Tag: Live music
Billy Joel is back for an encore − but why did...
Ryan Raul Bañagale, Colorado College
With the flip of a digital switch, Billy Joel fans have their first new...
Music fans shouldn’t have to wait much longer for live gigs...
Robert Kronenburg, University of Liverpool
As vaccination programmes allow for the gradual lifting of social restrictions, the revival of...
Fifty years ago, Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock anthem expressed the hopes and...
Mark Clague, University of Michigan
One of the most powerful, searing renditions of the national anthem ever recorded, Jimi Hendrix’s iconic Woodstock anthem, almost never...
Fyre debacle shows how smaller acts can get burned in modern...
Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Alexandre Frenette, Vanderbilt University
The Fyre documentaries on Hulu and Netflix gave a behind-the-scenes look into an ill-planned...
Did academia kill jazz?
Adam Gustafson, Pennsylvania State University
Jazz seems to be experiencing a bit of a renaissance among movie directors – look no further than documentaries such...
Are there too many music festivals?
Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Coachella unofficially kicks off the 2017 U.S. festival season on April 15, and while this year’s event...
Why cities should stop building museums and focus on festivals
Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Last year the Institute of Museum and Library Services offered a catchy statistic: the United States has more museums...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
