On the heels of success with metal fest Mayhem, Vans Warped Tour co-founder Kevin Lyman plans to build a similar tour now the for country ...
Archives for April, 2009
If you haven’t been on ArtistForce.com lately, you’ve missed some pretty amazing changes and upgrades to the platform and its features. Improvements can be found ...
We have added new members to our growing ArtistForce team in Austin, and we would like you to know more about them. Craig Howard joins ...
Struggling under a mountain of debt and declining ad revenue, radio giant Clear Channel announced another round of layoffs on Tuesday. The company initially announced ...
Much of the recent news in music has focused on the negative – layoffs at labels, outrage over ticket resellers, falling music sales – but ...
The battle to reform the secondary ticketing market has now moved to the state of Minnesota. After allowing ticket resale two years ago, legislators have ...
Global music sales fell 8 percent in 2008 to $18.4 billion, according to music industry trade group IFPI. The continued decline was dragged down even ...
Today is Earth Day, and singer-songwriters Jason Reeves, Brendan James, and Amber Rubarth are celebrating with a tour meant to raise awareness about global warming. ...
Due to new anti-piracy laws and the recent guilty verdict for the Pirate Bay, Sweden has been under the recording industry’s microscope last few weeks. ...
Halloween is still a long way off, but you can start making plans now for New Orleans’ Voodoo Experience. And you will know exactly how ...
A Stockholm district court found the operators of infamous BitTorrent tracking site the Pirate Bay guilty today of assisting in copyright infringement. Defendants Peter Sunde, ...
More potential opposition has emerged in the ongoing battle of the Live Nation and Ticketmaster Entertainment merger. In addition to the current investigations by the ...
A thought-provoking article appeared yesterday on Techdirt about Nettwerk, an innovative mix of indie label and management company out of Canada. The label has been ...
PassAlong Networks, a promising digital music start-up out of Nashville, announced its demise late Monday. The shutdown has already begun with the departures of several ...
Ticketmaster has recently been the target of much criticism in the live entertainment industry, but today Live Nation is on the defense. The issue stems ...
As the summer music festival season ramps up, it appears that the rough economic climate is having little effect on ticket sales, according to top ...
On April 7th, Apple implemented its variable pricing structure into the iTunes store. Many critics predicted that Apple would increase too many songs to the ...
Since touring is all about playing for the fans, why not let the fans decide where you should play? That is exactly the plan for ...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="244" caption="NY Senator Chuck Schumer"][/caption] Senator Chuck Schumer of New York announced legislation today meant to regulate the secondary ticketing market. The proposed ...
Twitter moves into the live entertainment world with a Bay Area band called Moonalice. With such all-star members as GE Smith and Barry Sless, the ...
The future of ticketing is now here. Ticketmaster Entertainment, Tickets.com, and Canada’s Rogers Communications have all announced the release of paperless tickets through mobile applications. ...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="170" caption="Radiohead"][/caption] Music fans apparently have not been told there is a recession out there. After the announcement of Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, and ...