Live Sound

By Steve Jennings ⋅ Published: 07/01/2003

On the first leg of what promises to be a long tour, Bay Area rockers AFI made a splash with two sold-out nights at...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 06/01/2003

UK-based SSE Hire is providing InnovaSon digital consoles at FOH and monitors (a Grand Live for monitors and a Large Scale Live at FOH)...

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 04/01/2003

Currently on tour with songwriters Buddy Mondlock and Maia Sharp supporting their new collaborative album, Everything Waits to Be Noticed, Art Garfunkel

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 04/01/2003

FOH engineer John Kerns (Bruce Springsteen, Shania Twain, Sammy Hagar, etc.) has been using an extensive lineup of Audio-Technica microphones for the

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 04/01/2003

Faced with tight cargo space restrictions on commercial airplanes and poor highway conditions in Central and South Americas, FOH engineer Juan Carlos

By Steve Jennings ⋅ Published: 03/01/2003

Def Leppard are out in support of their new album X, their tenth in a long rock career; with them at FOH is mixer...

By Rick Clark ⋅ Published: 02/01/2003

One of the strongest debut releases to emerge from the R&B world during the past couple of years is Acoustic Soul by Atlanta-based artist...

By Steve Jennings ⋅ Published: 01/01/2003

Originally from New York, The Strokes first broke through in England and have since become an international success story. Touring almost nonstop since

By By Gregory A. DeTogne ⋅ Published: 01/01/2003

Once again finding himself traversing the U.S. at FOH with the Rolling Stones, Irishman Robbie McGrath is somewhat bemused by America's post-9/11 preoccupation

By Mark Frink ⋅ Published: 01/01/2003

When my travel plans were pushed back a day, I suddenly had the chance to drop in on Paul McCartney's Back In the U.S....

By Mark Frink ⋅ Published: 01/01/2003

Peter Gabriel's first tour in nearly a decade, which stopped at two dozen North American cities in late 2002, featured an in-the-round arena stage...

By Robert Hanson ⋅ Published: 01/01/2003

Out in support of their latest album, A Hundred Days Off, UK dance act Underworld has embarked on a short fall 2002 North American...

By Steve Jennings ⋅ Published: 01/01/2003

The 16th Annual Bridge School Benefit, held over the weekend of October 26-27, 2002, at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, Calif., featured

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 01/01/2003

Founded in the late 1970s by saxophonist Dan Kuramoto, Hiroshima has had a long and successful career, and the band's 11 albums have sold...

By Mark Frink ⋅ Published: 12/01/2002

Barbershop harmony, a uniquely American musical art form, drew some 14,000 attendees to Portland, Ore.,'s Rose Garden Arena over the 4th of July week.

By Steve Jennings ⋅ Published: 12/01/2002

Coldplay's first album, the 2000 release Parachutes (Parlophone), has sold almost 5 million copies. Following on its success, the band spent most of 2001

By Steve Jennings ⋅ Published: 11/01/2002

One of the most diverse and entertaining tours of the summer was Area2, which featured tour organizer Moby, as well as David Bowie, Busta...

By Sarah Benzuly ⋅ Published: 11/01/2002

It's hard to mistake the beginning of a Lenny Kravitz show. First, there's the afro-haired silhouettes as his four-piece band bounce to their spots...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 10/01/2002

The extraordinary success of Norah Jones' Come Away With Me, her first full-length album for Blue Note, has taken many people by surprise, not...

By Candace Horgan ⋅ Published: 09/01/2002

The current incarnation of the Allman Brothers Band is unquestionably one of the strongest they've put together in their long history; some fans even

By Steve Jennings ⋅ Published: 09/01/2002

The Cranberries are on a world tour promoting both the 2001 album Wake Up and Smell the Coffee and this year's four-CD box set...

By Chris Michie ⋅ Published: 09/01/2002

Out on a world tour since January, Mary J. Blige brought her No More Drama show to the Chronicle Pavilion (Concord, Calif.) in late...

By Steve Jennings ⋅ Published: 08/01/2002

Last seen supporting U2 on their Elevation tour, Garbage geared up for their own spring U.S. tour to promote 2001's Beautiful Garbage. Mix caught...

By Robert Hanson ⋅ Published: 08/01/2002

Supposedly, this is the most equipment that any band has ever tried to put onstage here, explains Nickelback tour manager/FOH engineer Kevin Zaruk. Standing

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 07/01/2002

The Moss Brothers, teenage music phenomenon from Oakland, Calif. (you may have seen them on The Tonight Show), recently visited Ashkenaz (Berkeley, Calif.)