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In a large city, full of diverse people, finding a musical performance is not hard to come by. Luckily, as I was searching online for different performances I ran across The Flex Crew performing at Skully’s music diner. I have been to Skully’s once before to watch a folk band perform. The atmosphere was a lot different than when we saw The Flex Crew. Obviously, the genre of music was a lot different, along with the atmosphere of the crowd. I was very surprised by the number of people in the bar that evening. Mostly, because the performance started at 11PM and the world series was on. On top of this, online their website said the show began at 10PM, but like a very great band they came out at their own pace. In the meantime, there was a DJ performing to keep the crowd alive. The Flex Crew is a reggae band from the Columbus area. After doing a little research I learned they are known as “the best reggae band in the Midwest.”

In late May 2015, a few friends of mine and my girlfriend made the decision to go to big festival of punk bands held inside of a shutdown high school that acts now as a performing arts center. Among these bands, there was a couple that I was beyond excited to see; Chunk, No Captain Chunk!, Real Friends, and most of all “Modern Baseball.” It was a full day festival of fun and excitement. In a hurry we bought tickets and began our wait for the day to finally come, trudging through the last few weeks of school.

Concertgoers complain about the "convenience charges" as well as parking and facility fees that Ticketmaster tacks on, which can account for more than thirty per cent of the cost of a ticket. Promoters worry that, as the top-grossing touring acts - the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Madonna - get older, very few younger acts are popular enough to fill stadiums and arenas on the two-year-long tours that superstar rock bands undertake. (Forty per cent of the seats at all Live Nation concerts go unsold.) Most galling to the four stakeholders involved in putting on a concert - the artist, the promoter, the venue operator, and the ticket seller - is the loss of billions of dollars in revenue to the "secondary market": the Internet-driven business of ticket reselling, in which ticket brokers and scalpers profit, while the people who take the artistic and financial risks hardly participate at all. Bill Graham did not live to see "the future" become the live experience; he died in a helicopter crash after a Huey Lewis and the News concert in Concord, California, in 1991. But if you go back to that night on Howard Street and try to understand what Graham saw, it seems obvious that the success of rock shows will always be measured not in box-office revenues and beer sales but in the quality of the party. Records are commodities; concerts are social

Everyone belongs to a subculture and every subculture has their niche in society. To the untrained eye, mosh pits look like unruly fighting rings. The purpose of mosh pits, however, is not to hurt people, but rather to “release frustrations and celebrate music” (Clark par. 1). Mosh pits offer a place for people to express themselves in an appropriate manner and setting, which otherwise would not be considered fitting outside of the pit. In my course of studying the subculture of mosh pits, I grew to better understand their purpose and the emotions they give off.

In high school, a group of friends introduced me to Jacob Garrett: he would soon introduce me to the DIY music scene. I remember, in fact, the day I first saw his band, Clearviews, perform: in a twenty-feet-by-twenty-feet room, about twenty people packed together in order to listen to punk music. Let me clarity, these people, by societal standards, may be labeled “misfits.” For this reason: I felt at home. After coming home and researching, however, it turned out that many DIY artists were social outcasts-- as were their listeners. From the rapper “Milo,” a self-proclaimed “nerd” who studied Philosophy of Language, to “Nouns,” a punk band with representation from those on the autism spectrum, the DIY scene was full of “misfits!” And I connected

There have been multiple artists’ who have transcended and revolutionized rock n’ roll music in a social and economic phenomena. Throughout the late twentieth century, musicians’ astonished crowds and critics with their lyrical and melodic tunes: which led to a rise of prominence for rock in American culture. Many teens and adults round role models or shining examples that spoke for them, and filled their struggled lives with a sense of hope and relief. With super-stardom comes the inevitable aspects of monumental fame, extensive wealth, and pragmatic pleasures and sensations; on the other side of the spectrum, come the prolonged pressures to have a continuous amount of success and the tolls that touring take on the body. Along with that, comes

By attending Godspell on its opening night I was able to assess the audience based on the event’s initial crowd. This also allowed for an opportunity for me to analyze the audience in regards to the type of individuals that were able to attend an event of this nature on a Thursday evening. My findings were that the people who did attend were mostly students from the university, as this made for the most economical as well as convenient night to attend, considering the event was held in campus facilities. Another finding that I was able to assess about the audience was that those who did attend came in groups, as opposed to individually, which in my opinion was a direct reflection of people attending for supporting purposes as opposed to

Rock n roll and Hip hop Concerts are both fun and intriguing. They both may contain live bands, neon lights/lasers, extremely loud music, and sold out arenas. Well over a few thousand fans attend these kinds of concerts. But what kind of people go to these kind of events? According to MSN.com, various people from different cultural background attend these sort of events. Although Rock n roll concerts would usually be filled with Caucasian, and Hip hop concerts are filled with minorities. Such as African Americans, Latino Americans, and many

Performers and the public for over forty years have been descending on the muddy fields of the festival Glastonbury to attend every year possible a now cultural music festival. One man’s

You’re in a crowded stadium, people standing elbow to elbow. Everyone is screaming,this is all that is audible . You can’t hear the worldwide finomina of a band over all of the screaming. You want so badly to leave, but you need to hear the new craze, the one that you understand, the one that everyone knows so well. They are a band that is so loved and praised that not seeing them would be a crime.

What do you usually think of when you think of music festivals? I think of big stages, my favorite artists, and just having a good time. There is a study that states that the engagement put into music festivals can help you engage in important things in real life such as college. Engagement is one positive key in psychology. Martin Seligman, the creator of Positive Psychology, suggests five quantifiable measures to reflect this construct, which is PERMA: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Positive Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (Seligman, 2011). Improving measures like Engagement is key to improve your well-being. Engagement can be a predictor of various health outcomes, both physical and

I recently attended an event called Awake All Night at the Wake Forest University campus. Now, normally I am not one who would go to events with loud college students and blasting dance music, but I was persuaded to join my friends and help them in winning a raffle. As soon as I walked in we were greeted with blasting pop music in the speakers, followed by the immediate feeling of being overwhelmed. The rooms were filled with Wake Forest students who were dressed in clothing that looked like most of them had had business meetings before this. While walking around, I saw a few people casually dancing to the music, but most people were not having much of a response to it. As my friend and I made our way upstairs, we found the main dance floor where

The Sin City is a hotspot for entertainment and undiscovered talent. When you reach out and see what could be there it's like striking gold. You have DJs, musicians, & young artists trying to make a name for themselves. Nothing can be better than that. When you do see that you can't help, but channel support for them. It can be comparative to the when you invest in your own ideas to see it grow. Over time when that idea is worked on, year in and year out, you will see the ultimate results of success.

My friends and I all went to Rapid City over the weekend for a Lana Del Rey concert. We did several things beforehand and were scheduled to arrive back in Dupree at 7:00 PM on March 5th. The concert was on March 3rd and we couldn’t miss it. We left on the 1st of March so we could have some time to shop and do other things. Our parents had all agreed on giving us each $200 to use for shopping. Before we left, our parents told us to spend the money wisely and to have fun. We then left on that Thursday morning.

There is the smell of cigarettes, alcohol, and sweat in the air. It is about 10 PM on a hot August night inside the Echo in Los Angeles. People are packed inside the small music venue waiting as band roadies set up the stage with speakers, microphones, electric guitars, electric bass guitars, and a drum set. Groups of black-clothed or stud, patch, and chain laden people are scattered about; an eager, almost impatient energy dominates the venue’s atmosphere. There is a thumbs up exchange between venue crew members and the lights go off, leaving only bright and colorful stage lights shining on the empty stage. The audience erupts with cheers as four middle-aged men walk on stage. They get in their places and moments later, fast-paced, messy, distortion-heavy music blasts from the stage and speakers. The singer growls, “I wanna kick in the radio/ I wanna bomb the record store/ I say, destroy all music!” The audience goes wild and a large circle pit immediately forms in the middle of the venue. Youths and adults alike are running around, slamming into, and aggressively pushing each other in the circle pit. Some people climb on stage and dive into the crowd. All negativity, stress, obligations, and personal afflictions of the people inside the Echo fly out its doors. The band performing was Los Angeles punk rock band the Weirdos. The audience consisted of punk fans.