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The brand is bigger than the acts. Which is why so many festivals have failed recently, they believe it’s about the lineup. If you’re dependent upon the lineup to sell tickets, you’re screwed. You need to be selling more than music, you need to be selling CULTURE! Now my biggest takeaway from Coachella so far […]

So let me see… They put Richard Grenell on the board, they hire behind-the-scenes fixer Mike Davis, who put the knife in the back of Gail Slater, the chief antitrust officer, they even employ Ms. Alternative Facts herself, Kellyanne Conway, and THEY STILL LOSE? This is not a story of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. This […]

This guy was one of a kind. Scratch that… There was a group of concert promoters, who built this business, who had personality, moxie and could tell a story that you’d repeat for the rest of your life! That’s what concert promoters have…stories. It’s not like working at a label, the relationship with the acts […]