Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
I don’t know about you, but I think most concert fans don’t have evil intentions. Most of us just want to spread love, escape and have a good time during a concert. But sometimes what happens is that we get so worked up and emotional at a show that we just can’t contain ourselves. [...]
Yes, my fellow concert fans, it was another amazingly complex, transitional and evolutionary year of live music. During this episode of Live Fix Radio, we explore the top shows, our favorite concert fan moments of 2011 and trends we expect to develop in 2012. Catch up on what you missed and listen to all 2011 [...]
This is why we do this. You. The Fans. We love discovering, celebrating and exploring your concert experiences. And throughout 2011 we had the extreme pleasure of sharing some truly amazing live music moments with you. There was no shortage of emotion in 2011 as we explored why concerts move us so much. [...]
Well, now this Orlando fan is either really smart, or not so smart. I’m going with the latter. And maybe this creative fan could’ve helped this police-badge-flashing fan be a little more ingenious with his plan to get a better seat. According to Pollstar: “…a central Florida sheriff’s deputy is on administrative duty pending an [...]
We’ve been cruising along with the new Live Fix Radio podcast and every time I talk with a fellow concert fan for a new episode I’m always so pumped after our chat. I freakin’ love hearing about all your live music stories! That said, we recently met up with Eric “Nihilist” Kolkey who’s in [...]
Yes, I’ve felt the ground move underneath my feet and my heart rumble and shake in my chest at many concerts before. And when I heard the news about this seismic Foo Fighters concert I knew we had to explore this strange and amazing geological event with you. According to a Foo Fighters press release [...]
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 [...]
During my daily cruising to see what’s going on in the live music world on the interwebs, I stumbled across one of the coolest music publication and brand partnerships that I’ve seen in a long long time. It was Rolling Stone’s “Your First Concert” experience sponsored by Dr. Martens. I’m not sure how long it’s [...]
We’ve shared stories about gourmet Mastodon burgers and their latest live album. And now we’d like to share with you news about how heavy metal rockers Mastodon will team up with Vans to host a special live “in studio” chat with fans as they get ready to release their new album The Hunter. We’re [...]
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 [...]
Besides the music there’s nothing more I love about going to concerts than discovering the entertaining, inspiring and creative behaviors of fans as we all get lost in the rush of the live music experience. And as the summer season wraps up this weekend, it’s obvious what made my summer festival experiences so much fun [...]
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 [...]
Continuing our exploration of good, bad and strange concert fan behavior, we have another fan to add to our list here in 2011. We’re encouraged by the honest actions of the fan who returned Chris Brown’s 22k Rolex watch after it was flung into the crowd during the MTV VMAs on Sunday night. As TMZ [...]
Continuing our exploratioin of Bon Iver and the Little Things, here’s a very entertaining and well-written review by Kate Dries of WBEZ of Bon Iver’s recent show in Chicago. I especially like Kate’s description of the frustrated fan: Standing after every song and cheering, while throwing up a “Rock On!” hand signal, this middle-aged man [...]
