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Buzzfest
Buzzfest is the Houston rock concert of the year. The Fifth Annual Buzzfest took place at the Woodlands Pavilion.
Sponsored by 94.5 'The Buzz,' Buzzfest is a one city tour and it's Houston's answer to Woodstock, The Horde Festival, Ozzfest and other such concerts.
In the past, bands such as No Doubt, Bush, Silverchair, The Toadies, Seven Mary Three and Matchbox 20 have played at Buzzfest. The concert also has featured newcomers and local bands such as Cool For August, The Hunger, Black Lab, Big Wreck, Mighty Joe Plumb, Space Hog and many others.
Headlined by the Guns N' Roses meets Stone Temple Pilots love child Velvet Revolver, the 14th annual 94.5 FM Buzzfest provided a day of music so filled with testosterone it rivaled a Houston Texans game for grunt power.
The male dominance of recent Buzzfests is not a negative so much as a dilemma of narrow scope. Still, there were plenty of highlights. Papa Roach offered tracks from its new Getting Away With Murder, which finds the rap-rockers reinvented as melodic guitar band. That album's title track and the new single Scars are modern rock anthems leaning far more on blistering guitars and skull-rattling percussion than on the rapping of frontman Jacoby Shaddix.
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Artist Biography - Buzzfest
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 The best of the daylight sets was by Story of the Year, whose sound echoed modern rockers Linkin Park and Blink-182 on high-energy songs like Until the Day I Die and In the Shadows. Frenetic frontman Dan Marsala showed that running a stage marathon while singing doesn't require guide vocals.
Of course, Buzzfest's biggest coup was getting Velvet Revolver â€" featuring former STP vocalist Scott Weiland and GN'R guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum, along with second guitarist Dave Kushner â€" to play, especially since the hard-rocking hybrid visited Houston just months ago. Clearly the big open-air stage is where this band of metal and grunge-era rockers needs to be.
On stage, the wafer-thin Weiland morphs into one of the best lead singers in rock 'n' roll. Strutting like an androgynous cross between Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler, Weiland led Revolver through the hard-charging currents of singles Slither and Fall to Pieces. Unlike the group's previous Houston appearance, during which it peppered the set with STP and GN'R favorites, this time the only older songs played were the former's Sex Type Thing and the latter's It's So Easy, suggesting that Velvet Revolver is coming into its own as a band separate from its original parts.
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For more information , enjoy the official homepage of Buzzfest
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