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German powerhouse DEAG has further expanded its international promoting network and enhanced its UK activities by acquiring a majority stake in Scotland’s Regular Music. Edinburgh-based Regular is the ...

Japanese music industry associations, festivals and more than 100 of the country’s most popular performers have announced their support for #転売NO, a FanFair Alliance-style campaign aimed at ending ...

More than 250 artists have signed a letter issuing support for the bill, which aims to reform the live event ticketing system in the US Billie Eilish, Green Day and Lorde are among 250+ artists to ...

FREENOW has launched an initiative dubbed Ride For Music, which will see the company donate a minimum of £200,000 to the cause Taxi app FREENOW is donating £1 from every ride to help save UK ...

Severe weather caused a cruiseliner hosting a music festival to slam into a pier in Jamaica earlier this week. The Carnival Magic ship set sail from Miami on Saturday for the ShipRocked cruise, ...

The last couple of months have seen artist boycotts ripple through the showcase festival season, with hundreds of acts pulling out of SXSW in Austin, and others from new music showcase festival The ...

American rock band The Flaming Lips have proved that there’s no need to wait for the pandemic to bubble over to return to live shows. Last week, the band performed to some 100 people at The Criterion ...

A Swiss yodelling concert attended by 600 people is believed to have made the rural Schwyz canton a virus hot spot. The event, which took place in September, required patrons to maintain social ...

Almost 5,000 people have claimed they were injured in last November’s Astroworld tragedy, according to a new court filing. Ten concertgoers, aged between nine and 27, were killed after a crowd surge ...

Event Genius has renewed its focus in the Iberian market after inking exclusive, multi-year deals with a raft of the region’s leading festivals. The Festicket-owned ticketing and cashless payments ...

KCON, the Korean pop music and culture convention operated by Korea’s largest media conglomerate CJ ENM, will hold five editions in 2024. This year, the world’s biggest K-pop festival will visit Hong ...