Maroon 5 Live From Facebook HQ Tonight via Livestream
For all you Maroon 5 fans out there, we’ve got a special Livestream treat for you tonight. Spread the love…
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Live Preview: Wilco (The Concert)
It’s time for Wilco tonight. It’s the second of two shows at UIC Pavilion in Chicago. And seeing as I’ve passed out at a Wilco concert before and their 5 night residency at the Riveria during their last tour was fantastic, this will be the […]
Do We Get In The Way of a Great Show?
Though most of the show shifted in all the right ways and flowed to all the right places on the strength of Noonan’s smooth and soothing lyrical storytelling, a bit of tension arose between Noonan and fans who […]
Follow Live Fix to BlogWorld 2009
This post is a shout out to all my fellow blogging and new media buddies! And a note to you my faithful and cherished Live Fix readers! This Thurs-Sat (Oct 15-17), I’ll be taking Live Fix on the road to Las Vegas […]
CHIPUBLIB Sound Off: See Who Won!
Congrats to Psalm One (Grand Prize) and Shawn Pennington (People’s Choice Award) for winning the CHIPUBLIB Sound Off Contest! Both entries were my top picks and I’ll be looking forward to seeing them perform live on Oct 22nd at Pritzker Park. It’s […]
Nas Tattoo Shows Us Something We Can’t See
Earlier this year, I began exploring the power of the “Little Things” with Bon Iver because, as I mentioned, having played baseball since I was old enough to hold a bat and toss a ball, there ’s one thing that […]
Live Music Is…
A few days ago, I posted a random update on Facebook off the top of my head and asked my friends to finish the sentence “Live music is…” with their own idea or expression. I already knew live music […]
Don’t Do This at Your Next Concert
Live Fix Experiment Results: Miike Snow & The Tapping-On-My-Notepad Lady These are no ordinary Live Fix Experiment results. What I’m going to share with you is both rare and crucial to every fan’s live music experience. It happened to me at […]
Chicago Public Library Sound Off: People's Choice Awards
The fan to artist transformation is in full effect. The Chicago Public Library Sound Off Music Contest is in the voting stage for the People’s Choice Awards (Sept 27-Oct 3) and there are a lot of great and inspiring entries. The contestants […]
Experiencing Grief, Joy and Community in Live Music
Two things have been brewing in my mind lately. 1) The Community of Cathartic Mourning and 2) Building Relationships in Live Music The Community of Cathartic Mourning A good friend of my wife and I shared this Bonnie Raitt Star Tribune review with me […]
Will ‘This Is It’ Be a Final Thriller for Jackson Fans?
Some say that with This Is It Michael Jackson will finally get the silver screen moment he always wanted. But will it be a concert film he would’ve wanted and one that fans deserve? It certainly won’t replace what his live concerts were like […]
The Wonderful Beats of Bhangra at Funky Bhudda Lounge
The atmospheric beauty of DJ Rekha’s set began with sensual Bhangra beats that cultivated in her mind, flowed to her turntables and laptop, and eventually manifested on the dance floor in a hybrid of traditional Indian dancehall and contemporary club […]
The Secrets to Oprah’s Kickoff Party Flash Mob Dance
What’s bigger than Chicago, bigger than the Black Eyed Peas and bigger than Oprah? The collective ripple effect of thousands of “Joy Ambassadors” dancing in downtown Chicago during a Black Eyed Peas concert. Like the rest of Chicago, I was amazed when […]
Live Preview: Miike Snow, Bell X1 in Chicago
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 […]