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.

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

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.

Hundreds of salivating teenaged females (and one creepy old guy named Christopher Long ) recently packed into Orlando’s hotspot, The Social, for the opening night of Family Force 5’s Solid Gold Tour.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Owl City brings fan-friendly melodies, moody lighting, and hologram rappers (!?!) to Orlando’s House of Blues. Stan Kruslicky can get down with the tunes and the lights, but draws the line at holographic musicians onstage.