Brad Cox and Skitzo Calypso
In five days from the time of writing this, it will have been five years since I attended my first and only Skitzo Calypso concert. A few months following that performance, I would have the opportunity to interview frontman and singer-songwriter, Brad Co ...
TAM Toured the Coca-Cola Roxy and Learned About the Premium Seats
This weekend, on Sunday April 15, 2018, The Decemberists are bringing the YOUR GIRL / YOUR GHOST tour to the Coca-Cola Roxy. It will be The Decemberists' first time playing at the venue, which opened in April 2017. The Coca-Cola Roxy (originally locate ...
Iced Earth at Baltimore Soundstage
After the immense high of seeing Judas Priest in concert, and with news of an impending snow storm coming the following day, I was excited to chill out for one more great concert with Iced Earth at Baltimore Soundstage on March 19, 2018. What's more, the ...
Judas Priest at The Anthem
On Sunday, March 18, thousands of concert-goers packed The Anthem, ready to catch Judas Priest in their sold out show. After grabbing some much needed grub, several other photographers and myself grabbed our photo passes and slid up to the guardrail of t ...
Sabaton / Kreator / CyHra at The Fillmore Silver Spring
On a Wednesday night, on the outskirts of Washington D.C., a flood of people packed into The Fillmore Silver Spring for a night of metal mayhem. Camo pants were being sported by a great many, and I even noted one individual wearing a pauldron. Everyone ...
Michael Schenker Fest at The Fillmore Silver Spring
“40 years ago…” was a recurring measure, issuing forth from the mouth of German guitar legend, Michael Schenker, as hundreds stood at his beck and call in The Fillmore in Silver Spring, MD on March 6, 2018. These past four decades have been marked by an ...
‘Designed To Disappear’ by Dead Empires
“Rock ‘N Roll never felt so good.” When we last left our musically-inclined heroes, Dead Empires, they were releasing their sophomore album, Secret Snakes / Silent Serpent. Since that time, they’ve done something rather unusual: this instrumental band ...
Devin Townsend Project at Baltimore Soundstage
Lions, and tigers, and poozers, oh my! The first time I was given the honor of photographing a show, from the pit, with a legitimate photo pass, was last September at The Fillmore Silver Spring for the co-headlining duo of the Devin Townsend Proj ...
Alternate fiction: Otherwise Perfect
Jesse and Wes are college seniors and best friends who have seen each other through it all. But when tragedy strikes Jesse's family during the holiday season, his severe depression returns and threatens to tear their friendship apart. Wes is determine ...
The right to a name in the music industry with Brad Cox.
I have the pleasure today of speaking with Brad Cox, frontman of Baltimore-area rock bands We Love The Underground, Skitzo Calypso, and Niki Thunders. Brad, all those bands must take up quite a bit of your time. How long have you been making and releasi ...