The Live Issue
Soft Shock's Mookie Singerman
September 22, 2025
What was the first concert you ever attended?
The Beach Boys at the Walpack Inn in Walpack, N.J., summer of ’88. I was four years old, deeply unsettled by Mike Love and "Kokomo" fucking ripped.
You can go back in time and see any concert. Whom would you see and when?
It'd be hard to top the demonic energy of Mike Love, but GG Allin in the summer of 1993 could probably do it.
You’re made czar of the concert industry. What’s the first thing you’d change?
Artists get the same cut of liquor sales as the venue gets on soft merch.