Live Review
Seven Kingdoms Hits All the Right Notes as Evergrey’s Number Two
By Brent Michael, Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Venue: The Orpheum, Tampa, Florida–May 7, 2017 Seven Kingdoms is a power metal band […]
Articles by Brent Michael
Live Review
Need Filled the Need for Another International Act on Evergrey’s Tour!
By Brent Michael, Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Venue: The Orpheum, Tampa, Florida–May 7, 2017 Need hails from Athens – Greece, not Georgia! Founded in 2003, they’ve released five albums so far, the latest being Hegaiamas: […]
Live Review
Arakara: Stands for Aggressive, Original, Uncompromising Thrash Metal
By Brent Michael, Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Venue: The Orpheum, Tampa, Florida–May 7, 2017 Okay, not literally, my research found this definition: “AAAA” is the primal call to the Absolute in all religions as the […]
Interviews
Chatting with Evergrey: ‘The Storm Within Tour’, dark themes, and more!
By Brent Michael, Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Venue: The Orpheum, Tampa, Florida–May 7, 2017 Evergrey is a progressive metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. Known for dark lyrics and dark imagery, they also delve […]
Live Review
The Purple Xperience: As Close as You can Get to Prince (Without Dying)
By Brent Michael, Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Venue: Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida Marshall Charloff, front man for The Purple Xperience, looks, sounds, and acts like Prince on stage so much I could almost believe […]
Live Review
Keep The Faith: Bon Jovi? Not Quite, but Worth Seeing
By Brent Michael, Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Venue: Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida The close of Busch Gardens’ Food and Wine Festival Concert Series brought us four “tribute” bands – and hot, hot, hot […]
Live Review
Lynyrd Skynyrd: A Good Ol’ Time with the Good Ol’ Boys of Southern Rock
By Brent Michael, Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Venue: Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida If you don’t know any Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, you must have been on a deserted island for the last 40 years. One […]
Live Review
Gilberto Santa Rosa takes Busch Gardens on a Tropical Voyage
By Brent Michael, Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Venue: Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida Gilberto Santa Rosa, also known as “El Caballero de la Salsa” (The Gentleman of Salsa), hails from Puerto Rico and has been […]
Music Review
Album Review: Matt Boroff’s ‘The Grand Delusion’
By Brent Michael, Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Matt Boroff’s The Grand Delusion: only the title sounds like Styx (not a bad thing!) I have to admit, I was worried that my first album […]
Live Review
Daya channels Madonna at Busch Gardens
By Brent Michael, Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Venue: Busch Gardens, Tampa Or is it Ariana Grande? I’m going with the original, because the outfit was definitely Madonna-inspired. Now before someone goes all ìwhat difference […]
