Never Early Fest in downtown Baltimore at Power Plant Live was a great experience and fun event that was held on May 31st. Having 5 stages, the main stage in power plant live , one stage at the old tin roof, one stage at angels rock bar, another stage at PBF and one at the Beer Garden. 

Never Early Fest had a good mix of all types of genres. If you’re into punk rock, ska, metal core, rock, acoustic sets and everything in between, this was the place to be in Baltimore. 

Some of the highlights were the headliners Deep Blue Something and Sumo Cyco( both of which I got to interview. Check out Below)

Sponge was great, along with Bikini Trill and The PieTasters on the main stage. 

At Nutter Stage (Tin Roof) I really enjoyed The Upside, Skitzo Calypso, Tristan Tritt and Emily Wolfe. 

Empire Tattoo Stage (PBR) highlights were When the Sun Sets, Act109 and Keep Flying. Punk Rock Saves Lives stage (Beer Garden) I enjoyed Distance to Dawn with an acoustic set, and LoveBoxx.  

Dark Stage (Angels rock back) was probably  my favorite stage only because it had the most metal/rock bands that I enjoyed. With Allswell, Lives Lost, Devil in Disguise, Awake at Last , A skylit drive and Sumo Cyco all killing it on that stage. 

Overall I thought the fest was fun. We had a little rain that went by quick then some nice sunny weather with occasional crazy winds.  The band were all great, the food and food trucks were great. The fans from all walks of life were enjoying the diversity of the music. 

Huge shout to Nic Rappolla and His Team for putting on a great event. 

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Ministry on tour now with Die Krupps and Nitzer EBB stopped into Baltimore to bring us the early years of Ministry. 

German industrial band Die Krupps opened up the show and got the crowd pumped and ready. With a good mix of synth , guitars and booming bass, Die Krupps was a great opener. With songs like Metal Machine Music, Robo Sapien, and Bloodsuckers. 

Nitzer EBB was up next. Armed with just vocalist Bon Harris and his keyboardist , Nitzer EBB set was full of energy and life, Bon was all over the stage dancing and just living his best life. With songs like Blood Money, Hearts and Minds, and Join in the Chant, Nitzer got the goth crowd up and moving. 

Ministry was up next and it was gonna be a fun and weird night. I’ve seen Ministry many times but this would be the first time I’ve seen them without them playing either Thieves or NWO. That’s because we got blasted back into the in 1983 and 1986 with albums “With Sympathy” and “Twitch”.

The band sounded and looked amazing with AL supporting a disco fever fuzzy hat and glasses. Now like I’ve said I’ve seen Ministry many times and they have been heavy as all hell, but apparently the old school set with much bass in it was too much for Soundstages speakers as the band blew them out many times during the set. 

The fans didn’t care they stuck in full force and watched one of the most fun Ministry shows. It was great to hear all the old songs with a little bit of a modern twist to them. If you get to go and see this tour I encourage you to do so.   

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Another M3 has come and gone and we are still rocking out to what an amazing weekend it was. 

M3 this year was a lot of fun. We had some big surprises in the acts that played, and we had some really great nights of rock and roll. 

On Friday, Sebastian Bach rocked the hell out of the crowd, and we got to hear some great Skid Row songs by the voice behind the song. 

Saturday was another kick-ass day. Child’s Play rocked thee, and then I helped my buddies at the Metal Summit with an interview with John Allen. Adler killed it again, and with The Metal Summit, we interview Ari once again. Slaughter and Winger rocked it; it was sad to know that Winger wasn’t going to be touring anymore. Accept made us rock out and get our balls to the wall with some German metal. Check out my interview with Wolf Hoffman below. The big surprise for Saturday was the return of Diamond Dave, or David Lee Roth to those that don’t know. Damn, he blows me away! It was great hearing all those Van Halen songs sung by the man himself. David sounded great, his band was amazing, and his backup singers were awesome. David would have to be a top 5 favorite band to play M3 ever, and that’s saying a lot. 

Sunday was another great day of bands and interviews. Opening up with Spread Eagle, who I joined with my guys in The Metal Summit for another kick-ass interview. Vixen and Lita Ford showed everyone that women kick just as much ass as the guys do. My big jaw-dropping moment of M3 was that I got the approval to sit down and talk to Lita Ford herself for a quick interview. Lita is a legend and such an amazing person. Check out the interview below. Great White and Warrant kicked ass. Ace Frehley was great and brought his smoking guitar to blow all of our minds. And ending the night, it was great to see Pearcy and DeMartini back on stage together and rocking all the dirty RATT rock ‘n roll. 

All in all, it was a great M3 again; the rain and thunderstorms kept themselves in check and gave us a good weekend of killer rock ‘n roll. I’m looking forward, as always, to seeing what bands M3 will bring next year. I love that they posted an online survey to see what bands they have had in the past that people would like to see and some bands that haven’t played before. But in my opinion, good rock ‘n roll doesn’t matter who’s on the stage; we go to M3 to listen to some kick-ass bands and hang out with our family of rockers for a weekend—that’s what it’s all about. 

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