It seems every few years some influential critic or essayist decides that live music is dead. Usually it happens when some technology — like the internet–quickly eclipses a traditional means by which the music industry makes money. This argument is then usually ratified by disgruntled and worried musicians (meaning: most of them, all of the time), and finally spread and recycled around the music world. . . until finally washes up on the shores of the mainstream media, where it becomes the ‘everything is going to hell’ meme of the week.