Chew On This: 5 Gum, Your Senses and Coachella Live Webcast

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As you know, we’ve been following the events leading up to Coachella these last couple of months and tonight the festival got underway in Indio, CA. And to continue our ongoing sensory experiments and explorations of brands doing interesting things to enhance the live and virtual concert experience, we’ve got some very chewy news for [...]

Sasquatch Festival 2011: Sell Out Skepticism, Radiohead & The Dancing Guy and Your Mental Health

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Following in Coachella’s footsteps, this week Sasquatch Festival announced that it has sold out too. I guess fans are excited to see Foo Fighters, The Flaming Lips, Wilco, Modest Mouse and the rest of the lineup live in The Gorge again. But we’re wondering…is there a sellout conspiracy going on? Is there a connection between [...]

Fans, DJs & Artistic Recyclers: Win Your Way To Coachella 2011

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We told you about the Coachella 2011 fake poster rumors getting squashed with Kayne West, Kings of Leon and The Strokes headliner announcement. And now here’s a mega post on the lowdown about all the fun contests going on this year, including a chance to win a trip to party in the desert and help [...]

Concert News Round-up: Jimmy Buffett, Linkin Park, Foursquare, Live Nation Lawsuit & Coachella Sellout

Coachella sells out in a week? A rapper threatens to shoot up a crowd? Linkin Park is using fans to test out new marketing channels? Parrot Heads go from ecstasy to horror in a matter of seconds? Foursquare expanding its concert experiments? A Live Nation lawsuit?

Coachella Announces Official 2011 Lineup To Silence Fake Poster Rumors

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This week Coachella Music Festival announced their 2011 lineup feature some solid headliners Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Kings of Leon and many many many more bands. Now, here’s a round up of some fake Coachella poster line up fun that we’ve enjoyed before and after the lineup announcement, plus some other festival news you’ll want [...]

Changing The Way Concert Fans Connect: Interview with Big Live

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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?

Does Your Favorite Music Festival Have An iPhone App?

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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.

Fans, DJs & Artistic Recyclers: Win Your Way To Coachella 2010

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Summer seems so far away, but it’s that time of year when the summer music festivals announce their lineups and fans start to plan their escape. Coachella’s boasting a pretty impressive line up this year. But it’s these two contests that will give fans the chance to win a trip to party in the desert [...]

It's Time to Plan Your Escape: Lollapalooza Announces Official Lineup

  Lollapalooza officially announced its 2009  lineup yesterday.  And according to Billboard  here’s what festival founder Perry Farrell had to say about live music meeting our need to escape. “At Lollapalooza, we’re selling more tickets than ever,” Farrell told Reuters. “People need an even bigger excuse to escape more than ever and there is no better escape than going to [...]

Idolator Gets Personal: Coachella and Live Music Costs

I’ve never directly mentioned the effect of the recession on the live music industry on Live Exhaust before, but after I read this Idolator article about Coachella’s layaway ticket plan and the festival season ticket price pinch, I thought I had better see what your thoughts are. The comments in the Idolator article weren’t a [...]

Better Than Disney World? The Kids Are All Write!

When I read this Press-Enterprise story by Vanessa Frank about 6 year old Eavan Gilhuly attending last year’s Coachella festival with her mom and then covering this year’s Coachella music festival for a print publication, I was excited to think about all the experimenting possibilities a story like this presents when looking for and testing [...]

Coachella 2008: A countdown to the end of my 20’s?

It’s coming. And I’m really not that worried. Really. I’m not. And if there ever was a true countdown to the end of my twenties I guess this is one way to do it. Today Coachella music festival announced the line up to this year’s festival and has a helpful countdown clock to mark every [...]