The band Rolling Quartz hails from South Korea and are what amounts to being a Pop Rock group, but after some careful listens on Spotify and enjoying the videos posted on YouTube on their own and other peoples feeds, I felt that they deserved a more worthy clarification of Hard Rock Idols group. Truth be told my background on the band was quite limited even though I had shared along tour announcements in the past when I chanced upon them. Sometimes we go automatic here to get the content flowing and when this new tour listed a date in Queens, I knew that I had to get myself over there and learn firsthand what the magic was all about. Research discovered that they had been here once before in 2023 with two gigs at the Mercury Lounge but I was covering something else and never looked into the show and prior to that was an appearance at a popular Anime convention in another city. The regional gig for New York would be at the Queens Theatre in the Park, and I had never been there before for anything so despite it being a bit of an MTA transit journey, the idea of a brand-new artist to my adventuring and a new venue made this all the more appealing an affair. After sorting out all of the necessary details I headed to Queens which for me is an R train to N to 7 and then a substantial walk through the park. It’s relatively close to Citi Field and a Mets game was happening that night so a lot of people were out and about.

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