Wednesday - September 23, 2009

Real America with Abe Sauer: The Britney Spears Tailgate Parking Lot, Ticketmaster, Bruce Springsteen, the Death of the Live Music Video and You  @2:19 PM

Pop music does not tailgate. Dress Up. Line up. Maybe even pre-party. But there is no tailgating. This is very obvious to anyone who visited the parking lot of the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota, by far the smallest venue of the second leg of Britney Spears' Circus tour. What is not so obvious is how this show nut-shells just about everything that's wrong with the concert industry, from Ticketmaster's monopoly and price gouging, to mildly corrupt, publicly-owned concert venues, to artists lip-syncing shows while they bleed their fans and pass the blame to us—the people who pay for such bullshit anyway. So, who wants to rock? READ MORE 61

Wednesday - August 5, 2009

Off the Wall: Erykah Badu at Governors Island  @12:04 PM

Last night Erykah Badu, the princess of Fort Greene, played a strange, historically-oriented, diffuse show at the worst music venue in the world, the new "Beach" on Governors Island. This video is pretty great. Here are absolutely awesome pictures of the show. Including Badu (LOL) opening act Janelle Monae riding some white man. Also please note that she is wearing vinyl pants and an Abe Lincoln hat and she just gave birth like six months ago. Haaaaayyy. READ MORE 2