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It was a fun week on there here Live Music Blog. Too bad I missed the Bjork show the Auditorium Theater on Saturday night. Greg Kot got to go and said this…
For the closing “Declare Independence,” the singer sounded like the teenage punk she once was. “Raise your flag!” she commanded. “Higher! Higher!” her band responded. Though the singer didn’t mention it, there was a political message underlying many of these songs. “Army of Me” said it best: “Stand up, you’ve got to manage.”
Be yourself, in other words. All one had to do was look at the stage to see an example of that in action.
Read on for your full weekly roundup and look for plenty more updates this week as we settle into our workweek. We’re hitting a couple of the Arcade Fire shows this weekend at the Chicago Theater, so hope to have some photo updates soon after. Pitchfork just published an interview with the band (i.e. Win Butler); I’ll be catching up on that today.
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The TV channel and website for “Live Music Television” seems like it has slowly been bubbling out of the underground since its initial launch back in 2003. I don’t have Comcast Cable so I haven’t seen enough from Concert.TV to give a solid assessment. But I did find it interesting that they’ve now launched a news division.
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I just caught that a fellow music blogger is doing something similar to what we do every Friday around here, i.e. Phish Fridays. Ross over at Rock Music Daily is doing an MP3 post every Monday with cuts from one… - Jazzfest 2007 | Downloads and Torrents
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I’ve been trying to catch up on some digital music and concert industry news this week. There’s a lot going on, so you know what that means? Yep, a ‘Digital Music and Concert Industry’ version of Heady Links. Grab your afternoon coffee and check it out… - Cell Phone PGroove at Martyrs
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A few weeks back, Justin dropped the news that Umphrey’s McGee and the Disco Biscuits had announced a festival-type excursion down in Jamaica, called “Caribbean Holidaze,” but had yet to finalize the details. We’ve now got those details… - Blog PSA: Take Our Survey
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