Endeavor’s Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro Resigned from Live Nation Board Over Antitrust Concerns, DOJ Says

Margo Price has announced details of a new live EP and performed one of its tracks live on The Late Show With Colbert – see the performance of ‘Hey Child’ below.Price’s new EP ‘Live From The Other Side will come out next Friday (July 16), and feature live versions of tracks from her 2020 LP ‘That’s How Rumors Get Started’ alongside a cover of The Beatles‘ ‘Help!’.Ahead of the release of the new EP, Price joined Stephen Colbert’s #PlayAtHome series, which has seen artists performing on the show

without a live audience. The competition will take place this Sunday, July 4, as it has every year since the late 1960s. According to a Nathan’s-promoted legend, however, the contest has been happening since 1916, when four European immigrants held an impromptu hot dog eating contest to settle a patriotism-related argument.

Kym Marsh has been missing from her presenting duties on Morning Live alongside Gethin Jones since she broke the news her dad Dave is battling cancer.The former Coronation Street star, 45, is devastated as she exclusively revealed to OK! her father Dave's incurable prostate cancer has now spread to his bones. All week, Kym hasn't been seen presenting her show Morning Live with her co-host Gethin, which has resulted in many fans expressing their concerns for the star on Twitter.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMotown Records announced that Brian Nolan has been appointed executive vice president of the label and executive VP of marketing, effective immediately. According to the announcement, in this new role, Nolan joins the label’s executive leadership team and will help guide the company as well as oversee Motown’s marketing teams and initiatives.

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMany 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 summer-long second run that heralds the larger return of Broadway after 15 months of pandemic.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt 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 summer Saturday evening two and a half years later, the Boss has seen fit to lead Broadway’s reopening, as if to give a cautiously optimistic signal to audiences — hey, if Bruce thinks it’s okay, it should be okay.

Pitchfork, the family of Katie Dix filed a request for dismissal in Los Angeles Superior Court on June 11, indicating that the case has been settled.Dix died while attending the Hard Summer electronic music festival, organised by Live Nation, in August 2015 in Pomona, California. A medical examiner said that the cause of death was multiple drug intoxication.Her parents Mark and Pamela Dix filed a wrongful death lawsuit in July 2016.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn September 24, an previously unreleased 1968 live album by Johnny Cash that was recorded by Owsley “Bear” Stanley, the Grateful Dead’s legendary concert documentarian (and lysergic sherpa), will be issued by the Owsley Stanley Foundation and Renew Records/BMG.“Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash, at the Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968,” is a 28-song concert — featuring two Bob Dylan covers — recorded in San Francisco by “Bear,” the famously secretive sound

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorA year on from the “Blackout Tuesday,” during which the music industry paused to take a look at its racial policies and plan to reform them, how is it doing? According to both last week’s USC-Annenberg “Inclusion in the Music Business” study and a “report card” released over the weekend by the Black Music Action Coalition — a 200-plus-member organization formed around this time last year — it’s doing fair-to-badly.BMAC’s 37-page report takes a look at dozens of

statement from the DOJ Monday. Emanuel serves as CEO and director of Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc., while Shapiro serves as president.

Endeavor Group Holdings’ CEO Ari Emanuel and president Mark Shapiro have resigned from Live Nation’s board of directors after the Justice Department expressed antitrust concerns.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Beatles’ film “Get Back” — a Peter Jackson-directed documentary culled from the footage from the 1970 “Let It Be” film — will premiere as a Disney+ original documentary series over the Thanksgiving holidays.Because of the wealth of tremendous footage Peter Jackson has reviewed, which he has spent the past three years restoring and editing, “The Beatles: Get Back” will be presented as three separate episodes.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWith two major releases in just a few days, June is basically a debut party for 4th & Broadway, the legendary Island Records imprint that is now helmed by LaTrice Burnette.The label, named after Island’s former location above Tower Records in New York’s East Village, originally was launched in 1984 and focused on hip-hop and dance music by artists such as Eric B. & Rakim (the 1987 classic “Paid in Full”), Dream Warriors, Stereo MCs, Bomb the Bass and others.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAlmost six months after Congress passed the $16 billion Save Our Stages act into law, less than 100 of the nearly 5,000 struggling independent venues have been approved for relief money, according to its most recent report, released June 9 by the Small Business Administration, which distributes the loans.

Chris Evans who famously essayed the role of Captain America in Avengers is celebrating his 40th birthday today! And many of his Marvel co-stars took to social media to wish the star on the special day.