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

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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 ...

RAMPD(Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities) brought more than 20 members of its national network to Los Angeles last week for its first songwriting camp with Concord Music ...

The best thing that happened to independent musicians in the last fifteen years was open distribution. It is also, slowly, the thing that stopped serving them. When the doors opened, they opened all ...

Here's a rundown of some of our favorite stories from this week on Hypebot. As always, thanks for reading and being part of our growing community of artists, managers, and industry pros.

The next wave of music technology is officially here. Music Tectonics, in partnership with the Yamaha Music Innovations Fund, has unveiled the 10 semi-finalists for its 2026 Swimming With Narwhals ...

Portland, Oregon, needed a mid-sized concert venue. Apparently, it needed two. As Axios reported September 3, two corporate-backed venues are now under construction roughly two miles apart, with both ...

Representing independent venues, promoters, festivals, and presenters nationally, the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) submitted its formal Tunney Act comments to the court: "The jury's ...

Ask musicians how to get a song onto streaming services and the same names tend to come up: DistroKid, TuneCore, CD Baby. But choosing a distributor involves more than finding an upload button. An ...