How to Recover the Phone You Lost at Coachella

If you went to Coachella this year, there’s a decent chance your phone got stolen.  Here’s how to get it back. It’s shitty.  At first we thought it was one guy stealing a bunch of phones during Coachella’s first weekend.  But then it turned out several thieves were pickpocketing throughout the festival. Basically ruining part […]

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How to Score $20 Tickets to Major Summer Concerts

Want to see top performers at a summer concert? Just pay Live Nation $20. On National Concert Day this year, Live Nation will once again kick off its summer concert season. To sweeten the deal, they’re offering fans tickets to hot shows for just $20. Live Nation will make over one million $20 tickets available […]

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Live Nation’s CEO Addresses the Impact of Trump’s Immigration Policies

Is Trump putting the kibosh on global tours?  We asked Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino to assess the impact. It was a hot Texas mess prepared just for SXSW.  In the wake of Trump’s high profile executive orders on immigration, SXSW artists started freaking out over possible deportations.  Or, flat-out imprisonment at the hands of […]

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Thanks to Sold-Out Performances, Olly Murs Tops Hot Tours Tallys

How hot is Olly Murs? Following the announcement that English singer/songwriter Olly Murs would perform at York Racecourse on July 1, tickets subsequently sold out. This comes as no surprise, as the singer recently topped Billboard’s weekly Hot Tours ranking. Olly Murs earned £11 million ($14 million) from the first leg of his 2017 sold-out […]

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Travis Scott and DRAM Join Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN Tour (See Dates)

Kendrick Lamar’s North American DAMN Tour will kick off at Phoenix with Travis Scott and DRAM. At this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Kendrick Lamar debuted songs from his fourth studio album, DAMN. Originally from Compton, California, Lamar also had the honor of closing the music festival’s second weekend. His fourth album landed […]

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Breaking: Canadian Music Week Confirms Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino

Earlier this month, we highlighted Canadian Music Week as a place for serious music industry dealmaking.  Now, CMW has confirmed one of the industry’s biggest and most successful dealmakers: Live Nation President & CEO Michael Rapino. Just moments after securing an important keynote with longtime Taylor Swift manager Scott Borchetta, there’s another confirmed heavyweight.  Canadian […]

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Prince Trumpet Player’s 14 Rules You Can’t Break If You Want To Turn Pro

For the past six months or so I’ve been in and out of the studio working on my new funk project (out later this year). I just finished my final vocals last month and this thing is now off to the races! Well, off to the mixing races that is. I had the distinct honor and pleasure of […]

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Def Leppard, Poison, and Tesla Kick Off Joint North American Tour (See Dates)

Def Leppard, Poison, and Tesla.  On tour.  Any questions? Def Leppard, Poison, and Tesla kicked off their joint North American tour Saturday night.  But you probably already knew that. The kick-off happened at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire.  And there were plenty of classics to go around.  Poison’s setlist included songs such as […]

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How I Went from Shitty Rock Band to Playing Major Festivals

Craig Williams is a producer/ DJ who’s just starting to get serious festival slots.  But he started his music career playing bass guitar in what he describes as a ‘shitty’ high school band.  We asked Craig: how did you get from there to here? Craig Williams isn’t a household name.  He’s not a global superstar producing […]

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Chris Brown’s ‘Party Tour’ Is an Amateur Operation, 50 Cent Says

Chris Brown’s ‘Party Tour’ isn’t the well-oiled machine, according to 50 Cent.  And the pay is lousy. It was the Chris Brown Party Tour featuring 50 Cent and a bunch of other rappers.  Then it was the Chris Brown Party Tour featuring… a bunch of other rappers. So why did 50 Cent bail out at […]

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