Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
Remember what we found during our Storage Wars and Pawn Star exploration? Well, it’s happened again. Yep, I was stoked to discover more fodder for our concert treasures and Little Things experiments while watching my other guilty pleasure TV series Oddities. As you know we’re big fans of heavy-metal band Mastodon and I was surprised [...]
Continuing our exploratioin of Bon Iver and the Little Things, here’s a very entertaining and well-written review by Kate Dries of WBEZ of Bon Iver’s recent show in Chicago. I especially like Kate’s description of the frustrated fan: Standing after every song and cheering, while throwing up a “Rock On!” hand signal, this middle-aged man [...]
As we’ve discovered before, the Little Things are what draw you in, and they’re what makes the show irresistible and unforgettable. But what happens when concert fans get transfixed by a one-man band street performer, and others artists like Girl Talk, Andrew Bird or TuNeYards who are pushing the art forward in the 21st [...]
One way to get the attention of a live music fan is to call a band’s live show “explosive,” which is one of the words used to describe how The Kickback do things live. But before you go to their next concert, let’s hear directly from the band why their brand of live rock has [...]
Editorial Note: Update on 5/23 from the band after their live show, including a video, follows the interview. When I first listened to the debut EP Lines from Chicago quartet St. Bagu I was drawn in by their fresh approach to mixing hip hop with progressive and dreamy rock guitar melodies. Then as I traveled [...]
Do bands really have no idea what they’re doing when they create energy during a live show? Does onstage chemistry just happen by chance or is there a formula to follow?
For the last several months I’ve been doing some heavy research in to Chicago’s early to late 80′s hardcore scene. If you’re new to this era and genre you can check out some of my favorite bands like the Effigies and this Punk database to get an idea of what other bands were a part [...]
