Blog: EAR FARM

Looking for concert trends across our top live picks from this past year, the magic of the live music experience in 2009 seemed inversely proportional to the size of the venue relative to the artist playing there. Whaaa? Let's try that again: the bigger the artist crammed into the smaller the venue made for some of the most mind-blowing shows we've seen in quite some time. Was it a result of the recession? A reflection of our thrifty times? Or simply dumb luck on our part? We're not really sure, but from the world's biggest metal band [...]