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 […]
Tampa
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: […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Live Review
Cute is what “Cute Is What We Aim For” aims for, and they hit their mark and more!
Brent Michael, Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Venue: The Orpheum, Ybor City – Cute Is What We Aim For The band is very political, but a straight reading of what they say (and put on […]
Live Review
Plaid Brixx started gaining fans 21 years ago–and made a bunch more in Tampa!
By Brent Michael. Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Venue: The Orpheum, Tampa–March 30, 2017 Plaid Brixx started gaining fans 21 years ago! I’m going to let the lead guitarist and singer’s former teacher, Patti Preves, […]
Live Review
Brightside lays down licks at The Orpheum
By Brent Michael, Rock At Night Tampa Correspondent Venue: The Orpheum, Tampa, Florida–March 30, 2017 Why aren’t we in a band together? So we became one. This was their origin story, according to Conner Holcombe […]
