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.

The inaugural, and hopefully annual, Orlando Calling Festival brings BIG acts to Central Florida for a major two-day music festival November 12-13.

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.

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

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.

Alkaline Trio celebrate 15 years of sweetly poppy gloom and doom with a greatest hits tour that allows them time to strip it all down for the fans. Jen Cray witnessed the bare bones at the band’s Orlando date.

Welcome New Machine (Dirtnap). Review by Jen Cray.

Damnesia (Epitaph). Review by Jen Cray.

The summer time endurance test that is the Van’s Warped Tour is almost old enough to buy cigarettes and to vote (17 this year!). Jen Cray, once again, dives into the sweaty action – willingly.

New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys have joined forces to dominate the hearts of pop fans this summer. When the NKOTBSB Tour came through boy band capital of the world, Orlando, Jen Cray peeked in on the frenzy.

Our own Jen Cray is besotted with Florence & the Machine’s high drama.

From Fear to Eternity: The Best of 1990-2010 (EMI). Review by Jen Cray.

England Take My Bones (Epitaph). Review by Jen Cray.

A Cautionary Tale (New Granada). Review by Jen Cray.

Face to Face are together again after a break-up that didn’t stick. Orlando fans, like Jen Cray , reap the benefits of their reunion.

Le Butcherettes unleash their inner she-beast at an Orlando show that not only wowed Jen Cray , but won over a venue full of macho Deftones fans.

My Chemical Romance was never high on Jen Cray’s list of favorites, but the years have been kind to both the band’s songwriting and to their ability to stage a live show. In Orlando, as on virtually every other date of their 2011 World Contamination Tour, a sold-out sign screamed across the venue’s marquee.