Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
I’m a sucker for a well-mixed Coke, mango and cherry Slurpee after a show or anytime the crave strikes, so I thought I’d share this Slurpee Battle of the Bands contest that wraps up today. And like all the other concert contests we’ve featured on Live Fix, this Slurpee contest needs a few more ingredients [...]
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.
What makes Chicago’s independent music scene one of the most unique in the world? How can independent artists educate themselves on the legal details of performing live? How can fans support the local music scene and learn more about how lawyers are helping musicians in the Windy City?
Continuing our exploration into iphone and android mobile apps and live music, I wanted to share with you some of the experiments I’ve been doing on my Droid with one of Layar’s augmented reality apps. Now, let’s see how you can use Layar’s Tweeps Around 3D to enhance your next concert experience.
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 [...]
I’ve always wondered how celebrity blogger Perez Hilton throws a pre-Lolla party, so last Thursday we headed to the Hard Rock Hotel to join other fans for a late-night adventure of live rock, pop, dance and hip hop in downtown Chicago. Among other things, it was a night filled with smiling moms, electric grooves and [...]
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 [...]
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?
Man, this story got me pumped when I read it! I just hope the corporate concert industry doesn’t mess up their great opportunity to revolutionize the live concert experience. And it looks like we aren’t as far away from live concert mashups as I thought we were. What I’m talking about is this Billboard story [...]
Two things have been brewing in my mind lately. 1) The Community of Cathartic Mourning and 2) Building Relationships in Live Music The Community of Cathartic Mourning A good friend of my wife and I shared this Bonnie Raitt Star Tribune review with me a few weeks ago (the video above is one she excitedly posted on Facebook before [...]
Just one peek into the strange sociology of music journalists will show you that they’re a peculiar bunch. I can say this because I am one. And it’s true. We are just as eccentric as the artists we write about (if not more!) We are truly a strange and quirky breed. We’re obsessive and overly protective [...]
