It is true that metal fans are often crazier than the band? Are metal fans more prone to behaving badly than other concert fans? Let’s start the weekend off right and see if this is true by looking at how a Slayer fan used a scalpel at a live show.
Concert Preview: Lollapalooza Music Festival 2010
August 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For the fifth straight year since it became a destination festival in 2005, Lollapalooza gets ready to rock and rumble the masses along Chicago’s lakefront in Grant Park. And over the last five years the festival has only grown larger, signed bigger deals with the City of Chicago and sold out to capacity. To get [...]
Does The Radius Clause Impact Concert Fans?
July 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
On June 25th pop music reporter Jim Derogatis of Vocalo.org broke a story about Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan investigating the radius clause imposed on bands who play Lollapalooza and the festival’s possible anti-trust violating relationship with the City of Chicago. Then on June 30th, Derogatis followed up the story with a series of key [...]
Dero Says Goodbye With A List Of His Best Concerts Ever
May 21, 2010 By 2 Comments
In his swan song Chicago Sun-Times post earlier this month, pop music critic Jim Derogatis choose to end his time at the daily newspaper by listing his favorite concerts. It’s a question I’ve always wanted to know the answer to, so let’s see… what are the best concerts that Dero has ever seen?
Paying Tribute To A Surprise Peaches Conversion
March 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Recently, my brother Ken and I were hanging out playing Wii and I had Peaches’s Impeach My Bush playing on my laptop as we swung virtual golf clubs and knocked down digital bowling pins. Then something unexpected happened.
Open Books Blogathon 2009: Reads To Feed Your Fix
July 26, 2009 By 3 Comments
What Would "Fan-Based" Concert Ticket Pricing Look Like?
June 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been thinking about the results of the Billboard poll to the right a lot lately. Especially after reading how Live Nation is trying to “help” concert fans. But is their recent removal of service fees (announced on June 1st) a move to help fans or just help increase summer ticket sales? Here’s what Live Nation told Billboard [...]
Why I Love The Ticketmaster Live Nation Merger
May 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dear Live Music Citizens, It goes without saying that I love live music. So it’s only natural that I’ve been feeding you a regular stream of updates on the Live Nation Ticketmaster merger. And though I’ve used that above image in a few of the posts, as other bloggers have, I continue to post about [...]
Chicago Promoters Ordinance Update
March 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Chicago music community can rest easy for the time being as City officials, on Thursday, said the Proposed Ordinance—that would force many independent promoters and venues to close shop—is still not ready to vote on. Chicago Tribune’s Greg Kot reports that “Despite fears within the music community that the so-called Promoters Ordinance would again [...]
Your Ticket to Understanding Merger Madness
March 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
It was a busy week for live music and our nation’s political process. From live blogging Senate hearings, to RollingStone.com getting called out, music writers and fans were treated to a week full of potential merger C-SPAN craziness. I don’t remember the political process being this engaging growing up. Of course, when you’re in high [...]
2008 Best Concerts Year-End Lists: Why Bother?
January 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Chicago Music Community Fights Back!
December 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The pending Chicago Music Promoters Ordinance—that could threaten Chicago independent music scene—was challenged again buy the therecordindustry.com who released a documentary film filled with interviews and information against the proposed ordinance. As Sun-Times music critic Jim Derogatis reported on Dec 19th, the film was screened the weekend before Christmas and is an excellent example of [...]
Smashing Pumpkins Induced Fan Psychosis?
November 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Sound Opinions: The State of Clubland and Johnny Cash Live
August 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been waiting for the right time to merge Live Exhaust with a radio show that I’ve enjoyed for several years and has for the last two weeks discussed two excellent topics that are perfect litmus for Live Exhaust. Sound Opinions, is a weekly (Friday nights 8pm CST)Chicago Public Radio show where pop music critic [...]
