900 pounds and the lift of a lifetime
Think about 900 pounds. There’s a good chance you haven’t, and why would you? It’s an odd weight — it has heft, but not the popular roundness of a half-ton (1,000 pounds). There are no […]
Show, and Tell: Live in a digital world
With recording ability at their fingertips, fans have made concerts multimedia events. Does it hurt, or help? David Lowery doesn’t dread the camera flashes or the crude YouTube videos – in fact he welcomes them. […]
Heart in Hand: The triumphant return of the Circulatory System
Suddenly, Will Cullen Hart is talking about stray cats. And no, not the 1980s rockabilly band. “There’s so many of them in Athens, they’re all over the place,” he said, sitting Indian style in the […]
Trouble with tickets: Merger of live music giants could turn ticket business into one big auction
Since this is a tale about control, let’s start by stopping. Pull your eyes off the page and scan the horizon. Off in the distance they sit (no, wrong word, they LOOM), down dusty roads, […]
What does the future of music hold?
Ross Flournoy is a pretty smart guy. The lead singer/guitarist of The Broken West, an indie-rock band out of Los Angeles, Flournoy likes to entitle songs after archaic 16th Century French terms (Ambuscade, look it […]
30 years later, and Matthew Sweet is still playing Yes songs
Face it, Matthew Sweet goes to better birthday parties than you. “I was at Sue’s birthday party” — that would be Susanna Hoffs, Bangles’ lead singer — “and Lindsey was there” — that would be Lindsey […]