How long does each band play at Warped Tour?
each band plays approx. 30 minutes give or take. however for every date, fans can vote on which band will receive ten extra minutes to play ( http://pickrset.com/bands/vanswarpedtour )
Where do you predict the future of popular (rock) music is headed?
I was recently a DJ for a radio station for three years (I'm also a musician), and to be honest I don't see any one genre overtaking the others and taking over airplay in the near or even distant future. Let me explain... Pretty much every potential genre of music has been done now, and I don't think there will be any "new" genre of music that has the potential of becoming popular with the general public. Sure someone may come up with violin-screamo-core or something like that, but it will never make popular radio air-play time. Musicians realize this as well, and that is why you are seeing so many bands combine aspects from so many different genres of music. There aren't very many bands anymore that stick primarily to one genre. Even bands like Incubus, Good Charlotte, and others who seem to stick to one genre mix genres a lot. Incubus went from funk to nu-metal to rock to who knows what anymore. Good Charlotte was a harder punk rock who went to pop punk and then they recently had huge success with a dance album.... go figure.... Another reason that you won't see any genre overtake everything else anymore is the emergence of Youtube, MySpace, and other similar social sites. You can find tons and tons of bands on those sites that aren't signed, don't want to be signed, and will never be signed, and will never get radio airplay to boot. You can get their music anytime you want so long as you have an internet connection with your phone or computer. A person can really go searching on the internet and really dig through everything out there and find something they really like that they will never hear on the radio. The other reason is of course itunes and other similar sites. You can download anything for a cheap price at your convenience. No need for a radio station anymore, a tiny ipod will hold every song you could ever want, even the ones that will never get radio airplay. The radio has lost its importance, genres have mixed so much, and everyone can access any genre of music at anytime with the internet at their convenience. So no there won't be a dominant genre anymore for as long as I can see. Then again I could be wrong, and my reasoning has totally failed me, only time will tell.
Why do stadiums sell bottled drinks without bottle caps?
I must admit I always thought is was a marketing strategy. It's not really convenient to keep a bottle without the bottle cap. Bottles without a cap might be consumed faster than with a cap, possibly boosting sales. Of course liquid can be poured in plastic or paper cups instead, but this is less convenient to do than just hand out plastic bottles. Unfortunately I haven't found anything that supports this initial assumption, except for the following article covering a part of the profitability of plastic bottles and the reason why it might be hard to ban them completely or replace them with paper cups.They are profitable for stadiums because concessionaires can dispense them more quickly than beer poured from a keg or can. Also, at $5 to $6 and more, the 16-ounce and 20-ounce bottles include a nice mark up, experts state. Fans like them because they are easier to carry than plastic cups and lack the suds of draught beer. http://www.toledoblade.com/local...As mentioned by Stephanie Vardavas the main consideration for removing bottle caps are safety issues, i.e. to make them less effective as a weapon, as is mentioned on several sites as well.E.g. at a game of the Cleveland Browns against Jacksonville Jaguars in 2001 there was a bottle-throwing incident, referred to as "bottlegate", where fans got upset with a referee's decision and started throwing bottles. The Giants, another football team, subsequently decided to ban bottled drinks (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/1...)Qualcomm Footbal Stadium has provided below details on safety issues with plastic bottles:http://www.sandiego.gov/qualcomm...Why do the caps on plastic bottles have to be removed upon purchase?This is a safety issue. If a plastic bottle is thrown with the cap off, some or most of the liquid will escape making the bottle lighter and less dangerous.Wikipedia even has a list of bottle-throwing incidents (only limited to concerts however):List of bottling incidents by yearAnother safety issue is tripping hazzard. When people put the cap back on a plastic bottle, air remains within the bottle (unless one has squeezed the air out before putting the cap back on). Especially in more crowded places it might be dangerous when one steps on such a bottle, instead of a capless bottle where air can flow out once stepped on.Another consideration might be that small objects are harder to remove by cleaning services.
How much do artists generally get paid for music festivals?
The answer to this really depends on several factors:How popular the act isHow much budget the organizers haveHow many slots are open on the lineupEvery year, the price for an artist or a band fluctuates depending on how successful they were the last year. You can imagine that a band that releases an album right before a festival lineup is arranged will probably earn more than if they didn't put out an album for a whole year. Another simple way to evaluate how much bands might be getting paid at a festival is by looking at the lineup post. The bigger the font the bigger the cash! Bands at the bottom of the lineup in the tiniest font sometimes might not even get paid much if they get paid at all because the organizers of the festivals are really doing these bands a favor. Not only are they getting a ton of exposure by being on a lineup with other high profile names, they're also going to get a huge audience at the festival. Let's take a look at this year's Coachella lineup. AC/DC, Jack White, and Drake are probably earning a few hundred thousand dollars for their performance. The next tier below - anywhere from $75K - 125K. It's been a long time since I've researched price estimates for bands so I might actually be off a bit. I can tell you, however, that music festivals are one of the top ways that bands and artists make revenue during the year. It's pretty easy cash for them and because a music festivals put them together with so many different artists and bands, gives them access to a wide varying of audiences, and provides them with a name brand festival, there isn't always a ton of negotiation that happens back and forth. Bookers for most of these acts will send out price estimates for the bands and artists that they represent to other festival organizers and bookers across the country with current pricing for the year. It's up to festival organizers to negotiate for the price that they want, but I imagine that since Coachella is such a huge festival they probably deduct anywhere from $10-20K off of that price they are given because the exposure that they'll get will be so much more worth it that it will impact them positively in the long run.Here's an example of a list of price estimates for artists and bands that I received back in 2013: How much does it cost to book an A- or B-list musical act?