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LYVLive Nation$179.59+2.39 (+1.35%)
MSGEMSG Entertainment$77.09+0.05 (+0.06%)
SPHRSphere Entertainment$140.63+7.33 (+5.50%)
SEATVivid Seats$6.12+0.08 (+1.32%)
EBEventbrite—
VENUVenu Holding$1.80−0.06 (−3.23%)
EVD.DECTS Eventim€58.65+1.20 (+2.09%)

Alpha Vantage · end-of-day closes, not real time · read 2026-09-29 01:10 UTC

Listed companies with reported live-music exposure. Not an index, not a recommendation, and not a measure of live music alone: only Live Nation is close to a pure-play, and the others report material revenue from sport, theatre, media or other events. Methodology

Live music news wire

Live Music Industry in Motion

Current developments in the business of live music, aggregated from public publisher feeds, alongside a curated underground and experimental lane from independent publications. Every headline opens the original reporting at its publisher.

Updated 2026-09-29 00:38 UTC160 stored headlines

Industry Notes · Festival economics

Good Men Project Publishes Omar Afra Essay on Festival Economics

The essay uses Afra’s experience with large-scale independent festivals to examine risk, cultural value, and the difference between impact and profit.

Live music dossier

Long-form analysis from Testset

Lead selected by rank; the stream below is newest first. No engagement data is used.

Sources and method — 16 active publishers

Live Index links to original reporting and does not republish full articles. Each item shows the publisher and the publication time supplied by that publisher’s feed; the headline opens the original page. The wire has two layers: a primary business wire covering ticketing and fees, promotion, venues, festivals, consolidation and policy, and a smaller curated Underground & experimental lane drawn from selected independent publications, where music editorial is retained even when it is not strictly business reporting. Personal-conduct and non-music items are filtered out of both. Preview images are supplied by the publisher and remain theirs. Published by Live Index, founded by Omar Afra.

Active

Pending or disabled

  • Resident Advisorpending

    RA no longer exposes a working public RSS endpoint: the historically documented /rss/news path returns 404 and ra.co publishes no rel=alternate feed. Held until an official feed is available.

  • VenuesNowpending

    No feed endpoint returning items could be confirmed. Pending.

  • Music Weekpending

    No public feed retrievable: the site returns 403 to automated requests. Awaiting a confirmed feed or licensed access.

  • Hypebotpending

    The only reachable public feed (FeedBurner) has not updated since 2019 and no current endpoint could be confirmed. Pending a working feed.

  • MIDiA Researchpending

    No public blog feed could be confirmed. Pending.

  • Digital Music Newspending

    Feed endpoint returns 403 to automated retrieval. Pending a permitted access route.

  • HITS Daily Doublepending

    No feed endpoint returning items could be confirmed. Pending.

  • PR Newswire — Entertainmentdisabled

    Wire releases are primary documents rather than reporting; no confirmed category feed. Disabled pending an editorial decision.

  • Business Wire — Entertainmentdisabled

    Category feed identifier not confirmed. Disabled pending verification.

From the Data Console

All indicators and instruments
  • Admissions prices

    +2.6%

    Admissions prices, 12-month change

    August 2026

    Series and method
  • Performing arts employment

    147,100

    Payroll jobs · 111.4% of February 2020

    July 2026

    Series and method
  • Promoter workforce pay

    $21.64

    Median hourly wage, NAICS 711300

    May 2025

    Series and method

Think of it as a Drudge Report for the live music industry: a continuously moving front page of the reporting, deals, disputes and data shaping live entertainment. Live Index is a research publication — the Data Console holds the national indicators, market instruments and price series behind the wire, and research documents the method.