Do any of these Ticketmaster data points describe you?
Along with selling tickets, Ticketmaster is a data company. Because it tracks every aspect of the ticket retail experience, it can offer useful information to venues, promoters, agents. managers, and...
View ArticleWeekly Survey: What is your best CNE musical memory?
Apologies to readers outside Southern Ontario, but this week’s question is focused on folks in the Greater Toronto Area and its environs. The Canadian National Exhibition has been a thing since 1879...
View ArticleIs it legal for cannabis companies to sponsor concerts in Canada? Maybe not.
Once upon a time, tobacco companies could advertise their wares by sponsoring culture events, including music festivals. For example, if you’re in Toronto, you might remember the annual jazz festival...
View ArticleTake in bands through the Side Door
Have you heard about Side Door? It just opened wide for all to enjoy. For people who’ve been to any of Dan Mangan’s concerts across Canada so far this year, you’ve likely heard him talk about Side...
View ArticleLet’s take a census of Canadian concert attendance so far.
Ticketmaster has just released some data about Canadians attendance at concerts to this point in the year. No surprise here: Toronto leads the country with 31% of national attendance at gigs. Toronto...
View ArticleAre music festivals good for your health?
Given the majority of my experiences with music festivals, I’d answer that headline question with a hearty and very loud “NO!” But what do I know? This is from the BBC. The health benefits of listening...
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Random music news for Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Is it cake? Let’s find out. (You’ll see what I mean.) Now some music news for July 22, 2020. Coronavirus
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…Trail of Dead hosting shows to save Horseshoe Tavern, other venues
We all know how crappy 2020 has been for musicians and venues, as hundreds if not thousands of shows have
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Weekly survey: Will 2021 be too soon for concerts?
In the Before Times, summer was packed with gigs, concerts, and festival. Not in 2020. Damned ‘rona has taken care
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Random music news for Thursday, August 13, 2020
I apologize for the dearth of postings yesterday but the website was feeling a little ill. All better in time
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Random music news for Monday, August 17, 2020
The bad news is that August is more than half over. The good news is that we’re closer to the
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This is the only concert t-shirt you need for 2020
Yep. That’s about right. Get yours here.
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The big German COVID-19 concert experiment. Would you volunteer for something...
The live music industry has been decimated by the coronavirus. And given that the pandemic is going to be with
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Random music news for Wednesday, September 8, 2020
Remember Psy and “Gangnam Style?” Now you can enjoy it infinitely. Here’s what I mean. Then we have music news
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Random music news for Thursday, September 10, 2020
Fashion has taken a real hit during COVID-19. If we’re not going out, why bother dressing up? I’m not sure
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Missing concerts? Support the Day of Visibility on Sept. 22
It’s been more than six months since most of us went to see live music in person. That’s a considerable
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When will concerts return to normal? There’s a new industry survey of live...
Pollstar, the site that keeps track of the live music industry, reports on the state of the concert industry six
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10 famous–and infamous–Toronto concerts
[I was asked to write this for Postmedia. -AC] In the Before Times, our social calendars were filled with concerts
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Random music news for Friday, October 16, 2020
I could use a face mask like this. We all could. And we can also use some music news for
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Data from a German study on social-distance concerts is now available
Before the fall spike in COVID-19 cases across Europe, it looked like some countries had things under control. During those
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