Purists have long hated on Greta Van Fleet for some reason, but there's no denying the band's ability to channel the classic sounds of Zeppelin and other classic-rock giants and distill it down into a product that sold more than 100,000 tickets in two days after the announcement of last year's spring tour. Greta Van Fleet is touring behind The Battle at Garden's Gate, from 2021, and it'll be cool to watch fan response to Durand Jones & the Indications (including Jones' drummer Aaron Frazer, who has one of silkiest vocals in soul today) at the show.
Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...