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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 [...]
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 [...]
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?
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
