Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
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 [...]
Continuing our exploration of the Sugarland concert tragedy and live music mourning, we’d like to share news and a few videos about how the band and their fans continue to cope with their grief and other emotions since the tragic event happened back in August. As Pollstar reports,Sugarland lead singer Jennifer Nettles said this to [...]
As we mentioned before Weezer is scheduled to play the Blue Album in its entirety as part of Riot Fest tonight. And it saddens us to report that former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh, who planned to attend the show, died yesterday at a hotel in Chicago. According to the Chicago Tribune: Welsh, 40, was found [...]
That’s a question I’ve been wondering about this week as I think about the collective impact of our previous Michael Jackson mourning, social media and virtual concert Experiments. And it’s fascinating to think how all those experiments have somehow merged into one for this Michael Jackson Tribute Concert. So here’s details on how our [...]
Love and hate. Pleasure and pain. Doubt and clarity. Those were just some of the profound and entertaining topics I discovered as I compiled our second edition of Tweets of the Week. It’s been fun watching this experiment evolve and it’s turning out to be a facinating exploration into what you love to express at [...]
When I read the news that DJ Mehdi had died this week from a tragic fall from a rooftop at his home in Paris, I immediately thought back to when we saw him perform alongside DJ A-Trak at the Empty Bottle in 2007. And what I remember the most about that show was [...]
Over the last ten years, I’ve heard many personal stories about what my friends and family felt during and after the tragic events of 9/11. And today, in one way or another, you’ll probably be sharing stories of where you were and what you felt when you heard the unbelievable and shocking news that the [...]
It’s no surprise that social media is changing how we experience live music. And after testing out a new Twitter experiment these last couple of months I thought I’d share the results with you and introduce a new weekly feature called “Tweets of the Week”. Ever since we did our podcast about concert fan emotions [...]
Remember that Foo Fighters contest that gave fans the chance to have the band play in your garage? Well, here’s a 40 minute documentary that chronicles the fans who won. It’s a pretty awesome and emotional doc to watch, and we congratulate the fans who won. And in case you’re wondering, this ain’t the kind [...]
During this episode of Live Fix Radio, we explore how fans cope with the emotional trauma caused by the Sugarland stage collapse tragedy, the evolution of gate-crashing and the best and worst moments of Lollapalooza 2011. Subscribe via iTunes. Show Notes: Music from the podcast (all tracks live at Lollapalooza 2011 except Sugarland) Atmosphere – [...]
Continuing our exploration of concert fan emotions, here’s news about a 19-year-old who was attacked and nearly killed after a Tim McGraw show in Mansfield, Mass. According to WHDH-TV and the video above, the details are pretty brutal and apparently the young concert fan is: “…currently at college on a football scholarship but police [...]
What do you expect to feel and experience at a concert? During this episode of Live Fix Radio we’ll answer that question as we explore the Top 5 Expectations of the live music xperience. It’s also time for Pitchfork Music Festival 2011 this weekend in Chicago, so we’ll share our own high expectations, Top [...]
We’ve wondered before about the impact of drug abuse and addiction on the live music experience. And with the recent news about Coheed and Cambria bassist Mike Todd robbing a Walgreens pharmacy before their show in Mass, I wanted to revisit some of those questions and explorations. And in doing so I also wanted [...]
