Exploring our addiction to the live music experience |
I have a two part confession to make. First, I originally intended to publish this post on Monday after the AMA’s, but it didn’t feel right. Something was missing. So I waited. The second part of my confession started on Thanksgiving when a family member pointed out some comments I had made about Lady Gaga in a recent conversation. [...]
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 [...]
Live Fix Experiment Results: Miike Snow & The Tapping-On-My-Notepad Lady These are no ordinary Live Fix Experiment results. What I’m going to share with you is both rare and crucial to every fan’s live music experience. It happened to me at the Miike Snow concert on Sept 25th. It was something that has never happened to me [...]
Today I’ll be heading to Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, Chicago. This will be my third time covering the festival. This will also be a year where there are multiple interesting sub-plots swirling beneath the overall event of enjoying some of the best indie-rock, hip hop and electronica that the world has to offer. It [...]
Tomorrow we’ll be heading to the Rock the Bells Festival in Chicago. I’m expecting a day packed with old and new school swagger where the beats and rhymes flow in all directions. And it should be fun with KRS-ONE, Supernatural and Pete Rock hosting. It’s a pretty good lineup but I’m a little concerned that there [...]
I came across this cool list of 10 tips from Sound Citizen that explains how musicians and bands can use Twitter to connect with fans. Here’s 5-7, since they specifically call out the live concert experience. Update About Recent Performances. Your fans want to know about a show you just did. It’s not only a [...]
Has Web 2.0 & Social Media Made Live Concerts More Real?
Feedback is a great thing. And like I’ve mentioned before, I love when fans excercise their right to speak their minds in the All Powerful Comment Box. In response to a question I asked on my Throbbing Gristle post, fellow blogger and live music fan Dhex left a very interesting comment about his thoughts on social media and [...]