Live Nation is officially entering the awards-season business. The top music promoter announced the “Live Nation Music Awards,” set to honor the year’s best live music performances and air on both TNT and TBS on October 1. The telecast will be produced by Live Nation Entertainment in collaboration with IMG and dick clark productions, and…

SFX Extertainment, the EDM-focused concert promoter, grew revenue 56.6 percent to $52.2 million in the first quarter. Operating loss improved to $29.8 million from $35.6 million and net loss improved to $41.5 million from $56 million….

Music streaming reached a milestone in the first quarter of 2015. Warner Music Group revealed in Monday its recorded music division received more revenue from streaming than downloads, the first such announcement by the three major labels. Recorded music streaming revenue increased 33 percent. In the music publishing division, streaming helped drive a $1-million increase…

  Remember Portishead instrumentalist Geoff Barrow‘s Twitter rant last month? “34,000,000 streams. Income after tax = £1,700.” We already analyzed why it is hard to draw any meaningful conclusions out of this crude depiction. What is more: Barrow shouldn’t have been that surprised in the first place. It is the nature of the current payout structure of…

Henry Rollins to guest star on half-hour sitcom featuring original music by Hutch Harris of The Thermals and original score by Smashing Pumpkins’ James Iha…

Being in a rock & roll band doesn’t teach one how to be man. In fact, the inherent hedonism of the rock lifestyle promotes the idea that boisterous boyishness is best….

I learned a valuable lesson about pop music during Justin Bieber’s set this weekend at the 17th annual Wango Tango festival….

One-time reality TV juggernaut American Idol is ending its pop culture-changing run after its upcoming 15th season, Fox revealed today (May 11)….

Any big hit has a ripple effect, and two TV shows about the hip-hop business were moving full speed ahead less than a month after the season finale of Fox’s surprise smash rap soap opera, Empire. Although the programs in question — both from Viacom: VH1’s scripted drama The Breaks and BET’s documentary series The Label — were…

The biggest TV entertainment series of the 21st century will end next year….