“When I was younger I was really into kind of depressing music. I mean, I was probably depressed on some level so I felt like I could relate to it. But when I heard Tool for the first time there was just no going back. I’d never had music make me feel the way Tool did. As I got deeper and deeper into it and started digesting...
“I live and work in the Middle East and schedule my vacations around upcoming concerts here in the U.S.. Shinedown is my favorite band especially live, and I’ve seen them on tour in support of every album they’ve released. My girlfriend is from Jordan and hasn’t been to exposed to much American rock music. I...
“The teenage years are a tough time for a lot of people. For me they were difficult because of the issues I had with social anxiety. I didn’t have many friends, so music was the only thing I had to get me through. Well, music and self-harm. I turned to cutting and burning myself as a way to escape my extreme feelings of...
I believe we all have demons trying to bring us down. Sometimes they get through and make us feel numb. They make us feel that nothing in our lives is worth anything and that we’re not worth anything. When it happens, that’s depression. The song “Get Up” was written by Brent to his friend and band mate Eric about his struggle with...
“Shinedown’s music is so inspirational and hopeful. I’ve always liked “Simple Man”, the original and their version. But now it means soooo much more to me, after seeing them play it with Machine Gun Kelly at Rock USA in Wisconsin. It was such an emotional performance because the crowd was so into it and...
I’ve been to 24 Shinedown shows, the first one was in 2001 when they were opening for 3 doors down. I fell in love with “Burning Bright”, it was a song I could relate to, especially when going through tough times. And it’s still my favorite song to this day. That’s what I love about great music, everyone...
I’ve basically converted my entire family into Shinedown fans. I took my 3 kids to their first Shinedown concert in 2009. I took my husband to his first real rock concert, Shinedown in 2012. And they’ve been big fans ever since. We love to see them in concert. We’ve seen them in big venues with all the pyrotechnics, but...
“I was in my early 20’s, it was the season of life when everything was new. I was just married, we moved from a stable, rural community to the big city. I had lots of hopes and dreams as I was trying to prepare for whatever my future was going to be. That was when my Brother-in-law gave me Switchfoot’s Learning to...
Switchfoot was the first band I totally fell in love with. Before my cousin introduced me to them when I was 12, I listened to a lot of country music. When I heard “Your Love is a Song” my life changed. I think I liked it so much because there was a more subjective take on the lyrics, and even though it wasn’t directly...
