In what may come across as a “shocker” (/sarcasm), concert promoter and ticket-seller Live Nation, Inc. said Thursday that it’s second-quarter loss worsened after weak summer ticket sales.  The company is keeping it’s forecast for a decline in adjusted operating profit for the year, and according to Michael Rapino, there were no big acts to help the company out of the current slump.

“We don’t have a sizable big lineup this (third or fourth quarter) of A-artists and arenas,” he said.

Several big acts such as U2 have postponed North American tours, which hasn’t helped, as well as other large acts postponing or cancelling tour dates due to poor ticket sales.

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Those of you who are my fans and/or followers in various formats, be it SL, Twitter, here, Netrock, Radio Riff, or anywhere, know that my bread and butter as a DJ is rock, especially old school and classic rock and metal.  The why is a little larger than some typical “it’s what I know” in this case, so I felt a urge to write about it.

Music has gone through possibly more iterations than any other art form.  From the halcyon days of smacking rocks together in a cave to the salad days of the Baroque, to the current mega-pop, money-fuelled glitz, it’s found a range within every culture from traditional to experimental, and every step in between.  Music is as unique as its creator, or even as the ear of the listener.  It is a base essence within us, one that needs expression but is not limited by physical forms.  It can be rearranged, fused, disjoined and re-fused once again into entirely new things over and over… and that’s exactly what it has been since the dawn of time.

Music is the language of our soul.

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Just as an aside until I get the about page finished… he’s a ninja monkey!  My fans are my ninja <3 monkey army.  Simple really.

Soon there’ll be more stuff here… right now it’s a matter of figuring alot of back end stuff.

In the meantime… the radio works, and my DJ schedule is underneath it!  You can follow what channel I’m using via the convenient Twitter feed above!  If I’m not on, enjoy Netrock 101 – The Animal… my personal fav station (and not just because I work there).

Enjoy!