More than two weeks after Ariel Emanuel stepped down as a Live Nation board member after 14 years, the Department of Justice announced that he and fellow top Endeavor officer Mark Shapiro re…
It didn't take long for the enormity of the moment to sink in. Just moments after Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl led the band into "Times Like These" at New York's Madison Square Garden on…
Bruce Springsteen is getting back to work this summer, playing a big role in Broadway's return by bringing back his $108-million-grossing "Springsteen on Broadway" for the entire summer, but…
New York's City Parks Foundation returns to live, in-person performances this summer with the announcement of the shows planned for the 2021 season of Capital One City Parks Foundation Summe…
Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy will be the first performer at Brooklyn Made, a new, 500-capacity music venue opening in the borough's Bushwick neighborhood this fall. Tweedy will open the clu…
Seven-time Grammy winning singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette has unveiled new tour dates for her 2021-2022 world tour to celebrate 25 years of her groundbreaking "Jagged Little Pill" alb…
UPDATED: The Small Business Administration stated Wednesday that notices of approved relief money from the $16 billion Save Our Stages act " which was passed into law nearly five months ago,…
BTS, who are back with another smash single, "Butter,"Â announced the online live-streaming event "BTS 2021 Muster Sowoozoo," to be held in celebration of the eighth anniversary of BTS and…
$0: That's how much money the Small Business Administration has paid independent venues since Save Our Stages Act " which guarantees independent venues and theaters $16 billion in federal pa…
How is it that the most idiosyncratic major songwriter of our lifetimes also came to be the most covered? The Bob Dylan may be full of songs that are personal, peculiar and sometimes inscrut…
UPDATED: While tours and festivals for later this year are being announced every day and Live Nation's stock recently reached an all-time high based on the concert industry's anticipated ret…
In February, Stellantis' Global Chief Marketing Officer Olivier Francois fulfilled a decade-long pursuit of working with Bruce Springsteen with a Super Bowl spot for Jeep, marking the first …
The struggle that independent music venues have been undergoing for the past 14 months has gone on for so long that even supporters have begun to grow numb to it " but the reality is that th…
The Recording Academy announced today that it has made significant changes to the Grammy Awards process " including the elimination of nearly all of the controversial "secret" nominati…
While multiple outlets, including Variety, reported last April that Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino was foregoing his $3 million salary for all of 2020 due to the pandemic and its devastating…
In the latest blockbuster music-catalog deal, Downtown has sold its 145,000 owned and co-published copyrights to an affiliate of the Concord music company. Included in the deal are songs pop…
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas has signed a worldwide publishing agreement with Concord Music Publishing, covering his past and future solo works (including his 2013 song with Daft P…
Just days after Downtown Music sold nearly 150,000 publishing copyrights to Concord, the company has laid off an unspecified number of staffers in its Nashville office. Among the affecte…
We've been reluctant to jinx it, but after a disastrous non-launch earlier this month, the website for the Small Business Administration's Shuttered Venue Relief Grant (SVOG) was up and runn…
WEA, the Label and Artist Services division of Warner Music Group, today announced that Benjamin Blank has been named president of media, a newly created position. In this role, Blank will l…
UPDATED: More than four months after the $16 billion #SignOurStages act was signed into law, and more than two weeks after the website through which venues could apply for federal aid launch…
After an NFT fundraiser for independent venues raised more than $200,000 last week, Goldflyer and the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) have announced the second round. Top NFT m…
In a move that shows livestreaming will be a part of the concert experience even in a post-pandemic word, Live Nation Entertainment, the world's largest live-entertainment company, and Veeps…
New York's SummerStage concert series has announced plans to return to live, in-person concerts and performances at outdoor venues this summer. According to the announcement, "Pending adjust…
Over the past pandemic-stricken year, multiple charities and assistance programs have stepped forward for segments of the music industry, from MusiCares to Save Our Stages and Crew Nation. W…