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Phil Sroka, Author at MUSICFESTNEWS • Page 2 of 3

By Phil Sroka

Miami’s House of Creatives Music and Arts Festival

Posted on September 21, 2018

By Phil Sroka

Returning for its third year to the shores of Miami’s Historic Virginia Key Beach Park is House of Creatives Music and Arts Festival presented by … Continued

New Port Richey’s New Music Venue — The Verona

Posted on August 20, 2018

By Phil Sroka

The northern Pinellas area has seen music venues come and go over the years, and lately it seems to be more of the latter. Evan … Continued

Recollections and Recovery of a Revolutionary Rockstar: Book Review of Wayne Kramer’s “The Hard Stuff”

Posted on August 18, 2018

By Phil Sroka

One cannot underestimate the significance of the MC5. They heralded the birth of the popular music counterculture in the US that was born out of … Continued

The Bands Are All Dead: How Rock Can Still Survive the 2010s

Posted on August 5, 2018

By Phil Sroka

Article by Christopher Costabile OK, I’ll ask it: where has the good music gone? I don’t mean that rhetorically, and I don’t mean to sound … Continued

The Strength of our Faults: Some Thoughts on Relapse, Recovery, and Demi Lovato

Posted on July 29, 2018

By Phil Sroka

I haven’t written one of these editorials in a while. Part of it is due to a lack of new/creative/coherent thought. Another part of me … Continued

Love by Whatever Means Necessary: Slightly Stoopid, Pepper & Stick Figure Crowd the Park

Posted on July 25, 2018

By Phil Sroka

Photos courtesy of Rick Munroe and Mike Lawton Slightly Stoopid headlined two sold-out show at St. Petersburg’s Vinoy Park (Saturday, July 21) and Sunset Cove … Continued

The State of Resistance in Music

Posted on July 3, 2018

By Phil Sroka

A few weeks back my grandmother invited me to join her at her community center to listen to what was advertised as an evening of … Continued

Post-Noise Pop: Pixies, Weezer, and the Heyday of Alternative Rock

Posted on June 27, 2018

By Phil Sroka

The first concert I ever went to was a Bad Religion show on their New America tour while they were supporting Blink-182 back in 2000. … Continued

Tampa Bay Noise Lives

Posted on June 12, 2018

By Phil Sroka

I began hanging around the Tampa Bay noise scene in my early twenties. I had a friend who played the genre and knew other local … Continued

Peter Hook & the Light Bring New Order, Joy Division and Nostalgia to St. Pete

Posted on June 8, 2018

By Phil Sroka

It had been probably about ten years since I had been to State Theater in St. Petersburg. I was friends with/had a crush on the … Continued

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