The new 600-cap London venue allows artists to stage an intimate concert as well as a Spatial Audio recording, broadcast mix, ...

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.

Big Ears Festival will return to downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, from April 1–4, 2027, with another enormous lineup that treats genre boundaries as polite suggestions. Passes are on sale now. Jeff ...

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 ...

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Bandsintown gives every artist a free Bandsintown for Artists account that includes tools to help them successfully book and market live shows and tours. The Bandsintown Events Widget displays gigs on ...

Here music industry veteran and chairman/co-founder of the music tech accelerator MarathonArtists Labs, Paul René Albertin discusses his tech investment companies, as well as the changing landscape of ...

Hidden is Microsoft’s announcement about the Zune family of digital music and entertainment products was an implied downplay of Microsoft PlayForSure technology which is the basis for an array of ...

Amplify 2026 opened with a critical look at the forces reshaping the global music economy. Moderated by Billboard’s Elizabeth Dilts Marshall, the panel — featuring Tatiana Cirisano (VP of Music ...

Last year, 88% of tracks on streaming platforms received fewer than 1,000 plays. Let that land for a second. The default reading of those numbers is that there's simply too much music. The market is ...

In an era where TikTok, Reels and Shorts dominate, User Generated Content (UGC) has become the ultimate social currency. But for most musicians, that content lives and dies on third-party platforms, ...