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I’ve got an excellent update to our ongoing experiments on concert rioting, live music fears and similar concert crisis related explorations. According to Physics Central a group of students at Cornell University have begun to share their research about comparing […]
This Fitbit experiment has lots of fun and challenging! I’ve been learning a lot about the importance of community in this self-tracking adventure and how to work through failure even when I’ve supposedly set realistic goals. So let’s jump right […]
Okay, after yesterday’s press conference we now know that Beyonce can belt out the National Anthem acapella, which if you’re wondering, is one of the hardest songs to sing. Hey, at least Beyonce didn’t try to lipsync over Whitney […]
There’s been a lot of cool stuff going on in the live music world lately, and here’s a collection of links that have inspired future explorations and episodes of Live Fix Radio. Enjoy and rock on my friends! […]
Got some more excellent concert fan storytelling for ya via our friend Ben Slayter. This installment also continues our Umphrey’s Mcghee exploration. Ben originally shared this photo essay on Bands That Jam as he tells the story of what happened during a recent […]
This kind of concert fan story is just crazy. And completely disturbing. But we shall begin to explore it to see what we can learn and discover about the concert fan species. As the Tribune reports: Michelle Fiore was […]
Yes, we are. We’re getting closer to doing actual real scientific experiments at concerts. I’m also excited to tell you what I saw because it pushes our experiments forward too. I say this because during my time at Pitchfork Music Festival I […]
We keep concert tickets because that show meant something to us. But what about tickets from shows that you never went to. What would you do if you were giving the chance to redeem your ticket for a show […]
That’s right. You don’t turn the power off on the Boss until he’s done. And apparently not even Sir Paul could sway authorities to keep the show going after concert organizers turned the switch off last week in England. […]
They’ve had a long and historic run for the last 28 years, but after this week Cornerstone Music festival will call it quits. The sad news does conjure special memories for us here at Live Fix […]
Continuing our exploration of live rock history in Chicago, here’s news via the Chicago Tribune about a retrospective party celebrating the Lounge Ax, one of the Windy City’s central hubs and greatest venues for indie-rock in 90’s. As Greg […]
Radiohead has been the focus of several Live Fix explorations over the years and it saddens us to share the tragic news of their stage collapsing in Toronto. Here’s a statement released by the band shortly after the incident. […]
Continuing our exploration of Live Nation and Ticketmaster, here’s a few wonderings I had about fake concert tickets as I read a recent post on Ticketmaster’s Ticketology blog. Ticketmaster’s Are those real post aims to share tips for fans to […]
As we know, Madonna live always makes for a very interesting concert experiment especially when she does free Super Bowl shows to promote her latest album MDMA. And now we have some more fleshy and controversial fodder to […]