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Weekly survey: Do you actually re-watch concert videos you take with your phone?
With the return of concerts and festivals comes the resurrection of the debate of fans spending all their time videoing
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As of today (May 4) Live Nation is selling $25 tickets to more than 3,700...
Live Nation Canada has announced what they call Concert Week, a giant fire sale of all-in tickets to more than
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Live Nation and Snapchat want to bring augmented reality to concerts
The marriage of live music and technology has really been given a boost since the pandemic. The latest development involves
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Weekly survey: How many times have you seen your favourite artist play live?
I was speaking to someone last week about the post-COVID concert scene and they were most excited about seeing their
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This summer’s Our Lady Peace tour will take in-concert holograms to a whole...
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Everything I know about holograms I learned from either Star Wars or
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Weekly survey: Is inflation cutting into your concert spending?
Over the weekend, I had no choice but to get some gas. By the time the numbers stopped spinning and
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Weekly survey: What time should a weekday gig start?
Bands and club owners are always looking for ways to boost attendance and increase bar sales. Before the pandemic, I
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Random music news for Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Urine-based beer? It’s a thing. So is music news for June 21, 2022. Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider has secured a
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Last Friday’s Weeknd show at the Rogers Centre in Toronto was called off...
Some 46,000 people traveled from far and wide witness The Weeknd’s world tour opener/giant homecoming show at the Rogers Centre
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Gen Z seems to not know how to properly go to concerts
Now that COVID has receded for the moment (or has it?), concerts are back in a big way. Analysis shows
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Climate change has torched Eddie Vedder’s vocal cords
Europe is burning. A brutal heatwave has unleashed wildfires across the continent, resulting in smoke, dust, and acrid air everywhere.
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How has live music exploded in 2022? Let me tell you.
Recession? What recession? Live Nation announced second-quarter results this week and reported a 40% increase in revenue, not from the
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Random music news for Saturday, August 6, 2022
Are you following the pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope? Amazing stuff, really. Slightly less amazing but almost as
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Keith John Correa–“The Original Kid Rock”–has died
If you’ve been to any concert in Toronto over the last thirty years, it was inevitable that you would have
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Introducing Massey Hall+, a new livestreaming platform
Toronto’s Massey Hall has come a long way since it opened in 1894. After nearly $200 million in renovations, the
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I have seen the future of music and it’s called the Web3 musicverse
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] SINGAPORE — If you want to kill a conversation quickly, just
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Random music news for Thursday, October 6, 2022
Chernobyl frogs are now very, very goth. And probably radioactive, too. In music news for October 6, what have we
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Garbage is the latest band to warn about doom with the live music industry
You’d think that with a band with a track record like Garbage would have no trouble putting together a profitable
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 960: Rock’s greatest disasters
Humanity has always been beset by disasters, whether they be acts of God or something we somehow brought on ourselves.
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The live music industry is in big trouble. Here’s why
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Shawn Mendes fans were disappointed this past summer when the singer announced
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