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Concert tickets are basically the new airline miles. At least that's what we took away when we read Live Nation’s new Return to Real report, which argues that access to live music is becoming an ...

Dinosaur Jr. has released its 13th studio album, There Near, and extended their supporting North American tour into 2027. More surprising than another tour from a band that has spent four decades on ...

Following a series of legal proceedings against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, the music industry is closely watching what comes next. Here is a breakdown of what happens next across the federal ...

Olivia Rodrigo’s inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival made several statements that were impossible to miss. The single-day event brought 45,000 people to Great Park in Irvine, CA, last week. Its ...

AI music detection has moved from a theoretical concept to a necessity for everyone from Spotify to everyday artists and fans. As generative audio tools become standard features in digital audio ...

For a long time, my band played an almost entirely industry-focused game. We tried to attract the right manager, booking agent, record label, publisher, radio programmer, festival buyer, journalist, ...

CDs are experiencing a massive rebirth. Driven by Gen Z’s desire for tangible music experiences and affordability, U.S. CD sales surged 16% in the first half of 2026, drastically outpacing vinyl ...

The independent working-band tour has not disappeared. Far from it. And since COVID changed the economics and logistics of touring in a highly contained short-term timespan, data suggests the ...

Quantizr, an AI-powered financial operations platform for the live entertainment industry, has raised a $5 million seed round. Quantizr uses AI to extract financial info from businesss docs and ...

The music business moves quickly. Streaming rules change, new marketing strategies emerge, touring costs rise, and another AI company appears before anyone has finished debating the last one.

Live Nation’s second-quarter earnings contained a remarkable detail: Ticketmaster made more adjusted operating income than the company’s entire concert-promotion division. Put another way, concerts ...