Updated on 22.11.11 As repeatedly written in these pages, music today is listened to on the internet thanks to a lot of sites and different programs that, legally or not, allow you to hear the songs of any singer, rock group or electronic music DJ.
Without any modesty there are also sites that let you download music directly from the internet, without having to tinker with programs like Emule where you try to download a CD of your favorite artist and sometimes you get something that has nothing to do with it. .
As for live concerts, however, there is no same organization because it would be very difficult to be able to stream a live concert when ninth is not broadcast even on a TV channel in the world.
The ability to download these concerts, or to be able to review them online is also quite limited.
Several websites that collected live concerts to make them see and hear on the internet have been closed and, at the moment, after a rather intense search, nothing really sensational has been found.
To begin with it must be said that some groups, especially Americans, allow the live streaming of their concerts.
RadioHead, Jamiroquai and Madonna are among the most famous that have given their concert live on the internet.
On the evening of October 25th, U2, whose concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena in California, was broadcast live, live on the internet on the U2 YouTube channel .
If I'm not mistaken, this was the first time that YouTube has shown a live music concert worldwide.
As for live concerts in general, we said that it is difficult to find sites where you can listen to them online, view them and download them.
The newest site that collects the recordings of the main concerts of international groups and stars to be able to watch them in streaming is Switchcam .
The videos are taken from Youtube but the site organizes them in such a way that, by choosing which concert to see, it is possible to choose the shot and the view where to see the concert filmed live.
The best site that talks about music and concerts of international and American groups and artists is without a doubt the live concerts section of the NPR.Org portal .
On this page you will find some important concerts already made around the world that can be listened to online or downloaded in mp3 audio only format .
To download them just press the right mouse button on the word "download" and select "save object with name" otherwise, by pressing "Play Now, you will listen to streaming.
Among the most famous names are Moby, The Gossip and Radiohead.
An important site for the world music scene is SongKick which collects all the dates of the concerts around the world.
The most important thing, however, is the video section present for each artist sought (using the bar under the line " Who do you want to see live? " Where you can see numerous videos of the concerts live.
Some are just clips but for many famous artists and singers there are the filming of entire concerts to be seen online and heard .
Online concerts are collected on YouTube.
Concert Vault is a site with concerts to listen to live streaming.
You have to register to hear the concerts on the computer, choosing them from many groups from 1960 to today.
In Italy and in Italian there is absolutely nothing, the websites that talk about concerts in Italy are all related to the dates and the sale of tickets and there are absolutely no videos or audio.
To find dates and tickets you can easily do a search on Google or go to an excellent site called LiveNation.
In another article we had written about how to listen to classical music concerts online.
Not to mention that through Torrent search you should find a bit of everything.
