Veteran music agent and former partner of UTA Cheryl Paglierani, has joined CAA, the agency announced June 24. She’s worked with and developed artists including Post Malone, 21 Savage, Flo Milli, Jessie Murph and Dominic Fike, and she was named…

For the first time in two-and-a-half years, the live industry has returned to earth. The stratospheric post-pandemic concert exuberance that swept markets across the globe starting in the U.S. in the later half of 2021 and saw the concert business…

Weezer is going to turn the desert blue. The pop-punk pioneers have added a finale to their tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their iconic 1994 self-title debut commonly called ‘The Blue Album,” though officially it is Weezer. The last…

The wildfire growth of Latin music and the markets where the genres come from is remarkable if difficult to fathom. Even a veteran promoter like Phil Rodriguez, CEO of Move Concerts, cannot quite wrap his head around it. “I mean,…

One would be hard pressed to write a better, more dramatic narrative than that of Madonna’s “Celebration Tour,” which topped Pollstar’s 2024 Mid-Year Worldwide chart, The trek was initially postponed just weeks out from its original July start date after…

By Bob Allen and Andy Gensler For the first time in two-and-a-half years, the live industry has returned to earth. The stratospheric post-pandemic concert exuberance that swept markets across the globe starting in the U.S. in the later half of…

Perhaps the best description for 2024’s mid-year state of the industry is that it’s mostly pretty friggin’ great, but not for everyone. For every canceled tour (sorry J.Lo, Black Keys, Busta Rhymes) there’s at least one — if not ten…

It was Lucy Dickins who said, “the importance of international has become something of an industry mantra. There is certainly more globalization in the live music sector than ever before, and artists are taking advantage of it. Wherever they want…

Major music festivals can be considered a barometer for the live music industry as a whole – and for good reason. High-profile, large-scale events can gauge overall demand for live music and available talent, and act as an indicator of…