So I’m going through a rough patch right now. I guess I probably shouldn’t share about it here but yeah…anyway, hopefully I can distract myself for a bit and make a quick update on my year in music for 2015 so far.

Concerts:
Been to 6 and a half so far this year. They were all good, but the top ones would be Death Cab in April and Imagine Dragons/Metric in July!

Jukebox the Ghost, Twin Forks – Feb. 3, 2015
Went to this one with my sister. Twin Forks was alright but I like Dashboard Confessional better. Jukebox…

Sat 25 Jul – Imagine Dragons, Metric, Halsey

I went to see Imagine Dragons last night!! It was really really good, but there were a few things that kept it from being my favorite concert ever.

The concert was at the US Airways Center – the same place that the Phoenix Suns play, and probably the largest concert I’ve ever been to! It wasn’t quite sold out, but there were a lot of people there so that was really cool. I actually had another event in downtown Phoenix that afternoon, so I was able to get discounted parking.

I met…

Sun 19 Apr – Chris Tomlin, Tenth Avenue North, Rend Collective

Last Sunday, I went to see the Love Ran Red tour with Chris Tomlin, Tenth Avenue North, and Rend Collective. It was the first big Christian concert I went to, and it was a really cool experience!

I went with a big group (15-20) of people from my church here in Phoenix. The concert was at the arena at Grand Canyon University, a large Christian college here. A lot of people attended the concert! After taking a group picture outside, we caught the last few songs…

Sat 18 Apr – Chipotle Cultivate Festival

On Saturday, I went to see Twenty One Pilots and Bleachers at the Chipotle Cultivate Festival! Apparently Chipotle only does this festival in three cities a year, so I’m really glad they did it in Phoenix this year and brought some pretty awesome bands with them.

I went to the Chipotle festival part with a pretty big group of people which was fun, but only my sister and a friend stayed for the concerts. I had seen Bleachers live before kinda (see my journal about a month ago), but I’m glad I got…

Fri 10 Apr – FestivALTAZ

Last night I went to see Death Cab for Cutie and Panic! at the Disco at Alt AZ 93.3's first ever FestivALTAZ! Glad I was able to find a friend to go with - the last time I had seen Death Cab was in 2008, and I've become a bigger fan of them since then.

The event was at Quail Run Park in Mesa, so it was the first time I'd ever headed that far east in Mesa. There was a lot of open space and they actually had it set up like a festival,…

Fri 20 Mar – Family Life Radio Presents: Diamonds CD Release Show

Last Friday I went to a free acoustic Hawk Nelson concert in the student center basement area of Grand Canyon University. It was a free show sponsored by one of the Christian radio stations here, although you did need a general admission ticket to get in.

I'm not a huge fan of Hawk Nelson…I listened to a few songs back when pop punk was big, but Relient K is the Christian pop punk/emo band I've kept up with. Over the years they've seemed to develop a more radio…

So the Pot of Gold music festival was this weekend at Tempe Beach Park, which is about a ten minute walk from my apartment. It had a pretty good lineup (Bastille, AWOLNATION, Fall Out Boy were some of the headliners), but was a bit expensive and I didn't really know anyone who'd be interested in going. I wasn't really doing anything on Friday night though so I decided to walk over and give a listen to Bleachers' set. They had it pretty well guarded off so you couldn't see much without paying the $60-70 to get in…I ended up…

Tue 3 Feb – Jukebox the Ghost, Twin Forks, Secret Someones

On Feb. 3 (Tuesday), I went to see Jukebox The Ghost (!!), Twin Forks, and Secret Someones at The Crescent Ballroom in downtown Phoenix with my sister. My sister hadn’t heard of Jukebox The Ghost, but I was able to convince her to go because the singer of Dashboard Confessional was playing. We had dinner at a Thai restaurant nearby and got to the venue around 7:45pm.

The Crescent Ballroom is pretty close to my work, but it was my first time being there. The venue is also…

Time for the year end review!

Concerts I Went To:
Wow, I went to 13 this year! Saw a few new bands earlier in the year…then went to some bigger concerts/festivals in the summer. Then saw a lot of my favorite bands since they all came through in October-November.

Barcelona - Jan. 19, 2014
Kind of a disappointing concert actually, but it was at the Seahawks playoff game so it was cool to experience that.
Review:
http://www.last.fm/user/kalsonberry/journal/2014/01/21/600fi9_barcelona_concert_review_-_jan._19,_2014

Emery, The Classic Crime - Jan. 24, 2014
The Classic Crime is underrated. Emery is a little on the loud side for…

Thu 30 Oct – Jimmy Eat World

Ah, this review is so late! I’ll try my best to remember the details…but it was definitely pretty monumental to see my favorite band play in their hometown.

The concert was very sold out at the Marquee Theatre, so it was definitely pretty packed in there (much more so than the Yellowcard concert I had went to a few weeks before). The crowd definitely skewed a bit older - it seemed like everyone there was at least my age. I guess which is why the crowd was a bit tamer than I expected.…