In the news today: Naked Rayon, Hot Water Music, Face to Face, Quicksand, Little Dragon, Cannibal Corpse, Mayhem, Gorguts, Blood Incantation

Feel The Void (Equal Vision Records). Review by Charles D.J. Deppner.

Tonight’s No Good for Me (6131 Records). Review by Scott Adams.

Brothers and Smugglers (Creator-Destructor Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Another sold-out Social Distortion show satisfies both Orlando and über fan Jen Cray.

It’s All Coming Down (Paper and Plastick). Review by Jen Cray.

White Crosses (Sire). Review by Jen Cray.

Against Me! test drives both a new drummer and a new set of songs on a mini-Florida tour that finds them squeezing into the packed confines of The Social in Orlando.

Flogging Molly didn’t give up much for Lent, instead bringing one hell of a happy show to Orlando’s House of Blues.

Chuck Ragan’s Revival Tour makes a return trip to Orlando to jam with a crowd of friends for a less-than-perfect audience of socialites.

Strung Out gives standard Orlando fare a run for its money, abusing, shredding, and grinding the hell out of every inch of The Social’s stage to fans’ delight.

Poetry of the Dead (Epitaph). Review by Jen Cray.

Less Than Jake has been riding the third wave of ska for fifteen years. Jen Cray was there at the start, and she’s still turning up at their shows so many years later.

An enthusiastic Hot Water Music set fails to revive a House of Blues audience left in the lurch by a no-show Naked Raygun.

Jen Cray is thoroughly rocked by a triple bill of Rise Against, Thrice, and Alkaline Trio. All killer, no filler? The point can be argued…

What’s so great about The Social? Just ask Jen Cray, who gets all comfy with Chuck Ragan , Ben Nichols , Tim Barry , and Austin Lucas , The Revival Tour, everyone. Jen’s got love.

With a trio of Hot Water Music reunion shows coming up later in the month, the 3/4 of the band who moonlight as The Draft played an off-tour warmup gig in Orlando. Jen Cray was there.

One Small Step For Landmines (Civil Defense League). Review by Jen Cray.

The two-night stint of Brand New and Thrice at Orlando’s House of Blues sold out days in advance. Jen Cray managed to get inside on the closing night.

A fast departure from Brand New’s show at the House of Blues brought me to the much more laid back vibe at The Social for the Chuck Ragan gig. The Hot Water Music frontman was not the only famous frontman who decided to leave his band at home and go it alone for an acoustic evening. Jen Cray was in for a quadruple bill of talent!