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The Musical Chairs

This is a quick post to help out a fellow blogger and live music fan Max Raymond. On his site The Musical Chairs he posted about needing help with some research and reader feedback from live music fans, so I thought we’d pull all our concert experiences together to lend him a hand.

Bumbershoot Fan Can't Resist the Urge to Surge

Sometimes there are lines you just shouldn’t cross at a concert. But sometimes, as fans, we can’t resist the urge to cross the line and rush the stage because our emotions well up and surge beyond our control.  And when our emotional circuitry goes haywire it can make for an awkward and embarrassing moment, too.  A security guard [...]

Live Music Blog Challenges Me with Media Mix Up

  Justin over at Live Music blog posted something today that mixed me up. In a good way, that is.  I’ve seen this done before but it’s been awhile since I’ve seen it done with live music. And it was a welcomed sensory switch up.  Seeing a still image with an audio clip combined with Justin’s words about [...]

Live Music Blog: 20 shows in 20 Days: More Than Just a Live Music Experiment

This interview originally appeared in Popmatters. When I first read about Live Music Blog writer/photographer Andrew McMahon’s attempt to see 20 concerts in 20 days back in mid-September, I saw his audacious attempt as a heroically intriguing two-week experiment done in the name of live music fans who love and live for live music. Unfortunately, [...]

The Love of Live Music Lingers Into the "Weekend"

This is something new for Live Exhaust and something I hope to do more whenever the opportunity presents itself. And though this in not an mp3 music blog in the truest sense, I’d like to share a music video and short story with you. Earlier this morning, I traveled through an unexpected intersection between a [...]

Live Music Blog: 20 Shows in 20 Days

Hey how’s the weekend going? quick one here… a fellow live music writer over at Live Music Blog Chicago-based writer Andrew McMahon annouced this week that he will embark on a quest to see 20 bands in approximately 20 days. Sounds like a lot of fun… But it also sounds like it could be a [...]