Susquehanna Bank Center Camden, NJ. Sunday, July 31st           The year’s biggest and most brutal metal music festival made its way into Camden, N.J., with headliners Disturbed, Godsmack and Megadeth, plus 10 equally hard rocking bands including Trivium, Machine Head, Unearth, Kingdom of Sorrow, Red Fang and more; nearly 12 hours of hard rock heaven on the Jagermeister and Revolver stages for the Phila./Camden-area metalheads. I rolled my earplugs in for the day knowing that some of these headliners that I have seen before can crank it up pretty loud. As the long afternoon of sweaty metal heads and mosh pits in the parking lot came to a close, I made my way into the main pavillion for the headliners. The only downfall of an epic bill like the Mayhem Fest is that each band doesn't get to play as long as the crowd would like but it’s a fair trade for a long day of metal that Mayhem delivers.         It w... » Click here for the full story.

        For my second show at the "Link" in 3 weeks, I made my way across Patterson Ave. and walked across the now sacred ground that used to house the "Spectrum", where I have nothing but fantastic memories now. As I made my way to the Link, all the parking lots had nothing but major Taylor-Gating going on where there were 85 percent moms, daughters, teens and college-age girls everywhere in cowboy hats, boots and daisy dukes as far as I could see. And once again, I'm not talking about Daisy Duke up on Channel Buoy Rd.         As the lights go out, 51,000 screaming fans (the majority females) wave glow sticks waiting for Taylor Swift to make her entrance. She soon appeared, rising up from the stage that extended out into the audience on the field, wearing a gold-fringed dress and cowboy boots. She’s playing a red guitar opening up her "Speak Now" tour with "Sparks Fly." After soa... » Click here for the full story.

Lincoln Financial Field Philadelphia, Pa. Thursday, July 14th           We had heard the stories about the mammoth size of the "U2 360" Tour, a 168-foot-tall four-legged stage known as "The Claw", which looked like some futuristic spaceship that made its way to Philadelphia for more than 67,000 fans. There were ramps, bridges and catwalks that separated the two general admission sections on the field. I heard that some of these people in the inner section had been camping out for days just to get up close to the band. If anyone has been to stadium concerts before, you want to be up close, but thanks to U2's 360 circular video screen hanging under the Claw, it wasn’t all that bad for people in the nose-bleed sections.         As the lights went down and the smoke starting rolling off the stage to the sound of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" playing on the PA system, U2 opened with a... » Click here for the full story.