Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
Yes, my friends, the time has come to launch Live Fix Radio! And we’re starting this new and unique podcast with a live music memory experiment and celebration focusing on The Arcade Fire, Lady Gaga, Grinderman, LCD Sound System and more bands that rocked live in 2010 and are currently blazing a tour trail in 2011.
Last year, we started to explore 3D concerts. And you learned how AEG Live was redefining the 3D concert experience in 2010. And now with the advent of 3D TV, it’s time to dream about the possibilities as Lady Gaga and other artists begin to unveil their live show on 3D Blu-ray, so you can [...]
During a press conference for Lollapalooza 2006, I remember festival organizer Perry Farrell telling reporters that he had big dreams of complete world domination for Lolla. When he said that, me and the other press folk sort of chuckled because it seemed like just a funny thing that Farrell was saying to be playful and [...]
On September 30th hip-hop/R&B rising star B.o.B will help kick off the first annual National Gen44 Summit with President Barack Obama. Hey, nothing gets aspiring politicians and government leaders pumped up about the future of our nation like rousing love ballads and wistful anthems about Beautiful Girls and Airplanes, right? Let’s hope so.
There are a lot of moments I will never forget about Lollapalooza 2010. As I told you earlier this week a lot of great performances lifted me off my feet and dropped my jaw. But on the flipside, there are a few things that could make Lollapalooza better for fans, bands and everyone in between. [...]
Well, we made it through another year of Lollapalooza. And it was a doozey. A really fun and delightful doozey, that is. And besides taking in gobs of live music during the weekend, I also had a fantastic mega-revelation about what Lollapalooza SHOULD look like in 2011, and what festival organizers should do next year [...]
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 [...]
With each passing concert mobile apps continue to change how we experience live music. But how exactly are some of the most popular mobile concert apps made? Do developers depend on concert fans to improve their apps? Are concert apps becoming more than just a convenient alternative to the usual crumpled paper schedule?
As the summer concert season begins to heat up, let’s see which festivals are offering iPhone apps and giving fans easy access to set lists, exclusive content and mobile alternatives to the crumpled paper schedule.
Hey aspiring booking agents, you still have a few days left (until Nov10th) to help pick the bill and “Be a Booking Agent” for Lollapalooza 2010. It’s an interesting twist for fans as the Lolla site explains: Tell us who you’d put on next year’s Lollapalooza lineup, happening August 6-8, 2010. Give us your Top 5 artists [...]
