In a wonderful little thing that started at 12:01am today, Live Nation will not charge service fees on Wednesdays. According to Billboard, every Wednesday throughout the rest of the summer, Live Nation will offer a variety of "No Service Fee Wednesdays" specials at LiveNation.com.
Tickets without service fees are available at all Live Nation-ticketed amphitheaters for concerts including blink-182, Coldplay, No Doubt, Nickelback, Depeche Mode, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Crue Fest, Def Leppard/Poi
In these tough economic times, we Wayward Bloggers would like to offer you what we call Friday Freebies, a list of things to do this weekend that won't cost you any more than the gas it takes to get to 'em.
Lessman's Catfish Farm, home of Truckhenge, has Truckhenge Music Festival III. The three-day festival has 18 bands, with everything from the punk of the Hemorrhoids and Left On Northwood, the funk of the Pudd'n Pops, and hip-hop from Mindwreck & TwiztedFreak, among others. The camping's free
I don't have a gun, a trucker hat or any cutoff denim clothing. I refuse to drink PBR, I drive a Japanese car and honestly, motorcycles kind of freak me out. Despite all of this, I thought that to turn down tickets to see Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd on the Fourth of July would be decidedly unpatriotic.
Sandstone was packed... A veritable sea of white folks. I remember reading that a pack of four lawn tickets could be purchased for $100. It was true recession relief. Kid Rock would later thank
Even though it's not due out until 2010, Slow Southern Steel looks to be an intriguing glimpse at modern Southern metal. It's directed by Rwake vocalist CT and David Lipke, and according to the press release about the film, it
"peers into the world of true southern metal/doom through live footage and personal interviews; CT's devout commitment/knowledge/love of the topic at hand bringing the movie to life in a way few first-time directors can."
Notable bands (i.e., ones with whom most f
At the Midland on Saturday night, Stephen Lynch not only made musical comedy seem like a rock show -- he gave a pointed lesson in how to deal with hecklers and other assorted loudmouths.
facebook.com/stephenlynchmusicStephen Lynch at Lorensbergsteatern in Göteborg, Sweden (the same haircut and everything from Saturday - all that's different is the jacket).
In addition to responding to a request for "the bowling song!" ("Almighty Malachi, Professional Bowling God") with a ditty that went
In the new book Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and its Legacy, edited by Nikolaos Kotsopoulos, the reader gets a full overview of the genre. The book has several introductory essays describing the history of krautrock, and its origins in the music of the post-WWII GIs.
Much is made of the dates Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention played in the '60s, much in the same way that Patti Smith's shows in London a decade later would inspire punk. You can read David Stubb's "Introduction," and would
