UPDATE (11/23): The Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians slammed Coachella for its trademark infringement suit against Live Nation over the tribe’s upcoming New Year’s Eve event, originally known as “Coachella Day One 22.” While Coachella and its parent company, Goldenvoice, didn’t sue Twenty-Nine Palms directly because of sovereign immunity, …
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Three days after a crowd rush left eight people dead and hundreds more injured at Travis Scott‘s Astroworld Fest in Houston, the festival’s promoters Live Nation and ScoreMore said on Monday that they’re providing mental health counseling resources to attendees and are developing a health fund to go toward medical …
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In response to calls to diversify the mainly white live-music industry, concert giant Live Nation launched the Black Tour Directory Tuesday, October 13th, a new online resource for tour organizers that the company hopes will create more work for black live-industry workers. The directory lists hundreds of black-owned companies and …
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Since its launch four months ago, the Crew Nation Global Relief Fund — the charity established by concert and ticketing giant Live Nation Entertainment and its House of Blues Music Forward Foundation to aid unemployed live music workers affected by the pandemic — has raised $15 million to support about …
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Live Nation — the world’s biggest concert promoter and owner of Ticketmaster, the world’s biggest concert ticketing company — has settled with the U.S. Department of Justice after a week of swirling rumors about government action against the company’s practices. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the DOJ …
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