Wednesday, 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 07:06PMJust days after Downtown Music sold nearly 150,000 publishing copyrights to Concord, the company has laid off an unspecified number of staffers in its Nashville office. Among the affected …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:05PMTuesday, April 27, 2021
We’ve been reluctant to jinx it, but after a disastrous non-launch earlier this month, the website for the Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Relief Grant (SVOG) was up and …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PMWEA, the Label and Artist Services division of Warner Music Group, today announced that Benjamin Blank has been named president of media, a newly created position. In this role, Blank will l…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PMFriday, April 23, 2021
UPDATED: More than four months after the $16 billion #SignOurStages act was signed into law, and more than two weeks after the website through which venues could apply for federal aid launch…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:20PMWednesday, April 14, 2021
After an NFT fundraiser for independent venues raised more than $200,000 last week, Goldflyer and the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) have announced the second round. Top NFT m…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:41PMTuesday, April 13, 2021
In a move that shows livestreaming will be a part of the concert experience even in a post-pandemic word, Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s largest live-entertainment company, and Vee…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:41PMMonday, April 12, 2021
New York’s SummerStage concert series has announced plans to return to live, in-person concerts and performances at outdoor venues this summer. According to the announcement, “Pending ad…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:56PMOver the past pandemic-stricken year, multiple charities and assistance programs have stepped forward for segments of the music industry, from MusiCares to Save Our Stages and Crew Nation. W…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13PMWednesday, March 31, 2021
UnitedMasters, a music distribution platform for independent artists founded by industry veteran Steve Stoute, announced a $50 million Series B investment led by Apple with follow-on investm…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:26AMMonday, March 29, 2021
For the second time in just over six months, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer stood at a nightclub in his home borough of Brooklyn and stumped for independent music venues. Where last …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:20PMTuesday, March 23, 2021
Hundreds of members of the international music industry have signed an open letter to record labels titled “Pay Songwriters,” calling for better financial treatment from the record label…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:43PMThursday, March 18, 2021
Just under a year ago, Live Nation, the world’s largest live-entertainment company, launched Crew Nation, a charitable fund to which it contributed an initial $5 million donation, to hel…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:18PMSunday, March 14, 2021
Tonight, we come together — virtually — for the Grammy Awards, “Music’s Biggest Night,” and do our best to celebrate the music of the worst year of so many people’s lives. It’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:31PMWednesday, March 10, 2021
The Grammy Awards considered some 800 people for the “In Memoriam” segment of the 2021 show, first-time executive producer Ben Winston tells Variety. While it was not unexpected that a l…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:31PMFriday, February 26, 2021
Live Nation has taken a timeline provided by the British government as an all-clear for the summer festival season, selling some 170,000 tickets this week to three major U.K. summer festival…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:16AMIn its earnings reports for the last quarter and full year of 2020, the year of the pandemic, Live Nation shows remarkable optimism for the projected return of live entertainment. Despite a …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:05AMWednesday, February 24, 2021
BMI has announced that Sandye Taylor is joining the company as Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer. She will report to the performing rights organization’s President & …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:56PMThursday, February 18, 2021
Universal Music Group has announced the launch of Virgin Music Label & Artist Services, a “new global network delivering premium and flexible artist and label services to the industry�…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:57PMThursday, February 11, 2021
As the pandemic raged on last fall, it was no surprise when veteran folk singer Arlo Guthrie called off his plans for future live performances. After suffering a series of strokes over the p…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:06AM 
