iTunes Live Festival in July

The Foo Fighters are scheduled to play live on July 11th

The iTunes Live Festival can be seen streamed for free on an app on an iDevice every day this July. The festival showcases performances from 62 recording artists on 31 nights, that include Paul Simon, Coldplay, Duran Duran and a host of others. I've watched the first two days, and was able to see Paul Simon, Smoke Fairies and Seasick Steve and was very impressed, not only with the quality of the performances but of the seamless streaming through Wi-Fi as well. I guess that's another side benefit of all that iCloud goodness coming in the fall. Simon's rendition of 'Late in the Evening,' the Smoke Fairies performance of 'Storm Song,' and Seasick Steve's 'Back in the Doghouse' in particular were very good.

There are a few hiccups of course, one is that the set lists don't always seem to be in sync with the song being played, and you can't seem to set an iCal reminder for some bands more than one day in advance. It would be nice if we could set reminders for the entire month, but I guess you can't have everything. Despite these shortcomings, I urge you to take a look for yourself.