Live Nation CEO Says U.S. Music Festivals Could Reopen by ‘Mid-Summer’

While we’re urged to wash items like underwear, gym clothes, pyjamas and bras quite frequently, the CEO of Levi’s is telling us otherwise when it comes to jeans. Chip Bergh, who heads up the fashion brand said back in 2016 we should never wash our jeans and his favourite pair has never once seen the washing machine.The Levi’s president has actually been wearing the same pair for 10 years and believes that washing your denim can in fact damage them and is just a waste of water.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is moving from October 2021 to April of 2022, two industry sources with knowledge of the situation tell Variety.

Disneyland will reopen April 30, CEO Bob Chapek announced Wednesday on CNBC’s Squawk Alley.The popular theme park has been shuttered since last March. “We’ve seen the enthusiasm, the craving for people to return to our parks around the world,” Chapek told CNBC’s Julia Boorstin.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe ad-supported version of HBO Max, set to launch in June 2021, already has $80 million in upfront advertising commitments, WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar said.Kilar, speaking Friday at AT&T’s analyst and investor day presentation, didn’t reveal key details of the HBO Max AVOD tier like pricing and ad load.In terms of content, the only difference between the ad-supported HBO Max and the regular $14.99-per-month premium service is that the the AVOD tier will not

Fox Business’ Liz Claman on Thursday.Aron’s comments came hours before county health officials announced that L.A. will move into the second tier of California’s reopening system, allowing movie theaters to reopen at a capacity limit of 25%.

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch says his Fox News Network will be the big ratings winner while President Joe Biden is in the White House.

Also Read: Netflix 'Enthusiastic' About Shrinking Theatrical Windows: 'It's What Consumers Want'Several major studios have made significant moves to curtail the theatrical window in recent months, though the length of that window has varied based on the studio. Universal was the first to do so through an agreement with AMC Theaters and Cinemark to release films on PVOD as early as 17 days after theatrical release, or 31 days if the film earns a domestic opening of over $50 million.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorYouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said the internet video platform will lift its suspension of Donald Trump only after it determines that “the risk of violence has decreased.”On Jan. 12, YouTube determined that Trump’s channel violated the site’s policy against inciting violence, resulting in a suspension of least seven days.

The New York Times, Cuomo revealed at a press conference that April 2 will see arts, entertainment and events venues be able to reopen at a limited capacity.Attendance is capped at 100 people for indoor venues and 200 people for outdoor venues.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorUTA has announced the acquisition of U.K.-based Echo Location Talent Agency. The firm was founded and led by Obi Asika (pictured above), who will serve as Co-Head of UTA’s UK office alongside Neil Warnock.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe latest music festival to give up on 2021 is Spain’s popular Primavera Sound Barcelona, which called off this year’s installment due to the pandemic. Tickets can be transferred to the 2022 edition, the lineup for which will be revealed on June 2; refunds will be available after that date.

Showbiz shares sparkled Monday starting off March with a major market rally around reopening, another vaccine rollout, a stimulus bill and a combo of upbeat earnings and streaming forecasts.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorUniversal Music Publishing has signed rising British singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone, whose debut EP received a rave review in Variety last fall, to an exclusive, global publishing agreement. The 21-year-old singer was voted No.

The concert industry clearly wants to get back to work, as a flurry of announcements on Friday proved. But what those announcements also proved is that getting back to work will require a leap of faith by all involved, most prominently, the government.

coronavirus lockdown.While this year’s Glastonbury, set for late June, has already been cancelled, and May’s The Great Escape is going online instead, a number of festivals taking place later in summer revealed this week that they would be going ahead as planned as the government outlined plans for England to gradually exit lockdown by the end of June.Since the announcement, a number of festivals including Reading & Leeds, Green Man and 2000 Trees have all revealed that they now hope to go ahead

Live Nation‘s CEO has hopes that concerts and festivals could return by the summer.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn its earnings reports for the last quarter and full year of 2020, the year of the pandemic, Live Nation shows remarkable optimism for the projected return of live entertainment.Despite a devastating  year in revenue and ticket sales for the world’s largest live-entertainment company, Live Nation’s stock is actually higher than it was before the pandemic — at the time of this article’s publication, it was at 87.05 compared with 67.76 a year ago — and it reports

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJade Bird is one of the more promising British singer-songwriters to emerge in the past few years, and Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb — who has helmed albums by Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, the Highwomen and many more — is one of Nashville’s reigning producers.