Thursday, March 20, 2025
At first, Peter Wolf — best known as the limber-limbed solo artist and former lead singer of the J. Geils Band — may not seem like a day-one Bob Dylan fan who saw some of the legendary…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
For the first time, paid streaming subscriptions hit the 100 million mark in the U.S. last year, while vinyl sales continued their nearly two-decade resurgence with $1.4 billion in sales, ac…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26PMSaturday, March 8, 2025
Cher, Beck Trey Anastasio and Alicia Keys were just four of the highlights of Thursday night’s ninth annual Love Rocks NYC Benefit Concert for God’s Love We Deliver. Held at New York�…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
“Hey, that was a Beatles scream!” Paul McCartney said, responding to a female audience member’s shriek midway through his exuberant set at New York’s Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday night…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:46AMMonday, February 10, 2025
David Johansen — the sole surviving founding member of the New York Dolls and a solo artist who also performs as the lounge singer Buster Poindexter — is suffering from stage four cance…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:19PMSaturday, February 8, 2025
The world loves a good “rise of” story — one that captures the first months of a now-superstar artist’s meteoric rise, whether it’s Elvis or the Beatles or Madonna or Prince or Nir…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:54PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
Spotify paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024 — some $1 billion more than last year, the previous record — making its total around $60 billion since it was founded in 2006.…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:40PMSaturday, January 25, 2025
Bjork has been doing press interviews to promote today’s livestream of her new Apple TV+ concert film “Cornucopia,” but a comment she made about Spotify during an interview with the Sw…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:44PMFriday, August 25, 2023
Republic Records’ Kids & Family division and the Rock and Roll Playhouse have announced an exclusive partnership with a multi-album record deal. Founded by Brooklyn Bowl owner and live…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:51AMFriday, June 2, 2023
Grammy-winning Songwriters Hall of Fame member Cynthia Weil — who co-wrote “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” “On Broadway,” “Make Your Own Kind of Music,” “On Broadway,…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:51AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
BMG is ramping up its development of new stage musicals in both the U.S., with its first production “Punk Rock Girl!,” and in Germany, following the successful run of its first musical, …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:25AMMonday, October 18, 2021
While it’s a pretty small problem in the context of the larger challenges presented by the return of live music, how a performer addresses the pandemic during a performance is no small mat…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:57AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Many people were surprised that, after an initial 14-ish-month-long run and 236 performances, Bruce Springsteen is bringing his “Springsteen on Broadway” autobiographical show back for a…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:13PMSunday, June 27, 2021
It goes without saying that a lot has happened since “Springsteen on Broadway” finished its first run on December 15, 2018. And although most theaters remained closed on this sultry summ…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:55AMMonday, June 21, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:26PMIt 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 G…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:26PMThursday, June 10, 2021
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 summe…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:09PMThursday, June 3, 2021
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 Sum…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:39PMWilco 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…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:59PMTuesday, June 1, 2021
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” a…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:52PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
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 ag…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PMMonday, May 24, 2021
BTS, who are back with another smash single, “Butter,” announced the online live-streaming event “BTS 2021 Muster Sowoozoo,” to be held in celebration of the eighth anniversary of B…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PM$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 federa…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMHow 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…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMFriday, May 7, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:35AMThursday, May 6, 2021
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 firs…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:10AMWednesday, May 5, 2021
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 …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:41PMSaturday, May 1, 2021
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” nomina…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30AMWednesday, April 28, 2021
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…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:03PMIn 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…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:06PMStrokes 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 Pun…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:06PM 
