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...Friday afternoon at Balboa Park in San Diego, a rock concert was out of control. Between 4,000 and 5,000 people turned up, some with MCCAIN MAJORITY signs, others with Jedi light sabers. Two helicopters hovered overhead, and McCain's bus had to park well out of the way to avoid running into the throng. Where there was a time early on in New Hampshire when McCain just kept talking until there was nothing more to say, now he barely has to say anything. He says hello, and the crowd goes nuts. "He's a phenomenon," says Kevin Staff...
...moved quickly to showcase that training. Even before the label released her eponymously titled debut album last year, it set up small concerts in hotels and nightclubs in New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Toronto and Minneapolis featuring Aguilera accompanied only by a pianist. The audience in each venue consisted of music critics and music-industry representatives. Most teen stars lack the talent to pull off such intimate performances and have to build audiences with mall appearances. Says Aguilera's manager, Steve Kurtz: "There's no way to fake it in a small room with these major players listening...
...hear people talking about the artist," says Ken Krasner, head of Electric Artists. "It's kids marketing to each other. We call it viral marketing." The company also hired Aguilera's biggest online fans to keep promoting her work on the Internet in exchange for free concert tickets and other goodies. "We didn't break Christina," says Krasner, "but we helped accelerate the process by putting the music in the hands of kids and watching them talk about...
Friends of the Arts is hiring students to handle box office sales for its summer concert series, which includes the Long Island Summer Festival, the Dime Jazz Festival and the Beethoven Festival...
...There are lots of big names coming to Boston (or at least New England) in the next few months, and I'll try to tell you in advance about them. Third Eye Blind tickets, for instance, go on sale today at 11a.m. And it may be Oasis headlining the concert at the Orpheum in April, but the band to look out for is their opening act Travis, an amazing indie-rock group that does hilarious covers on stage. And finally, no matter how you parse it, the title of the new Oasis album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants...