Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
As we explored during a recent episode of Live Fix Radio, the live concert experience is one of the most complex emotional experiences you will ever have in your life. And this year’s Bonnaroo Music festival is an example of that very fact. As I watched the reports of the event stream across my Twitter, [...]
As the summer concert season begins to heat up, let’s see which festivals are offering iPhone apps and giving fans easy access to set lists, exclusive content and mobile alternatives to the crumpled paper schedule.
Silent Disco? Hmmmm…? I’ve heard about this as I’ve chatted with other rock writers at festivals this summer, so I thought I take a deeper look into the what and how’s and why’s of this clubbing experience that started in the Netherlands circa 2005. According to Wikipedia, silent disco began as a: The idea of [...]
Warning: the language that Ryan Adams uses in this 2004 recorded voicemail he left to Chicago Sun Times rock critic Jim Derogatis is nasty and abusive, it is nonetheless highly entertaining, and a great introduction to this post. I love when music fans express their disgust for a live show. It’s even better when a [...]
Warning: the language that Ryan Adams uses in this 2004 recorded voicemail he left to Chicago Sun Times rock critic Jim Derogatis is nasty and abusive, it is nonetheless highly entertaining, and a great introduction to this post. I love when music fans express their disgust for a live show. It’s even better when a [...]
If you haven’t had a chance to enjoy NPR’s live music series hosted by Bob Boilen, I highly suggest checking them out either via the NPR site or their podcasts on iTunes. A recorded March SXSW performance and interview with the Brooklyn-based Yeasayer, provided insight and an opportunity to explore a long-time curiosity of mine; [...]
With Coachella behind us, the next major summer festival is Bonnaroo music festival taking place in Manchester, TN this weekend. Though I won’t be there in person, I’ll be checking things out via the AT&T Blueroom and Fuse TV coverage, the first time ever Bonnaroo will be broadcast on television and the first of three-year [...]
