Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
As you know, we’ve been exploring how Google Plus and Hangouts are allowing fans and bands to connect in new and intimate ways to revolutionize the virtual concert experience. Now, we’d like to share with you a very interesting story we’ve been following about singer-songwriter Daria Musk who’s been using her Google Plus page [...]
Continuing our exploration of the primal connection between one of my favorite TV shows and live music, I’d like to share a moment that happened during tonight’s season six episode of Dexter. Two characters, Dexter’s nanny Sonya and her gamer boyfriend Louis, were supposed to go see the Avett Brothers live for a date [...]
What do you do with your venue wrist bands? How long do you keep them on after the show? Do you keep them or toss ‘em out? What are your favorite concert wristband mementos? Let us know and we’ll feature your stories in a future episode of Live Fix Radio.
A good time was had by all during the RE:MIX LAB as Theophilus London and Hollywood Holt laid down some righteous beats and fresh rhymes at the River Arts Center. Without a doubt, the glory of the groove flowed through the venue as fans danced and rocked oblivion to London’s new songs — an intoxicating [...]
We recently explored the new album and live show of Toronto-based punk band Fucked Up and over at Spinner frontman David Abraham share his thoughts about his struggling to balance touring with family. “I don’t want to say I’ve been teasing it, in a way,” Abraham tells Spinner. “But I’ve been talking about it a [...]
On Saturday, November 19th we’ll be checking out the RE:MIX LAB presented by Antenna Magazine at the River East Arts Center. The RE:Mix LAB, fueled by the new Hyundai Veloster, is a multi-day, multi-media event, which will feature music, gaming, and film in support of the soon to be released RE:GENERATION music documentary. Theophilus London [...]
Over the last couple of years we’ve been exploring the granduer of seeing U2 live in concert and I recently came across some excellent info that I wanted to pass along. As you can see my the image above, the first is a detailed and eye-popping infographic which was created by the concert fans over [...]
We’re always learning new things about concert fan emotions and how live music plays a major role in helping us cope with loss, grief and trauma. That said, it again saddens me to share news about another artist who has died this year. GWAR guitarist guitarist Cory Smoot (aka Flattus Maximus) was found [...]
Well, Metallica’s first ever gig in India didn’t happen and things got ugly in a hurry. As you can see in the videos above and below, when the show was postponed and oversold the fans decided to riot and tear up the stage at the F1 show last weekend resulting in a cancellation and [...]
We’ve been following the Occupy Wall Street protest as it continues to develop and grow. And we wanted to open up a discussion and start an exploration of how live music is being used to fuel the movement, bring solidarity, or maybe even distract supporters. The first big announcment of live music being involved when [...]
Last night we had a great time continuing our Google Plus Experiment by hosting and joining in a Hangout. And I have to say that I’m even more pumped and excited as I was before about using the social network to share concert stories and connect with you, my fellow live music fans. Steven’s [...]
We already know how women experience live music and we had the chance to continue our sensual and emotional exploration by checking out the Lady Killer Tour at the Abbey Pub in Chicago. As you know, we began the night with a great live chat with 14 year-old singer-songwriter Kate Diaz, and now we’d like [...]
After we began our tour tour rider experiment last week, I’m excited to tell you I have some excellent evidence to share that we discovered at the Hideout Block Party on Sunday just before Mavis Staples’ set. As you can see by the picture above there was a large throne waiting for Mavis Staples. It [...]
So the other day I saw this tweet that Roger Ebert tweeted and I replied back to him asking him what he thought about a today’s female pop stars handling the very rowdy situation at Altamont. Well, I was really hoping to hear back from Roger. But I haven’t yet. So I thought [...]
