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What does the future hold for the concert business? My chat with concert biz exec Jon Reens (Episode 455)

What’s the future of live music? How bad are things, and when will they get better? I don’t know if my guest tonight will have the answers, but I trust him to come closest to delivering them. Jon Reens, a…

Posted in Episodes Live performances

Stellar West: They’re young, they’re accomplished and they eat pizza (Episode 229)

Stellar West has racked up a solid list of credits and acknowledgments over their relatively short career. AP said they were an “under 21” band to watch. They played Riot Fest. They made the finals to open up for Metallica…

Posted in Episodes Riot Fest

Girls Against Boys – ‘The future of the band is… a work in progress’ (Live at Riot Fest)

Girls Against Boys are one of the coolest-sounding bands I’ve ever heard, with a menacing bottom-heavy rhythm section, swaggery vocals and a crisp, lacerating guitar that cuts through it all. These days, GVSB is relatively dormant, meaning live performances from…