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Outside Lands 2011 Show Report
Strolling into Golden Gate Park, you could feel the cool ocean breeze and smell the delectable tidbits of California's bountiful harvest. Outside Lands is...
Tours
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Sound for Jazzfest 2011
The 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, also known as Jazzfest, recently wrapped up another successful run with 12 stages cranking out music...
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All Access: Florence and the Machine
Florence Welch is having a good run, basking in the critically acclaimed success of her debut, Lungs. As for “The Machine,” it can be...
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Iron & Wine Tour Profile
When Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam put together a big band for their current tour, he needed someone to mix the new arrangements. As...
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Al-Tee, Jay Sean on the Yamaha Train
Currently out with Jay Sean, FOH engineer Al-Tee is mixing on a Yamaha PM5D, noting that it’s a board he can easily find no...
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Rush Gets Timeless on Time Machine Tour
For more than a year now, Canadian power-trio Rush has been traveling around the world on its current Time Machine tour.
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Shocklee Brings JBL For Road Gigs
While a founding member of Public Enemy, Keith Shocklee has also racked up hip-hop production credits for the likes of Ice Cub, Paula Abdul...
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All Access: Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae
Skyrocketing to the top of the charts, co-headliners Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae’s brought their crowd-pleasing blend of old-school R&B and hip-hop with their...
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System Fit for a Prince
It was extremely difficult to get a ticket for Prince’s “Welcome 2 America” tour, what with announcing show dates just a few days before...
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HangOut Festival 2011
The second annual HangOut Festival was held May 20-22, 2011, in Gulf Shores, Ala. Thousands flocked to the festival to hear such great performances...
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Liquid Blue | Secure Sound From 75 Feet
When The Grovler, the technical director/guitarist for band Liquid Blue, needed a behind-the-scenes solution for live access to audio equipment in a back-stage rack...
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Avid, Midas on Bareilles Tour
Opening for country rockers Sugarland and getting in a couple of headliner shows herself, Sara Bareilles is out in full force this summer, as...
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Editor’s Note: You Can’t Beat Live
Damn it’s fun to go out and see live music. Pick your act, pick your night. Pick your heroes, pick an unknown. I was...
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Outline at Royal Albert Hall Performance
Mike & The Mechanics recently played London’s Royal Albert Hall to launch their 2011 “Hit the Road” tour. Featuring a new lineup that includes...
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Mixing ‘Vision Festival’
At the Arts for Art Inc. 2011 Vision Festival, positioned in the wings at the side of the stage of the Abrons Arts Center,...
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Secure Sound From 75 Feet
When The Grovler, the technical director and guitarist for band Liquid Blue needed a behind-the-scenes solution for live access to audio equipment in a...
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All Access: Jeff Beck and Imelda May Band
Under the “Rock ’n’ Roll Party” concert line, legendary guitarist Jeff Beck and the Imelda May Band performed “How High the Moon” at the...
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‘White Noise’ Musical
New musical White Noise follows a top-selling music producer who, according to the show’s producers, “stirs up an explosive cocktail of shock and spin...
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Local Crew: Sound Works Productions
A pair of young, daring entrepreneurs (Eric Lindholm, then 19, now 25; and Daniel Nickleski, then 17, now 23) found themselves vying for similar...
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All Access: DEVO
After rescheduling some shows, DEVO is back on the road in support of their new album, Something for Everybody, the band’s first studio release...
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All Access: Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Making a name for themselves on the jam-band and festival circuit in 2008/2009, the formerly four-piece Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (the band brought...
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Live: Flores Takes PM5D for a Spin
Completing his first leg of his North American tour in mid-November and back out early this year, Jason Derulo’s monitor engineer, Billy Flores, is...
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Deep Purple Tour Profile
As Deep Purple travels through Germany and France, we spoke with FOH engineer Gert Sanner about the tour.
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Load In: Sound Reinforcement News, March 2011
Read Mix News For the Concert Touring Professional In the March 2011 Issue of Mix
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Dianne Reeves | Crooning With Strings
DIANNE REEVES PERFORMS ONE-OFF WITH COLORADO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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All Access: Weezer Memories Tour
At each stop on their Memories tour, Weezer holds that city hostage for two nights—one for each of their chart-topping ’90s albums: Weezer (The...
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Dante Out With Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel’s New Blood, Scratch My Back Tour saw the artist and a 54-piece orchestra performing cover songs in amphitheaters and arenas throughout Europe....
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Todd Snider Tour Profile
It takes an amusing singer/songwriter performer to command an audience’s undivided attention, armed with little but a guitar and his own songbook. But Todd...
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All Access: Usher
R&B superstar Usher is out in full force, performing hits from his latest, Versus, on what is being dubbed the OMG Tour. With a...
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Michael Buble Tour Profile
Monitor engineer Craig Brittain tells Mix that each of the brass players on the crooner’s tour is using Aviom Pro16 personal monitors to handle...
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Musicians Supporting the Gulf
Local musicians playing at the recent VooDoo Experience (New Orleans) music festival joined national recording artists to support the restoration of the Gulf Coast...
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Load In: Sound Reinforcement News, January 2011
Read Mix News For the Concert Touring Professional In the January 2011 Issue of Mix