole Preston (drums, vocals). Nothing Happens is […]
In the early aughts, if you were “cool,” you always tried to go to the Warped Tour, as it traveled across the country, in hopes of seeing your favorite punk, pop-punk, and emo bands. One of those bands was Simple Plan. I can’t remember where I’d first seen them—whether it […]
Dominic Harrison from Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, is professionally known as YUNGBLUD. His music is a blend of styles—including hip-hop, dancehall, ska, and rock—with influences from bands such as The Clash, Oasis. and Arctic Monkeys. I was first exposed to YUNGBLUD last summer on the Merriweather Post Pavilion leg of the Vans Warped […]
The first time that I saw Passion Pit was at the 9:30 Club on May 6, 2015 for the “Kindred” tour. My friend had invited me to attend, and I had decided to go out of pure curiosity. At that time, “Take a Walk” was on constant radio rotation…it was […]
