Gainesville’s favorite punk-rock festival is back for it’s 11th year. The Fest will invade downtown Gainesville Friday through Sunday with more than 300 bands and over 3,200 attendees.
Yellowcard, a group of Jacksonville natives who made their rise to popularity during the crucial formative years of many of today’s college-aged listeners, avoided the dreaded weak comeback record last year.
In 1974, Rolling Stone magazine's Jon Landau reviewed an up-and-coming musician's gig for Boston's the Real Paper. The emerging songster was Bruce Springsteen of who Landau penned, "I saw rock 'n' roll's future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen."
While it's common for most record labels to launch an onslaught of highly anticipated releases during the fall, this is being taken to a new extent in 2011. From my perspective, this year has been laden with excellent new releases, and given the schedule for upcoming records in the fall, 2011 is shaping up to be a stronger year than 2010.
Andrew Schaer isn't comfortable with how young people are going about compiling their music libraries.
Usually at the end of summer vacation, I muse about how fast time went by. But this summer went by as slow as any I can remember.
Everyone complains about Warped Tour.
Pay for music? Who does that anymore?
When Susannah Caviness has an idea for a tattoo, she pulls out her phone and texts Mike Mehaffey.
For those of you who read this section with any regularity (are there any of you like that? You should tweet me; I'd love to meet you), you know my Off The Record column is mostly about music. There is nothing I appreciate more than music.
Solutions by The State News
