Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
Yesterday, before we went to the Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival, I ate a huge bowl of homemade chili. It was hot, meaty and filled my belly up reeeeeal good. Speaking of chili and live music (and considering the connection between live music, taste and our other senses), it’s no surprise how much that great [...]
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 [...]
We’ve been keeping an eye out for cool contests this year. And here are four more concert contests from AXE, Sennheiser, Baeble, Levi’s and Urban Outfitters featuring the music of rapper T.I., indie-rock band Deerhunter and a love for concert photography.
When I “saw” St. Vincent earlier this year I questioned whether or not concert fans need their eyes to enjoy a concert, or if music writers really need their eyes to write a concert review. And after reading an excerpt from one of the best books about the five senses, I’m starting to see concerts [...]
Now, we all know that there’s more than one way to enjoy a show and that we don’t always need our eyes to help us write concert reviews, right?
What quenches your thirst during a live concert? Is it a cold brew, an energy drink or a coke perhaps? Are you sure sight and sound are really the most important senses for concert fans?
How do you remember your favorite concerts? Was it how the concert venue smelled, or was it how the music sounded? When I heard that one of my friends and colleagues was going to an Aerosmith concert a few weeks ago, I asked her to take some pictures and let me know, when the concert was over, what sense [...]
Yes, I think so. Mainly because, in this Rocksound article, metal band Mastodon says they want to “create a more visually stimulating live show” this summer in conjunctions with their new album and tour. When I saw them at Pitchfork in 2007 it was the howling burst of drums, guitars and rumbling bass that sent [...]
A few weeks ago I came across a theme within a string of several songs that sparked an idea. And this idea led me to create a new Live Exhaust feature: Songs That Speak Science. With STSS, songs–past or present– will serve as sonic petri dishes that we’ll use to illustrate or discuss a “scientific” [...]
Congratulations! You are about to read the results of the first ever Live Fix Concert Experiment: “Radiohead With No Eyes.” You can read more about the Experiment here. In short, during Radiohead’s 2008 Lollapalooza on August 1st, I conducted a sensory experiment involving the removal of my eyes. Whether you were at the show, have [...]
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 [...]
