Crowd Surfing Through the Mind of Dave Grohl

     Welcome to Part Two as we continue to revisit my original conversation with No Air Guitar Allowed  author Steve Weinberger. In Part One, we began to explore the sweaty crunch and release of mosh pits.  And in Part Two we’re going to explore the mind of artists during performance by quickly crowd surfing through the mind of Foo Fighters [...]

Lady Sovereign's Got Me Thinking 'Bout Fan Behavior

We all waited nearly two hours for a 45 minutes set. So there was a lot of time to kill before Lady Sovereign’s show on Feb 4 at the Logan Square Auditorium. Her show was well work the wait. But in order to make the wait appear shorter during the snooze-worthy DJ sets, I jotted [...]

Concert Review: Lady Sovereign at Logan Square Auditorium

When I last saw Louise Harman (aka Lady Sovereign) on the eve of her 2006 debut Public Warning, the then 20-year-old emcee was calling herself the “biggest midget in the game” of the UK grime scene. During that show, she downed countless beers and turned the venue into a banging frenzy. But according to her [...]

Lady Sovereign? Where? Who Moved The Venue?

With a new album due this spring and an apparent change in look (or she’s putting a new spin on her mockery m.o.) I was looking forward to Lady Sovereign’s show this past Wednesday at the Empty Bottle. But I got an email from the ticket service last week telling me that due to unforeseen [...]