Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
Summer’s just around the corner and I can’t believe how fast this week went by. Speaking of how fast time goes by, Colleen and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary yesterday. And while we waited for dinner to come to our table we talked about all the great live music experiences we’ve had since we’ve [...]
The iClips Couch Tour crew is looking for volunteers to travel with them to a series of summer music festivals and “help hold down the fort.”
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.
In less than five days after they made the initial announcement of the headliner and partial lineup including the reunited Pavement, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, and Raekwon, the three-day passes for the 2010 Pitchfork Music Festival sold out.
Summer seems so far away, but it’s that time of year when the summer music festivals announce their lineups and fans start to plan their escape. Coachella’s boasting a pretty impressive line up this year. But it’s these two contests that will give fans the chance to win a trip to party in the desert [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been thinking about the results of the Billboard poll to the right a lot lately. Especially after reading how Live Nation is trying to “help” concert fans. But is their recent removal of service fees (announced on June 1st) a move to help fans or just help increase summer ticket sales? Here’s what Live Nation told Billboard [...]
If you had one this year, you’ve probably already received it. And back in February, CNN took a poll asking how people planned on using their tax refund. With the concert industry and summer festivals offering layaway plans, or even extending their deadlines until fans received their tax refunds, I was wondering if and how [...]
Lollapalooza officially announced its 2009 lineup yesterday. And according to Billboard here’s what festival founder Perry Farrell had to say about live music meeting our need to escape. “At Lollapalooza, we’re selling more tickets than ever,” Farrell told Reuters. “People need an even bigger excuse to escape more than ever and there is no better escape than going to [...]
When I first discovered Steve Weinberger’s book No Air Guitar Allowed, I was curious to see what his observations would reveal about the live concert experience. In the end, I learned what it was like for Weinberger as he humorously describes the live music fans and other concert characters he encountered after attending 1000 concerts over the last 20 years. I had [...]
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 [...]
