By Jem Aswad
27.04.2020 - 16:57 / variety.com
By Jem Aswad
Senior Music Editor
As the coronavirus pandemic has paralyzed the live-entertainment industry the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) has formed to fight for the survival of independent venues and their employees, as well the communities around them.
Consisting of more than 800 venues, including New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom and the Troubador in Los Angeles, NIVA, which recently appealed to Congress for more aid during the pandemic, will participate with Live Nation’s
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If you're a keen Aldi shopper, you'll know that no trip to the supermarket is really complete without picking up one of the Specialbuys leaflets on your way out.
Live music fans are in "no rush" to return to concerts once coronavirus social distancing regulations are lifted, according to a new study from talent agency UTA. Out of three categories -- small or intimate concerts, arena/stadium concerts and festivals -- the study shows that less than half of fans who miss going to concerts say they will return to even an intimate or small concert within a month of eased restrictions.
Joan Grande is furious with Elon Musk.
Keith Urban has said that his wife Nicole Kidman has had a “big impact” on his music.
Joy Behar came out with guns blazing on The View after finding out that Vice President Mike Pence visited COVID-19 patients at the Mayo Clinic without wearing a face mask.
By Jem Aswad
The coronavirus outbreak has forced rockers Linkin Park to press pause on the band’s first new material since the death of frontman Chester Bennington.
Mexican director Manolo Caro released the final season of La Casa de las Flores, leaving behind memorable characters like the ever-so secretive mother-daughter duo Virginia (Verónica Castro) and Paulina de la Mora (Cecilia Suárez), and an equally memorable soundtrack under Lynn Fainchtein's supervision.An already musically-driven series, with breakout performances by drag queens at the de la Mora's family-owned cabaret sprinkled throughout the episodes.
Mick Jagger rewrote the lyrics to the Rolling Stones new single because he feared they were too dark in their eerie similarities to the events of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A 24-hour concert which is raising money for people in the music industry who are facing hardship during the coronavirus lockdown has got under way.
From the same sessions that produced 'Two Hands' and 'UFOF'