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If you love live music and love supporting local, don't miss this event!

  Metallica drummer, Lars Ulrich, misses bands like Nirvana and Guns 'N' Roses.  In a recent interview he bemoans the dearth of inspirational bands in today's rock music.

Festapalooza kicks off in just three days. Here's a breakdown of what time you can expect each band -- American Fangs, Digital Summer, Texas Hippie Coalition, SOiL, Pop Evil, Filter and Sevendust -- to hit the stage at downtown Shreveport's Festival Plaza.

I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. On one hand, I absolutely loathe seeing people post the most utterly ridiculous, stupid things known to man. But on the other hand, every once and a while, you stumble across something worth while...like the Awkward Band and Musician Page. Like and enjoy these wonderful photos yourself. In the mean time, here are a few of my favorites:

I think it was Shakespeare that said, "What is in a name? A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet." That might work for roses, but I don't think that is true for music groups. I saw on Buzzfeed "40 Names of Bands Before They Were Famous." Some of them I was familiar with, like Pearl Jam was originally Mookie Blaylock in honor of their favorite New Jersey Nets player.

After hearing his name for...well, YEARS!...I finally got a chance to get East Texan Wes Jeans on the Homegrown show back in late March.  That was just ahead of his show at the Riverside Warehouse with The Kul (Johnny and Dane from that band also made the trip to be on Homegrown that weekend)...

We have the BEST winners!  Sorry it took so long, but here are the photos we took BACKSTAGE of our 99X Rock-a-Holics hangin' with Three Days Grace! Spot a familiar face? Yeah, I SO hate my job :P

It's a sad day for rock, as The White Stripes have thrown in the white towel, and called it quits.