“Live event and venue management company Live Nation said it agreed to buy a majority stake in Musictoday, which provides e-commerce services for artists including the Rolling Stones, the Dave Matthews Band and Christina Aguilera.” [Reuters]
July 2006
Continuing on with our in-depth coverage of the 10,000 Lakes Festival this year, enjoy Kane’s review of Day Two and keep checking back for more updates.
10,000 Lakes Festival – Friday
Friday, in retrospect, was easily my favorite day of the entire festival. I explored the campgrounds in the day, and from 6pm until 2am danced non-stop. Three of my favorite performances for the weekend were that night, between Phil Lesh and Joan Osbourne keeping the crowd going until midnight, right into two incredible late-night performances by Green Lemon and Great American Taxi, Vince Herman’s new crew. Read on to see what else the day had in store.
“In one of their final performances together, the all-female rock trio Sleater-Kinney visits Washington, D.C., for a full concert, webcast live on NPR.org on August 1. The performance from the 9:30 Club is scheduled to begin at approximately 10 p.m. ET.” [NPR]
Update: Due to a technical problem at the club the night they were taping, they’ve rescheduled to tonight, Thursday, August 3, at 9pm EST. [NPR]
I’ll be catching them at Lollapalooza but I’ll definitely turn on the webcast if I’m chillin’ by my PC.
Trey, Mike & the Duo in Chicago Review
Trey’s confidence was through the friggin’ roof and it just seems way too false to me right now. Wailing on a guitar solo during “Drifting” is just not covering new ground — this is not Trey in “classic” form — and it was in these moments where I felt the incredible urge to yawn and pack it up to head home.
Lollapalooza 2006 | Webcast Schedule
Announced so far: Stars, Editors, Umphrey’s McGee, Ryan Adams, Sleater-Kinney, Living Things, & Wilco
Sonic Youth Lollapalooza Aftershow Announced
Invite-only, Double Door, Feist opens…
Congrats to Randy Ray @ Jambands.com
Live Music Blog Podcasts are on hiatus.
By the end of the meeting, we realized that after almost fifty podcasts together we were faced with the opportunity to graciously step away in unison, as a group, united in our friendship and our feelings of gratitude.
Live Music Blog goes mobile.
Does this mean I need to buy a Q?
Check out this fantastic photo gallery from the 2006 All Good Music Festival.
[ J Nicholas Tolson | All Good 2006 Photos ]
A while back, Kane told me that my site looked like garbage on a mobile device (in a nice way, mind you) and I just now got around to fixing it. I’m not a big mobile technology guy — I probably will be soon as it’s starting to peak my interest more and more every day — but I never put too much weight on the fact that people need to read the Live Music Blog while out and about…
All that has changed.
Introducing…Live Music Blog MOBILE!
If you’re using a mobile device to hit the www.livemusicblog.com, you’ll automatically be redirected to a stripped down version of the site with the full HTML content that the post contains (this might require some more testing, but for now, that’s how it’s setup). What to know how I did this? Read on for my mini tutorial…
I’m gearing up for Lollapalooza this upcoming weekend — I’m missing the Pitchfork Music Festival as I type this — and I’m already in prep mode on schedule customizations, which bands to see that I haven’t heard of, which bands can I catch at a later date, etc. etc.
Can you see the sunset from the southside has been rounding up all the Lollapalooza artists in small, digestable lists (with mp3′s to boot) and that’s clearly a good place to start. Here’s are the posts in order that he posted them: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
I know tons of folks are going so I’m curious to see what your main artist attraction will be. For me, it’s probably Wilco and the Red Hot Chili Peppers — both of which I want to see for completely different reasons — but that will be an exciting sequence for me. Other notables include the sure-to-be-epic My Morning Jacket performance — I have a feeling they’re going to bring the most power to the day time sets so we’ll just have to wait and see.
Some of you may have notice that I haven’t put out a podcast in a while. I wasn’t sure how I was going to break it to the public so I better just let it all hang out…
From a letter I found on my desk a couple weeks ago…
Last night, I got together with you, your music selection and your microphone to talk openly about the strong feelings I’ve been having that our podcasts had run their course and that we should end it now while it’s still on a high note. Once we started talking, it quickly became apparent that our feelings, while not all the same as mine, were similar in many ways — most importantly, that we all love and respect the podcasts and the Live Music Blog podcast audience far too much to stand by and allow it to drag on beyond the point of vibrancy and health. We don’t want to become caricatures of ourselves, or worse yet, a nostalgia act. By the end of the meeting, we realized that after almost fifty podcasts together we were faced with the opportunity to graciously step away in unison, as a group, united in our friendship and our feelings of gratitude.
So I’m going to kill myself to ensure that Live Music Blog podcasts don’t continue. We are proud and thrilled that our last podcast was Oysterhead’s awesome set from Bonnaroo 2006. For the sake of clarity, I should say that this is not like the hiatus, which was our last attempt to revitalize ourselves. We’re done. It’s been an amazing and incredible journey. We thank you all for the love and support that you’ve shown us.
– Justin’s Hard Drive
It was certainly a sad day for me but I do plan on getting the podcasts back together at some point in the next couple weeks. Just pretend the hard drive quit to pursue medical school — it might help ease the pain…
