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Is live music better experienced live or on record? Is the live album dead? Those are just two of the big philosophical questions that we’ve been wondering about more and more lately. So, hey, what better than to explore those […]
This past Thursday night I listened to Alexander Rose talk about the Long Now Foundation’s 10,000 Year Clock project. I have to admit the project didn’t make much sense to me when I first heard about it. I thought the […]
Keep your eyes open. Look around, my friends. The live music experience is teaming with sacred and serendipitous moments lurking around every corner. And you never know what you’re going to stumble upon or find written on the bathroom walls […]
It is true that metal fans are often crazier than the band? Are metal fans more prone to behaving badly than other concert fans? Let’s start the weekend off right and see if this is true by looking at how […]
We’ve explored the culture of the call-and-response in hip hop before. And thanks to our friend Todd, who attended the North Coast Music Festival in Chicago this summer, we have an excellent live example of how De La Soul & […]
Our friends over at Wolfgang’s Vault are celebrating John Lennon’s 70th birthday by featuring one of his famous concerts from their vault. Let’s join in and start to wonder how Lennon might be celebrating his own birthday today. Spread the […]
Watching how fans behave at concerts is one of our favorite things to do here at Live Fix. And when I heard about MGMT getting “piss” thrown on them at a recent show in England, it was time to see […]
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Last weekend, Colleen and I hung out at a VW fest that was going on near our home in Crystal Lake, IL. And as we strolled through and looked at all the vintage VW cars, I noticed a lot of […]
As MTV reports, pop star Katy Perry, on Tuesday, played a show for her old high school Dos Pueblos in Santa Barbara. It was a fun time for the students and fans, but there’s a few unanswered questions we have […]
Well, we made it through another year of Lollapalooza. And it was a doozey. A really fun and delightful doozey, that is. And besides taking in gobs of live music during the weekend, I also had a fantastic mega-revelation about […]
By the end of 2009, we had gathered up a very entertaining group of concert characters for our best (and worst) concert fans of the year list. So now that we’re half way through 2010, it’s time for a quick […]
I can’t believe it’s been a year already. But it has. And to pay tribute to Michael Jackson’s death that occurred one year ago today, we have news about the special concert hosted by VoicePlate that will be going on […]
Concert fan behavior continues to fascinate me. And though yesterday’s riot after the canceled Drake concert in NYC is nothing to be proud of for any concert fan, it’s still yet other curious case of concert fans gone wild that […]