For Your Downloading Pleasure: Super Bowl Flashback, Baeble Concert Video Round-up, Mixtapes and more!

Experimenting with our addiction to live concert culture.

  To get your weekend kick-started, here’s the usual plethora of weekly download gems from Baeble Music, Wolfgang’s Vault, and more! Digg Digg

Do Blogotheque Take Away Shows Redefine Concerts?

 So many things go through my mind when I’m at a concert. But it’s been awhile since I’ve wondered about this. So I’ll throw the question out there again. What classifies or defines a musical performance event as a concert?  Sure, that wiki link gives me some answers.  But still I wonder what makes a “concert” a concert? [...]

Live Fix Unlist: Best Concerts of 2008

I’ve said what I thought about how others picked their favorite concerts of 2008, so now it’s time to give you my picks…and why. What makes a show “the best”? I often wonder this because there’s a lot to consider when creating a list of the best concerts, or shall I say best concert “experiences” [...]

Why Are Some Artists So Scared To Perform?

This Paste Magazine “UnGlued” humor piece by Grant Shellen that suggests things artists can do in between songs to avoid “terrifying silences” brings up an interesting topic: How do artists deal with social anxiety and how this impacts the live show. Even though Shellen’s focus is on how to entertain audiences, most of what he [...]