independent venues
Independent Venues Can’t Hold On Much Longer For Federal Relief
On the day businesses could apply for $16.25 billion in Save Our Stages Act grants, the system glitched. They're still waiting for aid.
It’s Probably OK to Be Optimistic About Bands Announcing Fall Tours
With Dinosaur Jr. and more planning shows, vaccination rates need to improve and masks stay necessary if live music comes back this year.
Live Music Workers Want to Help With Vaccine Distribution
NIVA, Live Nation, and Senator Amy Klobuchar think President Biden should mobilize an unemployed workforce and shuttered music venues.
We Probably Won’t See Live Music in 2021
With a slow vaccine rollout, new virus strains, and not enough masking, an epidemiologist tells us why concerts might not come back this year.
Independent Venues Finally Got a $15 Billion Bailout. What's Next?
Thanks to the National Independent Venue Association's lobbying, a dying industry received congressional relief, but 2021 is still uncertain.
Can Music Venues Stay Independent If This Guy Buys Them All?
The new SaveLive venture from former WME exec Marc Geiger should have you worried about the future of live music.
Trump Just Doomed Independent Music Venues
In a few tweets, the president has all but guaranteed an extinction-level event for your favorite concert halls.
Drive-Ins Won't Save Live Music
Concerts in COVID-19 mean seeing Metallica debut a film or watching Jeff Tweedy perform from your car. Is that a substitute for the real thing?
Congress Is Killing Independent Music Venues
According to NIVA, without COVID relief, in 13 weeks there may be only one independent music venue left standing in Nashville.
When Beloved Live Music Venues Come Back from the Dead
We spoke to the team behind The Jago, once known as Passing Clouds, about how to keep a community music space alive.
UK Venues Finally Have a Real Chance at Being Protected
Some 35 percent of live spaces have closed in the past decade, which parliament can rectify with a proposed bill tomorrow.
Our Live Music Scene Might Die If We Don't Get Our Shit Together
What you can do about the obscure tax that could bankrupt some of the UK's most-loved gig venues.