PHOTOS: Rock’N Derby, Day 3 – Shinedown, Megadeth, Coheed and Cambria, Sixx:A.M., and more, 05/22/16
New Jersey-based SLP Concerts and GameLoud, the organizers behind popular festival events like The Bamboozle, Skate and Surf Festival, and Food Truck & Rock Carnival, launched the inaugural Rock’N Derby festival at the Schaghticoke Fairgrounds in Schaghticoke, New York on May 20-22, delivering three days of top-notch heavy metal and hard rock, along with a […]
PHOTOS: Rock’N Derby, Day 2 – Anthrax, Halestorm, Sebastian Bach, Chevy Metal, and more, 05/21/16
New Jersey-based SLP Concerts and GameLoud, the organizers behind popular festival events like The Bamboozle, Skate and Surf Festival, and Food Truck & Rock Carnival, launched the inaugural Rock’N Derby festival at the Schaghticoke Fairgrounds in Schaghticoke, New York on May 20-22, delivering three days of top-notch heavy metal and hard rock, along with a […]
PHOTOS: Rock’N Derby, Day 1 – Five Finger Death Punch, Scott Stapp, Lamb of God, Clutch, and more, 05/20/16
New Jersey-based SLP Concerts and GameLoud, the organizers behind popular festival events like The Bamboozle, Skate and Surf Festival, and Food Truck & Rock Carnival, launched the inaugural Rock’N Derby festival at the Schaghticoke Fairgrounds in Schaghticoke, New York on May 20-22, delivering three days of top-notch heavy metal and hard rock, along with a […]
PHOTOS: NEPA Scene’s Got Talent, Week 12, 05/17/16
The final qualifying week of Season 3 of NEPA Scene’s Got Talent on Tuesday, May 17 was packed with a variety of acts, some returning from previous weeks and some completely new to the event. In the end, the audience at Thirst T’s Bar & Grill in Olyphant chose a group of young newcomers as […]
PHOTOS: Joe Bonamassa at the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, 05/19/16
With the Fine Arts Fiesta just outside the doors, blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa sold out the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre once again on Thursday, May 19, just four months after headlining two shows at Carnegie Hall. Supporting his 12th studio album, “Blues of Desperation,” that was released in March, the 39-year-old legend from […]
REVIEW/PHOTOS: Susquehanna Breakdown brings family of bluegrass fans together in Scranton
For the fourth consecutive year, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre bluegrass band Cabinet kicked off the summer concert season with the Susquehanna Breakdown Music Festival at The Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton. The two-day affair got underway on Friday, May 20 with performances by local bands The Dishonest Fiddlers and the Coal Town Rounders, acoustic guitarist extraordinaire Larry […]
PHOTOS: 3 Doors Down and Candlebox at Sands Bethlehem Event Center, 05/19/16
Multi-platinum-selling 3 Doors Down, known for No. 1 hits like “Kryptonite,” “Duck and Run,” “Loser,” “Be Like That,” “When I’m Gone,” and “Here Without You,” returned to the Sands Bethlehem Event Center in support of their latest album, “Us and the Night,” on Thursday, May 19. The Mississippi rockers were joined on this particular night […]
PHOTOS: Scranton Comic Con at Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel, 05/15/16
The Scranton Comic Book Convention returned to the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel in downtown Scranton for its spring edition on Sunday, May 15, filling a ballroom with comics, collectibles, and plenty of geeky fun. Guests in attendance included Darren Auck (veteran illustrator for Marvel Comics, including “Hulk vs. Thing,” “Ren & Stimpy,” “Rocko’s Modern Life,” […]
PHOTOS: Alice Cooper at the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, 05/13/16
Alice Cooper, singer of “He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask),” appropriately sold out the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts in Wilkes-Barre for the third time on Friday the 13th, proving once again that the classics never die – except dramatically on stage, again and again. Even as the Godfather of Shock Rock […]
PHOTOS: NEPA Scene’s Got Talent, Week 11, 05/10/16
A longtime supporter and unexpected contestant won the audience vote at NEPA Scene’s Got Talent on Tuesday, May 10, proving once again that it’s not only anybody’s game, but that first-time performers can win right alongside more experienced acts every week at Thirst T’s Bar & Grill in Olyphant. Scranton photographer Lisa Petz has been […]
