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Live music industry news

Live music business reporting from original publishers, including an independent underground and experimental lane. Headlines open their source; Live Index adds classification, not republication. For the data behind the coverage, see the Data Console and research.

Updated 2026-10-01 23:05 UTC160 stored headlines

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.

  • Digital Music Newspending

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

  • MIDiA Researchpending

    No public blog feed could be confirmed. Pending.

  • 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.