It might take heat for being hipster-centric, but four years running and the Pitchfork Music Festival remains one of the best when it comes to offering fans the right balance of music for the buck. On top of that, it’s a festival that continues to feed the mainstream music genre, specifically the 800 pound gorilla [...]
Blogging For A Cause: Open Books Blogathon 2009
July 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In a few short hours I’ll be doing something I haven’t done before. I’m putting my blogging skills to the test and contributing Live Fix blog posts this Saturday for a good cause that doesn’t directly involve live music. I’ll be participating in Blogathon 2009 with the crew at Open Books. “Open Books will present 48 [...]
Pitchfork Music Festival Day 3: Licking Our Magnificent Flaming Lips
July 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I hope you enjoyed Pitchfork Day One and Two Wrap ups. And now it’s time to wrap it all up. The final day of Pitchfork Music Festival 2009 presented everything from great feets of human determination and strength to gigantic floating bubbles. Pharoahe Monch, The Walkmen, Blizten Trapper and The Flaming Lips all showed why they were in Pitchfork [...]
Pitchfork Music Festival Day 2: A F'd Up National Dooms Day
July 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Union Park continued to rock as Day Two of Pitchfork Music Festival showcased a burly frontman who knows how to completely obliterate the barrier between the crowd and the band. I’m talking about punk rockers F**ked Up who, along with their burly leader Pink Eye, provided the heat while the sun hid behind the clouds. To give you [...]
Pitchfork Music Festival: Did Day One Go As Planned?
July 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Day One of the Pitchfork Music Festival was a drizzly and chilly one. But there was enough warmth and heat coming from the stage via the Jesus Lizard and Built to Spill to keep me from shivering myself to death (I’ll make sure to bring a sweatshirt for Day Two). The Live Fix Twitter Experiment is going [...]
Bon Iver’s Tattoo Reveals The Power of The Little Things
May 27, 2009 By 38 Comments
Having played baseball since I was old enough to hold a bat and toss a ball, there’s one thing that the game’s taught me about live music; it’s that noticing and appreciating the “little things” makes all the difference. And when you notice the hidden nuances about your surroundings during the show, you also begin to discover [...]
Pitchfork Festival Injects Democracy Into Live Set Lists
March 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
On March 6th, Pitchfork Festival announced part of their headlining lineup, and a very interesting fan voting systemm, too. They’re allowing fans who purchase tickets during a specific time frame the ability to: Starting on Friday night, we’re kicking off a new series called “Write the Night: Set Lists by Request.” You, the audience, vote [...]
Seminars That Rock: Future of Music Coalition
August 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment
During my stroll through the non-profit booth area at Pitchfork Music festival last month, I had the chance to have a brief conversation with Washington D.C.-based Casey Rae-Hunter Communications Director of the Future of Music Coalition. Among the indie-rock festivities that swirled all around us, we swapped stories of our respective cities, and we also [...]
Festival Riffin' You Should Read
July 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Pitchfork vs. ATP vs. Generation Y vs. Live Music
July 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment
In lieu of this weekend’s Pitchfork Music festival, I’d like to pass along a great commentary article from yesterday’s Tempo section of the Chicago Tribune. It’s about the performing of seminal albums in their entirety live in concert. Pitchfork Festival started doing this last year and since have partnered with ATP’s (All Tomorrow’s Parties) [...]
Public Enemy and the 5 Senses
July 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Well, it turned out pretty frickin’ good. Hearing Public Enemy performing “It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back” all the way through was much better than last year’s GZA doing Liquid Swords; mostly because of how Chuck D and Flava Flav kept their initial promise when they said at the start that [...]
Live Music Experiment #1: What Is The Most Important Sense?
July 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
It’s begun! I’m pleased to announce the first phase questionnaire that will begin a series of experiments examining the role and importance of the five senses at a live show. After having several conversations with friends about what they think is the most important sense when it comes to enjoying a live show, I [...]
