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Live Nation is offering hundreds of $20 shows starting this month. Here’s a list of all of them, broken down by every US state or Canadian province. If you’re looking for a cheap show this summer, you’ll probably find one on this list. Below, we’ve compiled a spreadsheet of every single $20 concert happening through […]
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What do you do after earning a ton of cash on rich, naïve young millennials over the luxury Fyre Festival? If you’re Ja Rule and Billy McFarland, you spend all of it on planes, models, and influential social media posts. If you ask Billy McFarland and Ja Rule how the Fyre Festival went, you’d probably […]
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So, will we finally see Led Zeppelin together again (sans John Bonham)? Last year’s Desert Trip featured an impressive lineup. Held in Indio, California, the music festival featured performances from The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and other top artists. Now, ahead of Desert Trip 2017, a cryptic message posted on social media has […]
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Spotify can learn a thing or two from Tencent Music on how to successfully launch an IPO. Last year, Tencent Music Group, a subsidiary of Chinese technology investment giant Tencent Holdings, was rumored to seek an IPO listing in the US. They reportedly hoped to raise between $300 million and $600 million in the States. […]
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When Universal Music Group chairman Lucian Grainge starts showing up, your industry awards show has arrived. And with that, here are the winners list for A&R Worldwide’s International Music Industry Awards on Wednesday. Not even Billboard got an invite to this one, baby! But hey, that just meant more chicken for Digital Music News. All […]
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What’s one surefire way to enjoy a concert and avoid permanent ear damage? Earplugs. Mid last year, the Dutch Nationale Hoorstichting, or National Hearing Foundation, conducted an interesting survey. Researchers asked 1,044 people aged 18 to 30 about their concert-going habits. Surprisingly, they found that a third of under-30 year olds left music festivals before […]
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So, 81% of festival-goers don’t mind delayed flights, staying in disaster relief tents, and hanging out with feral dogs. Well, that’s according to organizers, anyway. To say that Ja Rule and Billy McFarland’s Fyre Festival was anything but successful would be a gross understatement. Festival-goers found poor food, horrible weather, delayed flights, feral animals, and […]
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Reason #1: You’re ‘difficult’ and/or don’t work hard. This isn’t the old music industry anymore. There’s less money to invest, no more $16.99 CDs to sell, and way more pressure to show results. So artists not only have to carry their weight, they have to work well with others and work hard. But not even […]
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Democrats have saved arts funding, albeit for now. Yet Trump and Republicans still have their heart set on de-funding the arts and the CPB to boost national defense. Before Donald Trump entered the White House, his transition team expressed their plans to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Top media outlets, including NPR and […]
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Is this $1 plan SoundCloud’s last hurrah, or an intelligent plan to finally get users hooked on its Go service? Exactly two months ago today, Spotify reported that it reached 50 million paying subscribers. A month earlier, Apple Music reported that it’s “well past 20 million subscribers.” So, how is SoundCloud doing? Not too well, […]
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