After forty years, Kiss proved they are still the Hottest Band in the Land, as they blew the ever-living crap out of Christopher Long at a Tampa show.

The Dirty Heads were mongo pushin’ the crowds at the Stone Pony Summerstage as May Terry soaked in the sun and fun.

Alanis Morissette haunts an Italian crowd with sounds so sweet, Yifat Grizman isn’t sure if those are tears or sweat on her cheeks.

Now in its 18th year, Warped Tour still manages to give Jen Cray and the rest of Orlando’s fans a beautiful day of sweat-soaked awesomeness.

Mightier than Motley and prettier than Poison, ’80s So-Cal metal missionary poster boys Stryper returned to Orlando for some arena-rock-style praise and worship. Long time fan Christopher Long was in the front pew.

Brian Jonestown Massacre has survived the notorious mood swings of mastermind Anton Newcombe long enough to pummel a sold-out Tel Aviv crowd and Ink 19’s own Yifat Grizman with nearly three hours of genius noise.

Best Coast sells out The Social, but Jessica Whittington and one of the Bethanys squeeze in, stick thier hearts on their sleeves, and resist calling their exes.

The Orlando concert season kicked off with a very loud bang at Orlando’s super-groovy Plaza “Live” Theater with Maps and Atlases, though it was opening band The Big Sleep that really did it for Christopher Long.

Israeli singer Ninet Tayeb drops her voice like an elevator straight into Yifat Grizman’s skull, with a live performance that leaves the fans sweaty and breathless.

May Terry drinks a glass of musical moonshine served up by roots rock band The Hollows, way up North at Brooklyn Bowl.

The full account of what could be the greatest performance of all time, according to Jared Campbell: Roger Waters performing The Wall.

Lily and The Parlour Tricks sizzle up a hot summer night of swinging music in New York City, where May Terry time-warped her way back to the ’20s.

Good things come to May Terry, who waited through a half-dozen bands before Grass Widow closed out the Panache Northside Showcase in NYC.

The Cult turns the House of Blues in Orlando into the House of Good Mojo, not only delivering a killer set themselves, but allowing for Florida fans to get their first taste of a brand new stage of Against Me.

The lightning and thunder of The Mars Volta fires up Yifat Grizman in Tel Aviv, but it’s openers Le Butcherettes that blow her mind.

Puscifer is Maynard James Keenan’s bridge between the industrial, the electro, and the Arizona desert. Jen Cray tries to make sense of it all, gives up, and just relaxes into the strange psychedelia of their performance.

Man Man and the battle of Raleigh Moncrief: Hipster night at The Social, or a galactic group of multi-instrumentalists that give Jared Campbell hope for the state of music? You decide.

May Terry gets lost in the neo-psychedelic haze when the Dandy Warhols play live at Irving Plaza.

Rufus Wainwright taps his shiny red boots and transports an Isreali crowd to another dimension, or so the transfixed Yifat Grizman figures.

YACHT: hipster pow-wow, dance party, philosophical discussion, or all of the above? Jen Cray can’t quite decide, but that doesn’t mean she didn’t have a blast at their recent Orlando date!