Music Blog

Live 8 was an amazing event with so many great artists and such a great cause.

The real place to be today was in front of your computer. AOL’s Live 8 Music Channel provided complete live broadcasts from 6 different venues: Paris, London, Berlin, Toronto, Philadelphia, and Rome. And as the live shows came to an end, AOL immediately began rebroadcasting each in its entirety. This means that I’ll probably spend much of the remaining holiday weekend catching up on the many artists I missed out on completely, like a-ha, Brian Wilson, Crosby Stills & Nash, Scissor Sisters, Travis, Duran Duran, The Bachman Cummings Band (aka The Guess Who), and Jet. Because of MTV’s heavily edited broadcast, I’ll also be re-watching many of the acts whose performances I was only allowed to see a small portion of, such as Green Day (one of the day’s standout performances, based on the two songs I did see), Coldplay, Joss Stone, Keane (their phenomenal set should have made them huge U.S. stars — and it would have, if MTV hadn’t cut it down to about 30 seconds), The Killers, R.E.M., U2, The Who, and The Dave Matthews Band.