Articles By: Travis Failey

The Big Ticket in Jax Changes Venues

X102.9 Presents The Big Ticket Moves Across The Street To Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena  Friday, December 1 Festival Features The Lumineers, Walk The Moon, Bleachers & More Due to unforeseen circumstances, The Big Ticket 2017 is moving across the street from Metropolitan Park to the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena at 300 A. Philip Randolph Blvd. All previously purchased tickets will […]

The Big Ticket Returns to Jacksonville

The Lumineers, Walk The Moon, Bleachers, Andrew McMahon in The Wilderness, Saint Motel, New Politics & Mondo Cozmo Perform Friday, December 1 At X102.9 Presents The Big Ticket At Metropolitan Park In Jacksonville, FL Special Ticket Presale Begins August 29 At Noon ET At TheBigTicketFest.com X102.9 Presents The Big Ticket returns to Metropolitan Park in […]

A Kiss Party on Day 1 at Chicago Open Air

All Photos By and Copyrighted By Travis Failey Friday, July 14: Friday marked the start of the 2nd annual Chicago Open Air festival at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois. It was a beautiful day, breezy, partly cloudy, and if I say so  myself, the temperatures were so much better than they were in Florida in […]

Fire and Ice on Day 2 of Chicago Open Air

All Photos By and Copyrighted By Travis Failey Saturday, July 15:  Saturday’ weather was a little hotter than Friday’s, mostly due to full sun, but luckily, a nice breeze again made things tolerable.  Saturday’s diverse lineup seemed to have something for everybody and hopefully everyone had their walking shoes on as it was a back […]

Ozzy Flies High Again at Chicago Open Air

  All Photos By and Copyrighted By Travis Failey Sunday, July 16:   There wasn’t any rest for the weary on Sunday as some of the heaviest bands of the weekend played on day three of the second annual Chicago Open Air Festival at Toyota Park.  Headlining Sunday’s lineup was Ozzy Osbourne with Zakk Wylde, thrash […]

Metallica Crushes Camping World Stadium

All Photos By Travis Failey The Fourth of July Holiday was extended an additional day in Orlando as Metallica brought their own fireworks to Camping World Stadium on Wednesday night.  Out on the road in support of its platinum release, Hardwired ….to Self Destruct, Metallica, with support from Volbeat and Avenged Sevenfold, set the bar […]

L.A. Guns Reload at the State Theatre

All Photos by Travis Failey When the rejuvenated and reunited Phil Lewis and Tracii Guns hit the stage at the State Theatre, all seemed right again in the world of rock n roll, at least on this Saturday night in St. Petersburg. Say what you want about L.A. Guns, but they know how to get […]

Fort Rock Continues to Shine on Sunday

Day two of the 2017 Monster Energy Fort Rock provided the crowd with a more diverse lineup compared to day one, and thankfully it was partly cloudy because the temperatures were in the 90’s.  The crowd was rearing to go after Gooodbye June and Dinosaur Pile-Up finished their sets and I Prevail took the stage […]

Fort Rock Reigns at Jet Blue Park

Were you ready to rock? Because tens of thousands of fans got their rock on at this year’s 5th Annual Fort Rock music festival on April 29th and 30th, at JetBlue Park.  The event was produced by Danny Wimmer Presents and AEG Live, and is part of the World’s Loudest Month Festival Series.  This year’s […]

Rays Walk Off a Wild One at the Trop

Rays were 3-0 coming into Wednesday’s nights ball game against the Tigers when Chris Archer has taken the mound this year. They won a paltry 10 out of 33 that he started in 2016 while the Rays offense was matched up against right-hander Jordan Zimmerman. Zimmerman was making his 200th start of his career with […]