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Joan Armatrading Parker Playhouse May 3, 2015 Better than: Many performers who dare go solo, sans accompaniment After spending more than a year on the road as part of what’s been touted as her last extensive world tour, Joan Armatrading had no reluctance at all in admitting she’s tired. “It’s…

I may have skanked most of the walk from the front gate of SunFest to the Ford Stage where the Tallahassee ska band Trial By Stone were working hard to get the slowly awakening early afternoon crowd moving. With the perfect weather, on SunFest’s most anticipated day of performers, the…

Strolling along the Intracoastal, eating a giant turkey leg and looking at art is a pretty ideal Friday night. Especially on a beautiful day in South Florida. At least, it was relaxing until the sun went down, and the sprinting back and forth between stages began. Apparently, there was a…

It’s not always easy taking over the family business, especially when you’re forced to do it publicly and in the face of huge expectations. And when your dad was generally considered to be one of the greatest drummers of all time and his band pretty much set the standard for…

Kaskade is coming to play in West Palm Beach this Friday night at SunFest. He will be headlining on the main stage from 9:30 p.m. until the festival closes at 11 p.m. This is the first time SunFest has booked a DJ as a headliner, and for fans and rookies…

Walking into SunFest is a bit like thumbing through The Cheesecake Factory’s menu for the first time. Your eyes start to water before you even make it to the pasta section. There’s so many choices your stomach starts to turn at the thought of making a decision. And they haven’t…

It was almost as if by calling it SunFest, the West Palm Beach extravaganza was able to will away the rain and dark clouds that occupied South Florida for much of the day. Because when the gates opened and the music started, it was nothing but clear skies and balmy…

It’s the one part of music festivals we can all agree suck: the bathrooms. Whether you’re squatting in a hot porta-potty, or waiting in a concrete bathroom for 30 minutes for a stall to open up, small bladders and big concerts don’t mix.  And while SunFest might not have solved…

Throngs of surprisingly punctual fans arrived on time at Revolution Live to see Of Mice & Men. The crowd ranged from 13-year-olds to folks over 40, and there was a level of intensity already marinating in the air (along with a swell of other undesirable odors) as fans anxiously awaited…

Hawaiian bred and California based, Iration — made up of members Cayson Peterson, Joe Dickens, Micah Pueschel, and Adam Taylor — are bringing their sweet brand of reggae-rock to SunFest this Sunday. This year’s SunFest lineup is possibly the best ever. But it’s not just fans who are excited, Iration…

For a few hours on a balmy Monday evening that felt more like mid-July than late April, Fort Lauderdale partied as if the summer months were indeed upon us. Indie pop quartet, Walk the Moon — the musical equivalent of Pop Rocks and Coke — returned to Revolution Live for…

Counting down the hours until Friday even though it’s only Tuesday? Yeah, we’ve all been there. While you can’t make the next four days disappear as quickly as the #KylieJennerLipChallenge faded into obscurity, there is one thing that will make the next 96 hours fly by: music.  But not just…

The Internet is a fetid womb from which perverse and offensive offspring are born into popular culture. Bizarre sexual fetishes that make most normal folk squirm with disgust found a home and a highway through the networks of the web, while countless musicians found fans in similarly derelict corners of…

Few know the ins and outs of Flogging Molly quite like Nathen Maxwell. Before he joined as the band’s bassist in 1996, he was just another fan of the Flogging Molly’s raucous Irish punk. “When I was 17, I used to sneak in the backdoor of the L.A. bar where…

Joey Santiago, the guitarist of the greatest American rock band there ever was and probably ever will be is out running errands. While fans of The Doors and The Beach Boys might take umbrage to that title, nobody from the USA has ever matched the fury, the beauty, the ridiculous…

Formed by pals Tom Hunting and Kirk Hammett in 1980 and named after a Leon Uris novel, Exodus stands proudly as one of the founders of the Bay Area’s longstanding and lauded thrash metal scene. Now on the Dark Roots of Thrash II tour with the equally essential Bay Area thrashers, Testament,…