Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock Tour 2014
Live at Irving Plaza, NYC – 2/24/14

No doubt many of us, including myself, have our own qualms about the moniker “hottest chicks in hard rock,” but nevertheless, when the lineup for this year’s version of the aforementioned tour was announced, I couldn’t help but be a little excited. I wasn’t too familiar with the headliner, Sick Puppies, but words cannot express my love for Lacuna Coil, so there was no way I could pass up a chance to see them again. On top of that, I’ve known and even sometimes enjoyed the music of Eyes Set to Kill for years now, and was a fan of the band Cilver as their previous incarnation, MeTalkPretty, for a few years now as well. And then I find out that my favorite NYC-based band Charetta would be opening the show, so there was no way I was going to miss such a promising lineup. And so I dragged a friend up to New York with me for the day to enjoy a night of great music, and enjoy it we did!

MaYaN – CD Release show @ Tivoli de Helling Utrecht (Netherlands)
Saturday 31 January 2013

It’s always nice and potentially surprising to go to a CD presentation show. The Antagonise show was the second one in two weeks for me, and I reviewed both albums. This made the shows less surprising because I already knew all the new songs. I had the opportunity to listen to the albums beforehand to be able to do the review. However live is something different and the overall experience may change your thoughts and sometimes also your score.