There’s more to Orlando than Disney World, like great four-day music festivals headlined by great bands. Jen Cray caught Cults and Spectrals as part of the Orange You Glad Music Festival at The Plaza Live Theatre.

The right time and place happened at Backbooth Wednesday night, March 7. Eric Donath was there for the Orange You Glad Fest pre-Party, where Grimes, Born Gold, and Michael Parallax put on a super fun show of costumes, props, and fantastic original music.

Liturgy crashes a party brought to you by indie buzz acts to 1: confuse fans who came out to see Sleigh Bells and Diplo, and 2: give Matthew Moyer a reason to show up.

King Khan and The Shrines were knee deep in the chaos and high tension of a hot Florida bar filled to the brim with college kids… and Matthew Moyer.

What happens when the Muppets take a whole lot of drugs and partner up with an avant garde musician? Something along the lines of Quintron and Miss Pussycat. Matthew Moyer reveled in the unearthly delights.

Zola Jesus creates a surreal and magical concert experience, Jen Cray learned at the songstress’ first ever Orlando date.

You’ve seen the documentary, now see the band! Anvil in 3D, in Tampa, with Carl F Gauze at their feet.

Ten years of The Kills may not mean much to some, but to many – Jen Cray included – it means a decade’s worth of killer music that’s worth celebrating.

The first ever Orlando Calling Festival set up camp on a picture-perfect Central Florida fall day. Jen Cray parked it on the lawn amid tens of thousands of music fans and absorbed.

Another sold-out Social Distortion show satisfies both Orlando and über fan Jen Cray.

Guns N’ Roses… well, sort of… arrive “fashionably” late to their first US show in over five years. Jen Cray is still trying to decide if Axl Rose can shoulder the legendary metal band on his own.

After nearly a decade’s hiatus, Gavin Rossdale has relaunched BUSH, and a super sold-out show in Orlando lets Jen Cray know that she’s not the only one excited to see this band back together.

Pop Punk’s Not Dead on New Found Glory’s fall tour, but that doesn’t mean that Jen Cray is as blindly accepting of the modern day take on the genre as some.

The Sounds strut back through Orlando and Jen Cray is part of the small but devoted crowd that welcomes them.

Cut Copy, a band too skilled to be discarded as just another dance band, blanketed Orlando’s Firestone Live with an aura of awesome, according to Jen Cray and about a thousand others.

Atmosphere taps into the psyche of self doubt of twentysomethings, Matthew Moyer discovered at a sold-out Jacksonville show, where the powerhouse rhymes were so hot they broke the air conditioner.

Jen Cray and a horde of bodies mosh to Frank Turner’s odes to life, love, and music at his headlining Orlando show – finally.

Atari Teenage Riot came to Firestone Live to pound out the techno into a modern political landscape where the people rise above totalitarian and authoritarian control. It’s the kind of futuristic idealism that local scribe Eric Donath can’t miss, and to ice that cake is Otto von Schirach, a bass-heavy freak with street-cred like a rap-sheet symphony.

Foster the People caught a lucky break with their first single, but prove to be more than just the flavor of the month at a recent Orlando show that made a believer out of Jen Cray.

The timeless appeal of Erasure wooed Jen Cray and a couple-thousand Orlando fans, who put on their party hats and left their inhibitions at home.