Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
It’s Friday! And that means it’s time for live music! Well, tonight will be quite the night (should everything go as planned) because we’ll be heading to review both Bell X1 and Miike Snow in the same night. How exactly are we going to accomplish this? That’s a good question. I’m not quite sure but [...]
[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.875104&w=425&h=350&fv=] One of the things I love about Live Fix is getting the chance to talk with fans about their concert experiences. I consider it a huge honor when ever a fellow fan shares their live concert story with me. And last week I had the pleasure of talking with one of my [...]
It doesn’t always happen this way. But it did this time. John Legend’s musical M.O. for romance and intimacy—by blending together soul, hip hop and reggae—mirrored the vibe at Ravinia, an equally intimate outdoor venue on Chicago’s North Shore. Walking toward my seat in the pavilion, I winded through the lawn area where fans [...]
I’m trying something new with this post. I received the above live concert video via email showcasing modern rocker Ariel Aparicio during a live performance of his song “The New World” at a recent show at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I enjoyed the video and I wanted to share a few important things that stood out about the video with [...]
I got this email about The Austin City Limits Flyaway Contest and thought I’d try something new on Live Fix and share it with you. And I’m excited to do so for a few reasons. 1) contests are something new for Live Fix 2) This contest is a great fit for Live Fix because it involves winning a trip [...]
Reviewing Rock the Bells, reminded me that one of my favorite things about live hip hop is the freestyle. The skill of spontaneous flow is like magic as the emcee uses all his sensual awareness and the collective conscienenous to string together ideas, concepts, syllables, word–and somehow make them all sync up and pay off, making the crowd roar, [...]
Welcome to Part 3 as we revisit my conversation with No Air Guitar Allowed author Steve Weinberger. In Part One, we questioned Why Mosh Pits exist, in Part Two we crowd surfed through the mind of Foo Fighter Frontman Dave Grohl, and in this final post we’re going to explore the impact of concert culture on the family system. [...]
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 [...]
Tomorrow we’ll be heading to the Rock the Bells Festival in Chicago. I’m expecting a day packed with old and new school swagger where the beats and rhymes flow in all directions. And it should be fun with KRS-ONE, Supernatural and Pete Rock hosting. It’s a pretty good lineup but I’m a little concerned that there [...]
