Article: Best of show; Fall Out Boy kicked off best live connections of 2007

For many people, going to the "right" concert is a matter of being seen and bragging that you're there: Witness the number of folks ignoring the artist as they spend the whole time on their cell phones, boasting to their friends about how cool the show is.

For hard-core music fans, the concert experience is more about the never-ending search for that elusive moment when the performer, the crowd, the time and the place all combine to create a feeling that can only be called transcendent. As the pop music critic at the Sun-Times, I'm lucky to have a healthy handful of these magical moments every year, though more often than not, they happen at smaller or unexpectedly great gigs than at the ...

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