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Live music industry news
Headlines from the business of live music, aggregated from public publisher feeds and linked to the original reporting.
Updated 2026-08-14 23:31 UTC159 stored headlines
Top stories
- In Canada: BTS’ J-Hope & RM Attend Drake’s Toronto Concert; Neil Peart Doc Premiering at TIFF (opens billboard.com in a new tab)
Billboard BusinessLive & touring
- Weekly Signings: Nikki Glaser To WME; Kim Petras’ New Management & More (opens news.pollstar.com in a new tab)
PollstarArtists, agents & management
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PollstarLive & touring
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PollstarPolicy & regulation
Ranked by recency, source priority and live-business subject relevance. No engagement data is used.
Beat
Live music dossier
Long-form analysis from Testset
Testset: The Live Music Crisis (opens testset.media in a new tab)
A standing dossier on consolidation, ticket pricing, festivals, venues and independent infrastructure, published by Testset. Chapters open at the original publication.
- Live Nation, Ticketmaster, and the Antitrust Crack-Up
- Ticket Prices, VIP Conversion, and the Luxury Concert Economy
- Blue Dot Fever and the Demand Hangover
- AI Music and the Authenticity Premium
- The Festival Bubble Was Not a Natural Death
- Independent Venues and the Mid-Size Room Crisis
- Independent Media and Local Scene Infrastructure
- Essential Testset Reading
- External Sources and Data
Live & touring
Ticketing
- California Bill Aiming to Cap Concert Ticket Resale Prices Fails (opens rollingstone.com in a new tab)
Rolling Stone — Music News
Venues & festivals
Deals & consolidation
Artists, agents & management
- Slipknot and Sid Wilson Part Ways After Nearly 30 Years (opens rollingstone.com in a new tab)
Rolling Stone — Music News
- Watch Keanu Reeves’ Dogstar Perform ‘Joy’ on ‘Fallon’ (opens rollingstone.com in a new tab)
Rolling Stone — Music News
- Orville Peck Resists Rebab on Rowdy Single ‘Already Gone’ (opens rollingstone.com in a new tab)
Rolling Stone — Music News
Technology & platforms
Policy & regulation
International
Sources — 9 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. Published by Live Index, founded by Omar Afra.
Active
- Pollstarretrieved 5s ago
- IQ Magazineretrieved 5s ago
- TheTicketingBusinessretrieved 5s ago
- Billboard Businessretrieved 5s ago
- Music Business Worldwideretrieved 5s ago
- Music Allyretrieved 5s ago
- Complete Music Updateretrieved 5s ago
- Variety — Musicretrieved 5s ago
- Rolling Stone — Music Newsretrieved 5s ago
Pending or disabled
- 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.
- Business Wire — Entertainmentdisabled
Category feed identifier not confirmed. Disabled pending verification.
- PR Newswire — Entertainmentdisabled
Wire releases are primary documents rather than reporting; no confirmed category feed. Disabled pending an editorial decision.