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What Went Wrong At Reading Festival: Arcade Fire vs. Guns N’ Roses
September 2, 2010 By 3 Comments
After watching two NME videos about The Arcade Fire and Guns N’ Roses from Reading Festival, I’m certain that the fan experience doesn’t get any more polar opposite than this. On one side, angry live music fans spoke loud and clear about how much they loathed and hated Guns N’ Roses’s performance and the ridiculous [...]
Making Concert Memories Social: Interview with Recreate My Night
August 30, 2010 By 4 Comments
What happens when you use social media to express and share your favorite concert memories? In what ways do you and other concert fans use Facebook and Twitter to capture, share and celebrate your favorite concert moments?
How To Use Layar’s Tweeps Around 3D Mobile App at Your Next Concert
August 26, 2010 By 3 Comments
Continuing our exploration into iphone and android mobile apps and live music, I wanted to share with you some of the experiments I’ve been doing on my Droid with one of Layar’s augmented reality apps. Now, let’s see how you can use Layar’s Tweeps Around 3D to enhance your next concert experience.
Concert Preview: Lollapalooza Music Festival 2010
August 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For the fifth straight year since it became a destination festival in 2005, Lollapalooza gets ready to rock and rumble the masses along Chicago’s lakefront in Grant Park. And over the last five years the festival has only grown larger, signed bigger deals with the City of Chicago and sold out to capacity. To get [...]
Changing The Way Concert Fans Connect: Interview with Big Live
August 5, 2010 By 8 Comments
Are online concert experiences changing the way we connect with each other during regular concerts? And what happens when you add social networking elements into the mix? Will the opportunity to share, chat about and discover live music together online with friends re-define both the online and real concert experience?
The Best Performers Know How To Lead: Interview with Terry Starbucker
August 2, 2010 By 2 Comments
Whether we realize it or not, each concert we go to teaches us something new about who we were, who we are and who can become. But can going to concerts really teach you how to be a leader? Is there something we can learn about leadership by watching Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, [...]
Concert Fan Conversion: DJ Tiesto Live at Congress Theater in Chicago
July 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Have you ever gone to a concert just because you were curious how the artist would perform live? I have. At some point in your concertgoing adventures you will play the skeptic. And when we go to the show expecting the artist to prove us right in our doubts — and he ends up proving [...]
How Do Virtual Concert Experiences Connect Bands and Fans?
July 12, 2010 By 2 Comments
Does the new “strategic alliance” between Web ‘n Retail (a division of Rock ‘n Retail, LLC) and independent artist website Whotune.com change the game for concert fans and artists? Does their “Jam Cam” give both live music lovers and live music makers a new way to create and experience a live show?
What’s On Your Concert Road Trip Playlist?
June 24, 2010 By 5 Comments
What is it that makes the journey of going to a concert almost as fun as the concert itself? Is it the soundtrack or playlist of your road trip? Is it the people you’re with? Is it the buzz of excitement and sense of freedom you feel as you all cruise down the road toward [...]
