Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
For some reason, 2011 seems to be the year during which concert photographers have made unfortunate headlines for being the victims artist stage rage. The most recent headline-making episode went down on Wednesday night in New York as photographer Rebecca Smeyne explains what happened in her account of the incident with Matisyahu via Papermag: …After 12 [...]
Article previously appeared in Popmatters As you enter the realm of Jewish rapper/reggae artist Matisyahu you quickly discover that his music is designed to simultaneously evoke the heavens and touch the inner most parts of your heart and mind. Since his first album Shake Off the Dust…Arise (2004), his eclectic array of influences—Hasidic faith, love [...]
The live performance of Jewish rapper/reggae artist Matisyahu takes you beyond escapism and beyond entertainment. It’s a live concert experience inspired by a love for rock, reggae, dub, Jewish worship and hip hop. It’s absorbing, communal and eternally spiritual.
Hold on there for a second all you eager concertgoers! I’m excited to get started on a new year of shows too, but before we head full steam in to 2010 let’s check a few things first. Let’s see what remains as tops in our hearts and minds after we spent so much time, money and energy going shows in 2009. [...]
Seeing Matisyahu on Tuesday night was just like I thought it would be. Communal. Eternal. Spiritual. It also was a very busy night filled with rare fan-to-fan interaction. I came across some very interesting fan inventions and had a full-circle and unexpected connection via Twitter. Ingenious Reflections of Matisyahu: Short Concert Fans Stand Up! My eyes bulged out and [...]
A few hours later, it was time to enter the holy realm of bearded and baseball-capped Hasidic Jewish rapper Matisyahu. He dropped my jaw instantly with his awe-inspiring beat boxing performance using his mouth as a nimble multi-instrument to bridge together a set of spiritual transcendence. Everyone in the crowd seemed to be lifted [...]
Last year at this time Rothbury 2009 was in question. So let’s cross our fingers and hope for Rothbury 2010. In the meantime take a trip back to re-live Rothbury 2009′s best moments with The Dead, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Matisyahu, Ani DiFranco and more. And make sure to check out all the extra Live Fix coverage of [...]
