Day One of the Pitchfork Music Festival was a drizzly and chilly one. But there was enough warmth and heat coming from the stage via the Jesus Lizard and Built to Spill to keep me from shivering myself to death (I’ll make sure to bring a sweatshirt for Day Two). The Live Fix Twitter Experiment is going [...]
Live Preview: Pitchfork Music Festival 2009
July 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Today I’ll be heading to Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, Chicago. This will be my third time covering the festival. This will also be a year where there are multiple interesting sub-plots swirling beneath the overall event of enjoying some of the best indie-rock, hip hop and electronica that the world has to offer. It [...]
How India Licked the Black Lips
March 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Though their not the first American rock band to cause a raucous in foreign countries, this January story about Atlanta garage-rockers Black Lips cancelled tour got me thinking about how foreign countries respond to and govern the live music experience. I first got to know the Black Lips when I reviewed their 2007 live album [...]
