Miami’s House of Creatives Music and Arts Festival
Returning for its third year to the shores of Miami’s Historic Virginia Key Beach Park is House of Creatives Music and Arts Festival presented by … Continued
New Port Richey’s New Music Venue — The Verona
The northern Pinellas area has seen music venues come and go over the years, and lately it seems to be more of the latter. Evan … Continued
Recollections and Recovery of a Revolutionary Rockstar: Book Review of Wayne Kramer’s “The Hard Stuff”
One cannot underestimate the significance of the MC5. They heralded the birth of the popular music counterculture in the US that was born out of … Continued
The Bands Are All Dead: How Rock Can Still Survive the 2010s
Article by Christopher Costabile OK, I’ll ask it: where has the good music gone? I don’t mean that rhetorically, and I don’t mean to sound … Continued
The Strength of our Faults: Some Thoughts on Relapse, Recovery, and Demi Lovato
I haven’t written one of these editorials in a while. Part of it is due to a lack of new/creative/coherent thought. Another part of me … Continued
Love by Whatever Means Necessary: Slightly Stoopid, Pepper & Stick Figure Crowd the Park
Photos courtesy of Rick Munroe and Mike Lawton Slightly Stoopid headlined two sold-out show at St. Petersburg’s Vinoy Park (Saturday, July 21) and Sunset Cove … Continued
The State of Resistance in Music
A few weeks back my grandmother invited me to join her at her community center to listen to what was advertised as an evening of … Continued
Post-Noise Pop: Pixies, Weezer, and the Heyday of Alternative Rock
The first concert I ever went to was a Bad Religion show on their New America tour while they were supporting Blink-182 back in 2000. … Continued
Tampa Bay Noise Lives
I began hanging around the Tampa Bay noise scene in my early twenties. I had a friend who played the genre and knew other local … Continued
Peter Hook & the Light Bring New Order, Joy Division and Nostalgia to St. Pete
It had been probably about ten years since I had been to State Theater in St. Petersburg. I was friends with/had a crush on the … Continued