Following a hospitalization due to an unspecified illness, former One Direction star Zayn Malik scaled back his “Konnakol World Tour” and canceled all U.S. dates scheduled later this year. The mononymous artist known as ZAYN was supposed to embark on…

Oak View Group (OVG), a global leader in premium live entertainment infrastructure and services including venue development, venue management, hospitality, and sponsorship sales, today announced a first of its kind global charity partnership with Make-A-Wish, one of the world’s leading…

The inaugural Los Angeles Jazz Festival unveiled its first set of artists who will be part of the multiday event’s Jazz on the Beach, with stars John Legend and Janelle Monáe topping the bill. The L.A. Jazz Festival is a…

AEG Presents is expanding its footprint in the promoter space with today’s announcement that the company has formed a strategic partnership with independent comedy touring and promotion company Outback Presents.  The announcement notes that the “partnership brings together AEG Presents’…

Today, Pollstar, the “Voice of Live,” and Victory Live, a leading-edge technology platform focused on optimizing live event ticketing, announced a data-sharing agreement that will give Pollstar subscribers access to average U.S. secondary-market ticket prices for touring artists directly within…

Industry veteran Kate Lazzari is joining Messina Touring’s touring and booking team in the company’s Nashville office. Lazzari moves to Messina after nearly a decade at Concerts West, where she spent the past eight-plus years on the booking team. During…

Boutique management company Another Management Company, founded in 2017 by Reynold Jaffe and Eric Dimenstein, welcomes Allison Crutchfield and Hannah McElroy to its team. Crutchfield joins the Los Angeles-based Another Management Company team as a manager, where she will co-manage…

Universal Music Group reported first quarter revenues of €2.9 billion ($3.39 billion), an 8.1% year-over-year increase. “We delivered a solid quarter of growth in our core businesses, complemented by our strategic development and investment in fast-growing areas of the industry,”…

No matter how you remember it, Scott Daggatt did not ask Jelly Roll to tour Walla Walla, Washington, a town of fewer than 35,000 people in the heart of Washington’s wine country, 210 miles southeast of Seattle. It was April…

BeachLife Festival at Redondo Beach in Los Angeles has found a way to continue to grow while sticking to its initial successful formula — the same three-day format, 10,000 (or so) capacity and lineup size on two main non-stages (no…