Tours
2016
Monitoring Madonna
Madonna began the third leg of her highly successful globetrotting Rebel Heart Tour in Mexico City on January 6 with a scheduled conclusion on...
Live Sound
On the Road with Brandi Carlile
For Carlile's 2015 tour, front-of-house engineer Alex Gardner and monitor engineer Jesse Turner talk mic choices and more.
Business
How U2 FOH Legend O’Herlihy Tackled the Innocence + Experience Tour
There were a lot of dramatic stories leading up to U2’s Innocence + Experience world tour. Most of them are easily Googled, but here’s...
2015
Thievery Corporation Live at the Fox Theater
Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, the DJs, multi-instrumentalists and producers who co-founded Thievery Corporation, are marking two decades of creating and performing what some...
2015
Foo Fighters 2015 Tour
The Foo Fighters’ summer and fall 2015 tour through North America will be remembered for Dave Grohl’s throne at centerstage, which allowed Grohl to...
2015
The Band Perry Gets Cubular
It’s often been said that Country is the new Pop, and The Band Perry are among its fastest rising stars. The band’s three siblings—Kimberly...
2015
Steve Miller Rocks Wolf Trap
The Steve Miller Band has been a staple on rock playlists for almost five decades, and he still routinely fills smaller venues, like The...
2015
Wilco Debuts ‘Star Wars’
Wilco quietly released their ninth studio album, Star Wars, on July 17, just hours before headlining the Pitchfork Music Festival in their hometown of...
2015
Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss and Union Station with Jerry Douglas
Willie Nelson is inarguably a bona fide American icon, and if Alison Krauss is merely a superstar in comparison, just give her a few...
2015
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2015
Inspired by the spirit of Mahalia Jackson and the Eureka Brass Band back in 1970, and originally produced by jazz impresario George Wein, the...
2015
Lana Del Rey’s ‘Endless Summer’
Sound provider Sound Image, based in Escondido, Calif., carried a full L-Acoustics system on Lana Del Rey’s North American “Endless Summer” tour, with opener...
2015
All Access: U2 iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour 2015
U2 has brought it back inside arenas, playing multiple dates in various cities, again with huge, stellar production values. Mix caught the fourth date of...
2015
Benjamin Booker’s 2015 Road Show
Blues-rock guitarist/singer/songwriter Benjamin Booker hasn’t slowed the torrid pace he set for himself and his bandmates in 2014, when he released his self-titled debut...
2015
Oz Noy Trio: Live in Asia
Guitarist Oz Noy’s latest release, Asian Twistz: Live in Asia (Abstract Logix), captures blistering, tight performances from his rock/jazz/blues/funk trio’s tour of Asia in...
2015
Widespread Panic’s Spring 2015 Tour
After 29 years of touring, Widespread Panic of Athens, Ga., is as energized and busy as ever, embarking on a tour of theaters, auditoriums...
2015
‘The Godfather’ Live
Seeing Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia classic, The Godfather, on a big screen is special. But seeing it with Nino Rota’s unforgettable score performed live...
2015
Two Gallants Plus One
The Two Gallants are heading out on tour this spring in support of their latest album, We Are Undone. It’s the duo’s ninth year...
International
Back To The Retro Futura
The Retro Futura Tour was out to revive that ’80s vibe with co-headliners Howard Jones and Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins, joined by Katrina...
Live Sound
Passenger in the U.S.
Singer/songwriter Passenger (aka Mike Rosenberg from Brighton, UK) is touring North America along with Canadian trio The Once and Stu Larsen in support of...
Live Sound
Imelda May’s North American Tour
Irish rockabilly artist Imelda May’s new album, Tribal (Verve Records), won’t be released in the U.S. until the fall, but it’s already reached into...
Live Sound
All Access: OneRepublic
Ryan Tedder Photo: Steve Jennings OneRepublic—Ryan Tedder, vocals/guitar/piano (pictured above with a Shure wireless body/Telefunken M80 capsule); Zack Filkins, guitar/backing vocals; Drew Brown, guitar;...
Live Sound
Gavin DeGraw: High-Energy Show With a Responsive Mix
Gavin DeGraw performed at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, Calif., in June 2014 Photo: Steve Jennings Multi-Platinum selling singer/songwriter Gavin DeGraw is in the...